Richard McLellan

Essential. Ecosystems.
Great infographic from UN Biodiversity (UNEP)

Environment groups slam CLP Government’s decision to scrap funding

What a malicious and small-minded act by the Finocchiaro government to scrap funding for the Environment Centre NT and the Arid Lands Environment Centre.

ECNT and ALEC are the Northern Territory’s peak environment organisations.

www.ecnt.org.au/forms/shares...

Hear, hear. There are plenty of social media posts reporting that the Felon was booed too. New depth in unbalanced and trivial ‘reporting’ by ABC ‘News’

Such a bullshit story from the ABC. Plenty of social media posts today about the Felon being booed too. New depths for the ABC ‘News’.

The duopoly is content to destroy our most vital asset, a healthy and biodiverse environment.

theconversation.com/labors-dumpi...

If you want a safe and productive future we vote soon, and luckily we have preferential voting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley...

‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing Iconic ecosystems, from coral reefs to Tasmania’s ancient forests, are collapsing across the continent and into Antarctica. It’s not too late to act — in fact, our lives depend on it.

The environment is deteriorating, rapidly, we'll all be affected. theconversation.com/existential-....

The LNP AND Labor have failed to deliver environmental law reform theconversation.com/labors-dumpi....

There's a federal election soon. No vote is wasted with preferential voting. Vote wisely!

This isn’t just a missed opportunity; it’s a full-on capitulation to the forces wrecking our planet.

Labor is now on the same page as the environment-wrecking Liberals. What’s left? A track record of empty promises and a future for koalas, forests, and the climate that looks grim.

As an actual environmental lawyer, today was a sad day. After caving in the mining and logging lobby, Labor and Liberal have just voted together to kill the government’s own nature laws.

“Years of warnings...ignored or kept secret. Promises made, but not delivered...Laws that don’t work to protect the environment, or smooth the way for sensible development. All against the backdrop of...environmental destruction..It’s time to change that.”

- @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social 2022

Melon grower sniffs an opportunity in big NT sandalwood land sell-off One of Australia's largest melon producers has bought a portfolio of Indian sandalwood properties in the Douglas Daly region of the NT.

Indian sandalwood properties in the NT sold to melon company Rombola Family Farms

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...?

The fact that most people take the word “Amazon” to mean “place to buy stuff” rather than “dying cradle of life on Earth” tells Me your species is not worth saving.

Just mind-blowing that this is allowed to happen: 161 golden bandicoots (a vulnerable species) killed in a single year at Chevron's Barrow Island facility.

(Read the rest of the thread to see how the projects carbon emissions are similarly horrific)

Yes, the “unpopular enviroment” …
Unfortunately, it seems the ‘enviroment’ is unpopular with both mining companies and politicians.
We’re the ones who are cooked.

‘When Albanese threw out the EPA, he didn’t just throw his minister under a bus. He threw the whole damn country under the same bus.’

Cracking @JennaPrice.bsky.social column!

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol

Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog The resources sector wants the reform to be abandoned altogether rather than returned to the agenda in February.

A shameful legacy for all responsible for this debacle:
“Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog”
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

40 million dead mangrove trees in remote northern Australia, releasing massive amounts of stored “blue” carbon.

How can climate-sensitive ecosystems be a “nature-based solution” to rising temperatures, longer droughts, and more intense weather events?

More: smartwatermagazine.com/blogs/norman...

Stunning illustration 🤩

Woylies are keystone species - mutually symbiotic with Australian sandalwood (also a keystone species … for Woylies, Boodies, Stick-nest Rats …)
All are #ThreatenedSpecies.

Stunning photo Ricki.

Captured State.
Vested Interests 1 : Nature 0
Screenshot via @docsamantha.bsky.social

Why Albanese killed the Nature Positive deal with the Greens The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws.

The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

The national EPA would have put a stop to political interference in decision-making on projects that harmed the environment.

The irony? The deal was shot down at the eleventh hour by the Prime Minister at the behest of the WA mining industry.

Shame.

Federal parliament is done and dusted for the year 😳

The Prime Minister has squandered an opportunity to give Australians hope ahead of the next election when it comes to protecting nature.

We came so close to getting a deal to secure an independent environmental regulator.

RIP the ‘enviroment’ …
…. and editorial standards at The Worst Australian newspaper.

WA premier lobbied Albanese to kill Greens deal on environmental reform in eleventh hour intervention After an intense day on Tuesday of last-minute negotiations and lobbying by environmental and mining groups in which a deal was said to have "come close", the government has now shelved the talks.

The WA state Labor Party and national Labor Party are as pathetic at protecting the environment as the corrrupt coalition that preceded them www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Oh yeah (see my previous post).

The prime minister's 'oh shit' moment when Fatima Payman helped sink key law Fatima Payman's vote was needed to pass a critical reform. It was late on Wednesday the prime minister's office realised it was about to collapse.

Love me some frantic spinning from the PM’s office.

No it wasn’t me, doing the WA premier’s bidding, it was the damn traitor!!

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

FFS Fatima Payman: selling out Australia’s natural environment to money-hungry mining companies.