Mandy Stefanakis

🕯️🇺🇦 During the combat mission, 39-year-old Maryna Hrytsenko “Mary” — a combat medic of the 3rd OSHB, the chief custodian of the funds of the Chernihiv Art Museum — died.

Maryna died on the morning of August 7, 2025, along with two comrades, as a result of an attack by a Russian drone.

‘You realise your children are probably never going to see Ningaloo the way you saw it’ The west-coast reef has largely escaped the curse of coral bleaching that has blighted the Great Barrier Reef. This year, that’s changed.

40 million km2 marine heatwave engulfed Australia 🥵

"When the water is hot for too long, & when the corals bleach heavily, as we’ve seen at Ningaloo, they rarely recover. So we would expect the total mortality from the heating event this summer to be more severe than the 50% we observed in May"

‘You realise your children are probably never going to see Ningaloo the way you saw it’ The west-coast reef has largely escaped the curse of coral bleaching that has blighted the Great Barrier Reef. This year, that’s changed.

#NingalooReef "annual surveys of the northern section of the reef in May found up to 90 per cent of coral had been bleached down to 20 metres depth", the "lowest cover of live coral" observed since 2007

"up to 50 per cent of the examined coral was dead in May" but "more would be dead now"

Got a different concert on unfortunately but it sounds great!

Essential!

"Australia to back global plastic caps against US wishes"

Good

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Absolutely!

Yes and many easily accessible polling stations.

Where and when?

We try to hide our oft unpalatable lyrics in jolly songs which catches people off-guard. But yeah, a couple of sad ones. Crying is good - especially when through arts expression which is the only honest stuff around right now. (So thank you!!!!!!)🙏

I love to hear choirs sing and it almost always makes me cry!

Yes! And old-fashioned voting papers! Some tampering possible yes - but not en masse.

Singing with Climate Choir Melbourne always makes me happy - a group of people obsessed with both music and addressing the issues of climate and environmental sustainability.
But yeah, current news is overwhelmingly horrid on so many interconnected fronts. 💔

Either an underlying assumption that Israel will listen to the cross words of our Foreign Minister, (lols) or else, we are complicit in Israel’s behaviour. It is imperative we end arms trade, sanction Israeli Government and work with others to stop this slaughter. What is stopping action?

Media release👇

After two years of inaction, this must be a red line for the Albanese Government. Sanctions to the level of what was introduced against Russia following its illegal invasion of Ukraine, including an end to the two-way arms trade with Israel, are a necessity.

This is exactly what Netanyahu has wanted all along - and he’s been allowed to do it all!

What an absolute disgrace.

The weakness of leaders around the world - who’ve enabled this - will be remembered for generations #auspol

It’s so sickening, I guess more so because all that ‘philanthropy’ is so hard to undo, entrenching their business as a necessary evil. All, like AI theft, utterly calculated for maximum effect as you say.

Dr Assal Rad—

"Because it IS genocide."

No matter your interpretation of the categorical imperative, we can’t have a functioning society if lying isn’t penalized.

Worse. Designed to remind that Trump owns it.

Lifeline???? Rhythm and the Reef???? A university (or 2) in most states? It’s like those dreadful soap operas where the bad peeps cover their malign business practices through lauded philanthropy, indeed here giving to life-saving foundations whilst their business threatens all life on earth.

#Greenwash #ReputationLaundering

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The GHF death traps are part of the Israeli/US machinery of genocide. The word "humanitarian" in the title is sickening doublespeak.

YOUR WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH full page ad from a coalition of Australian interfaith and community organisations addressed to PM @albomp.bsky.social

#WhatAreYouWaitingFor #SanctionIsrael #ActNOW

Mutawintji Cultural Festival to celebrate the land and its people The two-day Mutawintji Cultural Festival begins this Friday at Mutawintji National Park in far western New South Wales, offering visitors an opportunity to engage with local Aboriginal communities, listen to stories of the land and its people, and enjoy traditional dance and Wiimpatja music.

The two-day Mutawintji Cultural Festival begins this Friday at Mutawintji National Park in far western New South Wales, offering visitors an opportunity to engage with local Aboriginal communities, listen to stories of the land and its people, and enjoy traditional dance and Wiimpatja music.

Oh the hypocrisy! On it goes …

#Greenwash

Woodside Open Day at @wamuseum.bsky.social

Will it tell about massive marine heatwaves that caused a “mass fish kill spanning 9 km along West Australia’s Pilbara coast” with an estimated 30,000 fish washed up at beaches in Jan 2025❓

& WoodCIDE's role in driving impacts like this❓

"The prime minister has talked down" will be Albo's political epitaph

Yes.

More fuel to the fire of despair at the world’s wanton vandalism of everything we hold dear. 😢