Letters for the Environment Central Australia

Will cattle producers be exempt from NT weed plan? Cattle producers support the NT's draft buffel grass weed management plan, but it has attracted criticism from traditional owners and environmental groups.

Reductio ad absurdum proof of industry capture. Cattle producers are the source of buffel grass.

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Alcoa hit with record fine for clearing world's only jarrah forests US mining giant Alcoa is forced to pay $55 million after unlawfully clearing parts of a Western Australian native forest to mine bauxite.

Government and industry are making an absolute mockery of environmental law and threatened species conservation www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Calls mount for control: Wild dogs threaten livestock in wake of bushfire damage | Wimmera Mallee News | Local News covering Sport, Rural, Council & Business News for Horsham, Warracknabeal, Dimboola,... FOLLOWING the significant fires across Victoria in January, disruption to the habitat of wild dogs has been flagged as one of the ongoing ripple effects, with livestock producers in bushfire-ravaged p...

They know they're dingoes; we've told them and shown them (via genetics) that they are dingoes. Yet they choose to continue with a culturally insensitive misnomer. Colonialism writ large.

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US mining company Alcoa hit with ‘unprecedented’ $55m penalty for illegal clearing of WA jarrah forests Environment minister says Alcoa cleared known habitat of protected species to enable bauxite mining

This is not bringing the jarrah forest back.

$55m for an unprecedented EPCA Act decision that mining the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust is in the national interest.

We thought conserving unique northern jarrah forest was.

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If the NT gets its way the Barkly will look like a Texan dead zone with its never ending centre pivots and fracking wells (see last photo).

This same area is subject to 10GL/yr groundwater licences (free) and massive clearing for cotton.

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Australia news live: NT releases area five times size of Singapore for petroleum exploration; real incomes fall as wage growth lags inflation Follow live

WtF.

‘The Finocchiaro government announced the release at the North American Prospect Expo, a summit for oil and gas companies being held in Houston, Texas. Applications for exploration are open until 31 July.’

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So, in summary, we know that colonialist billionaires are an invasive weed in Australia and elsewhere in the world, which impacts biodiversity, culture and fire regimes.

Along with our government.
Every cattle owning billionaire funds the cattlemen's association, who lobby for their interests.

Btw Henry Burke renominating as NTCA Chair

Glyphosate isn’t the only issue.

The larger question is what a chemical-dependent agricultural system does to soils, biodiversity, microbial life, resistance, and long-term resilience.

Debate framed as “ban it or use nastier pesticides” misses the deeper problem: dependence itself.

"The LNP were effectively giving Queensland's coal to Adani for free."

After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received over half a million dollars in donations from Adani.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

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Yes. Pastoral industry rogue in the NT where VRD is located. Land clearing always approved by self serving Pastoral Lands Board without carbon offsets, moving into cotton and water mining, doing us over on buffel grass & ex NTCA president David Connolly next NT Administrator!

Where’s SHC?

Is anyone @timcurran.bsky.social @letterscentral.bsky.social @ipes-food.org going to point out who owns Australian land, and what the consequences of that skewed, colonialist, profiteering, climate/land degrading, lobbying ownership is?

heytesbury

Holmes à Court

Holmes à Court + Heytesbury

Won the meat tray!

fyi @letterscentral.bsky.social @gergyl.bsky.social
Welcome to #WhiteAustralia at Heytesbury Pastoral.
It's *so weird* how climate200 can't say a bad thing about meat, agriculture + raising cattle in Australia, right?
Simon, he's so lucky to score a meat tray!

Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) eradication in arid central Australia enhances native plant diversity and increases seed resources for granivores Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) is a drought-adapted invasive plant of arid and semi-arid grassland and woodland systems globally. This research demonstrates that buffel grass removal at localise...

We also know that if you can eradicate buffel grass in arid Australia, you get a return of the native understorey plants and provide much more seed for granivorous (seed-eating) native fauna such as ants, birds and small mammals:

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Driver owns the lease on Elkedra Station.
Warriors were massacred on Elkedra fighting pastoralists. Buffel grass is killing people and culture.
The attempted genocide continues.
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The cattle ‘industry’ response to our community trying to manage the threat of buffel grass.

This shameful interview starts at 14:58
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Couldn’t be more revealing.

Selfish
Greedy
Entitled
Dangerous

Crops or maybe hay (like they stated in their land clearing application) or maybe cotton. Under these permits and licences they can grow whatever they want, irrespective of what they stated in applications.

Yes, healthy country = healthy people couldn’t be communicated in more ways more often and yet is almost completely ignored.

Hi, Jacqueline is a nurse and has been doing all she can to raise awareness with health ministers, services and professionals (doctors, nurses, researchers etc).
Unfortunately environmental health, especially when it comes to the natural environment, doesn’t seem to be their focus.

Letters 4 the Environment help locals with 2026 Draft Buffel Grass Plan survey - 8CCC Radio Jacqueline Arnold and Adrian Tomlinson, co Administrators for LECA - Letters for the Environment Central Australia, spoke with 8CCC's Kate Lyons-Dawson about ways listeners can participate in the Draf...

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A thousand voices is the start of a chorus that you cannot tune out with bulldust.
Please continue to sign and share x
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A thousand voices is the start of a chorus that you cannot tune out with bulldust.
Please continue to sign and share x
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Interesting poll at the end of this article. Add your vote!
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Article in the local rag - Centralian Today
Case card here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/wp-content/u...

Moongaze on Instagram: "The NTG’s Draft Buffel Grass Weed Management Plan (tldr: it’s a JOKE 👎) has been released and is open for public comment until 12 Feb 2026. It completely exempts pastoral prope... 13 likes, 0 comments - moongazemusic on February 1, 2026: "The NTG’s Draft Buffel Grass Weed Management Plan (tldr: it’s a JOKE 👎) has been released and is open for public comment until 12 Feb 2026. I...

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It has been backed by Trump and Rinehart — but where is the Arafura mine? It is the Central Australian mine promised to help upset China's dominance of the rare earths market worldwide, and bring hundreds of jobs to Australia. But where is it?

Funny how Government ministers defend complexity in financial decisions but not environmental or social considerations.

“Projects of this scale and strategic importance involve complex and time-consuming financing processes," Gerard Maley, NT Mining Minister.

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As Trump Threatens Weekend Strike on Iran, Albanese Pretends Pine Gap Isn’t Complicit Albanese’s Iran Illusion: How Australia Sleepwalks into Someone Else’s War While our federal government waffles on about rules based order, Iran is rewriting the rules of modern warfare. Trump is thre...

Australia isn’t a neutral observer. Pine Gap provided the intelligence enabling June 2025 strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, ops now drawing genocide allegations at the ICJ given the broader context of US-Israeli coordination. Oz is complicit, and Tehran has noticed.

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