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Labor needs to bow to Liberals or Greens or its environment law revamp is dead Albanese government will need to make major concessions to pass promised federal nature laws as Liberals attack ‘nature positive 2.0’

headline mentality = power struggle
How about ‘needs to collaborate’ or ‘negotiate’?
#media #environmen #law #australia
Q: If you want good outcomes for our world, nature, climate, environment, children, why not negotiate with the Greens?
A: corporations money
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I was wrongfully jailed in Egypt, but Australia’s culture of surveillance takes the cake Australia is the most “reflexively secretive” country that this former foreign correspondent has dealt with. If we don’t defend our freedoms, we will lose them.

“Insist these tools be used transparently & with robust checks”
www.theage.com.au/national/i-w...
#australia #democracy #humanrights
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What to do when your internet is beginning to smell: Cory Doctorow's Enshittification - Overland literary journal We would do well to remember what broke the power of the original feudalists: peasant uprisings yoked to the workers’ movement. Together we can disenshittify the internet, which means, as Doctorow ass...

The fix: disenshittification to be a union demand; a regulatory environment intolerant of monopolisation price-fixing & other anti-competitive practices; right-to-repair enshrined in law; coalitions able to win small victories that chip away at tech monopolists
overland.org.au/2025/10/what...

Fossil fuel lobbyists flood Canberra as agencies and media exposed in 2025 F-List - Comms Declare Comms Declare and Clean Creatives today released the F-List 2025, exposing the scale of fossil fuel influence in Australia’s advertising, PR, lobbying and media sectors.

#auspol #energy #media
fossil fuel influence in Australia’s advertising, PR, lobbying & media sectors
commsdeclare.org/2025/09/25/f...

How the fossil fuel lobby captured a landmark Labor policy The federal government’s Future Gas Strategy, which backs extending production through to 2050 and beyond, is based on contested EY research commissioned by Australian Energy Producers.

Labor’s Future Gas Strategy is based on flawed and compromised research - capture from the fossil fuel industry

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

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The World's First Climate Tipping Point Has Been Crossed The world's coral reefs are dying—and will continue to unless global temperatures drop significantly.

we’ve already passed 7 of 9 “planetary boundaries” (including oceans becoming more acidic & transformation of natural landscapes)—these are thresholds that keep Earth’s systems hospitable to life & protect against breaching a tipping point.
#climatechange
time.com/7325086/cora...

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👇”Given that the USA is seeing the dire consequences of a government led by a buffoon, and staffed by ruthless ideologues, it seems odd that the British mainstream media, including the BBC, should seem ready to replicate it in the UK.”

YouTube video by PBS Terra She's Healing Wildfire Pollution. With Mushrooms.

#scientists can be wonderful #science
When cars, buildings, & everyday materials burn in bushfires, they release heavy metals, asbestos, dioxins, & other contaminants that seep into soil & water. Stevenson uses fungi & native plants to help devastated landscapes heal.
youtu.be/UBYmiesEBnM

AI chatbots are hurting children, Australian education minister warns as anti-bullying plan announced Jason Clare says artificial intelligence is ‘supercharging bullying’ to a ‘terrifying’ extent

“AI chatbots are now bullying kids. It’s not kids bullying kids, it’s AI bullying kids, humiliating them, hurting them, telling them they’re losers … telling them to kill themselves” #ai #technology
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fri 17 Oct: CO2 levels ⬆️ by a record amount in 2024 & hit a new high of 424ppm

Labor may dodge but they can't hide from citizens determined to hold them to account for their enabling of NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects (31🤯 & counting)

Govts should serve citizens NOT the fossil fuel industry❗️

As the world watches, Australia stands up for childhood Decisive regulation of social media is akin to the enfranchisement of women as a piece of revolutionary social policy reform. This is the enfranchisement of childhood.

compliance incentives are $50 million fines for systemic failures👏 #media #socialmedia
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Google & Meta damaged a generation of children. Knowingly. Profitably. And wants to keep at it. Australia stood up.
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Now for carbon emissions.

While Australian tropical forests are now emitting carbon instead of storing it
#EPBC
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✍️ PETITION: Strong environment laws stop new coal and gas The Australian public voted for a climate majority at the last election, and we want strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas.

@australianlabor.bsky.social is planning to re-write Australia's new Environment Laws with the Coalition = more coal mines to replace renewables, no climate trigger.
Please sign and share this to tell Murray Watt to grow a spine and represent voters.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...

Colourful poster of a crowd of people in front of a river with coal ship and the words: Make history. The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port! Nov 27 - Dec 2 Newcastle

Make history. The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port!
Nov 27 - Dec 2 Newcastle
#risingtide #protest #australia #climatechange

www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

Fri 10 Oct: week 20 protesting the @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of Woodside's carbon💣 North West Shelf Extension

Meanwhile Enviro Min Murray Watt opts to do a deal with the Coalition on EPBC laws that yet again, rules out a climate trigger

Not promising 👉 theconversation.com/labor-is-clo...

Fri 10 Oct: Enviro Minister Watt "nears deal with Coalition" on EPBC laws but rules out a 'climate trigger'—that would be mighty inconvenient for all the Coal & Gas projects the @albomp.bsky.social govt keeps approving (32🤯 & counting!) including Woodside's North West Shelf Extension carbon bomb 💣

Yes. Sigh.

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says Labor backbencher is calling for drastic intervention to secure supplies for the east coast

At last. A politician talking about cheap all but untaxed #australia export gas being onsold for a profit
#japan #auspol #energy
At last a #news headline about it #media #journalism
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Better to have him grind it publicly than not. Need more ALP backbenchers speaking up and pushing the cabinet.

We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests

“We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national & commercial interests”
#politics #democracy
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Is that the truth? Or did Sky News tell you? Sticker text

Is that the truth? Or did Sky News tell you?
Anti-Sky News sticker. It prints out on A4 sticker stock (Officeworks #australia)
#media #journalism #disinformation

Ep 26 - Europe has fallen - Media Watch A Sky News report falsely sounds the alarm on migration anarchy in Europe.

The Sky News segment demolished by Media Watch is unbelievable in all senses of the word. Check it out: www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
#media #journalism #disinformation

The Data Behind Climate Change: Bloomberg Green From global emissions to energy investment, these are the numbers behind climate change.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/cli...
Where Progress Is & Isn’t Being Made. How far we have to go, and a tool to assess how much we can change
#climate #environment
global transition away from fossil fuels, deforestation, greenhouse-gas pollution & melting ice can be measured with precision and clarity

Gladstone's LNG plants produce about 5% of the world's total LNG, and are the reason why gas prices have sky-rocketed on the east coast. Sucking the nation dry, driving up emissions and enriching a few executives and offshore investors, while local manufacturers are driven to the wall.

Maybe its the times, but this trip has really focused the sheer beauty and incredible wonders of Australia - but also the long term scars from the dispossession and violence against indigenous nations and the corresponding rampant extractivism which continues to damage country in so many places.

Fri 3 Oct: week 19 protesting the @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of Woodside's North West Shelf Extension to 2070, secured by secret negotiations of pollution conditions acceptable to WoodCIDE

'Enviro Champion' Josh Burns totally MIA as Labor backs fossil fuels & ever ⬆️ C+GHG pollution

Australia's mega rich are fomenting civil war Pouring gasoline on the fires of bigotry is more dangerous in the USA where guns are ubiquitous. It is still deadly dangerous in Australia.

Some very interesting details about the machinations of the ultra wealthy and the far right in Australia.
#media #disinformation #journalism
We ignore the pernicious influence of Sky News at our peril. Their reach is greater we think. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...

#auspol
#auspol2025

Australians need to vote ONLY for those who will work tirelessly and incorruptibly to ban fossil fuel industry donations and other corporate donations to political parties.

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'What could I have done?' The scientist who predicted the bushfire emergency four decades ago Dr Tom Beer’s pioneering 1980s research into bushfires and climate change has, to his dismay, proved all too accurate

Anthropogenic Global Warming & Fire 🧵

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From 1987...

“Beer says the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 had driven interest inside CSIRO for research. A national bushfire research unit was established, and he moved to Melbourne to work.”

Huge pile of mature tree logs removed from Wombat State Park

First photo: huge trucks fully loaded with logs that were recently 80 year old native tree habitat & carbon sinks.

Daylesford side-street, 4:30pm 30Sep:
2x Triple Jinkers fully loaded to go & 3rd Double on way from log-dump to join convoy! Recent logging from Osborne Rd, Wombat State Park 🪵

National Park legislation to be introduced to Parliament in November
#australia #nature #trees #animals #logging