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Oh my heavens it's another First Dog on the Moon Spoken Cartoon for your cartoon enjoying enjoyment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGCK...

Protesters outside The National Press Club where the Minister for Environment and Water Murray Watt was due to make a lunch time appearance in Canberra today. Thursday 30th October 2025.Photograph by Mike Bowers

Government for ecocide. Climate criminals.

Important new report from the Children's Commissioner today on evidence-based child justice reform. It shows we can transform outcomes for kids, prevent crime & keep communities safe through prevention & diversion—not prison which solves nothing 🧵

@australianlabor.bsky.social is spending billions on developing war alliances and subsidising planet killing fossil fuel conglomerates. And choosing to keep people in poverty.
We need Change
#Auspol

How many reports are they not releasing? More secretive than the pathological liars government.

Screenshot of Nature Repair Market Bill 2023 amendments to prohibit Nature Repair Market biodiversity certificates from being used for environmental offsetting "Nature Repair Market Bill 2023 (Amendments to be moved by Senator Hanson-Young, on behalf of the Australian Greens, in committee of the whole) ... [highlighted by me] 76A Biodiversity certificates not to be used for environmental offsetting purpose (1) A biodiversity certificate must not be used for an environmental offsetting purpose. (2) This section has effect despite any other provision of this Act or any other law of the Commonwealth, or a State or Territory. (3) To avoid doubt, section 225 (Concurrent operation of State and Territory laws) does not apply to this section."

🤯The Albo govt CANNOT be trusted

This is the amendment wording prohibiting the use of nature repair market biodiversity certificates for environmental offsetting purposes

They're playing the Australian public for fools 🤬🤬🤬

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Darwin residents are worried about toxic chemicals and gas leaks. We need laws to protect clean air Levels of toxic compounds emitted by the Inpex LNG facility in Darwin are substantially higher than first estimated, posing risks to public health.

Darwin residents are worried about toxic chemicals and gas leaks. We need laws to protect clean air theconversation.com/darwin-resid...

Don't miss this cracker of an interview with former Labor Senator Doug Cameron who candidly speaks about the state of @australianlabor.bsky.social party under militarism and neoliberalism.

Doug gives an honest and no-holds-barred critique of the ALP, don't miss this one.

Full episode 👇

Like his party, he is a danger to our continued survival. Government of climate criminals, hell bent on ecocide.

World Central Kitchen | First Alert: WCK Mobilizes to Jamaica Ahead of Category 5 Hurricane World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team is in Jamaica ahead of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s landfall. The storm is expected to bring destructive winds, torrential rain, and widespread flooding. We’re wo...

World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team was prepositioned in the region over the weekend, working with local Jamaican partners to ensure meals reach impacted communities as soon as it is safe to do so.

#HurricaneMelissa #Jaimaica #Relief #Donate #WorldCentralKitchen
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Yep, he embodies what a true politician should be.

“Most Australians would expect our national nature laws to actually protect nature. Instead, these reforms give ministers the power to choose how they apply the rules, fail to prevent climate and forest destruction, and sideline First Nations authority. “
#FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange

What about the Murujuga Cultural Landscape. 50,000 year old petroglyphs. Not like the government hasn’t covered up & lied about damage. He is fucking disgusting 🤮 Must be quite a cushy job he’s been promised.

“Australia’s federal environmental law has never been about protecting our precious species & places. It has always been about allowing significant harm to them. That process is about to get so, so much more efficient.”

#FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol #Ecocide

We need Change

Photo of a plant covered in small yellow flowers with a red band in the middle. The top two petals are shaped like boomerangs

Photo of a small yellow flower with a red band in the middle and white centre. The top two petals are shaped like boomerangs

Stylidium eriopodum - commonly called the Boomerang Triggerplant

Like all Triggerplants, this plant has a floral column on a sensitive trigger which reacts to the flower being touched and coats any visiting #pollinators in pollen. Endemic to WA

#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature

Bogong moth illustration by @terngirl

In spring, over a billion Bogong moths travel from all over SE Australia to a place they have never been before, Alpine caves, to spend the summer in aestivation. In Autumn the same individual returns to its breeding ground & dies. How do they do it? Prof Eric Warrant. The Biodiversity Conference.

Single panel editorial cartoon. Farm scene with green pastures, blue sky, a koan in a tree, sheep in the foreground and a mob of kangaroos in the background. In the middle a massive hole has been excavated and large piles of soil lay around, a cow is a top of one in the background a mining truck is entering crushing the trees. Running up from the hole is a (tiny in proportion) miner, holding aloft a small rock, as in a eureka moment.

Rare Earth #auspol #climate #RareEarth ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons

Last gasp funnies

Labour Force, Australia, September 2025 Headline estimates of employment, unemployment, underemployment, participation and hours worked from the monthly Labour Force Survey

Unemployment has been rising steadily since #Labor was elected. If RBA tightens again, will probably regain pre-pandemic levels. Meanwhile, Jobseeker payment frozen in real terms, apart from a single $20 increase, less than Morrison's.

Israel has violated the ceasefire, bombing and killing at least 104 Palestinians.

This is devastating, though sadly not surprising.

Australian governments must finally act – sanction Israeli leaders and immediately end the arms trade.

Instead of following the science and putting an immediate halt to issuing new licenses and permits that expand planet killing fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure. @australianlabor.bsky.social are approving fossil fuel projects.

#FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol

Sudan war: WHO chief hits out over reports of mass killings in el-Fasher hospital Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was "appalled" by reports that 460 civilians had been killed in el-Fasher.

460 killed.

I'm sorry to inform the Australian Government that neither of these are actually sufficient to cancel a Centrelink payment under social security law.

This will not change regardless of how many shit grandstanding amendments you make to the social security law.

Just when you think Labor can't sink any lower on welfare policy.

The extortionate deal signed off by Albanese involves purchasing US$1.2 billion in Anduril unmanned underwater vehicles & US$2.6 billion worth of Apache helicopters.
Push Australia’s superannuation funds to increase investments in the US to US$1.44 trillion by 2035.
#Auspol

Amnesty International is calling a U.S. strike in April on a prison in Yemen that killed dozens of detained African migrants a war crime. It followed a similar strike on the same prison compound back in 2022 by a Saudi-led coalition targeting the Houthis.

Exclusive: $800 million AUKUS handout to the US broke internal rules — as bureaucrats rushed to pay Trump Bureaucrats were in a hurry to ensure the Americans got their AUKUS payment earlier this year — and ditched payment rules to make it happen.

The government's AUKUS payment of $798 million to the Trump administration in May was rushed through by Defence bureaucrats in breach of payment rules, documents obtained by Crikey reveal.

NEW Maxar satellite images from El Fasher, Sudan show bright-red patches around homes — highly likely blood — pointing to mass civilian killings by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.

Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have faced a wave of Israeli settler violence as they try to reach their olive groves.

Here are the latest figures from UN OCHA

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‘I’m being punished’: Emily is healthy enough to leave hospital but she can’t because of NDIS funding cuts Government cuts to the NDIS are forcing some disabled Australians to choose between living at home in an unsafe environment or staying indefinitely in hospital

The government really needs to fix this and genuinely help people in need - bureaucracy obfuscation is not the answer… www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...