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WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef

The “longest, largest and most intense” marine heatwave ever recorded in Western Australia has killed coral throughout an area that stretches 1,500km, according to state and federal scientists.
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Australia’s time has come to be a green energy intensive export superpower | Rod Sims What’s not to like about value adding more in Australia, with new jobs outside our cities and a continuing boost to productivity and prosperity?

One really big idea is to take the steps necessary to see Australia become a renewable energy superpower by exporting green energy-intensive products such as green iron, green aluminium, green transport fuels and green fertilisers.
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WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef

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Keep our First Nation strong on Country My name is Gurridyula (wedge-tail eagle), and I’m writing to you from Waddananggu, my ancestral homelands, east of the Great Dividing Range in Central Queensland. For three and a half years we, as cul...

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Two, 254-tonne transformers arrive at site of shuttered coal plant to join huge Liddell battery Two massive transformers have travelled from the Port of Newcastle to the New South Wales Upper Hunter region to form part of a huge battery being built at the site of a shuttered coal plant.

Two massive transformers have travelled from the Port of Newcastle to the New South Wales Upper Hunter region to form part of a huge battery being built at the site of a shuttered coal plant.

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

On an inflation-adjusted basis, average insured losses rose by 5.9% per year between 1994 and 2023, almost twice faster than GDP over the same period (2.7%)...

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If you haven’t, Please sign tonight
#waterislife
#auspol
#biodiversity

A lot of spare capacity: Why we don’t need to supersize the grid to power an electric future - One Step Off The Grid New research shows that by shifting electric vehicle charging and water heating to underused times of day, we can electrify homes and transport without overloading the grid or needing to build costly ...

A lot of spare capacity: Why we don’t need to supersize the grid to power an electric future - One Step Off The Grid
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#ClimateChange #Environment

Bernie Saunders with mittens on sat at change my mind meme table with text " Bottled water companies do not produce water, they produce plastic bottles. Change my mind"

FRIENDLY REMINDER: There is too much plastic in the water because we keep putting water in plastic.

Right now, we have a vital chance to cut plastic production - through a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty.

But plastic loving lobbyists are trying to sabotage the treaty. ⁠

Why is the Liberal Party able to work with the Nats - but Labor are unable to work with the Greens?

Aside from a media pile on - which we know doesn’t matter and Labor will attract anyway - I don’t get it #auspol #politas

Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

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Current checks and balances are failing to protect human and planetary health. Endocrine disrupting chemicals, which are substances that interfere with hormones, causing problems ranging from infertility to cancer.

#Auspol #FossilFuel

Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise Overuse of groundwater has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheets.

Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise #Climate

Damaging compliance system must stop immediately after damning Ombudsman report: ACOSS ACOSS Media Release   The Government must immediately stop the Targeted Compliance Framework being used against people relying on income support, after the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s report today found ...

‘The Government must immediately stop the Targeted Compliance Framework being used against people relying on income support, after the Ombudsman’s report today found alarming systematic failings in its administration.’

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Labor was in a climate crouch. It now has the chance to stand up to News Corp and put the national interest first | Clear Air Australia’s political landscape is barely recognisable from four years ago. Will Labor abandon its risk-averse past and take an aggressive stance on emissions?

Labor was in a climate crouch. It now has the chance to stand up to News Corp and put the national interest first | Adam Morton | The Guardian
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Nick Maynard: "There were several doctors I know who took in formula feed in their luggage, and every single carton of it was confiscated, was taken away by the Israeli border guards, very specifically the formula feed. So none of it was allowed in"

The off-putting neutral packets were a good idea but taxing cigarettes too harshly has just led to crime.

#Auspol

Respect kindergarten teachers and educators! The Premier cannot say Victoria is the ‘education state’ and promise parents fee-free 3 and 4-year-old kindergarten without the workforce to deliver it – and that can’t happen without investing in dec...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/re...

I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? | George Monbiot Around the country, peaceful protesters see their actions as the legitimate exercise of free speech. The police often disagree – and that’s a problem for our democracy, says Guardian columnist George ...

"The most powerful response to an oppressive and unjust law, which limits freedom of speech, is to challenge it, openly and without fear."

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Police block pro-Palestinian protesters' bid for Sydney Harbour Bridge march The Palestine Action Group informed police of its intention to hold a March for Humanity on Sunday and said using the landmark would send a "powerful message" over concerns about mass starvation in Ga...

Minns doesn’t want to upset the Zionists by drawing international attention to the protest.
It’s ok to close the SHB for a movie shoot or marathon pfft.
#nswpol
#auspol

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Canada becomes the latest country to pledge to recognise State of Palestine

About time !

Adani claims its export program helps contribute to sustainable energy – but experts say that’s ‘wilful disinformation’ Indian conglomerate’s claim about exporting coal and its role for developing nations is ‘meaningless sustainability waffle’ and amounts to greenwashing, one says

An Adani claim that its Australian export program, whereby coal is sent through the Great Barrier Reef’s shipping channels, is advancing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, has been denounced by leading scientists.
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Segal seeking to put uni's "under control of a political lobby" - The Klaxon Hundreds of university academics have called for the rejection of Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal’s report, labelling it an “unprecedented attack” on academic freedom.

🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is attempting to put universities "under control of a political lobby" in an "unprecedented attack", say more than 380 academics in explosive open letter.

Comes amid yet more formal calls for PM to "Sack Segal" following The Klaxon’s expose…
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Australia can 'spend a fortune to buy failure' or reintroduce a carbon price The father of emissions trading in Australia has warned the nation is "on a path to comprehensive failure" without the urgent reintroduction of a carbon price.

"Professor Garnaut instead urged the government to completely overhaul its carbon reduction strategy.

'There are limits to the progress that we can make towards Anthony Albanese objectives using Tony Abbott policies'." 💥 #ClimateCrisis #ausecon #auspol

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“We can do that:” AEMO says power system can be run on 100 pct renewable energy AEMO boss says Australia’s electricity grids can be run on 100 pct renewables, because the system issues identified after Spain blackout were already being addressed.

AEMO boss says Australia’s electricity grids can be run on 100 pct renewables, because the system issues identified after Spain blackout were already being addressed.

Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent Adani’s Australian assets regularly report annual losses despite strong revenue, in part due to big related-party payments

More than three years after Adani started extracting coal from its Queensland mine, the Indian conglomerate has paid zero corporate tax from its Australian project – and tax experts say it may “never pay a cent”.
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(5) Discover — Bluesky bsky.app

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.

For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere

"Hot & wet weather in 2024..caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much CO₂ as they took out..This is the 2nd year in a row in which the land carbon sink has nearly vanished & would explain why 2024 saw a record jump in the concentration of CO₂"
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