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L.A. TACO Documentary Project Support our first-ever documentary series and help us bring Los Angeles’ untold stories to the screen.

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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

MAJOR UPDATE: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification also in the danger zone.

Read the new Planetary Healthcheck 2025 report here: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org

What is the value of Meanjin? We’ve done some calculations – and it’s not about money New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of Australian writers and editors.

What is the value of Meanjin? We’ve done some calculations – and it’s not about money
theconversation.com/what-is-the-...

How 106 People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting — Before It Happened

Tragic this is even necessary, but what a great initiative, with potential to be applied in so many contexts, populations, and geographies www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/n...

“The international community must replace cautious incrementalism with unconditional adherence to the moral imperatives, political commitments and legal obligations underpinning” the principle of the Responsibility to Protect #Palestine #Israel www.globalr2p.org/publications...

I played a small role helping evacuate @skateistan.bsky.social staff from Afghanistan when the Taliban took power. Amazing to finally meet Fatima and her son in Australia, 4 years later. She was the brave and inspiring teacher featured in the “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone…” documentary.

Israeli conductor, Ilan Volkov gives an impassioned speech on 11th September, at the Royal Albert Hall to stop the Gaza Holocaust.....
#AllHeroesDontWearCapes
#IlanVolkov
#PromsFestival
#London
#StopGazaGenocide

Driver who left Aboriginal man to die on Darwin road spared prison time One man died and another was injured after Jake Danby struck them with his car outside a Darwin shopping centre in 2024, with the driver then sending a series of "disgusting" text messages about the v...

One of the biggest causes of FNP deaths in the NT

A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time.

he labelled the crash victims as "dogs" and "n***ers".

Protesters gathered outside Melbourne University Publishing office at 715 Swanston St

Big turnout at this morning’s rally against @mupublishing.bsky.social vandalism of Meanjin. @beneltham.bsky.social called for Meanjin’s name and archive to be surrendered so the magazine can be published by someone who deserves to and appreciates the honour

Layla’s final year of school was disrupted by floods and fires. The toll of climate disasters on children is only getting worse Exclusive: Unicef-commissioned report shows being unable to finish high school – and the associated wage loss – is the most significant impact of increasingly frequent disasters on young people

Layla’s final year of school was disrupted by floods and fires. The toll of climate disasters on children is only getting worse
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Charlie Kirk died in the America he wanted I mourn the loss of human life. I feel compassion, empathy and grief at an inexcusable killing. But I find nothing to lionise in his legacy.

Given this is making some waves - here is the piece and you can judge for yourself.

(I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does).

Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax

amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Paedophile argues relevance of girl's 'sexual experience' in appeal bid A man who sexually abused a young girl in foster care is seeking to quash his conviction in the High Court.

The victim was aged between 6 and 9. The reporting seems to miss the point that a child cannot consent to sex, so "sexual experience" should be accurately described as "previous rapes". The whole thing is disgusting.

Political Economy of Health and One Health special interest groups workshop. Democracy and Public Health in a Trumpian world. Monday 15 Sept, 10am-4pm, Novotel Wollongong Northbeach.

How can we make sense of authoritarian politics?

What does the weaking of democratic institutions mean for #PublicHealth?

Find out Mon 15 Sept in Wollongong / Dharawal Country, hosted by @phaa-onehealth.bsky.social & our Political Economy SIG.

www.austph2025.com/workshop
@peterwtait.bsky.social

Australia-first treaty with First Peoples to be tabled in Victorian parliament Victoria's historic treaty is promising to "reckon with the past" and empower the state's First Peoples — and explicitly declares it will not take anything away from the broader community.

Happy news: Victoria will become the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a treaty with Victoria's First Peoples in parliament today. When the legislation is passed, it will make the First Peoples' Assembly, to be called Gellung Warl, permanent. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

A self-identified professional scientist using the screenname Mug of Glop also chimed in, saying, “lmao Trump is the absolute weakest b—- in history.”
There’s a reason tennis has sunk to triviality in this country in the last 40 years,” he added. “It’s terrified, condescending management like this.”

Trump gets booed at the US Open and WTA agrees to seek media blackout 😤. But you can see it here, with Harry Sisson.

I'd like clarify this one. Actually, this partnership does have an influence on Woodside's behaviour. It emboldens them. It makes them part of society and facilitates their continued pollution.

A. dangerous time domestically for Amerika ..

Having sacked the professional statisticians measuring economic performance, tRump is starting to find out that jobs are disappearing in Amerika

NOT his fault of course - he'll be looking to blame others as Amerika heads towards potential recession

Project Drawdown is headed to Climate Week NYC Check out events featuring Project Drawdown experts at Climate Week NYC!

🗽 Headed to Climate Week NYC? Drawdown will be there - sharing climate solutions from food to employee action, and unveiling a game-changing new product. 👀 Check out the full schedule and register today. See you in NYC! #climateweeknyc #climateaction

Dutch pension fund pulls €14.5bn from BlackRock over green issues PFZW’s move follows European backlash against American antipathy towards environmental, social and governance initiatives

Smart banking is green banking! 🧠💵 #BlackRock once positioned itself as a leader in sustainable investing. However one of Europe’s largest pension funds has pulled billions from BlackRock in part because of concerns over the firm's voting record on sustainability issues.

Australia to feel the heat at Pacific Island talks One of the climate justice movement's biggest wins and its influence on major emitters, including Australia, is about to be put to the test.

The problem being a fair-weather friend of convenience - there when it suits you and absence the rest of the time - is you get a reputation as flakey

The Pacific region keeps calling Australia out.

The Duopoly's destroyed this relationship for decades

www.thenewdaily.com.au/pacific/2025...

For context, Alec Coles is CEO of WA Museum (Big WoodCIDE fan)

Thermal trace: Decades of heat and cold stress data at your fingertips The new Thermal Trace application, developed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and ECMWF*, allows us to explore, visualise, share and extract over 80 years of thermal stress data in a few...

Read more about the new application here:

Heat Stress - have you experienced a #heatwave in 2025?

Find out how heatwaves and coldwaves have changed across the world with @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social new application
Thermal Trace. 🌡️⚒️🧪🛰️🌍

Check out the new application here:
thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu

Kmart facing legal action over belief it's sourcing products linked to forced labour Kmart is facing court action by a group who believe some of its products may have been sourced from factories in China linked to forced labour.

Incredibly brave and powerful action taken by Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women's Association (AUTWA) to force ⁦‪Kmart‬⁩ to prove it is not sourcing products from factories using forced labour in Western China. Consumers need to know.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The Apartheid Free Zones network in Japan includes bookstores, art galleries, B&Bs, fair trade shops, offices of lawmakers, university research labs and Buddhist temples.

Turn your space into an Apartheid Free Zone. Contact your local BDS group or fill the form in our website today: bdsmovement.net/afz-registra...

Perhaps all seven of them are still trying to arrange a teams meeting and the right snacks to workshop a possible response to a nationwide march a week ago, organised & addressed by actual neo-Nazis.

Strengthening Unions to counter this effect: This is exactly the dynamics and findings we explored in the @earth4all.life book and project. Check the "Inequality"-turnaround on our web www.earth4all.life