Alexei Trundle

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

Australia’s laws to protect the environment don’t work. Woodside’s 40-year greenlight proves it Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve

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50,000 year old art. Oldest known representation of a human face. Industrial pollution WILL damage. "Private negotiations". Remediation delayed. As @adammorton.bsky.social argues here, these laws do NOT work.

YouTube video by APA TV XİN müavini: “Azərbaycan COP 31 danışıqlarında vasitəçilik edir” – APA TV

Interesting to see Azerbaijan's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Yalçın Rafiyev saying that 🇦🇿 are acting as mediators between Türkiye and Australia re. #CoP31 hosting rights, including in NY at the #UNGA.

Suggests there might be a 'result in the near future'.. 👀

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAFw...

Danke Berlin!
#AllEyesOnGaza

For Australia’s national climate plans to be meaningful, they need to include an orderly phase-out of its fossil fuel exports, writes Melbourne Climate Futures Research Fellow Arthur Wyns.

Read more → unimelb.me/4mwB7cw

Some as-always brilliant data vis on #climatechange by @nickevershed.bsky.social in @australia.theguardian.com today ... shout out to CSIRO for the massive effort to develop the underlying Aust Climate Services data explorer as well👇

www.acs.gov.au/pages/data-e...

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

The sitting President of the United States is in the United Nations complaining that his company did not get the contract to renovate the United States. And above all he is lying about employment, prices, inflation. He is just rambling. This is embarrassing.

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Climate Target Snap Rallies Labor is bed in with the fossil fuel industry, with the approval of over 28 new coal and gas projects in their first term, the approval the Woodside North-West Gas Shelf extension, one of the most pol...

We'll be outside Labor MP offices across the continent on Monday making it clear young people don't accept this failure of a target. Details here: www.aycc.org.au/sleeping_on_...

Speaking at these Side Events today on the margins of the 54th Pacific Island Forum Leaders Summit #piflm54

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot Australian doctor attacked by drone aboard the Gaza flotilla talks to Dave

I spoke with a brave Australian, Dr Bianca Webb-Pullman, who is sailing to Gaza aboard the Family Boat alongside Greta Thunberg.

Following the drone strike on her boat, she has a message for her local member, Josh Burns. Why not help him hear it?

Better together.

Congratulations to H.E. Annalena Baerbock of 🇩🇪 for her election as President of the General Assembly for the #UNGA80.

🇨🇭looks forward to working with you during the upcoming session to achieve a stronger UN.

So, something similar could absolutely still happen, but the whole UN GA isn't going to relocate for the opening tomorrow..

Text excerpt from the UN General Assembly's 43rd Session highlighting the decision by the GA to move the session to Geneva in 1988, source: https://docs.un.org/en/a/43/49

Btw @theguardian.com article isn't fake news but moving the whole GA is being conflated with proposing a one-day conference in Geneva.

In 1988 UNGA43 started in NYC, before a vote on Dec 2 (Res.43/49) saw it moved to Geneva for two days to "consider the question of Palestine".

The vote? 154-2 ..

US visa refusal for Palestinian delegation prompts calls to move UN meeting to Geneva General assembly session about two-state solution for Palestine and Israel due to start in New York on Tuesday

🚨 some (sadly) fake news going around that 🇺🇳 #UNGA80 has been moved to Geneva from NYC after the US refused 🇵🇸 visas.

1) No way vote would be 152-2 for/against, esp. a day before the meeting is in session (w/ leaders itineraries etc. locked in) &

2) No way* to vote without the GA being in session!

It's a historic day in Victoria:

Victoria is today set to become the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a treaty to its parliament.

The treaty promises to "reckon with the past" & empower Victoria's First Peoples.

More: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼

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Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

This, from Jonathan Green, pretty much sums it up: “Meanjin’s financial demand is trivial … a few hundred thousand dollars … the cultural loss of its death is as significant as it is tragic.”
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts.

We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

Uni staff told to 'wash delicates' for stress management as 146 courses suspended The University of Technology Sydney is suspending more than 100 courses as it prepares for a controversial redundancy program to save $100 million.

Somewhere in this Australian university, some well-paid HR people (and consultants, there's always consultants) thought that it was good idea to tell staff worried they might be made redundant that they should hand-wash their good undies to cope with the stress. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Australia’s fight to host COP31 With time running out to secure the UN climate conference for next year, Australian negotiators have stepped up the pressure on rival Türkiye to drop its bid.

The race to host COP31 is between two fossil fuel economies or “petrostates” — Türkiye being Europe’s largest coal-fired electricity producer, and Australia being the world’s second-largest fossil fuel exporter and one of the highest per-capita greenhouse gas emitters. satpa.pe/Ggvw1Ud

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ Ex-fossil fuel executive Chris Wright said administration is reviewing national assessments made by past governments

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ [yeah, that was me] | Mark Oliver for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

PM of Tuvalu speaking at ANU today, The Hon Feleti Penitala Teo.

Talking about the impact of Tuvalu of climate change and the grave injustice of this

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"For future generations, this opinion is a lifeline."

Minister Ralph Regenvanu of Vanuatu and Vishal Prasad took a moment to reflect on today's historic ICJ ruling.

Footage belongs to AP News.

#EndFossilFuels #FossilFuelTreaty #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

'This was a genocide': Key takeaways from Australia's first Indigenous-led truth-telling inquiry After more than four years and over 1,300 submissions, Australia's first Indigenous-led truth-telling inquiry has handed down its final report, calling for major reform.

After 4 years & 1,300+ submissions, the #Yoorrook Justice Commission has delivered its final report—confirming the deep, ongoing harm done to #FirstPeoples in #Victoria. 100 recommendations now call us to act. The truth is clear—justice and real change must follow.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Türkiye is putting urban climate resilience at the centre of its #CoP31 bid ... somewhat unsurprising as the relevant line ministry's portfolio is "environment, urbanization, and climate change.

Australia & Türkiye are both heavily urban, but not a focus I've seen coming out of the Oz bid to date..