Fern Hames

“If the government continues to do nothing, we will be forced to leave our homelands.”

Must-read piece on "End Times Schooling" by @jessehagopian.bsky.social who has done so much to unleash the liberatory power of education.

The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery:
biodiversitycouncil....

too many people have been conditioned by corporate social media into believing that if you do something and don’t post about it online, it doesn’t count.

you must destroy the Mark Zuckerberg who squats within your head.

YouTube video by The Australia Institute The Fight to Save Murujuga

By approving a 50-year extension to the North West Shelf gas project, the Federal Government has signed a death warrant for Australia’s most significant ancient artistic treasure.

📺 Watch the full video report from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social
youtu.be/Bj9VOMKYxSI

Dr Ken Mulvaney thought that once people realised how important the rock art was, there would be no more industrial development at Murujuga.

Instead he's seen multiple new developments built, creating acidic emissions that are slowly destroying the rock art.

#auspol

Elders 'devastated' after important WA cultural site smashed by vandals Derek Councillor was leading a tour group along the banks of the Greenough River, east of Geraldton, when he found the statue sacred to Naajuga traditional owners smashed to pieces.

Deeply saddened. With Watt & Albanese's 'executive' decision to ignore 50000 years of cultural heritage at Murujuga, & O'Neill's 'smugness', they ALSO potentially 'approved' a minefield of racist-based vandalism against aboriginal sites everywhere. Let that sink in.

www.abc.net.au/news/105359106

YouTube video by The Australia Institute Scientist outraged at "doctored" report on gas industry pollution at Murujuga

Don't believe the spin from the WA Government. Pollution from the gas export plant is destroying the ancient Murujuga rock art.

Rock art expert Professor Benjamin Smith read the report and set the record straight.

Video from Friends of Australian Rock Art. #auspol

Australia's largest gas project approved for operation to 2070 The life of Australia's largest oil and gas project will be extended to 2070, with Environment Minister Murray Watt giving the long-awaited environmental approval for Woodside's North West Shelf proje...

Australia's largest oil and gas project will continue until 2070, making a complete mockery of fake aspirations for "net zero emissions" by 2050.

This shameful decision was postponed until after a federal election, just 3 weeks ago.

Nobody voted for this.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

The Australia Institute - We Change Minds The Australia Institute is an independent think tank based in Canberra. We conduct high-impact research for a better Australia.

Looks like Labor is about to approve the North West shelf gas expansion, which among bad news for the planet and WA energy costs is terrible for the nearby Murujuga rock art - which is so old, it has one of the first known depictions of the human face
australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsid...

Capitalism has already eaten democracy anyway - The Shot If left unsupervised, capitalism will always eat democracy. And we are further on this arc than many of us want to believe.

Here's me. 'Capitalism has already eaten democracy anyway'

Fire revival A return to traditional Indigenous burning practices in the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts is helping protect the ninu, or greater bilby.

Read this beautiful multimedia story produced by The Conversation whilst you eat your chocolate bilby!
stories.theconversation.com/fire-revival/

Here’s how to create a more nature-literate society Nature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years.

Notice, Name and Nurture: 3 steps for a more nature-literate society: theconversation.com/heres-how-to...

Our review of the 2025-26 federal budget has found that the Albanese Government is still far short of investing what is required to meet the government’s own environmental commitments, despite recent funding commitments for protected areas.

More at: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/federal...

As Trump abandons climate action, we must accept net zero won't happen While markets and media were chasing Donald Trump’s tariff fiasco last week, something far more important was unfolding in East Palestine, Ohio.

This column from Alan Kohler really broke my heart. My colleagues in climate science have been screaming the impacts of climate change from the rooftops for decades.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate

Dear Donald Trump,
Fuck off.
Regards,
Australian researchers

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Thank goodness for @thesaturdaypaper.com.au and @themonthly.com.au 👍

I cancelled my subscription to The Age today, and advised them it was because of accepting advertising $$ for, and publishing, this disinformation

Today I cancelled my subscription to The Age. Accepting front page advertising $$ for hate-filled disinformation from the Trumpet of Patriots is a step too far.

"Barking mad". Solar geoengineering is outright dangerous. Imagine if we could genuinely decrease emissions instead

We are rapidly surpassing 1.5°C of global warming:

This👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽😳.

US politics will impact Australia’s capacity to predict the path of cyclones
🙏 @gergyl.bsky.social

No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

Powerful Welcome to Country by Dr Mandy Nicholson this morning at the Bush Heritage Australia/ Trust for Nature Women In Conservation breakfast this morning. Layers of Country, looking after Country, & Reciprocity. Plus, fabulous performance from the Djirri Djirri Dancers🌿 #WIC25

Cutting the public service saves nothing Reducing the size of Australia’s public service is often characterised as a way to save the country money and make government departments more efficient.

“Promising to reduce the size of the public service is a cheap political stunt.”

New research shows that sacking public servants actually costs the country a fortune, as public jobs are replaced by consultants, contractors and labour hire workers.

New research from @futurework.org.au #auspol

Why Do (Or Don’t) People Protect Nature? Insights From Conservation Practice and Environmental Psychology to Respond to the Biodiversity Crisis | Global Environmental Psychology doi.org/10.5964/gep.... - I have no idea, but we wrote a paper anyway.

Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity (centre column 'Metrics' and 'Trends') can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left column 'Drivers of Change'). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right column 'Indicators of Change').

*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Respite from the unraveling.
Mt Torbreck.
#TaungurungCountry

How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.

Important information about #climate and environmental data by @ericnost.bsky.social and Alejandro Paz @theconversation.com 🌎 🌿: theconversation.com/how-to-find-...

Federal list of forbidden words may jeopardize research at UCSD The banned words include: women, disability, bias, status, trauma, Black, Hispanic communities, as well as socioeconomic, ethnicity and systemic.

Women is now a banned word.

And so many more
www.kpbs.org/news/economy...