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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 6d

25 years of analysis confirms what many frontline, indigenous and climate justice groups have been loudly saying for that whole 25 years: climate offsets are a scam meant to mask the obvious reality that we must stop burning fossil fuels. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Miree @miree.bsky.social · 9d

Seriously. How much fucking wildlife extinction will be enough for neolibs?

#ExtinctionIsForever
#LaborIsFuckingUseless
#auspol

MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 10d

“BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird”. Same old story. Avaricious #mining company clears #habitat. More vandalism against our natural heritage. #wildlife #birds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’ Stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion

BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird

www.theguardian.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 13d

#BREAKING | The Global Sumud Flotilla's Alma ship's crew has just been apprehended by the Israeli forces.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Aug 14

Minister Watt uses purpose-designed regressive EPBC amendments that "removed the environment minister's ability to reconsider previous decisions if they had been ongoing for at least 5 years, & were approved w conditions that involve state-based regs" to end reconsideration of salmon farming request

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14d

PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social,

you may be desensitised to genocidal atrocities directed at children, but we are NOT

You need to SANCTION ISRAEL NOW

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 14d

Dr Assal Rad—

"UNICEF Spox James Elder is back in Gaza and says the violence is worse than ever.

"A horror show, paid for with US tax dollars."

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Mass slaughter in Gaza stands apart from other genocides, Chris Sidoti says: ‘People cannot escape’

Australian human rights expert who was on UN commission of inquiry labels Israel’s strategy a failure that ‘has not brought peace and has not destroyed Hamas’

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 17d

Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says

Murray Watt says ‘it’s not the government’s intention to stop old growth logging’ as Greens and academics press for total halt

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Gippsland Environment Group @geg101.bsky.social · 20d

More info on #FFMV/ Victorian state govt's inexplicable, irresponsible plans to incinerate 13000 HECTARES of Glossy Black Cockatoo food supply. Nearly 64% of GBC's Victorian habitat was burned in 2019-20 bushfires: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Glossy black cockatoos could be pushed towards extinction in Victoria if burns go ahead, experts warn

Fire in black sheoak forest of East Gippsland would destroy the birds’ food supply, conservationist says

www.theguardian.com

Gippsland Environment Group @geg101.bsky.social · 27d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critically Endangered Glossy Black Cockatoos have an extremely restricted diet. In East Gippsland they only feed on Black She-oaks. "Planned" burning by Forest Fire Management Vic is deliberately destroying their habitat. Read more:
www.geg.org.au/glossy-black...

Australia’s quietest cockatoo is running out of trees. We have betrayed its gentle curiosity | Joseph Earp

As logging, fire and shrinking habitat push the glossy black cockatoo closer to the brink, we don’t just risk losing a species, but a world of wonder

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · Sep 13

I was surprised by how moved I was when treaty legislation entered parliament this week. But when I step and think about it, my reaction was understandable. What a moment! www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/this-is-ho...

Treaty: This is how we get over it

Finding ourselves in the story of this land, together.

www.thespencerstreetend.com.au

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Gippsland Environment Group @geg101.bsky.social · Sep 12

firstpeoplesvic.org/treaty/
"TREATY, IT'S HERE ...Australia’s first Treaty between First Peoples in Victoria and the Victorian Government"

About TREATY for Victoria | The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria

Treaty is our opportunity to make sure we – the Traditional Owners of these lands – always have the freedom and power to make the decisions that affect our communities, our culture, and our Country.

firstpeoplesvic.org

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Gippsland Environment Group @geg101.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Cutting through the spin – Ten logging 'myths' in the new ABARES report

Australia’s native‑forest debate has long been characterised by falsehoods generated by industry and arms of industry such as parts of government.

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Gippsland Environment Group @geg101.bsky.social · Sep 10

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

John Wamsley and David Lindenmayer — is there hope for Australian's biodiversity? - ABC listen

Hear from two environmentalists who have ruffled a lot of feathers, who have been revered and reviled for their work. But the species and landscapes that we manage to save in 50- or 100-years' time wi...

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Sep 4

news.mongabay.com/2025/09/why-...

Why is rainfall declining in the Amazon? New research says deforestation is the leading driver

For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature Communications disentangles how much of this shift can be blamed on humanity’s warming of the planet ...

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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excellent and moving episode of 7AM podcast, with @mrdtjames.bsky.social talking about the historical and cultural implications of the Nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty on Sunday.

How a mainstream protest gave cover to neo-Nazi violence

Podcast Episode · 7am · 02/09/2025 · 17m

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · Sep 1

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, whose uncle Robbie Thorpe established the camp, wants the attack investigated as a hate crime.

“The aim of this attack was to cause fear and terror in the hearts and minds of our people.”

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa...

'Disgraceful': Far-right marchers storm Indigenous group

Confronting footage has emerged of protesters storming an Indigenous camp in Melbourne after Sunday's "March for Australia" rallies.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Jay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...

The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

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Gippsland Environment Group @geg101.bsky.social · Aug 29

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Abolish Native Forest Logging

State-owned Forestry Corporation charged with 29 offences related to failing to protect threatened species

The state Environment Protection Authority laid charges after investigation into accusations the corporation breached laws while operating in Tallaganda state forest

www.theguardian.com

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Gippsland Environment Group @geg101.bsky.social · Aug 29

Federal Court, Melbourne, Monday 1 Sept: support Warburton Environment final hearing of court case, fighting Forest Fire Management Victoria's appalling, senseless removal of thousands of old hollow-bearing habitat trees, naming them "hazardous trees". warburtonenvironment.org

Warburton Environment | It's Time To Protect Our Native Forests

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Western world needs therapy. It does not know itself. Routinely "appalled" and "concerned" about the war crimes it arms, pays for, and covers up politically. It asks us to sever ourselves from reality in order to cope. On an individual level, this is unhealthy. On a societal level, it's suicidal

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · Aug 23

“We needed food, yes. But not like this. Not at the cost of my father’s life. Not at the cost of our dignity.” interc.pt/4lLcTuT

A photo of starving Palestinians flocking to collect aid supplies dropped from airplanes in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Aug. 19, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza," and the DEK, "Human rights groups have stressed that it’s safer to provide aid by land. Israel is killing Palestinians by dropping it from the sky."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 25

An “unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity. .. If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · Aug 25

#auspol
Oh I see - jobs for everyone

Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today the AFR reports that Abu Dhabi's ADNOC has hired Albanese’s former chief of staff Michael Choueifate to help with its Santos bid, while Peter Dutton’s ex–chief of staff Alexander Dalgleish has joined the same lobbying firm.

Santos’ Abu Dhabi bidder adds Aussie flavour to staff mix

ADNOC’s lobbyists are also increasing their headcount with the addition of Peter Dutton’s former chief of staff.

www.afr.com

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CNN @cnn.com · Aug 25

Bats have a bad reputation. Myths, folk tales and negative media coverage mean people often link them to vampires or blame them for disease outbreaks. But bat populations around the world are in decline, and without them, ecosystems lose key benefits like pest control, pollination and seed dispersal

Mexico’s bat man on saving the ‘most unfairly treated animals on Earth’ | CNN

Bats are often linked to vampires or blamed for disease outbreaks. Here’s why they don’t deserve such a bad reputation.

www.cnn.com

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · Aug 24

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Thousands take to the streets at pro-Palestine protests across Australia after Gaza famine declaration

Organisers say Sunday could be the largest pro-Palestine demonstration in Australia’s history, with rallies in 40 cities and towns

www.theguardian.com

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