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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 8h

#auspol #climate #banks #commitments

Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 9h

Today, it's the first time in the past decade we haven't attended CommBank's annual meeting to demand improved climate action.

But ANZ, Westpac and NAB all face shareholder resolutions calling on the banks to meet their #climate commitments. Act now! marketforces.org.au/campaigns/ba...

A photo of people demanding climate action outside CommBank

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 2d

🥳 Renewables just overtook coal in Australia’s grid for the first time!
The same story globally in early 2025.

But: Australia still exports more fossil fuel emissions than we produce at home — and we don’t count them.

🛑 Join the People’s Blockade: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

📷 @theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16h

"With the major donors revealed, it is clear Advance, contrary to its presentation, is hardly a movement of the ordinary person against 'the elite', but rather represents their interests." #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics?

Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, the group Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite.

johnmenadue.com

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 10h

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 10h

At Origin Energy AGM today Knitting Nannas, @parentsforclimate.bsky.social Anti Poverty Centre, @swelteringcities.bsky.social and NSW Conservation Council calling on Origin to stop their gas expansion and gas exports driving up temperatures and Australian’s energy Bills.

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 14h

Tell your MP we’re over real life horror stories. Recognising the impact of climate change is not enough. We want real #ClimateAction
drilled.media/news/algal-b...

“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.

Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 17h

Some Nannas don’t stop! Cathy, Keelah with Stuart Blanch WWF & Susie Russell, @ Parliament House for Sustainable Timber Solutions instead of Native Forest Logging. And with Sue Higginson & Ah Lek. (She doesn’t stop either.)

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 16d

“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.”

146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024

The political killings you don’t hear about

Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

Why is Santos on the nose? And when are our governments going to stop bailing it out at our expense?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

How a boardroom mistake in Adelaide 15 years ago cost you a fortune

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Deceitful' planning laws bypass environment, corruption safeguards, experts say

There are growing fears that a major overhaul of planning laws promoted to fast-track housing development will bypass environmental protections and remove safeguards against corruption.

www.abc.net.au

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

🧶👵 protest the introduction of new NSW Planning laws at NSW Parliament House today. The laws are meant to fast track housing but will allow the Minister to approve projects without oversight - even by local councils. A 🎁 4 developers at the expense of our environment. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

Please join Sydney 🧶👵 and friends outside the Origin Energy AGM 9.30am tomorrow, Wed 15 Oct, Shangai-La Hotel 176 Cumberland St, Sydney.

Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 2d

Well, well, well. Origin Energy is planning to drill 4,435 coal seam gas wells across Central Queensland.
* Extraction of 29 billion litres of groundwater
* 1,300 hectares of koala habitat cleared
* 435 million tonnes of climate pollution
Tell shareholders we’re 😠 Wed Oct 15, Sydney, details 🧵⬇️

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 4d

Great to be featured in this weekend’s @theguardian.com as one of their podcast picks of the week

Listen on overshootpod.com

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

@overshootpod.bsky.social podcast is a must listen for everyone who assumes their pension and super funds investments in #FossilFuels will be protected from the impact of #ClimateChange

Fabulous series #auspol with some of the planets most eminent climate scientists and economists.

Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @overshootpod.bsky.social for bringing this urgent issue front and center in their podcast series. It was a pleasure to speak with them.

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 2d

📢 episode 3 is out now

We meet the pensioner who looked into her pension fund's due diligence on climate change

What she found was shocking...

Featuring
@carbontracker.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and many more

Listen now: www.overshootpod.com

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve any spare coins left in your jar please give to support this court challenge.

Our government should be responding to warnings about environmental and biodiversity collapse instead of protecting corporate greed and destructive. But here we are 🪨⛏️

Environmental Justice Australia @envirojustice.bsky.social · 2d

EJA lawyers have just filed a Federal Court challenge to Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension on behalf of the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Read more 👇
envirojustice.org.au/legal-work/c...

The North West Shelf extension case

Taking the Environment Minister to court over his approval of Australia’s largest, longest operating and most polluting gas project.

envirojustice.org.au

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

Keep up with #ClimateAction news 🧶Nanna style with our weekly newsletter and calendar of upcoming events.

This week we visited the office of the Minister for Climate Change Chris Bowen as part of a wider campaign looking for environmental law reform.

Nanna News 13 Oct 2025

Last Week Sydney Nannas visited MPS offices, worked on their crafts and plotted with other Nanna loops (groups).

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

All 1,966 Palestinian prisoners scheduled for release today have boarded buses at Israeli detention facilities, Reuters reports.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 2d

So is ABC or any media going to show us or spk to any Palestinians who are miraculously still alive after 2yrs of daily bombings by Israel? Seems pretty one sided at the moment. Palestinians wrongly held captive by Israel are also being released today, barely a mention.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Monday, everyone!

Here's our reminder that without far stronger environmental laws the wildlife and places we all know and dearly love will continue to be destroyed and disappear, forever.

theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... By @drphilmccormack.bsky.social @yungenchee.bsky.social and me.

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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Alex Nelson @alxnelson.bsky.social · 3d

A closeup of a gray catbird perched on a branch against a gray morning sky. #birds

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Sonans @sojaya.bsky.social · 2d

“the project could fuel around four billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – roughly ten times Australia’s total annual emissions.”

Environmental Justice Australia @envirojustice.bsky.social · 2d

EJA lawyers have just filed a Federal Court challenge to Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension on behalf of the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Read more 👇
envirojustice.org.au/legal-work/c...

The North West Shelf extension case

Taking the Environment Minister to court over his approval of Australia’s largest, longest operating and most polluting gas project.

envirojustice.org.au

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 2d

Knitting Nannas invite you to take our Action of the Week 13 Oct 2025 knittingnannas.org/2025/10/13/a...

Action of the Week 13 Oct 2025

Tell Prime Minister Albanese and Environment Minister Watt to protect water, farmland, native habitat and our climate by refusing Whitehaven’s proposed Winchester South coal mine.

knittingnannas.org

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