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Photography 📷 art 🎨 street gardening 🦜forests 🌳 citizens’ assemblies
Will we stop f-ing our environment? Climate OMG 🤦🏻‍♀️ 315ppm
#auspol #linguistics #biodiversity #environment
Image by Howard Arkley
Photograph: Victoria Central Highlands
Told to target corporations doing the damage rather than block roads.
So they are 👏
#climate #environment

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November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Common sense
“Rising Tide call(s) on the federal government to: cancel all new fossil fuel projects; tax fossil fuel profits at 78% to fund the transition from those fuels and pay for climate damage; and end coal exports from Newcastle by 2030.”
#climatechange #australia

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
Australian campaigners demand Albanese government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#climatechange #law
Citizen’s Arrest Network has targeted water company bosses & heads of smaller oil groups & is working with law firm Leigh Day to build viable “cases” of public nuisance against CEOs including those of BP & Shell.

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November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Bravo @risingtideaus.bsky.social , @greenpeaceap.bsky.social & the thousands-strong #RisingTide community of activists & supporters💪

Sending this clip in solidarity✊️

The mighty Climate Choir Melbourne (recorded 21 Nov outside Josh Burns' office)
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
environmental impact of big tech & ai
#environment #water #energy #climate
“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Big hugs for Nanna Alex who has just made it back to the beach after her arrest. She’s here with @risingtideaus.bsky.social and says she decided to take direct action to stop the coal ships because as a Professor of Public Health she knows the risks. Wake up #auspol #RisingTide #ClimateAction
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
“Rising Tide call(s) on the federal government to: cancel all new fossil fuel projects; tax fossil fuel profits at 78% to fund the transition from those fuels and pay for climate damage; and end coal exports from Newcastle by 2030.”
#climatechange #australia

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
Australian campaigners demand Albanese government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Come on #australia
BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.

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November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.

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November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Clear neutral reporting.
a coal ship was forced to abort arrival after kayakers, a small boat and swimmers entered the shipping channel…Climate change is a divisive issue in Australia, where coal is a top commodity export, along with iron ore (& gas gas gas)
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Australia climate protest forces ship to abort arrival at coal port, 11 charged
A climate-change protest off Australia's coast forced an inbound ship to turn back from one of the country's largest terminals for coal exports on Saturday, prompting 11 arrests.
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Great work.
#protest #climatechange
“If the govt keeps approving coal & gas mines that will harm my grandkids for generations, then yes — I will break the law to stop it and that will be perfectly justified in doing so.”
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
@albomp.bsky.social “praised the “maturity” of Waters and the Greens’ environment spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, during discussions.”

I hope this means a much more productive relationship from now on.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor strikes deal with Greens to pass long-awaited overhaul of nature protection laws
The deal to re-write the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act marks an end to a five-year struggle to fix the broken system
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Algal bloom forgotten, yet ONGOING

News 7: the protesters BLAME fossil fuels

Well it actually IS fossil fuel emissions greenhouse gases, heat the planet, heats the oceans, creates algal blooms kill marine life. Is this so hard to report?

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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
rebellion.global/xreadiness/
The climate crisis is not a distant threat. It is already shaping our world…Many systems we rely on, electricity, banking, communication, water and food, are fragile…This guide helps identify those weak points and offers real-world ways to prepare for them.
XReadiness | Extinction Rebellion
This guide is designed to provide individuals, families, and communities with essential knowledge and practical steps to increase resilience in the face of climate-related crises and other societal di...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Join 5 local Climate & Environment groups demanding meaningful leadership & action from the majority Labor govt

94 seats & angling to pass hideously regressive EPBC laws with the LNP❗️🤯

EVERY FRIDAY, 12.30pm-1.30pm
Josh Burns' office, 219 Barkly St, St Kilda

(rain or shine, everyone welcome)
Fri 13 Nov: week 25 protesting the @albomp.bsky.social gov's approval of WoodCIDE's climate-, ocean-, reef-, health- & Indigenous culture-destroying North West Shelf Extension carbon 💣

We stand with protestors at #COP30 demanding a global, life & planet-preserving fossil fuel phase out✊️
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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And today, 21 Nov, our regular protest crew at the Josh Burns' office will be joined by the mighty 💪 Melbourne Climate Choir
For the Art: Climate Choir Melbourne sings for the ancient Murujuga rock art. SD 480p
YouTube video by Climate Choir Melbourne
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November 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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This is obscene.

The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.

While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
That’s coal. Gas?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The shift from coal to clean power is not only essential for climate. It will also help increase our energy security, boost competitiveness of businesses & create 1000s of jobs”

Australia is world 2nd-biggest thermal coal exporter & 3rd of GAS
South Korean decision to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040 sounds alarm for Australian exports
Decision announced at Cop30 climate conference signposts risks for Australia’s reliance on fossil fuel exports, analysts say
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A: of course

#COP30 president’s 5000 word letter to delegates has zero mention of oil gas or coal, “fossil fuels mentioned once in a sentence so hopelessly ambiguous it’s a wonder it was included at all” 🤷‍♀️ #climatechange
COP is charade to placate & misdirect
youtu.be/oaDm6rfQ6ck
Has BIG OIL hijacked COP30?
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
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November 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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#australia Federal Court
1) has 3 challenges to NW Shelf Extension approval to operate 45yrs more, 18.5 mil tonnes of gas EVERY YEAR
2) considering if UN Special Rapporteur on human right to clean, healthy & sustainable environment can intervene as amicus curiae
North West Shelf Extension – Federal Court challenge
We've just filed a Federal Court challenge to Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension on behalf of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
envirojustice.org.au
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Some rare good news
More big news today as the Land and Environment Court makes orders, by consent, overturning approval of Glencore’s Ulan Coal Mine expansion.

Johnson Legal proudly represented Mudgee District Environment Group, in their fight for a clean, healthy and safe environment.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Courts turn on coal mines over climate impacts
The NSW Land and Environment Court invalidated the approval for the Ulan coal mine expansion near Mudgee, based on a precedent set in July.
www.smh.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Australia’s climate action as of June 2025.
#climatechange
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November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Don’t hobble Victoria with complaints about taxes, debt and deficit

Big business never tires of saying taxes are bad, yet those same companies thrive on the very services taxes pay for. #ThePoint

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Don’t hobble Victoria with complaints about taxes, debt and deficit
Big business never tires of saying taxes are bad, yet those same companies thrive on the very services taxes pay for.
thepoint.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM