Cristy Clark
@cristyclark.bsky.social
Associate Professor (human rights & environmental law). I’m interested in legal geography, and water, climate & spatial justice. Co-author of The Lawful Forest (2022), author of Legal Geographies of Water (June 2025). Australian living in UK. She/her
It was a cold December afternoon, the line stretched round the block
And some of them were weeping and some were still in shock
Seven thousand came that day to pay their last respects
To fourteen women slaughtered for no reason but their sex.
Judy Small’s Montreal, December '89 always makes me cry.
And some of them were weeping and some were still in shock
Seven thousand came that day to pay their last respects
To fourteen women slaughtered for no reason but their sex.
Judy Small’s Montreal, December '89 always makes me cry.
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It was a cold December afternoon, the line stretched round the block
And some of them were weeping and some were still in shock
Seven thousand came that day to pay their last respects
To fourteen women slaughtered for no reason but their sex.
Judy Small’s Montreal, December '89 always makes me cry.
And some of them were weeping and some were still in shock
Seven thousand came that day to pay their last respects
To fourteen women slaughtered for no reason but their sex.
Judy Small’s Montreal, December '89 always makes me cry.
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141 people have been arrested in Australia as climate activists stop ships reaching the world’s biggest coal port
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
141 people have been arrested in Australia as climate activists stop ships reaching the world’s biggest coal port
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Newcastle Port now closed to coal ships! Wish we had drone footage of 5 Nannas in a tinny breaching 100m exclusion zone in an ‘exciting back &forth with police boats’. (Observers report). No arrests. Harbour authorities closed the port to coal ships. @risingtideaus.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Newcastle Port now closed to coal ships! Wish we had drone footage of 5 Nannas in a tinny breaching 100m exclusion zone in an ‘exciting back &forth with police boats’. (Observers report). No arrests. Harbour authorities closed the port to coal ships. @risingtideaus.bsky.social
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Episode 14 of Law at the End of the World is now out. I love this one. @prof-mac.bsky.social has a brilliant chat with César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU Law) about making a difference in the world. It’s full of hope and inspiration.
Making a Difference through More-than-Human Rights - Episode 14 (with César Rodríguez-Garavito) - Law at the End of the World
In this conversation, César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU Law) reflects on his fascinating academic career, explaining his drive to produce 'action research' that enables a positive impact for communities a...
lawattheendoftheworld.buzzsprout.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Episode 14 of Law at the End of the World is now out. I love this one. @prof-mac.bsky.social has a brilliant chat with César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU Law) about making a difference in the world. It’s full of hope and inspiration.
Ugh
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ugh
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#Cop30 live: standoff over inclusion of fossil fuel phaseout in final text escalates
- Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is meant to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
- Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is meant to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Cop30 live: standoff over inclusion of fossil fuel phaseout in final text escalates
Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is due to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#Cop30 live: standoff over inclusion of fossil fuel phaseout in final text escalates
- Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is meant to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
- Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is meant to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Episode 14 of Law at the End of the World is now out. I love this one. @prof-mac.bsky.social has a brilliant chat with César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU Law) about making a difference in the world. It’s full of hope and inspiration.
Making a Difference through More-than-Human Rights - Episode 14 (with César Rodríguez-Garavito) - Law at the End of the World
In this conversation, César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU Law) reflects on his fascinating academic career, explaining his drive to produce 'action research' that enables a positive impact for communities a...
lawattheendoftheworld.buzzsprout.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Episode 14 of Law at the End of the World is now out. I love this one. @prof-mac.bsky.social has a brilliant chat with César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU Law) about making a difference in the world. It’s full of hope and inspiration.
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The final parallel session programme for LSAANZ is out! www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academ...
2025 LSAANZ Conference | UC
This conference will explore how understandings of rights and responsibilities are evolving in response to legal and social change; and how we can reimagine our socio-legal relationships in ways that ...
www.canterbury.ac.nz
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The final parallel session programme for LSAANZ is out! www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academ...
It’s an indictment of the times that LinkedIn has resulted in so many more responses to this post than here…
✨A REQUEST 🙏🏻
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
It’s an indictment of the times that LinkedIn has resulted in so many more responses to this post than here…
✨A REQUEST 🙏🏻
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
✨A REQUEST 🙏🏻
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
Brings this old gem to mind.
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Brings this old gem to mind.
It seems pretty clear that the two-party system in the UK, USA and Australia primarily serves the class interests of the wealthy.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
It seems pretty clear that the two-party system in the UK, USA and Australia primarily serves the class interests of the wealthy.
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Bit late to this - but thrilled my @verfassungsblog.de piece on the history of environmental civil disobedience in Australia was cited in Le Roy v Brisbane City Council - finding the council discriminated against Extinction Rebellion based on political belief
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
Le Roy v Brisbane City Council [2025] QCAT 314 (19 August 2025)
Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.
www.austlii.edu.au
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Bit late to this - but thrilled my @verfassungsblog.de piece on the history of environmental civil disobedience in Australia was cited in Le Roy v Brisbane City Council - finding the council discriminated against Extinction Rebellion based on political belief
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
Let’s make it 0% and increase the % of car share, public transport, bikes and walking.
EV and hybrid sales soar in Australia as internal combustion cars fall below 70% market share for first time
EV and hybrid sales soar in Australia as internal combustion cars fall below 70% market share for first time
Data from peak motoring body shows battery-electric vehicles accounted for 9.7% of new cars sold in September quarter, the highest proportion on record
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Electric car sales in Australia continue to reach new record levels, according to figures that reveal the market share for internal combustion engine vehicles fell below 70% for the first time.
The latest quarterly sales data from peak motoring body the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) shows electric vehicles accounted for 9.7% of new cars sold in the three months to September, the highest proportion on record. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Let’s make it 0% and increase the % of car share, public transport, bikes and walking.
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MEDIA RELEASE: The Jewish Council of Australia condemns the antisemitic Nazi stunt held yesterday outside NSW Parliament.
W refuse to be intimidated by these pathetic media stunts.
We stand with all Jewish people impacted by today’s racism and with all those experiencing bigotry and hatred. 1/5
W refuse to be intimidated by these pathetic media stunts.
We stand with all Jewish people impacted by today’s racism and with all those experiencing bigotry and hatred. 1/5
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
MEDIA RELEASE: The Jewish Council of Australia condemns the antisemitic Nazi stunt held yesterday outside NSW Parliament.
W refuse to be intimidated by these pathetic media stunts.
We stand with all Jewish people impacted by today’s racism and with all those experiencing bigotry and hatred. 1/5
W refuse to be intimidated by these pathetic media stunts.
We stand with all Jewish people impacted by today’s racism and with all those experiencing bigotry and hatred. 1/5
It’s lucky that deadly flooding isn’t predicted to dramatically increase due to climate change…
BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say
BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say
Bureau of Meteorology says current system will be phased out as it no longer meets ‘cybersecurity, stability and resilience’ standards
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Natural disaster-prone councils in south-east Queensland say the Bureau of Meteorology’s decision to axe its free real-time flood forecasting tool is a “cost shifting” exercise with “potentially deadly consequences”, with New South Wales emergency services also affected.
For nearly 30 years, the BoM has provided local governments, emergency services and water managers around the country with free access to Enviromon – a tool used to inform emergency alert systems which collects, displays and analyses data from rainfall and river level gauges for flood forecasting. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It’s lucky that deadly flooding isn’t predicted to dramatically increase due to climate change…
This looks delicious
Meera Sodha’s recipe for Massaman tofu and potato curry with rainbow chard | The new vegan
Meera Sodha’s recipe for Massaman tofu and potato curry with rainbow chard | The new vegan
Cut corners, but not flavour, with this updated take on a hearty, vegan-friendly curry
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This looks delicious
A very simple reform would be for the state to pay child support, and charge liable parents themselves. I’m pretty confident the government would mysteriously improve its capacity to recover the money when it wasn’t single parents going out of pocket.
Australia’s current child support debt is the highest it has been in a decade. As of December 2024, $1.9 billion was owed, with 153,694 non-payers. While interest on unpaid amounts is payable to the government, it’s not passed on to the parents who are owed
It is a criminal offence not to file tax returns on time, but the penalty is paltry. Meanwhile, thousands of Australian fathers are able to avoid child support payments by not filing returns, working cash in hand, hiding money in trusts or moving overseas. satpa.pe/qGOX9ZU
November 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A very simple reform would be for the state to pay child support, and charge liable parents themselves. I’m pretty confident the government would mysteriously improve its capacity to recover the money when it wasn’t single parents going out of pocket.
Traffic has already improved.
A Conservative motion to cancel Oxford’s new Congestion Charge has been rejected by a meeting of Oxfordshire County Council. The Conservative and Labour groups voted to withdraw the charge but were outvoted by the LibDem administration and the Greens. (Our live posts are in the thread below!)
The vote on Oxford’s Congestion Charge is taken and goes broadly along party lines.
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Traffic has already improved.
It was such a delight to attend the Legal Advisory Opinions Shaping Climate Action and Human Rights conference yesterday. Brilliant hosting by the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research and Leiden University College The Hague.
November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It was such a delight to attend the Legal Advisory Opinions Shaping Climate Action and Human Rights conference yesterday. Brilliant hosting by the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research and Leiden University College The Hague.
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Zohran Mamdani: "I am Muslim. I am a democratic-socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Zohran Mamdani: "I am Muslim. I am a democratic-socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Excellent news! 🏊🏊♀️🏊♂️
Thanks to our bold policies, we’ve made great progress in cleaning up London’s air. I’m committed to doing the same with our rivers.
Our Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will set out our priorities to reduce pollution, restore biodiversity and improve access to rivers over the next 10 years.
Our Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will set out our priorities to reduce pollution, restore biodiversity and improve access to rivers over the next 10 years.
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Excellent news! 🏊🏊♀️🏊♂️
Nup to the Cup. Just stop this festival of harm already.
Crikey boils the harm of the Melbourne Cup down in the latest Paint by Numbers.
1,400 dead horses: The grim numbers behind the Melbourne Cup
www.crikey.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Nup to the Cup. Just stop this festival of harm already.