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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 8m

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Adani should be declared persona non gratia. Australia never wants him or needs him

Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties

Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 18h

More Indigenous Australians died in custody in NSW this year than ever before, coroner reveals

Coroner decries ‘profoundly distressing milestone’ as state surpasses yearly record after only nine months, with expert saying tough on crime measures compounding problem * Warning: This article contains references to Indigenous Australians who have died * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More First Nations people have died in custody in New South Wales so far this year than ever before, the state coroner has revealed, pointing to soaring Aboriginal incarceration rates as a key driver behind the “profoundly distressing milestone”. Twelve Indigenous people have died in NSW corrective services custody since January, while four have died in police operations – the highest number recorded in any full year. Continue reading...

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

We don’t have a gas shortage, we have a gas export problem. Santos are gaming the system and pushing up the price of gas paid by 🇦🇺 households & industry.

We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

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 ...

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Kimberly @kimbasgarden.bsky.social · 18h

Not least because sea snakes can be seriously injured through incorrect handling.

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Ms D @msdines.bsky.social · 1d

Please, please don’t buy that shit.

Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 1d

"The proliferation of fake spider webs in the lead-up to Halloween is the real stuff of nightmares, according to bird lovers who are urging people to ditch the plastic ahead of October 31."

www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Those sticky Halloween cobwebs are killing our native wildlife

Plastics now comprise about 30 per cent of the material found in birds’ nests, as experts warn fake Halloween cobwebs sold at supermarkets are fuelling the problem.

www.smh.com.au

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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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Mark Ogge @markogge.bsky.social · 1d

What do you get when Big Gas lobbyists AEP get scandal ridden consultants EY to do “modelling” to influence the Government’s policies?

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

ACCC urged to probe 'distorted research' behind government gas policy

Advocacy group Climate Integrity has accused the gas industry of using "distorted research", produced by the accounting firm EY, to influence the Australian government's Future Gas Strategy.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Australian bird of the year enters final countdown as top 10 finalists vie to win 2025 poll

Voting to close at 6am on Wednesday as Australian magpie fails to make list of final contenders * Vote now in the 2025 Australian bird of the year poll * See more Australian bird of the year content * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The final day of voting for the 2025 Australian bird of the year has arrived, with more than 250,000 votes received so far and an official top 10. The poll will close at 6am sharp on Wednesday 15 October and the bird with the most votes will be crowned the Guardian/BirdLife Australia Australian bird of the year for 2025. Tawny frogmouth Baudin’s black cockatoo Gang-gang cockatoo Willie wagtail Bush stone-curlew Southern emu-wren Laughing kookaburra Little penguin Spotted pardalote Wedge-tailed eagle Continue reading...

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 1d

Time for another First Dog on the Moon Spoken Cartoon! This time Tree Wars! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmhr...

Tree Wars!

YouTube video by firstdog onthemoon

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Rum Court Rules @courtrum.bsky.social · 1d

NT government accused of 'turning a blind eye' to gas company's alleged environmental breach

NT Gov. ? Closer to home, Alice Springs Cops. DEAD Kids.
Coroner gets sidelined.

#ausPOL #ntPOL

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If this mining company broke the law, why isn't it being prosecuted?

A gas company operating in the Northern Territory has been accused of breaching environmental laws by an NT government department, which decided against prosecution in favour of a formal letter encour...

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

And I think this is a very generous assessment! theconversation.com/since-2020-4... The GBR and others are hardly getting better.

Since 2020, 4 of Australia’s natural World Heritage properties have deteriorated

Globally important natural areas such as Ningaloo and Shark Bay have been hard hit in recent years. But Macquarie Island is recovering.

theconversation.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 1d

This is a significant “dumbing of a nation, just dig up dirt to sell instead” graph that is easily reversed and #Australia would reap the benefits. Australians invented wifi and were early designers of solar panels. We have really really inventive smart people that we SHOULD invest in. 1/

A graph showing a steep decline since 1978 of expenditure on CSIRO as proportion of GDP

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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 2d

The NSW Government is looking to rush major changes to planning laws that present significant corruption risks through Parliament this week, under the guise of providing affordable housing.

The Bill goes much further, applying to all developments in NSW.

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.

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Kimberly @kimbasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Today I've discovered that hitting one's knuckle on the down stroke of a hammer is really quite painful
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing my portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott for #AdaLovelaceDay to celebrate #womenInSTEM and #IndigenousPeoplesDay.

🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci #ald25

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 19d

Day 26 #SciArtSeptember prompt forage. My #linocut of #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & the first woman

My linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 2d

🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 sharing #womenInSTEM #histSci for Ada Lovelace Day

#AdaLovelaceDay #ald25

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Aug 24

Happy birthday to #mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (b. 1942), 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🧮 a founder of modern geometric #analysis & winner of 2019 Abel Prize for “her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, & integrable systems, & for the fundamental impact of her work 🧵

Indigo linocut portrait of mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck on cream paper with 2 hot pink diagrams (showing the mathematical “bubbling” process) and soap bubbles. Uhlenbeck is a middle aged, short haired white woman in a 3/4 view, wearing a knit sweater over a button down shirt with rounded collar. The bubbles are printed on suminagashi marbled papers to recreate the swirling patterns in soap bubbles.

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Jon.B @jonbright.bsky.social · 2d

Other islands have emerged since the 1960s,but scientists say they have not been as ecologically stable.The last time something similar took place before Surtsey’s emergence was the birth of Anak Krakatau,Indonesia,in 1927,but it was quickly contaminated by humans www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?

The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide

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Kimberly @kimbasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Lentils are a staple part of my diet. Why the he'll would anyone who didn't need a liquid diet, puree them? 🤢

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 2d

🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 sharing #womenInSTEM #histSci for Ada Lovelace Day

#AdaLovelaceDay #ald25

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Jul 30

Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ 🧪🐡 #WomenInSTEM
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After studying #geology and math,…

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My linocut portrait of Marie Tharp (woman in grey shirt with oversized glasses and red hair in up-do) in front of her physiographic of the Atlantic (in grey on teal) with mid-ocean ridge, resting her cheek on her left hand with elbow on table covered with depth sounder data.

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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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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 2d

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortage costs www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

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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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 2d

"'Gently admonishes algae' kills wildlife en masse"

---ya know Jim, I don't think this is working"

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

South Australia's Premier has questioned the use of the word "toxic" to describe the state's ongoing algal bloom, despite the word being used in government advice and by scientists researching it.

SA Premier says algal bloom is not 'toxic', despite word appearing in official government advice

South Australia's Premier has questioned the use of the word "toxic" to describe the state's ongoing algal bloom, despite the word being used in government advice and by scientists researching it.

www.abc.net.au

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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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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 2d

If you don't fear for what awaits the world's children ... you haven't been paying attention.

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Coral reefs at risk of mass dieback as global warming reaches tipping point

An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.

www.abc.net.au

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