Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends
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Promoting a clean, safe, and renewable future for the kiddies.
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What your cheap clothes cost the planet #Climate
What your cheap clothes cost the planet
A global supply chain built for speed is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage.
grist.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
What your cheap clothes cost the planet #Climate
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An important piece. With dark forces already seeking to exploit this horrific event we must be extremely vigilant to avoid this: “Calls are already rising for attacks on peaceful protest, free speech and freedom of assembly”.
"While the victims of the massacre at Bondi Beach were still bleeding, Benjamin Netanyahu - architect of the genocide in Palestine - blamed Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese."
Butt out, Netanyahu
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/butt-out-of-...
Butt out, Netanyahu
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/butt-out-of-...
Butt out Netanyahu. Ugly political point-scoring follows Bondi Beach tragedy - Michael West
Israel’s Prime Minister should butt out of Australian politics. The tragedy at Bondi Beach must not be exploited for political points.
michaelwest.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
An important piece. With dark forces already seeking to exploit this horrific event we must be extremely vigilant to avoid this: “Calls are already rising for attacks on peaceful protest, free speech and freedom of assembly”.
Tell the banks to fund the industries of the future - not gas, coal and oil knittingnannas.org/2025/12/15/a...
Action of the Week 15 Dec 2025
We’ve come to expect scandals in the banking sector – a Royal Commission seven years ago confirmed our worst fears, and the stories of misconduct and corruption keep on coming.
knittingnannas.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Tell the banks to fund the industries of the future - not gas, coal and oil knittingnannas.org/2025/12/15/a...
NSW Premier Chris Minns spits the dummy on Net Zero Commissions recommendation to stop coal mining expansion in NSW
"We're not going to make that ruling, and I'm not going to make that promise," he said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
"We're not going to make that ruling, and I'm not going to make that promise," he said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Ending coal expansion 'irresponsible' NSW premier says, but report disagrees
Coal mining extensions and expansions will continue, the New South Wales premier says, despite a government-appointed agency finding further approvals were not consistent with emissions targets.
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
NSW Premier Chris Minns spits the dummy on Net Zero Commissions recommendation to stop coal mining expansion in NSW
"We're not going to make that ruling, and I'm not going to make that promise," he said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
"We're not going to make that ruling, and I'm not going to make that promise," he said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Oh dear the Australian Minerals Council REALLY wants us to know that they pay tax.
See this ⬇️ one page ad in The Aus last week? An explainer or their version of an expletive following a well publicised call for them to pay 78% on coal export profits? @risingtideaus.bsky.social
See this ⬇️ one page ad in The Aus last week? An explainer or their version of an expletive following a well publicised call for them to pay 78% on coal export profits? @risingtideaus.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Oh dear the Australian Minerals Council REALLY wants us to know that they pay tax.
See this ⬇️ one page ad in The Aus last week? An explainer or their version of an expletive following a well publicised call for them to pay 78% on coal export profits? @risingtideaus.bsky.social
See this ⬇️ one page ad in The Aus last week? An explainer or their version of an expletive following a well publicised call for them to pay 78% on coal export profits? @risingtideaus.bsky.social
Before the Federal Court this week Regis Resources challenged the former environment minister's decision to protect part of its McPhillamys Gold Project from development.
Wiradyuri elders gave evidence of Dreaming stories in support of the order but their authenticity challenged. A decision to 👀.
Wiradyuri elders gave evidence of Dreaming stories in support of the order but their authenticity challenged. A decision to 👀.
Court told Dreaming story not withheld as 'trump card' to stop gold mine
An elders' group has told a Federal Court in Sydney that the Blue Banded Bee Dreaming story was not being kept "up its sleeve" three years after a protection bid was first made to the Commonwealth.
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Before the Federal Court this week Regis Resources challenged the former environment minister's decision to protect part of its McPhillamys Gold Project from development.
Wiradyuri elders gave evidence of Dreaming stories in support of the order but their authenticity challenged. A decision to 👀.
Wiradyuri elders gave evidence of Dreaming stories in support of the order but their authenticity challenged. A decision to 👀.
Lots of good news this week. Click on image for more. knittingnannas.org/2025/12/12/g...
Good News December 12, 2025
Sea life, less plastics, and indigenous wins in this week’s good news….
knittingnannas.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lots of good news this week. Click on image for more. knittingnannas.org/2025/12/12/g...
Net Zero or ground zero for NSW government who’ve approved 100% of the eight coal mine expansions put before it since being elected with 18 further coal expansions currently proposed.
www.lockthegate.org.au/clear_findin...
www.lockthegate.org.au/clear_findin...
Clear finding puts spotlight on Chris Minns to act on coal expansions in NSW
Australians working together to protect our land, our water and our future.
www.lockthegate.org.au
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Net Zero or ground zero for NSW government who’ve approved 100% of the eight coal mine expansions put before it since being elected with 18 further coal expansions currently proposed.
www.lockthegate.org.au/clear_findin...
www.lockthegate.org.au/clear_findin...
Better than sixpence in your Xmas pudding here’s the NSW Net Zero Commission warning that “continued mine expansions are “not consistent” with climate goals and require urgent regulatory intervention”. www.smh.com.au/environment/...
NSW should end coal expansions to meet net zero targets
A state government agency has declared that NSW cannot meet its climate targets if it keeps approving new coal mine extensions.
www.smh.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Better than sixpence in your Xmas pudding here’s the NSW Net Zero Commission warning that “continued mine expansions are “not consistent” with climate goals and require urgent regulatory intervention”. www.smh.com.au/environment/...
The appeal against the former Minister for Environment ruling that accepted evidence of a First Nations Dreaming story to halt a gold mine site near Blayney, NSW continues today.
2nd day of hearings in Sydney’s Federal Court of this highly significant ruling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
2nd day of hearings in Sydney’s Federal Court of this highly significant ruling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Gold company bids to quash Aboriginal protection order over billion-dollar mine
Regis Resources argues the federal environment department was "uncritical" in accepting evidence about a First Nations Dreaming story that led to its proposed gold project being halted.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The appeal against the former Minister for Environment ruling that accepted evidence of a First Nations Dreaming story to halt a gold mine site near Blayney, NSW continues today.
2nd day of hearings in Sydney’s Federal Court of this highly significant ruling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
2nd day of hearings in Sydney’s Federal Court of this highly significant ruling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Westpac Bank has just arranged a $1.54 billion bond for Santos – one of Australia’s most polluting gas companies 😠.
Join us today out front of their Annual General Meeting
Thursday 11 December 9am, rally with @marketforces.org.au 220 Pitt Street.
Tell Westpac to 🛑 funding #FossilFuel expansion.
Join us today out front of their Annual General Meeting
Thursday 11 December 9am, rally with @marketforces.org.au 220 Pitt Street.
Tell Westpac to 🛑 funding #FossilFuel expansion.
Fossil fuel blocklist - The companies Australia’s big four banks can no longer touch - Market Forces
Market Forces has developed the first ever Fossil Fuel Company Blocklist for Australian banks: 23 fossil fuel customers of the big four banks whose business models are currently incompatible with the ...
www.marketforces.org.au
December 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Westpac Bank has just arranged a $1.54 billion bond for Santos – one of Australia’s most polluting gas companies 😠.
Join us today out front of their Annual General Meeting
Thursday 11 December 9am, rally with @marketforces.org.au 220 Pitt Street.
Tell Westpac to 🛑 funding #FossilFuel expansion.
Join us today out front of their Annual General Meeting
Thursday 11 December 9am, rally with @marketforces.org.au 220 Pitt Street.
Tell Westpac to 🛑 funding #FossilFuel expansion.
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Probably just a coincidence that the list of Australia's new fossil fuel projects will come out on the Friday before Xmas.
#takingoutthetrash #Auspol #climate #transparency
#takingoutthetrash #Auspol #climate #transparency
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Probably just a coincidence that the list of Australia's new fossil fuel projects will come out on the Friday before Xmas.
#takingoutthetrash #Auspol #climate #transparency
#takingoutthetrash #Auspol #climate #transparency
Knitting Nannas supporting Wiradyuri heritage protection - at Section 10 hearing brought by Regis Resources against the Minister in Sydney Federal Court today.
Yindyamurra, respect land water and elders. Protect BilaBula.
Yindyamurra, respect land water and elders. Protect BilaBula.
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Knitting Nannas supporting Wiradyuri heritage protection - at Section 10 hearing brought by Regis Resources against the Minister in Sydney Federal Court today.
Yindyamurra, respect land water and elders. Protect BilaBula.
Yindyamurra, respect land water and elders. Protect BilaBula.
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It was my experience of deforestation in Borneo when I reached my tipping point.
I stopped flying, became vegan, became an activist with @scientistsforxr.earth, and left academia to become a filmmaker.
Storytelling might have more impact than my work in science.
My film:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk
I stopped flying, became vegan, became an activist with @scientistsforxr.earth, and left academia to become a filmmaker.
Storytelling might have more impact than my work in science.
My film:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk
Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It was my experience of deforestation in Borneo when I reached my tipping point.
I stopped flying, became vegan, became an activist with @scientistsforxr.earth, and left academia to become a filmmaker.
Storytelling might have more impact than my work in science.
My film:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk
I stopped flying, became vegan, became an activist with @scientistsforxr.earth, and left academia to become a filmmaker.
Storytelling might have more impact than my work in science.
My film:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk
Come show support for Wiradjuri elders tomorrow in Sydney. Nannas will meet outside the court at 9.30am.
Please join us & stand alongside the Wiradjuri at the appeal by gold mine owners against the s.10 protection that Tanya Plibersek placed over the headwaters of the Belubula River near Blayney.
Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
🧶👵🧵1/2
Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
🧶👵🧵1/2
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Come show support for Wiradjuri elders tomorrow in Sydney. Nannas will meet outside the court at 9.30am.
Nannas are preparing to make our Christmas video. Watch out for it!
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Nanna News 8 Dec 2025
Knitting Nannas are back on the streets of Sydney after a thrilling and exhausting time in Newcastle blocking coal ships. Preparations are underway to make the Nannas Christmas video on Friday.
knittingnannas.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Nannas are preparing to make our Christmas video. Watch out for it!
knittingnannas.org/2025/12/09/n...
knittingnannas.org/2025/12/09/n...
Seen any bees lately? Butterflies? Xmas beetles?
Me neither.
@swelteringcities.bsky.social
#climateaction
Me neither.
@swelteringcities.bsky.social
#climateaction
A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity
Majority of local insect biomass decline linked to species loss
A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function.
www.idiv.de
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Seen any bees lately? Butterflies? Xmas beetles?
Me neither.
@swelteringcities.bsky.social
#climateaction
Me neither.
@swelteringcities.bsky.social
#climateaction
Blood boiling stuff, in more ways than one.
@Sydknitnannas.bsky.com
@Sydknitnannas.bsky.com
Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change with an "education program" sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company. This is fossil fuels industry propaganda. How is this allowed?! #qldpol #Climate #education
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Blood boiling stuff, in more ways than one.
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That’s right!
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December 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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There's absolutely nothing natural about this. ABC normalises the capitalist class cooking us all to death as a force of nature. Think of 'em turning up the gas and you're da' frog, right?
December 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There's absolutely nothing natural about this. ABC normalises the capitalist class cooking us all to death as a force of nature. Think of 'em turning up the gas and you're da' frog, right?
Oppose the pipeline Santos wants to rip through the Pilliga forest knittingnannas.org/2025/12/08/a...
Action of the Week 8 Dec 2025
There’s an action we can all take this week in the campaign to block the Santos Narrabri Gas Project in the Pilliga forest.
knittingnannas.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Oppose the pipeline Santos wants to rip through the Pilliga forest knittingnannas.org/2025/12/08/a...
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵