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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird
@leitchbird.bsky.social
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Chasing stuff that matters. Critters and all else. Not all who wander are lost. Perhaps.

https://galabirding.smugmug.com/
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leitchbird.bsky.social
A good variety from Elke Link who was on Cocos (Keeling) Islands last week. #BirdsSeenIn2025 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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squigglyrick.bsky.social
I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.
Photo of the Walkley Awards Instagram page announcing Mean Streak by Rick Morton as the winner of the Walkley Book Award.
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
leitchbird.bsky.social
A few more from Cocos (Keeling) Islands from Elke Link. #BirdsSeenIn2025 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social The Red-necked Phalarope -a good vagrant!
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Erm .. wonder why there's a budget deficit. Govt lawyers intro spy to give evidence in @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social case after Rex wins FOI, govt appeals
#auspol #whatsthescam
michaelwest.com.au/cone-of-sile...
Cone of Silence. Is secret Aussie spy in Rex Patrick case a man or a woman? - Michael West
Government's costly efforts to keep secret the gender identity of an Aussie spy, keeps it at 1 person in 18 million. What's the scam?
michaelwest.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social
benpennings.com/victory/
"We need legal protections in Aus 2 stop corps from abusing the courts 2 silence public participat.
In an ironic twist of fate, the US Govt has an arrest warrant 4 #GautamAdani, alleging multi-bln $ bribery & fraud, punishable by up to 20 yrs in prison” #DadvsAdani #auspol
Adani Vs Pennings | Ben Pennings
benpennings.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
What kind of dogshit response is this from a sitting Minister? A legal challenge in the High Court is not a “threat”, is not “intimidation” - the appropriate, mature response here is, “We believe our policy is sound and will argue that case in court. The High Court will determine the outcome.”
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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peggysanders.bsky.social
No mention of the environment or climate change consequences.

The poor bloody miners who pay no tax, offshore Australian resources, whilst subsidised by public purse for killing the planet.

Sussan Ley forgets she holds privileged position of authority sworn serve people’s interests not miners.
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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drsally.bsky.social
After 5+ years Adani has dropped their SLAPP suit, the biggest and longest in Australian history ✊🏼 Galilee Blockade and I can now continue bold actions against #Adani 😎 Thank you all 💚

My full statement - benpennings.com/victory

Stop the next SLAPP - chuffed.org/project/SlappA…
Adani Vs Pennings | Ben Pennings
benpennings.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
Had my hair done today. I’ve been going to the same small-town stylist for a decade. Want to know the topic of conversation in the ENTIRE salon?

Insurance premiums. Every one of us has been impacted.
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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honorlaoiss.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
WooHoo!
Environmental activist Ben Pennings declares ‘massive victory’ after Adani drops its years-long legal pursuit
Queensland supreme court orders Pennings, a campaigner against the Carmichael coalmine, not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
We have no answers from our institutions as to why Go8 universities endorsed BCA's regressive EPBC recommendations

But 90 of us have signed an 'Independent statement on the Group of Eight’s position on EPBC Act reforms'

🙏 Prof Justine Bell-James for writing & coordinating the independent statement
Independent statement on the Group of Eight’s position on EPBC Act reforms The federal Parliament is currently considering amendments to the flagship federal environmental legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (‘EPBC Act’). This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to strengthen environmental protections to reverse Australia’s current trajectory of extinctions and biodiversity loss. We are academics at the institutions in the Group of Eight (Go8), with expertise in biodiversity conservation science, climate science, policy, economics and law. We support amendments to the EPBC Act to strengthen protections for biodiversity and remove ministerial discretion and legal loopholes, in order to create a level playing field for businesses, and make environmental protection and recovery central to all decision-making processes under the Act. We note that the Go8 has signed a statement by the Business Council of Australia endorsing amendments that will weaken the Act’s protection for the environment. This statement does not reflect the world leading conservation research being carried out at our institutions. It also does not reflect the extensive evidence-based advice provided by experts based at Go8 institutions during the review and consultation processes over the past five years. We disagree with this statement, and the Go8’s endorsement of it. Signatories (in alphabetical order of family name) Professor Justine Bell-James The University of Queensland Emeritus Professor S Don Bradshaw The University of Western Australia Associate Professor Josephine Brown The University of Melbourne Honorary Associate Professor Peter Burnett Australian National University Professor Danielle Celermajer The University of Sydney Professor Iadine Chades Monash University Dr Yung En Chee The University of Melbourne Dr Shawan Chowdhury Monash University Dr Paul Close The University of Western Australia Associate Professor Carly Cook Monash University Professor Graeme Cumming The University of Western Australia Professor Saul Cunningham Australian National University Dr Christopher Cvitanovic UNSW Canberra Dr Nicholas Deal Monash University Associate Professor Angela Dean The University of Queensland Professor Emeritus Christopher Dickman The University of Sydney Professor Kingsley Dixon The University of Western Australia Associate Professor Daniel Dunn The University of Queensland Dr Megan Evans UNSW Canberra Signatories (in alphabetical order of family name) Dr José R. Ferrer-Paris UNSW Sydney Associate Professor Anita Foerster Monash University Adjunct Professor Rob Fowler The University of Adelaide Emeritus Professor Alex Gardner The University of Western Australia Professor Christophe Gaudin The University of Western Australia Professor Andrea Gaynor The University of Western Australia Associate Professor Hedley Grantham University of New South Wales Professor Pauline Grierson The University of Western Australia Dr Liz Hicks The University of Melbourne Professor Dieter Hochuli The University of Sydney Professor Andy Hogg The Australian National University Dr Matthew Holden The University of Queensland Professor Stephen D. Hopper AC The University of Western Australia Dr Brad Jessup The University of Melbourne Laureate Professor David Keith UNSW Professor Richard Kingsford UNSW Sydney A/Professor Carissa Klein The University of Queensland Associate Professor Joanna Kyriakakis Monash University Emeritus Professor Hans Lambers The University of Western Australia Associate Professor Nina Lansbury The University of Queensland Dr Natasha LeBas The University of Western Australia Professor Sarah Legge The Australian National University Distinguished Professor David Lindenmayer The Australian National University Professor Catherine Lovelock The University of Queensland Professor Kristen Lyons The University of Queensland Professor Rosemary Lyster The University of Sydney Professor Andrew Macintosh Australian National University Dr Ray Maher The University of Queensland Professor Martine Maron The University of Queensland Professor Sharon Mascher The University of Western Australia Dr Helen Mayfield The University of Queensland Professor Michael McCarthy The University of Melbourne Associate Professor Phillipa McCormack The University of Adelaide Professor Matt McDonald The University of Queensland Signatories (in alphabetical order of family name) Professor Karen McNamara The University of Queensland Professor Jessica Meeuwig The University of Western Australia Professor Malte Meinshausen The University of Melbourne Professor Nicki Mitchell The University of Western Australia Dr Rachel Morgain University of Melbourne Professor Craig Moritz Australian National University Professor Emily Nicholson The University of Melbourne Professor David Pannell The University of Western Australia Dr Tina Parkhurst The University of Melbourne Professor Kirsten Parris The University of Melbourne Associate Professor Natasha Pauli The University of Western Australia Dr Alexandra Pavlova Monash University Professor Jacqueline Peel The University of Melbourne Professor Jamie Pittock Australian National University Dr Pieter Poot The University of Western Australia Professor Hugh Possingham The University of Queensland Professor John Quiggin The University of Queensland Dr Cristina Ramalho The University of Western Australia Professor Amanda Ridley The University of Western Australia Professor Cynthia Riginos The University of Queensland Professor David Schlosberg The University of Sydney Associate Professor Robyn Schofield The University of Melbourne Professor Leigh Simmons The University of Western Australia Professor Paul Sunnucks Monash University Professor Stephen Swearer The University of Western Australia Professor Erika Techera The University of Western Australia Associate Professor Joseph Tomkins The University of Western Australia Professor Erik Veneklaas The University of Western Australia Professor Peter Vesk The University of Melbourne Dr Ella Vines Monash University Dr Jessica Walsh Monash University Professor Glenda Wardle The University of Sydney Professor James Watson The University of Queensland Associate Professor Alexandra Wawryk The University of Adelaide Professor Brendan Wintle The University of Melbourne Dr Nerida Wilson The University of Western Australia
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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angry-goddess.bsky.social
#LNPQLD doing dodgy #LNPQLD things
Former Advance boss appointed to Queensland building regulator board
The conservative campaign group’s former national director and a 2024 LNP election candidate are among new Crisafulli government board appointments this week.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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juzzyb.bsky.social
This is the same Judge who ruled in favour of the SANTOS SLAPP suit against the EDO - the TIWI Island case for the "apparent" coaching of a witness.
The hypocrisy is gobsmacking.
I'd say this is grounds for an appeal @edolawyers.bsky.social

www.afr.com/companies/en...
Santos hit by further delay on Narrabri gas ruling
A traditional owner appeal over the project’s approval was due to start on Tuesday but is now expected in March 2026 after the judge recused herself.
www.afr.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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joshbutler.bsky.social
the Senate has overwhelmingly voted to censure Pauline Hanson for her burqa stunt

Motion passed 55 to 5 - only One Nation and Ralph Babet voted against

Hanson will be barred from overseas parliamentary delegations
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.

It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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politikarma.bsky.social
Have lived on SE QLD for 25 years.
Each year, intense weather events have become more frequent, more intense, more spontaneous, and unpredictable.
They are the consequence of an accelerated warming of the planet, which is accelerating climate change.
Sadly QLD is a bastion of climate change deniers
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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politikarma.bsky.social
As Murray Watt’s home state of QLD wakes from vicious storms that wrought significant damage, he’s working with @albomp.bsky.social to ram through business-friendly faux environmental reforms.
Several decades ago CSIRO (which Labor is gutting) predicted these effects of climate change.
SHAME
#auspol
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
It’s bad enough that the ALP aren’t already banning native forest logging, but to hold the EPBC to ransom over it is… well, typical.
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social
Don't let perfect be the enemy of prostitution or you'll never get on the board of a major mining company, thats the Labor Party motto.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
Just heard Social Servives Minister Tanya Plibersek on #RNBreakfast accusing journalists of being “obsessed” with banning gambling ads.

If only the Albanese government was not so obsessed with sucking up to the gambling, sports and media lobbies. #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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loresey.bsky.social
We'll see more & more of this. 15cm hail fell in parts of Brisbane today & destroyed all my solar panels. Not the first destructive storm here this month & it's not even storm season yet. Meanwhile the Albanese govt is busy pushing climate destroying environmental legislation through

#climatecrisis
A huge piece of chunky hail held in the palm of a white person's hand, it's much bigger than the palm Two solar panels on a corrugated iron roof, there are several smashed holes in them
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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qldaah.bsky.social
We south-east Queenslanders have been trying to tell the rest of Queensland & Australia for decades; Pauline Hanson is toxic. JFC, go ask former Qld Nats Premier Rob Borbidge if you don't believe me.

Media, enough now with her nonsense. #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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donegan.bsky.social
Dear @albomp.bsky.social ,
Please refuse to commit Australian resources in America’s illegal war on Venezuela. This includes Pine Gap. Please. Thank you 🙏.
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM