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Tasmania’s expert Scientific Advisory Committee recommends formally declaring Macquarie Harbour a ‘critical habitat’ for the endangered Maugean Skate. Tas Gov must act now to remove salmon from the harbour and protect the skate in its only refuge #savetheskate

Labor are keeping people on JobSeeker utterly trapped in poverty. This is not done for the benefit of Australia or Australians. There is no benefit to keeping unemployed people in a poverty pit too deep to dig out of. So why don’t we stop? #raisetherate

“Successive Governments have comprehensively failed to make the case for the AUKUS submarine pact, and the sheer scale and cost of the project meant it risked becoming a threat to social cohesion in Australia over time.” (Peter Garrett). theaimn.net/social-licen...

"Why is it everyone else's responsibility to turn down the temperature when politicians and billionaires keep turning it up?" - First Dog #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia has been hit with the world’s biggest extra diesel bill during the Iran conflict, paying around $9 billion between March and August – more than twice as much as any other country, a new Climate Council report finds. theaimn.net/australia-pi...

Nicolette Boele, Member for Bradfield, NSW, told the Federation Chamber that the government has failed to appropriately tax Australia's finite natural resources. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xfjqqO2q0U&t=22813s

Indonesia’s El Niño-driven peat fires are choking the region – and releasing centuries of stored carbon theconversation.com/indonesias-e...

The danger of a 3C world isn’t that everywhere gets 3C hotter. It’s that the global average hides how extreme things can get locally. Parts of Europe could face heat, drought and fire severe enough to make many places unsafe to live in. www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/e...

Experts demand climate change be declared a global health emergency as heat-related deaths soar www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

@leanneminshull.bsky.social “Phasing out fossil fuels in Australia has always been a political fight successive governments have chosen to avoid...Imagine being a minister in a government that was so bad at tackling the fossil fuel industry, its young people went to an international body for help?”

"How bad would you feel if you were leading a government that was doing so poorly that your young citizens had to go overseas to get a hearing on what they wanted done?" - co-CEO Leanne Minshull speaking at a press conference with Generation Justice at Parliament House today.

$78 billion and counting... That's how much Australia has missed out on by not implementing a 25% tax on gas exports. See the live tracker here: https://gas.australiainstitute.org.au/ Sign the call for a national plebiscite: https://gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au/

Global Lancet study counts almost 3 million climate change-related deaths

"I am not sure whether the more or less civilized coexistence of humans we enjoy now will endure under such conditions. Personally, I consider a 3-degree world to be an existential threat to human civilization." - Prof. @rahmstorf.bsky.social, @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

“A significant cache of unexploded bombs from the first world war emerged this summer from rapidly retreating glaciers in the Dolomites, the Italian army has said.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

"If approved, it would be the first time a critical habitat has been designated since the Threatened Species Protection Act came into force three decades ago." Alternative headline: Can a 'critical habitat' designation save the endangered Maugean Skate from extinction & salmon-farming threats

SLAY! Not one, but TWO United Nations Special Rapporteurs have just raised serious allegations with the Australian government about its continued coal and gas expansion, fossil fuel subsidies and failure to protect human rights threatened by global warming. #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...

Government to punish those already in deep poverty on Jobseeker. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel... #auspol

The fact fossil fuel companies used the 'carbon footprint' narrative to shift responsibility doesn't really adjust the fact that people making personal, lifestyle-level decisions still does make an actual difference. Making small differences is actually just our normal lives, all the time??????

It is worth noting that the majority of all voters - even ON and coalition voters - want Australia to be less like the US. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tackling false solutions like carbon offsets is critical in tackling climate change,we need to end offset for fossil fuel industry, and enforce real decarbonisation and a Transition Away from Fossil Fuels. #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...

“Albanese Govis one of the most secretive in living memory,”he said. “It’s still refusing to release the Office of National Intelligence’s climate and security risk assessment,nearly four years after receiving it. Australians deserve an open and honest conversation about the scale of what’s coming.”

Planning for 3°C doesn't make it survivable - but it makes it seem so As Ben Shread-Hewitt and I explain in this recent article...

Yesterday (Oct. 26) marked the 150th consecutive day that the Niño 3.4 sea surface temperature set a new record daily high, at 30.22°C (preliminary). This was more than 1.13°C above the previous record daily high set in 2015, as well as a record 3.49°C above the 1991-2020 baseline.

6000 older people died last year waiting for aged care. But Labor remains wedded to an algorithm that's systemically under-assessing and denying care. Every older person deserves a human clinician determining their clinical needs – not a computer.

Oxfam report: The super-rich profit from the pollution driving climate breakdown, and then cash in again on the disasters it causes. No profit without accountability. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spiked hail stones observed at Mudgeeraba as 'very dangerous' storms hit already soaked south-east Queensland.

“After days of confusion, the West Australian government has confirmed it is now actively investigating repeated large methane emissions from Chevron's Gorgon gas project off the state's Pilbara coast.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

AUKUS is a weird, dud deal, sold to us Aussies by our then Worst PM Ever. It’s so expensive that we are cutting our health, social welfare, housing, education, agedcare, science… budgets to pay for it. We lose our sovereignty & make our cities & bases military targets in the event of conflicts/wars.

Latest AMOC data continues to show a weakening trend | National Oceanography Centre www.noc.ac.uk/news/latest-...

Awkward for Albanese when he tried to make out there was no pork in that barrel

Infrastructure Department officials categorically rejected the prime minister's claim regarding the Marrickville Golf Club grant at a Senate estimates hearing last night.

Clare O'Neill : "These platforms are profiting off people treating each other with disrespect, anger, aggression and abuse, then they play dumb at the devastating social effects that are happening across the country."

Older people have been saying this for months. Labor's automation of aged care assessments has been a disaster, under-assessing need and priority, denying care and driving up waitlists. It's past time to bin the whole thing and put humans back in charge of decision-making.

"This is some of the strongest evidence so far that the #AMOC has weakened over the last 40 years.”

Australian insurance premiums have risen an average 16%. action.choice.com.au/page/203386/...

Imagine the independent environmental regulator tells a gas giant its project is likely to cause “significant, serious and irreversible harm” to one of the most precious reef systems on Earth. Now imagine the public never hears about it #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/hid...

Labor has introduced a ‘robo assessment’ algorithm to assess aged people for home care packages. CARE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE DECIDED BY AN ALGORITHM! 8 out of 10 QLD health professionals said it underestimated levels of need. It is unacceptable to remove HUMANS from this decision.

The recent ELCA report is a great reminder about the economic costs of climate change. There are various recommendations in the report, & one is very aligned with our campaign to see Australia buy a publicly owned fleet of large firefighting aircraft. www.foe.org.au/lat_petition...

Hey, climate-concerned voters: Check out this awesome tool that tracks climate-related bills in an increasing number of state legislatures. A big thanks and shout-out to @climatecabineteducation.org for creating the tool. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @mason4c.bsky.social

Minns policy to increase density by high-rise is a disaster for Sydney, but a boon for his developer mates. The Libs and Independents are right to oppose it and develop alternative policies. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

And yet still, @albomp.bsky.social does nothing. Completely out of step and out of touch with public expectations.

Wasn’t government approval for child-roasting 🇺🇸petro-monster Chevron conditional on ‘sequestering‘ forever a wee percentage of heat accelerating CO2/CH4 gases through fictitious CCS tech? Didn’t taxpayers tip in cash to build it despite Chevron’s priveliged immunity from 🇦🇺tax & environmental law?🔥🤑💀