John K

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...

As someone who covered Robodebt in part, it's clear nothing has really changed. Worse: the politics of federal Labor on social security are baffling. We keep hearing about how people have "lost trust in institutions". Wiping these debts seem a simple answer to help. Instead, they rewrote the rules.

Home Affairs gave a $4.3 BILLION air services contract to a company with no Australian air operators certificate or employees – or the required aircraft – and which was registered to a front company: a real estate agent.

that's a thing that always fascinates me with people proposing real name policies. The number of people who already post the most heinous shit imaginable under their full names *should already show us that these policies won't work*, even before we get to the safety and privacy problems.

I'm not sure how ending online anonymity and forcing every social media user to their real name would have stopped the attack on Helen Haines, committed by a bloke in his car who posted frequently on social media USING HIS OWN NAME?!? 🫠

What has happened to Helen Haines today is awful. She’s a personal hero and champion of her electorate. Simply one of the kindest and smartest MPs. No one doing their job engaging with their constituents in public should have to face violence.

Went to the October 17 protest in Paris today. Lot of anger, especially about the police actions over previous weeks where students lost hands / an eye. This was at Republique.

The Australian attacks the Bureau of Meteorology…for data a century or so old … what a relief that we don’t have to worry about climate change… (handy, too, to undermine the coming State of the Climate, and the mass of record temperatures in Australia and abroad)..

David Shoebridge scolds Labor, LNP & One Nation saying it’s a “disgrace” they’re voting against Thorpe’s bill to ban shackling of women who are giving birth in custody. “Ask yourself what you would have thought, if you…your partner…your daughter was shackled to the bed.”💥

broken Britain

What a day! Our clients Wendy and Tony have just won the first ever climate case to be heard by Australia’s highest court! Such a privilege to have been able to represent them in this landmark case, which will reverberate around the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There are 6 major critical minerals mines planned in VIC but no one understands the cumulative impact of the projects as they are all assessed in isolation. Yes, the system is geared towards giving mining companies what they want. But this announcement still sucks. www.melbournefoe.org.au/avonbank

This was our reaction to the VIC parliament report into last summer's fires. The recommendations are really solid & we need to implement as many as possible before the start of fire season. www.melbournefoe.org.au/response_to_...

A story of our time: Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’. Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits.

New website to calculate the real world cost of coal, oil and gas projects. carbonimpactstracer.com E.g., the impact of the Woodside NW Shelf Project extension means an extra 126 people will die form heat stress in Europe alone (but could be as high as 800). Sorry about that, but you know, money.

The Brit establishment have lost their collective minds.

Interesting that Aus is #1 on this view

Mary River proves Australia's most degraded catchments can be restored

The Exclusive Brethren was highly active at remote, NT Indigenous polling booths at the last federal election, an inquiry has heard. Inquiry told Gina Rinehart's private jet ferried Brethren members. theklaxon.com.au/exclusive-br...

Such a familiar story. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

74% of the world is under dictatorship. Most elected democratically.

One neighbour complaint leads to the council enforcing a rule with no flexibility and a small live music culture - i've been there & it's a minor gem we need in Sydney - is set to wither. Plus c'est change ... www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...

As a Dogs supporter it's a beautiful day. And the cherry on top is watching Cheatlong lose twice in 12 hours.

So maybe we don’t have to tackle climate change after all. 🤷🏻‍♂️

New Climate Council report just out on the cost of sea level rise to Australia this century, based on a paper published in Nature today by Tom Kompass. TL:DR Conservatively, at least $855b by 2100 Report: www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/ri... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From the Weekly Times: "Environmentalists & farmers have formed an unlikely alliance to protect VIC’s prime agricultural land from critical minerals mining, demanding an immediate moratorium". www.melbournefoe.org.au/moratorium_o...

Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s military.

Swift parrots are a critically endangered species, with less than 1500 left in the wild. This forest is in a Key Biodiversity Area for the parrot. But you know, this is Victoria. 📸 Charles J. Sharp/Wikipedia

This is an example of thinning, aka eco-thinning, being undertaken at Redcastle-Graytown State Forest on the flimsiest of science. Funded by millions of your dollars from the federal government. We think the logs will be left for firewood collection.

Swift Parrot foraging area near Heathcote? You bet we're going to trash it. This is Victoria after all.

Sorry not the best ever video, but: dolphins in the Maribyrnong river this morning! #Melbourne 🐬

one day everyone will have always been against this (Omar El Akkad 2025)

Of course

“The juxtaposition of news footage of Albanese doing a beachside press conference in Palau, which is barely above sea level, in the same bulletins showing Finocchiaro switching on the Beetaloo carbon bomb, was dissonant, to put it mildly.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/poli...

lol

Nationals Leader Matt Canavan blaming the “feminisation of our curriculum” for driving young boys towards the manosphere.

So much going on here: - arson by forestry companies - massive public health impacts - destruction of peatlands - leading to massive release of GHG - the most affected area is West Kalimantan, home to wild orangutan populations www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

omg he actually did it

Spain wants to tax fossil fuel producers in order to fund climate adaptation An application of the 'polluter pays' principle Economists estimate cost of climate-change induced drought in Europe this summer was €50bn, one bank says €180bn Someone's got to pay for it www.ft.com/content/86da...

Melbourne has officially recorded the warmest winter since records began in 1855, with a mean temperature of 12.8 degrees – just above the 2013 record of 12.7 degrees.

‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament - Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What a lucky day. I saw the most amazing Aussie reptile while out in the bush yesterday. Surprisingly this Thorny Devil was in a highly cleared and fragmented agricultural region, giving further importance to retaining and managing native vegetation remnants.

On Saturday Hotham reached 11.1°C. The forecast for tomorrow is 11°C. The (now previous) record hottest August maximum temperature recorded at Hotham was 10.7°C on 29 August 2006. And the August average maximum is +0.7°C (zero point seven)

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