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ACF is Australia's national environment organisation. Nature needs us, now. 🌱🐨

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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you're in Naarm/Melbourne, Close Counters DJ set x Save Scott Reef event is tomorrow night at the Brunswick Ballroom... 🐠 $10+bf moshtix.com.au/v2/event/clo...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Vale Dee Margetts. Our thoughts are with Dee’s family and friends and all who were inspired by her leadership and significant contribution to the anti-nuclear movement. Her legacy lives on.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wildlife are also struggling as creeks dry up and food sources become more scarce.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
ACF’s Annika Reynolds said putting restrictions on offsetting was “absolutely necessary” to get Australia on track for its 2035 target. “It can’t all be carrots – there have to be sticks that force major polluters to grapple with their onsite pollution.” #auspol www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Warnings for Australia from overseas. Nuclear is an unwise and completely unsuitable energy source for an increasingly dry and fire-prone land. 🚫☢️
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Billboards in South Korea highlight threat to the Great Barrier Reef. www.news.com.au/technology/e...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Interesting take... in the Federal Court, Woodside argues that far from exerting influence and dominance, it had to wrangle hard with federal authorities to get its NW Shelf gas project extended. 🧐 #auspol thewest.com.au/business/ene...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why ACF is taking Environment Minister Murray Watt to court over his approval of Woodside's North West Shelf gas hub out to 2070.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In the West Australian: Conservationists argue federal authorities had “apprehended bias” favouring Woodside when a decades-long extension of the North West Shelf gas project was approved. #auspol thewest.com.au/business/ene...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
These posters are out and about in Melbourne, Perth and Fremantle.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is significant. Australia is the world’s #1 exporter of met coal for steelmaking. We can replace dirty, climate-damaging met coal exports with renewable-fired green steel exports, creating jobs at home while helping Japan and Sth Korea to decarbonise. www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/930561...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The NT govt sat on a warning in 2024 by experts from the Territory’s largest hospital that LNG facilities around Darwin were producing toxic pollution linked to fatal diseases that put thousands of the city’s most vulnerable residents at risk. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/nt-go...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Let kids be kids. Australian children should be able to learn, play and grow without companies Glencore, Woodside and Santos misusing educational spaces to build trust and social licence. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Destruction of koala habitat linked to ANZ. “There is growing pressure on banks to dissociate themselves from businesses involved in deforestation.” @hugepossum.bsky.social in story in today's AFR.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Great Barrier Reef is being smashed by almost 400,000 dump trucks-worth of mud each year, smothering coral and choking seagrass meadows, a scathing new report has found. www.news.com.au/technology/e...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In today’s AFR. “There’s a growing sense of frustration across the environment movement that in a time of climate and extinction crisis we’re still seeing new coal and gas mines approved, and still seeing nature getting destroyed.” By @ryancropp.bsky.social www.afr.com/policy/energ... #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
... and congratulations to ACF Community member Dr Jonathon Howard, who received a King's Birthday Honour for significant service to tertiary education, conservation and sustainability. Well deserved!
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Congratulations to our Treasurer and Board Director, Professor Terence Jeyaretnam, for receiving recognition for significant service to social justice, conservation and sustainability...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"There's no bigger threat to food security than climate change and the decline of natural systems. Improving nature's capacity to continue providing essential ecosystem services like pollination, fresh water and a stable climate is good for food security." www.theland.com.au/story/928188...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We understand this means international law, including the ICJ’s advisory opinion on states’ obligations on climate change, is relevant to the legality of Minister Watt’s decisions about the NW Shelf extension. #auspol @lisacox.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A UN special rapporteur has been granted leave by the Federal Court to intervene in two challenges to Environment Minister Murray Watt’s approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf expansion project. Story on SMH blog. www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Ad in today's Fin Review. #auspol #gastax #taxgas
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hungry Jack’s® Pty Ltd wouldn’t come to the table, so we brought the conversation to its front door. For the last two weeks, we’ve been outside of Hungry Jack’s HQ, speaking directly with staff and people walking past. (1/3)
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A few photos from the rally outside Woodside's AGM in Perth today.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Sounds like a good idea to us. #auspol www.news.com.au/national/pol...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"We urge the inquiry to look at how Australia can learn from the PRRT and make any new regime tighter and less able to be gamed by the gas companies." Annika Reynolds #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"Go the Dockers! But they shouldn't be sponsored by Woodside." #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ACF's Annika Reynolds responds to a question at the Senate inquiry into a gas exports tax. #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The latest issue of ACF's magazine Habitat is out now. Read it here: acf.org.au/habitat #nature #climate #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
PM Albanese is being urged to set a new tax on gas exports by some of his favourite musicians, including King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Angie McMahon, Lime Cordiale and King Stingray. #auspol www.news.com.au/entertainmen...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
2. The decision to allow thousands of hectares of savannah woodland to be cleared in the NT without requiring assessment was extraordinary. #NT #EPBC #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Two decisions this year concern me. 1. It was quite extraordinary to see the national interest exemption used to approve Alcoa’s ongoing destruction of jarrah forests in SW Western Australia. #Alcoa #EPBC #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Industry groups say they want clarity, but not that sort of clarity! #EPBC #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The standards will be critical to whether the reform of the environment laws delivers the step change in nature protection that has been promised. #EPBC #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Analysis by a leading climate scientist suggests opening up a contentious WA offshore gas field could lead to death of almost 30m coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef due to its impact on global heating. By @lisacox.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Yancoal and Peabody’s Middlemount coal mine expansion has been given approval to clear more than 183ha of koala habitat. The project will divert a section of Roper Creek that provides an important corridor for koalas, greater gliders and other native animals. #auspol #climatechange
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Between them, nine heads of state have the ability to launch more than 12,500 nuclear weapons, threatening all life on this precious planet. The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is the circuit breaker to this dangerous deadlock. @ican-australia.bsky.social
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The law needs to do what it says on the label. (It needs to protect nature.) "You need to protect nature in order to live on this planet." #EPBC #auspol
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"There is no reassurance that the RFA exemption will be removed." Brendan Sydes, ACF #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"We're in an extinction crisis. Every day matters. Every decision matters." Kelly O'Shanassy, ACF CEO #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"The offsets system is broken... the offsets themselves fundamentally don't work." #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
On why devolving powers to states is a bad idea... "State governments have approved clearly unacceptable projects (eg 3000-apartment complex on a Ramsar-listed wetland at Toondah Harbour) that the federal govt rejected." Kelly O'Shanassy, ACF CEO #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"The minister and the parliament should set the rules... then the regulator (EPA) should undertake the assessments and decisions." Kelly O'Shanassy, ACF CEO #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Cumulative impacts are absent from the proposed standards." Brendan Sydes, ACF #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Scope 3 emissions... are the knockout punch for nature... they are not covered by any Australian law." Kelly O'Shanassy, ACF CEO. #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Proposed changes to the water trigger could only be to facilitate the approval of coal and gas projects." Brendan Sydes, ACF national biodiversity policy adviser. #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Communities are reaching out to us, terrified (about the proposed streamlining of environmental assessment processes)." Kelly O'Shanassy, ACF CEO. #auspol #EPBC
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"We in the midst of an epidemic of rubbish, our feeds are infected with it. And it’s spilling over from our screens into everyday life – as this submission outlines – disinformation is having a serious real-world impact."
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“Banks that finance deforestation not only destroy habitat and drive species towards extinction, they also expose themselves, their shareholders and the broader economy to escalating environmental and financial risks.” www.theage.com.au/business/ban...
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