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Fern Hames

@fernhames.bsky.social
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Rivers. Nature. Nature connectedness. Ecology. First Nations Leadership. Ethical leadership. Ways of knowing, braiding knowledges. SciArt. Living and working on Taungurung Country. @TLAWC @RMIT @HomewardBound @RoyalSocietyVictoria

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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“If the government continues to do nothing, we will be forced to leave our homelands.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Must-read piece on "End Times Schooling" by @jessehagopian.bsky.social who has done so much to unleash the liberatory power of education.
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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery: biodiversitycouncil....
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/05/2025
too many people have been conditioned by corporate social media into believing that if you do something and don’t post about it online, it doesn’t count. you must destroy the Mark Zuckerberg who squats within your head.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 30/05/2025
By approving a 50-year extension to the North West Shelf gas project, the Federal Government has signed a death warrant for Australia’s most significant ancient artistic treasure. 📺 Watch the full video report from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social youtu.be/Bj9VOMKYxSI
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The Fight to Save Murujuga
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 30/05/2025
Dr Ken Mulvaney thought that once people realised how important the rock art was, there would be no more industrial development at Murujuga. Instead he's seen multiple new developments built, creating acidic emissions that are slowly destroying the rock art. #auspol
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Deeply saddened. With Watt & Albanese's 'executive' decision to ignore 50000 years of cultural heritage at Murujuga, & O'Neill's 'smugness', they ALSO potentially 'approved' a minefield of racist-based vandalism against aboriginal sites everywhere. Let that sink in. www.abc.net.au/news/105359106
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Elders 'devastated' after important WA cultural site smashed by vandals
Derek Councillor was leading a tour group along the banks of the Greenough River, east of Geraldton, when he found the statue sacred to Naajuga traditional owners smashed to pieces.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 28/05/2025
Don't believe the spin from the WA Government. Pollution from the gas export plant is destroying the ancient Murujuga rock art. Rock art expert Professor Benjamin Smith read the report and set the record straight. Video from Friends of Australian Rock Art. #auspol
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Scientist outraged at "doctored" report on gas industry pollution at Murujuga
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Australia's largest oil and gas project will continue until 2070, making a complete mockery of fake aspirations for "net zero emissions" by 2050. This shameful decision was postponed until after a federal election, just 3 weeks ago. Nobody voted for this. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Australia's largest gas project approved for operation to 2070
The life of Australia's largest oil and gas project will be extended to 2070, with Environment Minister Murray Watt giving the long-awaited environmental approval for Woodside's North West Shelf proje...
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Looks like Labor is about to approve the North West shelf gas expansion, which among bad news for the planet and WA energy costs is terrible for the nearby Murujuga rock art - which is so old, it has one of the first known depictions of the human face australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsid...
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The Australia Institute - We Change Minds
The Australia Institute is an independent think tank based in Canberra. We conduct high-impact research for a better Australia.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Here's me. 'Capitalism has already eaten democracy anyway'
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Capitalism has already eaten democracy anyway - The Shot
If left unsupervised, capitalism will always eat democracy. And we are further on this arc than many of us want to believe.
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Society for Conservation Biology Oceania @scboceania.org · 20/04/2025
Read this beautiful multimedia story produced by The Conversation whilst you eat your chocolate bilby! stories.theconversation.com/fire-revival/
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Fire revival
A return to traditional Indigenous burning practices in the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts is helping protect the ninu, or greater bilby.
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Fern Hames @fernhames.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Notice, Name and Nurture: 3 steps for a more nature-literate society: theconversation.com/heres-how-to...
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Here’s how to create a more nature-literate society
Nature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years.
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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Our review of the 2025-26 federal budget has found that the Albanese Government is still far short of investing what is required to meet the government’s own environmental commitments, despite recent funding commitments for protected areas. More at: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/federal...
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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 16/03/2025
This column from Alan Kohler really broke my heart. My colleagues in climate science have been screaming the impacts of climate change from the rooftops for decades. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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As Trump abandons climate action, we must accept net zero won't happen
While markets and media were chasing Donald Trump’s tariff fiasco last week, something far more important was unfolding in East Palestine, Ohio.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Dear Donald Trump, Fuck off. Regards, Australian researchers www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender
Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate
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Fern Hames @fernhames.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Today I cancelled my subscription to The Age. Accepting front page advertising $$ for hate-filled disinformation from the Trumpet of Patriots is a step too far.
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Fern Hames @fernhames.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"Barking mad". Solar geoengineering is outright dangerous. Imagine if we could genuinely decrease emissions instead
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 06/03/2025
We are rapidly surpassing 1.5°C of global warming:
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽😳. US politics will impact Australia’s capacity to predict the path of cyclones 🙏 @gergyl.bsky.social
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny
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No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...
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Fern Hames @fernhames.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Powerful Welcome to Country by Dr Mandy Nicholson this morning at the Bush Heritage Australia/ Trust for Nature Women In Conservation breakfast this morning. Layers of Country, looking after Country, & Reciprocity. Plus, fabulous performance from the Djirri Djirri Dancers🌿 #WIC25
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27/02/2025
“Promising to reduce the size of the public service is a cheap political stunt.” New research shows that sacking public servants actually costs the country a fortune, as public jobs are replaced by consultants, contractors and labour hire workers. New research from @futurework.org.au #auspol
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Cutting the public service saves nothing
Reducing the size of Australia’s public service is often characterised as a way to save the country money and make government departments more efficient.
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Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Why Do (Or Don’t) People Protect Nature? Insights From Conservation Practice and Environmental Psychology to Respond to the Biodiversity Crisis | Global Environmental Psychology doi.org/10.5964/gep.... - I have no idea, but we wrote a paper anyway.
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Why Do (Or Don’t) People Protect Nature? Insights From Conservation Practice and Environmental Psychology to Respond to the Biodiversity Crisis| Global Environmental Psychology
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Dr Manu Saunders FRES @manusaunders.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention. -With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames! #CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity (centre column 'Metrics' and 'Trends') can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left column 'Drivers of Change'). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right column 'Indicators of Change').
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Fern Hames @fernhames.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Respite from the unraveling. Mt Torbreck. #TaungurungCountry
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world @ericagies.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Important information about #climate and environmental data by @ericnost.bsky.social and Alejandro Paz @theconversation.com 🌎 🌿: theconversation.com/how-to-find-...
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How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 13/02/2025
Women is now a banned word. And so many more www.kpbs.org/news/economy...
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Federal list of forbidden words may jeopardize research at UCSD
The banned words include: women, disability, bias, status, trauma, Black, Hispanic communities, as well as socioeconomic, ethnicity and systemic.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8% www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Quantifying CO2 forcing effects on lightning, wildfires, and climate interactions
A model analysis shows interactions between climate, lightning, wildfires, and changes in the interactions with global warming.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is an extreme version of what the Coalition did for years (and still indulges in). Limiting knowledge and human advancement because of feels
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Defend science by talking about its greater value to society. Training the next generation of scientists. Science's impacts your local and regional economies. Science saves lives. Do not get baited into debates about idealogical talking points which are simply meant to invoke fear and anger.
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Kirsty Howey @kirstyhowey.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The NT CLP Government has today announced plans to defund the Environment Centre NT and Arid Lands Environment Centre, the latest in a succession of assaults on communities standing up for the Northern Territory’s stunning natural and cultural values. www.ecnt.org.au/funding_resp...
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Environment groups slam CLP Government’s decision to scrap funding
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/02/2025
“Last year wasn’t just another warm year, it was the hottest. This isn’t a distant crisis - it’s here” “Rising sea levels are threatening to wash away our very identities.” Her Excellency Ilana Seid, Chair of AOSIS & Ambassador for Palau to the UN. #ClimateIntegrity
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/02/2025
"The climate crisis is not an economic crisis….it is not a technological crisis. It is a crisis of integrity." "As a nation we decide that short-term profit for a few corporate players is more important than life itself. "Or we decide that it is not, & act accordingly." @pollyjhemming.bsky.social
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/02/2025
“Small scale nuclear reactors cannot and will not replace an ageing and unreliable energy system based on coal." "Governments will need to intervene as we transition to renewable energy” - The Hon Doug Cameron at the #ClimateIntegrity Summit.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/02/2025
"We urge Australia to announce bold initiatives ahead of COP 31: ▶️ Accelerated timelines for phasing out coal ▶️ New investments in renewable infrastructure ▶️ Elimination of fossil fuel subsidies ▶️ Expanded support for vulnerable nations 👏 HE Ilana Seid, Chair of AOSIS #ClimateIntegrity
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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
How far does your pet cat roam? The answer was a big surprise for two cat owners who had GPS tags on their cats’ collars for a week. Around two-thirds of Australia’s pet cats roam our suburbs, see what they get up to on ABC's Eat the Invaders @jaanadielenberg.bsky.social #cat #conservation
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Should you let your cat roam outside? | Eat The Invaders | ABC iview
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Fern Hames @fernhames.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
7 February 2009. Black Saturday. Reflect, Respect, Remember. #BlackSaturday #WeRemember
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/02/2025
They found a way to litter from space
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
never mind that. when did albo hear about the caravan? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point
Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
An estimated* > 138,000 hectares already burnt in the biodiversity & culturally significant Gariwerd (Grampians) landscape. This will put added pressure on some threatened species. Climate change contributes to making such events more likely & severe. *https://emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#
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Fern Hames @fernhames.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today is #WorldWetlandsDay. Wetlands are foundational to our shared future, they provide vital ecosystems, & enrich our lives in so many ways. This one, at Tahbilk, makes my heart sing. Let's do everything we can to support them, & their role in healthy Country. #TaungurungCountry #WWD2025
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/02/2025
Without congressional approval or constitutional authority, the richest man in the world has taken over payroll of the US government. How is this not a coup?
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Fern Hames @fernhames.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
How can you really make a difference in advocating for nature? We researched what works, & it includes hanging in there for the long haul, knowing the system, being strategic, & seizing the moment:
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We will hear lots of nonsense from RFK Jr. in his upcoming confirmation hearings. Part of the conversation will involve his views on beef, which are as goofy as possible—and that's saying something. Until then, here are the hard truths about beef & climate change. drawdown.org/insights/gre...
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Greenwashing and denial won’t solve beef’s enormous climate problems
I’ll admit it: I like beef. Like many Americans, I was brought up to believe that beef was a central part of a traditional family meal. My mom made it. My kids ate it. Marketing campaigns told me it w...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Here’s what ‘deep listening’ can tell us about the natural world and our place in it theconversation.com/heres-what-d...
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Here’s what ‘deep listening’ can tell us about the natural world and our place in it
To listen deeply to nature is to become aware of behaviours, relationships and patterns of interaction between multiple species – and to learn from what we hear.
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