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Global independent organisation that uses creative action to fight for our planet’s green and peaceful future. 💚🌏

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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our new report sounding the alarm on the frenzied rollout of AI data centres in Australia and the enormous pressure they place on our environment. We're calling for an urgent moratorium on new data centres until we have strong protections. act.gp/EnergyVampires @ketanjoshi.co @greenpeace.org
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Greenpeace activists arrested after standing up to Big Gas in Sydney. Brave activists disrupted the Australian Domestic Gas Outlook conference at the Sheraton Grand Hotel, dropping a banner with a simple message: Gas Execs Profit. We Pay The Price. Read more and stand up to Big Gas. bit.ly/4sTcESw
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BREAKING: Greenpeace activists arrested after standing up to Big Gas in Sydney - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Greenpeace activists have been arrested after taking action at a major gas conference this morning in Sydney.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Right now Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists are disrupting a major gas conference in Sydney. The message is simple - gas executives are profiting from an illegal war and causing climate change, while Australians are paying the price. Share this story far and wide!
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BREAKING: Greenpeace activists disrupt major gas conference in Sydney - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Inside the Sheraton Grand Hotel, executives from fossil fuel companies have gathered alongside lobbyists, investors and political allies to plan the future of gas in Australia - and how to maximise th...
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Huge win for the ocean, marine life and climate, thanks to @surfrider.org and the local communities in Victoria! Unfortunately, the fight isn’t over! Have your say and enter a submission to @albomp.bsky.social to stop new gas exploration in the Otway Basin bit.ly/3MMwPBU
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New data shows birth rates are dropping significantly as the climate crisis warms the Southern Ocean. With sea ice melting & food sources like krill disappearing, mothers no longer have the energy reserves to calve every three years. We must protect the #ocean and the #MarineLife within it #whales
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The right to peaceful assembly is a fundamental pillar of a healthy democracy and a basic right of all Australians.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
RIP legendary Midnight Oil drummer and environmentalist Rob Hirst. Rob was a tremendous supporter of the work of Greenpeace. Greenpeace is very deeply grateful to Rob for his deep commitment to environmentalism and social justice over so many years.
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Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the back | Andrew Stafford
Phenomenal drummer and percussionist was an equally accomplished songwriter who embodied the band’s bloody-minded spirit
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Fires, floods, and heat waves. Climate disasters are intensifying across Australia - and the extension of the Eraring coal station is a step in the wrong direction. Australia needs to move towards a fair and fast fossil fuel phase out. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Origin extends life of Australia's largest coal-fired power station
The operator of Australia's largest coal-fired power station is to extend the life of its plant in the NSW Hunter Valley for another two years.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Last year, Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists scaled a coal ship that was heading towards the biggest coal port in the world and we’re taking you behind the scenes of how it happened. youtu.be/FP8KAFh8mSw
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Woodside Energy knowingly dumped 200kg of plastic into the ocean while decommissioning offshore gas infrastructure. Knowing the risks, they kept polluting Australian waters. The ocean is not your dumping ground - the government must hold Woodside accountable. @albomp.bsky.social bit.ly/3YojIJu
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Oil and gas giant knowingly shed kilograms of plastic into the ocean
Documents reveal one of Australia's biggest oil and gas companies knowingly shed plastic into the ocean for two months before notifying the offshore regulator.
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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”. www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
BREAKING: Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists are blocking a coal export ship from entering the world’s largest coal port, as thousands rally at Rising Tides People's Blockade. @risingtideaus.bsky.social www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
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Greenpeace activists block coal ship from entering world’s largest coal port at Rising Tide blockade - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
NEWCASTLE, Sunday 30 November 2025 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have scaled and blocked a coal ship, bound for the Port of Newcastle today, during the Rising Tide People’s Blockade,&hellip...
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David Ritter @david-ritter.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Today's agreement on EPBC reforms is a huge leap forward for forest protection— though more needs to be done to halt the impacts of climate on nature. Welcome progress today that must be followed by strong implementation and an end to fossil fuel expansion. www.greenpeace.org.au/news/nature-...
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Nature laws agreement delivers big forests outcome; much work to be done on climate - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
CANBERRA, 27 NOV 2025 — Greenpeace has welcomed the agreement struck by Labor and the Greens today on EPBC Act reforms, which secures new nature and forest protections, but says…
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A huge victory for nature! The Government and Greens have agreed to a stronger national nature law: and it happened because people spoke up. Deforestation loopholes are finally closing. Logging and land clearing will face real assessments for the first time ever.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Telstra tells customers it “takes climate action seriously,” but CEO Vicki Brady sits on the board of the Business Council of Australia (BCA) – a lobby group stacked with some of Australia’s biggest polluters.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A huge win for people power: 60 countries have now ratified the Global Ocean Treaty, bringing this landmark agreement to life. This will pave the way for high seas marine sanctuaries, giving life the chance to recover and thrive.
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A global win: 60 countries ratify the Global Ocean Treaty - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Big news for our ocean, 60 countries have now ratified the Global Ocean Treaty, meaning we now have enough ratifications to bring this landmark treaty to life, allowing governments to…
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David Ritter @david-ritter.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
By releasing a 2035 emissions target far short of what the best science says is needed to safeguard Australia, the Albanese government has given itself a political & practical problem. There’s only one way out of this mess: 🧵 #auspol
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
@albomp.bsky.social’s new 2035 climate target is weak, dangerous, and far short of what’s needed. Australia owes the Pacific and frontline communities across Australia a plan that is net zero by 2035, and a fast, fair fossil-fuel phase-out. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Australia vows to cut emissions 62 to 70 per cent by 2035
Australia will vow to cut its emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035, lifting its sights further as the world strives to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Australia’s first Climate Risk Assessment confirms what many already know: the climate crisis is here. The only way to avoid the worse possible scenario is to demand a phase out of fossil fuels. www.greenpeace.org.au/news/everyth...
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‘Everything we love is at stake’: Climate Risk report lays bare the dire costs of inaction for Australian communities - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
SYDNEY, Monday 15 September 2025 — The National Climate Risk Assessment, released today, lays out the catastrophic impacts to communities and ecosystems across Australia if we fail to reduce climate&h...
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🚨 BREAKING: @albomp.bsky.social has approved 45 more years of Woodside's dirty gas expansion at the North West Shelf project. ...Risking fragile ecosystems like Scott Reef, and pushing us further away from the 1.5°C limit that Australia committed to. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Australia's largest gas project given final approval to operate until 2070
Australia's biggest gas project, Woodside's North West Shelf, has received final approval to extend operations through until 2070.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
If they drill, expect a spill. 🔥 Following disturbing allegations multinational oil and gas corporation ConocoPhillips covered up a methane leak at an export hub in Darwin, the fossil fuel giant, which is currently test drilling for gas in the Otway Basin, can’t be trusted to operate in Victoria.
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‘If they drill, expect a spill’: ConocoPhillips can’t be trusted to drill for gas off the Victorian coast - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
MELBOURNE, Monday 1 September 2025 — Following disturbing allegations multinational oil and gas corporation ConocoPhillips covered up a methane leak at an LNG export hub in Darwin, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says the fossil fuel giant, which is currently test drilling for gas in the Otway Basin, can’t be trusted to operate in Victoria.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Documents seen by the ABC suggest the scale of leaking pollutants from Darwin’s first liquefied natural gas plant could be equivalent to 8,300 new cars on the road every year it is in use. ⚠️🌏 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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'Huge' leak from gas plant kept secret from public in 'national scandal'
Documents reveal the scale of carbon pollution leaking from a Darwin LNG tank was like adding 8,300 new cars to the road every year. It is about to be filled again.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🚨 BREAKING: In a win for koalas, @colessupermarkets.bsky.social has announced that it will only source deforestation-free beef and other commodities by the end of 2025. ...The final major Australian supermarket to commit to going deforestation-free. www.greenpeace.org.au/news/fight-f...
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Down down, deforestation is down! - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Activists call on Coles to “Take Deforestation off the Shelves” outside their 2024 Annual General Meeting. © Greenpeace / Toby Davidson
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment. ...And the changes are heightening the risk of significant sea level rise and the extinction of species, including emperor penguins. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Scientists warn of 'abrupt changes' taking place in Antarctica
Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment, heightening the risk of significant sea level rise and the extinction of species.
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David Ritter @david-ritter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Tough stories recently about bleaching on the GBR and Ningaloo. This year marks the first time reefs on opposite sides of Australia have both bleached. How many more wake-up calls before we act? Without urgent emissions cuts, our precious places could be gone forever. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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'Hope spot' to 'skeletons': Ningaloo's 'catastrophic' event
In Western Australia, the damage to coral reefs including the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo has eclipsed any previous bleaching events.
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David Ritter @david-ritter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This month’s ‘With Love’ is a note of thanks to the amazing volunteers who joined Greenpeace in Canberra to fight for our oceans—and a reminder that we all have the power in defending our democracy from vested interests. www.greenpeace.org.au/ceo-newslett...
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Love in Canberra - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
When I mentioned to a couple of colleagues that I was planning to write my next letter to you about a recent campaign trip to Canberra, they were hesitant; I…
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS: The historic Pacific-led campaign to hold countries accountable for the climate damage they have caused has been backed by the world’s highest court overnight. Read more 👇 www.greenpeace.org.au/news/worlds-...
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World’s highest court delivers historic protections for climate-impacted communities - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
SYDNEY, Thursday, 24 July 2025 – The historic Pacific-led campaign to hold countries accountable for the climate damage they have caused  has been backed by the world’s highest court overnight,&h...
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David Ritter @david-ritter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This month’s ‘With Love,’ marks the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior; and reflects on how, from the depths of grief and anger, was born the unreasonable ambition to take action on an unprecedented scale. Do have a read. www.greenpeace.org.au/ceo-newslett...
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
On July 10th 1985, the Rainbow Warrior I was bombed and sank in an attempt to silence anti-nuclear protests in the Pacific.⁣ ⁣ We remember our crew member, photographer and dear friend, Fernando Pereira, who was killed, and the spirit that lives on 40 years later:⁣ ⁣ You can't sink a rainbow 🌈🕊⁣
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 30/06/2025
BREAKING Greenpeace activists confront second “ocean killer”, as other fishing vessels go dark www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
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Greenpeace activists confront second “ocean killer” at sea, as vessels turn off AIS
For a second time, Greenpeace Aotearoa activists have confronted a bottom trawler off the East Coast, rebranding it an “ocean killer” in protest at its destructive fishing activities.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 29/06/2025
ICYMI Greenpeace Aotearoa activists from the Rainbow Warrior have confronted a Talley's bottom trawler at sea and painted "ocean killer" on its hull. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/greenpeac...
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'Ocean killers': Talley's threaten legal action after activists' at-sea bottom trawling protest
Greenpeace demands an end to bottom trawling, calling it destructive.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Greenpeace activists onboard the Rainbow Warrior have taken decisive action to save nine sharks from deadly longlines in the Tasman Sea. ...Seizing almost 20 kilometres of fishing gear and more than 210 deadly hooks from the ocean. #ProtectTheOcean
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 04/06/2025
🚨 The Arctic Sunrise has been banned from entering the port of Nice for the UN Ocean Conference, following a peaceful protest against bottom trawling. But nothing can stop our efforts to #ProtectTheOcean. Take action >> act.gp/42st8VS
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Oceans are life. 💙🌏
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David Ritter @david-ritter.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Talking points Key moments from the week, making sense of the times we are in; this week with a focus on Sen Murray Watt’s Woodside North West Shelf (NWS) Decision. A thread 🧵
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
📣 BREAKING: Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension has been provisionally granted to run until 2070 by Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt. ...Bringing Woodside’s drills a step closer to magnificent Scott Reef, home to threatened species like pygmy blue whales and green sea turtles.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 22/05/2025
Greenpeace expresses deep alarm at the catastrophic humanitarian toll of the ongoing Gaza conflict, exacerbated by renewed military action known as Gideons’ Chariots and described by Netenyahu’s cabinet in the language of ethnic cleansing. Read the full statement on act.gp/4kyYim4
End ethnic cleansing and famine in Gaza
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
At least 438,500 blue sharks were caught by longliners across the West & Central Pacific in 2023. ...That’s 48,200 tonnes of bycatch, and if laid nose to tail, would be higher than x110 Mount Everests. 🦈💔 www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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Underwater footage reveals the terrible cost of industrial fishing
Methods such as long lining and bottom trawling are responsible for horrifying levels of bycatch, including nearly half a million threatened blue sharks.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hey @albomp.bsky.social have you seen our message for you in today's copy of The Sydney Morning Herald yet? 👀
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Happy 99th birthday Sir David Attenborough. 🌏💚 Thank you for continuing to share the beauty of the natural world with us, and glimmers of hope on a planet where our future can sometimes feel bleak.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 06/05/2025
1/2 If true, these governments are out of touch with what people worldwide urgently want. Nearly three quarters of people across the world's largest economies support higher taxes on polluting companies to raise money for the people who pollute the least. www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/202...
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US aims to weaken deal for developing countries, UN document shows
The text sheds light on how the Trump administration opposes efforts to slow climate change and promote diversity
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Australia has chosen climate and nature protection over the Trumpist agenda of destruction. #federalelection #auspol
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Election week: The good, okay, and ugly 👀🍿 Coming May 3rd to a polling booth near you. #auspol
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📣 NEWS: Ahead of the federal election, all parties must support a moratorium on deep-sea mining. ...Following The Metals Company's decision to forge ahead with its plans to commercially mine the Pacific seabed after Trump’s executive order to greenlight the practice. #auspol #deepseamining
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 17/04/2025
Peter Dutton insists he ‘believes in climate change’ after refusing to say if impacts of global heating worsening #Climate
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Peter Dutton insists he ‘believes in climate change’ after refusing to say if impacts of global heating worsening
Climate scientists, environmentalists, Labor and Greens condemn opposition leader for comments at Wednesday election debate
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📣 NEWS: We are disappointed by @albomp.bsky.social's announcement that if re-elected, his party will formally bid to co-host COP31 with the Pacific in South Australia. ...And not a city in the Pacific Ocean. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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PM wants Australia to co-host 2026 UN climate conference
Anthony Albanese has confirmed that if he is re-elected, his party will formally bid for South Australia to host a future International Climate Change Conference.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Together. 💚✊
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Greenpeace activists have crashed the Coalition’s Federal Election campaign launch this morning at the Liverpool Catholic Club in Western Sydney dressed in hazmat suits and gas masks. Their message? Don’t risk Dutton’s nuclear disaster. ☢️❌
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David Ritter @david-ritter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The latest edition of my ‘With Love’ newsletter is an invitation to reflect on the wonder that the natural world invokes in us, the heartbreak of extinction, and why we need elected representatives who are committed to protecting nature. www.greenpeace.org.au/ceo-newslett...
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A love letter to strange creatures - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Did you love dinosaurs as a child? Personally, I remember going through an intense phase of obsession with the prehistoric world as a young kid.
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📌 TONIGHT: What are the policy solutions we urgently need to address climate change and protect nature? How can you act with us to be a force for good this election? Join us tonight for all you need to know before heading to the polls on May 3rd.💚 👉 acthubspot.greenpeace.org.au/election-web...
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