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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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/...
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Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine
Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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
melbournefoe.org.au
Approval of Avonbank mine demonstrates failure of the planning system
Mobilise! Resist! Transform!
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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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_...
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FoE reaction to the VIC bushfire inquiry report
Mobilise! Resist! Transform!
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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.
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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
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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.
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John K @johnkelko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Brit establishment have lost their collective minds.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interesting that Aus is #1 on this view
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 25/09/2026
Mary River proves Australia's most degraded catchments can be restored
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Mary River proves Australia's most degraded catchments can be restored
Community effort transforms a degraded waterway, reducing erosion, increasing fish breeding and improving the quality of water that flows into the Great Barrier Reef. 
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI data centre company Firmus starts development work at Wesley Vale without permit www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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AI data centre company starts development work without a permit
The Latrobe Council says it's concerned Firmus Technologies appears to have conducted illegal works on the site of its yet-to-be-approved project in Tasmania.
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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...
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Exclusive Brethren "highly active in NT" at federal election - The Klaxon
Members of the secretive Exclusive Brethren sect were highly active at remote, Indigenous polling booths in the Northern Territory at the last federal election, an inquiry has heard.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such a familiar story. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Coal mine owners walk away and leave rehabilitation to state
Liquidators surrender the leases of a central Queensland coal mine, with questions around who will manage and pay for the rehabilitation of the site.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22/09/2026
74% of the world is under dictatorship. Most elected democratically.
How Democracies Die
The Deconstruction Model
1. Narrative Warfare
Lies spread faster than facts
2. Institutional Dismantling
Hollowed out from within
GATEKEEPERS SIDETRACKED
Press
Sued, defunded, discredi
Courts:
Packed, pressured, ignored
Congress
Corrupt, coerce, co-opt
3. Kleptocracy
Power used to steal
Philippines, 2016. Now, the world.
Accountability is possible. It is not inevitable.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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...
smh.com.au
‘In Sydney this is a rarity’: The hidden music haven caught in a bitter council spat
For almost two years, Nick Shimmin and Matthew McGuigan were hosting free, invitation-only gigs in an old former church. Then the local council stepped in.
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John K @johnkelko.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As a Dogs supporter it's a beautiful day. And the cherry on top is watching Cheatlong lose twice in 12 hours.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So maybe we don’t have to tackle climate change after all. 🤷🏻‍♂️
the-independent.com
Anthropic official: 10% chance AI could kill all humans in a decade
Three current or former Anthropic employees have raised concerns about AI spiraling out of control
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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...
climatecouncil.org.au
Rising Seas, Rising Bills: How sea level rise will cost every Australian
This report finds sea level rise will conservatively cost Australia $855 billion this century, and become a constant drag on our economy.
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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 07/09/2026
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.
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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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
A small parrots, green and blue with some red around its face and tail. It is staring intently at the ground, I don't know why.
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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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.
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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Swift Parrot foraging area near Heathcote? You bet we're going to trash it. This is Victoria after all.
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Daniel Bowen @danielbowen.au · 06/09/2026
Sorry not the best ever video, but: dolphins in the Maribyrnong river this morning! #Melbourne 🐬
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
one day everyone will have always been against this (Omar El Akkad 2025)
screenshot of X post from the New Yorker featuring a stock photo of Israel’s damage to Gaza and the text “Top officials from the Biden Administration express regret over failure to rein in Netanyahu”. Date is 05/09/2026
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Of course
THE AUSTRALIAN
In the Beetaloo Basin, a story of privilige and poverty is playing out
On the surface the story is a mess of human affairs. But deep underground, 'first gas' could level the playing field for Indigenous Australians - and power the nation for a century.
By CHRIS UHLMANN
In central NTChris Uhlmann travelled to the Beetaloo Basin as a guest of Tamboran Resources.
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“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...
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Trouble in Pacific paradise
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 b...
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
lol
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skill issue
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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly betterThere are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. 

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. 

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nationals Leader Matt Canavan blaming the “feminisation of our curriculum” for driving young boys towards the manosphere.
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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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...
abc.net.au
Area four times size of Singapore burns in Indonesia's wildfires
A super El Niño is exacerbating drought and wildfire conditions in Sumatra and Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. Hazardous haze from the wildfires has spread as far as neighbouring countries across ...
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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 04/09/2026
omg he actually did it
A screenshot from twitter. User @MrBeast writes : "Growing up I thought books were boring, in reality I just didn't read anything that actually interested me. Which is why I teamed up with James Patterson to write The Most Dangerous Games! For many people this might be the first book they actually read (and hopefully enjoy haha) give it a read and tell me what you think :D"

There is a photo of a book cover which reads "MRBEAST THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES. JAMES PATTERSON"A screenshot from Garth Marenghi's Dark Place. The caption reads "I'm one of the few people who've written more books than they've read."
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
CPSU is calling for an immediate pause on automated decision making in the APS
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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...
ft.com
Spain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change response
Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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.
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
‘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...
theguardian.com
‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament
Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources
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Rob Davis @pezoporus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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.
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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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John K @johnkelko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hold The Front Page!
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LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Worth noting that the @albomp.bsky.social government coughed up $240 million for a football stadium precint in Tasmania for a Tassie Devil Football team. However can only find $20 million to stop Tassie Devils, and all our other wildlife, from being decimated by bird flu Check your priorities Labor
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sick. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Four frames. 1. Terns on a beach. One says to another, “I feel sick.” 2. A fur seal on a beach beside lots of dead birds thinks, “I feel sick.” 3. A woman reads a series of news headline placards with “BIRD FLU JUMPS SPECIES”, “MORE HEAT WAVES, FIRES”, “NO END OF WARS”; she thinks, “I feel sick”. 4. The world, with fires and explosions everywhere, thinks, “I feel sick.”
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Behind Australia's AI push is greater surveillance. The cameras recording Australians 24 hours a day will soon likely have AI processing that footage in seconds, rather than "six months". www.deepcutnews.com/p/behind-aus...
deepcutnews.com
Behind Australia’s AI push is greater surveillance
AI adoption by security agencies will dramatically enhance their ability to surveil Australians
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 24/08/2026
Domestic pet owners, particularly those with chicken flocks, should be on alert for signs of this highly infectious virus.
theconversation.com
Bird flu is deadly for backyard chickens – and even cats. A vet expert explains
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
ALP NSW Right map of the world, centered on the former site of Golden Century Chinese Restaurant in Sussex St.
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Phil Gorman @philgorman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Don't allow your pets anywhere near a sick bird. Dogs sniffing near them will inhale the virus & likely develop a sub clinical infection which makes them dangerous carriers. Cats living with the dogs will get very sick & die.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Now pretty much right on the time of the historical season peak snow depth, and there's no snow at either of Snowy Hydro's long-record mid- and low-altitude snow measuring sites.
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
August update of sea surface temperature anomaly maps for the strong El Nino events 1982, 1997, 2015 and 2026. Over 90% of the excess heat from global warming goes into the ocean, making each El Nino world hotter than the last. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/daily_m...
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Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · 20/08/2026
Thanks to the Bogong outdoor gear store for supporting our campaign to secure long term protection for snow gum forests & woodlands. www.bogong.com.au/blog/friends...
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Friends of the Earth (FOE) - Scaling Up Efforts to Protect Snow Gum Ecosystems
Snow gum woodlands and forests are a key vegetation community across the higher mountain country of south eastern Australia and the highlands of Lutruwita / Tasmania. There are 6 subspecies of Snow Gu...
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 18/08/2026
Luckily, this year we will give half a billion dollars to a company that has booked $10b in profit. I can't think of anything else that we could have done with that money.
climateintegrity.org.au
BHP banks surging profits while receiving over half a billion dollars in diesel rebates — Climate Integrity
Mining giant BHP has reported an after-tax profit of US$9.83 billion – a 9% increase on the previous year – while at the same time pocketing around $548 million in rebates under the Fuel Tax Credit (F...
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Next DC data centre in west Footscray’s colloidal expansion is now impinging on not only neighbourhoods but also one of the few areas of natural wildlife in west Footscray, Stony Creek. Please sign amd share the petition objecting to its expansion.
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Sign the Petition
Object the expansion of NextDC Data Centre in West Footscray
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Care package. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Kitchen scene, table with teapot and cups of tea in front of middle-aged woman holding phone, talking to frail elderly woman in mauve dressing gown and slippers. First woman says, “They say once we get our AUKUS subs, they’ll have a better idea of how much they have left to spend on your aged care package…”
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026
rare books are destroyed in the process but at least we have a technology that instructs teens how to commit suicide
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