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The Wild @thewild.news · 5h
Scientists are asking for better protection of Australia's coastal waters instead of just the remote areas. #marineparks
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Australia’s marine parks protect ‘places no one goes’ rather than fragile waters near the mainland, scientists say
Hundreds of experts write to environment minister calling for stronger protections for ‘unique and distinct’ marine ecosystems
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 20h
As UK Ireland and W Europe obsess with economic growth they ignore the fact that the critical ocean current AMOC has substantially weakened during last 20 years They should be worried about growing crops to survive as collapse of AMOC will change everything
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I am taking part in the sporting boycott of Israel… I am doing this because Israel is committing genocide in Gaza." Australian women's chess champion Heather Richards' boycott is reported overseas. But apart from indies like @index.lamestream.com.au.ap.brid.gy , gets little attention at home.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would you let the local drug dealers cultivate relationships with school children if they called themselves the Performance Enhancement Club❓️ Right, so don't be fooled by the Petroleum Club name-change to the Energy Club‼️ #FossilFuelPropaganda #BuyingSocialLicense
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bertrand Russell made it clear in 1945: information shifts depending on who receives it. Without deep thinking, even great ideas get flattened into oversimplified explanations.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joint statement from Senator David Shoebridge and Senator Steph Hodgins-May
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve walked the fields at dawn for years. The air used to hum with bees. Now it’s quieter every season. What most people never see is the scale: over 3.7 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients poured onto the planet every year — more than double what we used in 1990.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crack team of scientists puts a nail in the coffin of fossil fuel proponents' "our fossil fuel production is a mere ‘drop in the ocean’" excuse See the extra warming & heat stress, excess deaths, GBR coral loss, glacier loss, crop production loss, labour loss, & poverty impacts of any new ff projs‼️
theguardian.com
Corporations claim their fossil fuel emissions are a drop in the ocean. But what if we could count the real cost?
A new tool called Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight metrics, including lost food production
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every year we delay real climate action, the bill gets higher — in lives, in money, and in irreversible loss. The cheapest, safest, and most just path is rapid transition to clean energy + nature protection now. Delay is the most expensive choice of all. #ClimateCrisis
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JoW @jowello.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Renewable Energy is cheaper than oil. Renewable Energy is more securely available than oil.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly half of Australians would switch off social media algorithms, YouGov finds australiancybersecuritymagazine.com.au/nearly-half-...
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Nearly half of Australians would switch off social media algorithms, YouGov finds - Australian Cyber Security Magazine
Nearly half of Australians say they would switch off algorithmic recommendations on social media if given the option, according to new research from YouGov released as the Australian Government consid...
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
☀️🔋 Could off-grid solar be a game changer for EV charging? Generate the electricity onsite. Store it in a battery. Charge the car — without waiting for grid upgrades. Imagine these in parking lots everywhere. ⚡🚗 #Solar #EVs #BatteryStorage electrek.co/2026/06/02/t...
electrek.co
This California city is adding off-grid solar + storage EV chargers
Long Beach, California, added six off-grid solar-powered EV chargers from Beam Global for city fleets and airport vehicles.
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JoW @jowello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Air pollution another reason to go electric
bbc.com
How to minimise the amount of polluted air you inhale while exercising
In general, the benefits of exercise outweigh the risks from air pollution. But there are steps we can take to minimise our exposure.
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JoW @jowello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
She cried, Rowland S Howard
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Rowland S Howard - She Cried
YouTube video by Mouldytone
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sturt desert peas near Roxby Downs. Indigenous actor Mark Coles Smith was born in Kalgoorlie and has Sturt desert peas as his totem. He explains that they are called Malu Kuru Kuru. Kangaroo Eyes. A Western Desert name for them. The eyes of the flower see in all directions.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear ABC News, You continue to publish appalling headlines that minimise men killing women as "women die". Word choice matters. Your editors need to use the words died, killed, or murdered, accurately. #DV #VAW #crime #journalism
Australian ABC News headline:
Three women die in domestic violence-related incidents across NSW
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wildlife populations have declined 69% on average since 1970. Forests cover 31% of Earth but house 80% of terrestrial species. When we cut forests, we cut life itself. Source: WWF Living Planet Report + UN
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We don't have a "climate problem". We have a greed problem. The planet isn't dying, it's being killed. And those killing it have names and boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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JoW @jowello.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nothing happening in the world as our ABC TV pushes an overseas film production….duh
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed. And the fingerprints are on fossil fuel contracts, deforestation permits, and plastic production lines. We still have time to stop the crime. Act like it. #ClimateAction #Environment
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our oceans are in trouble, and new research from Flinders University shows how changes in diatoms (microalgae) could further undermine the foundation of aquatic food webs—as well as vital deep-sea carbon capture or sequestration. phys.org/news/2026-09...
phys.org
Ocean acidification may disrupt diatoms' carbon capture and marine food webs
Our oceans are in trouble, and new research from Flinders University shows how changes in diatoms (microalgae) could further undermine the foundation of aquatic food webs—as well as vital deep-sea car...
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🍁 Left Coast Tree Frog 🕊️ @leftcoasttreefrog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters. The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice. #cdnpoli www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters
The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Albanese Gov is considering ending the Refugee Convention by legislating a world first 30 day time limit for families to apply for asylum. If this becomes law it’s the end of the Refugee Convention here. Help us stop this by emailing your Labor MP 👉🏼action.asrc.org.au/email_alp
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
David Shoebridge just brutal on One Nation’s hypocrisy—dragging politics to the gutter, calling fmr SAS soldiers ‘traitors’ while claiming to want to tackle ISIS, but then jetting off to a “luxury poolside resort” with Gina Rinehart. “Their nasty little unprincipled attacks”💥
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10/09/2026
Australia is strengthening enforcement of its under-16 social media restrictions after early evidence showed many teenagers were still using covered platforms. But tougher powers cannot solve every weakness in the policy, Daniel Angus and Christine Parker write. #auspol #OnlineSafety #SocialMedia
pearlsandirritations.com
Australia’s social media ban has an enforcement problem
New powers will help eSafety investigate whether platforms are enforcing the under-16 social media restrictions, but early evidence suggests the policy’s limits run deeper.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Aboriginal, 1984 botfrens.com/collections/27/content…
Aboriginal
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'The Letter' from a series of prints by US artist Mary Cassatt depicting ordinary moments in the life of modern middle class women, created around 1889, inspired by Japanese woodblock prints she had seen in Paris #WomensArt
Print featuring a woman in a blue patterned long dress sitting at a desk licking an envelope
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Booker-prize winning author Richard Flanagan hit the nail on the head during his powerful speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. If you agree, sign our petition urging governments and institutions to reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of six angular cups and saucers with long shadows
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Inko Gneto @inkogneto.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Both a social and political commentary As society begins it's unravelling we should see, the way we interact together, the way corporations "process" us - and the way governments completely exclude voters We must reclaim ourselves, rebuild our communities suebarrett.substack.com/p/we-are-not...
suebarrett.substack.com
We are not numbers. We are humans. Why it’s time to reclaim our humanity.
People Power: Chapter One - What a supermarket checkout reveals about loneliness, algorithms, and everything we have let a machine take from us. It is time we took it back.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I found plenty of sturt desert peas. Hard to miss, really. They were growing right beside the highway in some spots.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Watch Celia Perkins dance around Shoebridge’s question on whether she’s “engaging" with new “strategic partner” KPMG—after the Big 4 firm was awarded a massive $16.8M contract on the Defence Estate Audit.🤔 Tries to pin it on Finance, waffles…then folds, “…yes”🙄 Pathetic.
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/09/2026
The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s a set back for the country youtube.com/watch?v=w29r...
youtube.com
Midnight Oil - US Forces (Live)
YouTube video by MidnightOilVEVO
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s relentless It’s going to stay that way until NOTHING is left IT’S GOING TO STAY THAT WAY UNTIL VOTERS RADICALLY CHANGE THE WHOLE BODY POLITIC Vote independent community representatives and hold them directly accountable in your community DEMAND BETTER
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 01/09/2026
A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.
livescience.com
Planting crops in fields of solar panels is more efficient, protects the plants and helps keep workers cool, study finds
A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 01/09/2026
Australia's largest contribution to the climate crisis - by some distance - is our production and export of coal and gas. While there are other things that are important as well if you forget to fight this, what are you fighting for? See here: naruresearch.com.au/australias-t...
Chart showing Australia's growing fossil fuel exports over time, with exports now more than double Australia's territorial emissions.
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Another fossil-fuel industry, anti-renewables talking point bites the dust as wind turbine blades - in fact the whole wind farm - sends v little to landfill For years anti-wind farm campaigners have said landfill of turbines blades means wind power is unsustainable www.thetimes.com/business/ene...
thetimes.com
ScottishPower fully recycles Hagshaw Hill wind farm in UK first
A pioneering scheme to reuse turbines from one of Britain’s first wind power projects has sent less than 0.1 per cent to landfill
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 01/09/2026
Coral reefs are experiencing bleaching events so ​frequently that they no longer have time to recover before the next one strikes #climatechange www.reuters.com/business/env...
reuters.com
Coral bleaching occurring too frequently for reefs to recover, scientists say
Coral reefs are experiencing bleaching events so ​frequently that they no longer have time to recover before the next one strikes, with global coral cover ‌now well below normal levels and at risk of ...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your "small" actions matter: One tree can cool a city by 2-8°C One mangrove forest can protect 1000s from floods One community saying NO to deforestation can save a generation. #ActNow
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Vaccines really are amazing scientific accomplishments. The shingles vaccines reduces risk of heart disease. The HPV vaccine has made cervical cancer virtually obsolete. We’re close to an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Science for the win! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Does the shingles vaccine cut heart-disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a link
Large study finds that people who received the ‘recombinant’ vaccine for the viral condition had a lower risk of cardiovascular problems.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 01/09/2026
According to the Australian Academy of Science, Australia’s science system is going backwards. 70 leading Australian scientists have signed an open letter calling for a 25% tax on gas exports to make Australia a scientific powerhouse again! @markogge.bsky.social #auspol
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