Nicnac65
@65nicnac.bsky.social
Left-leaning, mouthy, single cat-lady Doing my best to make the earth a kinder place. Bunurong land, Kulin Nation, Narrm.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has posted a selfie with US President Donald Trump, after the pair spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Trump has previously strongly praised Albanese, saying last year that the PM has "done a fantastic job"
Australia Institute research shows voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support a 25% tax on gas exports, which could raise an estimated $17 billion in revenue each year. Yet the Australian Parliament has failed to act. This new ad highlights the important issue.
Southern Highlands campaigner Jessica Ryall described the data campus as a rural industrial site the “size of 134 football fields” on bushfire-prone land within Sydney’s drinking-water catchment. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/F0b6407O
Between 1949 and 1982, more than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste (150,000 tons) were dumped into the ocean. Now, scientists have descended to the wreckage to investigate – and found many of the barrels corroded and degraded, their contents spilling across the seafloor.
150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.
Well, well, well. If it isn't consequences.
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Educate yourselves. Knowing what I have learned over the years of this despicable industry, I will not buy or eat Tasmanian salmon. It probably started out with good intentions (maybe) but greed has taken over. NZ-farmed salmon (not perfect), is a better choice. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
More than 150,000 underwater explosives used to deter seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016
Salmon companies operating in Tasmanian marine areas deployed almost 1,800 explosives in first half of 2026, government figures reveal
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Since the start of 2016, the three #salmon companies operating in #Tasmanian marine areas - Huon Aquaculture, Tassal and Petuna - have deployed 150,488 underwater explosives against seals in their fish farms. #politas 💥 tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/more-th...
More than 150,000 underwater explosives used against seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016, government data reveals | Tasmanian Inquirer
More than 150,000 underwater explosives have been used against seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016, according to new government data.
tasmanianinquirer.com.au
Why does this micronation have a commercial airline with seven Boeing 737s? Because the Australian government goes to absurd and dangerous lengths to prop it up. The scandal of Nauru Airlines and Australia’s offshore detention regime. Now on my substack:
The scandal of Nauru Airlines and Australia’s offshore detention regime
Why does this micronation have a commercial airline with seven Boeing 737s? Because the Australian government goes to absurd and dangerous lengths to prop it up.
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The Greens are calling for a moratorium on data centre approval in Australia, amid new polling showing a majority wanting more government regulation to deal with AI Greens communications spokesperson @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social spoke with 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL0b...
Greens want Australians protected from AI with call for data centre pause
YouTube video by SIX News Australia
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"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Casey council rejects bid for Bethel New Life Christian Fellowship church in green wedge
Melbourne council rejects bid to build new church in green wedge
A growing religious community in the city's south-east will have to keep looking for a new spiritual home, after councillors rejected a bid to build a church on protected green wedge land.
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Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds Diseases and settler violence caused an estimated 2.06 million to die after the arrival of the First Fleet. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds
Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.
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Why does this micronation, the third smallest country in the world, with no tourism and fewer residents than Horsham, have an international commercial airline – let alone one with seven Boeing 737s? How our immigration politics corrupts everything:
Why is Australia propping up Nauru Airlines to keep offshore detention alive?
Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero req...
thepoint.com.au
Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Australia's largest proposed data centre could draw a quarter of Queensland's energy use
Hyper-scale data centre could draw quarter of Queensland's power usage
The proposed $30 billion data centre in Queensland has a peak capacity comparable to the average power requirements of 1.5 million households.
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Restoring Australia's she-oaks means listening to Indigenous Knowledges pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/res...
Restoring Australia's she-oaks means listening to Indigenous Knowledges
The she-oaks no longer whisper across much of Australia. A 2000-year record from GunaiKurnai Country holds the answer to who shaped these native woodlands and what restoration is missing, according to...
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'Dimopoulos then “blindsided conservationists”, Crook says, by announcing Labor’s about-face on national park commitments to a mtg @ the ETU, which was promoting shooting ... Many nature campaigners who come from the union mvmnt say D’s acquiescence to Big Build unions turned them against Labor.'
The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 2w ago“In our assessment, the Victorian Labor Party has caused even greater harm to forests, wildlife and community fire risk than the Victorian Liberal Party or the Coalition has when in power,” says scientist Sue McKinnon. trib.al/P59TkfL
It’s wattle flowering season in Narrm. This is an Acacia Leprosa (cinnamon wattle) - local to the Dandenong Ranges but endangered
Heartily sick of streaming ‘services’ dictating what I can watch (and pay for), so I’ve bought a little dvd player. Currently watching Flow. Ned is also enjoying it immensely
The opening paragraphs of our new book talks about the crunching sound you hear when you hold a mutton bird on Lord Howe Is, from all the plastic in their stomachs, but sure, let’s wait. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’
Federal environment department tells industry representatives the government does not want to ‘exacerbate cost of living pressures’
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The Israel lobby has dropped its vexatious lawsuit against @marykostakidis.bsky.social whose bravery and integrity is a light for us all Andrew Brown #auspol michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostaki...
Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby, and courage won - Michael West
The Zionist Federation of Australia expected fear, expense and exhaustion to silence Mary Kostakidis. She stood her ground
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An investigation into abuse at an Adelaide youth detention centre has led to the arrest of a 73-year-old man, who will face court accused of dozens of sexual offences — many of them against children.
Breaking: Man linked to youth detention facility accused of abusing 29 victims
An investigation into abuse at an Adelaide youth detention centre has led to the arrest of a 73-year-old man, who will face court accused of dozens of sexual offences — many of them against children.
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Dead juvenile whale washed up on Victor Harbor beach to be tested for bird flu
Dead juvenile whale washed up on SA beach to be tested for bird flu
Authorities have cordoned off an area around a whale carcass near Victor Harbor and will test it for bird flu.
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The Victorian government sat on a report for more than 12 months that found the state’s koalas were in chronically poor health.
Victoria’s koalas in chronically poor health and population is half what was previously estimated
Exclusive: State government delayed releasing major report into the health of the koala population for more than 12 months
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Not weeks or months on this. Action NOW! How many more illegal settlements as you sit on your hands? For shame! @albomp.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Australia breaks from international pack on Israeli sanctions
After joining other countries in recognising the state of Palestine, Australia has broken from the pack of other nations in not adopting trade sanctions against West Bank businesses.
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We can replace the chooks. We can't replace our wildlife. Ray Wills and Peter Newman fremantleshippingnews.com.au/2026/07/16/w... We must be vigilant, not alarmed But vigilant in a way that demands urgent action We must not let #H5N1 become a crisis to cause the extinction of our wildlife
‘We can replace the chooks - but not our wildlife’ - Fremantle Shipping News
Professors Ray Wills and Peter Newman highlight the need to design biosecurity settings in both Australia and New Zealand first to defend wildlife. They say ‘We can replace the chooks. We can’t replac...
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Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. "Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis"
Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis - The Shot
Australians are walking a tightrope. Imagine a long line of us traversing a chasm. Some of us – not many...
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The Tasmanian salmon industry is nothing but a mass polluter and a threat to Tasmania’s unique marine habitat and wildlife. Biosecurity Tasmania must launch an immediate investigation and show these multinational companies that animal cruelty, in all forms, for all animals, is unacceptable.
