Miki Perkins
@mikiperkins.bsky.social
Journalist & writer Environment & climate She/her 🌈 / union for lyfe / 337.1 ppm Insta: @perkinsmjourno
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Additional footage shows Australian police using force against other protesters: Video: David Shoebridge via X (@DavidShoebridge)
If, like me, you were struggling to understand why the hell someone living in suburban Sydney needed to own six guns, here's a really great explainer: theconversation.com/why-can-some...
Why can someone in suburban Sydney own 6 guns legally? New laws might change that
The Bondi shooters legally owned the guns they used to kill 15 people in a terrorist attack. The government has flagged harsher gun laws, but will they work?
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First take on EPBC amendments in the compromise deal struck to get it passed Justine Bell-James, @euanritchie.bsky.social, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & me in @aunz.theconversation.com #NativeForestLogging #MinisterialDiscretion #UnacceptableImpacts #PayToDestroy #NationalEnvironmentalStandards
Long-sought environmental law reform is finally here. But will the compromise deal actually protect nature?
After years of failed attempts, Australia’s environmental laws are finally getting an overhaul. But will they stop the damage done to nature?
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Labor has cut a deal with the Greens on federal environmental protection laws www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia politics live: Labor strikes deal with the Greens to overhaul federal environmental protection laws
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Misogyny in its purest form. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
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There will be many people incredibly disappointed by this: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Turkey to host Cop31 climate conference after Australia drops push to hold it in Adelaide
Fortnight-long event to be held in Antalya but Australia may lead negotiations
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Despite decades of conservation promises, Queensland remains a globally significant hotspot for destroying forests and native vegetation. This @theconversation.com story finds Queensland has lost at least 21% of its original woody vegetation since colonisation. theconversation.com/queenslands-...
Queensland’s forests are still being bulldozed — and new parks alone won’t save them
Queensland’s conservation ledger is in the red. Despite some new national parks, bulldozers are still clearing forests and vegetation across the state.
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This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct. theconversation.com/and-then-the...
And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.
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What a shame. Melbourne Uni is one of the richest universities in Australia, surely it could pay the salary of two editors and distribution costs?! www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
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Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. The numbers are simply unprecedented - these are their names Please watch the whole video. @withmeaa.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...
Stop Killing Journalists
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Feel so proud to have contributed to this @withmeaa.bsky.social video with 100+ Australian journalists (all MEAA members) that honours the 180 journalists killed by Israel in Gaza. Watch it and weep. STOP. KILLING. JOURNALISTS
MEAA@withmeaa.bsky.social · last yr.Targeting journalists is a war crime. As colleagues, we remember them. meaa.io/45A4vZ5
Targeting journalists is a war crime. As colleagues, we remember them. meaa.io/45A4vZ5
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths
I feel so broken hearted about this. Five media workers were killed. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
Arbella Bet-Shlimon@abshlimon.bsky.social · last yr.The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
Nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza. The rest work under sickness, hunger and fire to report the reality there. Meanwhile the rest of the world’s media is locked out. This is a global press freedom crisis and @withmeaa.bsky.social was proud to join the March for Humanity.
The Federal and WA governments will pay about $0.5B towards the $2.3B clean-up of Barrow Island after Chevron ended six decades of oil production on the contaminated Pilbara nature reserve. www.boilingcold.com.au/governments-...
$500m government bill looms for Chevron oil field cleanup
The $2.3 billion-plus decommissioning on Barrow Island will be part-funded by the Federal and WA governments returning about half the royalties they received over six decades.
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
In the Torres Strait, the rising ocean floods graves, and gardens are too poisoned by salinity to grow food. It's why Uncle Paul and Uncle Pabai won't let yesterday's ruling stop them, @mikiperkins.bsky.social writes.
I met with the Torres Strait Islander elders who lost their landmark climate case. They won't give up
Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai, two brothers-in-law, are exemplars of the extraordinary commitment of ordinary people pursuing climate justice.
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I wrote something about the Pabai case for Crikey: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/16/t...
I met with the Torres Strait Islander elders who lost their landmark climate case. They won't give up
Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai, two brothers-in-law, are exemplars of the extraordinary commitment of ordinary people pursuing climate justice.
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What a reprehensible disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say
Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
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'Earlier this week, X deleted a number of posts made by its AI chatbot Grok that praised Hitler, alleged that people with Jewish surnames were prone to “extreme leftist activism, especially the anti-white variety”, and called itself “MechaHitler”.' 👀 👀 www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
Antisemitism envoy praises Elon Musk's X for using AI to 'root out hate'
Australia's antisemitism envoy has praised how platforms like Elon Musk's X are using AI to fight hate — days after X's AI bot Grok was taken offline for antisemitic posts.
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🚨 Australia’s new federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has said he intends to approve a forty-year extension to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project. With his first significant decision set to fuel almost four billion tonnes of greenhouse gas. More here: envirojustice.org.au/press-releas...
