By approving a 50-year extension to the North West Shelf gas project, the Federal Government has signed a death warrant for Australia’s most significant ancient artistic treasure.
📺 Watch the full video report from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social
youtu.be/Bj9VOMKYxSI
The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery:
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GO ID:GO8143 Agency:Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Close Date & Time:6-May-2026 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time) Show close time for other time zones Primary Category:211007 - Pollution Control Publish Date:23-Mar-2026 Location:ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS, Administered Territories Selection Process:Open Competitive Description: The Carbon Capture Technologies Program aims to accelerate the research, development and demonstration of novel and emerging carbon management technologies to address Australia’s hard-to-abate emissions and residual emissions. Grants will be offered to pilot and demonstration projects that capture, utilise and remove CO2 and have the potential to create new, low-emissions or net-zero industries. Examples of eligible technologies, include but are not limited to: novel or emerging carbon capture and/or utilisation for hard-to-abate sectors novel or emerging carbon removal technologies such as direct air capture enhanced rock weathering biomass carbon removal and storage, including durable sequestration of carbon in biochar mineral carbonation technology, such as capturing carbon in building and other materials. Conventional and land-based approaches that leverage natural biological systems, without technological intervention, are not eligible. This includes:
$32m bucks for anyone who wants to do "novel or emerging carbon capture and/or utilisation for hard-to-abate sectors" in Australia.
Cool thing to drop during a crisis caused by overreliance on fossil fuels 🫠
www.grants.gov.au/Go/Show?GoUu...
@louisemorris.bsky.social
Loved this - thx @climate200.bsky.social - Kate Hook 👍🏼 but 🧡 this from Malcolm Turnbull: “The community independents are some of the smartest people ever to enter federal parliament, & I would love to see them on the front bench. I'd love to see, for example, see Allegra Spender as the Treasurer.”
I hope you come to regret this decision @albomp.bsky.social I’m definitely not down for you siding with two murderous leaders in my name
#BREAKING 🚨 Independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe has confirmed she will recontest Farrer at the upcoming by-election, setting up a possible five-cornered contest following the resignation of Sussan Ley
Milthorpe received 43.7% of the two-candidate-preferred vote in 2025
In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn't moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
“…in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.”
Editorial: It is very obvious that donations from fossil fuel companies should be banned. This is a kind of sickness shared across politics, a cynicism that fits neatly into brown paper bags. satpa.pe/NqcwLhz
China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban
- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Quoth RFK Jr.: “Measles is a harmless childhood disease.”🤦🏻♂️
African states should develop the energy sources they need to power their development. But the US has decided to sit this one out, and under Trump to jump in on the side of fossil fuels, whereas China is reaping the benefits of decarbonization. Self-own.
Oh boy
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
“ANZUS has slipped from being an opportunity for a chat to a continuing display of Australian subservience and servile support for US military power.” - Allan Behm, Advisor, International & Security Affairs Program, The Australia Institute
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4q8vEdP
Sundance’s filmmakers spoke to the urgency of the political moment. Their movies, mostly, did not. But there was one powerful exception.
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
What measles does to a body, since most of us were raised having been responsibly vaccinated and never had to encounter it:
med.stanford.edu/news/insight...
This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like
What’s the book?
The new directive asks USDA workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists.
The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.
Join Chief Political Analyst Amy Remeikis on The Point Live, and get the lowdown on what's happening in politics today, as it happens! #auspol @amyremeikis.bsky.social
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
A precursor to slavery?
At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Of course people of Jewish faith have the right to live without fear, George. This has my FULL support.
Exactly like people of Muslim faith have the right to live without fear as well as without settler-colonial violence, apartheid, illegal occupation of their lands & genocide. #auspol #BondiBeach
Because it’s not getting reported on enough:
Muslim fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, father of two, was the hero who bravely tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters and took away his gun.
He saved lives during a major terror attack. Say his name, and honor the lives of the victims of the shooters
Australian here 👋
Stop saying the tragedy in Sydney demonstrates that strict gun laws don’t work.
There were ZERO mass shootings in Australia in the two decades after strict gun laws were passed in 1996.
We have so much we need to do, but strict gun laws remain a critical part of the solution.