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The Synchronicity of Things 🌟 www.mediapixelconsultants.com
The Blake Poetry Prize 2025 applications are open. Listen to the winner of 2024 Simone King stunning poem.
www.westwords.com.au/the-68th-bla...
#poets
#poetry
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The 68th Blake Poetry Prize - Shortlist - Westwords
https://www.westwords.com.au/the-68th-blake-poetry-prize-shortlist/
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Indivisible ❌👑
6 days ago
Are you still using Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE:
indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
#CancelSpotify
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Project Drawdown
6 days ago
If food waste were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China and the U.S. 😱 source: Food and Ag Org of the UN For more information on food waste, check out
@paul-west.bsky.social
for
@sentientmedia.org
🔗
sentientmedia.org/the-climate-...
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The Climate Solution Sitting in America’s Trash
Cutting food waste is a huge potential climate win. Why are we ignoring it?
https://sentientmedia.org/the-climate-solution-in-americas-trash/
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Book review by
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
on Bee Wilson's new book about kitchen objects and the stories they tell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...
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The Wedding Cake Was a Triumph. The Marriage Went Stale.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/books/review/the-heart-shaped-tin-bee-wilson.html
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University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI
An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/artificial-intelligence-cheating-australian-catholic-university/105863524?utm_source=abc_news_web
9 days ago
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The 2025 Brisbane Writers Festival Address by
@dranitaheiss.bsky.social
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2025 Brisbane Writers Festival
Anita’s FIRST WORD keynote address
https://open.substack.com/pub/anitaheiss/p/2025-brisbane-writers-festival?r=av2&utm_medium=ios
14 days ago
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Pearls and Irritations
about 1 month ago
AFOPA urges the president and board of the National Press Club to reconsider their cancellation of
#ChrisLynnHedges
appearance on 20 October and to honour the commitment they made.
#auspol
#NPC
#media
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Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia
AFOPA is responding to the statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club on 20 October 2025.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/statement-on-cancellation-of-chris-hedges-confirmed-appearance-at-the-national-press-club-of-australia/
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Author and podcaster Sarah Wilson ‘Can we talk about your silence?’
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Can we talk about your silence?
before fascism stops us (**uncomfortable ideas incoming)
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahwilson/p/can-we-talk-about-your-silence?r=av2&utm_medium=ios
about 1 month ago
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Monument to the Burghers of Calais, 1889, Bronze by Auguste Rodin, Museum Rodin Paris. Remarkable.
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Laurent Gisel
3 months ago
Powerful testimony by Dr Terumi Tanaka, who was a 13 years old child living in
#Nagazaki
in 1945 when the
#atomic
#bomb
destroyed his city. He is now a Chair of
#NihonHidankyo
, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
#BanNuclearWeapons
#TPNW
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion/hiroshima-nagasaki-anniversary-nuclear-weapons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c08.c1xY.TSG4atu5SmS4&smid=url-share
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International Committee of the Red Cross
about 2 months ago
Under the rules of war, parties to conflicts cannot use starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. This includes depriving them of food, water, or other essentials needed to survive, even if it does not lead to death but causes suffering. Even wars have limits.
#IHL
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Cordula Droege
about 2 months ago
In the face of egregious and widespread violations of international humanitarian law in conflicts around the world, we need to act. Leaders of 🇿🇦🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇷🇯🇴🇰🇿 together with @ICRC urge States and the international community to uphold the
#GenevaConevntions
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-fo...
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World leaders united in defence of international humanitarian law to uphold humanity in war (21 September 2025)
Alarmed by widespread violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in conflicts around the world and the resulting unconscionable human (…)
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/france-and-the-united-nations/news-and-events/news/article/world-leaders-united-in-defence-of-international-humanitarian-law-to-uphold
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Cordula Droege
about 2 months ago
You can find information on the Global Initiative to galvanise political commitment for
#IHL
at
www.upholdhumanityinwar.org/documentation
, including ✅ Workstreams ✅ Next events and consultations ✅ Statements from states in previous consultations
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Humanity in War
https://www.upholdhumanityinwar.org/documentation
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Do the hard thing … AI is making you genuinely stupid.
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Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid
Do the hard thing. There are no shortcuts to excellence. And, a call for the revival of academia.
https://open.substack.com/pub/pluri/p/artificial-intelligence-is-making?r=av2&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
on the liberating potential of trash and the creative process.
#innercritic
#recycle
#art
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The liberating potential of trash
On recycling as creative process
https://open.substack.com/pub/irinadumitrescu/p/the-liberating-potential-of-trash?r=av2&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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Introducing the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist!
The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist has been revealed. Find out which six books are in the running for the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebookerprizes/p/introducing-the-booker-prize-2025-aec?r=av2&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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Gillian Branstetter
about 2 months ago
"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."
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Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/judith-butler-is-being-targeted-by-the-us-government-we-must-stand-up
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“If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.” Damien Davis
@hyperallergic.com
hyperallergic.com/1042641/when...
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When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging”
If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.
https://hyperallergic.com/1042641/when-artists-are-too-old-to-be-emerging/
about 2 months ago
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Dr Anita Heiss
about 2 months ago
Voting for the Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award closes today. There are 8 finalists, please support any one of the authors. I have a few friends in that list, so I can't tell you who I voted for (NO it was not for myself).
www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...
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The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award
Congratulations to the 2025 finalists! The winner of The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award is determined by public vote. Click the buttons below to vote for…
https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-literary-awards/courier-mail-peoples-choice-queensland-book-year-award
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Treaty: This is how we get over it
@mrdtjames.bsky.social
on "Victoria has tabled a treaty the first in the nation's history "
firstpeoplesvic.org/reports-reso...
"This treaty is not the end of the story but the beginning of a new era ... "
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Treaty: This is how we get over it
Finding ourselves in the story of this land, together.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thespencerstreetend/p/this-is-how-we-get-over-it?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 2 months ago
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Nick Feik
about 2 months ago
New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
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Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/meanjin-closure-melbourne-university-press-university-of-melbourne/
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Looking up to clouds … and checking to see if
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social
on
@bsky.app
#cloudappreciation
about 2 months ago
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Good Law Project
2 months ago
The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest It only took 48 hours for the court to scrub out a Banksy showing a judge striking down a protester with his gavel Silencing a work of art about silencing protest? Maybe it was a little too close to home
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‘You and I are Earth’ Inscribed earthenware plate via
@londonmuseum.bsky.social
Post-Medieval — 1661; 17th century
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Dianne Masri (@thesynchronicityofthings)
‘You and I are Earth’ A note to ourselves everyday. Thoughts on the olive trees and the air we breathe. Inscribed ceramic - Post-Medieval — 1661; 17th century ‘A tin-glazed earthenware plate with...
https://substack.com/@thesynchronicityofthings/note/c-153874959?r=av2&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
2 months ago
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RJ Andrews
8 months ago
“Firmament.” [Jeu de tarot de fantaisie “égyptien” à enseignes italiennes, dit “Grand Etteilla”, c.1850–1875]
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
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Senator David Shoebridge
2 months ago
An Australian billionaire (who loves Elon Musk of course) wants to destroy a world beneath the oceans before we even come close to understanding it. There are no limits to this ultra capitalist strip mining of our one and only planet.
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Daniel James
2 months ago
Jacinta Parsons on the fall of another literary institution- Meanjin.
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The day the music died
The death of an institution
https://www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/the-day-the-music-died?r=33aau1
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On Vernon Ah Kee’s statement on “misconceptions circulating around Hoda Afshar’s award winning image for the 2025 Australian National Portrait Gallery prize. “Firstly, I wish to make clear that this is an Aboriginal led project.
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Dianne Masri (@thesynchronicityofthings)
Vernon Ah Kee is a contemporary Australian artist and a member of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples. Here’s his statement on “misconceptions circulating around Hoda Afshar’...
https://substack.com/@thesynchronicityofthings/note/c-152471131?r=av2&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
2 months ago
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1EarthMedia
3 months ago
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 Winner Untitled #01 (from the series Code Black/Riot), 2024 Hoda Afshar Sherry Quiambao received the First Time Finalist Award, and George Fetting won the Art Handlers' Award.
#photography
#photocontest
www.portrait.gov.au/npppphoto/10...
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Dr Dani Netherclift
3 months ago
My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online
islandmag.com/read/extinct...
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Extinctions – by Dani Netherclift | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
The threat AI poses to writers and the art of writing seems to have arisen swiftly. Who threw open those doors? What is an entry? A door is an aperture to possibility. These are important concerns for...
https://islandmag.com/read/extinction-by-dani-netherclift
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Dr Dani Netherclift
2 months ago
Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down
openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
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An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-to-the-vice-chancellor-of-the-university-of-melbourne-on-the-closure-of-meanjin-6617e6d9
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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.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
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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.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/meanjin-closing-mup-melbourne-university-publishing-literary-journal/
2 months ago
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Dr Anita Heiss
2 months ago
Have you registered for the Indigenous Literacy Day Livestream celebrating this year's theme: Strength in our Stories: For now and future generations... Starts 10.30am on Wednesday, Sept 3, and can be watched on demand from 12pm onwards.
www.sydneyoperahouse.com/schools/indi...
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Indigenous Literacy Day 2025
Indigenous Literacy Day is proudly produced and presented by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. It’s an annual celebration of First Nations stories, cultures and languages. This year we celebrate wit...
https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/schools/indigenous-literacy-day-2025
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As always Elif Shafak weaves memory, art, literature and the everyday to awaken us to the magic of our humanity - to care and know we are all “beyond all borders and beyond all boxes.
substack.com/@elifshafak/...
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A Thousand Fibres Connect Us
You don’t always remember clearly where and when your path crossed with a favourite book, but the day I started reading Moby Dick, so many moons ago, is still vivid in my mind.
https://substack.com/@elifshafak/note/p-172406443?r=av2&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
2 months ago
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Don’t Ask the Trees for Their Names Pre order Now In this richly woven tapestry of stories, nine Arab women share their deeply personal journeys of migration to Australia, each reflecting on the legacies of their homelands and the complexities of forging new lives
gazebobooks.com.au/product/dont...
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Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names (available 01 October 2025) - Gazebo Books
In this richly woven tapestry of stories, nine Arab women share their deeply personal journeys of migration to Australia, each reflecting on the legacies of their homelands and the complexities of for...
https://gazebobooks.com.au/product/dont-ask-the-trees-for-their-names/
2 months ago
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Sydney! Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW - Naala Buda is a must see, guided tour a bonus! On extraordinary artists of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land, NT and the power of their art from the 1940s to now.Ends 6 October
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exh...
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Yolŋu power | Art Gallery of NSW
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/yolngu-power/
3 months ago
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samuel mehr
3 months ago
There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
2. If so, let the lawyers know at
www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
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The fabulous
@dranitaheiss.bsky.social
on Indigenous Literacy Day Wednesday, 3 September - Sharing First Nations Stories, Cultures and Languages with children and adults around Australia.
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3 months ago
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Senator David Shoebridge
3 months ago
Recognition of Palestine should have happened decades ago and is a fundamental right that the Australian Government has denied for too long. Now we need action: Australia must sanction Israel & end the two-way arms trade. Recognition won’t feed starving kids or stop the bombs.
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How Spirituality went from Taboo to Trendy in the art world.
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
#art
#klint
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How Spirituality Went from Taboo to Trendy in the Art World
Spirituality pervades shows like Hilma af Klint at MoMA, Saya Woolfalk at MAD museum, and Shakers shows at both the ICA Boston and the Vitra Museum.
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/spiritual-turn-trend-hilma-af-klint-saya-woolfalk-1234748637/
3 months ago
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Josh Bornstein
5 months ago
If you want to understand how the ABC ended up in this god awful cluster fiasco, harming the careers of
@antoinettelattouf.bsky.social
, Stan Grant, Emma Alberici, Yasmin Abdel Magid, Andrew Probyn, Nick Ross & the many that you don’t hear about, I explain it in my recent book:
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Australian Society of Authors
3 months ago
Tomorrow at 1pm AEST Digital Rights Watch is hosting an online town hall, Stolen Property: Big Tech’s Push to Mine Our Culture, which will look at the Productivity Commission’s proposal to give AI companies a ‘right to mine data’. You can register to attend here:
events.humanitix.com/stolen-prope...
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Stolen Property: Big Tech’s Push to Mine Our Culture
A special briefing for cultural creators and those who value their work, discussing Big Tech and their insatiable appetite for our cultural capital.
https://events.humanitix.com/stolen-property-big-tech-and-copyright
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The Conversation AUNZ
3 months ago
Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent. 👉 Read the full story:
theconversation.com/the-pro...
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ASA Director and lawyer,
@joshbornstein.bsky.social
says, “The Productivity Commission’s exploration of this proposal is perverse. A text and data mining exception would mean that some of the wealthiest corporations in Big Tech would be able to freeload from low-paid authors’ labour…”
#copyright
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March for Humanity today Sunday 3 August @ Sydney Harbour bridge March for Gaza. ☮️❤️🙏🏽
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Powerful interview w/
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
and Terry Tempest Williams on MacFarlane’s ‘Is a River Alive’
@orionmagazine.bsky.social
‘To call a river alive is not to personify a river, but instead further to deepen and widen the category of both “person” and “life”.’
#nature
#naturewriting
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4 months ago
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Pearls and Irritations
4 months ago
During 2001 to 2024, 515 million hectares (Mha) of tree cover was lost worldwide. This equates to the whole of Australia except for WA. One-third of the loss was caused by permanent land use change.
#auspol
#environment
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Environment: Forget 1.5 degrees C, even 2 degrees C, while forests and peat disappear and natural gas booms
Peatlands are vital for human survival, but we are destroying the few that are left. Australia’s gas industry facing a volatile future. Chinese banks funding the destruction of tropical forests – not good for humans or tigers.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/environment-forget-1-5-degrees-c-even-2-degrees-c-while-forests-and-peat-disappear-and-natural-gas-booms/
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George Monbiot
4 months ago
1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵
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MEAA
4 months ago
Storytelling is an integral part of the oldest continuing culture on the planet. The ABC is celebrating the rich history, stories and achievements of Australia’s First People and MEAA is proud to support and celebrate members working on these productions that continue this tradition
meaa.io/4lUCjXq
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NAIDOC: Blak, Loud and Proud
Celebrate the richness of Indigenous history, culture and achievements with this NAIDOC Week collection.
https://iview.abc.net.au/collection/1458
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George Monbiot
4 months ago
At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people
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