Today the Queensland government has ignored the overwhelming body of evidence and extended their shameless ban on puberty blockers for trans kids. If you haven't been writing, calling, and showing up to protest, now is the time to start.

Bitter cold, strong winds, and heavy rains hit Gaza last week, killing more than a dozen people after tents flooded and walls collapsed over already damaged homes that some residents had returned to, Nadera Mushtha reports: https://prismreports.org/2025/12/16/gaza-storm-byron/

Wow. Massive paddle out at Bondi this morning to pay respect to the people killed on Sunday. Looks like everyone that lives at Bondi was out.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

First Nations have successfully negotiated with AGL an affordable reliable clean energy solution for Point Pearce Aboriginal community in South Australia — rooftop solar for every house, plus a 10 kwh solar battery. www.firstnationscleanenergy.org.au/solar_on_eve... #auspol #mobsky #energy

The Jewish Council of Australia. I ask everyone to read what the JCA advise to do about Bondi massacre & if you agree with the letter template, copy & paste it & send to your local member asap. Thank you. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/11/jewi...

The Arctic is warming nearly four times than the world average. Record loss of sea-ice, loss of snow cover, increase in precipitation, greening of the tundra and rusting of rivers are among the observed trends.

Announcing keynote speakers for our 2026 Foresighting Forum! Earlybird tickets are available until December 31 - head to our website for more information: loom.ly/2hfz7vY

As a Palestinian, Australian, Sydneysider, and as someone who has led and organised many of the major Palestine protests in Sydney, I have a duty in this moment to foster togetherness and offer whatever support I can to the Jewish community in this time of grief. /1

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

Vincent van Gogh, Worn Out, 1882 www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

If you can spare a little $ it would go a long way for @diplomatofnight.com I’ve donated a little as a small token of thanks for years of excellent content.

‘“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled AI,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed in a testament to the nation’s declining spelling skills.’

Urgent appeal We still have £353 left to cover the rent. Please, dear friends… this is very important for our family’s stability.🥹 I just want them to feel safe, to wake up in the same place tomorrow. Please, help us finish this 😓 Love you all.🫂

**report released today** The Net Zero Commission NSW says: “Consistent with the objectives of the Climate Change Act, NSW consent authorities need to meaningfully consider greenhouse gas emissions and their impacts in all planning decisions, including those for additional coal mining.”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... Everyone in Darwin is at risk of cancers. Petrochemical plant 3 kilometres from a school, 5 km from a hospital. Fracking Beetaloo basin is like fracking in the middle of Sydney.

Hard to believe gas can still be legal in domestic settings

Have just noticed that the new Community Participation Plan from #NSWDPHI no longer requires the upload of all public submissions following the exhibition period, only “where considered necessary”.

From October next year all retail customers wanting a new fossil gas service in NSW, QLD, SA, and the ACT will have to pay the full upfront cost of connection. This is at the request of Energy Consumers Australia to protect those who can’t yet electrify.

Pioneering Australia seaweed grower Sea Forest bought four tonnes of pure chemical bromoform - the chemical that limits methane in its products - during its early years. It won't say why. I took at look at the company in this deeply reported story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

GIVIT works in partnership with the NSW Gov, local councils & recovery orgs to support communities affected by bushfires across the state. Right now, we're helping people affected by the recent bushfires, which destroyed homes in Koolewong & Bulahdelah. www.givit.org.au/take-action/...

This is massive. Years ago a friend worked at an ad agency who was approached by Monsanto to advertise Roundup. Apparently the ad agency said they’d take the job if Monsanto took out phosphates from their products. Who would have thought an ad agency would be more ethical than a chemical company!!

Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize: erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

"In the past few hours Israel has conducted multiple attacks across the Gaza strip violating the ceasefire.. at least 366 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire came into effect 8 weeks ago"

For capitalism to keep operating it has to convince you that you are thing that ends at the boundaries of your body rather than a flow connected to uncountable others. After all, you can't really profit off extracting from yourself.

Governments ignore the science and prefer to just focus on climate change as an energy transition: as a spur to kick start a still completely unsustainable capitalism. We’re in breach of multiple planetary boundaries and they - and we - are deeply interdependent. It’s one hell of a category error.

This is great research! It shows with data that a lot of what we hear about the "unpopularity" of radical socioecological ideas is not about people, but rather the lack of popularity with mainstream policymakers and market agents. There's a lot of ground on which to build!

Victoria has made history, with the first Treaty with First Nations people in the country! It’s time to celebrate this huge moment! Join @firstpeoplesvic, First Nations people and allies from all walks of life next Friday 12 December to celebrate the incredible journey to Treaty.

Anyone know where exactly in the Hunter they plan to build this?

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT IN RAJASTHAN, INDIA REJECTED AS BIDS TO BUILD IT WERE MORE $$$$$ THAN RENEWABLES BUNDLED WITH BATTERIES RISE & ☀️☀️☀️ (share with 'we dig coal to alleviate energy poverty in poor countries', 'but what about baseload?', 'firming capacity' fossil fuel apologists)

The government announces the closing of all government offices and schools as weather conditions grow worse.

What does it tell you about the state of metallurgical coal markets when one of the country’s most bullish miners pulls back on an approved 60 year extension?

BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels. 🧵

Tessa's thread is good bsky.app/profile/tess...

A piece from a voice in the environment movement that I greatly admire: “There is no abundance without reciprocity and we will learn this, to our sorrow, in the years to come if we continue treating the natural world as a magic pudding that can be cut and cut and cut and will come again.”

The “debate”. My @smh @theage cartoon.

I loved this episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social so much! Incredibly insightful and intellectually courageous discussion of the geopolitics of the green transition and the tough trade-offs it involves - and an excellent reminder that technology *is* material.

Tariq Ali will be delivering the annual @cssgj.bsky.social lecture on Gaza and the demise of international law and order. It’s a terrible time for Australia (5am start) but worth it. December 12. #FreePalestine Eventbrite link:

OMG this is awful.

“A recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics adds yet another data point…finding that suicidality scores dropped significantly an average of two years and up to five years after patients received gender-affirming treatment.” Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.

Elizabeth Farrelly is (as usual) a fairly lone media voice in critique of the NSW Government planning reforms that were quietly approved this month.

Australia’s new Guarantee of Origin scheme gives Traditional Owners and First Nations groups a new set of tools to hold clean energy developers accountable and to leverage an emerging policy framework for lasting value. Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy

Highly recommend this book for you or anyone you know with interests spanning climate change, ecological protection, industrialization, and modern art. You know, the usual stuff.

‘A landmark report, The Right to Power — Keeping First Nations' communities connected on prepayment, found nearly 9,000 households were impacted by frequent disconnections that are "undermining health, wellbeing and economic participation".’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Three actions you can take – you choose. knittingnannas.org/2025/11/24/a...

Read @roycerk2.bsky.social to find out how #cop30 ended One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate

While Labor meets with mining companies and housing developers… “Senator David Pocock held a series of roundtables, attended by nearly thirty representatives from NGOs, industry groups, scientific bodies and legal organisations.”

"The text is not great, but at least we have an outcome," Ralph Regenvanu is climate change minister of Vanuatu - the outcome “leadership by announcing they will co-host the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels” fossilfueltreaty.org/first-intern...

Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage ONLY a VOLUNTARY agreement to BEGIN discussions on a roadmap to an EVENTUAL phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this INCREMENTAL progress only in the teeth of IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION from OIL-PRODUCING countries. #ScienceUnderSiege

🇨🇴 Colombia showed real leadership. They refused to be pressured by COP officials who ignored the concerns of vulnerable countries, #IndigenousPeoples, and civil society—while underestimating opposition to meaningful climate action.