NSW courts cancel the extension of a large coal mine near Mudgee on the basis of the Court of Appeal overturning the 2022 approval of MACH Energy’s massive Mount Pleasant mine in the Hunter Valley in July. Congrats 🥳 Mudgee District Environment Group! #ClimateAction www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Floating on a thong!! Aleutian Tern, first record for the Northern Territory, Australia from Marc Gardener on a long pelagic out of Darwin #BirdsSeenIn2025 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social

I’m disgusted that Adani bought coal below market rate, dudded us of $400m in royalties, and then sold it for a profit. The fact countries/companies can be a middle man for our resources is reason to dismantle the whole corrupt fossil fuel system.

What passes for "analysis" of climate policy by today's ABC: - all politics, little policy - an alleged expose of the "conundrum" in Liberals' position, when NONE of it makes any sense - no mention of the role of powerful vested interests like the fossil fuel lobby, Gina Rinehart, Advance... #auspol

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The Australia-based BHP, which is also listed on the London Stock Exchange, said in a statement that it intended to appeal against the decision and would continue to defend against the UK group action.

Storm! Moving fast to Surfers Paradise!! Taken from Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast. Stunning (and also no hail, which was terrific bc I was in my car 😊) @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social @bluesky.photography

“a conveyor belt of corruption allegations while damning refugees to 30-year exile and milking the taxpayer for billions." Janet Pelley #auspol #Nauru michaelwest.com.au/bikie-gangs-...

From A Balcony Over Jerusalem to A Bunker in Kyiv: huge thanks to the booksellers particularly BookPeople for selecting Balcony Over Jerusalem as one of the best Australian books of last 25 years. Your support for me & other Aussie authors hugely appreciated by us all. Thank you!

My town just installed fantastic path lighting that, not only is it pointed down, but it's fairly dim until movement approaches, then it brightens the immediate area until you move out of range. They're also solar.

My city is in the middle of a swap from the old yellow street lamps to new LED ones and wow it's so wild how much less light is being put into places that aren't the street. Not just the sky but also the places off the street like adjacent yards and houses. So much better.

Also, that last one wouldn’t SHINE DIRECTLY INTO MY WINDOW AT NIGHT

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??

One down and many to go!

Thunderhead composite!! Gold Coast Spring storms @stormhour.com

Orange-bellied Parrot, Critically Endangered, at Western Treatment Plant, Melbourne. Photographed by Elke Link. #BirdsSeenIn2025 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social

Always a delight to encounter an Australian Pratincole! From Bourke, NSW, early November, Michael Ronan.

6 months after Rainforest Reserves Australia’s submissions against Queensland's Moonlight Ridge wind farm were found to be fabricated, Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie denies he took any of them into consideration & only used those from locals. The group is before a senate inquiry. #qldpol

“Both the Federal and South Australian Governments failed in their response to the devastating algal bloom that swept along the state’s coastline earlier this year, a senate committee investigation has found”…FFS #climate thepoint.com.au/news/251112-...

The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed further light on the shenanigans going on. #auspol #Whitlam #theDismissal

"The money has and must be going somewhere". Has Australia been played by Nauru for a cool $2B? Human rights lawyer @alisonbattisson.bsky.social finds blacked out FOIs and no trust deed for asylum seekers deal #auspol michaelwest.com.au/no-trust-dee...

monstrous, ghastly narcissist. Utterly shameful and shameless

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

We do not have to cede multinational media, tech and fossil carbon corporations the right to destroy our world.

Aus is supposed to be a country where the rule of law & natural justice applies. The Gov’s sneaky attempt to strip welfare from people before they’ve been convicted of any crime is a fundamental breach of these principles. We may as well dissolve the court system. #auspol #politas

Why do successive governments pick on welfare recipients? Over the years the system has become tighter than a whale’s arse at 50 fathoms and now the “no one left behind” Labor government wants to stop welfare to people who are SUSPECTED of a crime by the ever trustworthy (not) police for Dogs sake.

John Menadue filling in the gaps about CIA and MI6 key role in sacking Whitlam. The issue today is that the same sort of shit-eating, treacherous establishment cocksuckers who trashed Australian democracy are still embedded in the spook establishment. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

I'll be speaking about this issue with James O'Loghlin, ABC Sydney, at ~ 150pm today.

Sunday night, time to relax. No, time to get furious after hearing about the sponsors of WA's recent Biodiversity Conference, which included Alcoa, Woodside and South 32. These destructive companies are the enemies of biodiversity and should be blacklisted. But instead...

It deeply offends me the much our gas is given away, that miners whine and snivel about paying the pittance they do for our coal and iron but what really pisses me off is that we are expected to pay the protect the sea lanes so they can profit. These paracytes should pay for AUKUS. User pays

QLD the state of fried brain cells

Because everything is shit, I give you ... Puggles. #Platypus #AustralianWildlife

@tonyrinaud.bsky.social Is there an ‘easy’ way to find what is missing from Australia’s list please? A beautiful Pacific Black Duck seen on the weekend. #BirdsSeenIn2025

Marie sighted these White-throated Needletails after a severe storm in South East Queensland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social They are one of the joys of birding IMHO 😊

Jesus woulda kicked the lot of them out of the prayer breakfast and given their croissants to the poor

Can’t recall where Jesus recommended that the dispossessed be sent to offshore detention and the poor be subject to punitive ‘mutual obligations’ if they wanted to eat

Oh puhleeze! Gympie Times: "A petition challenging Fraser Island’s name change to K’gari has attracted massive support, sparking fresh debate over the cultural identity of Queensland’s famous sand island." Why am I not surprised? 🙁

This is a great read:

bit rusty on the "principles & values Jesus lived by" but astounded tt they now include: ☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide ☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers ☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support

BREAKING: The Albanese Labor Government just joined with the Coalition to vote against an inquiry into AUKUS proposed by the Greens.

Kath and Jenny lost their sons following illegal robodebts, the ongoing secrecy of the NACC is compounding their trauma. They deserve answers and accountability.

Rescued from the EskHailstorm. Beautiful Grey-headed Flying fox pup orphan. Already threatened. How many more camps will be destroyed by climateheating hailstorms b4 @albomp.bsky.social takes notice?

falinski's "australians for prosperity" has only ever disclosed one donor: www.coalaustralia.com #CoalAustralia

Former Israeli MP Moshe Feiglin on Israel's most watched news show: "As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left,' we can't live here if one [Palestinian] remains in Gaza.” When people tell you who they are, believe them Zionism is the new Nazism

🎯. This is also why way too many people are focusing way too much on legalistic environmental standards, which will always be drafted with loopholes, as a silver bullet. At the end of the day we mostly just need a government that WANTS to protect the environment. And rn that isn’t Labor.

Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws? • Chevron • BHP • the Minerals Council of Australia • the Business Council of Australia Who doesn't support the new laws? • Australian Conservation Foundation • Greenpeace • the Climate Council • the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol

I think Marles needs to be seconded to a Medicins Sans Frontieres team somewhere.