www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The corporate cowboys are ruining universities, aged care, welfare (#Robodebt) and health care with the same insensitive cookie cutters. None of these are "corporations" - they all need sensitive human management, not "for profit" advice.

"Finland marks Earth Overshoot Day on 1 April 2026. Each year, Overshoot Day marks the point at which the planet's annual biocapacity would be exhausted if everyone consumed as much as the residents of that country." yle.fi/a/74-2021853...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... Who would have thought it? 🤔🤔🤔 A digital system failure??? Why not use a human to drive a car... they can fail too - but they won't all fail at once.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... Sugar WAS the lifeblood... there will be no life at all without biodiversity, clean water and all the other goodies a restored tranch of decent forest can offer. Let's stop the industrial ag propaganda & look to the future. There are real jobs in restoration ecology!

Look after your local friends if you want fairies at the bottom of the garden... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Gotta fix the attitude first, then we can do something for 🌏 Politics is still being lobbied, even when these policies are driving the Opposition to oblivion. #ClimateActionNow is popular with voters of all sorts. It's not "left wing". ALP is wasting its landslide

e360.yale.edu/digest/fores... Even if it isn't the original, something is better than nothing. #EcologicalRestoration

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... More cookie-cutter consultants dudding public education. Time to return to hiring with interviews. Forms are useless & obfuscate the process. (Not a job for AI) A lotta $ to be saved here - this will cover cost of future transparency. #PublicInterestFirst

"The commission found that a former prime minister did not act corruptly because it would not benefit him to do so ... It appears ignorance of the law is no excuse for an average citizen, but ignorance of the obligations of your public offices is sufficient excuse for a politician." satpa.pe/JbGzmoq

Yes. 👏👏👏It's time big banks did some lifting and a lot less leaning... From @australia.theguardian.com today

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... Oh dear. Another opportunity lost - helping the Big Guys stay fossil fools may not even "trickle down" to the humble family. The family has to pay whatever they charge for food and other real essentials. Some people don't need petrol/diesel at all.

#otd 50 yrs ago, #PEI launched Energy Days, w/ int'l experts speaking on the future of energy - a 1st step in PEI's plan to become a world leader in self-sufficiency & sustainability. This spring @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social & I are writing about the spirit of ‘76. Watch the skies. #cdnhist #envhist

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... @ouranu.bsky.social Junior academics have been aware of the unjust grip of BigCons for a decade or more. They can't pay for rent while $$$$$ goes to head kickers who never see a student. You can't serve both profit & the public interest.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... @anufennerschool.bsky.social Great story of Fenners afield! #Heinsohn lab @abottlefullofrain.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Simple direct help. Well done Vic & Tas. 👏

In a global energy crisis, we need to use all levers to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, including extending EV subsidies like the FBT exemption, and cutting back on the diesel fuel tax credit scheme. My piece in today’s Saturday Paper: thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/… via @SatPaper

geoffpark.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... Great exhibition Life with Birds @ Newstead - last chance this weekend. Recommend *Natural Newstead* for good news stories from life in place. An antidote to the Great Derangement.

In Stockholm? Please join us April 24 www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Job Alert: Level B Lecturer in History @ La Trobe (Teaching and Research) for any of my contacts looking a longer-than-6-month contract: careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j...

Have you published #envhist or #envhums work in Apr-Sep 2025? Let the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network know about it for the next publication round up. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger. Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it! Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇 www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum #environment

My article in the newest volume of Lilith A Feminist History Journal is out now. 'Citrus Queens' is based on a talk I gave at the AHA conference 2024, and is about Riverland women negotiating belonging in 1960s SA. press.anu.edu.au/publications...

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... "A new world is being born, and they’re basically trying to abort it. Which is a little ironic, given their views on abortion." Funny & wise ... thank you Rebecca Solnit

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... You caused it. You fund recovery. #ClimateActionNow

Today, we are also launching our new Security & Defence Partnership. We will deepen our cooperation from joint maritime exercises to space, defence industry and countering hybrid threats. And we will work hand in hand to strengthen the resilience of our democracies.

🇦🇺 Dear PM Albanese, thank you for your warm welcome to Canberra today. Europe and Australia share the same vision of the world – even though worlds apart.

After almost a decade of work – we can say: we did it. We have concluded the EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement. And it is such a win for both sides ↓ link.europa.eu/x33M9C

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... Congrats all! @abcnewsbot.bsky.social is important. 👏

Thanks #bobbrown for your commitment to protecting our native forests. And for giving us an opportunity to dress up and play amongst furry, feathered and furious friends who reckon it’s time to #endnativelogging bobbrown.org.au/campaigns/na...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... One Nation is looking for the vacuum where the Nats used to be in rural Aust ... but now the Nats are miners not farmers, & the Libs are still city-minded, SA regions are in search of Indi-style Independents, not Qld blow-ins. @caseybriggs.com

On (real) talkback radio and a sense of individual responsibility in a shared experience of the world. Jacinta Parsons meets Barry Jones.

Albo is testing “rusted ons” to limit. Most offensively he seems oblivious to our distress about the genocide, the NACC failure with #Robodebt & the global heating crisis- ok to drill 57 gas on Scott Reef to appease Woodside, day after election. Use yr majority for good Albo.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... Great story from Victoria #Craftivism gets you off your screens! All you need is good light & a project in progress.

Australia's universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making | Hannah Forsyth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... #AnimalCruelty Cowboy tourism ignores cultural protocols (again...)

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... When it takes THIS LONG to get stuff through parliament, people "don't know" ...parliamentary time wasting cd be spent w people affected (not just pressure groups). NOW how about compulsory restoration, w Big gov subsidies to good Conservation orgs to do & *maintain*

We've just added a podcast by @riffreporter.bsky.social to the Environment & Society Portal; it discusses linalool extraction from rosewood in the Amazon rainforest. Listen to it for free: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/can-fore... #trees #fragrance #envhum #envhist #gardens #IndigenousPeoples

theconversation.com/australia-cl... Note @knitnannassyd.bsky.social in action in this report. Spoiler: Gov spends $26bn on fossil fuel industries & $1bn on restoration/biodiversity... and says it's "on track" 🤔

I understand why 🇦🇺 creatives can't tour US right now - but maybe we should be experimenting here with non-US "new talent" (incl. home grown) rather than endless concerts featuring talent from US, however talented. US has pushy marketing. This year is for new stuff from Canada, Asia, Latin America.🎶

It’s time to axe the Morrison-era policy strangling Australia’s humanities degrees www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/16/s... @humanitiesau.bsky.social

Ed Husic is calling on Dr Jim Chalmers to consider embracing the ACTU’s proposal for a 25 per cent tax on gas exports, which would raise $17bn a year. Read more: https://theaus.in/3N4w7jR

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... #Craftivism @knitnannassyd.bsky.social

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... Avoiding scrutiny w a "deluge of chaos"... quite deliberate. Of course it is. Epstein files all around. Felony excused while in Office. Now a war to end elections. Most of us don't even live where we could vote him out. But we are exhausted.

I now have a website: palmbl.ad. This is where I will gather publications, information, and occasional reflections.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... Answer: Lobbying. If they cut fossil fuel subsidies it would hurt Big Corps more than taxpayers. (but it would be responsible for 🌏). Why not both and subsidise public transport, esp quiet electric buses?

This week’s cartoon, by Oslo Davis: satpa.pe/Xc1ssqk

Join us online Monday 16 March 2026 for @josietaylor.bsky.social discussing her book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multispecies Encounters in Extraction Zones (Palgrave Macmillan 2025). Starts 16:00 Central European / 15:00 GMT. Note! 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... So... in absence of defence, Honeywells should lose all contracts with all NSW hospitals until confidence restored. If execs can't be there, then contracts suspended. Easy. Patient safety first. Vexatious lawyers last. #Consequences.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Just stop it! @knitnannassyd.bsky.social

Can an arts degree change the world? Stephen Garton argues YES @humanitiesau.bsky.social Listen here - or read the lecture in @austbookreview.bsky.social current issue. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...