Fellow parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children over half-term! Here is a thread of videos showing TOYS you can MAKE at home from scrap stuff you probably have lying around. First, the utterly delightful "balancing bird" alomshaha.com/balancing-bi...

“It is this knowledge that is at stake when you lose librarians to incompetence, to disregard, to suicide.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia #Climate

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

94 seats! "Labor has the space to do what it wants – and what it wants, apparently, is to be the Liberal Party of the 1990s." "the number of stakeholders using the word “arrogant” about their dealings with the government and senior staff has risen. The hubris has begun to creep in"

Australian governments are not acting to curb [the cause of the toxic algae bloom]. Instead, they continue to support the fossil fuel industry both officially and unofficially. #auspol themonthly.com.au/december-202...

Woodside are expanding fossil fuels during the climate crisis. They have chosen to be the bad guys. We shouldn't let them launder their reputations through our community institutions. Student & staff members of @stopwoodsidemonash campaigned fearlessly against Woodside's partnership at Monash Uni.

More than seven years ago, a Victorian doctor embarked on what has become a quest to correct a small administrative quirk that has made the state’s death certificates unreliable. Read more: satpa.pe/HoE8ewt

Increadingly a government of gestures. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Nature is not a ‘nice to have’; it is critical national infrastructure”🌿 -The message Prof Nathalie Seddon delivered to over 1000 MPs, peers & leaders at the UK’s first-ever National Emergency Briefing on the Nature & Climate crisis #neb2025 ➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/uk-nati...

Data centres sit alongside coal plant extensions as one of the worst threats to Australia’s climate progress in a long time.

AI is an absolute net negative for humanity. So of course govts are clamouring for more of it. I don't want to be too judgmental, but every single proponent of the glories of AI is a complete wanker www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Power bills are high, but the roll out of renewables is not the cause." #auspol #climatecrisis #renewables www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

These are diabolical pollution numbers that suggest we are on track for cataclysmic climate change. 48% is a country mile away from the 62% emissions reduction that Labor promised.

What sheep know about the benefits of wind turbines that Australia's National Party doesn't

NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @polycrisis Its a Plastic Planet. You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic. @katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...

If we don't rapidly phase out fossil fuels, we can say goodbye to coral reefs, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, and permafrost. The results will not be pretty.

Something is wrong when the government doesn’t sufficiently fund the CSIRO, yet continues to increase subsidies for fossil fuel producers. Annie Wilson, Inverloch The Age, letters

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.

If you missed @senatorsurfer.bsky.social’s outstanding speech in parliament on the threat to good policy posed by orchestrated, international disinformation, don’t miss it now. #AtlasNetwork #Auspol youtu.be/DHkwa_rrM4w?...

#ClimateActionNow Solar panels are often now elevated so that sheep can graze underneath them. Dew runs off them, making the paddocks more drought resistant. The sheep get shade underneath them. Productivity of both wool and meat is increased, farmers get static income from the lease. Win win!!😍

The first question should be “Good evening Sussan, you are irrelevant to actual policy, so we’ll leave it there, thanks for joining us” #abc730

“It is beyond time for [the Coalition] to be seen and not heard.” No saving the Coalition, and a warning for Labor #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.

"while Labor’s support for net zero creates no danger for the fossil fuel industry, it creates significant danger for our democracy as millions of voters are tricked into believing that they are voting to tackle climate change, when in reality they are voting for fossil fuel expansion"

"moral failure" sums up @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social are absolutely choosing to led us and the planet to ruin, because of their selfish interests. We are hurtling towards 2.8°. #FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol We need Change

Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd) www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n... #auspol

ICYMI, my favourite Cheney obit so far: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Listen to the farmers!

Good intentions won't save us on this slippery slope www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Important issue that got very little coverage

No sanctions. More coal and gas. Weakened environment laws which are potentially worse than what we have now and could expand fossil fuel projects. TBH it sounds to me exactly what Peter Dutton would have wanted

“When a government designs legislation to enable it to keep approving fossil fuel extraction in an age of climate crisis, is this not truly evil?” #auspol in-between-days.ghost.io/wedgie-polit...

Because Australia gives so much of our gas away for free, Japan gets it so cheap it makes a profit selling it to other countries! "We are disincentivising Japan to do anything about their emissions." - Chief Economist Greg Jericho at our #RevenueSummit25 @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

Legacy #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons

UN Chief Antonio Guterres says it is “inevitable” we will miss our Paris climate targets. This will have devastating consequences for us here in Australia as well as vulnerable communities around the world. We must change course.

Admiral Chris Barrie doesn't hold back speaking to the Climate Crisis Summit in Canberra, saying the expansion of fossil fuels was a “failure of national duty”. “Security analysts are blunt, cascading climate impacts will drive instability, insecurity and conflict,” he said. #auspol

If fossil-fuel subsidies were a person, they’d be a drunk uncle burning your house down and asking for petrol money. #auspol #ClimateCrisis

"The gas and oil lobby is just the latest beneficiary of EY’s ability to find whatever answer its clients are after." Piece in the AFR citing analysis, commissioned by Climate Integrity, of EY's gas market 'modelling'. www.afr.com/rear-window/...

“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks” Just contemplate that sentence. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Evidence shows the human impact on Planet Earth has attained geological scale. We have become an "event" with the destructive force of a super volcano or large asteroid. @juliancribb #thehumanfuture

The Orwellian Minister FOR the Environment seems focused on everything but the environment. Otherwise, he'd recognise we're in an #EcologicalEmergency which is indeed an #ExistentialEmergency. #capturedstate #fossilcriminals #auspol #wapol

"Opting to negotiate with the Coalition on the environment is opting to work with the very climate sceptics Australians just rejected." From co-CEO Leanne Minshull in The New Daily @leanneminshull.bsky.social #auspol

@cathywilcox.bsky.social isn’t wrong. We need to #cleanuppolitics

Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt

“The Albanese Government is committed to no new extinctions” Environment Minister Murray Watt, reaffirming Labor’s 2022 pledge on Threatened Species Day 2025 2 weeks later Australia’s only shrew is declared extinct. #auspol #climate @australiainstitute.org.au minister.dcceew.gov.au/watt/media-r...