Adelaide University is considering re-naming the Santos Petroleum Engineering Building. 👏 www.indailysa.com.au/news/in-dept...

“Three quarters of South Australians want corporations like Santos to start paying for the damage that they’re doing. A good start would be putting a 25% tax on gas exports... [to fund] real cost-of-living relief and start cleaning up the environmental damage.” www.indailysa.com.au/news/busines...

As gas giant Santos holds its annual general meeting in Adelaide, new polling shows nearly three in four South Australians believe gas companies should be made to pay for environmental damage they cause. www.acf.org.au/news/santos-...

This terrible oil refinery fire, which is now spewing toxic smoke into Geelong and surrounds, is another reminder that fossil fuels are risky, polluting and dangerous. www.acf.org.au/news/oil-ref...

Ignore ‘self-serving’ claims from gas giants and implement 100% tax on windfall profits, Ken Henry says. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Scientists have measured the length of summer – defined by climate rather than dates – and found it is expanding by six days every decade globally. #climatechange @caitlinfitzsimmons.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Extreme heat is creating ‘non-survivable’ conditions for humans, according to new research that warns people are more susceptible to rising temperatures than previously thought. #climatechange #auspol @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Headline should read: Queensland premier calls for fast-track of oil projects amid climate crisis. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The world is being held hostage by its reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are the ‘mother of all injustices’. #auspol #climatechange www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Storm-damaged coral reefs might never have the years required to recover if tropical cyclones become more intense and frequent due to climate change, marine researchers say. thewest.com.au/news/weather...

Farmers are boosting their profits and production – with nature’s help. theconversation.com/farmers-are-...

The Albanese govt has the social licence and the numbers to introduce a long-overdue tax on the gas export industry, writes ACF’s National Climate Policy Adviser, Annika Reynolds. #auspol cheekmedia.substack.com/p/taxing-big...

Conservationists and scientists warn a mining lobby proposal to use AI to speed up environmental approvals could generate ‘Robodebt-style’ failures, putting threatened species at further risk. @readfearn.bsky.social #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists find more than 110 ‘new’ fish and invertebrate species in the deep waters of the Coral Sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #nature #amazing

The latest issue of ACF's magazine Habitat is out now. Read it here: acf.org.au/habitat #nature #climate #auspol

PM Albanese is being urged to set a new tax on gas exports by some of his favourite musicians, including King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Angie McMahon, Lime Cordiale and King Stingray. #auspol www.news.com.au/entertainmen...

New modelling shows coal and gas giants are gaming the system. With @climatecouncil.org.au #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/new-mod...

Good idea! #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

One solution to the fuel-driven food crisis is buy local. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Energy Efficiency Council wants #state and federal #governments to take energy productivity seriously.

If you want to build a data centre in Australia, you should be compelled to build the renewables and water recycling infrastructure to service it. #auspol au.news.yahoo.com/lines-drawn-...

28 years ago today people from around Australia headed to #Kakadu to blockade a planned new #uranium mine at #Jabiluka. The short story is the mine was stopped and people power defeated #nuclear power. Great respect to the #Mirarr Traditional Owners and to all who heard and acted

ACF’s response to the release of the Albanese government’s ‘expectations’ for data centres hoping to set up in Australia. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/data-ce...

In the coming Budget, the federal government can and should tax big gas corporations to fund cost of living relief. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/tax-gas...

“The Minns government’s continued acceptance of massive coal extensions or expansions, such as the Hunter Valley Operations Continuation project, runs contrary to the urgency that is required to meet the state’s own emission reduction targets.” www.afr.com/politics/nsw...

“The Net Zero Commission’s coal spotlight report makes it clear NSW cannot afford to approve a single additional coal project and must now plan for the orderly and rapid retirement of the dirty coal industry to meet its commitments under the Climate Change Act.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...

New South Wales to ban new coal mines (but extensions of old ones may still happen). au.news.yahoo.com/nsw-ban-coal...

ACF investigations reveal bush bulldozing for beef is continuing – despite the passage of new environment laws late last year that tightened loopholes relating to land clearing by the agricultural sector. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Reform of Australia's national nature laws is mentioned several times in the report as evidence of progress. But what happens next to implement these reforms looms as the real test of whether the govt will deliver the stronger nature protection promised. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Queensland is the biggest contributor to climate emissions nationally. Hail Creek is a huge part of the problem. UN-backed research found in 2025 the coal mine’s methane emissions were likely between three and eight times higher than officially reported. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hot nights don’t get the same headlines hot days do. But cooling down at night is important for human bodies and nature. #climatechange Check out this graphically rich piece by Tyne Logan, Shannon Pearce, @journalims.bsky.social, Fran Nimrod and Sharon Gordon. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

15 years on, the aftershocks of the #Fukushima nuclear disaster still reverberate. @nukedavesweeney.bsky.social www.acf.org.au/news/15-year...

BREAKING. The Qld govt has approved the expansion and extension of Glencore’s notorious Hail Creek open cut coal mine. It’s now up to the Albanese govt to step in to halt the detonation of this carbon bomb. #qldpol #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/carbon-...

Australia is highly exposed to global fossil fuel volatility. But there is another way, a solution to over-reliance on dictators and the rapacious profiteering of oil and gas companies, writes ACF’s Jack Redpath in @reneweconomy.com.au. #auspol #energysecurity reneweconomy.com.au/how-australi...

Scientists and Indigenous custodians call on the NT govt to reject an application by Santos to drill and frack 12 test shale gas wells on a remote cattle station, warning the project would damage hot springs in the Beetaloo Basin. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

‘We got there!’: Text messages reveal Woodside’s NW Shelf negotiating tactics. #auspol www.theage.com.au/environment/...

A barrage of almost 200 text messages between Woodside and senior officials from the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy & Water reveals the extent of high-level access gas giants expect – and get. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/exposed...

A post-election survey, referenced in the Liberals’ 2025 suppressed-now-public election review, found the Coalition’s #nuclear energy policy was ‘deeply unpopular’ with female voters, who ‘considered it weird.’ #auspol ☢️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The rise of data centres isn’t the only thing eroding Australia’s ability to meet its climate goals, but it does make existing problems worse by invigorating demand for coal and gas on the power grid, writes @ketanjoshi.co in today's @crikey.com.au #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/04/a...

The landmark reforms to Australia’s national nature law, passed by the parliament late last year, are like a giant lego set, writes ACF's Brendan Sydes: the building blocks provided for in the new legislation can be assembled in multiple ways with varying results. www.acf.org.au/news/strong-...

The NSW government's decision to allow the Dartbrook thermal coal mine in the Hunter Valley to keep mining coal until 2033 is reckless and short sighted: ACF. www.acf.org.au/news/dartbro...

Rescue and advocacy groups call for patchy state and territory wildlife protection rules to be coordinated at the national level. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The climate crisis is making Australia more vulnerable to extreme weather and natural disasters, including locally intense rainfall. In 2025, the third-hottest year on record, global surface air temperatures averaged 1.48°C above preindustrial levels. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I missed this important piece from the weekend. @euanritchie.bsky.social @jessharwoodart.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What data centres mean for power prices, water supply and emissions. Explainer by @petrastock.bsky.social @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ACF's @janeclimate.bsky.social talked about Love Letters to Nature on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social. www.3cr.org.au/thinkagain/e... loveletters.acf.org.au loveletters.acf.org.au/SPJ7DZN7

The National EPA is a really important reform. It will be at the front line of applying these standards and bringing them to life. It will be the custodian of the standards. #auspol #EPBC

2. The decision to allow thousands of hectares of savannah woodland to be cleared in the NT without requiring assessment was extraordinary. #NT #EPBC #auspol

Two decisions this year concern me. 1. It was quite extraordinary to see the national interest exemption used to approve Alcoa’s ongoing destruction of jarrah forests in SW Western Australia. #Alcoa #EPBC #auspol

Industry groups say they want clarity, but not that sort of clarity! #EPBC #auspol