This looks like a "planned burn" that got away at Dallas Brooks Scout Camp near Upper Beaconsfield:

‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Treasury boss says Australians left with little to show from commodities boom www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Predator-free farm helps endangered species thrive www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Geography doesn’t change, but minds can Mark Beeson takes a look at Australia’s long-standing alignment with the United States and argues it is increasingly out of step with shifting global realities and regional dynamics. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

The ABC writers are clearly operating under instructions not to mention climate change or its main cause fossil fuel burning. The obfuscation of the main reason our rivers are drying up is government policy to protect the fossil carbon miners. It's that simple.

Ancient, critically endangered 'sterile' plant King's lomatia found for second time in Tasmanian wilderness www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

"And according to the state government's long-term water resource assessment, average inflows have decreased between 1975 and 2020." In a long piece covering many aspects of the issue, the words 'climate change' and 'global heating' do not appear, at all.

Southern Australia is getting drier because of global heating -- notably SW WA (by a lot), south-eastern South Australia, the western half of Victoria. This ought not to be controversial to point out ... yet somehow still is.

It won't be long until the bushfire season is a full 12 months long: Tasmanian coastal community of Dolphin Sands on bushfire watch again www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Only one known single spyridium plant is left in the wild on the Coorong, but scientists are hunting for more www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Victoria's Moorabool River is struggling for water, but there is still life in it yet www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

@drpauldorfman.bsky.social as I said, 11 months ago. "The Australian government has not confirmed any plans for a managed phase out of oil, gas and coal at a time of rising oil prices and crashing supplies."

This stunt was planned in advance and known about. If any journalist worth their salt had actually had eyes on the far right dipshits this could’ve been nipped in the bud. These fuckers need to be watched and monitored by law enforcement. Where’s the “social cohesion” alerts now? #AusPol

Built to fail? NACC: the integrity body undermined from within thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

For 74,000 years, one ancient killer quietly dictated where early humans could survive across Africa phys.org/news/2026-04...

Endangered mountain pygmy possum numbers climb at Secret Creek Sanctuary breeding program The mountain pygmy possum is being bred at lower altitudes to help the marsupials adapt to a changing climate. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

“When a Labor minister speaks of ‘rorters’ and ‘lowlifes’, he is not only targeting criminals. He is reshaping the narrative of the scheme itself and subtly recoding it from a universal social guarantee into a problem program, one that must be contained, controlled, and cut back”

NDIS and the moment Labor blinked johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

Week in wildlife: a tiny harvest mouse, bagel cats and a rhino out for a stroll www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nuclear power! Have we finally found a useful use for it? Let’s ask a wolf First Dog on the Moon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And there's not a bloody thing we can do to protect them.... At least nothing that would help short term.

"Shearwaters have to survive often-ferocious conditions. Researchers using tracking technology found a shearwater flying inside the eye of a hurricane for 11 hours at an altitude of 4,700 m and winds exceeding 200 km/hr. The bird lived." Deserving of respect...

More shearwaters are washing up dead on Australian beaches. It’s not due to ‘natural’ causes theconversation.com/more-shearwa...

Mapping the most critical shipping lanes in the world About 90 per cent of all traded goods are shipped by sea, and there are 13 key choke points around the world that roughly three-quarters of that global maritime trade passes though. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Asphalt is everywhere, but is it bad for our health? medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04...

Talking ourselves into inequality: the new fuel ads, the NDIS and "social cohesion" show how neoliberalism has colonised our tongues - Tim Dunlop thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds NSW and Queensland governments ‘severely underdelivered’ on promised infrastructure to improve water flows, independent review finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Kraken-like’ giant octopuses 100m years ago crunched bones of prey Study of fossilised beaks shows patterns of wear and suggests some ancient species were up to 19 metres long www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Indonesia biofuels program targets 5.7 million acres of protected forests Absolutely criminal - these wonderful animals will be left homeless, without food, with no future other than a miserable death This is what bio fuels fanatics call green news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indo...

"The world is shifting from the ‘rules-based order’ to a ‘fools-based order’. We’ve seen this before. It happened in 1914-15. What happens to us in such a new order when we cling uncritically to our perceived protector?" johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

It'll be the final nail in the coffin of his credibility if he does: Albanese poised to kill off move to increase taxes on gas giants www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The Zionist lobby with their overdeveloped sense of entitlement have been allowed to become a destructive influence in this country.

A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

This is like asking Einstein to debate the theory of relativity with a chimpanzee

Authors ditch University of Queensland Press after Indigenous kids book pulled for 'anti-Semitism' of illustrator www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Classical physics can explain quantum weirdness, study shows phys.org/news/2026-04...

Invisible things. My @smh @ theage cartoon.

Labor didn’t have the ″⁣ticker″⁣ for a fight with the online gambling lobby. It’ll be the same with the gas lobby. David Cayzer, Clifton Hill The Age, letters

Her plan to 'knit the country back together' is banning peacful slogans, silencing anti-genocide sentiment, and overhauling our education system with *somehow* even more ahistorical genocide justification. Tl;dr = Thought control and fascism

Another thing we absolutely didn’t see coming.

It does show they have millions to spare & pay the tax

Why do we keep trying to measure in dollars things that are priceless and irreplaceable? theconversation.com/why-native-t...

Chernobyl at 40: the lies, the loss and why we can’t let go theconversation.com/chernobyl-at...

Venice is sinking – we analysed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it theconversation.com/venice-is-si...

Mouse plague hits WA grain farmers as numbers surge in SA: ‘You literally can’t get away from them’ CSIRO researcher says there are reports of up to 4,000 mouse burrows per hectare in parts of Western Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gas companies spending millions on Australian advertising blitz to fight export tax, inquiry told Shell Australia says campaign needed to ‘counterbalance’ claims by levy advocates – but Ed Husic urges industry ‘do not spend millions defending the indefensible’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

One of those vested interests is the ALP. michaelwest.com.au/action-from-...