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  Whales and record entanglements "The number of whale entanglements has risen by 20%, from about 50 in 2025 to nearly 60 this year. Whales can get entangled in man-made materials floating in the ocean, such as fishing gear and shark nets." >> https://theconversation.com/unlike-anything-ive-seen-why-this-whale-season-has-marine-scientists-puzzled-295074 #whales #MarineLife #entanglement #HumpbackWhales #plastic #garbage #Ocean #fishing #junk #SharkNets #biodiversity

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  Flying foxes in NSW and Victoria face mass starvation amid food shortages "Emaciated grey-headed flying fox. ‘They’re crawling around on the ground eating unripe dropped fruit, and quite literally dropping out of trees due to starvation.’ " "Flying foxes are starving en masse across New South Wales and parts of Victoria, with wildlife rescuers responding to a surge in reports of “exhausted and emaciated” adults and skeletal pups. They are now facing food shortages across NSW, f...

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  Brolga "were once spread throughout swampy wetland areas, but as land was drained for farming activities, their numbers declined. All of these factors, wetland loss, degradation and climate change are all playing a factor and limiting the habitats and conditions brolgas are having to live with." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-11/brolga-study-genetic-differences-victoria-climate-change/107207286 #birds #brolga #wetland #degradation #FossilFuels #loss

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  Foxes are native animals?! Many Australians are uninformed about our adorable native creatures. First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian >> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/oct/02/foxes-quolls-invasive-and-native-species #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis #extractivism #wildlife

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  Vanishing Australian native wildlife "The Invasive Species Council said... findings revealed the growing disconnect between Australians and wildlife, as local species declined while introduced animals – like cats, foxes and rabbits – became an increasingly familiar sight." "About 10% considered cats wildlife." "About one in six NSW, QLD and Vic residents think foxes are native animals and a third believe quolls are introduced." "One in five thought cane toa...

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  'Western values' and 'national pride' underpin Coalition's education reform plans "The Coalition has unveiled its plan for "root and branch" educational reform, which would remove cross-curricular units on Indigenous history and Asian studies." "The Coalition would also "streamline pathways" for future teachers to address shortages." >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/coalition-education-policy-western-values-julian-leese...

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  #Pedestrian #access to the toilet, Church St. #Bellingen

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  "I'd like to see them stop killing dingoes in national parks … I think Australia should be ashamed [of that]." "Division among graziers, Indigenous traditional owners and conservation groups over how to deal with New South Wales's dingo or wild dog population will be the focus of an inquiry." "Meanwhile, there are concerns baiting and killing wild dogs could disrupt ecosystems and cause kangaroo numbers to skyrocket...When you take t...

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  "It has been more than a century since bilbies, bandicoots and burrowing bettongs roamed freely across outback New South Wales." "Their local extinction here and throughout most of Australia’s mainland was due to cats, foxes and rabbits." "Killer cats - The biggest threat to introduced species is feral cats, which kill more than a billion Australian native animals a year. We’ve got the worst extinction record of any country in the world...The combi...

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  NSW Greens MP pleads with federal colleagues not to back National party motion to block #koala park deal. >> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/nsw-greens-mp-pleads-with-federal-colleagues-not-to-not-to-back-national-party-motion-to-block-koala-park #biodiversity #NativeForest #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #climate #FossilFuels #pollution #offsets #con #regulation #CoffsHarbour #NSWLogging #ClimateFiasco

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  Controlling feral animals and restoring native vegetation. A court will decide the future of Yuraygir’s feral horses. That matters for native plants and animals "Yuraygir National Park, on the coast of northern New South Wales on Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr Country, is a stunning landscape where you can see coastal emus and spot migrating whales from the shore." "It is also home to a small feral horse population that is now at the centre of a legal dispute. The final hea...

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  "Research painted a grim picture of the health and wellbeing of Victoria’s koalas." "...We have a crisis in our koala populations in Victoria because we have a very concerning level of poor health and welfare.” “Sitting on critical ecological data for over a year while koalas continued to suffer and disappear is a shocking failure of transparency and responsibility." >> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/10/victorias-koalas-in...

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  As Australia’s sea levels rise, safe land is vanishing and costs are huge "Climate Council forecasts more than 267,000 coastal properties will be damaged by flooding by 2100, costing hundreds of billions of dollars." "Kompas said the costs – an estimated $274.3bn in property losses and $580.7bn in land use damages – were a conservative estimate and did not take into account the additional impacts of coastal erosion or significant ice sheet melt." "...

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  Sea level rise threatens more than a quarter of a million properties as bill surges to $855b "Climate change means Australia's love of the coast is facing a multi-billion-dollar reckoning, research suggests, as rising seas threaten to turn its prized coastal lifestyle into a question of who will foot the bill: property owners or governments." "Australia could face damage costs of more than $850 billion, with more than $274 billion going to property losses and...

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  Rabbits are the biggest threat to Australia’s native species. Why are their numbers booming again? “They can get to incredible numbers and you see the whole landscape gets denuded." "Though they were introduced on the first fleet during the British invasion in 1788, research has traced the species’ continent-wide spread to one consignment of 24 rabbits brought in to the country by settler Thomas Austin in 1859." "By the 1920s, rabbits had reached plague pro...

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  No future? Instability and wreckage "At a time when the future feels increasingly uncertain, rightwing populist politics offers something simple and seductive: certainty, belonging and the promise of a return to an imagined past." "AfD and One Nation may not look or even sound the same, but they are singing from the same song sheet." "Climate disruption is intensifying amid economic insecurity, war and displacement...Legitimate fears about the futu...

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  Automated decision-making, GovAI and a non existing human rights act "Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools." "Artificial – authoritarian – intelligence, automated decision-making, independent assessment tools and algorithms will shape the lives we live and the public support we receive...GovAI is set to become something more than an announcement."...

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  The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project * "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness stra...

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  Australia must double down to meet our climate targets. Our new study shows how * "Australia is also one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel exporters, producing roughly 4.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions." "Yet, the Albanese government has approved 37 new, expanded or extended fossil fuel projects since coming to power. It has 42 more in the pipeline for approval." "This goes directly against the International Court of Justice which, in its 2...

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  YOU HAD ONE JOB THE GREENS POLITICAL PARTY! Climate change is destroying life and you exist to save it! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/sep/14/you-had-one-job-the-greens-political-party-climate-change-is-distroying-life-and-you-exist-to-save-it #biodiversity #FossilFuels #koalas #NSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #climateBreakdown

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  * 'Homeless clearance' Queensland homeless man shot with Taser after being given move-on order to make way for kite festival https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/15/queensland-homeless-man-shot-with-taser-after-being-given-move-on-order-to-make-way-for-kite-festival-ntwnfb * List of homeless encampment sweeps in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_homeless_encampment_sweeps_in_the_United_States #homeless #unhoused #events #commercialisation...

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  Upgrades * Connell Park sports fields closed for maintenance, Sept.15, 2026 " 270 tonnes of sand and organic top-dressing will be applied to the field to improve soil health. Council will notify of herbicide spraying following the guidelines of the Pesticide Use Notification Plan." >> https://bellingenshirenews.com.au/2026/09/10/connell-park-sports-fields-closed-for-maintenance/ * Connell Park sports fields 'Upgrade": $9.5 million, Apr 23, 2...

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  The creeping extinction of koalas A vigil will "mourn the death of a koala found injured during clear-fell operations in Pine Creek State Forest in July. Forestry Corporation confirmed the animal was found on 21 July within an active harvesting area." "...We are still losing koalas to logging in the very compartments that should form the bridge.” "Mr Elzer, a long-time Coffs Coast resident, said he has witnessed the extinction of all northern beaches koalas...

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  Bandicoots * Our new research shows humans have maligned bandicoots for decades, making them more vulnerable to extinction "Tragically, since European colonisation, eight of the 15 existing bandicoot (Peramelidae) species have become threatened or gone extinct. The populations that remain have all declined in numbers due to pressures from invasive predators, such as cats and foxes, as well as habitat destruction. However, humans have also directly contributed to their decline.&qu...

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  Rights to oppose mining projects ‘gutted’ by new laws “What the laws are designed to do is to stop anyone who understands we are in a climate crisis from objecting to putting more CO2 in the atmosphere.” "Lock the Gate Alliance national coordinator, Ellen Roberts, said the government was “tearing up democratic and environmental protections just to make life easier for mining companies – it is following Campbell Newman’s playbook to the letter”. >> https://www.theguardian...

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  Violence * "Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds. Diseases and settler violence caused an estimated 2.06 million to die after the arrival of the First Fleet." >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/extent-of-catastrophe-after-australias-colonisation-uncovered/107155538 * "Estimating the size of Indigenous populations in Australia before European colonial invasion is invaluable to truth-te...

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  276 running diesel generators for an AI data centre? >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/firmus-technologies-lodge-tascat-appeal-for-generator-use/107144572 #energy #transformation #AI #regulation #diesel #culture #pollution #noise #air

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  * White Australia is challenging its ban in the High Court. Several legal experts believe there is a significant prospect that the federal government's ban on Neo-Nazi group White Australia may be overturned by the High Court. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/will-high-court-let-neo-nazis-form-political-party/107103792 * AfD tops poll in German state of Saxony-Anhaltin in first far-right win since WWII "The Alternative for Germany party has won more than 44 per cent of the vo...

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  Australian wildlife are seeking out buildings as substitute habitats as their natural homes and hollows are being destroyed "In New South Wales, the Wires rescue service said animals often sought shelter during cold or extreme weather. We’re in a biodiversity crisis and a housing crisis." "While architecture often focused on ways to keep nature out, there were opportunities to design buildings that were better for both people and wildlife. That could include wildlife-friendly li...

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  Australia’s trade in human flesh: blackbirding - follow the money... "Between 1860 and 1906 up to 62,000 Pacific Islanders were shipped to Australia to work primarily in sugar cane and cotton farming.." "...The Pacific Islanders came, they died, they were buried like dogs and more were sent for.” >> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb #slavery #Blackbirding #SouthSeaIslander #IndigenousPeoples #F...