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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...

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  Five dogs killed a man and injured another on a large NSW rural property What is the responsibility of the pet owner? What has the council done about unregistered roaming and barking pets? Could it be that a pedestrian/ bushwalker was unintentionally entering "the 117-hectare rural property" ? "Five dogs suspected of fatally attacking a man at a property in Sydney's south-west will be euthanased. NSW Police said the man suffered injuries consistent with being attacked by an...

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  Focus on Coffs Harbour and Nambucca Valley "NSW modern slavery report calls for urgent reform to protect migrant workers." A NSW parliamentary report into modern slavery has detailed "harrowing stories of mistreatment and harm..The report asked the government to investigate allegations of systemic labour exploitation in Coffs Harbour and the Nambucca Valley. "NSW Anti-slavery commissioner Dr James Cockayne said in a statement the report was "informed by evidence from...

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  Big US‑style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it "We know vehicles on Australian roads are getting progressively bigger: more protective of their own occupants, but potentially more dangerous to those outside them. Here’s what we found: every additional 100 kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in the odds of pedestrian fatality regulation every additional 10 cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in the odds of ped...

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  Here we go "How Australia can prepare for war." "New parliamentary committee to examine how Australia can prepare for war for first time since World War II." >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/new-plan-proposed-to-prepare-australia-for-impacts-of-war/107001286 #war #geopolitics #Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #technology #AI #debt #bubble

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  Blackbirding by Ryan Butta * "Australia has long reassured itself that, despite genocidal treatment of First Nations peoples, at least it has no heinous past of slavery, unlike Britain and the US. Ryan Butta shatters this historical self-deception. The term “blackbirding” (its etymology in the African and West Indies slave trades) involved the coercion and kidnapping of up to 62,000 Pacific Islander people, many children, to labour mostly on Australian sugar cane plantations between 1860...

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  “Runaway” land-clearing in NSW "Almost 90 football fields of woody habitat were bulldozed e v e r y d a y in NSW – despite pledges to rein it in." “Given there’s been no policy change since the government were elected in 2023 it’s no surprise to see that land clearing hasn’t been fixed." “Every hectare of trees bulldozed means fewer homes for wildlife and more carbon pollution in the atmosphere." >> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/21/nsw-land...

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  "Data centres, coal mine extensions and methane are snags to NSW reaching net zero targets." "All emissions associated with these projects make achieving the emissions reduction targets harder....The NSW Net Zero Commission (NZC) annual progress report found the state is falling increasingly further behind on reducing emissions." >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-23/net-zero-authority-nsw-annual-report-coal-data-impacts/106948568 #climate #NSW #coal #meat #DataCen...

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  Conservation Fast-track development Relationality * "Despite the broad acclaim these legal personhood models have received, New Zealand’s government is unravelling protections for the environment. It has disestablished the Ministry for the Environment, attempted to weaken environmental protections in fisheries laws, and plans to reform the Resource Management Act to enable more widespread “fast-track” development." >> https://theconversation.com/nzs-overhaul-of-nature-protecti...

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  "Petro-grooming” children ‘Get your dirty hands off our kids’: fossil fuel industry’s presence in schools and sports clubs sparks concern "Greens and David Pocock accuse industry of using programs and sponsorships to ‘build social licence’, push for parliamentary inquiry." >> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/29/fossil-fuel-industry-schools-sports-education-programs-clubs #FossilFuels #coalandgas #education #mining #SocialLicence

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  No roaming cats, more native wildlife. Successful cat trapping effort leads to spike in Tasmanian devil population "A dedicated group of Landcare volunteers is behind a five-year feral cat trapping program that has led to an increase in native animals and birdlife in the area. The estuary and reserves that hug the coastline are home to a range of vulnerable native species, including the hooded plover, Tasmanian devils, spotted-tailed quolls and eastern barred bandicoot." "The s...

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  Hot climate extremes and overcrowded industrial agriculture * Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry >> https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/extreme-heat-wave-in-france-kills-hundreds-of-thousands-of-poultry/ * "The ​heat is also hitting cattle farmers. High temperatures reduce feed intake, increase ​water demand and ⁠cut milk output. They're standing there with ​their mouths wide open, just trying to find air...It's very difficult,...

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  Creating diversified revenue streams out of 'The koala park' - carbon credits and logging? Nature as cash cow "A long-promised New South Wales great koala national park is set to go ahead after the Albanese government greenlit the state to receive hundreds of millions of dollars for protecting native forests previously earmarked for logging." "...Polluting companies are allowed to buy an unlimited number of credits – also known as offsets – to count as their own cuts whi...

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  Koalas at risk of death once seven-day temperatures rise beyond 27C Nutritional and climate refugia for koalas "Extreme heat is a major factor in the number of deaths and hospitalisations of Australians every year....An analysis of 11,862 koala rescue admissions to NSW animal hospitals found the marsupials were more likely to die when the seven-day average maximum temperature was greater than 27 degrees Celsius." "Dr Mella said water stations could be left out as wel...

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  Australian environmental standards? Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >> https://theconversation.com/australias-old-environment-laws-were-a-box-ticking-exercise-sadly-the-new-ones-could-be-too-283069 "We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away." https://www...

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  Logging the Promised Land, Bellingen/ Gleniffer Promised Land Forest! Tuckers Nob, 250 ha, 130ha clearfall, 120 ha thinning. Stakeholder Consultation - Remnant Forest Protection & Tuckers Nob Forestry Operations Compartments 8, 10, 11, 12, 17 18 >> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TuckersRemnantsSurvey-Residents How NSW Forestry converts native forest to plantations , Dr Tim Cadman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY9HzWwEvs Unfortunately most residents and Friends groups...

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  Imagine roadless nature! Rescinding The Roadless Rule Millions of acres of national forests are set to open up for more logging "...The U.S. Congress will act soon on a proposal to repeal the Roadless Rule, which was enacted in 2001 and safeguards some 58 million acres of public land in 39 states from new road development." >> https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/general/congress-to-consider-roadless-rule-rescission "Nearly a year ago, Agricultu...

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  The saprotrophic-symbiotic continuum in fungi and the loss of rare microbiota through agricultural intensification Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi. Francis Martin, Hao Tan, Current Biology : 2025 >> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000624 Banerjee, S., Dasgupta, D. & van der Heijden, M.G.A. Agricultural intensification, microbial homogenization and loss of rare microbiota. Nat Rev Microbiol (2026) https://www.nature.com/articles...

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  Woodchippping Australia's native forests to make cement? * Concerns native forests could be part of Cement Australia's 'sustainable' fuel option as it moves away from #coal >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-01/cement-australia-railton-kiln-move-from-coal-to-alternative-fuel/106731932 * Environmental impact of concrete >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concrete #climate #NativeForests #Biodiversity #Loggin...

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  Technology and dominance in the recent First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026 * Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE Some of the topics discussed are: Automation, dignity of work Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery The normalization of war Force without limits The military-industrial complex Weapons and artificial intelligence The crisis of multilateralism The need to disarm words J...

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  Large flock of critically endangered swift parrots seen near Port Macquarie "Having the intact forests around the NSW Mid North Coast is a very important thing for migrants and nomadic nectar feeding birds like swift parrots." >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-01/critically-endangered-swift-parrots-sighted-in-northern-nsw-surp/106742056 #birds #MidNorthCoast #parrots #NSWLogging #wildlife #biodiversity

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  The planet heats up - fossil fuel pollution has made extreme weather more violent. * “The only effective response is climate action equal to the crisis – ending the addiction to fossil fuels, accelerating the shift to renewables, protecting the most vulnerable, and delivering early-warning systems for all.” Guterres >> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/02/prepare-for-imminent-return-of-el-nino-un-warns * Arthur Snell new book, Elemental, examines how a climate...

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  * The Great Global Transformation The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order, Branko Milanovic >> https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo269830239.html * The U.S., China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order "After unprecedented economic growth during the 20th century, is the U.S. losing its place as a world power? How have China’s economic rise and its growing class of uber-wealthy elites shaken up its society? How ar...

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  What climate pollution? The UN to ensure Australian compliance with international law The right to a healthy environment as mandated by international law "A UN special rapporteur has intervened in Australia's decision to extend Woodside's North West Shelf gas project by another 40 years. Australia did not adequately consider the climate impacts of extending its largest gas project, an independent United Nations expert has told the Federal Court." "We...

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  Welcome to Australia, where you can have a wealthy private school or koala habitat but not both, First Dog on the Moon >> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/03/welcome-to-australia-where-you-can-have-a-wealthy-private-school-or-koala-habitat-but-not-both Image: First Dog on the Moon, Guardian #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #values #trees #sprawl #bulldozing #Australia

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  Planetary survival: An equal and habitable world is possible "Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions. The report aims to rectify those limitations by incorporating inequality studies, climate science and proposals for creating a political coalition capable of reforming the world’s financial architecture. The World Inequality Lab is calling for hefty wealth taxes, reduced working hours, dietary changes and new investment pr...

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  Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty "Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households." “There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where extreme wealth keeps skyrocketing while so many people are struggling to afford the basics, and governments claim there is not enough money for housing, healthcare, climate action and essential services." >&am...

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  Taking from cars and giving to people Kerbside parking - "Drivers are using a public road to park their private cars. What would happen if authorities banned on-street parking?" "Australia actually has an oversupply of parking, both on streets and in parking lots...In many European nations, authorities have worked to make streets less centred on cars and parking." >> https://theconversation.com/kerbside-parking-is-great-for-drivers-but-terrible...