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  Sydney cockatoos reveal how animal culture helps them adapt to city life https://phys.org/news/2026-09-sydney-cockatoos-reveal-animal-culture.html

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  Thieving bastards are trying to kill everything. One Nation wants environmental water to be used for cropping in drought-hit Murray-Darling Basin https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-22/call-for-enviromnental-water-to-be-used-for-agriculture-in-basin/107176572

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  RE: https://aus.social/@jhaue/117271413721067915 Why don't they just call it the Make Gina Richer Party?

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  One Nation under fire for abandoning gas reservation plan in favour of policy benefiting Gina Rinehart Pauline Hanson’s gas policy and the party’s relationship with Rinehart is examined in a new Guardian podcast series, The Populist https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/14/one-nation-pauline-hanson-abandoning-gas-reservation-plan-gina-rinehart-relationship-ntwnfb

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  Horror warnings about Australia’s ‘collapsing’ housing market are absurd – and very much in bad faith If prices were to take a 10% fall from the March 2026 peak, as CBA has suggested, that would still only mean prices were back where they were at the end of 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/sep/10/why-the-horror-warnings-about-australias-collapsing-housing-market-are-absurd-and-very-much-in-bad-faith

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  Despite losing everything, communities along the Nepal-Tibet border are helping each other rebuild https://theconversation.com/despite-losing-everything-communities-along-the-nepal-tibet-border-are-helping-each-other-rebuild-290856

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  Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/climate-crisis-mountain-areas-glaciers-nepal-tibet

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  Australia’s ‘pioneer’ colonists profited from slavery. That truth must be acknowledged The veil is slowly being lifted on the forced or coerced migration – ‘blackbirding’ – of Pacific Islanders for labour https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/16/australia-pioneer-colonists-profited-slavery-blackbirding-ntwnfb

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  Part of the problem is people are still doing what they were told to do when recycling first started. But many councils periodically change things without the public being really aware of it. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/15/bin-sins-common-recycling-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them

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  Australian families are losing loved ones to gambling. The industry’s ‘I know nothing’ defence beggars belief - Zoe Daniel Australians are the biggest gambling losers in the world. Labor’s feeble ‘reforms’ aren’t close to good enough https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/gambling-industry-senate-inquiry-australia-comment

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  150 bilbies released in Queensland national park where they were once extinct https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/once-extinct-150-bilbies-released-currawinya-national-park-qld/107012992

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  Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it https://theconversation.com/big-us-style-trucks-are-killing-more-pedestrians-in-australia-our-research-proves-it-289034

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  Homes in Australia are now cheaper – why can’t the government sell this good news story? Saul Eslake Ministers love to claim credit for things like cheaper petrol and cheaper pharmaceuticals – why not cheaper housing? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/house-prices-falling-australia-housing-market-sydney-melbourne

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  Demand for lithium is surging: here’s how to make mining more sustainable https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02195-z

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  Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder Bill McGuire https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/wildfires-rage-world-climate-action-scientists-fossil-fuels

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  The existential choice facing UK physics facilities: commercialize or close The national synchrotron source, a laser facility and a particle accelerator are under threat of closure unless cash is found. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02171-7

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  ‘A new trajectory’: EVs now almost quarter of Australia’s new car sales as fuel crisis bites More electric vehicles sold in first half of 2026 than whole of last year, new data shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/27/australia-ev-car-sales-electric-vehicles-fuel-crisis-plug-in-hybrids

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  Locals fear for their children’s quality of life if the biggest coalmine extension in NSW is approved Minns government promised no new coalmines but permits expanding existing sites, despite being behind on climate targets https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/26/hunter-valley-operations-biggest-coalmine-extension-nsw-planning-commission

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  A global threat for millennia: experts warn Australia’s nuclear submarine legacy will be weapons-usable uranium cache Exclusive: Uranium waste from Aukus submarines will be enriched to an estimated 80%: the same level as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/aukus-nuclear-submarines-danger-weapons-grade-uranium

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  ‘A river is our life force’: why Indigenous cultural values must be visible in conservation https://theconversation.com/a-river-is-our-life-force-why-indigenous-cultural-values-must-be-visible-in-conservation-286657

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  It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’ https://theconversation.com/its-the-abcs-job-to-be-accurate-and-fair-not-to-chase-the-dangerous-fallacy-of-balance-287489

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  Numbat conservation efforts pull native species from brink of extinction Experts say efforts to protect Australian numbats must continue or numbers will again dwindle. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-12/numbats-pulled-from-immediate-extinction-risk/106903786

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  Telstra’s triple-zero failure is a result of prioritising neoliberal ‘competition’ and reaping none of its benefits John Quiggin Perhaps we will return to public ownership of infrastructure networks. But for now we need to consider limited steps, with a more radical solution for fragile emergency services https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/09/telstras-triple-zero-failure-is-a-result-of-prioritising-neoliberal-competition-and-reaping-none-of-its-benefits

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  Donald Trump may be the accidental hero of a feelgood climate tale even as a creeping horror story plays alongside Adam Morton Despite a deadly heatwave sweeping through Europe, the US president’s ineptness has created reason for optimism on the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/03/donald-trump-strait-of-hormuz-climate-crisis-europe-heatwave

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  Bird flu is deadly for backyard chickens – and even cats. A vet expert explains https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-is-deadly-for-backyard-chickens-and-even-cats-a-vet-expert-explains-286137

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  West Antarctic winter ice fails to form in Bellingshausen Sea in area 'size of France' #ClimateChange https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-14/west-antarctica-ice-fails-to-form-area-size-of-france/106794526

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  ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival

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  Toothbrushes, ice-cream and frozen pizza: data reveals how Coles and Woolworths switch promotions in sync Exclusive: Analysis shows in some cases the switch from promotional to full price happens almost simultaneously in Australia’s two biggest supermarkets https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/toothbrushes-ice-cream-and-frozen-pizza-data-reveals-how-coles-and-woolworths-switch-promotions-in-sync

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  Who is the Coalition targeting in their response to the budget? Fiona Katauskas They know all the fault lines https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/14/who-is-the-coalition-targeting-in-their-response-to-the-budget

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  Newcastle Waters cattle station granted permit to cull 20,000 native birds https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-14/corella-cull-permit-granted-newcastle-waters-station-nt/106674900