#australia news

[beedok]

Israel making sure to not just attack UN food aid, but any food aid trying to enter Gaza.

The strike killed 5 aid workers, at least four of which were international volunteers from Australia, the UK, Poland, and Ireland

#palestine #war crime #world central kitchen #gaza #news #israel #genocide #australia news #uk news #polish news #irish news #there were other posts but they included the images of the bodies and I felt a less graphic version also had value

[hope-for-the-planet]

“This is a monumental win for forests, for wildlife, for climate, and for the hard-working people who have spent countless hours surveying for endangered species, preparing evidence for court cases, lobbying, and campaigning. Some have been fighting for this for over three decades.”

 (Chris Schuringa, Victorian Forest Alliance)

#victoria #victorian politics #logging and land-clearing #environment #australia news #good news #hope #climate change #global warming #ecoanxiety #climate grief #environmental despair #environmental grief #forest conservation #biodiversity

[you-need-not-apply]

I’ve never been more disappointed to be Australian. How could you? How fucking could you? How could you vote no?

This is a sad day, and shows how much Australians truely haven’t changed from 1965. If anything we’ve gone backwards.

Fuck you Australia. I hoped for the best and I never feared for the worst. Get fucked

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#australian #auspol #australia #aussie #current news #new #news #world news #Australia news #aboriginal australian

[workersolidarity]

🇦🇺 ☠️ 🚨 CELEBRATED JOURNALIST AND JULIAN ASSANGE BACKER, JOHN PILGER DEAD AT 84

The celebrated Australian journalist and public backer of Julian Assange, John Richard Pilger died at age 84 today.

Pilger was a strong critic of American and Western Foreign Policy, and became well known as a strong backer of Julian Assange in his fight against U.S. and British imprisonment.

Pilger was known for his books, films and articles informing multiple generations on several critical issues such as the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iraq and the U.S.'s aggressive moves towards China in his documentary, "The Coming War with China."

Pilger was a winner of a multitude of awards over his life, including the British Journalist of the Year twice, and was also awarded the Consortium News's Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award.

In recent years, Pilger was a strong anti-Imperialist and anti-colonialist who became banned in Western Mainstream media and would only appear alternative and independent media.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

#john pilger #pilger #journalism #journalist #australian journalism #australia #australia news #news #world news #global news #international news #politics #geopolitics #breaking news #current events #journalism news #obituary #pilger dead at 84

[cavalierzee]

Jewish Terrorist Slaughters Australians

Jewish Benjamin Cohen stabs 7 people to death in Australia.

Including a small baby still fighting for its life.

If he were Muslim, the media would have highlighted his religion and that he were a terrorist.

Therefore it’s only fair and right to highlight his religion and label him a terrorist too.

#photography #terror #terrorist #stop terrorism #anti zionisim #zionistterror #zionazis #zionistcensorship #israel is a terrorist state #israeli terrorism #islamophobia #israel #islam #iof terrorism #idf terrorists #state terrorism #australia #melbourne #western australia #australia news #australia immigration #australia visa #australia day #american #Jewish terrorism #double standards #media #msm #mainstream media

[jenny147]

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#transgender #transisbeautiful #trans woman #trans nsft #mtf trans #trans pride #transfem #transgirl #transmasc #truckwreckers #truckers #truck accident lawyer #truck permit services #truck #truck stop #usa news #canada news #australia news #australia

[equalityspeaks]

Noah De Losa shares: “I’d become a doctor and that was representative with the cap but I really wanted to represent my Queer journey as well.

I identify as quite gender fluid, and I love makeup. I love femininity, and I really love drag. It’s something that feels very authentic to me. I really love the art form, I love the history of it, and I love the provocative nature of it.”

📸 @noahloades

Love this!! ❤️ Noah, you are looking so fab on your special day.

#lgbt #Australia #australia news #lgbt news #lgbt pride #drag queens #lgbtqia #queer #queer visibility #gender #gender fluid #non binary #queer representation #university of melbourne

[troythecatfish]

#threads app #threads #current events #social justice #human rights #important #australia #australia news #australian news #news #world news #fuck white supremacy #fuck conservatives #political #political posting #politics

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

#Australia #Australia news #gaza #israel

[head-post]

Australia suffers extreme heatwave

Australia’s heatwave over the weekend has hit the Pilbara region in the west of the continent, The Guardian reports.

After peaking at 47.9C on Saturday in the town of Paraburdoo, on Sunday the highest confirmed temperature was 48.3C at Onslow airport on the west coast.

Onslow also holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Australia, reaching 50.7C in January 2022. However, new temperature records are possible, with the heatwave expected to continue on Monday and Tuesday, with daytime highs of 50-51C possible in the region.

Read more HERE

#world news #world politics #news #oceania #australia #australia news #australian politics #australian wildlife #australian open #pilbara #heatwave

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from The Guardian:

On a world map, Macquarie Island is a speck in the Southern Ocean, but for ecologists it is a beacon, illuminating a future for grand-scale environmental recovery projects.

Melissa Houghton first set foot on the 34km-long green streak as a dog handler in late 2011. Rabbits, cats, rats and mice had been introduced by sealers in the 1800s and were wreaking havoc on the world heritage site. At their peak, there were approximately 300,000 European rabbits and an untold number of black rats and house mice.

During their trip, Houghton and a labrador named Wags found what would prove to be the last vertebrate pests left on the island: an adult rabbit and her young. In 2014, Macquarie was declared pest free, the largest island to successfully eliminate rabbits to date.

Ten years after Wags sniffed out the last rabbit, the island has sprung back to life, and Houghton has stuck around to witness the change. She gave up dog handling, became a scientist and completed her PhD as part of the research team monitoring the island’s resurgence.

Birds such as blue and grey petrels, which had been hunted off the island by cats, were returning by 2011, says Dr Justine Shaw of the Queensland University of Technology and Houghton’s PHD supervisor. Shaw recently coordinated a 10-year project to assess the island’s response to pest eradication.

But life was still dangerous for the returning petrels. They nest in burrows, and rabbits had eaten the vegetation that hid and protected them, making the birds vulnerable to attack from skuas, a native predatory bird.

Island eradication is not cheap – the Macquarie project cost Aus$24.5m (£14m) and would have been more if not for in-kind support from research facilities already on the island. But isolated islands are hubs for biodiversity, with each one often having its own unique array of flora and fauna.

“This one management action, the eradication, has saved entire communities and species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world,” Shaw says.

#environment #invasive species #endangered habitats #tasmania #australia news #Macquarie Island #UNESCO #ecology

[internationalbaate]

Australia Student Visa System completely changed from GTE (Genuine Temporary Entrant) to GST ( Genuine Student Test) from March, 2024 in which the visa officer directly ask the students the reason to study in Australia 🇦🇺 through an Face-to-Face interview.

#australia #australia news #immigration #australia visa #studyvisa #india #studyabroad

[workersolidarity]

🇦🇺 🧑‍🔧✊ 🚨 AUSTRALIA BECOMES THE FIRST NATION IN THE WORLD TO BAN ENGINEERED STONE DUE TO HEALTH RISKS TO WORKERS

Australia became the first nation in the world to ban engineered stone due to the health risks to workers, local media reported on Wednesday, with the ban due to take effect in July, 2024.

Australia made the decision during a meeting of the Commonwealth, State and territory workplace ministers. The move was made in response to a surge in the lung disease, Silicosis.

Australia's Assistant Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Liam O'Brien, is quoted as saying, "Engineered stone is a fashion product that is killing the workers who make it."

"With alternatives readily available, why are we risking the lives of tradies for a fashionable finish in our kitchens?" O'Brien added.

Engineered stone has been used in Australia since the mid-2000's, with the first cases linked to engineered stone arising in 2015, with hundreds of cases having since developed.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

#australia #australia news #worker protections #labor #workers #news #politics #geopolitics #world news #global news #international news #breaking news #current events #socialism #socialist politics #communism #marxism leninism #worker news #worker #safety regulations #regulations #worker safety #worker safety protections #labor news #international politics #australian politics

[yeetus-feetus]

#APAN #australia news #australia #australian visa #palestine #i stand with palestine #free palastine #save palestine #gaza #free gaza

[reasonsforhope]

“Almost 4,000 hectares of koala habitat in the Hunter region of New South Wales will be protected after the land was privately acquired for conservation.

Sydney philanthropists Andrew and Jane Clifford bought the property north of Newcastle, which scientists from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) estimate is habitat for more than 100 vertebrate species, including the endangered koala and 11 other animals listed as threatened.

The property was previously used for small-scale timber harvesting, but its ecosystems – which range from dry sclerophyll forests at its peaks to wet rainforest in the deeper gullies – are mostly intact, making it well-suited for conservation.

The property is surrounded on three sides by largely intact forest, including the Ghin-Doo-Ee national park to the east and two other privately-owned forested blocks. Connected forests are important for wildlife conservation because they allow animals to move freely from place to place...

The koala populations of NSW, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory were listed as endangered this year, and a 2020 NSW parliamentary inquiry found the species would be extinct in the state by 2050 unless governments took urgent action to protect koala habitat and turn the declines around.

“The success of this new sanctuary is important not only for the future of native wildlife but for the conservation landscape of Australia,” Allard said.

“It will demonstrate to the rest of the world what can be done with private land to create better outcomes for Australia’s biodiversity and provides hope for threatened native wildlife and their habitats.”” -via The Guardian (US), 11/9/22

#new south wales #australia news #endangered species #conservation #animals #koala #australia #good news #hope