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Shame.
With 2,224 species now under threat- it's clear that nature needs us now.
It's time for change.
Join the fight for robust and enforceable nature laws:
#auspol
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Thank you to everyone who has expressed concern about our X account being unfairly suspended.
We are pleased to report we are back, however there remains no word from X about why we were suspended.
We eagerly await the (slow) return of our 32,000 followers!
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WE WON!🎉🎉🎉 The Morrison Government has just conceded defeat in our court case against its assessment of Adani’s plans to suck-up billions of litres of Queensland’s water.
#StopAdani
#auspol
#climate
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The Prime Minister has this morning pledged $220m for the expansion of the forestry industry. Let’s be clear. Anything that increases the demand for native forests to be cut down = bad news for Australian wildlife and bad news for climate action. 🧵
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has
#StopAdani
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Cricketers and cricket fans should be worried about climate change, says cricket legend Ian Chappell.
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Approving three coal mines in 2024 is the opposite of climate action.
And just weeks away from hosting a global summit on being 'Nature Positive'?
It just doesn't stack up...
@AlboMP
@tanya_plibersek
@Bowenchris
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Note to Peter Dutton: perhaps Hunter Valley not great site for nuclear reactor.
We’ve detected an
#earthquake
with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 at 12:01pm in Denman, NSW. If you need assistance, contact your local emergency services. Complete a felt report at
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Update on our X suspension: ACF has now received a note from X Support with an apology and a brief explanation - that is - we were mistakenly flagged by their automated system as a spam account. 🧵
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It's moments like this that remind us why we do the work we do.
Huge thanks to Nadia Watson from our fundraising team for capturing this adorable scene while out and about with her own family at the Prom in Victoria.
Remember to slow down and stay vigilant if you're in wombat
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Ten years ago farmer George Cullinan spotted a weird bird on his property. Upon his death, three weeks ago, the 98-year-old left 91 hectares of conservation covenanted land as habitat for the critically endangered Plains-wanderer. 💚🙏
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It’s been a crazy week at ACF HQ.
This week, ACF’s X account fell victim to a worrying new trolling tactic: report bombing. So what is it, how is it impacting on the work of climate and environment organisations and threatening free speech?
Our Engagement Director,
@JaneClimate
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🔔 BREAKING 🔔
We have won our Federal Court challenge on Adani's water scheme for the Carmichael coal mine!
More to follow soon.
#Adani
#coal
#StopAdani
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The kids
#climatestrike
is ABSOLUTELY HUGE. Congratulations to these incredible kids. You’re on notice
@ScottMorrisonMP
@BillShortenMP
- It’s time for courage and action!
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The Morrison Government has tried to jam through legislation that would weaken our national environment laws without any scrutiny. This bill must be examined by an inquiry. Thanks
@JacquiLambie
for standing up for proper process.
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The cheeky and adorable Diamond Firetail has been declared vulnerable on the National Threatened Species List. 💔
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BREAKING: Documents obtained under Freedom of Information show our Environment Minister Melissa Price requested a review of how to funnel public money from their "climate fund" to coal-burning companies 🙄
#ClimateElection
#VoteClimate
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BREAKING: Minister
@tanya_plibersek
has promised to deliver a formal response to the Graham Samuel review of the EPBC Act by the end of the year.
It’s the first time we’ve been given a timeline.
We need urgent action and a thorough response.
#auspol
#NPC
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It doesn’t matter where it is burnt, Australian coal and gas is fuelling heatwaves, bushfires and coral bleaching in Australia.
No new coal or gas projects!
Many states are on alert for winds. Fire danger warnings for Greater Sydney and Illawarra. Yesterday broke August temperature records with 36C at Nullarbor and Alice Springs, 37C in Uluru and 34C at Ceduna
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Caught in the act.
250 hectares of critical Regent Honeyeater habitat - destroyed. 💔
So how did we find out?
It’s all thanks to our very own citizen scientists - who helped bring this potentially illegal clearing to light through our crowdsourced investigation 💚
#auspol
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While those who tried to shut us down were temporarily successful, this has ultimately backfired and has resulted in ACF gaining more than 3000 new followers.
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Hey Federal
@AustralianLabor
, we've been thinking a lot about your Santos gas approval in Queensland's Surat Basin.
Now's not the time for new coal and gas, we're living in a climate crisis and we want a safe future
@AlboMP
@Bowenchris
@tanya_plibersek
#auspol
#ClimateCrisis
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Here’s some sunshine for your Saturday!
Brought to you by this adorable wombat soaking up the Tasmanian sun.
#WildOz
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Ahead of next week’s Labor Party national conference, 250 scientists have signed an open letter calling on the Albanese govt to end land clearing and native forest logging before the next election.
#auspol
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Hold on a second 😳👀
Labor has announced a so-called strategy to extend the life of climate-wrecking gas well beyond 2050.
This is a giant step back to a dark past, terrible for our climate future and it must be abandoned.
#auspol
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Guess who’s found a new home in the veggie garden?
A beautiful Spotted Pardalote!
Kudos to our National Biodiversity Policy Adviser, Brendan Sydes, for capturing this tiny garden guest.
#Wildoz
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Meet Australia's underwater chameleon- the Giant Cuttlefish.
These mesmerising cephalopods can change colour, texture, and shape as they glide across the ocean floor.
Have a technicolour weekend nature lovers!
#WildOz
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It's
#NationalBilbyDay
! Here's a rare glimpse at one of our most threatened species. Did you know there's an estimated 10,000 bilbies left in the wild? 😱
Sign our petition to demand for stronger nature laws to protect the bilby from extinction:
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26 out of 38 proposed new coal projects plan to bulldoze vital koala habitat - more than 11,644 hectares worth! Please,
@tanya_plibersek
, we urge you to reject these projects.
@koalasnotcoal
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A message to politicians: this is why we need strong nature laws 💔
Thank you
@Mon4Kooyong
and
@michrajah
for joining our latest tour of the Toolangi State Forest to see firsthand the devastation of native logging.
Next step: EPBC Act reform.
#auspol
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This is so wrong.
@NatashaFylesMLA
Meanwhile in Lee Point 300yr old woolybutt trees are being felled down the road. Against the will of the Larrakia people, all in NAIDOC week!
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ACF’s investigation reveals 50 beef properties cleared 16,000 hectares of bushland, habitat for koalas, cassowaries and many more species, in the last four years.
A day after we exposed this, Woolworths announced it would stop selling deforestation-linked beef by 31/12/25.
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Vale the great Jack Mundey. Champion of workers and people-centred urban development. ACF Vice President. Put people, planet and principles ahead of private profit – and we are all richer for it.
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BREAKING: QLD now has the strongest electoral laws in the country with major donations being banned & election spending capped. Now those with the biggest wallets can no longer influence politicians with their money. This is great news for our democracy, and our planet.
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There are
#StopAdani
human signs happening on Bondi Beach, Bells Beach, and in cities allover the country. Let's spell it out!
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“It’s terribly embarrassing for Australia to host a global nature positive summit and not have passed our nature positive laws, and also to be a world leader in extinction, a world leader in the export of coal and gas, and therefore fossil carbon emissions,”
@kellyoshanassy
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“Ineffective”, “weak” and “tokenistic” are just a few of the words that reviewer Professor Graeme Samuel used to describe parts of Aust's national environmental protection law.
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We're challenging Adani’s water plans in court today. The federal govt hasn't approved their river water pipeline - which'll take up to 12.5 billion litres of fresh water each year. Plus, insurers are backing out & MILLIONS of Australians say NO 🙅♀️🙅
#StopAdani
#NoMoreCoal
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Honk for stronger nature laws! 😁
#BeforeItsGone
#PlushieProtest
We’re joining the Plushie Protest! Australia has one of the worst extinction records on the planet, so we’re calling on the government to act now to strengthen our nature laws and protect our unique flora and fauna
#beforeitsgone
@ScottMorrisonMP
@AlboMP
@larissawaters
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BREAKING: The Federal Court has dismissed Woodside’s attempt to strike out ACF's case to stop the Scarborough gas project until its impact on the Great Barrier Reef is assessed.
ACF is pleased with today’s ruling and looks forward to presenting our evidence in court.
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Power giant AGL says Australia has reached a critical juncture in the renewable energy transition and has no time to waste on the Coalition’s pitch to build nuclear reactors.
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What you’re witnessing is deforestation in Australia from a satellite view.
And it’s tough to stomach, watching the homes of our precious wildlife being cleared at extraordinary rates.
#auspol
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UN secretary-general António Guterres implores developed nations such as Australia to phase out coal and gas, warning the Pacific is on the brink of climate catastrophe.
#PIF
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The platypus is at risk of extinction. It's disappeared from an area 3x the size of TAS in 30 years thanks to land clearing, pollution & urban sprawl. ACF,
@unsw
@www_australia
@hsiaustralia
are nominating the platypus for national listing as a threatened species
#BeforeItsGone
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We hope these adorable dingo pups make your weekend a little brighter! 💚
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Today, thousands of Australian animal plush toys will step in for their human friends to protest for laws that ACTUALLY protect nature.
Get involved 👉🏽 post a photo of your own plushie protest with the hashtag
#BeforeItsGone
and tag
@ScottMorrisonMP
&
@sussanley
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In the 20 years since Australia has had a law that is supposed to protect biodiversity, threatened species habitat larger than Tasmania has been logged and cleared. If we love wildlife, we need to protect their homes.
#WorldWildlifeDay
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This confirms what we had suspected: that we have been subject to a critical mass of false reports in an attempt to have our account suspended.
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BOOM! Our TV ad is live ✊💪🎉
Hundreds of you chipped in for this hard-hitting ad — thank you!
Together we’re getting our message out to the millions of Australians deciding who to vote for. This is THE CLIMATE ELECTION.
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So amazing.
Take a magnifying glass on your next visit to Kosciuszko NP! The eucalypts are home to tiny native beetles, like these in the genus paropsisterna, graced with glowing colours.
Every inch of the Snowies is amazingly complex & worthy of our care & protection.
📸: Gunter Maywald
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The chair of Nuclear for Australia says he is more concerned about the “ecocide” from building wind and solar farms” than about climate change. 🧐
Pretty clear what the nukes spruikers’ real aim is: keeping coal and gas burning.
#auspol
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What’s it going to be, koala or coal? Another blatant example of destroyed native species habitat and why we need strong nature laws that actually protect nature from powerful mining interests.
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Shocking. Sad. Disgraceful. Completely unnecessary.
This vandalism must stop.
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Just like Scott Morrison's "gas fired recovery", the Albanese government's "future gas strategy" is a blueprint for climate disaster and should be abandoned.
This is a huge disappointment for the millions of Australians who voted for climate action.
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Finally, we appreciate the apology and swift reinstatement of our account and sincerely hope this is the last time we have to deal with this.
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We stand with Anjali and all the young people at
@dutyofcarebill
who are tirelessly campaigning to have the Federal government protect them from climate change.
#auspol
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BREAKING: The Turnbull Government has just backed down and spared civil society groups like us from a nightmare anti-democratic law. This law would have treated Australia’s best loved charities like foreign agents and stifled international collaboration on global issues.
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A huge thank you and very warm welcome to our new friends! We appreciate your kind words and support.
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Peter Dutton praises Canada to sell his nuclear plan to Australians. But does Ontario really have cheaper power?
@readfearn
examines our Opposition Leader’s claim and finds the Canadian province spends $8bn a year subsidising electricity costs.
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Three years ago today, then PM Scott Morrison surfaced with the news of the
#AUKUS
deal. A massive spend with greatly increased nuclear risks and forever radioactive waste. In a democracy, such things should be debated, not steamrolled. It’s time to review the deal.
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It is with sadness we acknowledge the passing of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. A lifelong advocate for the environment, Prince Philip was instrumental in the establishment of
@AusConservation
and served as president from 1971-1976🌱 Our Full Statement:
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In today's
@theage
, we're naming the people who are making decisions that impact all of us.
#ReefNotCoal
#Adani
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NEW COAL APPROVALS:
@AlboMP
@tanya_plibersek
@Bowenchris
The Albanese govt has just given the green light to the Narrabri underground coal mine, Mt Pleasant coal mine, and Ashton coal mine.
This decision is the opposite of climate action.
#auspol
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Two lizards, a sea snake, a fish, a crayfish, and 15 plant species, including the Gibraltar Range Waratah, have just been added to Australia’s threatened wildlife list.
Our endangered species count now approaches 2,245.
For a country that prides itself on its natural wonders,
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Can you believe what we uncovered at Red Range, NSW?
Eight MCGs worth of bushland like this is destroyed EVERY HOUR.
The leading cause? Agriculture, and while a majority of farmers do the right thing, a small portion of landholders clear threatened species habitat to make way
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We are off to court. ACF will ask the Federal Court to stop Woodside Energy’s vast Scarborough gas project until its impact on the Great Barrier Reef is assessed.
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As we enter a new parliamentary sitting week, here’s a hot tip: if you hear a politician saying nuclear is zero emissions, they're not telling the truth.
From mining uranium to the toxic waste it leaves behind, every step in the nuclear energy chain generates pollution and risk.
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BREAKING: Adani has allegedly broken the law and started drilling into precious acquifers on their mine site, before receiving approvals designed to protect groundwater and endangered plants and wildlife.
@AnnastaciaMP
@LeeanneEnochMP
must direct Adani to stop work immediately!
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Thank you to the powerhouse women standing up for nature in the Senate Committee room!
They are all fierce and tireless defenders of nature in Australia calling on the Federal government to pass the full reform package our broken nature laws.
Thank you for the work you do:
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“Their supermarket has been destroyed...and there isn’t another one within flying distance”. The Grey-Headed Flying Fox is being threatened with extinction by the effects of climate change, their future looks grim.
📸
#AnnetteRuzickaPhotography
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Let’s make one thing clear: nuclear isn’t right for Australia.
@PeterDutton_MP
's
#nuclear
proposal isn’t just fanciful, it’s irresponsible.
Nuclear energy is dirty, and dangerous, and poses significant community, environmental and health risks.
#auspol
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There are 10,000 people at the Brisbane
#PeoplesClimate
March! Another HUGE turnout for Australia.
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ACF is frustrated and deeply disappointed by the Albanese govt's failure to deliver the full EPBC reform.
Further delays risk more extinction.
Every day and every decision matters for our wildlife.
This must pass, in full, this term of parliament.
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Tonight
@Mon4Kooyong
introduced a motion that acknowledges the devastation caused by native forest logging & calling for an end to the native forest logging exemption in the EPBC Act.
Thank you
@Mon4Kooyong
for taking action after joining us at Toolangi State Forest.
#auspol
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Australia has one of the worst deforestation rates in the developed world.
We’re calling on the big supermarkets to end deforestation in their supply chains.
#auspol
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ACF has strongly urged Environment Minister
@tanya_plibersek
to reject Walker Group’s plans to build a high-rise apartment and retail complex on a wetland that is internationally recognised as a migratory bird hotspot.
#SaveToondah
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Nature is in crisis. The time to act is NOW.
Thank you to Independent MPs
@spenderallegra
@zalisteggall
,
@WilkieMP
, and others calling for stronger nature laws.
#auspol
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Hey
@albomp
, are you listening?
#Extinction
is a choice.
The National Threatened Species list keeps growing, but we need urgent government action to reform national nature laws.
Help us spread the word 👇
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READ: A rare blow-by-blow inside account of how power and influence is wielded in a sensitive environmental approval process.
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There has been three major coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef in five years – that's a direct result of warming temperatures. It's hit tourism hard. Today's announcement sidesteps this brutal truth. Let's get real about phasing out coal, oil and gas.
#auspol
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Thank you
@zdaniel
,
@SophieScamps
,
@helenhainesindi
,
@Mon4Kooyong
and other Independent MPs who have spoken up for nature law reform in Parliament this week.
#auspol
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It’s so-called ‘Minerals Week’ in Parliament House, which means fossil fuel executives infiltrate the corridors in Canberra.
While groups like the Minerals Council of Australia attempt to buy influence, we do things the right way by openly campaigning for better outcomes for
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS:
Environment Minister
@tanya_plibersek
intends to REJECT Walker Corporation’s nature-wrecking project at Toondah Harbour! 🥳🎉🎊
💚🌟And this is all thanks to you!
#auspol
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STATEMENT: Australians in the dark over State of the Environment.
People have a right to know the scale of the nature crisis before they vote in the upcoming federal election. We are calling on the Fed Govt to release the overdue 2021 State of the Environment report.
#auspol
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Nearly 40 environment groups have written to the PM, urging him to “demonstrate the political leadership required” and negotiate with the Senate crossbench to amend nature legislation to better deal with the climate crisis and native forest logging.
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Australia’s coal and gas exports cause more climate damage than those from any other country bar Russia, according to a new study.
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This full-page ad is unmissable for readers of today's Herald Sun. This is the climate election. Support for Adani is completely incompatible with a responsible approach to climate change.
@StopAdani
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📣 STATEMENT 📣
ACF wins court case on Adani's water scheme.
“This is a great win for the protection of water on our dry continent from coal mining and coal seam gas extraction.” -
@AusConservation
CEO
@kellyoshanassy
Read more:
#stopadani
#adani
#coal
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Land clearing is out of control in Qld, NSW and the NT. The deforestation is visible from space. Pretending it isn't a problem doesn't stop it. The Albanese govt needs to act.
#auspol
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: (and it’s excellent news!!)
Walker Corporation has withdrawn its application to develop a concrete monstrosity over Toondah Harbour in Queensland! 🥳🎉🎊
Together, we spoke up to protect this internationally significant wetland from corporate greed. 📣📣
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Did you know Platypuses have a rare sixth sense?
Their superpower - electroreception, allows them to tune into electric signals emitted by their prey!
#wildoz
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We've just launched a groundbreaking piece of technology with the Superpower Institute that will uncover the truth about Australia's coal and gas emissions.
Introducing... Open Methane.
This platform will hold big polluters accountable and provide even more evidence about the
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BREAKING: We’re taking the federal government to court to
#StopAdani
. We’re challenging their dodgy assessment of the water-guzzling pipeline Adani wants for its climate-wrecking-mine. Donate now to the legal challenge 👉
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