Sue Higginson
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Greens MP, Environmental Lawyer, Farmer, Grandmother. Former CEO and Principal Solicitor at Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)
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When I was young I saw an injustice. I locked onto a bulldozer and stopped the destruction of an old forest. It is now protected by law. I then became a lawyer, I then became an MP! I didn’t go to jail. I believe in democracy I am part of our democracy - so is Violet!
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The PM came to Lismore he will not talk to the community. The community who nearly drowned. The community who came to talk to him. To talk about what they need. He sent 50 police instead.
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In Lismore we have done floods for ever. This is not a flood - this is catastrophic. This is extreme. This is climate change. Lismore needs back up. People are on and in their roof some are screaming for their lives and water is still rising. Friends are rescuing friends.
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Violet Coco now released on bail. She shouldn’t have been in prison. The Coalition & Labor have gone too far with their antiprotest laws. Violet isn’t a criminal she’s a conscientious objector, she engaged in an act of civil disobedience. She’s worried about climate change
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I just went to "Royal" National Park. I saw a beautiful rainforest creek choking with black coal sludge. Mining giant Peabody Coal's Mine is responsible for this. Peabody must held to account. This should be a living creek with Playful Platypus, not Peabody's Pollution.
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Just astounding - an ecosystem collapse event & no emergency response. Look at it! I can’t believe not 1 Minister or responsible MP with levers to engage a logistics response has turned up or is doing a thing!
@Dom_Perrottet
@AlboMP
@James_HGriffin
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Breaking: Locals have blockaded and stopped the logging and carnage of our precious Bulga Forest part of the Great Dividing Range. The NSW Government is trashing this forest. This forest and the forest animals have not yet recovered from fires.
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#endnativeforestlogging
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Violet Coco’s prison sentence has been overturned. Violet has been vindicated. She was wrongly prosecuted by the Police & the State. They presented false facts Violet was sent to prison. Make no mistake the NSW Govt has damaged our democracy and our right to protest.
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Climate protectors just stopped a coal train at worlds largest coal port Newcastle Australia.
#risingtide
#protectprotest
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Massive win for protest & civil disobedience today in the NSW Supreme Court. Brave Knitting Nannas took on the State & Won! Court ruled the NSW Coalition’s draconian Anti Protest laws are unconstitutional - they breach the freedom of political communication💛🖤
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💔 Lismore is experiencing the biggest flood ever. This is extreme. People on their roofs in queues of 50 to be rescued. Hero’s are in boats saving lives. The warnings were too slow and conservative - that’s what happens in these new extreme events. People have lost everything.
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It’s an emergency - ecosystem collapse happening in front of us - one of the most important life giving ecosystems in NSW - where is the response. Where is the army, the Premier, the PM, the Enviro Ministers DO YOUR JOB
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I still can’t actually believe so many good folk just deal with Splendour and what is North Byron Parklands. I wonder if people remember or know the truth. Your own community spent years fighting the absurdity of putting the event on that land.
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I went to forests in the Great Koala National Park today. Unforgivable industrial scale extinction logging is taking place. It’s sickening - they don’t even have to survey for threatened species before they log! They’ve even harmed rainforest! Minns Govt failure
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SHAME NSW LABOR SHAME. They’re about to destroy Newry Forest. They’ve put up locked gates & 24/7 security. It’s one of the most amazing forests of the promised Great Koala National Park. We’re in a climate crisis & NSW Labor is taking away our defence and survival path!
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Please wake up. We are in a climate emergency. We are now in a HYBRID CYCLONE. It’s frightening. The entire warning system was wrong we are underwater again and being smashed! Experts said we would experience HYBRID CYCLONES more regularly - the climate has changed. Sorry Lismore
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Incredible work by the community today protecting beautiful Bulga State Forest (near Port Macquarie) Forestry redirected logging to plantation area. Bulga stands for another day. When the Government won’t listen to science & protect our forests the community will!
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Logging native forest on public land under martial law driving koalas and greater gliders to extinction against the pleas of Gumbaynggirr elders and community on country that has been promised as a National Park! Shame NSW Labor Shame!
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Just found out, in NSW, 3 out of every 4 children under 14 in prison is a First Nations child. We must raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 & invest in diversion programs. Today I have given notice in NSW Parliament of a motion calling on the Govt to Raise the Age.
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People from my community of Lismore, who have lost everything in the climate induced flood, who were ignored by the PM when he came to our town are now at the PMs house pleading not to be forgotten and for climate action.
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And there we have it. The Morrison Coalition Government is to argue in Court that Sussan Ley the Minister for the Environment does not have a duty to take care not to harm or kill children under 18 living in Australia now when she approves coal mines.
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BREAKING: Glendell Coal Mine expansion refused due to Heritage impacts. Congratulations to the Plains Clan Wonnarua People who have for to protect Heritage and Country and won.
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This is Braemar State Forest. The NSW Govt is about to log it. It’s koala habitat & koalas live here (only just). Around 70% of the koala population was wiped out by the19/20 black summer fires! They’ll be extinct 2050. It’ll cost taxpayers to log it.
#koalas
#extinction
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Here on the battlefields of the Governments koala wars. Protesters have stopped logging koala habitat in Yarratt State Forest near Taree. The Natural Resources Commission advised the Government this forest shouldn’t be logged after the catastrophic fires of 2019/20
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No one should ever go to prison for trying to protect the planet 🌏 We must repeal the anti-protest laws & ensure no person is ever sentenced to prison for an act of non-violent civil disobedience as part of a genuine protest. Anti-protest laws are dangerous to democracy
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In NSW we are in a dangerous place. The Coalition in lock step with Labor have gone too far! The comments from the Premier and Labor leader on the cruel impact of their laws is a worrying sign of how far we have slipped down the slope. We need to repeal the anti protest laws.
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Premier Perrottet seems unable to fathom that The Greens don’t take corporate donations today in Budget Estimates
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This is how some of our young people are spending their school holidays today in our region. This is within the Great Koala National Park the Minns Labor Govt promised! It is being smashed. Imagine having the power to protect koalas & our precious public native forests
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The community of Lorne, inspired by & with help of Bulga community now standing up against the destruction of Lorne State Forest! Home to over 24 native animals facing extinction. Locals say they can’t watch the forest get smashed anymore. End native forest logging in NSW
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I rescued this precious koala tonight. Car hit, car didn’t stop. It’s now with emergency vet & Friends of the Koala. You get attached when you rescue one! Yes because they’re magic but it’s visceral because you know they’re literally on the brink of extinction in the wild
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I think the nightmare may be coming to an end, like so many things in our beautiful region and we can do better. We can do art and culture better. Place matters - actually it is everything.
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Saying goodbye to my beautiful little friend as I leave home for work thinking about the climate crisis, the global burning going off in the northern hemisphere right now & that the NSW Government is still logging the Great Koala National Park they promised - 10 years ago
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2 brave young people on the forest front line have stopped logging. They’ve put their bodies on the line - this means they’re begging their Government to stop destroying this forest - which is a Koala Hub! They’ll be vindicated in time. NSW Labor this is on you!
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It’s National Tree Day 🌳 The NSW Labor Govt has just installed locked steel gates & 24/7 security so they can cut down the trees in our public native forest that is part of the promised Great Koala National Park. Trees critical for the survival of koalas & carbon capture
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1/Did Violet Coco’s imprisonment outrage you? The full story's even more shocking.
Police and lawmakers in NSW are subverting democracy in *unprecedented* ways.
Making dozens more face Violet's fate.
A breakdown - how we got here + what we can do🧵
👇👇👇
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I think we’ve done it. The Koala Bill is dead! Thank you to everyone who worked to kill this bill 🐨🐨🐨
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Hundreds of people gathered today in Coffs on Gumbaynggirr Country with Elders to tell the Minns Govt to stop logging our precious public native forests NOW and make good on the promise to create the Great Koala National Park. Imagine promising a GKNP then logging it.
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This is a WIN! Together, through hard work & sustained action we’ve won back some ground. Burning native forests for electricity is an absurd & dangerous idea proposed by the Liberals & Nationals, contemplated by Labor and always rejected and fought against by the Greens
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Brilliant place for an enormous industrial gas field hey? Seriously the NSW Government & Santos need to wake up. A local fire captain gave evidence to a govt inquiry before they approved Santos’ Gas Project - he said don’t do it - it will be disastrous! The poor Pilliga
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This is an unbelievable and scary violation of our right to protest. Protest is such a vital part of a thriving democracy and instead we are rapidly descending into terrible time of political oppression.
Meanwhile the real climate criminals walk free.
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Its 35 years since young Gomeroi man Mark Haines was found dead on train tracks near Tamworth. His family are still waiting for answers, truth and justice. Uncle Don Craigie has worked everyday for a proper investigation. The State must now step up & hold a coronial inquest.
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Logging is destroying our Public Native Forests in NSW. It’s madness. The Liberals, Nationals and Labor don’t care & will not stop it without us. The community is making a stand at Bulga State Forest. Below ⬇️ you can join the campaign to End Native Forest Logging in NSW
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Healthy Mother Koala just trying to get to a tree. FOK trying to save out of pouch joey. Koalas will be extinct before 2050. We must protect Koalas where they are. Roads in Koala use areas must have under/over passes or modified speed. I knew this beautiful little mother💔
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Went to Newry Forest yesterday - it’s a scene of political failure & koala extinction logging. Premier Chris Minns is industrial logging the Forests he promised would be the Great Koala National Park. Gumbaynggirr Elders and the community are standing strong.
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15 Australian species have been added to the threatened list today. 5 species uplisted as they get closer to extinction.
This is a national shame & requires drastic action. Only 110 out of more than 1,900 species threatened with extinction will be given priority protection.
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The Court has granted conditional Bail to Violet Coco pending the appeal to her sentence in March 2023. Shame on the NSW Coalition and Labor for doing this to Violet Coco. She should not have been in prison.
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The Greens condemn the violent arrest of Sydney icon Danny Lim and have called on the Police Minister for an independent investigation. We also call on the Government to repeal the anti protest laws, for the right to protest to be protected and for real police accountability.
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BREAKING - the Federal court has ruled native logging lawful, despite devastating consequences. The court said the decision to do this is wholly political. It’s on Premier Chris Minns & Environment Minister Penny Sharpe to do the right thing & it’s back to the forest frontlines.
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Here is Bulga State Forest the NSW Liberal National Government is trying to destroy it. The community is standing up to protect it.
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The fact that the NSW Gov would consider logging the core koala habitat of Oaks State Forest is complete madness. We need to stop logging the entire area that will make up the Great Koala National Park.
Logging the heart out of the proposed area is political failure
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Spoke to my friend he said his house feels unstable water about to enter I called 000 they told me to call SES I called SES the message said if emergency call 000 20 mins later still on hold. This is the climate emergency. We are not treating as the emergency it is
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This is a damning fail - the Auditor General has today released a report on the Effectiveness of the NSW Coalition Government's Offsets Scheme. It's shocking. The Government has fundamentally failed to design or implement an effective scheme for biodiversity.
#extinction
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The violent engagement of NSW Police with peaceful protestors is escalating and it needs to end. Protest is a vital part of a mature and responsible democracy and the Government needs to act to protect this fundamental right.
Will you join us?
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The site of Splendour in the Grass is part of the most easterly significant wildlife corridor in Australia. It is the only intact corridor that connects the Gondwana Wollumbin ancient deep time forests to the unique subtropical coastal lowlands.
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Such a beautiful, wise, strong and selfless community. Then the developer (Splendour in the Grass) went to the Liberal National Coalition State Government and got approval which overrode the very sensible community court win.
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I sit in the NSW Parliament - I am literally freaking out about the current small target strategy of the Minns Labor Government & their Net Zero by 2050 target as we ship coal out of the worlds largest coal port everyday like there is no tomorrow
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BREAKING - South East Forest Rescue has just filed a case in the NSW Land & Environment Court seeking an injunction to stop the NSW Forestry Corporation from logging in NSW forests because they don’t do proper surveys for endangered greater gliders
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Labor’s resistance to ending the destruction of our public native forests is untenable. Its sickening they’re holding us all back. Protecting & regenerating our forests is good for the environment, climate, economy & communities. There’s enormous support.
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The land is the home of endangered ecological communities, 28 threatened species and is the site of significant Aboriginal Cultural Heritage.
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Logging is occurring in this forest right now. After the fires, this area is on the brink of being wiped out & NSW Gov is cutting down trees & turning them into woodchips for export. We need to stop this madness & protect these forests for animals, for climate & for future.
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What has become of our democracy in NSW. The police lied and a young woman was sent to prison - she was just protesting to raise awareness about the climate crisis.
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BREAKING Gomeroi have won their appeal against Santos in the Federal Court over the Narrabi Pilliga Gas project! The Court held climate evidence of late Prof Will Steffen should be considered in the Gomeroi Native Title claim! NSW Labor & Santos now need to stop this madness!
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I was the solicitor who acted for long standing caring members of the Byron and North Byron community who worked for decades to get the Billinudgel Nature Reserve gazetted, the wildlife corridor understood and recognised and the Jones Road over pass instated.
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I can’t believe that communities in NE NSW who were smashed by fires & floods have to take their Govt to Court to stop them logging critical koala habitat on our public native forest estate! The Govt is killing koalas! Thank you NEFA I hope with all my heart you win
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Alarming news at public meeting last night about the Silver & Lead Mine just approved near Lue Mudgee. Community members living near Newcrest’s Cadia Silver Mine near Orange have found lead in their water and heavy metals in their blood. We must help & stop this.
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NSW Police think it’s ok to arrest anyone standing up for environmental or social justice. Thanks to years of Lib/Nat erosion of democratic rights & increasing police powers, women can now be arrested for talking about their reproductive rights to men in a crowd in Sydney
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We’re getting close - but it can’t come a day too soon for our precious native forests & all the things we lose & destroy when we exploit & extract these incredibly important & valuable ecosystems. So damned frustrating it comes down to politics. We’re getting close🌳
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Labor just teamed up with One Nation & Shooters to block release of police video evidence of the use of a taser on Cooma grandmother & dementia patient rendering her on end of life care. Justice requires accountability which starts with transparency. We must do better
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While National Labor Conference voted to continue to destroy our public native forests - NSW Greens State Council resolved to go as hard as possible on NSW Labor over their broken promise to protect the Great Koala National Park. They’re smashing forests & koalas to extinction!
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Not only did your community fight and stand up for the precious land and biodiversity, they explained how it was a terrible site to put tens of thousands of people from a flood and fire safety perspective.
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Wonderful people everywhere trying to turn things around - I met these good folk on my way to work - they’re following the money
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I just did a chopper flight over northern Kosciusko NP with the NSW Upper House Inquiry into Feral Horses. In just a short time I saw hundreds of horses and so much destruction! It’s an international shame! Kosci is one of our precious National Parks not a horse paddock
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Liverpool Plains farmer questions Premier about Santos’ dangerous Fossil Fuel Gas development in the Pilliga & it’s spread to the Liverpool Plains . It’s not too late to do the right thing Premier! Back Gomeroi & Farmers
@NSWFarmers
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I'm SO f'ing sick of this. Public interest environmental lawyers & communities give our absolute all every time, we have done for decades. Our environmental laws are cooked, they're cooking us & the things we need to survive. Labor - fix it or move over & let us get on with it.
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We all need to act now on climate change. We cannot afford to stop resisting coal and gas. Our right to protest has never been more important.
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This is April, 17YO, on school holidays. She’s stopped logging in Orara State Forest her home & home to 20% of State’s wild koalas & within the Great Koala National Park promised by Minns Gov but they’re literally destroying koalas now. It’s untenable it’s on you Premier
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In NSW we still allow the industrial scale logging of our public native forests. It’s barbaric. The State of the Environment Report was nothing short of terrifying. If you are from NSW please sign this petition to end the destruction now
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Your community fought with all their heart and soul and won. They won because the land was zone for wildlife habitat protection - one of the few areas in the Shire zoned as such.
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Ok it’s 2023 - the year we End Logging our Public Native Forests. Can you believe we still destroy native forests here in NSW? Can you believe we pay to do it? It’s utter madness. Together let’s stop it. Please sign up here to change this
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Matt Kean doing the dirty work of corporate bully gas giant Santos. He’s handed Santos the power to enter lands from Narrabri to Newcastle where they want their gas pipeline to go even when the land owners say no. Santos’ Narrabri Pilliga gas project is a climate bomb!
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We need to do everything we can to protect our forests. This will take all of us. There are five days left to sign this petition to end native forest logging in NSW and we're so close:
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Santos is trashing Gomeroi sacred sites in the Pilliga, ignoring the calls by Traditional Owners to stop the Narrabri gas project & now they have misrepresented Moogy in their digital content. They owe more than an apology they need to pull out of the Pilliga completely
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We’re going to lose koalas in NSW to extinction! The NSW Minns Labor Government have been in power for over a year & they continue koala extinction logging, land clearing & development. It’s seriously dire. Koalas will be extinct before 2050 & it’s on NSW Labor!
@ChrisMinnsMP
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So good to see Hollywood thinks we need to take stronger action on climate change too! Hope he doesn’t get too long inside!
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The climate crisis is here. NSW Labor get us on the path to net zero now! 2050 is too late. It’s our coal fuelling this disaster it’s leaving the Port of Newcastle like there’s no tomorrow. End coal and gas by 2030 and stop logging our carbon forests now.
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Koalas will be extinct in the wild by 2050. We need to kick the Perrotett Liberal National Coalition out in March and Vote more Greens to get the things we need for Koalas, Nature and Climate Further and Faster! Let’s do this
#voteforkoalas
#voteforclimate
#votegreens
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Peabody coal is caught red handed polluting Royal National Park.
... AGAIN
3 times this year and counting - this coal mine must be shut down for good
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We won in the Land and Environment Court against the initial approval for Splendour on that site.
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Great news out of Newcastle Court! The amazing folk who blockaded the world's largest coal port are VINDICATED. Now it’s time to scrap draconian anti-protest laws. Write to the Premier to make sure he gets it 👇
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These brave heroes just stopped EXTINCTION logging on the NSW South Coast. They found Greater Glider habitat Forestry Corporation didn’t. WA & VIC have ended logging our precious native forests. In NSW we’re still subsidising the destruction. Step up Minns Labor or Fail!
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Look what the Liberals and Nationals have done. It’s outrageous. We don’t need this dangerous fossil gas. This is all for Santos’ profits. This is racketeering
#nswpol
Santos have called the cops on
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farmers who are blockading access to seismic coal seam gas testing in NSW. $STO
@ChrisMinnsMP
@Dom_Perrottet
@Matt_KeanMP
@PaulTooleMP
@Kevinandersonmp
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It’s World Environment Day - 2023. Our beautiful blue green living planet is struggling in so many ways. Meanwhile here in NSW we’re still logging our ancient native forests and clearing koala habitat
#nswpol
I’m working to turn this around - join me
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Brave forest defenders have blockaded Forestry Corp HQ in Sydney this morning. Enough - the Minns Labor Government needs to step up. Logging our public native forests in an extinction and climate crisis is madness - and it’s costing taxpayers millions every year to log
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I’m ecstatic - this filthy dangerous underground coal mine near Wollongong that has been harming the environment, climate, workers and our precious water supplies for too long is cooked! Let’s make sure they clean up and pay out.
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Is it wrong to be disappointed? To want and to have expected just that bit more? It’s a great something announcement, signal, intention but the harm that needs arresting to deal with the extinction and climate crises is happening now. We know what to do I just want to do it!
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While First Nations & young people are on the forest front line - last night in Parliament Minns Labor Govt said it will continue Koala Extinction Logging in their promised Great Koala National Park! No end date in sight! This is what Political Failure looks like!
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Well done Ros Druce, Maules Creek Community and
@EDOLawyers
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I want everyone to be clear -
THIS IS NOT FARMING
THIS IS NOT FOOD PRODUCTION
This is cruelty and torture.
I can’t believe this level of cruelty is still playing out.
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