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Some of Australia’s migrant communities say they feel left out of climate conversation
Action on climate change is an at-times emotionally-charged issue. But there are some communities in Australia who say they feel left out of the discussion entirely.
Today’s Celebration
Agricultural Reform Day – São Tomé and Príncipe
Day of Libraries – Ukraine
Birthday of José María Morelos – Mexico
Boy’s Day – Poland
Adoption Day – Ukraine
Recovery Day – Canada
Orange Shirt Day – Canada
Rosh Hashanah – Judaism
Pink Ribbon Breakfast Campaign
Climate Change
The tiny Pacific island nation of Tokelau had best turnout for global climate strikes
Organisers claim one in five people in one particular nation took part in the climate strikes.
Adults don’t need to be lectured by militant youth [$]
Andrew Bolt
It’s often said that the old are too cynical, because the optimism of their youth has dried up inside. But really adults have learned how silly it is to trust the hotheads who promise they can change the world overnight.
National
Some of Australia’s migrant communities say they feel left out of climate conversation
Action on climate change is an at-times emotionally-charged issue. But there are some communities in Australia who say they feel left out of the discussion entirely.
Minerals Council of Australia makes global top 10 climate policy opponents
Minerals Council of Australia – with deep ties to Morrison government – gets number eight global ranking for groups acting against climate policies.
Rising voices: young people fight for climate action – video
On 20 September, filmmakers Cybele Malinowski, Charlie Ford and Amy Low created a makeshift set at the global climate strike event held in Sydney, Australia. They interviewed 18 passionate young people from different backgrounds about why the event matters. The result is an intimate, raw and formidable series capturing the thoughts, fears and hopes of Australia’s next generation
NSW Deputy Premier calls for nuclear vote within three years [$]
NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro is calling for a federal plebiscite on nuclear power at the 2022 election.
Newspoll: ALP sheds support but Albanese turns tide
Popular support for Labor has dropped sharply amid an internal struggle over climate change and calls for the party to abandon the emissions reduction targets it took to the election.
Nat Fyfe’s climate advice to Scott Morrison
He is no Greta Thunberg, but Fremantle Dockers captain and Brownlow medallist Nat Fyfe had a light-hearted chip at Prime Minister Scott Morrison on climate change.
Nuclear subs idea worth floating [$]
John Birkley and Robert Murphy
It has been debated in some quarters for years that Australia should operate and maintain nuclear-propelled attack submarines.
Girt by sea, Australia faces serious climate challenge
Nerilie Abram, Mark Howden
Australia depends on the ocean that surrounds us for our health and prosperity. But that ocean is suffering from the effects of climate change that are playing out here and all over our planet.
I’m stressed my child isn’t stressed about climate change [$]
Darren Levin
Parents are forever walking the tightrope of keeping their children informed not alarmed about climate change — but Darren Levin wonders whether his child is altogether too cool about global warming.
Morrison’s condescending response to kids and climate
Graeme McLeay
The best you can say about Prime Minister Scott Morrison is that he doesn’t get it.
Victoria
‘All that’s left is just dirt’: How an $11m creek plan left Sarah’s neighbourhood with a big mess
Some of Melbourne’s most disadvantaged families have been left with a dug-up field and a concrete drain instead of the green oasis they were promised more than a year ago.
Recycling restarts at five Melbourne councils after plant reopens [$]
Hobson’s Bay Council and Port Phillip yellow bin pick-ups are the latest to be sent for recycling at the Laverton North facility from this morning.
New South Wales
Fast-moving bushfire threatened homes at Tenterfield
An emergency warning is downgraded in northern NSW after an “unpredictable and fast-moving” grass fire had threatened homes, with embers to blowing up to 4 kilometres ahead of the fire front.
Citrus industry mourns end of fruit cropping on lower Darling River
The end of irrigated horticulture on the lower Darling River will cost the citrus industry decades of technical expertise, according to the country’s largest citrus exporter.
Orange set to move to tighter water restrictions
Orange is set to move to Level 5 water restrictions. This weekend’s change to daylight saving time has been chosen as the date when residents will make the switch from Level 4.
NSW’s $75 million clean energy boost
More than $7 million in feasibility grants will be distributed to 10 companies, including Hydrostor Australia, which is planning to use abandoned mines near Broken Hill to store energy in compressed air.
‘Setting a model example’: Sydney Catholic schools make the solar switch
People who arrive at St Margaret Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Sydney’s east first see rows of solar panels covering the roof of its main building.
Inside the Sydney Extinction Rebellion, where protesters dress as bees and pretend to die
Is the Extinction Rebellion a small rump of radical activists with extremist views – or the birth of a genuinely mass movement?
Cod squad joins fight to stave off ‘fish Armageddon’ [$]
Interstate fisheries workers have joined the fight to save fish facing certain death by Christmas when the Darling River completely dries up.
Chris Brown’s wombat mission hits money laundering snag [$]
It’s a condition killing Australia’s wombats at an alarming rate but when Dr Chris Brown’s tried to raise funds to fight the deadly disease, he hit a serious snag his fundraising site.
Clover told: ‘Travel less, reduce council’s carbon footprint’ [$]
Lord Mayor Clover Moore has been told by the federal government to rein in the hundreds of thousands of dollars her council is spending on international and domestic travel if she is serious about lecturing Australia on climate change.
Water everywhere but farmers get none [$]
Farmer Alastair Starritt stares out across the paddock and thinks about what could have been. He should be irrigating his crops at Womboota in the Southern Riverina, but instead, he is facing his second year in a row with zero allocation of water.
Mine decision ‘risks schools and hospitals’ [$]
NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has called for an overhaul of the state’s Independent Planning Commission, saying revenue from royalties and regional jobs could be at risk after the body rejected the South Korean-backed Bylong Valley coalmine.
Right to Farm Bill is a threat to democracy that affects us all
Chris Gambian
This legislation should really be called the “Chuck Dissenters in the Slammer Bill’.
Queensland
Deadline day for royalty agreement with Adani’s Carmichael mine
The deadline for the Queensland government to finalise a royalties agreement with Adani has arrived as concerns emerge about whether a lack of oversight could hand the Indian mining giant a monopoly coal railway.
Qld govt misses deadline for Adani deal
The Queensland government says it needs more time to finalise a deal on royalties from Adani’s controversial new coal mine in the Galilee Basin.
Longest coral reef survey to date reveals major changes in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
An in-depth look at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over the past 91 years concludes that since 1928 intertidal communities have experienced major phase-shifts as a result of local and global environmental change, leaving few signs that reefs will return to their initial state in the near future.
Living coral cover will slow future reef dissolution
The living tissue on corals protects their skeleton from dissolving as a result of ocean acidification according to an in situ experiment on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
New Bob Brown tour unbelievable
What the Actual? His last tour involved driving a convoy of southerner anti-Adani activists into Queensland to tell workers and communities counting on Adani they didn’t deserve jobs. Now Bob Brown is launching another tour.
South Australia
What does the snapper fishing ban really mean for South Australians?
Commercial fishers, country towns and amateur anglers have their say on how they will be affected by the ban on snapper fishing for the next three years.
Oil drilling in the Bight will signal an unsustainable future for humanity
David Shearman
Chief scientist delivers report into reviews of oil development in the Great Australian Bight. But he wasn’t asked to consider climate change.
Tasmania
‘Profit over nature’: Concerns over Tasmanian tour operator oversight
As Tasmania lures more tourists with its wilderness charms, there are fears the method of holding tour operators accountable for licence breaches in precious wilderness areas is not up to the task.
Urgent action required on penguin deaths: Friends of Bicheno Penguins
Two separate dog-related penguin massacres has resulted in a penguin welfare group calling for more action from the state government and the community in stopping the attacks.
Western Australia
Possible threat to lives and homes from Muchea bushfire
A bushfire watch and act alert has been issued for the southern part of Muchea in the shire of Chittering north of Perth, with residents warned of a possible threat to lives and homes.
Sustainability
Why engineers in Alberta think they’ve found a way for the oilsands to produce clean fuel
Engineers in Alberta believe they’ve got a way to capture hydrogen from the oilsands while leaving greenhouse gas emissions in the ground.
Converting CO2 to valuable resources with the help of nanoparticles
An international research team has used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into valuable raw materials. Scientists have adopted the principle from enzymes that produce complex molecules in multi-step reactions. The team transferred this mechanism to metallic nanoparticles, also known as nanozymes. The chemists used carbon dioxide to produce ethanol and propanol, which are common raw materials for the chemical industry.
First fully rechargeable carbon dioxide battery with carbon neutrality
Researchers are the first to show that lithium-carbon dioxide batteries can be designed to operate in a fully rechargeable manner, and they have successfully tested a lithium-carbon dioxide battery prototype running up to 500 consecutive cycles of charge/recharge processes.
People living near green spaces are at lower risk of metabolic syndrome
A study analyses for the first time the relation between long-term exposure to residential green spaces and a cluster of conditions that include obesity and hypertension.
Ditch the delicate wash cycle to help save our seas
The volume of water used during a wash cycle, rather than the spinning action of the washing machine, is the key factor in the release of plastic microfibres from clothes.
Peter Dykstra
There’s a fairly ancient gallon container of Roundup in my garage. I bought it back in the days when Roundup, and its key component glyphosate, was widely considered a safer alternative to other herbicides.
‘We will never forgive you’: youth is not wasted on the young who fight for climate justice
Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo
From 3D printing using plastic waste to growing cherry trees in the Himalayas, young people are not sitting idle while the world burns.
Nature Conservation
Harry urges team approach to stop poaching
The Duke of Sussex is set to visit Malawi’s Liwonde National Park, where he will pay tribute to a British soldier killed by an elephant earlier this year.
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