If you ever needed a reason to turn away from the major parties and vote for Teal/Independent community representatives, it is here. Ignoring the electorate’s preparedness to support strong climate change measures and fall in line with business-as-usual is the reason for our large cross bench. Both words, ‘community’ and ‘representative’ point to what we have to do .
From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 4 September 2025 at 9:00:18 am GMT+10
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Subject: Daily Links Sep 4
Date: 4 September 2025 at 9:00:18 am GMT+10
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Sep 4
Post of the Day
Julian Cribb
“Accelerating climate disruption is the greatest threat to the human future: our safety and well-being, our homes and communities, and how and where we live and work,” a group of leading Australian military and security experts says.
On This Day
Climate Change
Pari Island residents have flown to Europe to state their case in Switzerland, as their Indonesian homes are ravaged by the impacts of climate change.
Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate
How flawed calculations let high-polluting countries off the hook, and how courts can hold them accountable.
Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape
Ross McKitrick claims his views have long been ‘overlooked.’ Now his work is helping guide the MAGA assault on climate regulations.
Should we change our planet’s climate…on purpose? – Entanglements podcast
This week on Entanglements, our hosts talk to an atmospheric chemist and a planetary physicist about geoengineering.
National
The climate change minister says he will have to assess whether legislating the government’s 2035 emissions target is politically feasible, with the major waypoint towards net zero due to be announced soon.
New South Wales and South Australia will expand their 10-cent container deposit schemes to include wine, spirit, and some other large drink containers by late 2027.
Australia’s largest beer business will soon buy barley from farmers who have gathered data about how sustainably their grain was produced.
Experts are on edge, fearing this will be the spring that the “catastrophic” H5 strain of bird flu arrives in Australia.
What happens when an entire community decides to ditch gas and go electric? – SwitchedOn podcast
What happens when an entire community decides to ditch gas and go electric? That’s the challenge behind Electrify 2515, Australia’s most ambitious community electrification pilot.
Robert Gottliebsen
Australia’s energy crisis has hit a staggering new milestone, with power companies silently absorbing millions in unpaid bills rather than disconnecting financially stressed customers.
Judith Sloan
Contrary to what the Prime Minister declares, a higher penetration of renewable energy will lead to higher prices.
Katie Turlington
Scientists have long used sound to study wildlife. Bird calls, bat echolocation and whale songs, for example, have provided valuable insights for decades. But listening to entire ecosystems is a much newer frontier.
Lucy Jones
A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs
Chip Le Grand
Albanese’s good people are not dills. They understand that Australia and particularly, its three big eastern seaboard cities, are growing at a rate no one planned for.
Peter Sprivulis
August 2025: The Australian Government’s oxymoronically named Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has just published its 2025 Australian Energy Statistics Update Report.
Victoria
The Anglesea River — a tourism drawcard on the Surf Coast and place of pride for locals — has seen repeat fish kills in recent years, with both residents and experts at a loss as to restore the river’s health.
New South Wales
The decision comes as the federal government considers its 2035 emission reduction target under the Paris Agreement.
A colony of seals on the New South Wales Far South Coast has been fitted with tracking devices as researchers work to find out more about them and the environment.
ACT
Your health is at stake as climate change impacts deepen, but it’s not too late to do something about it, according to the new chair of the ACT Climate Council. And some Australians making hyperlocal changes are already reaping surprising benefits.
Queensland
The Sunshine State’s latest environmental report reveals 114 species have been added to the threatened list and three animals declared extinct since 2020, as habitat loss continues to put pressure on native wildlife.
South Australia
Experts say the parasite could almost entirely wipe out the state’s wild bees and add significant costs and labour pressures to farmers.
Adelaide Botanic Gardens has removed oil and gas company Santos’ name from its renowned botany museum building.
Tasmania
A Tasmanian independent MP who received more than $72,000 in donations from Climate 200 says he will divest his shares in a fossil fuel company, miner and pokies venue operator, as they do not align with his values.
Business leaders and green energy advocates have welcomed the $3.8bn Marinus Link power cable, while Labor demands more transparency about potential challenges.
Since Ziggy Pyka first secured his fish farming licence in 2001, the conversation about salmon has certainly become louder.
The company behind a $1.5 billion hydrogen proposal has abandoned plans to build a factory at Hampshire, 30 kilometres south of Burnie.
Donnacha McGrath
We, like many Tasmanians, are rightly proud of our island and our clean green reputation. We love our beaches, our wild places, and the close-knit communities that make this place home. But we’re now living with a growing sense of unease.
Northern Territory
Protesters gave the hundreds of delegates attending the NT Resources Week conference a rowdy welcome.
A multi-million dollar support package is set to expand an Indigenous land management and ecological research program in Australia’s far north.
Western Australia
Jesse Noakes
It’s the first thing you see as you come round the first corner – the city on the plain. Like a new casino strip being constructed on a mud flat, the Perdaman fertiliser plant spreads across the horizon as the banks on either side of Burrup Rd open out.
Sustainability
Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in extractive mining for green transition with few safeguards, research finds
Even as the U.S. guts support for renewable power, the world is still pushing ahead on the shift to solar energy, with installations up 64 percent in the first half of this year.
New catalyst could make mixed plastic recycling a reality.
Ronald Stein
The worlds’ population depends on insulation, wires, computers, and fertilizers that ‘renewables’ cannot provide.
Nature Conservation
The CEO of a seabed mining startup says the decision about mining leases will be made in Washington, D.C.
Developed by researchers at Tulane University, the effort has revealed that the highest risk areas aren’t always the ‘garbage patches’ where plastics visibly pile up, but often where plastics overlap with higher populations of marine life and pollutants.
Peter Blunt
One of my most memorable interspecies encounters was many years ago with an orangutan in a nature reserve in Sabah on the island of Borneo.
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