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Santos attempts to discredit Tiwi Island elders dreaming stories

Fossil fuel giant Santos has accused Tiwi Island elders of altering dreaming stories to block its $5.6 billion Barossa gas project. Tiwi Islander knowledge about the movements and resting places of two significant ancestral beings has been at the centre of the latest chapter of a Federal Court...

Torres Strait elders join students at School Strike 4 Climate

Thousands of students will take to the streets today for the School Strike 4 Climate as Torres Strait Islander people desperately hope the message cuts through to the government. Torres Strait Islander elders Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai are in Melbourne for hearings in the landmark court case they...

NAB places fossil fuel giants on notice

National Australia Bank is putting its big emissions customers on notice that they will need to have climate transition plans in place in two years' time. NAB will initially focus on major customers in the fossil fuel sector seeking new or renewed corporate lending or project finance.

Misinformation puts potential wind energy industry at risk

A wave of political rhetoric and alleged misinformation around the impacts of offshore wind farms on whales has led to fears that a potential wind energy industry off the coast of the Illawarra and Hunter regions could be derailed before it properly begins. Greenpeace says that exploration for and...

Global warming nearly breached the 1.5 degrees limit

A report released by the EU climate monitor has found that global average temperatures from January through to September this year were 1.4 degrees higher than 1850-1900, flirting dangerously with breaching the 1.5 degrees global warming limit and making climate action more critical than ever...

NSW ranked last in forest protection

The New South Wales Government has ranked last behind every state, territory and even the federal government in combating deforestation. It comes as protesters lock themselves to machinery to disrupt logging in Newry State Forest, within the proposed area for the state government's promised Great...

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