Sarah J

The reason we hate opening emails and messages around Invasion Day. 👇🏾

Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests Danish authorities take one-hour-old infant despite law banning the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds

#Denmark: Despite a ban on "parenting tests" for Greenlandic mothers, a child was just removed 1 hour after birth
The council said the mother (born in #Greenland, with Greenlandic parents & foster parents) "wasn't Greenlandic enough" for the ban to apply
Horrific.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I've been working on story about the toxic algal bloom spreading off the South Australian coast. I just went back and looked at how hot the waters off the coast of Australia were getting starting in September 2024. Here's the visual:

Navajo Nation pushes for water rights as Colorado River shrinks As the Colorado River faces historically low levels, Native American tribes that have depended on its life-sustaining waters for generations are raising concerns about the impacts on their communities...

www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/navajo-... Navajo Nation pushes for water rights as Colorado River shrinks | News | stgeorgeutah.com

Labor accused of ‘gaslighting’ Australians on climate crisis as fossil fuel projects keep getting approved ‘They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,’ one advocate says

“They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway.”

Bushfire Survivor Serena Joyner

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Aboriginal relics 'squashed' by golf course developer, court hears A company with an exclusive lease to develop a golf course on public land near Hobart has been accused in court of "squashing" Aboriginal relics into the ground.

A world without golf courses, please

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

NT govt's 'captain's pick' for legal agency sparks multiple resignations Several Legal Aid NT board members, including its chair, have resigned following the Attorney-General's "captain's pick" appointment to head up the embattled organisation.

NT once again demonstrating it is competent to govern itself.

Independent panel found against candidate for NT Legal Aid CEO as she had "none" of the relevant experience.

AG appointed her anyway.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-13/nt-legal-aid-charmain-resigns-over-ministers-captains-pick/105287800

I can think of a few as comms, engagement and cultural safety trainer/advisor…
- engagement fatigue
- editing a life choices thesis
- colonial load clearance

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪

#mobsky
@senatorthorpe.bsky.social

might think that the amendments this week to the EPBC Act were specific to the salmon industry. THEY WEREN'T. Salmon/fish farming is not even mentioned. The amendments can be applied to ANY project or industry. It guts the protections & the power of the Enviro Minister

The Indigenous Governance Toolkit is an online resource to help Indigenous organisations, communities, nations and individuals build, strengthen and evaluate their governance.

aigi.org.au/toolkit

#mobsky

Nayri mapali pakana! 🖤💛❤️🙌🏽🫶🏽

so let me get this straight. @albomp.bsky.social promised environmental protection only to throw it out the window this term. But he is also promising environmental protection next term. Does he really think we are that stupid? #auspol

Brazil meat-packing giants 'exported rotten beef' - BBC News The authorities close three processing plants and suspend 33 officials over the allegations.

anyone who is shocked by salmon companies potentially selling diseased salmon flesh has not been paying attention

www.bbc.com/news/world-l...

Dutton suggests his electorate join him at his Sydney fundraisers to avoid the Cyclone hitting their homes

"It's the only way to stay safe" chaser.com.au/national/dutton-suggests-his-electorate/

🤦🏽‍♀️ loving that ring though 💖

Trying to keep my spirits up lately is challenging so I took the opportunity on a hot day to have a lunch time swim. Check out this little fella who had been hanging around for half an hour before finally getting what he’d been smelling for his lunch! 🥰 #Coningham #Lutruwita #mobsky #selfcare

Australia boiling in its own hot soup sea #climatechange

the poorest State and the one with the worst health metrics is the one where it costs the most to see a GP.

Unacceptable… bullies with no values or empathy. There is a word for people like that… I admire and support you always. Standing strong for ethics and diversity of thought which benefits us all and future generations ❤️

Too deadly Caleb! We really must find time to catch up… 😃

Early warning system for climate tipping points given £81m kickstart Ambitious UK project aims to forecast climate catastrophes using fleets of drones, cosmic ray detection, patterns of plankton blooms and more

Have you heard the good news?

The UK is investing in🌡 climate detection systems.

So even as the US takes belligerent steps backwards, Europe is making investments & advancements.🌍

One thing is certain everyone needs to take this sh't far more seriously.⌛

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Black night wakefulness also happening here in Lutruwita. Hope you sleep soon 🖤

Two Aboriginal men died in custody in the ACT within days of each other Both matters have been referred to the coroner.

When will it end? When will we see action? 😢 #mobsky

www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Sixty years ago, 29 students took a bus ride that changed the way Australia thought about race The Freedom Ride hit the road in 1965 to protest racism and segregation throughout regional NSW. For descendants of the original riders, images from the trip are a source of immense pride

Sixty years ago, 29 students took a bus ride that changed the way Australia thought about race 🖤💛❤️ #mobsky

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Echoing of the white gaze in Evie Wyld’s The Echoes - Overland literary journal Wyld’s creation of voiceless-nameless-lifeless Blak people in The Echoes serves no narrative purpose. This novel is not truth-telling of invasion and occupation, and it does not envision justice for A...

I tried to resist writing about this particular white gazed book, but couldn't. Here's my essay on Evie Wyld's dehumanisation of Blak people, and co-option of Blak trauma for her latest sad white girl novel. Harmful white gazed novels need to be left in colonial eras. overland.org.au/2025/02/echo...

Live: Bushfires threatening communities on Tasmania's west coast Communities on Tasmania's west coast are bracing as bushfires bear down, with several communities on alert. Follow live.

Communities on Tasmania's west coast are bracing as bushfires bear down, with several communities on alert. Follow live.

Bushfire threat to worsen with beekeepers fearing hives won't survive Bushfires that have burnt through wilderness areas in Tasmania are now threatening trees that grow nowhere else in the world and are critical to the state's honey industry — as authorities confirm an ...

the news from these fires just gets worse.

Leatherwood trees under threat

A hut lost on the overland track.

😒😪😥😢
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...