@euanritchie
Dad, ecologist & conservation scientist living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Narrm. He/him. Research: https://euanritchie.org/ The Conversation: bit.ly/2rjBg9A Nature, SciComm, Politics, Music, Shodan🥋, 🏀, Carlton FC 🌈 Ally Born: 331 ppm CO2
Rediscovering species once thought extinct is wonderful, but...
"It is sobering to think of what natural wonders and mysteries we might never understand and appreciate because of insufficient funding, yet we continue to spend billions annually on wars." - me
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When the Chair brings the organisation into disrepute...
Indeed
ACF FOI docs show tt Rachel Parry (then DepSec DCCEEW) & KylieCoulhan (WA EnvAssmt) exchanged ~200 txts w WoodCIDE re approval conditions
“Rachel–we are about to send you our response which identifies 3 items of factual correctness which if modified would then constitute a document we can accept”
“They will stymie research and learning, create further job insecurity and deter our best and brightest from pursuing research careers, and hold us back as a nation,” - me
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Also, this is quite an old photo of me, not sure why.
Adelaide Uni - Academic freedom, freedom of speech!
Francesca Albanese - Great, let's discuss human rights, war crimes, and genocide.
Adelaide Uni - Oh, not that much freedom. Cancelled, soz.
Genuinely pathetic and embarrassing cowardice.
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Vintage circus-style political poster showing Anthony Albanese depicted as a ventriloquist’s dummy with puppet strings. Donald Trump sits behind him as the ventriloquist, while Benjamin Netanyahu appears above controlling Trump like a puppet master. The headline reads “Behold… The Grovelling Gutless Wonder,” with a starburst listing “Capitulates on command! Questions never asked! Spine not included!”
STEP RIGHT UP: The Grovelling Gutless Wonder!! 🎪
Capitulates on command. Questions never asked. Spine not included ~ Posters/tees: tinyurl.com/4smmtm8x
Children’s graves dug for Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war. This image speaks a terrible truth in answer to Labor’s lies about this awful war they support.
When Geoffrey Robertson speaks, I listen. #SolidarityWithIran
Thanks for saying what so many journalists won't, Antoinette.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Desmond Tutu
👋 @leanaustralia.bsky.social
Labor talk out both sides of their face on environmental issues. Anyone- *anyone*- who believes that they have a sound environmental record is either (inexcusably?) ignorant or a gigantic ALP shill.
The NT's Finocchiaro govt's gunning for some kinda Guinness world record in native vegetation-threatened species habitat land clearing
Just APPROVED: clearing of ~2,300 ha on Tandyidgee Station owned by Consolidated Pastoral Co
NO referral to Fed Govt for EPBC assessment🤯
Info via ECNT
Backing illegal US-Israeli aggression against Iran may be a mindless reflex for PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social, DM Richard Marles but they must answer for innocent lives taken with their complicity
He's giving it a red hot go, supporting genocidal and ecocidal regimes simultaneously is quite something!
Here's an environmental tasting plate, Fiona
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And that's before we talk about an illegal war in Iran, supporting genocide in Gaza, punishing whistleblowers, selfies with a convicted felon and sexual predator, loss of rights to protest, his treatment of 'difficult' women...
Minister 'for' the Environment, Murray Watt, has been working so hard for the environment...sorry, I meant industry
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Nature Positive. Nature Positive. Just keep saying Nature Positive, and everything will be ok...
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Rhymes with corruption.
No, @lisacox.bsky.social covered this www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
So Nature Positive, @albomp.bsky.social!
On World Wildlife Day, we learn from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social's FOI-based report that while the federal environment dept "decision brief recommended that the original decision to allow salmon farming should be revoked" the Albo govt chose toxic, industrial salmon farming over Maugean Skate survival
Last time I looked Australia was a member of the UN as well as the International Criminal Court. We've incorporated the International Criminal Court Act 2002 into Australian law to "facilitate Australia’s compliance with the Rome Statute" including provision for "the arrest & surrender of suspects."
We actively participate in the ICC's Assembly, the body which provides management oversight. Meetings r at least once a year and both the Attorney-General's Dept and Dept of Foreign Affairs & Trade attend to represent Australia.
But are we willing to walk the talk?
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If our government actually had a shred of ethical #integrity the ambassador would be sent home and we might resume a peaceful existence as a #multicultural society with strong capacity to understand and #respect different cultures on the planet. #auspol
Yep, that clip is copping a flogging at the moment.
The point remains.
Given Israel's government are alleged to have committed genocide and other war crimes, one might ask why Israel's ambassador to Australia hasn't been sent home www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
'Rules-based order', but only for some, not for people we don't like. Remember, WE are the good guys...
Thank you for sharing.
"We must change course: we owe it to current and future generations and the extraordinary and unique plants, animals and other life we share this world with."
Today on #WorldWildlifeDay read this opinion piece by @euanritchie.bsky.social with beautiful illustrations by @jessharwoodart.bsky.social.