Miki Perkins

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Absolutely bloody thrilled about this. I won a thing!

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Additional footage shows Australian police using force against other protesters:

Video: David Shoebridge via X (@DavidShoebridge)

Why can someone in suburban Sydney own 6 guns legally? New laws might change that The Bondi shooters legally owned the guns they used to kill 15 people in a terrorist attack. The government has flagged harsher gun laws, but will they work?

If, like me, you were struggling to understand why the hell someone living in suburban Sydney needed to own six guns, here's a really great explainer:
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Long-sought environmental law reform is finally here. But will the compromise deal actually protect nature? After years of failed attempts, Australia’s environmental laws are finally getting an overhaul. But will they stop the damage done to nature?

First take on EPBC amendments in the compromise deal struck to get it passed

Justine Bell-James, @euanritchie.bsky.social, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & me in @aunz.theconversation.com

#NativeForestLogging #MinisterialDiscretion #UnacceptableImpacts #PayToDestroy #NationalEnvironmentalStandards

Australia politics live: Labor strikes deal with the Greens to overhaul federal environmental protection laws Follow live

Labor has cut a deal with the Greens on federal environmental protection laws www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here

Misogyny in its purest form.

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Turkey to host Cop31 climate conference after Australia drops push to hold it in Adelaide Fortnight-long event to be held in Antalya but Australia may lead negotiations

There will be many people incredibly disappointed by this: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Queensland’s forests are still being bulldozed — and new parks alone won’t save them Queensland’s conservation ledger is in the red. Despite some new national parks, bulldozers are still clearing forests and vegetation across the state.

Despite decades of conservation promises, Queensland remains a globally significant hotspot for destroying forests and native vegetation.

This @theconversation.com story finds Queensland has lost at least 21% of its original woody vegetation since colonisation.

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And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

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Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

What a shame. Melbourne Uni is one of the richest universities in Australia, surely it could pay the salary of two editors and distribution costs?!

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Stop killing journalists! #ceasefirenowinGaza

Stop Killing Journalists YouTube video by withMEAA

Stop killing journalists.

@withmeaa.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...

Stop Killing Journalists YouTube video by withMEAA

Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

The numbers are simply unprecedented - these are their names

Please watch the whole video. @withmeaa.bsky.social

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Feel so proud to have contributed to this @withmeaa.bsky.social video with 100+ Australian journalists (all MEAA members) that honours the 180 journalists killed by Israel in Gaza. Watch it and weep.

STOP. KILLING. JOURNALISTS

Targeting journalists is a war crime.
As colleagues, we remember them.
meaa.io/45A4vZ5

MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths

I feel so broken hearted about this. Five media workers were killed. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza. The rest work under sickness, hunger and fire to report the reality there. Meanwhile the rest of the world’s media is locked out. This is a global press freedom crisis and @withmeaa.bsky.social was proud to join the March for Humanity.

$500m government bill looms for Chevron oil field cleanup The $2.3 billion-plus decommissioning on Barrow Island will be part-funded by the Federal and WA governments returning about half the royalties they received over six decades.

The Federal and WA governments will pay about $0.5B towards the $2.3B clean-up of Barrow Island after Chevron ended six decades of oil production on the contaminated Pilbara nature reserve.
www.boilingcold.com.au/governments-...

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

I met with the Torres Strait Islander elders who lost their landmark climate case. They won't give up Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai, two brothers-in-law, are exemplars of the extraordinary commitment of ordinary people pursuing climate justice.

In the Torres Strait, the rising ocean floods graves, and gardens are too poisoned by salinity to grow food. It's why Uncle Paul and Uncle Pabai won't let yesterday's ruling stop them, @mikiperkins.bsky.social writes.

I met with the Torres Strait Islander elders who lost their landmark climate case. They won't give up Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai, two brothers-in-law, are exemplars of the extraordinary commitment of ordinary people pursuing climate justice.

I wrote something about the Pabai case for Crikey:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/16/t...

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Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

What a reprehensible disgrace
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Antisemitism envoy praises Elon Musk's X for using AI to 'root out hate' Australia's antisemitism envoy has praised how platforms like Elon Musk's X are using AI to fight hate — days after X's AI bot Grok was taken offline for antisemitic posts.

'Earlier this week, X deleted a number of posts made by its AI chatbot Grok that praised Hitler, alleged that people with Jewish surnames were prone to “extreme leftist activism, especially the anti-white variety”, and called itself “MechaHitler”.' 👀 👀

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...

hi, long-time meaa member here. the meaa is great, with lots of hardworking members who volunteer their energy to push for better conditions for journalists. collective action is the only thing that works!

Strong statement from MEAA

🚨 Australia’s new federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has said he intends to approve a forty-year extension to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project.

With his first significant decision set to fuel almost four billion tonnes of greenhouse gas.

More here: envirojustice.org.au/press-releas...