Paula 🌹
@paularose.bsky.social
artist | always curious | pro-transit & accessibility | resiliency | nature lover
Derwent Valley lutruwita (Tasmania)
Derwent Valley lutruwita (Tasmania)
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Ombudsman delivers youth offending warning to Victorian government in extraordinary intervention
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Extraordinary intervention by ombudsman in Victorian youth crime crackdown
Marlo Baragwanath warns the state government's crackdown on youth offenders will result in less humane treatment in detention centres.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Ombudsman delivers youth offending warning to Victorian government in extraordinary intervention
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“What happened here is crazy,” said Cristina Santin, a biologist from northwestern Spain who studies fire impacts. “Suddenly you get up one day and your home region is burning on a scale that is completely unprecedented.”
#Spain 🇪🇸
#ClimateEmergency
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#Spain 🇪🇸
#ClimateEmergency
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November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“What happened here is crazy,” said Cristina Santin, a biologist from northwestern Spain who studies fire impacts. “Suddenly you get up one day and your home region is burning on a scale that is completely unprecedented.”
#Spain 🇪🇸
#ClimateEmergency
www.reuters.com/investigates...
#Spain 🇪🇸
#ClimateEmergency
www.reuters.com/investigates...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Being better than toddlers isn’t good government, it’s babysitting.
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No saving the Coalition – and that should be a warning to Labor
Labor is trying to present itself as the adult in the room, by pointing to the opposition's tantrums. That’s not governing, it’s babysitting.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Being better than toddlers isn’t good government, it’s babysitting.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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John Menadue: Whitlam’s Secretary of PM&C. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans
I was familiar with many of the events leading to the Dismissal on 11 November 1975. That knowledge was greatly increased by Professor Jenny Hocking with her long and successful campaign to have the P...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
John Menadue: Whitlam’s Secretary of PM&C. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Stanford Medicine scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry
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Stanford Medicine scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry
The Epstein-Barr virus can convert B cells it’s infected into diabolical overlords that reprogram myriad other immune cells to attack our tissues, Stanford Medicine scientists have found.
med.stanford.edu
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Stanford Medicine scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry
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Wonder what governments will resort to when banning social media and locking kids up doesn’t fix teenagers.
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Wonder what governments will resort to when banning social media and locking kids up doesn’t fix teenagers.
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, filed an application on Friday to intervene in three Federal Court challenges over the controversial extension to Woodside's North West Shelf gas project. #auspol #COP30 au.news.yahoo.com/australia-el...
Australia to make eleventh-hour bid to seal COP31 deal
With just days before the next host of the world's biggest climate conference must be decided, Australia is doing all it can to secure its bid.
au.news.yahoo.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, filed an application on Friday to intervene in three Federal Court challenges over the controversial extension to Woodside's North West Shelf gas project. #auspol #COP30 au.news.yahoo.com/australia-el...
Mask on/mask off
People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price
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People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price
aeon.co/essays/the-h...
The hidden costs of masking for women with ADHD and autism | Aeon Essays
People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price
aeon.co
November 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Mask on/mask off
People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price
aeon.co/essays/the-h...
People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price
aeon.co/essays/the-h...
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Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world including @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world including @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s Really Choking Prime Farmland? Hint: It’s Not Wind Farms
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What’s Really Choking Prime Farmland? Hint: It’s Not Wind Farms
As I cycled across Ngunnawal and Gundungurra Country today from Canberra, to Goulburn and into the NSW Southern Highlands, I couldn't help noticing massive blackberry thickets smothering good Country ...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What’s Really Choking Prime Farmland? Hint: It’s Not Wind Farms
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/what-s-...
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/what-s-...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Go past clickbait headline, this is important initiative by Govt to buy back flood-affected properties in NSW northern rivers.
Test case for the inevitable planned retreat that will have to be rolled out up & down our coast & along our rivers, & bushfire prone edges.
At what cost?
Test case for the inevitable planned retreat that will have to be rolled out up & down our coast & along our rivers, & bushfire prone edges.
At what cost?
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Go past clickbait headline, this is important initiative by Govt to buy back flood-affected properties in NSW northern rivers.
Test case for the inevitable planned retreat that will have to be rolled out up & down our coast & along our rivers, & bushfire prone edges.
At what cost?
Test case for the inevitable planned retreat that will have to be rolled out up & down our coast & along our rivers, & bushfire prone edges.
At what cost?
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One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
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Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
theconversation.com/victorias-ad...
theconversation.com/victorias-ad...
Grattan on Friday: In dumping net zero, the Liberals have thumbed their noses at voters they need to win
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Grattan on Friday: In dumping net zero, the Liberals have thumbed their noses at voters they need to win
This week the Liberals have scraped their commitment to net-zero in an effort to keep the Coaltion united.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Grattan on Friday: In dumping net zero, the Liberals have thumbed their noses at voters they need to win
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theconversation.com/grattan-on-f...
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"Among 41 nations & jurisdictions the OECD modelled, Australia’s safeguard mechanism had the 12th lowest coverage. It covered just 22% of all emissions, compared to Canada’s CarbonTax & EmissionsTradingScheme covering 40% of its emissions,Korea’s covering 56% & Germany’s covering an astonishing 84%"
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"Among 41 nations & jurisdictions the OECD modelled, Australia’s safeguard mechanism had the 12th lowest coverage. It covered just 22% of all emissions, compared to Canada’s CarbonTax & EmissionsTradingScheme covering 40% of its emissions,Korea’s covering 56% & Germany’s covering an astonishing 84%"
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Since Paris Agreement, the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada have increased oil and gas production by 40%. At #COP30, some of these same countries have blocked a demand by G-77 (~134 Global South countries) for a just transition mechanism to support workers. ICYMI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
Running into COP30 with Oil and Gas
As COP30 gets underway in Brazil, a new report spotlights increased oil and gas production from the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed a decade ago.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Since Paris Agreement, the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada have increased oil and gas production by 40%. At #COP30, some of these same countries have blocked a demand by G-77 (~134 Global South countries) for a just transition mechanism to support workers. ICYMI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
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It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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And the rest
Almost half of climate scientists polled think the temperature rise by the century's end will be 3C+
And I agree
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost half of climate scientists polled think the temperature rise by the century's end will be 3C+
And I agree
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
And the rest
Almost half of climate scientists polled think the temperature rise by the century's end will be 3C+
And I agree
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost half of climate scientists polled think the temperature rise by the century's end will be 3C+
And I agree
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Governments used to build places for people to live in.
Housing used to be affordable.
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Housing used to be affordable.
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Governments used to build places for people to live in.
Housing used to be affordable.
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Housing used to be affordable.
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Seems relevant in an even darker way than when it was first performed:
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
~ George Carlin
~ George Carlin
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Seems relevant in an even darker way than when it was first performed: