Colin Salter
@colinsalter.bsky.social
Policy Lead for Wildlife NGO and environmental humanities academic at UNSW. Environmental & social justice activism, postcolonial theory, ecological technology, critical animal studies, unceded Dharawal Country 🖤💛❤️ . 🌱ⓥ 🍉
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Hannah Thomas: NSW police drop all charges against former Greens candidate injured at pro-Palestine protest
Hannah Thomas: NSW police drop all charges against former Greens candidate injured at pro-Palestine protest
Thomas was arrested and charged at a Sydney protest on 27 June, where her lawyers allege she was punched in the face by police
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New South Wales police have dropped all charges against former Greens candidate protester Hannah Thomas who was arrested at a protest in June.
Thomas was arrested and charged alongside four others at a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney on 27 June that was attended by about 60 people at SEC Plating. The 35-year-old was taken to hospital and underwent two rounds of surgery to her right eye, with her lawyers alleging a police officer punched her in the face. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Hannah Thomas: NSW police drop all charges against former Greens candidate injured at pro-Palestine protest
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ANALYSIS: “the Nazi rally was organised by Nazis”
August 31, 2025 at 5:23 AM
ANALYSIS: “the Nazi rally was organised by Nazis”
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Happy Skynet day to all who celebrate!
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Happy Skynet day to all who celebrate!
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When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
What Gives Me Hope
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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🥳🚨🤩 Job opportunity with me at Uni Lausanne working on the REAL project!
2 year Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use
Link here for details and application. Deadline 15 Sept!
tinyurl.com/33rfw3xz
2 year Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use
Link here for details and application. Deadline 15 Sept!
tinyurl.com/33rfw3xz
Opportunités de carrière : Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use (22432)
tinyurl.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🥳🚨🤩 Job opportunity with me at Uni Lausanne working on the REAL project!
2 year Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use
Link here for details and application. Deadline 15 Sept!
tinyurl.com/33rfw3xz
2 year Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use
Link here for details and application. Deadline 15 Sept!
tinyurl.com/33rfw3xz
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Blowing up your small-town writers festival because your local university needs to crack down on free speech because there’s a genocide we can’t talk about is so utterly on-brand for Australian culture. Cowards and fools 3-deep at the canapés tray
August 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Blowing up your small-town writers festival because your local university needs to crack down on free speech because there’s a genocide we can’t talk about is so utterly on-brand for Australian culture. Cowards and fools 3-deep at the canapés tray
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August 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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There’s a solid case that Australia is in breach of its treaty obligations by continuing to supply the F-35 parts that undoubtedly form a small piece of Israel’s war-making machine, writes Michael Bradley.
Australia sends F-35 jet parts to Israel. Is it legal under international law?
If Australia is breaching its treaty obligations, that only raises an issue of enforceable illegality if those obligations have been made part of our domestic law. Mostly, they haven’t.
www.crikey.com.au
August 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
There’s a solid case that Australia is in breach of its treaty obligations by continuing to supply the F-35 parts that undoubtedly form a small piece of Israel’s war-making machine, writes Michael Bradley.
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This opportunistic drivel is low, even for News Corp.
Evoking the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to criticise pro-Gaza protests trivialises both the unique horror of nuclear warfare, and the escalating atrocity of Israel's war of retribution on the Palestinian people.
#SanctionIsrael
Evoking the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to criticise pro-Gaza protests trivialises both the unique horror of nuclear warfare, and the escalating atrocity of Israel's war of retribution on the Palestinian people.
#SanctionIsrael
August 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This opportunistic drivel is low, even for News Corp.
Evoking the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to criticise pro-Gaza protests trivialises both the unique horror of nuclear warfare, and the escalating atrocity of Israel's war of retribution on the Palestinian people.
#SanctionIsrael
Evoking the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to criticise pro-Gaza protests trivialises both the unique horror of nuclear warfare, and the escalating atrocity of Israel's war of retribution on the Palestinian people.
#SanctionIsrael
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Forest and woodland across an area more than 1,000 times the size of the Sydney CBD was bulldozed in Queensland in 2022-23, newly published figures show
- @lisacox.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- @lisacox.bsky.social
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Queensland land-clearing figures show state remains ‘deforestation capital of Australia’, conservationists say
Overall clearing was up 3%, with almost half in Great Barrier Reef catchment areas while 21% was remnant woodland, government data shows
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Forest and woodland across an area more than 1,000 times the size of the Sydney CBD was bulldozed in Queensland in 2022-23, newly published figures show
- @lisacox.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- @lisacox.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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After the convicted sex offender lost his bid on Thursday to stop the NSW parliament expulsion, Gareth Ward resigned from his position as minister.
Breaking: Disgraced MP Gareth Ward resigns ahead of parliament expulsion vote
After the convicted sex offender lost his bid on Thursday to stop the NSW parliament expulsion, Gareth Ward resigned from his position as minister.
www.abc.net.au
August 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
After the convicted sex offender lost his bid on Thursday to stop the NSW parliament expulsion, Gareth Ward resigned from his position as minister.
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Helsinki has recorded its first year without a single traffic-related casualty, with the last death occurring in early July 2024.
Today, over half of the city’s streets have a speed limit of 30 km/h.
Today, over half of the city’s streets have a speed limit of 30 km/h.
Helsinki leads by example with zero road deaths in one year
The Finnish capital has recorded its first year without a single traffic-related casualty, with the last death occurring in early July 2024. This remarkable achievement for […]
traveltomorrow.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Helsinki has recorded its first year without a single traffic-related casualty, with the last death occurring in early July 2024.
Today, over half of the city’s streets have a speed limit of 30 km/h.
Today, over half of the city’s streets have a speed limit of 30 km/h.
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This is utterly typical of the modern Australian university. High-paid cowards punching down on underlings; po-faced petty bureaucrats seeking to discipline and control www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
University of Sydney removes Palestinian flag from academic’s window after accusing him of breaching policy
Dr David Brophy claims new flag policy introduced in June was ‘precisely in response to people like me hanging Palestinian flags’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This is utterly typical of the modern Australian university. High-paid cowards punching down on underlings; po-faced petty bureaucrats seeking to discipline and control www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#Warranmadhaa the new #NationalPark can only be effective if critically important #koala east-west habitat corridors, including #MallatyCreek, are also protected.
Appin Road continues to have devastating consequences on koalas.
Wildlife crossings are still a no show, despite years of promises #WIRES
Appin Road continues to have devastating consequences on koalas.
Wildlife crossings are still a no show, despite years of promises #WIRES
Roads and Koalas: Sydney’s Costly Disconnect
Sydney's koala population faces critical threats from road fatalities and habitat loss, despite promises of protection and new national parks. Urgent action is needed.
www.wires.org.au
August 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
#Warranmadhaa the new #NationalPark can only be effective if critically important #koala east-west habitat corridors, including #MallatyCreek, are also protected.
Appin Road continues to have devastating consequences on koalas.
Wildlife crossings are still a no show, despite years of promises #WIRES
Appin Road continues to have devastating consequences on koalas.
Wildlife crossings are still a no show, despite years of promises #WIRES
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March for humanity
August 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
March for humanity
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Omg, the woman on the PA system in Wynyard, who's been giving directions since we got here, just added "Free Palestine, free Palestine" at the end of one of her announcements. Cheers erupted.
#MarchForHumanity
#MarchForHumanity
August 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Omg, the woman on the PA system in Wynyard, who's been giving directions since we got here, just added "Free Palestine, free Palestine" at the end of one of her announcements. Cheers erupted.
#MarchForHumanity
#MarchForHumanity
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A bit perplexed at the headlines about today’s #marchforhumanity saying “perilous” and “police feared the worst”. Surely the story is that, in spite of police fears, the march was peaceful, demonstrators full of goodwill and happily cooperated with police instructions to manage the huge turnout.
August 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A bit perplexed at the headlines about today’s #marchforhumanity saying “perilous” and “police feared the worst”. Surely the story is that, in spite of police fears, the march was peaceful, demonstrators full of goodwill and happily cooperated with police instructions to manage the huge turnout.
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Crossing that bridge.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
July 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Crossing that bridge.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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NEW! in our journal #australianmammalogy - Rat Trap! Rakali ambush introduced Black Rats and come out on top during agressive interactions!
Read more - www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM25009
Read more - www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM25009
First evidence of aggressive interactions by native rakali towards invasive black rats
The mechanisms by which native species might compete with invasive alien species are poorly understood, especially for competing cryptic small mammals. We document the first evidence of an aggressive ...
www.publish.csiro.au
July 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
NEW! in our journal #australianmammalogy - Rat Trap! Rakali ambush introduced Black Rats and come out on top during agressive interactions!
Read more - www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM25009
Read more - www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM25009
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Opposing genocide isn’t anti-semitic.
Every word of this.
Jon Stewart: “I feel I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane & horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state? They’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”
#Gaza
Every word of this.
Jon Stewart: “I feel I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane & horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state? They’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”
#Gaza
July 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Opposing genocide isn’t anti-semitic.
Every word of this.
Jon Stewart: “I feel I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane & horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state? They’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”
#Gaza
Every word of this.
Jon Stewart: “I feel I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane & horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state? They’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”
#Gaza
Interesting Australian research on another impact of #climatechange on #marine species. As waters warm, tropical species are migrating south. Observations include new species interactions & social learning with-from shoaling alongside other species, & potential impacts on temperate species. #auspol
As oceans warm, tropical fish are moving south. New friendships may be helping them survive
As oceans warm, tropical fish are on the move, heading south into cooler waters. New research reveals how they are getting on with the fish they encounter there.
theconversation.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Interesting Australian research on another impact of #climatechange on #marine species. As waters warm, tropical species are migrating south. Observations include new species interactions & social learning with-from shoaling alongside other species, & potential impacts on temperate species. #auspol
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It's the latter. I've explained to Ken in person and in writing (like others I'm sure) that relying on ACCUs/credits to fund conservation is a zero sum game. But I'm not a former Treasury chief with a deep voice, so what do I know about biodiversity science. ENGOs need to question their support imo
July 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It's the latter. I've explained to Ken in person and in writing (like others I'm sure) that relying on ACCUs/credits to fund conservation is a zero sum game. But I'm not a former Treasury chief with a deep voice, so what do I know about biodiversity science. ENGOs need to question their support imo