A moving tribute to Sophie Trevitt in the Australian Senate.

Larissa Waters, 8:15pm 31 August 2023, adjournment.

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30°C above normal in the Arctic today.
40°C above normal in the Antarctic today.
It would be unbelievable if it were not true.
And it is terrifying beyond words.
The war we have waged against the natural world has, in climatic terms, just gone nuclear.

In Ballina, where the Richmond River feeds out to the ocean. Dead fish everywhere. This water is toxic. Floodwater, several weeks later. The environmental impact is staggering. Full effect won’t be known for ages. A disaster. #NSWFloods #lismorefloods #ballinafloods

Possibly the first major attempt at weaponising deepfakes

Thread: Heading towards one of the worst-hit areas in northern NSW, I spot a cop with a speed gun.

Just 30 mins away, residents are trapped inside their communities.

They say they’ve had no assistance from emergency services and are relying on helis and volunteers.

Lost everything I own in the Lismore floods. My house won’t be liveable for months. Homeless. There’s no govt direction here. Community supporting community. Food running out. No fuel. No power. No ice. Is help coming soon? Does anyone know?

The Fijians in Lismore raising the community’s spirit through song. It truly is a beautiful culture.
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BREAKING: the IPCC has just released its latest report on the impacts of climate change and it is deeply confronting.
The report is an unprecedented emergency warning for humanity and global ecology.
Here's some detail on the findings - and on how we change course 🧵 #auspol

If you are thinking about how to help flood affected people in our beautiful city of #BNE in the next week...
As someone who lost pretty much everthing in 2011 and who then did a ethnographic study on community responses in the following year ... I have a few thoughts/1

This Is Keen St in Lismore. The footage coming through is absolutely devastating. I honestly don’t think our town will completely recover after this flood.
📷- B Rob
#lismore #LismoreFloods #floods

In Lismore we have done floods for ever. This is not a flood - this is catastrophic. This is extreme. This is climate change. Lismore needs back up. People are on and in their roof some are screaming for their lives and water is still rising. Friends are rescuing friends.

A Ukrainian man carries a fish and a cat he saved from the residential building hit by the Russian missiles earlier today in Kyiv. Humanity always prevails, even in dark times like this.

This is a really well put together and sensitively written article:

smh.com.au/national/victo…

Who needs amenities anyway? A couple thousand people can just share the loo at the local servo…

Canberra protesters getting a crash course in hygiene.

Australia's first cholera outbreak since 1875 is only hours away.

THREAD: I keep being asked when we can go 'back to normal' or 'like it was before'. My personal thoughts:

We've added a new disease to our population, more infectious and more severe than flu.

The world pre 2020 no longer exists - we may want it to, but it just doesn't. 1/13

The federal government has officially listed the koala as endangered. In 10 years the species has gone from having no listing to vulnerable and now endangered. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The #Canberra Convoy protests have evolved into a social media phenomenon which is part protest, part reality TV show. Here's me for Institute for Strategic Dialogue on the war of the anti-lockdown influencers and analysing protest movements in the social media era isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…

Well this wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be—plus I’ve only been accused of being ‘anti-fa’ once. You get a lot of attention wearing a mask around this crowd.