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Writer and blogger at Little Body Huge Life. Disability. Conservationist, Former environmental scientist, former radio producer/presenter, former Dance DJ. No chats thanks. https://littlebodyhugelife.wordpress.com/
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An Australian wattle to brighten your day

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Will the re-elected Labor government give priority to our environment? This what voters want! Approving the extension of the northwest shelf gas for 50 years, and further clearing of jarrah forest for mining are not! theconversation.com/5-things-we-...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

An excellent article with an outside view, of the West Australian unique Jarrah forest, and the peril it faces by continued expansion by Alcoa in a changing climate. Rehabilitation over many years has not managed to replace a forest ecosystem. It's a slow death apps.publicsource.org/alcoa-mines-...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

'Substandard' rehabilitation efforts after clearing Jarrah forest for aluminium mining should be a sound reason not to grant expansion of clearing, diminishing forest vulnerable to drying climate. Replanting trees is not the same as the complex ecosystem that is lost. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

They want you to think that protecting nature will make us all poorer, sicker and sadder. It's a lie - as Costa Rica proves. The Central American country’s extraordinary push to protect its rainforests and nature made its people happier, healthier and wealthier. Here’s how. 🧵

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

He says it so clearly. We need to change our priorities.

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

The NDIA are removing vital supports while eligibility is reassessed, with poor communication. Now a review criticises their actions. Shades of #Robodebt. It's hugely stressful for participants, #ndia need to do much better for the vulnerable! It's their job! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

It feels awfully like more of the same with the changes to the #ndis. All without much input from participants, overbearing uncaring bureaucracy removing supports. Not fair. Open letter to the NDIA regarding procedural fairness in NDIS eligibility reassessments open.substack.com/pub/leakylif...

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

Poor Bali is inundated by plastic rubbish this time of year. It's time to stop treating our oceans as bottomless rubbish dumps and drastically cut back our plastic consumption. Anything produced needs its whole life cycle sorted - reused, recycled . Laws for plastics. www.news.com.au/travel/desti...

submitted 181 days ago • 1 comment

Julia Baird talks about grace in the US where public figures set a tone where denigration and abuse are acceptable, where kindness and civility are absent. Yet as Julia notices, all around were acts of kindness and care, same in most our lives. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing better on a hot day than to watch the sunset at the beach with a friendly cruisy crowd

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote a blog about meeting #michaelleunig at a Bali Writers Festival a few years ago. There were a number of obstacles for a woman with disabilities and with the Bali traffic but the end made all the effort so worthwhile. wordpress.com/post/littleb...

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

The WA govt was elected on an environmental ticket (stopping Roe 8 highway through wetlands) but it was only for votes. Let's cook the planet with 50 yrs more gas! www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments

What's it like to live in a world which isn't accessible for everyone? fb.watch/wgFGiJk-nS/

submitted 207 days ago • 0 comments