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Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation seeking 1.8 billion Australian dollars ($1.15bn) in damages from WA after it allowed a mining firm to establish an iron ore project on its ancestral land without a land use deal, according to court filings. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

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The new Northern Territory government cut funding to two environmental groups the same week it has sought to introduce new laws that would potentially allow the Chief Minister to sweep aside environmental regulation for favoured gas projects. New from me in @reneweconomy.com.au

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I'd like to thank Matt Canavan for making Peter Dutton's life particularly difficult today. Credit where credit is due.

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The ceo of Japan's INPEX is pushing for Australian governments to help expand its gas export plant near Darwin based on a climate-busting gas growth forecast. www.boilingcold.com.au/inpex-chief-...

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The Australian government's largest science agency, CSIRO, has become an enabler of the fossil fuel industry, promoting massive imports of CO₂ for injection into Australian gas fields (to push out more pollution), and to claim fictitious net-zero "offsets". www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

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Double speech galore

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As the remaining Bali 9 members return home, ALHR’s thoughts are with the loved ones of Andrew Chan & Myuran Sukumaran - young men who had been demonstrably rehabilitated after 10 years imprisonment but who were executed. We must continue to work towards the worldwide abolition of the death penalty

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“We know that Māori researchers, communities, and knowledge systems stand to suffer the most from this decision,” says Pou Matarua Professor Tahu Kukutai. “This decision defunds Māori research and Māori researchers by stealth."

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Fascinating to see Amy Remeikis dropping all these truth bombs about the true agenda behind Dutton’s nuclear push in her new role working for @australiainstitute.org.au. She’s had to leave mainstream media to say this - all of it factual, watchdog journalism. Why can’t mainstream say it too?

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Make no mistake, colleagues: the exclusion of humanities & social science research from national competitive funding could easily happen here in Australia. The signs & actors are already clear. We let it happen at our collective peril.

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It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

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NT gov is back in court trying to overturn ruling that it has to provide safe drinking water to remote (mainly Indigenous) communities - case involves uranium polluted water

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At the end of the day, Albanese has failed to reduce Australia’s emissions increasing the carbon debt for his successor and the nation. Our kids will have to explain to thier kids why their grandparents didn’t go to war against the oligarchs.

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It's an astonishingly small group of (mostly) men destroying the planet.

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This year, the Waanyi author of Carpentaria, Tracker and Praiseworthy has won the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and now the Melbourne Prize for Literature.

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Savage cuts expected at Uni Wollongong inc entire geography dept

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33 years ago today - 12 November 1991 - Indonesian soldiers opened fire on protestors at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, East Timor, killing at least 271 people. Warning, graphic footage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxe...

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The NT government has pushed back the timeline for its planned Middle Arm industrial hub, after federal government body Infrastructure Australia rejected its business case.

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Mungarrayi leaders from the Roper River in Australia call for an end to the river grab and signal their intention to form a river council m.youtube.com/watch?v=5GEy...

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Pretty chuffed that our Melbourne Waterway Research-Practice Partnership is a finalist in Engagement Australia's 'Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact' award😄 engagementaustralia.org.au/2024-excelle...

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"For some time, water researchers, Indigenous traditional owners, recreational fishers and environment groups have warned of a reckless approach to water regulation that jeopardises the remarkable rivers, springs and wetlands of the territory." - Prof @suejackson.bsky.social

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Pleased to share a short film directed by Prof Lisa Palmer for our ARC research project on the socio-cultural impacts of environmental markets - this one is from Baguia, Timor Leste, where WithOneSeed is growing trees to restore land after Indonesian occupation - m.youtube.com/watch?si=NLK...

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When will university lawyers get their heads around indigenous intellectual and cultural property and overhaul their contracts - pref across the entire sector? How about some industry standards so that we don’t have to do the work one contract at a time.

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Latest Water Cultures Network seminar - come along - x.com/waterculture...

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Second paper for 2024 just out (& also about the Northern Territory) - Ontological Collisions … in the Aboriginal Water Reserves Policy - with water lawyers, @EzzyOD, Lee Godden, & geographer/anthropologist, Marcia Langton - dx.doi.org/10.1002/ocea... #geosky

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Where are you headed on Invasion Day? Check out the poster below for times and locations of events across this stolen continent, where you can stand in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Turn up. Always ways, Always will be.

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Our new paper about the failures of water governance in the Northern Territory is out - protect-au.mimecast.com/s/g2PLC91ZRp...

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Mudburra people see connections between colonial exploitation of land and water and today's efforts to frack their country. In resisting the destruction of life-giving waters the authors of this moving article composed a song about being stygofauna - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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