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Australians deserve an honest account

This new report confirms... weaknesses extend to Australia’s self-assessment, which lacks the rigour and ambition the nature crisis demands.

The reforms of Australia’s nature laws, passed in late 2025, are the most significant in a generation, and we welcome them. But legislation without implementation, adequate funding or a delivery plan is not enough.

This important report – with its hidden subsidies, inflated spending figures, missing implementation plan, and a definition of “on track” that mistakes promises for progress – is not worthy of a nation with both the means and the obligation to lead.

Do our governments care? Do we care? It seems to me that unless we take the bother, the amazingly grand natural marvels that are all around us but diminishing day by day will be a paltry show in curated reserves and wildlife parks.

Some of our State governments and major hospitals are deeply embedded in Israel’s health ‘ecosystem’, while Israel refuses to help 20,000 injured in Gaza and has damaged and destroyed 94% of Gaza”s hospitals, killed at least 1,722 healthcare workers (and now over 30 in Lebanon) and detained and seriously mistreated hundreds of Palestinian health workers, including senior doctors, without charge.

This is shameful.

I wonder what disability the lady in the photo has?

Australia’s biggest fossil fuel subsidy is the Fuel Tax Credit Scheme, which cost the federal budget a staggering $10.8 billion in 2025-26. That’s more than is spent on the Australian Army.

The Fuel Tax Credit Scheme is basically a tax break for mining companies and other major users of diesel and petrol.

When you fill up your car with 50 litres of fuel, you pay 52c per litre in fuel tax, or $26 in total.

Many suburban families would do that every week, paying over $1,300 in fuel tax each year on the 2,600 litres of fuel they use.

By contrast, BHP uses nearly 1,300,000,000 litres of fuel each year and pays zero in fuel tax.

To be more accurate, BHP pays around $627 million in fuel tax that the government later pays back to BHP under the Fuel Tax Credit Scheme.

To summarise, suburban drivers pay $1,300 in fuel tax per year, while BHP pays nothing on over a billion of litres of the same fuel.

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260312-if-the-ndis-is-runaway-spending-what-do-we-call-16-billion-in-fossil-fuel-subsidies

Please sign letter to Julie Collins, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and assistant Minister Anthony Chisholm.

After massive public pressure and a decade of campaigning by conservation groups, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has finally listened to the mounting evidence and strengthened its federal recommendation to classify SGARs rodenticide as a restricted chemical, removing them from retail sale.

If approved and implemented, this would mark one of the biggest conservation wins for Australian wildlife in recent years. To make this restriction a reality, Minister Collins and the DAFF need to accept the reforms urgently. Tell them to take the final step to protect wildlife and pets.

https://birdlife.org.au/protect-aussie-birds-from-deadly-sgar-rat-poisons/

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/30686818

Time out from the heavy stuff. This video is not only interesting but will put a smile on your face. It is not rude so can be shared with children (but not young ones as they may not understand) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXjfz0N_JXg

Time out from the heavy stuff. This video is not only interesting but will put a smile on your face. It is not rude so can be shared with children (but not young ones as they may not understand) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXjfz0N_JXg

This is what we we need more of. It IS possible. Those who seek to divide are doing wrong by Australia.

Michael West Media have launched two new online tools to the public: TAXDATA, so you can quickly search who pays tax and who doesn't in corporate Australia, and Join-the-Dots, so you can visually check out who is connected to whom.

TAXDATA is a searchable database of thousands of corporations showing their revenue, profit and tax paid (or not). It's a living platform that will be regularly updated from the ATO Tax Transparency database and other ATO disclosures.

I hope our govt keeps saying no. We'd be risking lives. Israel and the US create the problem and than expect others to come and solve it. They'd been warned this would happen but they went ahead and bombed Iran.

Sophie 's bought a 7.5 hectare property in SA which is classified as arid to semi-arid, with less than 350mm of rain a year. It’s baking hot and dry in summer and freezing in winter but she likes the challenge and intends on planting thousands of native plants in an area which was badly degraded by farming practices. By this, she will counteract some of our continual biodiversity loss.

https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/how-to/dawn-of-shingleback-farm/106451554

ALL OF US can take small to large actions. Even if you just have a balcony, by planting a few native plants which are sympathetic or endemic to your area you may make the difference to an invertebrate species and with that, make a difference to local native birds and reptiles. If you have a small garden you can do more, and on and on. If you are not the gardening type you can donate to organisations which are restoring habitats and landscapes. You can get involved with landcare groups or support native and vegetable gardens in your local schools and communities, physically, financially or by helping with admin tasks.

With all our climate challenges, plus now war in our midst and possible food shortages in the future, we have to think ahead and do whatever we can to protect those who bear the brunt of a situation they have not caused

They say that protecting Australians by accelerating the renewable energy rollout is now a security priority.

No one here seemed to be interested in the petition to support a National Framework. This is not pie-in-the-sky thinking.

The Greens proposed a $20 million-a-year wildlife rescue strategy in March 2025 and are again urging their Canberra colleagues to back the plan.

“Wildlife rescue services across the country are struggling to keep their doors open,” said Greens spokesperson for the environment, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

“Our environment is in crisis, and as a consequence our wildlife are paying the price. We are seeing decreasing native wildlife populations and a number of species, including the koala, are facing extinction...”

Senator Hanson-Young said increasing threats to wildlife meant Australia had a responsibility to act.

“Habitat destruction, motor accidents, all of the other dangers … that humans bring onto them, we’ve got a responsibility to look after them...”

https://thepoint.com.au/news/260312-hanson-young-backs-wildlife-recovery-call-for-urgent-funding-to-save-injured-native-animals