Traditional Owners have travelled 5000km to Parliament House to unveil a simply extraordinary 13 metre long map of the songlines and cultural places that make up the Roper River in the NT, under threat from fracking, cotton and mining.

It’s time for those in power to listen.

“It’s beautiful watching the community come together and reveal their deep connections to this place… it’s a human thing. It’s universal.” Mililma May Uprising of the People LTD

First Nations people are leading the fight to stop nature destruction here in the NT.

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“We’re not going to stop destroying your home but you guys can stay at our place.”

The Beetaloo and Middle Arm projects are a climate bomb that can’t be offset, but CSIRO’s gas industry-funded study says otherwise.

Thank you to Bill Hare for expertly unpacking we’ve been gaslit, with CSIRO and govt arm-in-arm with the industry.

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1943. #Moree mob used to raise funds for the segregated ward at the Hospital. MacMaster's Ward. Us blackfellahs needed our own ward so as not to contaminate the white people, but still had to raise money for it ourselves. My mother was born in a tent that same year. #Truthtelling

Australian racism kills Black kids. Horrific.

'The boy had not been convicted and was in Casuarina Prison's Unit 18 on remand when he was found unresponsive in his cell by guards conducting routine checks in the early hours of Thursday morning'

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More heartbreaking stats -sorry Pilbara & Kimberley mob-80% of Fitzroy Crossing “yes”
Remote communities in the Pilbara very high yes votes as can be seen by the attached data from “remote community booths” -very high yes votes.
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21 out of 22 remote polling booths in NT First Nations communities resoundingly wrote “yes”.

The “no” vote in the major non-Indigenous centres of Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs trumped that in the NT’s final count.

We sure have some reckoning to do.

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BREAKING - 21 critically endangered swift parrots have been detected near Idemitsu's coal mine in the Leard State Forest. The company has permission to continue clearing. We're calling on Tanya Plibersek to intervene immediately to protect this habitat.

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#ClimateChange 🌡️ exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭

We are causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes

We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years

The LNG industry uses more gas processing gas for export than Australia's entire manufacturing, more than all gas power stations in Australia and 3X the amount used by households.

84% of Australian gas is exported or used to export gas.

This seems bad…

The Gouldian Finch has made it through!

Please vote for this wondrous creature, treasure of our northern savanna and icon of the Save Lee Point campaign.

We don’t have enough people in the NT to win this alone - we need help from the south 🙏🏻

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“Western Sydney is ground zero of an extreme heat crisis that experts warn will cause financial distress, serious illness and even cost lives.”
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Watch Woodside being interviewed about impacts of seismic testing & drilling gas fields on endangered whales for its Burrup Hub.

“A huge area of forest has been trashed. It’s gut-wrenching carnage of our precious forests. Looking down, there are vast scars on the landscape where greater glider homes once stood,” O’Gorman said.
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#TallagandaSF #logging #epbc #auspol #nswpol

Please share, help and support if you can!! A young Aboriginal mother of two urgently needs support leaving a violent situation - any single dollar helps and would be greatly appreciated ❤️

Beetaloo region Traditional Owners met with Labor and crossbench MPs in Canberra last week.

They want government to move before the end of the year to fulfil its commitment to expand the water trigger to all forms of unconventional gas.

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