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LEAN SW Tasmania LEAN is a group dedicated to preserving the environment in South West Tasmania including Kingborough, Huon, Channel, Bruny, Macquarie Islands.

30/09/2026

Here’s a taste of what’s coming at The Gathering in Deloraine this November.

FRIDAY | Social Gatherings
• Drum along with The 3D Drums Ensemble
• Create your Landcare story with Landcare Scrapbooking
• Experience Wildwood After Dark for moths, stories and a night walk
• Take a Platypus Walk along the Meander River

SATURDAY | The Meet Up
Saturday is the main Gathering day — a full day of practical learning, shared ideas and connection.

Start the day together with an opening and facilitated networking before diving into a program packed with choice.
Through the morning, jump into practical workshops, panel discussions and In Practice sessions, or drop into the Landcare Lounge for advice, resources and support.

After lunch, keep the ideas flowing across the three program streams — Community Leadership & Resilience, Catchment & Farming Systems, and Biodiversity & Restoration — with practical workshops, conversations and opportunities to share knowledge.

Then it's time to celebrate! Wrap up the day with food, drinks, live music and dancing - and plenty of time to celebrate the people who make Landcare happen.

SUNDAY | Field trips
Get out on the ground with local groups — from river restoration and revegetation to bandicoot habitat, devil dens, farm dams and w**d management.

📍 Deloraine | 6–8 November 2026
🎟️ Tickets are on sale now: https://events.humanitix.com/thegathering2026

The Tasmanian Community Landcare Gathering is supported by the Tasmanian Government.

29/09/2026

Renew Economy:
'The call will add to pressure of the 11 Greens senators to vote down a disallowance motion put forward by the Nationals and the forest industry for a vote in federal parliament on September 15th.

The motion aims to strike down the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) carbon method, proposed by the NSW Minns Labor government and approved by the federal government.

“NSW Greens MPs do not support the Nationals disallowance motion and we have communicated this to our Federal Greens colleagues,” Sue Higginson, the NSW Green’s spokesperson for climate change and the environment, told Renew Economy.

The state party stressed that it rejected the generation of carbon credits from forests, per se, and supported the protection of forests for their natural climate mitigation and biodiversity values.

However, “if the Nationals and the timber industry get their way, and this method is tanked, it will mean that carbon credits will be generated from our forests and logging will be locked in for years and years,” Higginson said. “We refuse to be part of that.”

Contact the Greens senators in Canberra and implore them to look closely at the facts and not vote with the Nats. It could be our last chance to save native forests in NSW. Lets work together and get this done.

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29/09/2026

AFR: 'Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King says the big miners cannot allow war in the Middle East and Europe to derail the decarbonisation of the West Australian Pilbara, despite conceding global unrest has interrupted the sector’s green ambitions.

King’s comments come as the WA government ramped up pressure on mining giants this weekto make good on commitments to decarbonise the state’s north-west by putting aside decades-long competitive hostilities to develop common user infrastructure.

Speaking to The Australian Financial Review in Perth on Thursday, King acknowledged upheaval to global energy markets stemming from war across Europe and the Middle East had been felt acutely in the Pilbara. However, she said that should not interrupt ambitions to decarbonise WA’s north-west.

“There’s been disruption around the world … and that has interrupted ambition somewhat, I get that,” King said.

“That doesn’t mean we give up on it, and we have to keep pursuing that kind of common user infrastructure where it works.”

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29/09/2026

LEAN agrees with dad!

Betoota Advocate:

“They shouldn’t be commercialising our forests because it will just compensate for big polluters,” said Chloe, as if the people in her online echo chamber are correct that big polluters will just stop polluting at an undisclosed time in the near future because science says it’s bad.

As the room raised eyebrows and thought about throwing questions or retorts at the always self-assured Chloe, Dad chimed in again.

“Yeah, but if it's gonna protect our native forests, I feel like it’s a bit of a no brainer.”

“Tbh, all the forests will probably end up burning down from climate change, so what’s the point anyway,” she replied.

“You lot need to remember sometimes that perfect doesn’t always have to get in the way of -” he continued, before Chloe cut him off and told him he just doesn’t get it.

Mum, alert to the double threats of experienced last word practitioner Uncle Rick and ruining a lovely evening, valiantly tried to move the conversation onto dessert options.

“Might be the first time you’ve agreed with Barnaby on anything eh Chlo? Reckon he’s stoked some of the greenies think saving the trees is a sh*****se idea.”

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29/09/2026

More environmental scientists coming out in support of the INFM and warning against the disallowance.
Australian Financial Review: 'Leading conservationist Tim Flannery says environmental opposition to a controversial new plan to use carbon credits to end logging in NSW is shortsighted and the federal Greens should back a move that will create huge benefits for the state’s native forests'
'Flannery, a top environmental scientist and former boss of the Gillard era- Climate Commission, said the credits were not a perfect solution to the problem of native forest logging, but critics of the plan needed to live in the real world.
“I’m no fan of the current offset system,” he said. “But it seems to me that this opportunity in NSW to stop logging is an enormous benefit,” he said.
“It’s not the method I would have chosen to do it, but it is what it is, and you’ve got to live in the real world.
“This opportunity is here right now, and it’s a historic opportunity that I’ve waited for all of my life ... It would be short-sighted not to grab that opportunity.”

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29/09/2026

AFR: 'The 4.9 per cent decline in overall energy use by households and industry since its peak in 2019 amounts to about 302 petajoules – enough to fill a 55-litre tank of petrol 160 million times, according to new data published by the federal government.'
'The accelerating trend is driven by the gradual switch from fossil fuel sources of energy such as coal, gas and oil to more efficient electric alternatives such as wind, solar and batteries, as well as EVs and household appliances.

Grattan Institute energy and climate analyst Hamish McKenzie said petrol and diesel engines were much less efficient than electric alternatives because about two-thirds of the energy put into them was wasted as heat.'

'“Everyday Australians need to buy much less energy than they are currently buying because combustion motors and gas appliances are extremely inefficient. A huge part of your bill is money that you’ve thrown in the bin because the energy is wasted,” he said.

“The cheapest power is power you don’t use.”'

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29/09/2026

The number of H5 bird flu events in Tasmania is now 44, with seven new events recorded since 15 September.

Surveillance continues and Tasmanians are asked to stay vigilant and report bird deaths or signs of disease, including in birds migrating back to Tasmania to breed.

Each year, millions of short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds) return to Tasmania after migrating from the northern Pacific Ocean.

Most birds complete the migration successfully, but some do not survive.

In some years, large numbers of shearwaters may wash up on beaches at this time of year.

While Tasmania remains on alert for H5 bird flu, shearwater deaths may occur naturally following migration.

Reporting by the community remains an important part of our surveillance efforts.

If you see sick or dead birds or wildlife:
✅ Avoid contact
✅ Record what you see and where you saw it, take photos if you can
✅ Report it to the Emergency Animal Disease hotline on 1800 675 888

Check current advice at www.nre.tas.gov.au/birdflu

14/08/2026

Renew Economy: 'The New Zealand government has recommended legalising plug-in solar in Aotearoa, moving a crucial step closer to tapping into a huge new, and game-changing market for distributed PV – and potentially beating Australia to the punch.

Plug-in solar – sometimes called ‘balcony solar’ in reference to one of its most common applications – has been a runaway success in parts of Europe, like Germany, where it has extended the bill-slashing benefits of PV to apartment dwellers and renters and others previously locked out of the market.

In Australia, however, it is not yet legal. As Smart Energy Lab general manager Glenn Morris explained it to Renew Economy here, Australia and New Zealand have slightly different electrical standards than the rest of the world, in terms of the configuration of our networks and safety requirements.'

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