Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 10
Shall we play the game @[email protected] of how many top global land holding billionaire lobbyists are featured in the ABC's "authoritative coverage"? #buffelgrass #Australia #colonialism #agriculture

Buffel Battle: The environment...
Buffel Battle: The environmental impact of buffel grass

ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production

Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 10
"Buffel grass is a life source for Australia's cattle industry". When Australia's cattle industry = 80% exports, which includes over 50,000 McDonalds in 190 nations, maybe it's time to acknowledge the whole system is killing people + planet? 1st up, we've got Steve Hayes, Grazier. 1/
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@adriantomlinson.bsky.social Steve's family own The Garden: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gar... Part of the fracking inquiry, possibly being fracked for gas: hydraulicfracturing.nt.gov.au On the Droughtmaster board: www.droughtmaster.com.au/society-info... 2/
The Garden (pastoral station) - Wikipedia

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Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 10
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social so when anyone buys and sells cattle in Australia, they're funding lobbying groups by default. The MLA is funded by transaction levies: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_%2... Which means that you're looking at one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the world. Why? 3/

Meat & Livestock Australia - W...
Meat & Livestock Australia - Wikipedia

Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 10
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social MLA = 1 of the most powerful lobbying groups in the world because of Australian cattle ownership. Rinehart. Murdoch. Forrest & friends. A band in Newcastle's coal port = truth telling via their art better than anyone else. @[email protected] a request: #straya 4/

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Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social not to be outdone, lets just go through this pack of lobbyists in the ALT tags. Basically what we're looking here is the octopus tentacles of Meat & Livestock Australia, which they all roll into to do the same kind of right wing lobbying. 5/ #BuffelGrass #Australia
Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social When it comes to lobbying + BS, Australia's finest: "For more than a century, pastoral families have worked across vast rangelands, shaping landscapes. They achieved it by developing it with purpose, & the opportunity to build on that legacy has never been greater." 6/

BIODIVERSITY IS BETTER ON BEEF...
BIODIVERSITY IS BETTER ON BEEF » Territory Q

For more than a century, pastoral families have worked across vast rangelands, shaping landscapes that remain some of the most intact in Australia. They did not achieve this by locking the country…

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Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social Australia's largest pastoral holding/family is Hancock aka Gina Rinehart, and this is her families legacy. The worst contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere. That's just for her father's mining. Plenty more where that came from. #Australia #Asbestos #Mining 7/

Yurlu | Country - Official Tra...
Yurlu | Country - Official Trailer

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Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social might you know what they're spraying with? Obviously with #buffelgrass, it's something hardcore. I'm guessing it's roundup aka #glyphosate. I have *issues* with glyphosate ⬇️ 8/

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Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social preaching to the converted re: the damage industrial agriculture on these lands is causing: 9/

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Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social "This is something that's not from here. It's an invader. Not a lot of people like things invading their country, and not being able to do something about it." - Garth Forrester, Central Lands Council, which caretakes land around Uluru. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖤💛❤️ #Australia 10/
Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social One of the most interesting parts of this segment was Romy Carey from the Cattlemens Association. "We will see unintended consequences, and additional regulatory burden." Know anyone else concerned with regulatory burden? Oh, color me surprised! 11/

Australia's mining competitive...
Australia's mining competitiveness at risk from excessive regulation, says Rinehart

Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart said on Wednesday the burden of excessive regulation on the Australian mining industry had put its global competitiveness at risk.

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Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social One of the best examples of the influence that big ag like Rinehart has was this graphic from @[email protected] regarding #cop28. Whilst there's not as many links - to Cargill + McDonalds, whom are absolutely linked to MLA + Gina + friends, it's a good example. 12/

Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Inf...
Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

As this year’s climate summit gets underway in Dubai, powerful food and farming companies are well positioned to ensure their interests are protected. They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. These agri-giants will be rubbing shoulders with over 80,000 participants – the highest attendance of any climate conference – […]

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Show threadJane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 11
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social Here's the graphic + info re: MLA and their lobbying power c/o @[email protected]. Let's call it done at 13/13! Phew! Thanks for playing! #Buffelgrass #colonialism #Australia #Agriculture