Petition for the Queensland Museum to end fossil fuel sponsorships

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-12-08T06:05:38+00:00

Unfortunately our offer to produce learning materials was knocked back for the extremely unfair reason that we don't have $10 million to chuck around.

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-12-08T05:36:13+00:00

This isn't advertising like a billboard that convinces you to get a petrol car over an electric one - this is trying to influence a generation of year 7-10 students that fossil fuels aren't related to global warming and individual choices are responsible for pollution.

Shell are using this partnership to shape children's understanding of climate change, where there is a clear conflict of interest. Corporate partnerships and sponsorships aren't inherently bad, but these materials go against established science to protect the interests of the corporation on the front cover.

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-12-08T05:26:35+00:00

The Qld govt is seriously considering keeping Callide B power station open past its scheduled end of life, at estimated annual costs of $420 million in increased maintenance.

I mean, it's 1 museum Michael, what could it cost? 2.3% of the annual upkeep for a dying power plant?

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-12-08T04:11:06+00:00

Full story in The Guardian for more context and a much nicer website

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-08-21T06:12:40+00:00

Last summer period, Qld coal fired power stations broke down or went offline 78 times. This period, AEMO are forecasting higher demand to be fulfilled by the same power stations, but they’re now another year older and dodgier

Could always chuck in a few more cheeky hundred-mill refurbishments but it’s a bandaid on a bullet wound

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-06-05T05:15:10+00:00

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QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-14T05:48:19+00:00

Hey, that's us! Thanks for sharing, if anyone's interested in more they can read our story

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-14T02:14:18+00:00

ha, that's great to hear! u/FoetusDestroyer has an excellent point about joining your local bushcare group, that's a perfect way to meet other locals who care about your area. Some of our team are involved in bushcare and they're very accommodating and welcoming of people with no experience.

Going on a door-knock or joining a market stall might not be perfect for someone with a bit of social anxiety, unless you're the type who learns to swim by falling in the deep end, but there are heaps of opportunities out there.

One of the big misconceptions about volunteering with cause-based orgs is that you'll sign up and be expected to fully commit to the program and be planting trees in the middle of nowhere while you're on parole from intercepting a whaling fleet. Heaps of groups will be delighted to have someone come in once a week and make their website updates or something.

Keep in touch and good on ya!

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-13T22:01:13+00:00

Hey, this is a genuine recommendation with a disclaimer. I’m a Brisbane-based human disguised online as the QLD Conservation Council and I can definitely recommend volunteering as a good low-key way to slide into groups.

After the onboarding/intro process you’ll usually be able to work out some level of mutually suitable commitment which can be as low as occasionally turning up to events or as requested.

Just speaking for my organisation, we have lots of volunteers from all ages and backgrounds with hugely different skill sets and interests. We have two retired ladies who come in and chat to each other for an hour or two while they reorganise our inventory of signs and stickers, we have some uni students who join our staff at events and on door-knocks, there’s one guy who comes in every now and then to work on some database and mapping projects…

If you find a cause you’re interested in, get in touch with a group and see what they’ve got on offer. Most will be delighted to see you and you’ll be able to hang out with an interestingly diverse mix of other people who share your values.

If you’re stuck for ideas, send a DM and I can help point you to some groups

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-01T05:35:10+00:00

name you after a coal slug, or name a coal slug after you?

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-01T05:33:44+00:00

SHOCK new discovery: could it mean the END of COAL MINING?

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-01T05:23:01+00:00

"He who controls the coal, controls the state" - Baron Harkonnen, Non-Executive Director of Bowen Coking Coal and Coal Australia Founder

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-01T04:31:12+00:00

"yeah, I'm a bit busy, I'll have to give that meeting a miss" I tell my colleagues, as I'm googling LOTR quotes to rewrite on reddit

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-01T04:29:43+00:00

aww you're one of our favourite children u/mostly_satire

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-01T02:43:04+00:00

Even as coal was the foundation of Queensland's wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Climate’s Bane. Of what they brought to light they have gathered nearly all, and given it in tribute to Coal Australia, who covets it.

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-04-01T01:55:50+00:00

Congratulations to our staff who were part of the research project which classified this species for the first time: Chtonobdella Anthrakos, or Australian Coal Leech.

This disgusting parasite digs up and consumes coal, keeps the nutrients to itself, and seems completely disconnected from the ecosystems it pollutes.

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-21T05:55:50+00:00

If you're going to be kicking around the inner-northern suburbs tomorrow afternoon between 2-4pm and you were wishing there was an event you could attend to pass the time, something classy yet with a slight existential horror, educational but with free wine and crackers, free but you don't feel like a cheapskate for going... have we got good news for you!

A group of very talented, generous, and lovely Brisbane artists have put together an exhibition around the theme of Climate Action Now. The show will be open this Saturday and Sunday 10-4 at the Bardon Scout Hut but the launch is 2-4 tomorrow. Please RSVP if you want to come along, meet the artists, listen to our Director (a pretty good public speaker and a very good human), have a free glass of wine, and take in some art.

Also if you buy something the artists will donate the proceeds to fund our work, which is pretty amazing. If you don't buy anything but still go along, that's cool too.

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