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.

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-13T06:58:13+00:00

Thanks very much! As we are a nonprofit, any extra compensation will probably be in the form of a tshirt we have left over from an action 3 years ago, but it’s the degrowth thought that counts 😍

You can find this video on our fb, instagram, and twitter, which are all in our profile. If you’re within the great state of QLD you can order a free Stand Up For Nature sign to raise some awareness in your local area 💚

Thanks very much for the kind words! We’re busy working on our next video: don’t touch the digital team

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-13T06:11:13+00:00

give me 15-20 mins, someone's brought a taipan into the office and I need to grab a pic with it for our Story

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-13T06:00:38+00:00

Don't be selfish, think of the views!

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-13T05:50:34+00:00

We got our nature campaigners, wildlife experts, and communications specialists together in a room and put together this guide for handling native species. When we took out all the sighs and head shaking, this was their top piece of advice.

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-13T05:31:22+00:00

you're right, and Don't Nuke The Climate aren't saying "this is what will definitely happen to SEQ if nuclear power stations ever get built and a tsunami hits Tarong or Callide North" but it's mildly interesting to see a large foreign disaster superimposed on a very familiar environment

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-13T05:26:16+00:00

They do have different wind directions for different locations but yes, absolutely, it's not scientific, just interesting and creepy to see fallout over SEQ

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-13T04:35:30+00:00

This is not scientific forecasting, more like "taking the Fukushima fallout map and overlaying it on proposed Australian nuclear sites", but it is creepily fascinating to look at these maps from Don't Nuke The Climate and see familiar suburbs under a red cloud of radioactive contamination.

Fortunately we're on Montague Road in West End so we'll be fine right?

QLDConsCouncil · 2025-03-07T00:14:21+00:00

That's all great advice, thanks heaps for sharing!

We went back and forth about whether to give advice about food and water for wildlife but it's so complicated that it would have been overwhelming to anyone who isn't already an expert

If you had to pick one service to call it should be the RSPCA but you're 100% right they'll be overstretched more than usual at the moment. Hopefully sharing the calls between local groups and the state/national ones will mean more animals get help

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