Climate Hot Takes 2025

by | 21 Jan 2026 | Climate, SLAM | 0 comments

In a year where we saw record-breaking heat, accelerating emissions, and climate impacts arrive faster and harder than even scientists expected, the gap between political rhetoric and physical reality became impossible to ignore. 2025 has made one thing painfully...

Watch Rising Tide film Turning the Ship

by | 14 Nov 2025 | AACSGaM, Climate, Rising Tide, SLAM

Missed the community screenings? Or want to share the film with friends and family? Now’s your chance to relive the powerful story of the 2024 People’s Blockade — and get fired up for the massive weeks ahead! This inspiring documentary tells the story of Rising Tide’s...

BCT: Historic snowfall transforms Tablelands

by | 16 Oct 2025 | BCT, Climate, Habitat, SLAM

Saturday 2nd of August an extraordinary winter storm delivered the heaviest snowfall the Northern Tablelands had seen in more than 40 years, blanketing the region with up to 50cm of snow.  The rare event delighted locals with large, heavy flakes falling for hours and...

Drowning in Political Caution

by | 16 Oct 2025 | Climate, SLAM

Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) has been released — and while it rightly warns that 1.5 million Australians could be at risk from sea-level rise by 2050, it fails to acknowledge the much larger and more dangerous reality....

Simon Holmes à Court wins flight with Sussan Ley

by | 3 Oct 2025 | Climate, SLAM

As part of the annual Midwinter Ball auction, Sussan Ley donated “Mystery Flight and Lunch with the Leader of the Opposition”. She’ll fly the plane herself, and promised “ripping yarns”, “cold lager”, a classic pub lunch, and shearing lessons.  The Gala is mostly a...

Doco: Imprint

by | 3 Oct 2025 | Climate, Energy, Local Food, SLAM, Waste, Water

What can one person do? What can a group of people do? What do we want to leave behind? In the feature length film “Imprint” we visit 13 projects in 13 different places where committed groups work for a vibrant future. A personal and poetic investigation into what it...

Registration is open for 2025 People’s Blockade!

by | 12 Sep 2025 | Climate, SLAM

Hooray – registration for the 2025 People’s Blockade is now open! Today is your first chance to register for one of the most powerful climate actions on the planet – as we turn out en masse in Muloobinba/Newcastle to stop coal exports from the world’s largest coal...