Matt Wicking
@mattwicking
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Artist and activist. Facilitation at Cloud Catcher. Musician at The General Assembly (he/they). Follow here: https://t.co/lC3XeH8DA5
Gadubanud Country, Australia
Joined May 2010
A new story on loss and love - with songs by me, sound by @d_a_calf & @ptraine and featuring samples of the work of soundscape ecologist @BernieKrause @wildsanctuary #extinction #fieldrecording
cloudcatcher.org
A story about extinction, grief and reconnection. Set on Kuku Yalanji country (in the Daintree Rainforest), Field Recording combines story, song and poetry in a unique and timely performance. For...
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Our Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT. ‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’ - Richard Denniss #auspol
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Get your hands on the updated Sound Country: A Green Artist Guide from Green Music Australia. Check it out for practical advice and tools needed to implement sustainable practices in music making and involve audiences in change. Download via https://t.co/GnROn15NLe
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Our friends at @GreenMusicAU have just released an incredible new resource for musicians called Sound Country. It’s a fully comprehensive guide which teaches artists to care for the planet by greening their practice. Download here - https://t.co/I0G3YpBJVK
#greenmusicaustralia
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A resource well worth exploring for musicians @GreenMusicAU has release an updated version of their Sound Country: Green Artist Guide >> https://t.co/mujaGkVin3 Our new Climate Change and Sustainability Specialist Tenaya King worked on both the first & second version.
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To my beautiful creative & musical friends: you have to see this @GreenMusicAU guide. It's full of ideas to help care for the planet in our work as artists & musos. If you're ready to get inspired, download it now: https://t.co/Yj5TLy9ASW
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Know any musicians who want to be more green? Share this link with them: https://t.co/isZlU1PJUd It's a super-practical guide Rhoda Roberts and I wrote a few years ago with the wonderful folks at @GreenMusicAU Download the FREE PDF: https://t.co/isZlU1PJUd
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Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media. This was the largest study on emotional health in history. The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy." Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm: 🧵
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The great Aussie gas giveaway is set to continue under Labor 🤯🫠 This is a total scam - we haven’t received a cent of PRRT for offshore LNG exports & the weak changes Govt made last term aren’t fixing it. Parliament needs to fix the PRRT. @abcnews
https://t.co/MBIGSpFyPE
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The government expected to raise an additional $2.4 billion over four years thanks to changes to the tax on oil and gas profits. It is now predicting it will raise $4 billion less over that same time.
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This is scandalous WA Government doctoring scientific report on destruction of Murujuga cultural treasure to cover for Woodside. "A disgrace to Australian science, and my colleagues at Curtin University, who I'm sure are as angry as I am." More🧵👇 https://t.co/yPbmj0PNPy
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Today, drilling for gas under the Barossa project off the coast of Darwin was approved That's 274mil tones of emissions from one of the dirtiest gas projects in the 🌏 More than 100x emissions from the 🇦🇺 electricity system Our approvals system is broken. We need urgent reform
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The use of pencils to complete ballot papers in the federal election continues to be the subject of some odd, incorrect assertions on this platform. So, here is a thread about that subject. 🧵
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ACF has given the Coalition just 1 out of 100 for its environment and climate change policies – the lowest score we have given the Liberal and National parties in more than 20 years of compiling pre-election scorecards. #auspol #AusVotes2025
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Australian Conservation Foundation says opposition has ‘failed every single test’ while Labor passes with 54% and Greens achieve 98%
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"Australia is the 3rd biggest fossil fuel exporter in the world. "Norway, which is also a big fossil fuel exporter, they tax their fossil fuel industry and give their kids free university education. "In Aus, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry." - Richard Denniss #qanda
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"The avg mortgage pays $200k in profit to the banks. The supermarkets made an extra billion last yr when their profit margins went up. "We can either collect more tax from the big businesses that can afford to pay it, or we can say, Sorry, Marge, you've had it too good." #qanda
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Nuclear confirmed again as the slowest, most expensive energy option. Real world and models agree: Australia's energy future is renewable 🌞 not radioactive ☢️
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National science agency dismisses argument nuclear’s economics have not been adequately considered in new draft report
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Australians watching #Dutton crap on about nuclear energy will recognise that we're at stage 6. #nuclear #auspol #climate #environment
The Seven Stages of climate denial: 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not that bad 4. We have time 5. It's too expensive to fix 6. Here's a fake solution 7. It's too late: you should have warned us earlier Trolls use all of these stages to deny reality of #climatechange
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It's like 'Succession' but with a much better ending. In this case, a court tells the nasty old prick who has caused untold harm to society that he doesn't get to decide. Sweet.
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Media mogul’s three adult children will retain control despite attempt to give his son Lachlan complete control
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