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Sydney Beach balls: Cooking oils and human faeces?

"A UNSW scientist has criticised the NSW environmental watchdog for dropping its investigation into the cause of hundreds of tar balls appearing along Sydney's beaches."

"One possible explanation for the balls could be the illegal dumping of large vats of cooking oil into the sewerage system, where it has mixed with human waste to form fatty balls. If companies are seeing this as a cheap option to pump oil through the sewage system, that's a real concern."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-01-15/epa
#Pollution #dumping #waste #Sydney #NSW #beaches #NorthernBeaches #Manly #faeces

ABC News · Scientist criticises EPA for dropping probe into tar balls on NSW beachesBy Victoria Pengilley

Drunk men are among the biggest dangers to women in Sydney.

"Of the 230,217 domestic assaults involving female victims in NSW over the past decade, one in three of those involved alcohol.Some of Sydney’s most exclusive harbourside enclaves – including North Sydney, Mosman, the Northern Beaches and Woollahra – saw an even higher percentage of DV assaults involving booze, according to data compiled by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research and obtained by the Herald."
smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-sy
#alcohol #industry #DV #violence #NorthernBeaches #Sydney #safety #crime #FASD

The Sydney Morning Herald · The Sydney suburbs with the most alcohol-related domestic violenceBy Heath Gilmore, Sally Rawsthorne, Nigel Gladstone

So this is my #Introduction post; it’s not going to be an erudite & expansive affair, as I’m not sure what I want to use this for yet.
I’m #Sydney based, on Aboriginal land without clear or continuous traditional owners. As I understand so far; the First Nations people of the #NorthernBeaches copped the violence of the Sydney colony extremely hard. Massacres, displacement, disease & discrimination forced survivors to flee or disavow their heritage. Later linguists and researchers either did their best with the remaining fragments of culture, language & law, or they just made shit up about the First Nations. Traditional owners have resurfaced after learning about their suppressed heritage, which is welcomed & rejected by other First Nations groups.
So even naming the land & waters I live on is a fraught process.

Otherwise, I’m interested in #posterArt, #radicalGraffiti, #directAction, #mutualAid, #anarchism & #linocut

The New South Wales coastline: “We know disasters will continue to occur."

“Climate change is increasing the severity and frequency of natural hazards and increased development in these areas means more people are exposed. About 85% of the state lived within 50km of the coast, which made the population “particularly vulnerable to the impacts of coastal inundation and erosion”.

theguardian.com/australia-news
#Sydney #NorthernBeaches #NSW #coast #sprawl #FossilFuels #disasters #climate

The Guardian · Natural disasters could cost NSW $9bn a year by 2060, analysis findsBy Tamsin Rose

Giant tyre washed ashore with 80 dead animals inside

"After a huge, human-sized tyre washed ashore at a popular northern Sydney beach earlier this week, baffling locals and bringing with it the carcasses of more than 80 sea animals, (dozens of native fish, sharks — including Port Jacksons and their young — and even sting rays) a council spokesperson has shed some light over the object's origins."

au.news.yahoo.com/council-shed
#Sydney #NorthernBeaches #LongReefBeach #marine #traps #waste #tyres

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Database records of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in northern Sydney

This study examined records of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in northern Sydney held in online biodiversity databases. There were 221 unique records distributed across the Northern Beaches, Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby and Hills Shire local government areas from 1788 to 2022, with records from the Northern Beaches local government area comprising 68% of this dataset. ..
publish.csiro.au/AM/AM22035
#koalas #DB #Sydney #NorthernBeaches

CSIRO PUBLISHINGDatabase records of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in northern SydneyThis study examined records of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in northern Sydney held in online biodiversity databases. There were 221 unique records distributed across the Northern Beaches, Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby and Hills Shire local government areas from 1788 to 2022, with records from the Northern Beaches local government area comprising 68% of this dataset. Records from the 1970s represented 41% of the dataset (90 records), while there were only 42 records from 2000 to 2022. Post-2000 records were spread broadly, showing no major contraction in distribution compared to the spread of earlier records, but with a notable absence of more recent records on the Barrenjoey Peninsula, a previously documented species stronghold. Substantial proportions of records were found in both protected reserves and privately-owned lands, which alludes to the value of the former but also shows that koala conservation in this capital city cannot rely solely on protected reserves. The 2000–22 records were widely distributed across 15 plant community types and areas of non-native vegetation, probably reflecting breeding and dispersal movements more than specific habitat selection. Possibly due to the same influences, none of the 2000–22 records were matched to areas represented by the Koala Habitat Suitability Model, a prediction model for spatial distribution of potential koala habitat across NSW, with a high habitat suitability score (greater than 0.85). We therefore recommend systematic on-ground surveys to clarify the patterns observed from the records.

SMH: ‘I haven’t been on time for work in months’: Voter fury over northern beaches buses

> Over the past six months, 11 per cent of planned buses bound for the city from the northern beaches never made it onto the road during the morning rush.

smh.com.au/politics/nsw/i-have

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