Amanda Neil

Israel just blew up a public high school in Marwahin, South Lebanon. Not a military base. A school.

I$rael has killed four emergency workers in a triple tap attack in Mayfadoun, southern Lebanon First I$rael struck a team from the Islamic Health Committee killing two paramedics. A second team headed to the site and was struck in an attack that wounded three medical workers, The Nabatiyeh Emergency Services and the Islamic Risala Scout Association mounted a third rescue attempt. They were hit by a strike that killed two more medics. This footage shows the emergency teams in vehicles equipped with nothing more than medical supplies. I$rael has killed at least 91 health professionals with 208 wounded and more than 120 Israeli attacks recorded on ambulances and medical facilities since the escalation on March 2 according to the Lebanese Health Ministry

Santos records nearly $47bn in sales over a decade without paying corporate tax thepoint.com.au/explainers/260…

The fuel crisis is a reminder of how dependent we are on overseas supply chains. When disruptions inevitably hit, Australians pay the price. Electrifying transport and energy systems won’t solve everything, especially in hard-to-abate industries. But it steadily reduces our exposure and builds greater control over our own energy future. It's a national security opportunity we should be taking seriously. canberratimes.com.au/story/9219690/…

“When it comes to our resources and our national interest, Australia cannot be meek. “It cannot be timid. “And Australia needs to step up and do the same.” - Hon Ed Husic MP ✍️ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: theaus.in/3ODRHfG

International law applies to all States, without exception. Respect for its rules is not optional. Without it, instability spreads, mistrust deepens & conflicts spiral out of control. This is not the moment to retreat from international law. It is the moment to reaffirm it.

Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, has made the planet itself the sole beneficiary and effective "shareholder" of his company. In an extraordinary move that redefined corporate ownership, Chouinard transferred full control of the $3 billion outdoor apparel brand away from his family. He placed 100% of the company into a carefully designed structure consisting of a trust and a nonprofit organization, both dedicated to combating the climate crisis and protecting the natural world. Under this new arrangement, the Chouinard family gave up any claim to personal profits. Instead, all earnings not reinvested in growing the business—roughly $100 million each year—now flow directly to environmental causes, funding the preservation of wild lands, conservation efforts, and initiatives to fight climate change. In essence, Patagonia now exists to serve Earth as its only true shareholder, placing planetary survival above the accumulation of private wealth. The model has already delivered significant results. As of 2025, the company had channeled an additional $180 million into nature-protection projects. The structure relies on two key entities: the Patagonia Purpose Trust, which safeguards the company’s original mission and values, and the Holdfast Collective, a nonprofit that directs the profits toward high-impact environmental work. Rather than selling the business to the highest bidder or taking it public, Chouinard chose this radical path—creating what many see as a groundbreaking template for purpose-driven capitalism. Patagonia has shown that a for-profit company can become a powerful force for ecological restoration while remaining financially successful. [Chouinard, Y. (2022). Patagonia's Next Chapter: Earth is Now Our Only Shareholder. Patagonia Works]

BREAKING: A joint statement by 10 countries, including Canada, the UK, and Australia call for an urgent end to Israeli attacks and the protection of aid workers in southern Lebanon.

This is the heart of Beirut. Israel is flattening entire neighborhoods in Lebanon’s capital. Families and civilians are still buried beneath their own homes. A 5,000-year-old city is being wiped off the map in real time. And the world watches in silence.

A vehicle hit in an I$raeli drone strike south of Beirut—near Jiyyeh and Damour—was carrying humanitarian aid, nappies and milk for civilians trapped in southern Lebanon.

🇦🇺 can be a reliable ally AND get a fair return on the sale of our gas. The Govt should listen to the Australian people, not a country that on-sells more gas than we sell them at an estimated profit of $1 billion per year. Of course they don't want a 25% gas export tax that would eat into their profit margin! thediplomat.com/2026/04/japans…

“Remaining south of the Zahrani River may endanger your lives and the lives of your families.” The Israeli army has issued an evacuation threat for residents south of Zahrani River in southern Lebanon. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/wqqejv

Israel’s bulldozers are wiping out civilian homes, tourist sites, and hotels in Naqoura, South Lebanon. Not military targets. South Lebanon is being erased — like Gaza before it. This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.

Microplastics have been found in human brains, blood, placentas, and testes across 1,300 species. An 18-year-old in Virginia just built a filter in her garage that removes 95.5% of them. The physics of how it works is worth understanding. Traditional water filters use solid membranes. Water passes through, particles get caught. The problem: microplastics range from 5mm down to 1 micrometer. Filters fine enough to catch the smallest particles clog constantly and need replacing. The maintenance cost makes them impractical for household use. Mia Heller built exactly this, over and over, after water tests in Warrenton, Virginia showed PFAS and microplastic contamination. Government agencies said no public funds were coming. Residents were on their own. Heller took a completely different approach. Her system uses ferrofluid, a liquid containing magnetic nanoparticles suspended in oil. The key insight is polarity. Microplastics and water have different polarities. Microplastics are more attracted to the oily ferrofluid than they are to water. So when ferrofluid enters contaminated water, the microplastics migrate toward it on their own. Then you apply a magnetic field. The ferrofluid is magnetic. The magnet pulls the ferrofluid out of the water, and all the attached microplastics come with it. The ferrofluid is recovered and reused at an 87.15% recycling rate. No membrane. No clogging. No constant filter replacements. She went through five prototypes before getting it working. The system filters about a liter at a time and fits under a kitchen sink. She also built her own turbidity sensor to verify the removal rate, rather than relying on visual inspection. Municipal drinking water plants achieve 70 to 97% microplastic removal depending on technology. Her garage prototype hits 95.52%. She won a $500 prize at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for it. The constraint she already sees: ferrofluid is expensive to produce at scale. She designed the system for individual households, not treatment plants. But the mechanism, polarity and magnetism replacing physical filtration, is the kind of first-principles reasoning that makes the best engineering. Five prototypes. One garage. $500.

Israel is systematically destroying critical bridges in Lebanon to completely cut off the southern region. Tel Aviv explicitly plans to seize and occupy all sovereign territory south of the Litani River. The annexation is underway.

Out today: The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal – two of the Southern Ocean’s most iconic species – are now officially listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. Read more: antarctic.org.au/emperor-pengui…

Australia's gas exports rose by $48 BILLION in a decade. In that same decade, revenue from the petroleum resources rent tax FELL by $450 million. The PRRT is broken. This is why Australia needs a 25% gas export tax. #auspol

Lebanon is being destroyed. 1.2 million people, including 400,000 children, forced out of their homes by bombardment. Towns and villages flattened. Innocent civilians killed. Parents grieving over their lost children. There is no justification for this.

Pressure is building for the Govt to restore genuine human & clinical oversight over aged care funding decisions. I've received so many complaints that the algorithm isn't providing people with the care level they need, and medical professionals are now telling me the tool can't properly detect frailty, malnutrition or elder abuse. If the algorithm can’t detect frailty, and can't be overridden, then it's not going to work! We shouldn't just leave it up to an algorithm how much care older Australians get. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Ross Gittins nails it on Australian gas exports and Australians not getting our fair share. If there is no 25% gas export tax in the Federal budget in May, we’ll know the PM is “prepared to put keeping big foreign-owned businesses happy ahead of the national interest.” smh.com.au/politics/feder…