Calling itself Blockade Australia, the group claims to be concerned not just about climate change but about the “colonial and extractive systems of Australia”.

More than 30 mayors and councillors across Australia say they are “exhausted by the immediate costs and challenges” of recent natural disasters and have written to the government calling for stronger climate action.

Rivers and water catchments across the state’s east coast have not had enough time to dry out since the recent flood emergency, says the weather bureau’s senior meteorologist.

Destruction of more than 200,000 hectares of threatened species habitat has been approved by the federal government in the past decade, a report shows.

Antonio Guterres says the “naive optimism” of the Glasgow talks is colliding with a failure to deal with climate, as scientists grapple with global heat waves.

The fresh concerns come as nine Lismore residents have dumped flood-affected household items outside Kirribilli House and called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to act on climate change.

Kylie McKendry loves cats, but she doesn’t want her six-year-old chocolate Burmese cat, Marla, to bring home any injured or dead wildlife. Instead, McKendry has installed an outdoor enclosure that her cat roams around. 

There are more than 4000 uninhabitable homes across NSW as people begin to wonder what to do amid the mammoth clean-up effort.

Two major industry groups are asking the Australian and Queensland governments to financially support flood mitigation projects in the Greater Brisbane region that have been proven to work since the 2011 floods.

Sometime before dawn on Monday, February 27, Aiden Ricketts’ neighbours began to cry for help.