Monday: A Victorian legal challenge aims to lower the eligibility for the age pension for Indigenous people. Plus: the Bird of the Year poll is back
Good morning. The Guardian/BirdLife Australia bird of the year poll is back. A legal challenge seeks to lower the pension age for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A group of 70 former diplomats has warned Scott Morrison that failing to act on climate change will “cost us dearly”. In Germany, Social Democrats edge ahead of Angela Merkel’s CDU in the federal election as the vote count continues.
The vote for the Australian bird of the year kicks off today with a lineup of 50 Australian native birds, featuring some unique and much-loved species threatened by climate change and a few urban “bullies” that dominate as cities grow. Sean Dooley, the national public affairs manager for BirdLife Australia, says the 2019-20 bushfire season brought a “seismic shift” for Australia’s birds because the disaster was so extensive, affecting so much habitat, particularly in NSW. “The damage to a lot of bird populations from something like this would take decades to recover and that’s assuming we have good conditions,” he said. “And we know that’s not going to happen, this will only get worse.”
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/27/morning-mail-indigenous-pension-debate-climate-conviction-urged-bird-of-the-year-takes-flight
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