Who was the land owner? Can we get a statement from them? #water #MurrayDarling

Rose Jackson & Penny Sharpe should be sacked. Water birds abandon chicks, freshwater turtles dying, an incomprehensible disaster is unfolding in four protected wetlands because one land owner complained, Water NSW then cut the flow to zero in breach of env laws www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pentagon's massive nuclear submarines are totally useless in the shallow Persian Gulf. Defense experts confirm Iran's fleet of silent diesel-electric mini subs can easily ambush billion-dollar US aircraft carriers without ever being detected. www.reddit.com/r/SECourses/...

Stop patronising rural and regional voters. #ALP didn’t even bother running a candidate such is their contempt for anyone outside the capital cities. When 10/12 candidates are RWNJs it’s pretty hard to lean left- Greens? #MichelleMilthorpe is a centrist #Independent region.com.au/as-farrer-go...

I have been calling for the rate of #JobSeeker to be raised for at least the last four terms of federal government in Australia. The Morrison government doubled the payment through the Covid Pandemic so regular people wouldn’t have to learn how inadequate it is. 😡 #auspol

'Video shows police officer out of uniform pinning Aboriginal girl to the floor before throwing her into a seat on Perth train' nit.com.au/16-04-2026/2...

'We are tired of empty words from government while our children are under attack' #auspol #ntpol nit.com.au/17-04-2026/2...

Wonderful article. The story of our times. Not sure how to solve the mess we're in from here, but totally identify with Patricia Eager's telling of our shared history. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

#Fungi #mushroom www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...?

That’s capitalism for you! No national carrier. “Covid feels” Vs optional recreational travel Vs actual lifesaving restrictions.”We also need to look at practical ways to make regional travel more affordable.” #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/travel/trave...

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#water #Wetlands #NSW #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...?

#BirdOfTheDay #FeederFriends

Bloody marles..... Albanese government to tap super funds, private sector for $53b defence build-up share.google/zUbZDEfgPTGG...

Morning. ☕️

Source: SBS News share.google/j7aI8LwttIrX...

Cancel AUKUS, scrap the submarines and remove U.S. troops from Darwin and Pine Gap. We’re pretty unhappy with America here too atm www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The entire issue with the NDIS is that a generation of Australians (including almost everyone working in the political media) have become indoctrinated to believe the private sector is more efficient than the private sector. Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???

It’s wild that the leader of the Coalition has just told 1.7 million Australians from China & Vietnam that they are less worthy migrants than others because they did not come from a liberal democracy. You do know these “less worthy migrants” vote too Angus Taylor and they won’t forget what you said

Time to reform the child care industry. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

#rose Cecile Brunner tiny baby pink lightly perfumed roses in Autumn flush. Heritage buttonhole rose.

Oil refinery blaze? Yes this is the exact time we talk about renewables and about ageing processing facilities.

Get it right ABC!

What does climate-population breakdown look like? That'd be war and pestilence, food and resources supply collapse, authoritarianism, failing states, warlord governance. It's unlikely to arrive all at once carrying a big banner 'climate impacts'.

not seen at the library

Just imagine: what could have happened if Martin Green & UNSW had been able to interest Australian investors in commercialising solar power in the 1990s. Sadly, they stuck with gambling & mining, so solar went to China www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

“It seems to be entirely lost on the government… that Australia’s natural gas does not belong to them. "Australia's natural gas resource belongs to all Australians." - Andrew Wilkie MP Read more about our case for a 25% gas export tax on The Point: https://theaus.in/47SUXdB

Australia we can be better than a weapons manufacturing plant beholden to nefarious regimes who on a whim decide whether or not we should feel threatened this week or next. We need to abolish AUKUS untangle ourselves from to the Epstein Regime reject the insanity from Israel. Punch up not down

#booksky just finished “The four spent the day together” I thought it was horrific but no wonder US is in terminal #reading Autofiction is just autobiography without the threat of defamation? share.google/zKPc3uOTdh2H...

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record: - 256 eggs (252 in 2019) - 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019) - 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019). It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

Rural and regional health inequity and disadvantage. #auspol #Farrer regionriverina.com.au/40-cents-per...

2 types of #ibis Same place, same time and they roost independently. #sacredIbis ( white) #strawneckIbis ( black)

White faced heron. #birds 🪶

Evening at the wetlands #birds 🪶

This is not a good photo. The colour is a little off and I will take better pictures tomorrow when I have natural light, but I think they came together OK. There’s a few things I will have to refine with practice, but considering some of these species are my first attempts, I’m pretty pleased.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a.... #Auspol @albomp.bsky.social Take note, ditch AUKUS and ANZUS. Focus on strengthening Defence Alliances with our neighbours in the region.

Our multiculturalism is our strength and one of the qualities that makes me most proud to call myself Australian

Yarn bombing is where knitted or crocheted yarn—rather than paint—adorns public objects like poles, and benches. Also known as "guerrilla knitting,", it is a street art originally started by women #Womensart

#Farrer by-election #auspol SBS looking for people to go on Insight. #CommunityIndependents #ON #LNP #MichelleMilthorpe Labor doesn’t even bother to run a candidate. #ALP www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ce5...

#Farrer by election #auspol SNS looking for people to go on Insight. #CommunityIndependents #ON #LNP #MichelleMilthorpe Labor doesn’t even bother to run a candidate. #ALP www.facebook.com/share/p/1E7b...

The story of the Sea Squirt has a parallel in humans.

We are a generation of women destined to deal with the new longevity medical science has wrought. And yes, it's a gender issue, yet more unpaid, at times unbearable labour foist upon us. I found that this article rang so true. 2/2 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

VACCHO reports that reparations made to the Stolen Generation are included in means testing used to decide aged care co-payment levels

I was involved in an early consultation on the design of the NDIS & pointed out the obvious potential for problems. I was told by a senior PM&C official not to worry, & that (even as a former regulator in the vocational education sector) I didn’t understand because the NDIS would be different!

The problem with the NDIS - and there is a problem - is the same one Australia always faces. If you let small businesses exploit the public purse, they'll exploit it mercilessly (remember pink batts or any one of a 100 such programs). The key is in the system design, not the auditing of it.

This seems a critical issue, not only because we really need to stop privatising #government funded programs but because it starts a move away from #subsidising the known #health impacts of many businesses that #pollute and/or #profit from harm to #humanity.

Well will you look at that, Dutton got himself a taxpayer funded job. Farce. A gross and hypocritical farce. #AusPol

Wow!!! The complete abuse of #power by #coalition #MPs is astounding. Putting manipulatable puppets in key decision making roles in so called ‘independent’ institutions is now wrecking our democracy. #auspol

Almost overnight the leaves have changed. #autumn 🌱

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ManMadePerch. And every day, of course, is a good day to #resist.