A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Excellent analysis by Allan Behm on Venezuela thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract #Macro #MacroPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin Gotta love a wee raindrop Abstract Nature

My sister’s contribution.

Five years ago.

Rural Australian scene.

Gonna wind up the farm, move to the big smoke and open a CBD cafe. Guaranteed ABC coverage of any gripes they have.

We're looking at multiple days of 45° and a slight reprieve of 37° on Fri. I've been anxious as hell about it for days. Being in a small town there are not really any options for cool places other than stay home, so I'm just hoping my air con and fans are enough.

Please reshare. I reserve requests of the public to reshare not for clicks and hits, but when I believe it is important news. This stolen generator provides back up power to UGFM, a local community radio station who does emergency broadcasting during emergencies, as it did on Black Saturday.

For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne

Paid to go to university. #auspol youtu.be/jpjMt5QpHFk

Watching the international brawl about #FossilFuels is astounding as a global distraction from a #climate disaster. C’mon Aussies 40+°C all over the place this week. Can we get some emergency focus? #auspol

2026 Australian Lamb Ad is out and it's a classic 🫶

Trump USA is laying claim to the entire western hemisphere. At the very least, we might need to pause this whole AUKUS business until they explain to us what that means exactly. We can't get dragged into empire building. We've been there. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Improving the time line. #superbBlueWren #birds

I hope you guys like owls! There may be a few posts about these Australian Boobooks that roost in our Perth Hills garden… they are just so magnificent 😍 It was hot today (40°C 🥵), this owl was feeling the heat so holding its wings away from its body 🪶 #ausbirds #wildoz #owls #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds

Thought we were keeping sport out of politics….

"What we’re witnessing looks less like competition and more like a tripartite division of the world"

It’s a #BinChicken evening. 🪶 Tracery of trees and ibis roosting on the pale evening light.

Red bellied black snake

#Echidna Such a thrill!

Down by the riverside… #birds #river #peace

Here’s a task for every Australian resident/citizen to do as soon as possible. Write to your MP & tell them this is totally unacceptable & that wish-washy fence sitting responses from PM Albanese, Dep PM Marles, Foreign Min Wong are inadequate & help tyrants like Trump+Putin break international law.

Australian Native Violets (Viola hederacea)

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... Leave #AUKUS #NoWar #auspol

Labor backs America's "rules based global order" that skirts around international law. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... AUKUS want us to believe that siding with US-Israeli Christian Zionist expansionist ME colonialism, Nigeria & Venezuela is ok b/c we only supply spare plane parts, Pine Gap & 🤑?

Every 10-15y. Here's a primer on Venezuela. It's in two tabs. The first of narrative, the second is bulleted, because neurodiversity accessability is important. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Trump and Netanyahu seem to have succeeded in making international law pointless because half of the governments of the western world let them. Looking at you in particular the UK and Australia

Trump’s invasion of Venezuela should be a wake-up call for Australia. We can’t keep pretending the US is a rules-based, shared-values ally. It’s time to rethink who we trust before we go down with the Titanic. Read, comment, share.👇🏽 www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/tied-to...

Kill the AUKUS deal. Grifter-in-Chief of America will take the money and never deliver the goods. We should be distancing ourselves from the US whilst it's under the dictatorship of a dangerous, criminally insane megalomaniac hellbent on staying out of prison at any cost. @albomp.bsky.social

This from 2024, we could just re-issue without a change. “An expansion of the already troubled AUKUS deal is yet another example of how Australia’s alliance with the United States makes our country less safe, the Australia Institute has said.” australiainstitute.org.au/post/aukus-e...

Taking a break from WTF “news” . 🌱 Couple of more unusual lilies have finally bloomed. #lily #BloomScrolling

Seatbelts #auspol

@albomp.bsky.social, this is the nation you want to hand over military sovereignty to. If Australia doesn’t reject this US crime you will shed Labor voters by the thousands. #AusPol @australianlabor.bsky.social

Has Australia condemned the USA's illegal attack on Venezuela? Are we providing tactical or any other support?! The USA should be condemned as a tyrant nation conquering smaller nations for their resources. 😠 #USPolitics #Venezuela #auspol

Trump and Netanyahu seem to have succeeded in making international law pointless because half the western world let them. Slow hand clap especially to the US and Australia

If I hear Albanese, Wong or Marles say one more time that Australia has "shared values" with the fascist warmongers and genocide enablers in Washington, I won't be responsible for my actions. #auspol

Just imagining a world where the ALP had dumped AUKUS and the LNP alone were still clinging to the view that the US was the great protector. “Small target” oppositions lead to bad government policies.

In this article Pezzulo is quoted, which is a rather interesting decision. Why are journalists choosing to listen to disgraced former public servants? It would be like hearing what Katherine Campbell had to say about Social Security ffs #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More than two and a half years have passed since the Murphy inquiry into 'online gambling and its harm' tabled its report in Parliament and still no response from @albomp.bsky.social’s Govt. To be precise, as of today, that’s 920 days of policy paralysis. #auspol

Where you can eat. Emergency food relief. Greater Geelong region.

Is this true? If so there are many questions that now need to be answered by @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social and the Police Commissioner! #auspol

Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more: blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

This morning on abc radio Sydney, people have been told to monitor for symptoms of a cold, followed by a rash. No advice given to self isolate if unwell. #measles

Delighted my article on Australia’s shameful education system (stealing resources from children of the poor to further advantage children of the better off) features in The Saturday Paper’s list of its best in 2025. Hope it also helps drives change. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

Throughout the year I capture all of my happy moments on a post it & put it in a jar. On NYD I decant the jar & get to relive all those little moments. It’s a lovely way to practise everyday gratitude. Just thought I’d share 🙏 #happyjar

Nope-not a word, also frequently misused even as slang.

But Also John Clarke on the ABC is very good. Good to remember someone who brought a smile to so many and was a very decent human being

@maicolourlife.bsky.social Bernie the Elder Cockatiel is 21 and a half years years old, rescued by me over 20 years ago and an inspiration in resilience, courage and insight.