Australian horse racing trailblazer Michelle Payne, the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup, has been honoured with a statue unveiled today.

“.. They have to treat the President like a child,” wrote Rep. Seth Magaziner. “So embarrassing for everyone involved.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...

Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud Dept.-Kinda sounds like he's admitting he interfered in the election with VERY specific statistics. I quit Twitter because he bought it, way before his confession he stole the election for the Orange Atrocity. 🍊💩 Now I'm SURE I made the right decision! 👍

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Solidarity with our colleagues at the ABC who are on strike today.

Part 2 in "Just how big is the oil and gas industry". The private adult education sector pays almost as much in wages as does the gas industry. Profits are a tad different. live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-...

Annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup or similar chemicals. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them.

Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) went on strike to demand improved job security and pay. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1450/ne...

New Mexico jury finds Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law, imposes U.S. $375 million penalty apnews.com/article/meta...

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Northern Flicker V for Vendetta #birds

Ladies, convicted felons aren’t allowed to vote. So why was Trump allowed to vote. Right there is voter fraud committed by the big orange idiot!

Bring your kids. 👧🧒 Bring your neighbors. 🏘️ Bring your anger, your hope, and your unwillingness to bow. ✊ 3,000+ events. March 28. History will ask if you showed up. #NoKings2026

Rigged!!!

At a time when our society is becoming increasingly polarised, we need a place where meaningful and respectful debate can take place and different ideas can be heard. We need an ABC for all Australians. 📣 Join our fight for a fearless, independent ABC. Our democracy depends on it.

👏Since joining the ABC in 2014, Higgins - a proud Torres Strait Islander woman - has reported across metro/regional newsrooms, Indigenous affairs, Europe & social policy. Her 2019 reporting on Indigenous suicide rates earned her a Walkley Foundation Young Journalist Award.

🎉 Congratulations to Conversations with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski which had over 2.4million downloads in December 2025. We love to hear our voices and our stories on our ABC!

Three key strategies can help us respectfully discuss fixed views about ABC bias—while learning how to argue respectfully and persuasively>> www.abcfriends.net.au/the_art_of_r....

📺 In March 2026 the ABC will launch a new political discussion program, coming off the back of the axing of Q+A and The Drum last year.

The ABC must be fully funded to tell our stories across all platforms and all genres – not just in our music programming, and the Hottest 100 shows us what's possible when the ABC has the resources to back Australian voices. We need that commitment restored throughout the entire broadcaster.

After nearly 40 years with the ABC and 25 hosting Afternoons, James Valentine has retired. A truly creative broadcaster who turned everyday moments into something special — he'll be missed by so many. Wishing him all the best for his health and recovery. Thank you, James. 💛

The newly appointed Shadow Minister for Communications spent 9 years at our ABC — and has since voted consistently against it. The ABC belongs to all Australians. Not politicians. 📣 Sign our petition to safeguard the ABC from political interference 👉 www.abcfriends.net.au/democracy

One Nation support is surging. Their position on the ABC? Cut it. Slash it. Call it "too left." The voting record doesn't lie. Find out more about where One Nation stand>>https://www.abcfriends.net.au/one_nation_abc

📣 Support our call for stronger safeguards to protect the ABC against political interference and guarantee that it won't be punished for reporting the truth.

I've got a new blog post, which runs through all the data we've gained from the preference counts conducted in South Australia in the last two days, and then I go through a few uncalled races and call some of them. www.tallyroom.com.au/64645 #sapol

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The anti-climate policy blowing a hole in Labor’s budget – Full Story podcast (16 min audio) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Your retirement stuck in a rut ? Try out us 🧶👵’s. You don’t have to knit or even be a Nanna but having fun while saving the 🌏 is compulsory. knittingnannas.org/join/

First sod has been turned at one of Australia’s biggest DC-coupled #solar battery hybrid projects, heralding a major change to the generation profile of large-scale #PV.

Bertrand Russell with some excellent advice on how (not) to grow old by avoiding “Inoffensive blandness as a prescription for living well.” Get the man a posthumous Knitting Nanna t-shirt! www.openculture.com/2026/03/bert...

Australia has no plan for emergencies. Two showers and one washing machine between 200 people staying at the Katherine evacuation centre. But yeah, let's go to war. #Nowar #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Nanna Caroline just #knit the final feather on a critically endangered “Swift Parrot” for the annual Bob Brown “March for Forests” March 22nd, right across Australia. Check out the closest meet up in your neck of the #forest and look out for Nanna’s life sized creations! marchforforests.org

Also the world’s first EV with over 1000km range is here. knittingnannas.org/2026/03/13/g...

An Aboriginal corporation will receive $450,000 from the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) convicted on Friday for the 2020 illegal felling of six giant trees and three hollow bearing trees in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest, west of Coffs Harbour. nit.com.au/13-03-2026/2...

Brittany, France early 20thc, women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt

Nannas & friends hold the knitted circumference of 500 year old Big Spotty the oldest spotted gum in the world. As NSW Forestry fire up their bulldozers to destroy its home we say NO to Native Forest logging on March 22nd with Bob Brown Foundation Come! #Marchforforests 👀 marchforforests.org

The misuse of environmental offsets that former environment minister Tanya Plibersek called “completely unacceptable” are found to be still “completely unacceptable” despite supposed reforms by her @australianlabor.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/env...

Sun Herald newspaper front page says Australia’s environmental offsets system is “rife with non compliance” with some companies “routinely failing to meet their obligations to protect nature”.

Narrabri farmer to set off today on a 400km trek knittingnannas.org/2026/03/16/a...

Here’s a simple bobble: 👉 kyok, turn, p3, turn, CDD. But… I prefer to knit backwards instead of turning and purling. So this is how I do it 😉🙌🧶 Have you ever tried #knitting backwards? annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/bobbles/