An Australian perspective- you arrive home to find flower blossoms from trees clipped off and strewn about. Success!The black cockatoo - threatened species - has been snacking at your place on plants you nurtured and planted. Can gardening be a window to caring for country? #GardeningAu #Gardening

‘Labour of Love’ installation, 2022, a visual depiction of the 650 times artist Sarah Maple fed her baby over three months to highlight the sheer volume of work that is expected of mothers and to challenge people to rethink the value of the time spent #WomensArt

The Red Wattle Bird (Honeyeater) mob are visiting the Callistemons that are about to burst into blooms. While other spring flowers are popping about. On the verge. #GardeningAu #Gardening

Friends, are the present-cupboard-y amongst you thinking about Xmas presents? Ahem! These books are the antidote to hard-sell celebrity & useless 'wellness' marketing, big lies & frightful dullness. I promise you fun as well as updated, evidence-based, independent honesty. Local bookshops & online.

Today is a good day for Australians to be smug about gun bans, compulsory voting, preferential voting, an independent AEC, an independent judiciary, democratically-regulated speech and a cultural default to “yeah, nah” when people turn cooker. #auspol

Spring is nearly here and it’s the middle of the Djilba season. I can see pink flowers popping up and the warm days and cool nights are dominating- The magpies are stopping by to tell me they will swoop intruders (luckily we are friends 😮‍💨)

It’s lovely to gather these flowers from the garden and street plantings - summoning Spring 🌱 #Spring #GardeningAU and they smell amazing! Jonquils, freesias, Grevillea, Chamelaucium & tree blossom.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

An early anemone blooming in winter! Very cheerful colours for cold winters days. #GardeningAU #Gardening

UK sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt

Winter sun on winter flowers! I really enjoy to cooler damper days and how some flowers pop out and the nectar feeding birds get busy! #GardeningAU #Gardening Better than a lawn - garden verges 💕🌱

National Sorry Day is today. It's a day for remembering the Stolen Generations and reflecting on the impacts of Gov’t decisions on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Saying sorry isn’t the end of reconciliation, it’s the start, and it should mean we do better.

An embroidered globe made c.1815, US by young female students. Ink and silk embroidery on silk and wood #womensart

People reacting to the She Matters mural in Hosier Lane, Melbourne. The mural contains the names & faces of 128 Australian women killed since Jan 1, 2024 This is the work of Sherele Moody of #FemicideWatch Donate: australianfemicidewatch.org/support/ Shop: australianfemicidewatch.org/shop-2/

cats when you give them a bath

Remember: compulsory voting isn’t about forcing you to vote - it’s about forcing the government to make sure a ballot gets into EVERY CITIZEN’S HAND. That’s why Australia is the strongest democracy on earth - because every corner, every community and every person is #auspol, and auspol is us. 🇦🇺

When comedy and art combine @nicsigni.bsky.social I giggle every time I read Men to Avoid in Art and Life - and I’ve read it a lot!

Early autumn garden colours 🌱 Lilly Pilly berries and Nerine flowers. #GardeningAu #Gardening

Nerines are flowering beautifully and they are so happy in this garden, popping up each Djeran (Autumn) #FlowersOnFriday 🌱

Gail Kellet's linocut studies of the Australian flora and fauna around her home in Southern Australia #WomensArt

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Trump is going to get the Melania hand-swat from trading partners when he reaches out. Question is, will they stay married and wait until he shuffles off.

There’s nothing that says a President can’t…

Stargazing in Australia using an app- you know you are down under when Aries is legs up!