While the media and political class fixate on tinkering with superannuation, a new report finds that 1 in 7 Australians are living in #poverty. And it's 1 in 6 children. In such a wealthy nation, this is an obscene policy choice. #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

IFor decades in Aotearoa, removing gorse was considered the way to enhance native revegetation. Now it's all about considering it a nursery crop, to be shaded out as native trees emerge through the canopy

Anyone our in bluesky land used a sprouting system to sprout grains to feed livestock? I'm planning to purchase one to feed dairy goats and cows. All opinions / ideas/ experience welcome.

I'm just trying to remember what's it's like to have to mow the lawn

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

America is not strong enough to survive without Dolly Parton holding us up via gravity-defying hairspray.

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt". No, me neither.

Plume moth larvae, brought in to Australia to eat horehound. Lots around on my hound but they're not controlling it. Now what else can I do with horehound?

If we can’t watch Hocus Pocus together whilst carving jack-o’-lanterns and having hot apple cider by candlelight during a full moon on a cool October night with the sound of wolves in the distance, then what's the point?

Feeling happy with my window seat photography today so bringing this one back too

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage

Can we please abolish private schools, all private schools. We don’t need them. They are a hangover of our British colonial past, set up to support the mantra of the British class system. And it’s working very well here in Oz.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières just had their 14th member of staff killed by Israeli occupation forces. Israel deserves to be fully sanctioned. Netanyahu’s Govt make apartheid South Africa look like a benign state. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-d...

New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax “It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...

I can believe Santos spent a decade profiteering on our national gas exports while contributing no taxes. I find it harder to believe that an actual Labor Govt continues to let them do so. Was Chifley's Light on the Hill just a gaslight all along...? #AusPol

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And, I note: the lights are still on, the sky hasn’t fallen in. FANCY THAT! #auspol

#ThrowbackThursday #BreastCancerAwareness Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 10 yrs ago was in ER having emergency tests. Family teasing me that I was too modest. Making monkey faces at them laughing. Then came the bad news. Treated for uterine cancer chemo and radiation. ☢️ Have your mammograms now.

Howard privatised child care, aged care & the Commonwealth Employment Service. It has cost taxpayers hundreds of billions, evolving to deep social, personally damaging problems in each sector. MSM? Uninterested. His 50% discount on CGT, & negative gearing made houses an investment, not a home.

It is with great sadness that we have been informed of the passing of the remarkable Dr. Jane Goodall, age 91, who died of natural causes in Los Angeles, CA while on her speaking tour in the United States. Photo credit: Marko Zlousic #jane #goodall #JaneGoodall #drjanegoodall #wildlife #nature

A stunning sunrise on Glastonbury Tor this morning. I think this is possibly the stairway to Heaven.

Lovely folks, 1.2mm of rain here in ingliston with 1.5mm of evaporation....... .

The Labor Party promised Australians a corruption watchdog with teeth after a decade of political piggery and scandal from The Coalition. But instead, they gave us the #NACC #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Meme being shared across Canada, sent to me from a Canadian friend. We can thank Trump for this. ====================

My latest on the ever-deepening inequity in our school system. You know, the one we hate to talk about. In today’s The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...

Alfred Deakin tried to have #Preamble put in Australian #Constitution but other Founding Fathers were not interested. They wanted to be known as British Christians. We can now fix it & let world know that Australians are totally different to #Trump. Click on blue link below to read and sign.

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 25 September 2025 🔹Active cases: 229 (-39.4%) 🔹Active outbreaks: 57 (-27.8%) 🔹Resident cases: 176 (-34.0%) 🔹Staff cases: 53 (-52.2%) 🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 387 (+2) @SamRaeMP www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

Sidenote: Did you know that the NACC employs over 200 people, spends over $50m per year, has 5 offices, and in over two years of operations hasn't landed a single major corruption finding?

These Pygmy Nuthatches visited our campsite's water spigot this morning at Tumalo State Park, Deschutes County, Oregon #birding

2026 BIRD CALENDARS I'm pleased to announce that I have calendars available now. Please email me and I'll send you the deets. (I've put my email address in the image below to avoid it being picked up by bots.)

Sitting at my desk chugging Tylenol until I know how to use Linux.

It says a lot about America that we must have a national day of mourning by POTUS and his staff for an assassinated political talking head, but when 20 grade school children are assassinated while sitting in their school we can only muster thoughts and prayers.

One factor that might be influencing the Australian failure to house the increasing number of homeless is the disregard of their need for actual homes rather than being an exploitable opportunity for increased property development and investment.

Some fabulous donkey orchids

@warwicklong.bsky.social Can you ask the bom person about evaporation data. My weather syation estimates that I'm sum zero for my recent rain events - as the winds took it all away

it's #bug day, but no #insects in this post, just #spiders on their #webs for #InsectThursday #nature #arachnids #invertebrates #bugsthatbite

Saw a group of hawks circling outside this morning. Anyone under 5’3” should probably stay inside

To be fair on Aussies, corporate LibLab got a record low primary vote at the last election. Labs massive majority comes down to "anything but Dutton" votes and preferences. Fact is, banks and lobbyists own Aus, and they're selling it out from under US while Murdoch has us chasing the media laser dot

Have a read of this @peggysanders.bsky.social Plain frightening!

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ has joined Slovenia’s national broadcaster RTVSLO in pulling their countries out of the 2026 Eurovision Contest if Israel is a participant. Will our national broadcaster SBS who produces & airs Eurovision in Australia follow suit? They must.

These are the immigrants we need to be banning. Where are the marches against imported pest species? A vital target affecting our economy and environment.

Australians beware. We have our own Charlies.