It's worth noting that this has occurred on the home ground of Banyule Cricket Club, who hold the world record for most runs off a single ball - 17, when a ball got lost in long grass in the outfield. Perfect opportunity to break their own record! www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

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So fine. Go hibees.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C2fVZDKWV4

Rare for me, Summer holiday show down the Otways- Apollo Bay Mechanics Hall, Jan 10th with Rosie Excess (pictured), projections and beach balls. On Karens Piano. Im looking forward to it. All bar proceeds to ABRAR- Apollo Bay Rural Australians for Refugees

In absolutely no way, shape or form should anything resembling or approaching a private militia be allowed to operate in Australia with any government imprimatur. This is kicked in the head by a donkey stuff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If you're stuck for a present, buy fantastic music and support our region wantokmusik.bandcamp.com/artists

Im doing my annual @3rrrfm.bsky.social Xmas show tomorrow from midday til 4pm. The wonderful Jim Pavlidis drew this picture for the station magazine a few years ago. It has me looking a little like Kevin Rudd surrounded by John Cooper Clark, Frank Yamma, Cat Power, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits et al

True Blue is the musical version of Macca's Australia All Over. It's John Howard wearing an Akubra and a green and gold tracksuit top. It's Ken Done. That they're bringing it out because of the Bondi tragedy is not our finest work.

Atrocious behaviour from Winston. The country wants gun laws that don't allow someone to legally accrue 6 weapons and ones that multiform. Laws need change. The country is in shock and political point scoring is the last thing we are in the mood for. Huge misread. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

For you boat nerds..how good is the cabin on this twin-masted outrigger canoe, Madang PNG 1899

Farewell to the finest Rockumentary maker of all time, Martin "Marty" Di Bergi. this is quite sad. www.theage.com.au/culture/cele...

Sunday morning- Tiger snake and three Tawny Frogmouth pretending to be tree branchs

Six pelicans turning up late for the AGM.

Tawny Frogmouth in the backyard- they are a muppet design

one of my faves

I acknowledge the Barmy Army has a right to exist but when they are singing about themselves it’s just confirmation they are a pack of (insert word). With all due respect.

My mum Rosemary had a smile that could light up a room. Here she is on her 90th, with her 4 kids two weeks before she passed away- two years ago

My uber is playing Mike and the Mechanics- i may not make it home.

Uncle Frank Yamma. Kapi pulka. Australian art. Kultakutjara. Kulila project. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XIkG...

*sproing* "Well, you can't win 'em all", said Zebedee. "Time for bed."

First song to share from the @wantokmusik.bsky.social Timor Leste Womens mentoring project, Feto Nia Lian, Feto Nia Istöria. Fine production from Huiku Hands, Beatrice Lewis. Song written and performed by Michelle Tassy and Melia Maia Sarmento.

How am I supposed to resist a headline promising me Marina Hyde on what we can learn from RFK's erotic poetry? That's newspaper fish/barrel/shooting there. #stoptryingtomakefelchhappen

On the road to Ermera, Timor Leste.

Timor Leste truck stop

Please read this & help save the State Library of Victoria, entering its 'now fully trashed' era. I didn't go to uni - for me the Library was higher education in later life, research for my job, a revelation about what ordinary people could have access to. It changed my life. Not just a building.

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

EXCEPTIONAL HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA Another day with >46C (46.1C Windorah). Some areas are at record heat levels for November both in Queensland and Northern Territory: 42.2 Blackwater November Highest Max on record 28.6 Yulara November Highest Min on record

Malena de Jesus filmclip for her song as part of the @wantokmusik.bsky.social project in Timor Leste. Feto nia lian, Feto nia Istoria- Her Voice Her Story.

Now thats what I call a moral victory #ashes

Manning Clark to Edward Gough Whitlam

www.forbes.com/sites/janice... Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invested $693.6 million in then AI defense technology startup Helsing. This technology is propelling the military-industrial complex, with ethical concerns over how the technology targets and surveilled different communities. Happy ARIA awards

Feto Nia Lian, Feto Nia Istória- her voice, her story Timor Leste- @wantokmusik.bsky.social project bringing together young women musicians and the brave women who sacrificed so much during the occupation. Sharing stories.

So looking at the actual SF chronicle article, the only place this song is accruing notice is on Spotify, which is easily gamed by bots. If I were an AI proponent who desperately needed to boost the validity of my investment, this is exactly what I’d do.

Michael Shannon describes the experience of life in the US today as “America is a nightmare right now.The country needs help. There seem to be delusions of grandeur and self-loathing in equal measure. It gets grimmer every day. I’ve never seen such dysfunction in my life. It’s really embarrassing.”

lest we forget www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hx8...

Frank Yamma spent the last week recording songs for a new album down here at the Donkey Shed, then played three cracking shows over the weekend with Radical Son @wantokmusik.bsky.social

LJHill passed away last year- this song is astonishing. Look up his story. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RJSS...

I call this one, ‘Rosie eating chips at soundcheck’ (Odessa at Leavers, Creswick)

Remastered lost recordings from the vinyl factories of Lagos, extending across Nigeria to Accra in Ghana and beyond. Worth a dive if you're that way inclined. www.unearthedafricanrecordings.com

Zohran Mamdani:- cricket player, hip hop artist, muslim, socialist. Fine pedigree

Frank Yamma cutting a fine figure in the Donkey Shed- putting down some new tracks @wantokmusik.bsky.social

Heres the link to the Songlines review for Lek Mak and Hamoris Lian Timor. www.songlines.co.uk/review/lek-m...

Review of Wantok album's Lek Mak (Bougainville) and Hamoris Lian Timor (Timor Leste) in Songlines magazine. Chuffed for all the artists involved. Songs imbued with positive recovery stories from very recent wars. Both closest neighbours to Australia. @wantokmusik.bsky.social

Some of our regions finest storytellers and songwriters. This Sunday afternoon. (Frank is also playing in Creswick on Friday night, and Radical Son and Frank are playing Meenyian on the Saturday night) @wantokmusik.bsky.social

Wantok Musik Foundation board member, former High Commissioner to Solomons, and wonderful fella Lachlan Strahan interviewed about his book "Tales from the Embassy". Catch it on ABC listen @wantokmusik.bsky.social abclisten.page.link/98JBREg9NmPD...

What a great occurrence for our state. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

A few takeaways from this story. Sussssan Ley, unlike Sheena is not a punk rocker, Unknown Pleasures is a great rock record, the Netanyahu lobby/Coalition are desperate (but in different ways) and Albo's t-shirt looks suspiciously new. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...