Wham press photo

The fact that UTS is even considering defunding 2SER-FM, & contemplating its demise, looks even more absurd when you read about community radio's massive benefits. theconversation.com/community-ra...

Telek and Not Drowning, Waving, Street Theatre Canberra

We never played Tasmania back in the day much to our chagrin. However we, Not Drowning, Waving with Sir George Telek are pleased to be able to rectify this omission on Sunday at the Altar Bar in Hobart. We're very much looking forward heading to Nipaluna. Not Drowning, Waving with George Telek

Go Naarm!! And the wonderfully named Harrison Petty

Strong and pertinent from Kos Samaras in todays Age www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Weereewaa. Lake George where both my grandparents on my dad’s side were killed in a car accident in 1969

Massive racist dog whistle by the coalition and Angus Taylor. Big test for our country here. Compulsory voting means they don’t stand a chance in the next election but it’s how we defeat this in the long term that is at play here.

Big fish produce a lot of eggs and larvae, which act like interest on the original deposit.As long as that ‘capital’ – the big, old fish – is left in the water, we can keep living off the interest. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/hoo...

Look forward to talking to Joe Malignaggi on Music Sans Frontieres on 3cr.org.au today 12.30pm bout Tabaran, Telek. NDW and the new Malira album and current tour. Have always loved 3CR. A girlfriend's father had 3CR on his car-Robert Wyatt, Gary Foley & an IV with David Bradburyabout No Pasaran

Now is the time for intense scrutiny on Hanson, Joyce and Ashby and then turning that reveal back on that portion of the electorate subscribing to this racist blame game and asking them, “really, you really want to do this?”

The green room at the Archie’s Creek for tonights NDW gig.

We’re down at Archie’s Creek this Friday. The 9 piece wagon rolls on!

NDW Insta account. Tour starts today. We're going up the country

Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 appointed as co-Chair of COFFIS to end fossil fuel subsidies, even as fuel hits US$8 a gallon and families face an economic emergency in Majuro. Public money must fund people, not fossil fuels 🚫. ➡️ islandsbusiness.com/news-break/m...

Uncle Frank Yamma finishing off his album down here at the Donkey Shed, Gadubanud lands. @wantokmusik.bsky.social

Such a strong regional story. documentaryaustralia.com.au/project/gods...

Canberra folk, the legend that is Uncle Frank is coming soon to Smiths. @wantokmusik.bsky.social

Lamest tourist destination in Tonga

So many great people came through 2SER. And now the Uni of Technology is threatening to have it shuttered. It's dire. I'll have a petition page for you in the next day or so. We'd love your suupport.

Music from the Trobriand Islands,PNG. The source music for the soundtrack to In a Savage Land. 2001 davidbridie.bandcamp.com/album/wosi-m...

I love the fact that Tonga never got colonised- incredible story and well played King George Tupou Tāufaʻāhau who made sure that all Tongans owned their land before any outsider could claim it

“Angus Taylor claims too many self-serving migrants are draining the nation” …and so the sewerage starts leaking through the floorboards.

Quality. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

For some reason Ive got Sister Janet Mead's number one pop hit of the Lords Prayer as this morning's ear worm.

Jubilation in Budapest. Viktor Orbán defeated. Horrible, dangerous and mean spirited politician. All fair minded and decent people will welcome this result

The song for today is... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM7H...

footy

Condolences.

Americans don't know the reasons Iran hates the US. In 1951 Iran's democracy elected Mohammed Mossadegh. The CIA & British intelligence staged a coup, installed a dictator who tortured and killed people. It goes on from there.

Thinking of those who are waking up every day to check if family and friends are safe, and who are having to endure our government continually failing to acknowledge, call out and act on war crimes, genocide.

Young George Telek in Rabaul. Touring with Not Drowning Waving in May. Theatre Royal Castlemaine May 1; The Gov Adelaide May 3rd; Archies Creek May 8th; The Street Theatre Canberra May 15th; Paddo RSL May 16; Altar Bar Hobart May 24; Brunswick Ballroom May 28. Tickets at venue websites.

Ben Hakalitz, Buka drummer and elder receiving the Kings Jubilee Medal at PNG GGs residence on Wed night. Hakalitz has been a major part of Sanguma, Yothu Yindi, Not Drowning Waving, Tambaran Culture, Melanfunk Collective, Telek, Tribes of Jubal. Thoroughly deserved Tuluan-

if you’re up round Creswick in Central Vic i’m having a yarn with a fella i play cricket with and a play on the old upright piano at Odessas. We’ll talk Solomons and music, Antarctica and cricket and a bit of NDW. it’s a cracking pub. Has fine whisky too

Yesterday I came across an article Leigh Sales wrote on Thursday when the ABC was on strike. It is one of the worst commentary pieces on Australian political-economic history I've read. It was clear no one of quality was around to check her work or prevent it from being published. 1/13

Stazja is someone close to me, my partner’s daughter. She has been given a brutal MS diagnosis at the age of 21. She is a ripper of a young woman and hopefully is of the age where research can assist the way her life will pan out. please donate if you can. Cheers. www.mswalk.org.au/fundraisers/...

sign o the times

Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory | Kirsty Howey

Proper healthy

The people in Lau Lagoon, Solomons have never heard of Donald Trump. World’s best practice.

You’re meant to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of. Yet Australian governments are handing out $16.3 billion in subsidies for fossil fuels. @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss why on this episode of Dollars & Sense. 🎧 theaus.in/4bm3836

Malaita artist Natty Dolaiasi shooting a film clip at his ancestral home of Adegege Island, Lau Lagoon for his song Lau Omea. A people who live at the coalface of climate change. @wantokmusik.bsky.social

Human made islands for housing in Lau Lagoon, North Malaita Solomons. The effort to bring the big rocks and coral to be the foundation for the houses is a massive feat of human endeavour. These islands were here before the missionaries and traders arrived in the 1880s.

Great work from Knitting Nannas. The more exposure the #AtlasNetwork and its affiliates get, the better. #auspol

Listen to The mesmerizing whale song as a humpback 🐋 whale and its calf swim in the coastal waters of Tonga 🇹🇴 📹Paul Nicklen

Honiara @wantokmusik.bsky.social Na Ainamae and Totoraha project recording ancestral songs from Are’are, Sth Malaita. First few days recording artists based in Honiara town before heading to Lau and Are’are. John Houkarawa is the first artist.

Was good to write a positive story, though there is plenty we don’t know about these guys and there are challenges ahead to make sure they remain not extinct. But here’s to positive news. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I saw a bumper sticker with this on it about 20 years ago and have thought about it when I am in/ am being traffic ever since