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

Fuck the Herald Sun

What does the “international rules-based order” the Australian government is so keen on say about leaving people to drown?

“Everything could be different . . . There is no reason why we can’t produce more of the things that we need, and far fewer of the things that are destroying our world, our planet. We have the capacity to do it.” – @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Read more: https://theaus.in/4b0CZ9K

read this and weep for our species www.theage.com.au/business/mar...

"A Confluence of Uncertainty" a 50 min video/sound Installation by K. Verell & myself, deals w Antarctica icemelt climate implications amongst the utter beauty/harshness of the ice desert. Part of "Creative Antarctica" exhibition-Design Hub Gallery RMIT in Melb til May 2. Wed love you to have a look

Best looked at with the Thunderbirds theme playing in the background

Uncle Frank in the Capitol @wantokmusik.bsky.social

Vanuatu’s Climate Minister, Ralph Regenvanu, is urging countries (looking at you, Australia) to resist US pressure and stand with Vanuatu for climate justice. Vanuatu wants the UN to back the ICJ’s finding that countries are legally responsible for climate damage. Australia — whose side are you on?

"A Confluence of Uncertainty" a sound/vision installation by video artist K. Verell & myself, deals w Antarctica ice melt implications amongst the utter beauty/harshness of the southern ice desert. Part of "Creative Antarctica"-Design Hub Gallery RMIT in Melb til May 2 pgav.org.au/Creative-Ant...

Not Drowning, Waving Malira/Tabaran tour with Sir George Telek Ben Hakalitz and Pius Wasi in May. Cairns and Brisbane later in the year. Hope to see you there

Separated at birth

Not Drowning, Waving Malira/Tabaran tour with Sir George Telek Ben Hakalitz and Pius Wasi in May. Cairns and Brisbane later in the year. Hope to see you there

Rabaul.

D'oh! My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social (with apologies to Matt Groening) And in case you'd like to know the episode this references, it's "Duffless", Ep 16, Season 4... google "Bart gets electrocuted by muffin" for a Youtube clip of the moment. You're welcome. 🤓)

Australia Institute research shows why Australia needs more politicians: smaller electorates mean MPs who are more responsive to local communities, more accountable to grassroots campaigns, and better able to specialise in policy areas. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tF9SkF

Siouxsie and the Banshees made it to Bougainville! #shippingcontainergraffiti

‘Journey Home, David Gulpilil’ two AACTA gongs. Such a wonderful film to be involved with. Brilliant team.

Here at the Aacta’s with the wonderful crew who made ‘Journey Home David Gulpilil’- the film is up for best cinematography, sound, original music, feature documentary and best group photos. Five Stars Mr Gulpilil.

Not to be obsessive but what if I just listened to Dick Gaughan’s recording of Craigie Hill over and over again forever youtu.be/b8973TCmfM8?...

Remembering Arthur "Killer" Kane on his birthday. This very moving film about the remarkable life of the New York Dolls bassist is one of the greatest music documentaries youtu.be/a7oHhHGzf3w

This has 'Joh for PM' written all over it minus the John Stone and Geoffrey Blainey parts but still with the flat earther tax.

Catherine -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8rZq3oKuI

Catherine. youtu.be/bUGKJ13RQq8

And here's Robert Wyatt performing Sea Song from Rock Bottom on French TV in 1975. Watch the full recording, which also includes Alifib, here youtu.be/dWGGCcdjFsM

Quote of the morning -”This isn’t miscalculation by the Nats — it’s institutionalised incompetence.”

Happy birthday to the magnificent Robert Wyatt. Here he is performing I'm a Believer on #TOTP in 1974. The show's producer asked him to perform in a wicker chair because a wheelchair "was not suitable for family viewing". Robert told him where to go

The Rosie Jones documentary on George Telek and me, NDW, Aust-PNG relations et al is up on Apple TV and Doc Play now. www.docplay.com/shows/abebe-...

Uncle Frank Yamma is in Alice recording a new album.Backed by a deadly band of young Arrernte musicians, Jason Renehan, guitar, Shawn Foster,bass, and Eric Williams, drums, the album shouts blending rock, Pitjantjatjara stories and deep roots. Big things coming, stay tuned! @wantokmusik.bsky.social

The Australian of the Year should be given to the kind of person who works in a mental health clinic in Tennant Creek on a shit wage not an Astronaut or the Pat Rafters of the world. And it definitely will should be handed out on another day of the year.

Marxist historian & political scientist Michael Parenti explaining why the US has conducted so many covert CIA & overt military interventions since WW2, & destroying the myth that the US intervenes to support ‘democracy.’ #ValeMichaelParenti [Sorry, had to chop this before the end for BlueSky.]

The Rosie Jones documentary about George Telek and myself, and PNG and Australia is now out on DocPlay.

ABC Indigenous doesn’t mince words

Ethical music streamers? This research is useful for those of us who don’t want our £$€ funding Tr*mp / IsR&€L / other ghastly things, and if we want to support the arts & artists being able to afford to create all the lovely music we enjoy. It’s Quboz for me. 👍 This account is over on Instagram.