A stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman bowl made of translucent blue-green mosaic glass 🩵 Looks like it contains the cool turquoise blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea! 🌊 Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

A fearless, independent ABC that is free for all Australians is worth fighting for. Sign the petition to reject calls to defund the ABC force it onto a subscription model that would price out the Australians who need it most. abcfriends.au/actions/keep...

As someone who associates with No Religion (given Atheist not offered as an option), thanks to @rsslmo.bsky.social for bringing this travesty to light. Anything John Howard attacks - well you know it’s the right thing to do. @albomp.bsky.social - much more progressive social action needed from you

Here's guidance on making a submission to Senate Inquiry into Support at Home Program. Deadline - 31 July. #AusPol #AusSky #AusMedia #Australia easy-english_making-a-submission.pdf share.google/uhv9O4H81TV9... Making a submission – Parliament of Australia share.google/JjsbXsXZpReT...

"The new working class is symbolised by the care worker, not the sheet metal worker, by the white collar not the blue collar worker." Female, migrant & white collar. #Auspol #Demographics 👇

Tomorrow, we'll be legislating on illegal tobacco imports. I'll be moving an amendment to stop politicians and political parties from accepting money from the tobacco industry. Let's see how people vote on this one.

Religious influences strong in Labor

Good morning Coolo! We’re here to listen to what matters to you and share our gambling ad ban petition. #JessiePrice4Bean #GamblingAdBan

I’m not crying, you’re crying! 🥹

This is great! www.busnews.com.au/new-hop-on-h...

. Australian media, journos, commentators - this is your moment. Now. Issues that have been brewing for years were all laid bare at #NPC yesterday. Step up. Do your job. Do better. Analyse, Interrogate Research, call out vile, racist attacks. Ask & ask again. Hold to account. #AusMedia #AusPol

Something to cleanse the soul after today's #NPC - photos from last week's visit to National Gallery of Australia's sculpture garden. On a picture perfect, bright & sunny winter's day, the light &sculptures were magnificent. #Canberra #Australia #Art #Sculpture #Nature #AusSky #AusPol #Photography

If #AusMedia now focused on further 'legitimising' Hanson & co, I look forward to regular reporting on - whenever she / ON elected reps absent from parliament - analysis of their voting routinely included in reporting - test / hold them to account on any data used - calling out division #AusPol

💪 All strength to the arms of Sarah Martin & Anna Henderson. Shame on their colleagues who did not call out the vile attacks at #NPC today. Journos showed just how far they need to climb to start holding pollies to account. Analyse, test, refute, and call out Poorleen's BS! #AusPol #AusMedia

Tonight's lit lap. Parly.

Amen.

Wyndham didn't protest the state budget that shortchanged them. They built a public scorecard, named 16 specific commitments & told every candidate: answer before the vote or be on the record refusing 337,000 people. 6 months to go. People power with a spreadsheet open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

Boobie!! 😀

Sometimes a little colour helps From my archives #ColourADay #OrangeSun #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #streletzia

. Ouroborus magnificent on a perfect early winter's day. Few folk about so easy to wander, pause & enjoy the moment. #AltTxt 4 colour photos of Lindy Lee's sculpture from different angles. Clear, bright blue sky & sunlight add to the scene. #Canberra #AusSky #Art #Sculpture #Photography #Australia

I applaud these students for creating a third space for their fellow students. Food charities should not be necessary in a wealthy country like ours.

Ridiculously stunning day today in #Canberra Here are a few photos taken during an afternoon walk at LBG. #Winter #Nature #Photography #AusSky #Australia #Lake #Landscape

Graduate. Staff a minister. Get preselected. Become an MP. Leave parliament. Join a lobbying firm. Not a scandal. A system. It runs at federal, state, and local level. This week's BYV explains the pipeline and how the rest of us get a seat at the table without one. open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

Hump day nature moment - Camelia buds in the rain. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Nature #Gardening #AusSky #Photography

Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten. Dating to around 1353–1336 BC 📷 Metropolitan Museum

Rosemary Kayess, Disability Discrimination Commissioner, before the Senate inquiry this morning on the arbitrary cuts to NDIS: "We know this will leave people in unsafe situations. We had 4 1/2yrs of evidence given to the Disability Royal Commission"

From yesterday's neighbourhood walk at #GoldenHour. The (mobile phone) photo doesn't do justice to the warm glow and sunset colours on a glorious clear, bright sky. A joyful walk listening to Classic100. #SilentSunday #Nature #Landscape #Canberra #Australia #Sunset #PhotoHour

Cornflowers' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

Wow. Pollies are live texting journos on #Insiders assured the txt will be seen - and referenced. Impartial journalism on its last legs. #AusPol

My good mate @aaronsmith333.bsky.social wrote this stunning piece about 1 week as a political staffer in Canberra I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of political writing, in fact, just writing, that I have ever read Seriously illuminating 👇🏽 aaronsmith333.substack.com/p/my-own-sta...

Your reminder that the new president of Australia’s long-term main “conservative” political party is still, as of midday an active member of a fascistic Hungarian influence-operation. Tony Abbott is a component of a transnational influence operation fighting to break democracy. #auspol

. Details of some support services #Australia Womensline: 1800 811 811 MensLine Australia: 1300 789 978 National Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Counselling Service 24hr helpline: 1800 RESPECT Lifeline: 13 11 44 Family Violence Crisis & Support Service: 1800 608 122 Emergency/Police: 000 #AusPol

The warm glow of yesterday's golden hour. Not too shabby. #SilentSunday #Sunset #GoldenHour #Canberra #Australia #AusSky #OzSky #Photography #Landscape #Nature #Trees

From creating sustainable tech to life-saving treatments, these scientists show how curiosity drives breakthroughs. 🌏✨ Swipe through to see how research turns ideas into discoveries that transform lives. #ShineDome25

WTF is with the NSW Greens voting down a censure motion on disgraced MP Mark Latham and seeing it fail? Fks sake.

As Trump trashes NATO, is clueless about AUKUS & generally upends world order, a timely foreign policy chat on this week's #SundayShot with @andrewjfowler.bsky.social, @australiainstitute.org.au's @emmashortis.bsky.social & an interview with Bruce Wolpe. Subscribe at www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

May we all - human and non humans (especially the trees and their inhabitants) - stay safe and may this cyclone be a fizzer (so we can curse our cleaned yards, empty shops, and over preparedness)!