#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Sunday, Oct 19) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://airhealth.short.gy/melbournepollen#Melbourne#pollenNote: Other locations within Victoria have a High forecast today.

📚 Without Diversity Arts Australia…Screen Producer and DARTS Board Member, Ade Djajamihardja on what the arts would lose. 🧡 Donate now: bit.ly/without-dive... #GivingDayArts #WithoutDiversityArtsAu #AusArtDay

But half price is when we get to buy treats Calls for Australia to follow England's ban on supermarket junk food specials www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Single JobSeeker just hit $400 a week How would you go if you were getting that little and were randomly not paid? 'Happy' #AntiPovertyWeek #AbolishMOs and #RaiseTheRate Great piece from @amyremeikis.bsky.social on the current debacle www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic... #NobodyDeservesPoverty

We have launched the Disability Arts History Australia website! -Visit the Disability Arts History Australia website at: disabilityartshistoryaustralia.net -Visit the Padlet to create a post with information for the Timeline about a person, event, and/or organisation padlet.com/bree_hadley/...

couple of great articles that look at disability lived experience and expertise - what is it, why is it important, and how can we value and promote these skills? bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Friday, Oct 17) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://airhealth.short.gy/melbournepollen#Melbourne#pollenNote: Other locations within Victoria have a High forecast today.

Australian activists who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla claim Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, personally threatened to “gas” them. www.deepcutnews.com/p/shut-the-f...

#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Thursday, Oct 16) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://airhealth.short.gy/melbournepollen#Melbourne#pollenNote: Other locations within Victoria have a High forecast today.

Preparing for medical appointments can be tough with #MECFS or #LongCOVID—especially with brain fog or PEM. 🧠 Emerge Australia offers tools and tips to help you communicate with your doctor. Explore here: zurl.co/Se4ST

Looking forward to hosting the 2025 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture next month. Jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will be in Sydney to accept the award this year. 👇🏽

Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/... (msg continues)

Australia: "56% of Australians suffering from long COVID still had persistent symptoms 6 months after their initial infection, according to a new study from the Australian National University (ANU)" Source: archive.md/Sphmm

Once again, for those up the back: techxplore.com/news/2025-10...

#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Wednesday, Oct 15) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://airhealth.short.gy/melbournepollen#Melbourne#pollenNote: Other locations within Victoria have a High forecast today.

"Millions infected in Germany. Flu, cold or corona?" Germany reports 7.5 million new respiratory illnesses each week. During Oktoberfest, over 6 million visitors gather in crowded, poorly ventilated tents in Munich—creating ideal conditions for viruses to spread rapidly. Pretty sure it’s COVID.

‘Diary of a Young Doctor: Notes from the Genocide in Gaza’ by Ezzideen Shehab • Out 10 November 2025 • links for preorder ➡️ linktr.ee/readerswrite... A powerful eyewitness account of the genocide in #Gaza by an extraordinary young writer and general physician. #FreePalestine

I just love cycling in the fall! 🍁🍂🤩

"Centrelink payments are still hundreds of dollars a week below the poverty line. It’s no wonder poverty is rising. People can’t keep up when the basics are unaffordable and support has been frozen in real terms" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #AntipovertyWeek

And this week is also National #CarersWeek #NCW25

#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Tuesday, Oct 14) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://airhealth.short.gy/melbournepollen#Melbourne#pollenNote: Other locations within Victoria have a High forecast today.

for #antipovertyweek, listen to and prioritise the voices of those that actually live in poverty - 1 in 7 folks is not a small number www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

despite the very significant poverty for disabled and sick folks, and exclusion from employment, they are left out of the latest ACOSS poverty analysis [ref previous post] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"As the Flu Surges in Asia, Could Getting Sick Year-Round Be the New Normal?" We let COVID rip for years and it smashed everyone’s immune systems. Now flu, RSV and other viruses hit harder — being “sick year-round” is becoming the new normal. But it doesn’t have to be this way. archive.md/jzMX8

On #WorldCargobikeDay #ICBF2025 pitstop refuel for 3-wheeled #Nihola #cargobike

#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Monday, Oct 13) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://airhealth.short.gy/melbournepollen#Melbourne#pollenNote: Other locations within Victoria have a High forecast today.

Applying for the DSP with ME/CFS or long COVID? 📝 Emerge Australia has a free self-paced module with tips, a doctor’s letter template and live Q&A sessions to help you apply. Learn more: zurl.co/Nfzcq

People Say COVID Infections Are Worse This Year. "Razor sore throat, fevers, chills. Some social media users are claiming that their current COVID-19 infections are more severe than previous COVID infections; some even claim it’s the worst they’ve ever felt." Source: archive.md/DB2uM

Have you explored our resources for carers yet? Click the link to access these helpful tools tailored to carers of people with #mecfs & #longcovid zurl.co/aixex#mecfs#longcovid#carersweek

#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Saturday, Oct 11) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://airhealth.short.gy/melbournepollen#Melbourne#pollenNote: Other locations within Victoria have a High forecast today.

📣 Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Out - Open to culturally diverse artists: > MDA Symposium | On 13 Oct 2025 | 📍WSU Parramatta > Cinespace Writers' Room Training Program | Apply by 18 Oct 2025📍 Footscray, Maribyrnong linktr.ee/DiversityArt...

🎤 Join racial literacy expert Odette Kelada in conversation with artist Dianne Jones & Dr Lilly Brown as they explore racial literacy as a tool for social justice. 🎟️ FREE tickets: bit.ly/Imagine-Firs... Imagine First Nations led by GARUWA & Shifting Ground

Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 22 September to 5 October 2025 In the last fortnight, COVID cases decreased (-25.2%), influenza decreased (-30.3%), and RSV decreased (-33.5%) Reported cases: 🔸COVID: 4,064 🔸Influenza: 19,937 🔸RSV: 5,020 Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

Australian C19 Weekly Update - 10th October 2025 Note: Cases recorded are from PCR testing only. Actual cases are significantly higher. Data from: nindss.health.gov.au/pbi-dashboard/ Thanks to @angiecibisdesign for the design! 1/4

“It makes you feel like, ‘am I even a human to you guys?’. What’s the point of being here? Will that save your budget?” Kieron D’Netto www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Friday, Oct 10) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://bit.ly/melbournpollen

Repost from iwso.org.au Tickets #NowAvailable IWSO is bringing 2025 to a red-hot close and you won't want to miss it! From the sizzling Latin rhythms of Leonard Bernstein's WEST SIDE STORY Symphonic Dances to the exuberant folk tunes of Dvorak's Slavonic dances! www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

The bike lanes are designed and funded. But the state government hasn’t approved them. Why? No one knows. But they need to approve them. Now. Sign the petition in support here: ellensandell.com/issue/bike-l...

New @3crmelbourne.bsky.social #podcast: The long wait for change: Macaulay Road & Wellington Street, Ellen Sandell about Macaulay Road fatality, lack of protected bike lanes & petition. Local news incl. Bicycle Network 50 Year Celebration, Biketober + more www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/epi...

#melbwest #melbswest matters! #bicycle #cycling #cargobike #community

We're calling on the state & federal governments to live up to Albo's 2019 promise to build safe bike lanes on Napier & Buckley Streets. These lanes would link the Veloway to central Footscray, the new hospital, Vic Uni & the Sunshine Path. Build the missing #westlink

#maskup #asthma #hayfever 🤧😷

here is the full survey results from CYDA about the proposed Thriving Kids. CN suicide, distress cyda.org.au/thriving-kids/

“School is no longer an environment where the active, positive presence of students is encouraged, or where the knowledge gained and labour performed within are valued.” Mark Yin on the context behind the carceral responses to AI cheating.

Many are saying COVID is back But the truth is, COVID never left

Words from @bikewestvic on the latest road killing (Kensington) archive.is/7JpRG

It's hard to know if the proposed bike lanes would have prevented the collision that claimed Will's life. But there's no good reason a designed and funded bike lane should be held up like this.

𝐈𝐂𝐁𝐅 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫... 🎟️🤏 Got your tickets yet? ➡️ cargobikefestival.com/your-visit/ 📆 13-14 Oct, Utrecht – see you there 😉 #DecadeoftheCargoBike

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...