Sandra Godwin
@sandragodwin.bsky.social
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Freelance journo + comms specialist + CMO DKs Honey 🍯 Former stonefruit & grape grower 🇦🇺
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John Birmingham
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For me, Barnaby will be forever remembered as the bloke who couldn’t hold his drink, keep his pants on, or accept the science that spelled disaster for the people he swore to serve in the dust-choked margins of rural Australia.
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Burqa with the works.
Not to borrow from our accursed American cousins, but I’m going to miss Barnaby Joyce when he’s gone, so I’d like to give thanks, while he’s still with us, for all the years of entertainment he’s prov...
https://open.substack.com/pub/aliensideboob/p/burqa-with-the-works?r=2exjx&utm_medium=ios
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Well done
@squigglyrick.bsky.social
You won!
#WalkleyAward
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about 1 month ago
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MEAA
2 months ago
Calling all freelance photographers, cartoonists, journalists, podcasters and media workers! Tell us about your experiences as a freelancer, to shape the next phase of our campaign to set a floor for rates and conditions in our industry:
freelancers.org.au/2025-industr...
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Pleased to see
#SwanHill
made it onto this map of Australia 🇦🇺 available at Aldi, but can’t for the life of me imagine what J.B.T. (East of ACT) represents 🧐
2 months ago
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Congratulations
@squigglyrick.bsky.social
on being shortlisted for the 2025 Walkley Book award for Mean Streak. I'm sure you'd prefer not to have had to write it, but your forensic examination of Robodebt hell means a lot to many.
#booksky
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2 months ago
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Swan Hill makes top 10 of Australian towns with the cleanest air
www.timeout.com/australia/ne...
#airsky
#pollutionsky
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This surprising Australian town has the cleanest air in Oceania
All 10 of the continent’s least polluted towns are in Australia, with the NSW mining town of Broken Hill topping the list
https://www.timeout.com/australia/news/this-surprising-australian-town-has-the-cleanest-air-in-oceania-102925
2 months ago
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Wanna see some
#snake
bites in slow motion? Aust researchers filmed 36 species of snake lunging at a cylinder of warm, muscle-like medical gel. Fastest were vipers at 4.5m/sec. Watch where you walk! h/t
@aussmc.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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How wonderful! 👏👏👏
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3 months ago
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Is Google is giving users what they want and we all have to adapt, or is AI answer mode a rug pull, asks ABC tech reporter James Purtill
#journalismsky
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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A tiny new button in your search bar could kill the open web
The launch of 'AI Mode' ushers in a future where news sites are kept alive to train AI chatbots for a US tech company.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-10/google-meta-ai-journalism-future-rug-pull/105866774
3 months ago
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Between the national conference & awards, September was a big month for the
#Landcare
community. Delighted to see three of the Victorian finalists get the nod, including Bryce Watts-Parker, Tavish Bloom and the Merri Creek Management Committee.
3 months ago
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Crikey
4 months ago
Could the deals newsrooms signed with Google be used to prevent them pursuing legal action over the use of news to train AI bots?
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‘Renting your enemy’: How Google paid the media millions to avoid regulatory pressure
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/17/google-paid-media-millions-avoid-regulatory-pressure/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1758084662-2
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How cute is this? Thank goodness she said yes!
#agsky
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Farmer goes above and beyond for sky-high wedding proposal
NSW farmer Will Henderson had no choice but to bide his time to pop the question. In the end his efforts were rewarded.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/farmer-asks-partner-to-marry-him-with-canola-crop/105783070
4 months ago
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Issue 90 of Victorian Landcare & Catchment Management magazine (edited by yours truly) is live online & on the way to print subscribers.
#agsky
Read it here ⬇️
www.landcarevic.org.au/landcare-mag...
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Landcare Magazine Spring 2025
https://www.landcarevic.org.au/landcare-magazine/spring-2025/
4 months ago
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New blow for South Australian
#beekeepers
already enduring drought & low honey production with routine PIRSA surveillance detecting
#varroa
mites in hives east of Waikerie that were moved from Qld with permit.
#agsky
#beesky
4 months ago
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Potential new niche for Australian fathers put out of work by AI - farming iguanas (and legless horses)?!🦎#agsky
theconversation.com/australiana-...
5 months ago
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MEAA
5 months ago
Freelancers have had enough of low rates and poor conditions and are coming together to demand better across our industry. Join over 200 photographers, journalists, cartoonists, podcasters and other media workers this week to plan the next phase of our campaign! RSVP -https://meaa.io/47arUCu
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MEAA
5 months ago
The Productivity Commission’s interim report, ‘Harnessing data and digital technology’, is a blueprint for the wholesale theft of Australia’s art, media, and cultural heritage that will do nothing more than further enrich the billionaires in Silicon Valley.
#StopAITheft
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Josh Taylor
5 months ago
Idk why the productivity commission believes productivity can be derived by giving away other people's labour for free to companies with way too much money.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it
Interim report on digital economy also mulls changes to privacy rules and copyright collections to help harness AI’s benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/productivity-commission-digital-economy-report-copyright-rules-text-and-data-mining-to-train-ai-models?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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MEAA
5 months ago
Over 100 freelancers have already RSVP'd for our mass meeting on August 20! Join your fellow freelance journos, cartoonists, podcasters, photographers and other media workers to plan how we take our fight for fair minimum rates across the whole industry.
meaa.io/47arUCu
#MEAAmedia
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Non members also welcome 💪
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5 months ago
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Is it possible that AI will do to broad sectors of the economy what mechanised farm equipment did to
#agriculture
since the 1960s? Unlikely, says
@randfish.bsky.social
#agsky
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6 months ago
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So Meta has permanently disabled my Insta account (& my FB account is now suspended) because it claims I posted ch!ld exploitation material & breached community standards. I did not. Do you have contact info for a human who can fix this? Preferably an email address and/or phone number
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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Andrew B. Watkins
6 months ago
Excellent story on ABC Landline today on the S.A algal bloom. Apart from one thing: only the wise oyster farmer at the end mentioned climate change. The cause is warmer water, altered weather patterns & excess nutrients possibly from floods.
@abcnewsbot.bsky.social
iview.abc.net.au/video/RF2404...
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Landline: S2025
The toxic algal bloom killing marine life and closing fisheries in South Australia; Outsparkling France's best in bubbles; and Australia's longest sheep drive, a feat of pioneering enterprise and endu...
https://iview.abc.net.au/video/RF2404Q021S00
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Professor Euan Ritchie
6 months ago
“We either choose to sustainably harvest these kangaroo populations or we will see kangaroos starve in their many thousands during droughts, and habitats will be overgrazed and degraded. It’s a choice.” Excellent article from
@readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists
The campaign to ban kangaroo products is ‘muddled’ and not based on knowledge, wildlife experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/05/wild-kangaroo-harvests-are-labelled-needlessly-cruel-by-us-lawmakers-but-backed-by-australian-conservationists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Professor Euan Ritchie
6 months ago
Guardian donkeys can play an important role in protecting livestock against attack by dingoes, but they must be contained and not allowed to roam conservation areas.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Concerns raised after donkey herd spotted in Victorian state forest
A herd of donkeys has been seen in a Victoria's Big Desert State Forest sparking concerns they may become established in a state without a feral pest problem.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-04/donkey-herd-spotted-in-victorian-state-forest/105493382?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLUUiJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiPqjnsUpRl38NBoMgFOl6O_ZjIaJVXga1PL4BwMbMjwfgHSVVoCuPEH4bJ__aem_zCSDcstuTrMGefzRN1-dkA
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'.. we don’t need to fear the “woke mind virus”. We need to grow up. And growing up takes inner-work, courage, and the humility to admit we’re all still evolving .. (plus) a few more leaders willing to go to therapy' writes
@simongerman600.bsky.social
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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Why Musk's war on the 'woke mind virus' is doomed to fail
We don’t need to fear the "woke mind virus". We need to grow up and that takes courage, and the humility to admit we’re still evolving.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/06/30/the-stats-guy-musks-woke
6 months ago
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Excellent explainer ⬇
#agsky
#droughtsky
#climatesky
#weathersky
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6 months ago
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Australia 🇦🇺 here
#ShowYourStripes
day
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7 months ago
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Winter solstice at
#SwanHill
🇦🇺 and yes, many of our trees and shrubs are confused
7 months ago
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Arachnophobes look away NOW 🕷️ Did you know a young tarantula can run just as fast after losing two legs? According to US research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, they alternate between limping & running like ants 🤯 h/t
@aussmc.bsky.social
www.scimex.org/newsfeed/a-y...
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A young tarantula can run just as fast after losing two of its legs
A young tarantula can run just as fast after losing two of its legs Losing limbs is a common problem for spiders, and international researchers have found young tarantulas are adaptable enoug...
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/a-young-tarantula-can-run-just-as-fast-after-losing-two-of-its-legs
7 months ago
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When 74% of Australians have concerns about misinformation & 43% consider news media & journalists a major threat, you have to wonder where things went wrong.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-b...
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Can we blame women for avoiding the news?
The latest analysis of news consumption trends should leave traditional news businesses reflecting on what they offer women.
https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-blog/can-we-blame-women-for-avoiding-the-news/
7 months ago
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New from me. 🐄 🥛 Hundreds of dairy farmers are likely to pull the pin this year. Can you blame them?
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7 months ago
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Can't decide whether my
#smartphone
is Toxoplasma gondii, pork tapeworm or a Cordylobia anthropophaga (don't google mango worms if you have a weak stomach). What's yours?
#parasites
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7 months ago
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Wowsers. The window view during an Adelaide to Queensland flight on Monday shows clouds of dust rolling into rain clouds. ✈️ 📷via ABC North & West
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7 months ago
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Myopi Dick: Humpback whales' eyesight may be worse than we thought ... for an animal of that size, suggesting the cetaceans may more accurately be called "can't see-taceans". 👏👏 Excellent pun game from Scimex ANZ (I'll ignore the typo in the url)
#sciencesky
www.scimex.org/newsfeed/myo...
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Myopi Dick: Humpback whales' eyesight may be worse than we thought
Myopi Dick: Humpback whales' eyesight may be worse than we thought Humpback whales' eyesight may significantly worse than what scientists had predicted for an animal of that size, suggesting ...
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/myopi-dick-humback-whales-eyesight-may-be-worse-than-we-thought#
8 months ago
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I do love me a good AI fail
8 months ago
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Tim Baxter
8 months ago
This is a really good explainer if you’re curious about southern Victoria’s drought from two of the very best. 👇
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#ICYMI
A piece I wrote for
@australia.theguardian.com
about the relentless drought that has been marching across southern Australia (with apologies to folks in Tas & WA who are also affected)
#agsky
#droughtsky
#climatesky
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Getting barer by the day’: drought conditions in SA and Victoria worsen, leaving rural communities in the dust
Farmers are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on hay as the promised winter rain is pushed back until June
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/12/getting-barer-by-the-day-drought-conditions-in-sa-and-victoria-worsen-leaving-rural-communities-in-the-dust
8 months ago
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A good explainer for anyone wondering why we haven’t unpacked the winter woollies, trees are still flowering & bees haven’t stopped laying or storing honey
#beesky
#agsky
#climatesky
theconversation.com/its-almost-w...
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It’s almost winter. Why is Australia still so hot?
Why is it so warm across southern Australia this autumn? Where’s the rain? ‘Blocking’ high pressure systems are to blame, but the real culprit is climate change.
https://theconversation.com/its-almost-winter-why-is-australia-still-so-hot-256071
8 months ago
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Catherine James
8 months ago
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#agsky
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A glimpse of what all the fashion forward farmers will be wearing this season?!
#agsky
#farshunsky
8 months ago
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Five reports of
#varroa
mite in Victoria in the past 16 weeks, incl one north of
#SwanHill
. Much too close for comfort.
#beesky
#agsky
bees.agriculture.vic.gov.au/Public/Varroa
9 months ago
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Varroa mites and small hive beetles are threatening Australian
#honey
producers. Here’s how backyard
#beekeepers
and everyday honey lovers can help.
#beesky
#agsky
theconversation.com/australian-h...
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Australian honeybees are under attack by mites and beetles. Here’s how to keep your backyard hive safe
Varroa mites and small hive beetles are threatening Australian honey producers. Here’s how backyard beekeepers, and everyday honey lovers, can help.
https://theconversation.com/australian-honeybees-are-under-attack-by-mites-and-beetles-heres-how-to-keep-your-backyard-hive-safe-253947
9 months ago
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Jeremy Story Carter asks ‘can Australia afford the pub, coffees and Friday night takeaway?’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub?
From our coffee addiction to a weekend pub tradition, some of the simple pleasures many Australians have taken for granted now feel like luxuries. But if patrons can no longer afford to visit the pubs...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/can-australia-still-afford-the-pub-coffees-and-friday-takeaway/105115938
9 months ago
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Job alert: Editors & senior
#journalists
looking for a new gig - The Guardian
#SwanHill
(biweekly) & Gannawarra Times (weekly) have an opening for an editor, paying 85k-105k
#jobsky
Details ⬇️
www.seek.com.au/job/83535039
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Editor - The Guardian Swan Hill & Gannawarra Times Job in Swan Hill, Mildura & Murray VIC - SEEK
Are you a skilled editor, or a senior journalist with a drive to lead, and a passion for both traditional print media and online platforms?
https://www.seek.com.au/job/83535039
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Matt Dalgleish
9 months ago
Great webinar with Tony Windsor next week scheduled by Grain Producers Australia - register on the link
#agsky
www.grainproducers.com.au/post/gpa-ele...
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GPA ELECTION WEBINAR: TONY WINDSOR & HOW TO NAVIGATE MINORITY GOVERNMENT
By Grain Producers Australia Chief Executive Colin BettlesGrain Producers Australia (GPA) is calling for government support for positive policy initiatives and investments to help boost the productivi...
https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/gpa-election-webinar-tony-windsor-how-to-navigate-minority-government
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Apparently today is
#NationalPetDay
. Timely then that I spotted this sticker in a library car park this morning. Is
#petsky
or
#dogsky
a thing?
9 months ago
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Dr Ronni Googe, of the Mid Rim Network 🍉
9 months ago
I freelanced regularly (weekly, sometimes more) for Fairfax/Nine for more than a decade; the rate was $450 a piece, no expenses, and zero super. When I started working casually as a uni tutor in 2017, it was the first time I'd earned regular super. Solidarity with Nine freelancers in this fight.
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