#good-news
ooh social media = "hatestream media" - noice! and, quite evidently, very accurate. Let's lift the game with some baby turtles
Australian politicians will soon be heading off to have a little chat with the US about Julian Assange prior to Albo's pitch.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/05/aussie-mps-headed-to-washington-to-lobby-for-assange/
link via @Sylvia J
#Julian #Assange #Good-news #Australia #USA #Pantsman-Barnaby #Caroline-Kennedy #Free-Assange
0.0 it's now 15C and expected to be 18C in 2 hours 0.0
run in circles, shriek and shout!
oh thank the good god Fuck.
#good-news #huzzah #another-winter-down #fknwinter #ban-it
#Australians and the sea
Perth man rows from Australia to Africa to raise funds for youth mental health
"After 86 days at sea, Perth man Rob Barton is believed to be the first person to row non-stop solo and unassisted across the Indian Ocean from Australia to Africa."
Tempted with fresh croissants! the devil's pastry.
good news from the Knitting Nannas and Friends (Sydney faction)
"🎉 Congrats @MoveBeyondCoal
“Banks have lost interest in funding Whitehaven’s financially reckless and environmentally ludicrous coal expansion plans in the midst of a climate crisis. NAB and Westpac have finally turned their backs on Whitehaven”
the SMH asks "what went wrong here?" Nothing - it's all turned out pretty good
"Anybody who’s in thermal coal is going to be facing similar challenges in mobilising funding from traditional sources,” Ball said. “It is increasingly difficult being a coal producer to attract external funding,” he said, adding that the miner was instead focus on sourcing loans from the US debt capital markets next year." hahah yeah good onya USA - still up for saving us ;)
"Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in thick jungle" ~ Reuters
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"It's time for the story of Aboriginal removal to be told. It's a sad story but it's the real story."
The world's largest sand island off the coast of Queensland, formerly known as Fraser Island, has officially been renamed K'gari.
ABC
"We talk about [K'gari] as a natural landscape, but it's actually a cultural landscape. All the trees and all the landscape that you see is actually a result of 60,000 to 70,000 years of Indigenous occupation and Butchulla land management. Without that, the island would actually look completely different." Ms Royan hoped the historic name change would inspire other traditional owners looking to follow suit. "Like Uluru, this has been a great battle," Ms Royan said. "I would say to everyone that wants to fight for their name and the country, keep fighting. It's been a long time coming for us. Go with your heart."
"how to ensure a child wont do drugs? give them a horse - they'll never have enough money for drugs"
Lalwa May is set to become the first Indigenous Australian horse rider to participate in the 2023 World Clubs Tournament in France.
The tournament is part of the annual French National Championships, the largest equestrian gathering in the world, which hosts competitions in disciplines from dressage to horseback archery.
Go you good thing!
#good-news #horses #equestrian #tournament #showjumping #Australia #France
Sam Bloom, two-time world para surfing champion and the author of Penguin Bloom, is headed for Oahu to compete at the Hawaii Adaptive Surfing Championships.
<3 One little birb saved a whole family <3
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-14/world-para-surfing-champion-sam-bloom-inspiraitonal-journey/101064810
#Good-news #birb #birds #Penguin-Bloom #Sam-Bloom #parasurfing #paralympics #fuckyeah
Humpy is back and firing on all cylinders! (fuck, they're noisy)
Song of the Whale (by Eric Bogel) from back when we started saving the species: https://youtu.be/8VZAb9I0LLs