#oz
"In a parliamentary week that has so far involved a pitched battle over how many pages the Uluru Statement is, a bold Coalition stand against cheaper drugs and a fresh bingle over that suburban barbecue-stopper, the legality of Israeli settlements, it is entirely fitting that the session should conclude with the unveiling of a Kevin Rudd official portrait so auto-parodic that no-one could stay grumpy.
More on the other stuff in a minute, but honestly … this portrait."
"..Different news outlets had different reads. News.com.au reported that the former PM was shown "at his kitchen table". The Sky News live broadcast broke the news that this was "the first official portrait to include a family pet … Mr Rudd's dog Abby". (Abby, a Golden Retriever who died three years ago, was understandably unavailable for comment.)" continuing their astonishing run of being wrong about every single thing! XD
Kevin's portrait receives a good cackle from Annabel & Brett (ABC)
The Chaser version: https://chaser.com.au/national/kevin-rudds-official-portrait-revealed/
#Australia #oz #straaya #chang-chang-chang #Kevin #portraiture #painting #politicians #cats
Poll Finds Dan Could Poison Dogs In Fitzroy Gardens And Voters Would Still Prefer Him Over Victorian Libs
Beetoota Advocate
XD it's true
#LOLs #yoks #satire #humour #humor #Victoria #DictatorDan #TeflonDan #oz
a msg from the Senator and Trails. Fair enough.
https://youtu.be/flDocwJBvgw?si=-9fbyR_QZCQKwuGy - a year old already
some lyrics: https://genius.com/Ab-original-king-billy-cokebottle-lyrics
"We weren't the ones beheading people, killing people, putting heads on sticks. We weren't the savages" a chap on telly last night.
Statue of Tasmanian premier (who beheaded body of Aboriginal man) to be taken down The Guardian
also The Shovel: NAPLAN results could be gooder. government concedes
The Federal Government admits literacy and numeracy skills should of improved fasterer, following fifteeen years of NAPLAN testing.
Results from this year’s test, released Wednesday, show a 2.04% decline in riting skills. Reading has declined too, with many children now unable to maintain the necessary concentration to read to the end of a
Grammar results has also gone backwards since the knew testing was introduced in 2007.
Encouragingly, numeracy levels have actually improved over the last ten years, up by around a third (11%).
Headline by Matthew Bulman
#LOLs #yoks #fun #ozpol #oz #Australia #straya
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 ;)
Bearded flatsedge is back! ABC with a nice pic of Tim and another of Eileen Ramsey
The discovery was made during a routine survey by the Victorian government's forest monitoring program, which examines more than 800 plots across the country to study the environmental impact of fire and floods. "When you do these surveys, you get to know the plants that are there all the time," Professor Entwisle said.
You do. A tad further south, we've named our favourites - eg., Barry and Bruce Banksia, and Karen X the grasstree whose leaves flop to one side :)
The Chelsea Australian Garden (in Olinda) has opened
https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/projects/melbourne-region/chelsea-australian-garden-at-olinda
a quick vid from above link https://youtu.be/vDMVYRcFbvg
"In 2013, the ‘Australian Garden’, created by Landscape Designer Phillip Johnson, Horticulturalist Wes Fleming and the Trailfinders Team, was the first Australian entry to win Gold and Best in Show at the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show in London.
Ten years later, Phillip Johnson has re-created his award-winning Australian Garden in the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden in Olinda, on Wurundjeri Country.
The new garden is over 20 times the size of the original Chelsea Flower Show build, converting a section of the former Olinda Golf Course into a stunning botanic garden, supporting biodiversity and habitat creation in the area.
The garden features 15,000 plants from over 400 native Australian species, and includes rare and endangered species such as the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis), which is listed as critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth).
It showcases sustainable and water-wise design, including an integrated bushfire protection system, solar power and the clever use of recycled and reclaimed materials, such as seating which was lovingly crafted from the Dandenong Ranges storm recovery program.
It also promotes and supports biodiversity through the creation of important native habitats for native plants and animals. This will encourage wildlife such as birds, bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, which are so important for the environment."
"It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol.We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us"
~Paul Keating, the Redfern Speech, 10 December 1992
Moon Salad! ABC
"The goal is to be able to grow plants on the lunar surface within four years, which they hope will in turn allow for the development of food, medicine and oxygen in the hostile environment."
#plants #oz #TheMoon #hoticulture #Resurrection-grass #adaptation
Best "Sound of Silence" -The Kranski sisters (from Esk in Queensland. Esk in Queensland.)
https://youtu.be/cEQhqNNuicg or https://yewtu.be/cEQhqNNuicg
website: https://www.thekranskysisters.com/
Ned's last words and how they went from "Ah, well, i suppose" to "such is life" in the telling.
by Dr Stuart E. Dawson https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1669214/eras181_dawson.pdf
transcript of the Jerilderee letter which Ned dictated to Joe Byrne (not ones for punctuation)
https://www.murrumbidgee.nsw.gov.au/files/transcript_the_jerilderie_letter.pdf
"Approximately 8000 words long, this letter has been described as Ned Kelly’s ‘manifesto’. It passionately articulates his pleas of innocence and desire for justice for both his family and the poor Irish selectors of Victoria’s north-east." (Migration History NSW)
"It was natural to look for anarchistic individual solutions, to regard cattle theft as legitimate, and to protect bushrangers." One of my oldies ran a pub through which bushrangers passed, changing clothes on the way through and out the back door. Her husband wanted her to stop giving his clothes away so she suggested she give him away instead. The custom continued. i guess great-whatever grand papa bought his own clothes from there, or learned to love looking like a bushranger's discarded wardrobe.
On the other side of the fam, a forefather (a copper) was shot by a bushranger. His two sons soon caught the baddie and brought him back to hang.
i think i like the first story better.
Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh say they've suffered immeasurable harm from Australia's offshore detention policy. They're using the release of a new documentary, in which they both feature, to call for it to end. SBS
#human-rights #detention #imprisonment #refuge #asylum #Australia #oz
