“Australia Day” is almost over and I haven’t even seen the photo of Burnum Burnum planting the Aboriginal flag on the cliffs of Dover and claiming Britain for the Indigenous people of Australia on my dash yet (+)
#straya #australia... @Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier :D
OMFG! Look at all the a-holes NOT payng TAX in #Australia #straya #tax #taxdodgers - nearly all are foreign fossil fuel fiends! #FFFF
Who Are These People - Bob Spencer
Who is Bob Spencer? Just some bloke that has filled in for nobodys like Red Symonds of Skyhooks fame, John Brewster from the Angels and Pete Wells (RIP) of Rose tattoo! Not a bad resumé!
Never met Bob but he did ring me once in 2008 after I had been to Melbourne and signed on with Weekend Warriors (old farts that were never any good at Rock that wanted to be in a rock band!)
#Australia #straya #indigenous #minjerribah #northstraddie #Queensland #TFIF
I've been there several times. What a great place! A stone's throw from Brisbane.
"Professor Marcia Langton’s writing and thinking has been influential on Australian life. She’s been a crucial figure in the development of Indigenous Voice to Parliament – as one of the most experienced members of the working group advising the government and led a report that proposes how the Voice could be implemented.
As intensity of the public conversation – and campaigns from all sides – around the Voice increases leading up to the referendum, Marcia’s perspective is much needed, to provide clarity and dispel misinformation. " ( from Sydney Ideas- Voices on the Voice )
https://onion.tube/watch?v=OChkZyQc4xE&t=39s (with AUSLAN)
(Address begins at about 13:24)
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 ;)
Nation’s Primary School Kids Pay Touching Tribute To Tina Turner
"But Turner’s biggest legacy with Australia is undoubtedly the ‘Nutbush Dance’ based on her song Nutbush City Limits, which Turner originally performed with former husband and music collaborator, Ike Turner, and has since been learned by any Australian who attended a public primary school (fun fact, Australia is the only country that does this)"
You arent Australian if you don't Nutbush https://youtu.be/hO6qYIczBQ8
#dance #oz #straya #Tina
robber crabs steal and destroy guns
"..Robber crabs don’t just settle for stealing rifles. They’ll steal cameras, shoes, rucksacks, camping gear and break open eskies. They’re also known for climbing up flyscreen doors outside kitchens where food is cooking.
“The biggest one I’ve seen is about 4.5kg in weight, and about one-metre across,” Orchard says. “No one really knows for sure how old they are. The 2-3kg crabs are about 50 years old.
“I have seen over 300 robber crabs around a fruiting Arenga palm in the national park at different times. It’s a magnificent sight.”
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