The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
Spotted pardalote on a small branch, peering at the viewer, poised to zip away any moment
Common bronzewing pigeon perched on a log on the ground
Eastern yellow robin on a branch
Here's a trio of cute birds perching!
All spotted on the weekend at the ANBG 🍃
I'm ever so grateful that there are absolute champions like @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social showing us how humans and other life can and must share cities. Thank you, Kylie! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
A three-panel comic. The first panel is a scrap from a dictionary that says crypsis, noun: patterning or coloration that allows a bird to remain concealed by blending in to its environment. In panel 2, labeled effective crypsis, an american bittern blends in with a marsh full of tall plants. In panel 2, labeled ineffective crypsis, an american bittern fails to blend in among some short plants, next to a wet floor sign, and behind a stop sign.
I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
Breaking: ANU walks back plans for forced redundancies: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/anu-walks-back-forced-redundancies-change-proposal/105787248
Great piece. The kicker is the last para:
"His biggest piece of advice to Australians?"
"If you are going to give your natural resources to private companies, you should make sure that you get a phenomenally good deal & you should be taking a big share of the profits."
@garyseconomics.bsky.social
I’m a pragmatic pessimist on the best of days, but I genuinely believe that creatives are capable of bucking the permission structure & making awesome shit while still surviving outside of the creative industrial complex; so many of us pretty much already do that anyway. We always figure it out.
It would be a massive mistake for progressive folk to convince themselves the March for Australia was a bust, or can safely be ridiculed.
It was an alarming escalation of far-right action, and we need to reckon with it.
More thoughts (un-paywalled) here:
www.lamestream.com.au/how-mainstre...
Portrait photograph of a Gang-gang Cockatoo framing its head and shoulders. Its body is dark grey with light grey feather edges, while its head and crest are bright red. It is looking at the camera with the sun sparkling in its eye.
Gang-gang Cockatoo, adult male.
#birds
It's amazing!
Everyone Paris Paloma has a new song coming out and the intro is my loser headline and it’s spoken by EMMA THOMPSON 🚨🚨🚨 and she knows who I am
what this mostly tells you is that defamation laws in Australia are a threat to survivors. it secondarily tells you that Linda Reynolds is [redacted on legal advice]
It’s that time of year when the regent parrots are gathering in their nesting sites, bickering over hollows and choosing their nests 😍
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.
The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
Please consider signing this petition to put a stop to Renew ANU and the involuntary redundancies
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...
The impact of long COVID can be hard to explain, but this article does it so well. It's a disability that needs to be on more people's radars.
theconversation.com/long-covid-i...
A koala, sitting on the ground, looking off into the distance as if deep in thought.
Contemplating life.
Every time I see politicians talk about the NDIS I want to cry; navigating it is a nightmare, no-one would do it if they didn't have to, and targetting vulnerable children and their families is brutal. The load is already so high for these kids and their carers.
An acrobatic green (female) superb parrot gnawing on a gum leaf while clinging onto a thin branch
A brightly coloured make superb parrot feeding in a gum tree
Almost every day here in Canberra, I see or hear these gorgeous birds!
It's still a treat every time that I realise I'm in the presence of a superb parrot 🤗
#birds #wildoz
Text reads: MARION Science + Storytelling Prize. Join us to celebrate! Saturday 16 August. Awards Presentation and Come Write. Tuggeranong Arts Centre 137 Reed Street Nth, Greenway ACT 10-11am: Award Presentation 11am-1pm: Come Write Supported by ACT Government. There are the Australian Government, Inspiring ACT, National Science Week, and Tuggeranong Arts Centre logos at the bottom of the image. There is a scientific illustration of a pear with a caterpillar, a bee, and a butterfly on it.
Text reads: MARION Science + Storytelling Prize Shortlisted Writers. Michelle Brock, Denise Fowler, Ian Hart, Sarah Kellett, Jacqui Malins, Annabelle Evans, Ruby Hulme. There are scientific illustrations of nature surrounding the text: including gooseberries, a butterfly on a twig, some cranberries, a caterpillar and some berries.
Join us to celebrate the results of the MARION Science + Storytelling Prize Awards this Saturday 16 August at Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Stay on for August Come Write!
This is a free event, but registration is essential: events.humanitix.com/2025-marion-...
#ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2025
The technology is supposed to do dishes so we can make more art, not make art so we can do more dishes.
This is an insanely good and important read. Top shelf journalism.
They're so gorgeous, I really do love them!
An iPad shows a magazine page featuring a picture of an echidna sniffing a boot
BBC Wildlife magazine cover on an iPad
Every now and then I think about the time an echidna ambled right up to me and tickled my bum with its snout.
Now, that moment gets to be recorded forever in BBC Wildlife mag 💛
‘Advocates are calling for the removal of the partner income test from the Disability Support Pension, which they say puts people with a disability at risk of financial abuse.’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Gang-gang cockatoos suffer hypothermia and frozen wings in Victorian Alps.
Urging public to carry pillowcases to gently capture any grounded birds they see, and then call for help.
#FallsCreek, ski resort.
Read more www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
#WildOz #BirdlifeOz #Wildlife #Australia #Safety
Glad at least one Labor MP has the courage of his convictions.
Shame on the rest of them for staying silent and leaving their Muslim backbencher colleague to do it alone.
More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here:
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/w2nbCBNqgB...
Australian PM labels Gaza a 'humanitarian catastrophe' and reaffirms aspiration for Palestinian statehood.
"Recognising the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people for a state of their own has long been a bipartisan position in Australia," he said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
