Sandra Godwin

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...

You’re most welcome. Good luck!

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 🧐

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

Swan Hill makes top 10 of Australian towns with the cleanest air
www.timeout.com/australia/ne... #airsky #pollutionsky

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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How wonderful! 👏👏👏

Eventually I did. One good thing to come from it is I no longer feel the need to be there (or here) as often as I once was.

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.

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...

Australian Government Community Partnerships Landcare Award - Merri Creek Management Committee

Merri Creek Management Committee
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Woolworths Junior Landcare Award - Tavish Bloom

Tavish Bloom

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NextGen Landcare Award - Bryce Watts-Parker

Bryce Watts-Parker
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Landcare Magazine Winter 2024

I had the pleasure of writing their stories last year. You can read about them in the 2024 Victorian Landcare Awards feature edition of Victorian Landcare & Catchment Management magazine
www.landcarevic.org.au/landcare-mag...

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.

‘Renting your enemy’: How Google paid the media millions to avoid regulatory pressure

Could the deals newsrooms signed with Google be used to prevent them pursuing legal action over the use of news to train AI bots?

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.

How cute is this? Thank goodness she said yes! #agsky
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Landcare Magazine Spring 2025

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...

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

Yep

Potential new niche for Australian fathers put out of work by AI - farming iguanas (and legless horses)?!🦎#agsky
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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

News fatigue is real

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

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

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...

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

It was me. Which one has the best odds of reaching you?

Non members also welcome 💪

Yup. And it doesn’t help when companies whose name starts with M arbitrarily (and wrongly) shut down any and all accounts linked to the same email address without providing any proof or options for appeal

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