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Mid-spring at Parliament and the #bees are loving it! Great start to the season.

This is what happens when you play groups off against each other, Minister Watt. Nobody is happy and you end up looking foolish.

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Seriously?!

It was actually your own party and Anthony Albanese that scuttled the EPBC reforms last time around, to appease your W.A. Labor colleagues and mining interests!

And now you're asking us to lobby to pass legislation we haven't even seen the details of?!

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Just listened to the ABC interview. Is every single person in Aussie legacy media determined to make absolute dicks of themselves? Some sort of office bet? Let's do better next genocide, folks. Read real books, don't put IDF says in headlines, no junkets to Tel Aviv, etc, WTAF

‘For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle The federal government this week overhauled its superannuation tax reforms. Now the union movement says it should radically overhaul taxes on gas exports.

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas.

Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas

And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil

This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Red sunset on clouds

Dropping off some new bee colonies to an orchard, and the sunset was so good I had to pull over and just watch it for a bit.

Road trip. Tracing the source of the Castlereagh and Namoi rivers with a bus load of Elders. Very informative, very funny, very worthwhile. Can't wait to do it again one day. 👍👍

Linda Reynolds will be remembered for her character, which seems to consist of nothing but distilled, ossified spite.

Farmers paid to fence off land forever for conservation Farmers in southern New South Wales are protecting parts of their land in perpetuity, fencing off tens of hectares for conservation.

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

So - let me get this straight…

They’ll ban social media for under 16s even though most experts say it WON’T work

But they won’t ban gambling advertising & other key recommendations even though most experts say it WILL work

What? #4corners #auspol

Diuris pardina - Leopard Orchid

Glossodia major - Wax-lip Orchid

Dispute being fairly dry in the bush, there are some beautiful orchids in flower in the Ironbark country around Stawell.

Diuris pardina - Leopard Orchid
Glossodia major - Wax-lip Orchid

#Orchids #Wildflowers #Grampians #Spring

A yellow rosella at Lake Hattah, Victoria.

The gambling industry is predatory and insidious.

I quit the Parliamentary Sports Club a few weeks ago, when I discovered it had registered as a lobbyist group and was sponsored by the gambling peak body.

The industry will do anything to wield influence on pollies, and hates being called out.

Jacinta Price has lashed & accused the ABC of not providing enough coverage on the assassination of Far Right advocate Charlie Kirk. Takes issue with ABC referring to him as a “Far Right advocate”

Pfft. ABC wouldn’t shut up about Kirk. And yes Jacinta, he’s far right, like you. #Estimates

People seemed to like that earlier shot I posted of the red-rumped parrot about to have a drink at Lake Hattah. So, here's another - with his beak in the water 🙂

Lake Hattah.

A 79-foot pygmy blue whale surfaced near Busselton Jetty, Australia, a breathtaking encounter with one of the ocean’s rarest giants.

[📹 Megan Wood]

Thank you everyone

❤️ 🙏🏽 ❤️

#Gunnawah

Well that did not take long. Hastie quits Liberal frontbench over immigration.

www.theaustralian.com.au/nation%2Fand...

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
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Morag doing a gentle hello to Tatiana the grumpy old sheep
#TinyPup #FarmLife #LittleFarm

Someone is hungry, very very hungry.
#Spudlet #TinyPup

Jincumbilly Siding on the Monaro high plains. #VisitNSW

Beautiful mirror spider.from Australia.

This gorgeous being is thwaitesia argentiopunctata. Also known as the sequinned spider, mirror spider and is found in Australia. Absolutely beautiful! I am at a loss for words.

#nature #arachnid #insect #mirrorspider #Australia

Albo visits Madame Tussauds whilst in the US.

You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.

The performative mourning driven by social media, was from blueprints sitting there in large conservative think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, waiting to be deployed

The alleged outrage was at its core, manufactured recreational grief-bait

My latest in The Shot

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Australia approves first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a development that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered animal.

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

Apostlebirds are the extroverts of the bird world. Big bold personalities. They get their name from the mistaken belief that they always come in groups of 12.

Israel lobby has luxury antisemitism summit on Gold Coast while Gaza burns - Michael West While hundreds were killed in Gaza the Israel lobby held a luxury summit for local councillors to suppress criticism of Israel.

Israel lobby summit for mayors - push to ban 'antisemitic symbols' such as keffiya, Palestinian flag, watermelon.

Wendy Bacon @sstephanietrann.bsky.social cover the Gold Coast event
#auspol

michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...