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Quilt with squares within squares intricate design and flower like motifs

'Rajah quilt' ,1841 by English female convicts as they were transported to Australia, typically for petty crimes due to poverty, sailing from Woolwich to Hobart, Tasmania. The quilt was named after the ship in which they sailed #womensart

What is Israel's Herzog doing here, who invited him, and why? - Michael West Israel's President, Isaac Herzog to arrive in Australia in February. Why is a foreign Head of State asked to help heal Australian community?

Andrew Brown asks why, when Australia demands immigrants’ undivided allegiance, a foreign Head of State - not a religious leader - is invited to support the Jewish community? Divisive within that community itself, and threatening social rupture.
michaelwest.com.au/what-is-isra...

Altered brain connection found in people with ME/CFS and Long COVID - Griffith News People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID experience a disruption to their brain connectivity during a

People with ME/CFS and Long COVID experience a disruption to their brain connectivity during a mentally demanding task.

These ten change-makers, including Jessie Street and Charles Perkins, are just some of the key Australians who prodded the country to question its thinking on race.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/austral...

Native forest logging is driving extinction and climate damage The revelation that the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) is proposing to log a cloud forest in southern NSW teeming with threatened species is another reminder of the spiralling decline of the nati...

The revelation that the Forestry Corporation of NSW is proposing to log a cloud forest in southern NSW, teeming with threatened species, is another reminder of the spiralling decline of the native forest logging industry
- Bob Debus, former NSW enviro minister
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'Led with humanity': The remarkable life of Dame Marie Bashir Dame Marie Bashir was the first female and first Lebanese person to become NSW governor, but her accolades span decades further back as a pioneer in mental health and psychiatry.

Dame Marie Bashir was the first female and first Lebanese person to become NSW governor, but her accolades span decades further back as a pioneer in mental health and psychiatry.

On the unexplored possibilities of grace as a political vision: sojo.net/articles/mlk... #MLK

Former NSW Labor minister condemns Forestry Corporation after greater glider ‘den trees’ found at planned logging site Bob Debus says operations at Glenbog state forest on south coast show native forest logging is untenable

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Tiny school works to save extremely rare 'flying jewel' butterfly It's the size of a 10-cent piece and matures under the guard of protective ants, but the purple copper butterfly needs more help to survive — and a group of NSW primary school students has stepped up ...

A fascinating story about the endangered Purple Copper Butterfly (Paralucia spinifera), it’s mutualistic relationship with a species of ant, and the efforts of one primary school to save it 🦋🐜

#ausinverts #wildoz #butterfly #caterpillarscount #conservation #nature

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Good morning good people.

We could all use a moment of calm. Here are a few moments in the sights and sounds of a forest.

Protect people and the planet.

#ActOnClimate

How Egyptian Papyrus Is Made: Watch Artisans Keep a 5,000-Year-Old Art Alive Tallet discovered in an excavation site near the Red Sea “entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script th...

How Egyptian Papyrus Is Made: Watch Artisans Keep a 5,000-Year-Old Art Alive

On our 125th birthday, let’s rise to the test of our national character Modern Australia has been built by countless individual acts of service, bravery, ambition and kindness – resources that we must call upon following the Bondi atrocity.

“We may sometimes think of ourselves as a young nation on an ancient continent. Yet as well as being home to the oldest continuous culture on Earth, Australia is also one of the world’s oldest – and strongest – modern democracies.”

@albomp.bsky.social

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When Nyunmiti Burtom & other female Australian Indigenous artists heard of the Christchurch Mosque attack, 2019, they showed solidarity by creating a canvas for NZ Muslim community depicting people separated by sea, culture, but united in humanity #WomensArt

A history of the Gardens of Stone campaign A history of the Gardens of Stone campaign

A history of the Gardens of Stone campaign - NCC - Nature Conservation Council of NSW share.google/pWc4aJW3oSnQ...

How a nursing home tackled racism by celebrating culture In 2024 a nurse reported racist abuse from some residents and family members. A year later, instances of abuse have plummeted and staff say it is because of a new program promoting respect.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

167. Faith, Depression, and Finding Calm in the Chaos (Professor Mark Williams) - Alastair Campbell From Parliament to Prison, how can people find calm in chaotic environments? How does one cope with grief during the festive period? What are some successful ways to combat depression? Rory and Alasta...

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADIng With Prof Mark Williams - the right time of year to talk about faith, depression and how to find calm amid chaos! Merry Xmas

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Soul destroying There’s a picture by Lee Miller of an SS guard from Buchenwald taken just after the camp’s liberation.

Soul mining.
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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

Say no to an inquiry into the ABC! Join our call to all senators to oppose Senator Henderson's motion for senate select inquiry into the ABC

Say no to an inquiry into the ABC.
Ironically this push for an inquiry is coming from Sarah Henderson who used to be a journalist with @abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social
www.abcfriends.net.au/no?utm_campa...

Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save their 41,000-year-old language.

With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save their 41,000-year-old language.

Never forgotten.

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

Humanitarian workers bring food, water, health care & hope to children in conflict.

Too often, they pay with their lives.

UNICEF Australia welcomes the Australian Government’s leadership in launching the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel at the UN yesterday.

#NotATarget

Learn more: www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...

"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024"

Chris Sidoti spells it out

We're launching a campaign to end the genocide in Gaza. Sign our petition to call on the Australian government to sanction Israel NOW.

Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please:

Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us

www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...

152. "A War on Children": A Generation in Gaza at Risk (James Elder) - Alastair Campbell Why is the humanitarian situation in Gaza the worst that James Elder has ever seen? What does the process of rebuilding Gaza look like? How do the people working on the ground not lose hope?  UNICEF s...

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING - however had you think things are in Gaza, they’re worse. We speak to James Elder from @unicef.org who has worked in crisis zones all his life and says he has never seen anything as bad we this “war on children”

alastaircampbell.org/2025/09/152-...

Victoria to become first state to introduce treaty to parliament Victoria's historic treaty is promising to "reckon with the past" and empower the state's First Peoples — and explicitly declares it will not take anything away from the broader community.

Some good news...

"Victoria to become first Australian state to formally table treaty legislation in parliament"

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Portrait of Swami Sivananda, renowned saint from Rishikesh, Himalayas. 8 September 1887-14 July 1963. Today is his birth anniversary (Jayanti).

Ahimsa is positive cosmic love. Ahimsa is Sakti. Ahimsa is true strength.
See yourself in all. This is the vision of unity.
~ Swami #Sivananda #SivanandaJayanti