Mark Dando

Huge win from the Greater Canberra crew! In just four years, GC’s ragtag bunch of volunteers have completely reshaped Canberra politics, redesigned the entire planning scheme and secured crosspartisan support for the changes.

Line goes up – the early voting line, that is.

Feral cats killing more native animals than previously thought Research tracking released bilbies and bettongs in remote SA has found feral cats are their biggest killer.

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BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

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This is high art

Warnings after backyard cassowary attack puts senior in hospital Experts are urging caution after a cassowary exhibiting "bold behaviour" slashed a man's leg in a backyard confrontation.

A cassowary has slashed the thigh of an elderly Cardwell man in a backyard attack in far north Queensland. Authorities say the fearsome birds are becoming bold because humans keep feeding them.
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“Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.” — Lewis Mumford, 1955 Spread the word.

It’s still a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history.

Please share it as much as you can.

Rotating back to China: South-east Asian markets roiled as investors turn to China. Visit Chartbook Top Link for more!

Elle détrône le scooter et la mobylette : comment la voiturette s'impose chez les lycéens | TF1 INFO [VIDÉO] Les voitures sans permis sont en train de remplacer les scooters et autres mobylettes. Autorisées dès l'âge de quatorze ans, elles colonisent les parkings de collèges et lycées. À Genech, en ...

French teenagers are using minicars to get to school:

"In this rural commune of 2800 inhabitants, about twenty kilometers southeast of Lille, minicars have become the preferred solution for high school students lacking school transportation."

A big part of the appeal: No driver's license required.

Gang-gang
describes the “cockatoo” call in the Wiradjuri dialect

In an effort to counter left dumb, it’s clear. No one is asking you to sell your Tesla as that does nothing to affect the company revenues or share price.

The goal is to damage Musk’s wealth and force him out as CEO. Meanwhile it’s a proxy for antifascist action that needs its own identity.

A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”

All signs point to a hung parliament: what does this mean, and what should crossbenchers do? ‘Don’t be bullied by anyone’ and avoid ‘horse trading’. Former kingmakers Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott advise new crop of independents

Important point from constitutional law expert Anne Twomey that regardless of results the PM stays as incumbent until they resign. It means if there’s no majority, unless crossbenchers vote for no confidence post-#ausvotes in an ALP Govt it can continue www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

Interesting new paper on “motonormativity”, the tendency to view the motorist as the normal traveler and all others as alternative or marginal. By @ianwalker.bsky.social and Marco te Brőmmelstroet. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Although the initial figures do not include fatalities from inside Mandalay, the city is known to have sustained some of the worst damage from the quake and emergency workers estimated that “hundreds” had been killed

Read more:
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Historic Mandalay Palace damaged, Sagaing bridge destroyed; fears grow for residents trapped in collapsed buildings

More at:
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BREAKING: Powerful earthquake strikes Myanmar, hitting Sagaing and Mandalay hardest A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 struck Sagaing Region in northwestern Myanmar today. Tremors were felt across several towns, including Sagaing, Mandalay, Kyaukse, Pyin Oo Lwin, and Shweb...

Reliable source of news on the country generally myanmar-now.org/en/news/brea...

Auto parts cross the Canada-U.S. border six times on average before final assembly. In a trade crisis, that’s a vulnerability.
 
It’s time to build more cars right here at home with an All-In-Canada auto manufacturing network.

This Canberra bus enthusiast has just saved you from a lot of Googling | Riotact For the first time, Canberrans looking to travel interstate without using a car now have a one-stop shop to see…

The RiotACT has published an absolutely delightful story interviewing PTCBR member Kyle Hanley about his winning regional public transport map!

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MyWay+ screenshot showing stop 8889 as still open.

Right now people are planning their journeys to the Lake and New Acton, thinking this bus stop is still operational. @Transport_CBR needs to urgently update MyWay+ and the journey planner to reflect that the bus stop is closed.

Anti-trammers: We must not burden our grandkids with light rail!

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Australia is a 21st-century power. Why hide behind the sham comfort of ‘punching above our weight’? | Allan Behm In this adapted extract from What’s the Big Idea?, international security analyst Allan Behm explains how ‘middle power’ Australia can realise its agency in the era of Trump

"We are insecure, afraid of abandonment and constantly in search of reassurance from a great and powerful protector. And we are diffident in our ability to self-affirm, always looking for American or British approval."

But that can change, says Allan Behm. Now.
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The Dark Prophet of Car-Clogged Cities 70 years before congestion pricing landed in New York City, Lewis Mumford sounded the alarm on letting automobiles run amok in America’s downtowns.

Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:

“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”

He was right. We just didn’t listen.

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Heatwave across the city, so time to talk about #sydneyHarbourPools - we need more!
There used to be more - let’s put some back & add new ones as water quality improves
This one used to be in Rushcutters Bay - still some subtle traces
More #publicsydney to enjoy!

Hmm. How to identify that which can be bought from a different source. Pharmaceuticals can be challenging. Plenty of French, German Italian Korean Japanese products for many others

We have to recreate key climate science and data gathering facilities outside the US. My proposal of an international climate agency that would run such facilities may seem fanciful, but surely to need to have them untouchable by sovereign state fiat was prescient.

Last year the NGA had an exhibition of Paul Gauguin’s work, which was opened by Prime Minister Albanese. Gaugin was a pedophile rapist with three Native child “brides” in Polynesia. The NGA and Albanese both defending this but apparently the Palestinian flag is a step too far.