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Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach The enormous, serpentine fish, regarded in Japanese folklore as a herald of disaster, usually live deep below the surface and are only sighted when sick or dying

Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach
The enormous, serpentine fish, regarded in Japanese folklore as a herald of disaster, usually live deep below the surface and are only sighted when sick or dying
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Oh dear and they wonder why we (taxpayers) lack confidence in gov ability to manage contracts and the role of consulting firms in these contracts? Accenture this one. #Auspol 👇

‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge Despite Australia signing the Belem declaration, Albanese rejected suggestion Labor shouldn’t develop new gas fields

‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge
Despite Australia signing the Belem declaration, Albanese rejected suggestion Labor shouldn’t develop new gas fields
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

BOM reveals new website cost $96.5m, not $4.1m as first announced Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.

Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96.5m bill for website redesign www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Power for its own sake, and to hell with courage – Labor has lost its way The point.com.au

Power for its own sake, and to hell with courage – Labor has lost its way
Amy Remeikis
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It's the most unrepresentative major lobby group in the country.
Nearly all small and medium business are not members.
Most *Australian* large businesses are not members.

And yet, meeja be, 'lets ask the BCA'.

Credit Suisse went broke.
Likes of (publicly owned) Australia Post and Snowy Hydro perhaps thought more carefully about it.
Adamantem, Adobe, Compass, Woolworths, others?

Counting, you'll find that's 123 members where, in May 2023, there were 138.

Since the previous one is a bit dated, here it is updated -- the Big Business and Publicly-Owned Sycophants Council of Australia, complete membership list.

Source: www.bca.com.au/membership/.

Two frames. 1. Old cigarette ad with image of doctor holding pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes. My title “They don’t make ads like this any more…”. Ad says: “20697 physicians say “LUCKIES are less irritating” “It’s toasted” ‘Your throat protection against irritation against cough’ 2. Same image except doctor is holding a lump of coal instead of cigarettes, with altered copy in the same style. My text at top “…but they might as well.” Ad says: ‘The Coalition says ‘FOSSIL FUEL is good for Australia” “Just burn it. It’s cheaper than saving the planet.”’

Good for you.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.

“If Australia is serious about supporting Ukraine and upholding sanctions, it must follow the UK and EU by announcing a ban on imports of fuels refined from Russian crude and shutting down the backdoor channels that continue to finance Russia’s aggression.”

Isaac Levi, CREA

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

"Pezeshkian said the pressure on water, land and infrastructure had left the government with “no option” but to act. “... The reality is that we no longer have a choice; it is an obligation,”" to move Iran's capital Tehran.

www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...

Current heart attack screening tools fail to identify half the people who are at risk, study shows Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at risk of having one, according to a new study led by Mount Sinai researchers...

Current heart attack screening tools fail to identify half the people who are at risk, study shows medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...

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I gave the 2025 Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture recently. It was about how Australia is failing its public schools & the vulnerable kids they increasingly enrol. I pull no punches. It will be broadcast on ABC RN Big Ideas at 8pm 25/11 and midday 26/11. Or via the app www.abc.net.au/listen/liste...

This makes #AlboMP's call to bale out of spending $2 billion+ on a hopelessly corrupted #COP process something of a prescient master stroke. #auspol

Rare orchids and wattles thrive in old cemeteries Australian cemeteries have become a safe haven for flora and fauna affected by urban expansion, including a rare orchid unique to a small patch of the NSW Mid North Coast.

Critically endangered orchid thrives as NSW Mid North Coast cemetery provides habitat refuge
Conservationists say in rural and urban areas cemeteries often provide protected habitat for rare and endangered plants and animals.
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Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny The point.com.au

Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
-Virginia Young
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Israel activists infiltrate Labor Party in 'grassroots' putsch to hit Greens - Michael West Israel campaigners Ofir Birenbaum and Sophie Calland have infiltrated the Labor Party backed by far-right money

Another extraordinary story from Michael West Media, showing how the Zionist ALP is welcoming extremism into the fold.

No wonder Albanese continues to allow the supply of military material to aid Israel’s genocide across the Middle East.

michaelwest.com.au/israel-activ...

COP failure delivers a billion dollar opportunity to finally deliver for Pacific family New analysis of Australia's foreign aid spending recommends a more direct way to help our Pacific neighbours, following the failure to win the right to host next year’s COP climate talks.

COP failure delivers a billion dollar opportunity to finally deliver for Pacific family
New analysis of Australia's foreign aid spending recommends a more direct way to help our Pacific neighbours
thepoint.com.au/news/251121-...

Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all Ancient Mars boasted abundant water, but the cold and dry conditions of today make liquid water on the Red Planet seem far less probable. However, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere...

Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all
phys.org/news/2025-11...

This dump appeared 'in broad daylight'. UK authorities are investigating how British authorities are scrambling to work out how an estimated 100 tonnes of garbage could be dumped in plane sight, and they're looking to the underworld for answers.

Authorities look to underworld for answers after massive illegal rubbish dump sparks outcry in England www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Satellite reveals why we could see auroras so far north in Australia last year While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed Earth's protective shield to a fifth of its size, according to new satellit...

'Mother's Day' solar storm squeezed Earth's plasmasphere to one-fifth its size www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Not me personally, but the author of the article @oceanscientist33.bsky.social

Week in wildlife: traffic-stopping reindeer, wildcats and a giraffe on the move This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Week in wildlife: traffic-stopping reindeer, wildcats and a giraffe on the move

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WTF Flinders. 🤬

This is why Albanese is continuing the LNP's calculated destruction of our universities & cuts to scientific research inc CSIRO - to cover up his climate crimes.

Green shoots bring hope after bushfires in the Grampians New growth is sprouting in the fire-ravished Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park, but an ecologist fears for the future.

Green shoots bring hope after bushfires in the Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Federation University scraps one of Australia's oldest geology courses Geoscience students are left feeling "in the dark" and "ripped off" as Federation University becomes the latest university to ditch its geology specialisation.

Federation University scraps one of Australia's oldest geology courses as students turn away from mining www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Winter trial could be key to unlocking 'huge' industrial hemp industry A trial showing industrial hemp can be grown year-round has farmers excited about the crop's "huge" potential.

Industrial hemp crop trial gives new hope for Australian industry www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

'Absolute madness': Environment groups decry glider survey results New data points to the "systemic" under-reporting of greater glider dens within areas earmarked for logging in NSW, which scientists say could result in localised extinctions.

Rules meant to protect endangered gliders increase risk of localised extinction, scientists say www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...