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Spooky eucy! Let’s celebrate the haunting beauty of Australia’s gum trees this Halloween | Jess Harwood From skeletal spectres to portals to the underworld, eucalypts have the power to thrill and chill The spooky season is upon us and, while Halloween is not a longstanding tradition here down under, we love treats, dressing up and telling ghost stories. Halloween is here to stay, so why not make it a truly Australian festival? If you’ve ever caught sight of an owl roosting in an old, hollowed-out eucalypt or the silhouette of twisted gum branches reaching like fingers across the moon and felt a touch of mystery and magic, then consider the haunting side of Australia’s beloved trees: Continue reading...

Spooky eucy! Let’s celebrate the haunting beauty of Australia’s gum trees this Halloween | Jess Harwood

Women’s Cricket World Cup: England crush New Zealand in final group match England complete group stage with an eight-wicket victory over White Ferns in Visakhapatnam but Sophie Ecclestone’s shoulder injury a concern

Sophie Devine 🫶

What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.

Police appeal for witnesses after Mornington near miss MORNINGTON, VIC. — Somerville Highway Patrol are appealing for witnesses following a near-miss at a pedestrian crossing in Mornington earlier this month.

Police appeal for witnesses after Mornington near miss
#ausnews #vicnews #police #witnesses #investigation #mornington

Cuomo Stunned Into Silence When Faced With His Sexual Assault Accuser Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani revealed that one of the women who had accused Andrew Cuomo of harassment was in the debate audience.

You sought to access her private gynecological records,” Mamdani said, re: what Cuomo's legal team did as part of the defense... “She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her. I, however, can speak. What do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed?”

Opinion | ‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going On in Here’

What’s this? Sports betting is a blight on society and the sports being bet on themselves? Who could have possibly foreseen this?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

A politics of care, kindness, and solidarity, opposed to malice, cruelty, and bigotry, would go a long way.

As the Trump Administration slides further and further into authoritarianism, it becomes increasingly clear Australia needs to escape the disastrous AUKUS deal.

Two-thirds of Australians support a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS.

Add your name to the call. ✍️⤵️ #auspol

If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

Notice how quickly “we want our nation to uphold Christian values” turns into “it’s not the government’s job to feed the hungry or help the poor!” which are actually things Christ taught his followers to value.

Stunning hypocrisy of western governments, like ours in Australia, is that they practice neoliberal ‘user pay’ & ‘copayment’ model for individuals - while delivering unfettered corporate socialism.
We may vote but donors determine political priorities.
Why community independents must prevail #auspol

Leonie is among 7.5 million Australians who stopped work, hobbies due to health A new survey lays bare what Occupational Therapy Australia describes as the "participation gap".

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I see a lot of negative press and comments about the #NDIS but despite issues we are very fortunate to have it. It's obviously helped the people mentioned in this article a great deal. Something we can thank a Labor government for. #auspol

I agree @Tassie Devil. If they do ban males from childcare then they need to lift the salary based on the fact only 50% of population can do the work.

A Christianity that causes the hungry to go without food, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be mistreated, and God’s creation to be ravaged, all while the greedy and cruel satisfy their every desire, is a Christianity that can no longer claim to follow Christ.

Babooshka

#80sTop30

Day 26

Kate Bush

Babooshka

Selected at random from 100 of my favourite 80s songs by 100 different artists.

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I cannot believe that Americans are just letting all this happen.

URGENT: BoM has issued a Severe Weather Alert for Melbourne. Storms, hail, damaging winds.

Recording lightning strikes in Reservoir now.

Stay alert. Avoid driving; if on the road, drive to the conditions.

So happy this painting found a new home at the Birdlife exhibition! I have two originals left in my parrot series and I've just made them both half-price 🤩 rachelhollis.com/original-art... #painting #artwork #birdart #australianart #wildoz #birdlifeaustralia

I ain’t gone lie if you’ve been giving to your religious organization all these years and they don’t give out free food and help when snap gets cut you need to leave them where they are and find a new spot.

Albo gives himself rockstar welcome home from Trump talks There was no hiding Anthony Albanese’s hubris when he touched down in Australia after his successful meeting with Donald Trump.

Kind of stunned that Albo wasn't wearing a Radio Birdman tshirt. Ten points for rocking the Joy Division swag though.
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i just can't imagine having the power to stop someone from being killed and not doing it.

Gout Gout breaks record to end school sprint career and magic year on high * Gout breaks his own 400m meet record to win in a personal-best 46.14s * The 17-year-old thanks his coach as he signs off as a schoolboy athlete Sad and grateful was how athletics prodigy Gout Gout farewelled his junior career and one of the most dazzling years on the track for an Australian sprinter. The 17-year-old thanked his coach Di Sheppard and Ipswich Grammar School for the wild ride as he signed off as a schoolboy athlete by breaking his own meet record at the GPS Track and Field Championships in Brisbane on Friday. Continue reading...

Gout Gout breaks record to end school sprint career and magic year on high

YouTube video by TheCureVEVO The Cure - Lullaby

#ArtistFaveLP
#MusicChallenge

7.

💿 The Cure - Disintegration

🎶 Lullaby

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Advocate says federal disability minister's office is inaccessible A viral video showing a lack of accessibility into the offices of the federal minister for disability has highlighted broader issues for access into public buildings, an advocate says.

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The federal Minister for Health, Ageing and Disabilities has an office not accessible to those who most need it to be. You can't make this shit up.
#auspol

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Connect to the news that matters by subscribing to TrueNorth - where we curate articles from these independent publishers into a 4pm weekday newsletter #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com

Westpac Bank gets a lot of good publicity from the Westpac Rescue helicopters.

But you probably didn't know it's actually NSW taxpayers who provide the VAST majority of the funding!

@browne90.bsky.social #auspol

This is a great piece by Michelle Pini

Marr's attitude in this was so obviously personal, so much so that his loudly wounded ego overtook the interview, falling victim to the #NotAllMen syndrome, and clearly taking Hedge's journalism criticisms as an attack on him personally.

#NotAllJournosButSome

Bird with black head and chest and white belly is standing on the edge of a concrete bird bath. It also has blue eyes and a thick beak. Bird is facing forward with head turned to its left in profile.

Junior Magpie dropped by. This is a kid from one of the late clutches this season so they still have blue eyes and a bit of baby beak gape. Adorable #birds

Inpex quietly admitted that its Ichthys LNG project drastically underreported its emissions of the cancer-causing chemical benzene by more than 13,000%.

The gas industry is continuing to harm our health and our climate, yet our governments are failing to act.

#auspol