Bill Garner

Explore an epic story 65,000 years in the making Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.

Shows how brilliant a public broadcasting system can be. www.abc.net.au/deeptime

Douglas Gerrard | The World’s Largest Deforestation Project In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land in...

The World’s Largest Deforestation Project www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Reminiscent of the grotesque anti-semitic cartoons circulated by the Nazis in Germany. Surprise surprise.

I've never understood the popular argument that there are too many politicians, too many parliaments (at every level). It contributes to the simple-minded anti-democratic sentiment currently coursing through much of the world.

Dialling it up. South Park. 10.com.au/south-park

Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...

The World since 7 October www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Anti-antisemitism now serves the purpose antisemitism (and anticommunism) once did."

Segal exposed.
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The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism, as a relentless campaign pays off | Louise Adler The omissions are as important as the inclusions in Jillian Segal’s plan, which is guilty of overreach

Will the Australian government hear this? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by bhive sound space The Lucky Dip Episode | Ep. 5

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Ghost bookers bring axe down on Victoria's free-camping experiment A free camping program panned by tourism operators and plagued by ghost bookings and rubbish dumping is abandoned by the state government.

Ask yourself: who would benefit from the 'ghosting' of free campsite bookings except the operators of private campgrounds?

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Australia has had to wait for Washington's approval to export 49 US-made tanks to Ukraine. Where's the Australian sovereignty? If this restraint applies to old Abrams tanks then it will certainly apply to US-supplied nuclear subs. No sovereignty at all. Pathetic.

Test this against your own experience. I did and she's right.
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Oral historians: Voices and photographs capturing early-mid 20thc student life at Melbourne Uni will appear today MPavilion Parkville. Only up for 3 days, 6-8 May, 11-3. On Thurs I’ll be there from 11-2 to chat about the project. @unilibrary.bsky.social @oralhistoryvic.bsky.social

Nothing stands the way of Labor and ambitious, progressive reform The big question now is whether the second term Labor government will make the big changes that Australians clearly want and need.

Nothing stands in the way of Labor and major reform

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No wonder Bertrand Russell would sometimes lock his door against Ludvig Wittgenstein.

George Grosz. An artist for the Age of Trompf.

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

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Born with no arms and malformed legs, Deb Gray lived life to the full From hanging out with rockstars and road-tripping across America to becoming a mum, Deb Gray led a remarkable life.

A story to take your mind off your own miserable woes. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Australian Tesla sales plummet as owners rush to distance themselves from Elon Musk Frustrated Tesla drivers are selling cars or displaying anti-Musk bumper stickers as sales of the EV car brand slumped 72% in February compared with last year

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Playing on the beach in Queensland as a cyclone approaches.

Democracy and the ABC

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