Gillian Fennell

a woman in a brown sweater says what about us ALT: a woman in a brown sweater says what about us

Here it is the #AnSkyMedSkyDebate from rural SA.
Is there a professional obligation for city-based anaesthetists to contribute to rural service delivery?
City based surgeons contribute greatly to services in rural areas in Australia, should us as anaesthetists do the same?

Don’t worry - we made it home.

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Sou

Not sure I’m away from home at the moment.

In 2019-20, the bureau modelled what it would cost to maintain and then replace every asset in its inventory over the coming decades and used this work to attract more government funding. The bureau then ignored the modelling and failed to convert it into an operational plan for asset replacement or maintenance. The report found the weather agency developed a draft inventory management plan for replacement parts of its observing system in November 2022 but left it in draft form for the next two years, leading to both critical undersupply and costly overruns of inventory. The BoM failed to achieve 10 per cent of planned maintenance last year. Its solar measurement instruments have returned no data to stakeholders for almost five years. Where instrument or asset failures did occur, 43.3 per cent of these incidents did not meet the agency targets for “mean time to restore” service. “I think it’s well past time for the government to take a look behind the veil of secrecy that the bureau has been operating under since Andrew Johnson came to the helm.” According to the report, bureau management has repeatedly failed to track progress on maintenance and asset management. It promised to deliver reviews and responses to internal audits that went nowhere for years and did not report on the progress of key initiatives, “including the initiative to regularly review progress”.

An audit of BoM's asset maintenance program in the weather observing system by the ANAO is among the worst I've seen. It's scathing and the details are borderline absurd. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

And #ausag is paying the price.

Always happy to have a chat with Wes - and he can come visit to see first hand if he likes.

The challenges of dealing with waste on remote cattle stations Discarded batteries, ancient rubber tyres and drums of oil are the kinds of waste sitting on Australia's remote cattle stations that could have a brand new life if a researcher's plan comes to fruitio...

Check out this great piece on my student @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social Wes' PhD with some great insights from @stationmum.bsky.social!

Wes is looking at management of inorganic waste on remote cattle stations

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

Saw something so special I had to set it to music.

I’m too old & slow for this nonsense.
#stationlife

Year Ahead: Livestock SA chair Gillian Fennell Among Livestock SA's major goals for 2025 are advocating for producers, fostering collaboration and bridging the urban-country divide.

Looking forward to 2025.

www.stockjournal.com.au/story/885276...

Working the horses this morning.
This is Kylie Mole (Mole for short) she’s out of a mixed bred mare that we used as a kids horse by Bones (my now-gelding)

I have no idea what we’ll do with Mole, although I do have a pony cart going to waste in the shed…..
#agsky

Here's a good tip for the #agsky crew 👇

Obelix is a Percheron gelding who used to be a bronco branding horse. Like many grey horses he developed a growth - in his case a large tennis-ball sized tumour in his neck near his jaw & on veterinary advice he was retired.
#stationlife #agsky

Had me tricked when I went out to feed the dog 😂
#StationLife

They’ll be back.

Feeling lonely?
Need a good listen while on the road this holidays?
Don't be sad that there's no new episodes - catch up on the back catalogue instead!

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Ok, the start of my Emergency Australia list is here. When you find accounts that should be added (fire, ambulance, police, SES, transport and monitoring reporting) pls send them to me and I’ll update the list bsky.app/profile/did:...

Drugs, bikies, a serial killer: How did six men vanish from the outback without a trace? Wes Lockyer is one of six Aboriginal men from WA’s remote north to have disappeared in recent years. His family want the police and pollies to do more to find them. And the public to care.

This is utterly absorbing - and horrifying in so far as it emphasises the absolutely hopeless (indeed, bizarrely uninterested) police & govt response to missing Indigenous men.

Tim Elliott has done a great job writing & researching this. Read it.

www.theage.com.au/national/dru...

We use a remote telemetry system to monitor some water points & areas of our station.
Occasionally the cameras get invaded by 🕷️.
#StationLife #agsky

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Beef exporter says it will take time to resume trade with China as sanctions lift An Australian beef exporter caught up in a trade war with China says the company has learned not to become overly reliant on a single market.

With its #export licence now reinstated, Australian Country Choice says being caught up in a #trade war with #China taught the company not to become overly reliant on a single #market. #agsky #agchatoz

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

Will #agsky replace Ag Twitter?

1️⃣ Yes in 12 months
2️⃣ Yes in 6 months
3️⃣ Yes in 3 months
4️⃣ No

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I was wondering where this was at. Saw the original post a while ago.

Bunnings probes potential biosecurity issue after rice plant apparently found in imported broom The millet brooms were imported from China and a former rice farmer says he "nearly fell over" when he saw one on the hardware giant's shelf in the heart of Australian rice-growing country.

Millet brooms imported from China found filled with apparent rice plants and grains at Bunnings launching biosecurity investigation.

The brooms were found in the Riverina where most of Australia's rice is grown.

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

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Wow. Strong childhood memories of there always being bottles of Stoli clanking around in the freezer. What a way to go, ransomwared into bankruptcy

I see what you did there.

🚨Do you live in #Tasmania? We need your help🚨 More than a dozen #Shearwaters have washed up near Swansea. Forecast is ~70km onshore winds = more #birds will likely wash up along the east coast tomorrow. We need data & photos! (please watch for metal bands attached to the birds’ legs)

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