Profile avatar
1earthmedia.bsky.social
Mark Anning. Australian photographer & writer. ex-AAP AP Reuters newspapers NGOs & gov't. Energy. Economics. Environment. Politics. Lifestyle. Tourism. Arts. Antiques. https://1earthmedia.com
878 posts 1,698 followers 1,384 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 24 Comments 26

Telegram fined almost $1 million by Australian eSafety for failing to respond to a transparency reporting notice deadline by over 5 months, about steps they have taken to address terrorist & child sexual exploitation material #auspol

submitted 26 minutes ago • 1 comment

Timber Workers are expected to vote in a demerger ballot which will see them establish their own Union: the Timber, Furnishing and Textiles Union (TFTU) CFMEU Manufacturing Division will be the 2nd Division to leave the CFMEU after the Mining & Energy Division left in 2023 to form the MEU #auspol

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The Saturday Paper: The Week Clive and Pauline vie for top with Abbott the runner-up

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This question has been doing my head in for a week: Where is a good place to retire in Australia? Looking at downsizing into a villa in regional Oz. Sunshine Coast is too hot, Manning Valley has too many cookers & woos, so, I'm looking at Kiama or further south, maybe even rural Victoria #auspol

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

“DOGE is one romance scam away from a national security emergency” ... and the stock market is one national security emergency away from a serious crash.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 274 comments

SPERM WHALES Massive sperm whales rise from the depths, their specialized heads housing natural sonar. These remarkable divers can plunge 4,000 feet deep to hunt giant squid in total darkness. 📹 globetrottingbaes

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

SmartTraveller says these destinations are currently 'Do not travel'. Afghanistan Belarus Burkina Faso Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Haiti Iran Iraq Lebanon Libya Mali Myanmar Niger North Korea Russia Somalia South Sudan Sudan Syria Ukraine Venezuela Yemen

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Good!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A rare 1813 Holey Dollar, stolen from a Polish museum and later sold at auction for $525,000 in Australia, has been successfully returned to Poland with the assistance of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). #numismatics #coincollecting 1earthmedia.com/stolen-1813-...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Roy Morgan predicts a hung federal parliament 2-party preferred LNP 51.5% ALP 48.5% Unchanged Primary vote LNP down 1% = 39.5% ALP down 1% = 28% Greens up 1.5% = 12.5%. One Nation up 1.5% = 5.5% Other Parties down 1.5% = 4.5% Independents down 0.5% = 10% #auspol www.roymorgan.com/findings/981...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

MEDIA RELEASE: World Heritage values threatened by delays to the Great Koala National Park A new report has found the Great Koala National Park would be eligible for World Heritage status, but says those values are under threat every day logging continues. www.nature.org.au/world_herita...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Dismantling USAID is the conservative political ideal. They want governments out of social services & let the churches & charities deal with it. Churches obviously want that too as it expands their donor base. Problem is, China & Russia will step in. Times are a changin'

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"Albanese’s job is to leverage the risk of Dutton PM in a way that is salient to Australians’ daily lives. Portraying Dutton as a recipe for Trumpian chaos only works if Dutton obliges and goes full Trump," Arthur #SeeNoDonors warns Dutton against copying Trump. Too late, I reckon #auspol

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trump & Musk are 'solving' the climate crisis by dissolving the government agencies reporting on it. This is like watching a Bond film where the villain wins.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

President Donald Trump is cleaning up in law suits Musk settled lawsuit for about $10 million Meta last month agreed to a $25 million settlement ABC News agreed in December to pay $15 million Trump has filed a lawsuit against CBS News, Google & The Des Moines Register apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Short video from @latingle.bsky.social - how APL & LNP have colluded to crush Community Independents youtube.com/shorts/unSI3... #Auspol @nicboele.bsky.social @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Trump’s call with Putin By saying Ukraine’s NATO membership is “impractical” & the return of Russian-occupied territories to Kyiv is “unrealistic,” Trump is giving its blessing to key items on Putin’s wish list — even before a potential settlement of the conflict. apnews.com/article/russ...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. apnews.com/article/chil...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

INXS have released a remix of Listen Like Thieves “We’ve done the album like a live show and what is there is there,” Michael Hutchence, 1985 2025 remix by Giles Martin & Paul Hicks unearthed new sonic textures from the original masters #ausmusic #INXS 1earthmedia.com/inxs-listen-...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Australian Workers Union protested at NSW Parliament House today, saying over 9000 jobs will go in the hardwood industry if the Great Koala National Park is "imposed" on north coast communities AWU says 2024 CSIRO research shows koala populations are stable & thriving at 748,000 #NSWpol #auspol

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

40 years on ... INXS have released a remix of Listen Like Thieves “We’ve done the album like a live show and what is there is there” Michael Hutchence 1985 2025 remix by Giles Martin & Paul Hicks unearthed new sonic textures from the original masters #ausmusic #inxs 1earthmedia.com/inxs-listen-...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Australians want to read more in 2025, with 1-in-2 people reporting aspirations to do it more often. Behavioural scientists at Monash’s BehaviourWorks Australia have determined the best ways to overcome the barriers keeping people from reading. #auspol australiareads.org.au/research/und...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

White House blocks AP from covering news because the international news agency isn't referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. ... "not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment" www.ap.org/the-definiti...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments