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Good from sean kelly … www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

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Jason Clare on RN just now finally saying the key point in this Welcome to Country “debate”. “Let’s remember where this began: it began with neo-Nazis booing Welcome to Country ceremonies at a Dawn Service.” Says we shouldn’t let neo-Nazis lead public debate.

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We’re watching Drop Dead Gorgeous (currently streaming on SBS, which incidentally has a much better film selection than any paid streaming service) and the Trump presidency is really leaning into the bit more than I think we strictly required

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Cartoonists and their editors are losing their jobs for “overstepping the mark” over Gaza and Trump. Is the art of satire in danger? Lionel and I talk with Fraser Nelson and Steve Bell. mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

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Ella Archibald-Binge travelled to the Tiwi Islands with the AEC yesterday for the first of 1.5 days of voting in the remote community. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Old twitter would have been going off tonight and as nice as it is to be on a platform with fewer Naz*s it’s just not the same :(

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I’ve been following my elderly cat around for 24 hours to see if she’ll poo (she just did, everyone stand down) so how’s your long weekend going?

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Parched waterways, dead fish and trees ready to give up: historic big dry grips South Australia - by @petrastock.bsky.social and @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Morning walks with the ambassador for retired racehorses. This is one half of his daily exercise routine; the other half is a 10 minute graze on the lawn which is currently the only green grass on the property.

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Emily Wind is wrapping up a mammoth session blogging both leaders’ speeches at the Liberal and Labor campaign launches today. Catch up here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos, and the teenager building nests for them

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Good morning from Mopple, who headbutted me in the knee this morning to demand snacks.

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The great Australian election campaign quiz – week one

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So Kate Lyons and @nickevershed.bsky.social seem to have cracked the mystery of the exporting penguins and the non-existent Norfolk Island exports www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Sally Sara asking devilishly tricky questions of David Coleman just now. “How?”

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Hay’s here.

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NEW: Artist Khaled Sabsabi has blamed Creative Australia for the “dismantling” of his career and said the board’s decision to revoke his appointment as Australia’s Venice Biennale representative has given the green light for others to smear his reputation. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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From me - Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Cadia goldmine operators fined $350,000 for breaches of NSW clean-air laws

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My partner is out and I have a very long list of things that need to get done so you know what that means

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Independent MP Andrew Gee has been caught doing an “Angus Taylor” by replying to a Facebook post from his own account, thanking himself for being “the good guy”.

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Just ordered another 90 bales of pasture hay. The rain last week is really just enough to cause problems - the clover is poking through but that’s about it. I remember in my initial budgeting assuming I wouldn’t feed at all other than occasional lucerne flakes. Hahahahahaaaa

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This horse was born the same year as me www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/hooves-too-b...

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With questions mounting over Australia’s nuclear submarine deal – Aukus – @joshnicholas.com took a look through the budget papers to see what one nuclear sub would buy us. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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My parents came up for their birthday lunch (their birthdays are a month apart) and brought a casual 44-year-old bottle of Grange. It was apparently purchased at the Coonawarra pub back before it had become the collectors item it is now. It was a bit past it but still broadly feasible.

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Guardian’s Stephanie Convery takes home the award for Reporting on Disability Issues at the #MPCQuills. Her exclusive report shed light on the fact people with a disability working in supported employment were legally being paid less superannuation. Sponsored by Victorian Government.

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Sometimes in this job there are issues that really get under your skin. Subminimum wages for people with disability is one of them for me. So it was great to do this story on a new campaign from Down Syndrome Australia to urge govt to finally get rid of them www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Frog people of Bluesky: what kind of little guy is this little guy? He was about 5cm long and I’m in the Macedon ranges/central highlands.

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Research to be funded even as health secretary RFK Jr suggested letting disease run freely for birds to develop immunity As a bird flu outbreak continues to run rampant through US poultry farms, pushing eggs to record-high prices, federal officials announced funding for avian influenza research…

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Spent all day complaining that we weren’t getting any of the forecast rain then got 26mm of a forecast 7-25mm in an hour. I’ll never doubt you again, BOM!

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The rains are, as they say, here.

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Pleased that two (!) FOI decisions that went against me for Turnbull's Wickr chats and Marise Payne's WhatsApp messages led to this push from the OAIC to review whether agencies were advising to keep encrypted messaging communications.

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I purchased a very expensive, extraordinarily low sugar ryegrass round (5.2% WSC+starch) and the ponies are mainly just peeling it.

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I like to walk Mickey while listening to the news so we can coordinate our existential dread.

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