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News Corp specifically has been one of the main sources of violence, abuse, tension and disharmony in Australia. Hateful people, hateful company.
They have both a profit motive and an ideological motive to stoke hate in the community, and they have gotten pretty good at it
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It was similar for the Grampians, really significant national park burnt out and you had to go to Ballarat local news for updates, only time it went more mainstream was when property was in danger. The environment just does not register 😑
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I note this rationale applies to getting research assistants to write your lit review for you, which of course tenured academics have been doing for ever.
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I'm sure this'll go down a right treat in a seat they lost to the Greens 🙄
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And when enforcing them becomes part of your tenancy record and impacts your capacity to get housing.
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A Labor govt with half a spine would also tax the fossil fuel industry and big tech properly and use the funds for health and education…
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I've been waiting for this one! Never fails to make me laugh
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Gariwerd is a very spiritual place for the Traditional Custodians:
- Djab wurrung people
- Jardwadjali people
"Gariwerd is a beating heart of Aboriginal spirituality. This land vibrates with the energy of our ancestors. It hums and sings and brings life to everything and everyone.”
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Gariwerd is home to:
- 98 species of plants & 50 species of animals that are listed as threatened
- nationally threatened animals in the Park include the endangered red-tailed black cockatoo & smoky mouse.
- there is also the vulnerable brush-tailed rock wallaby & long-nosed potoroo.
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Gariwerd is home to:
- at least 230 bird species - including thornbills, fairy-wrens, honeyeaters, whistlers, robins, wetland birds and parrots
- 40 species of mammals, 30 of reptiles, 11 of amphibians, six types of native fish and a number of significant butterfly species
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Gariwerd is home to:
- the densest concentration of rock art & largest assemblage of Aboriginal art motifs in Victoria
- 975 plant species, including 75 orchid species representing 1/3 of total flora in Victoria
- many of these species are only found in this area.