Administered by:
#australia
"Nine newspapers reported on Wednesday that the #Hamas co-founder and senior official Hassan Yousef had welcomed the decision, praising #Australia’s “political courage” and calling on other countries to follow its example.
But the group later said #Yousef was in jail and not able to communicate with media outlets. Nine clarified on Thursday that the statement was from Yousef’s office not the man himself."
#FreePalestine
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/14/anthony-albanese-hamas-statement-palestinian-statehood-ntwnfb
For 25 years, a US palaeontologist and her family have been unearthing fossils from the dawn of animal life on a Flinders Ranges pastoral property. Now Nilpena has become a national park — and after 43 years, the grazing family is handing the work over to the South Australian community.
#flindersranges #nilpena #fossils #australia #southaustralia #FlindersRanges
Six of the best bottles of wine from Australia’s most underrated region https://www.diningandcooking.com/2231928/six-of-the-best-bottles-of-wine-from-australias-most-underrated-region/ #Australia #AustralianWine #Wine #WineFromAustralia #WineOfAustralia
and then diving into shadow
So I see Woolies (at least) have put out new soft plastics collection bins. Didn't see a logo on them, certainly not the RedCycle one. Is this actually a solved problem now or is it another company's turn to hoard garbage in a warehouse for a bit going bust? Or is it a cynical attempt so they can say "see? Nobody cares, we don't need to do this" when actually absolutely nobody trusts the right thing will happen? #Australia
Denise always seems like a good and genuine person.
And my goodness… the 70s were another country, weren’t they?
The exhibition would be a treat to see.
i was in McEwen’s hardware store in melbourne, one lunchtime, when young men started streaming in from all directions - Denise had been hired to promote some new product or service.
She had entertained australian troops in Vietnam, and i think it earned her their lifelong loyalty.
I was against the war, personally, but we treated our Vietnam vets abominably. They loved her.
Big Design Adventure
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/big-design-adventure/
Lord Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content
#Australia #AustraliaInstitute #Aukus
#RichardDenniss #AmyRemeikis
"Have you ever wondered why our politicians don’t implement popular and evidence-based policies that would improve Australia’s health, education or public transport systems? Or why they ignore scientific research that tells us things like approving new gas and coal projects is bad for the environment?"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=59MEi_aQfMs
Dr Richard Denniss is the Executive Director at The Australia Institute. He is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator. Formerly a regular columnist for Australian Financial Review and The Guardian, he has published six books, including Econobabble, Curing Affluenza, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next? and Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy.
Amy Remeikis - Chief Political Analyst, The Australia Institute
These protests want to 'take our country back'. But the real issues run much deeper | SBS News (2025-08-14)
>> On 31 August, six events are being planned across #Australia as part of the 'March For Australia' protests. Organisers claim "endless migration, weak leadership and political cowardice" have caused Australia to change "in ways most of us never agreed to".
>> One flyer read: "It's time to take our country back. It's time to defend our way of life. It's time to defend our culture. Stop mass immigration now."
>> It's still unclear who exactly is organising the march, with several groups allegedly attempting to take ownership.
>> The official March for Australia Instagram account, … has distanced itself from extremist figures like Thomas Sewell, the leader of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network, who allegedly tried to claim the march as his group's event…
Say NO to allowing #AI to scrape copyrighted works.
Heavy rain moving in from the west: Australia 2019.
Suzanne Srdarov and I have a new publication out in the Oxford Intersection on AI and Society:
Generative Imaginaries of Australia: How Generative AI Tools Visualize Australia and Australianness
https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0150
It's paywalled, so we've also got a summary piece in The Conversation:
‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows https://theconversation.com/australiana-images-made-by-ai-are-racist-and-full-of-tired-cliches-new-study-shows-263117
but please ping me if need a PDF of the main piece! #generativeAI #Australia #racism #auspol
Fred Brooks, a 67-year-old white dingo trapper who worked at Coniston Station, north-west of Alice Springs, Australia agreed to supply a local Aboriginal man named Bullfrog with food in exchange for the chance to sleep with his wife and he was denied. Brooks failed to listen to Bullfrog and raped his wife anyway.
On August 7, 1928, Brooks was killed in an attack by Bullfrog and his uncle Padirrka. Soon after the murder, Brooks was found buried head first in a rabbit hole. Coniston Station owner Randall Stafford immediately notified local police following the discovery of the body.
Constable Murray was called to investigate the crime but without thoroughly looking into the incident, instigated a killing spree of local Aboriginal people and almost a week after Brooks’ death, Constable Murray took with him eight men and ventured to a Walbiri camp near Coniston Station where they officially shot 23 people dead leaving two men and one woman still alive.
The following day, the group of policemen fired a hail of bullets at four Aboriginal men they spotted at Cockatoo Creek 30 kilometres from the Walbiri camp One man was killed while the others successfully fled the scene. Another five Aboriginal men were shot dead by the so-called ‘Police Party’ a few days later.
On August 24, Constable Murray called off the killing spree and produced a report to the government, admitting he and his accomplices murdered a total of 17 Indigenous Australians, citing self-defence. The court unanimously ruled the Police Party’s actions were warranted.
According to the Commonwealth Government in 1929: “If a massacre was intended, is it likely that Constable Murray would have dismounted from his horse on each occasion and alone gone amongst the natives at the risk of being killed, to effect arrests when all the party could have remained mounted and, from a distance of safety, wiped out all the blacks?”
But the retaliatory killings of Aboriginal people did not stop there. On September 24, Constable Murray was called to investigate an incident at Coniston Station whereby John Morton, a pastoralist notorious for mistreating Aboriginal staff, was ambushed and assaulted by a group of Aboriginal men. Instead of inquiring into the reported attack, Murray and Morton went on a three-week long punitive expedition.
Contrary to Constable Murray’s claim that they jointly killed 14 Aboriginal locals, residents believe around 100 people or more were murdered within the space of three weeks.
A memorial plaque was unveiled in Alice Springs in 2003 to commemorate the victims of the Coniston Massacre, a haunting period still painfully felt by Aboriginal people today.
The Acquire Movement Podcast With Allan Liang
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-acquire-movement-podcast-with-allan-liang/