Queensland next? 🤞

Today, the emperor penguin has moved from Near Threatened to Endangered on the @sscmarine.bsky.social IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

🛰️ Satellite images suggest that the population declined by 10% between 2009 and 2018 alone, equating to more than 20,000 adult penguins.

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Pete Hegseth Is Vice Signaling The defense secretary is trolling America.

"He raps out some inane sloganeering rather than offering real information: “Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct.”
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Yet our public broadcaster can platform that racist Ambassador to spout hate and division

A statement on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association regarding James Hillier aka Nordacious and the QLD Government:

A thousand days of inaction on gambling reform

"Both codes threatened the Albanese government with cuts to the women's leagues or junior football if recommendations from Peta Murphy's report are implemented. This is despite 78 per cent of AFL supporters saying they want gambling ads banned." satpa.pe/NlJIYO4

As a victim of Robodebt, the whole debacle just angers me to no end. They hounded me for 8 friggin years and made my life such hell that I contemplated suicide, more than once. I am just one of many. Others did commit suicide over Robodebt. Yet not one of those bastards has been held to account 🤬🤢🤬

Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza.

On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025.

#Infograph

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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Cut-price Costello Tim Wilson on Sky just now: "It’s very clear to me that when there’s an increase in petrol prices, Jim Chalmers collects more excise revenue."
Excise is not based on price changes. It's indexed twice a year in line with inflation.

The Howard Effect: Australia’s Sliding Doors Moment It was the second of March 1996. After 13 years of Labor in power, Paul Keating’s government had been defeated in a landslide, closing the door on the Hawke-Keating era and opening another on a new po...

First part of our three part series featuring @amyremeikis.bsky.social on John Howard’s legacy is out today. 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/the...

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.

I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.

So here goes nothing. 🧵

Fantastic explainer, thank you

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

My son used to play with Mila Jovovich’s daughter at the park. Mila would clean the slide with disinfecting wipes before anyone was allowed down ( 10 years before COVID was a thing)

‘He smashed it’: Teen marks 18th birthday with 100km run for charity ‘I will not be going out partying’: teen runs nine hours straight to raise funds for charity.

Our son, Rohan, is smiling in this photo, but make no mistake, he worked so hard to reach his goal of 100km.

@scidocmartin.bsky.social & I couldn't be prouder. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

There's still time to support his fundraiser for mental health 👉 www.mycause.com.au/page/385454/...

Stunning, Bridie, what a beautiful landscape you have created. I’m sure the local fauna and bird life love your efforts! 💚

On January 26, an explosive device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Perth. As I said last week—and again today in Parliament—this should be investigated as a potential act of terrorism and treated with the gravity it deserves by state and federal police forces.

"If Australia was serious about investing in health and education, it would be really simple.

"We would stop giving gas away for free and we'd transfer more money to the states to spend on health and education."

- co-CEO Richard Denniss on FIVEAA Adelaide
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Put Australians before gas exporters ✍️Sign the petition: Fix Australia's Gas Export Problem

Sign our petition calling on the Australian government to fix the gas export problem ✍️
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Teenager makes 'superhuman' swim to save family swept out to sea A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after swimming four hours through rough seas to get help for his mother and two siblings, who were swept out to sea on an inflatable paddleboard in WA's South West.

A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after swimming four hours through rough seas to get help for his mother and two siblings, who were swept out to sea on an inflatable paddleboard in WA's South West.

The Vandal-ing continues at the State Library OF Victoria. Who needs DOGE when you've got this lot?

Don't let the State Library give our beloved indie café to a big player.

The new hate laws will only matter if hate directed at Aboriginal people is taken as seriously as hate directed at powerful groups. Anything less is just the same double standard we’ve become sadly accustomed to.

Will killing dingoes on K’gari make visitors safer? We think it’s unlikely

Following the death of a young backpacker, the Queensland government has killed dingoes seen near her body. But will this cull protect tourists?

In 2009, I was a Marine in Helmand province during the height of the shift to counterinsurgency operations. We were heavily armed and trained for violence, as Marines are expected to be. But when we encountered local Afghans, we took off our helmets. We removed our sunglasses. We put a hand over our hearts, we looked the Afghans in the eye and said Salaam Alekum, or “peace be upon you.” If the situation allowed, we sat down. We drank tea. We talked. This wasn’t weakness or wokeness. It was strength, discipline and strategy. We were still Marines. When it was time to fight, we did so decisively. But we also understood something essential: You cannot intimidate your way into lasting security. You cannot terrorize a population into cooperation. And you cannot claim moral authority if your posture communicates only contempt or fear.

That approach was a reflection of guidance from the strategic and operational levels. Our senior leaders understood that how we looked, spoke and behaved at the tactical level mattered enormously. Tone was policy. Posture was strategy. I reflect on those lessons as I watch an anti-immigration agenda in the United States that has gone badly off course. Masked officers in military-style gear, conducting raids with theatrical dominance rather than measured authority. Communities treated as hostile terrain rather than neighborhoods. I find this not only disturbing but also strategically incoherent. In Afghanistan, we understood that showing up as faceless, armored enforcers was a fast way to lose the population’s trust. We knew that intimidation buys compliance only temporarily, and resentment compounds faster than control. If Marines could understand this in a war zone, we should be able to understand it in our own country.

A letter to the editors of the Washington Post, 28 January 2026, from ex-US Marine Gus Biggio, Wooster, Ohio. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

On Jan 26, an explosive device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Perth. Acts of violence or attempted violence like this are unacceptable. This sort of event should be viewed as an act of terrorism and treated with the gravity it deserves by state and federal police forces.

Truth (cake by Bywater Bakery NOLA)

The most deranged wave of Islamophobia is about to hit Australia (it didn’t really let up post 9/11 tbh) and it will be perpetrated by the same people who never shut the fuck up about social cohesion.

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