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The City of Moreton Bay claims homeless people “consented” to having their tents and belongings – including a woman’s daughter’s ashes – thrown in the bin. This is what passes for policy now?
We’re criminalising poverty, bulldozing dignity, and calling it governance. Fines over $8,000 for sleeping rough, yet zero accountability for systemic failure.
If this is the norm, we’re in deep moral decline.

#homelessness #australia #housingcrisis #humanrights #moretonbay #poverty #socialjustice #brisbane #auspol

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/mor…


ABC News

ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.
Kenji Sato (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
#HumanRights #australia #socialjustice #auspol #homelessness #poverty #housingcrisis #brisbane #moretonbay

It has been an incredible two years since NV Access founders Mick Curran & Jamie Teh featured on Australian Story: abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…

The impact NVDA has for blind people around the world has only grown & the need is as great now as ever!

You can watch the Audio Description enabled version of Australian Story: youtu.be/3i7gkN-1sAI

Regular version: youtu.be/jwHbXh3WzSw

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blind #Accessibility #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Impact #Australia #AustralianStory


ABC News

ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.
Kristine Taylor (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
#FreeSoftware #Accessibility #foss #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #australia #nvda #impact #australianstory

Diamond Beach Emerald Sky by Brent Martin

The night was full of colour, with comet C/2024 G3 Atlas and a pink aurora in the early hours, followed by the Milky Way rising amid intense green airglow.

#astrophotography
#MilkyWay
#Australia
#GreatOceanRoad

A night full of colour, with comet C/2024 G3 Atlas and a pink aurora in the early hours, followed by the Milky Way rising amid intense green airglow.
#australia #astrophotography #milkyway #GreatOceanRoad

Because life can be full of bullshit, here's some pleasant counterprogramming:

Meet 3.3 m/11 ft #InspectorClouseau

(Old people like me will get the #PinkPanther reference)

First spotted off #Australia in 2015

The only #pink #mantaRay we've discovered in the world, now or ever

Researchers have studied him (yes, a he) as to cause

Diet: no. Stress: no. Toxins: no. Infection: no

They now think it is just a rare genetic mutation

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

#Ocean #Biology #Zoology #Fish #Oceans

a pink manta ray
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Rare Pink Manta Ray Spotted Near Australia’s Lady Elliot Island

Researchers suspect a genetic mutation may have gifted the giant fish, named Inspector Clouseau, his rosy hue
Katherine J. Wu (Smithsonian Magazine)
#biology #fish #australia #ocean #zoology #pink #oceans #pinkpanther #mantaray #InspectorClouseau

#podcast #Podcasts #podcasting #health #fitness #australia #wellness #greatauspods #auspods #podcasters

Dutton goes full Trump on climate, energy and industry as Albanese sets May 3 election date

reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-goe…

#Australia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate


Dutton goes full Trump on climate, energy and industry as Albanese sets May 3 election date | RenewEconomy

There was a moment in Peter Dutton's pitch to voters when the full Trumpian catastrophe of his climate, energy and industry policies should have been exposed.
Giles Parkinson (RenewEconomy)
#climatechange #environment #Ecology #climate #pollution #australia #globalwarming #massextinction #irreversibleoverheating #globalburning #climatedestruction #climatesuicide

#photo #photography #nature #longexposure #australia #waterfall #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #magic #night #noAI #foto #water #twilight

Interesting to read about this new adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Although... am I the only one who remembers ABC radio's Doctor Who parody 'Doctor Poo', and his epic adventure involving 20,000 *Legs* Under the Sea? (It was piloted by the evil Captain Kneemoss - so called because he had moss on his knees).

Just me?

#TV #DoctorWho #Australia smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radi…

#australia #tv #doctorwho

#australia #audi #s3 #volkswagen #bucketi #cert

We start off the week with #MuralMonday to bring some color to your week and inspire you to take some adventures around your town to find new murals!

🚲 #TernQuickHaul
📍 #Stanmore, #Australia
📸 @glowwormelectricbikes (IG)
🎨 @geebsart (IG)

#australia #MuralMonday #ternquickhaul #stanmore

#privacy #encryption #EU #australia #chatcontrol #5eyes

1.5°C heating passed in 2023
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It's not the distant future, it's now.
Our government is prioritising commercial interests over a duty of care to our children. 
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If you're in #Melbourne, sign up to act on your concern, here: ausrebellion.earth/p/xrvic-reb…
If you're not in Melbourne, but you want to come down, billets abound so get in touch. 
First action tomorrow.
Most Thursday -Saturday 
#climatechange #climatecrisis #auspol #australia #protest #nvda

Rebel for Life Daily Planner - Extinction Rebellion Australia

Extinction Rebellion Australia
#Climatecrisis #climatechange #australia #nvda #auspol #protest #melbourne

#fosdem #australia

#opensource #australia #government

#art #australia #landscapes #landscapephotography

So. thought I'd pen some thoughts here... no, not about birdsite, but about a cool youtube channel I discovered a couple of years ago, The Radio Vault. Its a youtube channel dedicated to #preservation of mostly New Zealand and Australian radio. They recently announced that they've been hard at work, digitizing over 750 #VHS #tapes, and over 1500 #cassettes. Wow! I can't even begin to imagine what 1500 cassettes would look like! I had about 100 when I was younger, but 1500? *head explodes*. Here's the link. youtube.com/channel/UClKbJxBkh… #Australia #NZ #Radio

The Radio Vault

Established in 2007, The Radio Vault is New Zealand's premier collection of radio station airchecks, jingle packages, imaging reels, TV commercials, bumper stickers and other memorabilia.
YouTube
#radio #vhs #australia #preservation #tapes #cassettes #nz

A lot of countries employ voting templates to allow blind votees to cast a ballot in local or state elections. It's the same in Poland and in my experience it has been pretty much prone to mistakes such as the ballot paper slipping a fraction underneath the template. This is why I was happy to learn that Australia and New Zealand employed the "voting by phone" system. Blind citizens of these countries are one of the groups elligible to vote by phone. In order to do that, one calls the central voting committee to register, is assigned unique credentials that allow the person taking the vote to identify the elligibility in an anonymous way. On the day of voting, the elligible person calls another number where only the previously agreed credentials are taken from them, the ballot paper is read and the vote is cast by telling the committee representative. Sounds simple and flawless but perhaps there are some security flaws I am not aware of that made it not a more globally adopted solution. Thoughts?
ecq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/p…
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Australia #NewZealand #Voting #Phone
#Accessibility #blind #voting #australia #phone #newzealand #adventcalendar

#australia #colonialism #British #firstnations

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