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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 6h

@tonyrinaud.bsky.social Gilbert’s Honeyeater seen in WA recently. #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 9h

Queensland THE LAGGARD

‘QLD the most coal dependent state in the country, and the LNP government has condemned it to stay that way – possibly for decades’
#ClimateCrisis #auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/queenslands-...

reneweconomy.com.au

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 15h

World's media today will be full of emotive stories about the release of ~20 Israeli hostages held by HAMAS for 2 years. There will be no similar stories about the ~2000 Palestinian hostages to be released by Israel, many imprisoned for much longer.

Racist, much? That's x100 racist.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 15h

There are too many birds in need of help, that's for sure.

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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 15h

I hear you, but Baudin’s Black Cockatoo is Endangered AND threatened by forest destruction. Alcoa. 😢

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 15h

Australia declared one of ‘most exposed nations in the world’ as ‘ordinary people’ failed
Simon Holmes à Court explained his problems with the major parties, and what he thinks the Albanese government is getting right au.news.yahoo.com/australia-de...

Australia declared one of ‘most exposed nations in the world’ as ‘ordinary people’ failed

Simon Holmes à Court spoke with Yahoo News about his frustrations with Liberal and Labor. Find out more.

au.news.yahoo.com

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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 15h

Not in Queensland re the crussiful-of-it gov

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 1d

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 2d

Here is the excerpt from my appearance on Thursday night that Chris is referring to. www.patreon.com/posts/140529...

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! I do find with this story more than anything else it’s the details that really make you see it for the conspiracy it was. And so I did not pull back from those details.

Mike Sampson @mfsampson.sda.io · 3d

Finished Mean Streak by @squigglyrick.bsky.social It was a great read, harrowing at times, and insanely well researched. The details! 5 stars. Recommended.

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Tassie Devil @tassiedevil.bsky.social · 14d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prick. Humans make a choice to enter the ocean with all the risks that entails. Whales don't get to make that choice. The ocean is their home. Human selfishness prevails.

Crisafulli insists on more shark nets to protect human lives despite trapped mother and baby whale

Queensland premier says he won’t protect whales ‘at the expense of one single human’

www.theguardian.com

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 3d

The days of “she‘ll be right, mate” are over, and all thinking Australians need to take action against ecocide and genocide and not let one 22-year-old woman take the burden of the crises of the world on her shoulders. #auspol #GretaThunberg #Gaza

Is Greta Thunberg the lone voice for justice in our world?

As the world moves from one crisis to another and our politicians ignore the immense injustices that are happening in their nation and in the world, what do ordinary non-violent citizens do to let their politicians know they aren’t happy with their lack of moral and ethical fortitude?

johnmenadue.com

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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 3d

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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 4d

A Rock Ptarmigan in Brisbane- what a twitch! 🤣

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 5d

to be fair to him, he was far from alone in this

Mike Sampson @mfsampson.sda.io · 5d

“Unfortunately, it occurs to me that Alan Tudge was not even close to being a genius.” Mean Streak - @squigglyrick.bsky.social

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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 5d

Brilliant! Have a neighbour who kept cutting off big branches every time I was away. Eventually another neighbour reported him to me as it happened AFTER the cyclone .. council insisted I fill in a full report /I don’t know what happened/but he wasn’t happy for many months

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Bronwen Scott @snailseyeview.bsky.social · 5d

Look at the birds that have been pushed out contention for the Australian Bird of the Year! Every one is magnificent. Every one was worth voting for. (Also I think the sunbird has already been split and ours is Sahul Sunbird.)

Anyway, vote for the others here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A list of the birds that didn't make the cut in the previous two rounds of voting for the Guardian's Australian Bird of the Year 2025. There are 10 species, all illustrated with a small and now forlorn image. The species names and pics are surrounded by a chestnut brown box, which is almost but not quite like a funeral notice. In order, the birds are:
Australasian Bittern
Australian Fairy Tern
Budgerigar (honestly, who doesn't vote for the budgie?)
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Cockatiel (who are these people who don't vote for Cockatiels?)
Emu (still smarting from losing the Emu War, eh?)
Olive-backed (should be Sahul) Sunbird
Weebill (Australia's smallest bird and full of attitude)
Welcome Swallow (somehow now unwelcome)
White-winged Chough (mad lads)

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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 5d

But what companies own which brand?

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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 6d

Duh! Thank you saw it’s on YT. 🙏

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Judy Leitch aka leitchbird @leitchbird.bsky.social · 6d

I have only just finished this on BorrowBox! Great listen. What streaming service please?

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent analysis of the cancellation of Chris Hedges.

Ironically, confirms just how much the #NPC and its members need to hear from Hedges on "journalistic ethics and accountability". #auspol

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Bronwen Scott @snailseyeview.bsky.social · 7d

I'm not telling you how to vote in the Australian Bird of the Year poll.

But Red Goshawk are absolutely magnificent and they're under threat.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7d

Restricted now to the tropical north, the mysterious red goshawk is fast disappearing as a result of climate change and habitat loss. Find out more about this majestic bird – and vote for it now – in our Australian bird of the year 2025 poll.

Going extinct ‘right under our noses’: the quiet plight of Australia’s rarest bird of prey

Restricted now to the tropical north, the mysterious red goshawk is fast disappearing as a result of climate change and habitat loss

www.theguardian.com

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British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social · 7d

Hundreds of Painted Ladies, dozens of Clouded Yellows, several Southern Swallowtail and half a dozen Plain Tigers today on Zakinthos. Also Large White, Small White, Lang's Short-tailed Blue, Long-tailed Blue, Mediterranean Skipper, Meadow Brown and Eastern Bath White. #Savebutterflies

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 8d

Larissa Waters says the govt must call on the Israel ambassador to “let those 6 Australians” who’ve been illegally detained by Israel from a flotilla “be free and come home” & that if the ambassador is not prepared to do that, he should be expelled.💥 #Abcinsiders

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 9d

The NDIS algorithm is on the way, and no they don't want you giving them any evidence about your disability. In fact, they are going to make it next to impossible. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Algorithm to be used for NDIS plans

The government is using an ‘instrument’ designed by the University of Melbourne to reassess support payments for disabled people.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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