no_filter_Yamba
@nofilteryamba.bsky.social
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Living on Yaegl land and appreciative of the generosity & tolerance of the Yaegl people, North Coast Voices (est. 2007) at https://northcoastvoices.blogspot.com/ Commenced on Bluesky mid-November 2024.
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Blue Butterflies and Star Burst Navajo Basket, by Native American master weaver Elsie Holiday #WomensArt
Photo looking down on a circular woven  basket with a cental blue and white star motif with a circular border of repeated stylised angular blue butterflies
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This is happening in Omaha, Nebraska, and I'm sure it's happening everywhere. Please, everyone, stay vigilant and watch your surroundings and cars. @jinngaa.bsky.social @cheri2.bsky.social @psychopete.bsky.social
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Recent sightings while fotoforaging.

🍄 #FungiFriends
Pale, yellowy mushroom (possibly a False Deathcaps) growing in woodland. Small orangey-red mushroom breaking thru leaf litter. An Amethyst Deceiver emerging from leaf litter. A red-capped mushroom with white stalk growing on a woodland floor.
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The 3 yellow crested black cuckoo's #sky #photography #clouds #birds #wildlife #australia
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A few of my tawny frogmouth photos, taken over the years, in honour of this bird winning 2025 Australian bird of the year. These are much-loved birds. Whenever I share a photo of these, there is a huge response.
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Cornish Chough
🟰🟰 14/10/25
@rspb.bsky.social @cbwps.org.uk #cornwallbirding #birds #🪶 #ukbirding #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025
Australian wet rainforests may be switching from absorbing carbon to emitting it...A new study analysing 49 years of data from 20 sites indicated carbon is being emitted because trees are dying and decaying faster than they can be replaced. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study
Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.
www.abc.net.au
On 14 Oct 2025 Donald Trump successfully got almost unlimited stay of proceedings in State of California et al v Donald Trump et al on basis that the US federal government is in shutdown & DOJ has run out of money & its personnel prohibited from working 🙄 www.courtlistener.com/docket/69841...
Stay – #140 in State of California v. Trump (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10810) – CourtListener.com
Stay
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Queensland government apologises for releasing victims of crime data which overstated drop in numbers www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... But up to this moment it is yet to take down/emend Premier Crisafulli's press statement. www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/news-and-upd....
Excerpt from Qld Premier David Crisafulli's media release of 7 Oct 2025
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The elegance, beauty and grace of a black swan.

#BirdOfTheDay #UKWildlife #Birds #LongNecks #Ornithology #MuteSwan #Photography
A black swan glows in the light if the sun. Facing towards the camera with head slightly turned towards the left. Water droplets leave her mouth.
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A yellow rosella having an early morning drink at Lake Hattah.
Significant funding and disclosure reforms in the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 2025 come into effect on 1 July 2026. www.aec.gov.au/FADReform/
Bill's progress through Parliament towards Royal Assent was remarkable in its detail. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
Funding and disclosure legislative changes
www.aec.gov.au
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'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath
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Kimika Hara, contemporary embroiderer from Japan #WomensArt
Pictorial embroidery of a stylised hedgehog fzcing left looking outwards with vivid green spikes, pink ears and yellow face
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Another shot of the famous Midnight Oil House near Burra.
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#auspol Very glad I have mine. Got my neighbour assessed last week.

Expert is forecasting a shortfall of more than 171,000 in-home packages by next June, to grow by about 30,000 places each year

Up to 300,000 Australians will be on aged care waitlist by 2030 under new changes, modelling shows
Up to 300,000 Australians will be on aged care waitlist by 2030 under new changes, modelling shows
Expert is forecasting a shortfall of more than 171,000 in-home packages by next June, to grow by about 30,000 places each year
www.theguardian.com
"There are concerns the federal government's upcoming social media ban will further isolate young people in remote parts of the state.
Advocates say the issue will be compounded for marginalised groups in the regions."
Ban comes into effect on December 10 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Regional teens left lonely as social media goes dark
Advocates are concerned rural and remote children will experience compounding challenges with the looming social media ban for people under 16.
www.abc.net.au
Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs
a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge...forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy...resulted in the loss of countless thousands of jobs www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs
It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...
www.abc.net.au
Advocates call for better measure of poverty, saying Australia's approach falls short
In 2024, the Productivity Commission estimated 14 per cent...roughly one in every seven people — lives in poverty — that's the highest estimated level since 2001.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Poverty is about more than income, but that is what we measure
We get detailed measurements of population, participation and productivity. Advocates want to add a fourth "p" — poverty — so we can understand our economy.
www.abc.net.au
Exclusive: UN commissioner says Trump's Gaza plan breaches international law
Navi Pillay, the chair of the UN inquiry that found Israel responsible for genocide, says her findings will still stand even if a ceasefire is reached www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-g...
Exclusive: UN commissioner says Trump's Gaza plan breaches international law
Navi Pillay, the chair of the UN inquiry that found Israel responsible for genocide, says her findings will still stand even if a ceasefire is reached
www.middleeasteye.net