Rainbow Valley conservation reserve, Northern Territory | #Australia
Photographer Baillie Farley: ‘This image captures the breathtaking scene at Rainbow Valley conservation reserve, where the southern Milky Way gracefully arches above a remarkable formation of colourful sandstone. This area exudes a unique charm, with its vibrant hues and stunning geological formations creating a mesmerising landscape’
#Mungo Dreamtime | Mungo national park, NSW, #Australia
Photographer John Rutter: ‘This Mars-like landscape is the shores of the ancient Lake Mungo, where some of the oldest human remains outside Africa have been discovered, making it a significant site for all humankind. Its remote location grants it a Bortle 1 sky (the darkest and clearest), allowing you to stand where the first Australians once did and gaze at the same sky they beheld.
Australia's roads are "killing corridors" for biodiversity
Mobility design for extinction records
"Appin Road is known as Australia's 'killing corridor' because of the large number of endangered koalas killed on the stretch. Increased traffic on south-west Sydney's Appin Road has resulted in 32 of the endangered marsupials being killed on the notorious stretch since July 2022 – roughly half of all deaths in the district over the same period. Wildlife advocates have long referred to it as Australia's "killing corridor".
>> https://au.news.yahoo.com/developer-responds-as-aussie-road-upgrade-near-killing-corridor-labelled-pretty-horrific-030233495.html
“When you see #Trump with #Putin, as I have on a few occassions, he’s like the 12-year old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero!’ It’s really creepy.”
"Whether for fuel breaks, salvage logging, or private land logging, native forest logging hasn’t stopped in Victoria. It will continue for many years, and the logs cut from these operations will be sold commercially."
#NowPlaying a straight up feel good banger of a record from 2023 that you may have noticed already because I never shut the hell up about it last year, Gee Tee's 'Goodnight Neanderthal'
"...delegates were met by around 200 protesters who denounced Labor’s complicity in the Israeli war crimes"
"Victorian Labor Premier Jacinta Allan dashed off a Twitter/X statement, declaring: “Today, protestors and intruders brought violence, homophobia and anti-Semitism to the front door of state conference. I’m disgusted"
"As hundreds of comments beneath Allan’s post noted, her claims were slanderous"
Day 20 update for my 100km #May50K run, as I invoke the spirit of Bryan Adams in an effort to raise donations. Read the latest blog update and donate TODAY!
New Video: 85km down (yes, really!) in my #May50K run to raise funds for vitally needed #MS research — but I need to up both my pace and the pace of donations! Please watch, share, like and above all, DONATE!
Lethal heat will make Australia's north 'unliveable'
— Australia's leading news site
Australia's north will be “unliveable” in the coming decades because the heat and humidity will be so intense that it will be deadly for humans