Good morning! I'm somewhere north of Brisbane on the Spirit of the Outback, not far to go till we reach the big city. Has been a great journey back from Longreach.
After watching the latest, excellent @notjustbikes video about the introduction of even more 30 km/h streets in Amsterdam, this one by Chris Cox from Brisbane, feels like it could be an addendum.
The Brisbane Times reporter Felicity Caldwell is a legend.
New at my Patreon... From Brisbane's Roma Street Station, I travelled 1,325km into western Queensland aboard a classic sleeper train - the Spirit of the Outback:
I was on a self service check out in Coles today..
The lady supervising the area came over..
Looked at all my purchases..
Said..
I'm just checking.....
Checking what ....... I asked..
Oh..what you're buying..I dunno what to make for dinner.. I'm looking for inspiration..
Ever since Bruce Ruxton died in 2011, Australians have struggled to find a way to make ANZAC Day cringeworthy, manipulatively sentimental, insensitive, attention-grabbing, disrespectful, inauthentically mythologised, and downright embarrassing.
At last, we have all that and more — thanks to the Queensland government's Virtual Veterans AI guide to World War I. Hurrah to the Queensland Government and the brave techbros at TalkVia AI who merged the horrors of war and the horrors of an "AI" LLM chatbot. slow clap
I tried to see this replica 16th century pirate ship that one guy built over 10 years but apparently it sails around and is not a permanent fixture. So doing my obligatory visit to Urangan Pier.
You can see why the pier is so long 868m (originally 1.1km) when the tide is out like this. Also saw an Australasian Darter on the pier. #HerveyBay#Queensland#Birds
Torres Strait Islanders became expert train track layers during the 20th century in Far North Queensland. In Western Australia they broke the world record for laying 7 km of track in one day. This world record is unbroken.
Queensland: "Doctors are acquiring RSV, COVID and influenza in the state’s hospitals in rising numbers, sparking the state’s peak medical body to call for urgent action to better protect medics in an already struggling healthcare workforce."
Did you know that #SharkCulling programs in #NSW and #Queensland have never been assessed under our national environment laws ?
That’s despite the fact that #nets and lethal drumlines in NSW and QLD have caught 174 #CriticallyEndangered grey nurse #sharks in the past decade, killing 70. Over the same time, a massive 538 threatened marine #turtles were also caught across both states, with at least 183 killed.
@guardian this morning is reporting on a woman do went looking for help from several #Queensland police stations and got, wait for it.. fuck all help.
The cops said she was cop shopping. Why is that needed? Three days later, her estranged husband tied her to a clothesline, poured petrol on her, and set her alight, in front of her 3 kids, aged 3 to 9.
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