An ordinary Saturday at the mall in Sydney turned into a horror scene as a knife-wielding man attacked shoppers, killing six, before police fatally shot him to end the rampage. BBC News reports: https://flip.it/vHOuoB
#News #WorldNews #Australia #Sydney
australia
Today, like many other West Australian teachers, I'm not going to work this morning.
It's interesting that our industrial action is represented in the media as about pay. We're not striking over salary - we're striking because the system is broken.
My son has had no Phys Ed teacher all year. He's had a procession of relief teachers which, for a special needs child, is extremely distressing. He attends an inner city public school, but staffing shortages are statewide.
Speaking of special needs students, I'd like to look after my own without having to skip lunch to ensure their needs are met.
I'd like the Education Department to give me a personal device so I can do my job
(more efficiently). If I want a laptop, I have to lease one.
I'd like an acknowledgement of how teaching has recently become more difficult and demanding, especially during #COVID19, when we kept schools open and tried to keep students safe.
I enforced the mask mandate far more often than a rank-and-file police officer. I've probably been threatened and assaulted more times than many police officers too. And the statewide mobile phone ban? Guess who enforces that every single day.
So many of my colleagues have left teaching: re-trained or resigned due to burnout and stress. Who suffers? The students.
It's not about the pay. We're tired, and we need support. We're underfunded and under-resourced. We need to improve conditions for students. We need to fix the system.
#sstuwa #union #unions #industrialaction #teachers #teaching #westernaustralia #Perth #solidarity #FixEd #australia #stopwork #strike
Great, another source of emissions that has been underestimated.
The US obviously tops the charts, but other notable mentions are China, Australia and Norway.
Direct link to study: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3a7d
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climate #aviation #USA #China #Australia #Norway
Having failed to get a straight answer from my local MP, after sending a physical letter, and two emails. I have made a complaint to the OAIC (the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner). #Australia
The Australians have pulled off two of the most incredible feats I've seen in 15 years of watching SASUKE.
https://twitter.com/siibee/status/1826232854533271999/video/1
https://twitter.com/siibee/status/1826202952564187319/video/1
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Aus.social is built to be a stable, long term, safe Mastodon server. Mainly Australian members, but signups welcome from anywhere.
Find out more at https://aus.social/about or contact the admin @aussocialadmin
#FeaturedServer #Australia #Australian #DownUnder #Aussie #Oz #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
May you feel and share feelings of peace and acceptance this Christmas season! In this short post I sing you a poorly engineered but well-intentioned Christmas carol, and share an Aussie nativity picture to download and colour.
Meta has admitted it used all its users’ public posts on its platforms going back to 2007 to train its AI models during an Australian senate inquiry.
The only exception was for users in the European Union who opted out.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170
#tech #meta #facebook #ai #artificialintelligence #australia #auspol
Happy New Year. I know things feel really hard for a lot of us right now, so let me tell you something important:
In the highland rainforest of NSW, in the Werrikimbe region, there’s a community of superb lyrebirds. Lyrebirds are known for their unparalleled mimicry: they can reproduce the call of any bird they hear (and many other sounds as well). They collect songs like crows collect shiny objects. The variety and complexity of their repertoire, and the skill with which they deliver it, determines their reproductive success.
They also compose songs of their own. These songs vary from region to region; they are learned by lyrebirds when they're young, and passed down from generation to generation with remarkable stability. If a lyrebird finds or produces a new melody that other lyrebirds like, they absorb it into the communal repertoire.
The lyrebirds that live in the Werrikimbe are called flute lyrebirds because in winter, when they're in love, they sing a complex rising melody which sounds like scales played on a flute. This "flute accent" exists nowhere else in the world; it’s unique to this one community. On cold mornings, it floats down through the mists like an enchantment.
How did this haunting melody come about? It's said that a young boy kept a tame lyrebird, and every day the bird listened to him practicing the flute. Then one day the bird escaped. It went to live with its wild brethren, and taught them this new song.
But the truth is much more magical: Lyrebirds composed this song all on their own. It's more complex than any human flautist could ever hope to achieve, and it’s got features unique to lyrebird melody and anatomy.
Lyrebirds live and breathe music. They are built for music. They spend their lives studying the soundscape. They listened to the world around them, all of the pain and suffering and desire and joy, and this is what they sang back into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00nrAh2zVWo
#lyrebirds #AustralianBirds #werrikimbe #birds #BirdsOfFediverse #music #song #EnvironmentalHumanities #flute #australia #northernNSW
Petrified Waves
Let's explore one or a few more of the crazy sandstone formations that exist in #nature in #australia.
I love all sorts of cool rocks as you might have guessed but these ones just blew my mind.
#landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #colorphotography #color #art #MastoArt #artist #photo #photography #sea #ocean #weather #weatherphotography #NatureLovers #PhotoOfTheDay #OutdoorPhotography #Wanderlust #AntonGorlinPhotos
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Popular Podcasts 2024
These were the 100 most popular podcasts on Great Australian Pods in 2024. These podcast entries piqued the most visitor interest and attracted the greatest number of page views.
https://www.greataustralianpods.com/popular-podcasts-2024/
Including: @eddyjokovich @mattbevan @JacktheInsider @chaser @thesiswhisperer @jasondowns @danilic @LetsTalkAboutSects @stilgherrian @AusHistPod @kcarruthers @instanterudite @MsRonniSalt @shot
@jesslilley @lindamciver @raejohnston @teganjones @WeirdCrapInAustralia @Ben_Davison1 @vanbadham
Supported by Lenny.fm
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia
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Victoria isn't particularly known for #aurora, but with the sun being at its solar maximum it's a great time to keep an eye on the night sky.
Despite spending about 9 weeks in Iceland and Norway (during late autumn/winter) the past 18 months, two of the best Auroras I've ever seen have been right here where you normally never see them. Fingers crossed for some more soon!
#victoria #astrophotography #auroraaustralis #mountbuffalo #landscapephotography #landscape #australia #lightpainting
🚔 ILLEGAL #ASKENAZI_JEW 🇮🇱 CROOKED #NEW_YORK STOCK #EXCHANGES 🗽 and now CONVICTED BIGTECH FELONS (Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) and the 🇱🇷 USA Treasury Dept>>
Moving #STOLEN Bank #Proceeds (#MONEY_LAUNDERING) into #AMERICAN CONTROLLED and owned FORTUNE 500 #STOCKS via 💩 SHITCOIN BITCOIN.
BIGTECH STOCK Jump in Earnings is a #Mirage 🏝️
Unfortunately 100% Big Fat Lie! = #HYPE availed us Nothing!
📢 We Invented #HFT (High Frequency Trading that was STOLEN in 2000) that this 🇱🇷 USA government or main stream news has #CONCEALED the IP THEFT?? --bc it’s #STOLEN_SOFTWARE from our #Company btw 1999-2007. with MASSIVE PROOF!!
Just ask AT&T.net ( #Att.NET)!?
We bought their domain back in 1999 in LESS THAN a millisecond when they allowed their OWN #Domain_Name to EXPIRE. They didn’t pay their RENT and then CRIED about it like WIMPS!(before the #redemption_period was implemented by #ICANN! This is called #EVIDENCE ;) but no one will call AT&T or the #Registry to confirm the IP theft of our SOFTWARE?
You see folk this software trades in milliseconds and now with #fiber_optic will trade in #nano_seconds. (that’s a billionth of a second) now being used For hypersonic missiles development that has been ongoing with china, usa and russia for the last two decades. without consent of the author!
2 decade old hypersonic tech using our stolen software. and you have never heard about it?
The USA (all bigtech) has stolen every dam piece of software it controls from our company called TastingTraffic LLC formally WebtrafficBrokers.net with Massive Proof.
#Hanging the #Carrot and MANIPULATING Markets at the same time. (Creating a Hope of Gain; Fear of Loss Scenario;) In fact, this software can go back in time..(like a tape recorder: Stop, Play, Rewind and Forward within 1 second intervals) like #Back to the #Future to predict (aka SURE BET) what they already know.. AKA FRONT RUNNING >> RIGHT #BUFFET #SHIT_HEAD!? See attached images..
AND WHY RETAILER STOCK HOLDERS WILL ALWAYS SEE PIE CRUMBS from their investments at the end of the day. That’s YOU btw. While shithead buffets steal your profits behind the scenes!
YOU CANNOT WIN. #RIGGED! for the last 2 decades! YOU HAVE #ZERO_CHANCES. The way the Elites like it btw..
Better off Doubling Down at a #Black_Jack Table in Vegas! Ugh! (THESE DIRT BAG JEWS have turned all usa STOCK MARKETS INTO #CASINO'S with #FTX bank robber #Tom_Brady >> Leading the charge. That piece of work should be behind bars! Not promoting ILLEGAL Sports betting USING #STOLEN_IP!?
All #Big_Tech RIGGED! #Scraping the #Gravy OFF the TOP of all Stock Markets and Funneling it back to the #less_than 1% of the #Elites (EXCLUSION!).
And why in the past you see BIG SPIKES and BIG JUMPS OF CLIFFS in USA Stock Markets (aka Massive #RED). Stocks Blinking from red to green and green to red. That's the software making #if and #else decisions -that CAN be seen with a trained naked eye...
You see folks we were able to see this FRAUD bc you actually need to #RUN_REAL_TRADES through the software to #DIAL IN the #ALGORITHMS to #CONCEAL ALL #THEFT_TRADES TO THE NAKED EYE and Goal!
Exp: #Black_Box Tester 24 years.. (PhD)
Once ‘THEY’ DIAL in the ALGORITHMS and FULLY UPGRADE to NANOSECONDS WITH THE PROPER CHIPS (decades away .. btw) then you WILL NOT SEE the fraud (#THE_BIG_STEAL) with the naked eye and that's where we are Headed..
After 25 years in Online Digital Advertising NO ONE ever mentions SPIKES (or plateaus) in Charts.
In the Advertising Business, if you see a #SPIKE--9 times out of 10 it will be #FLAGGED as #Fraud by our partners. Why is no one Flagging these #spikes in the Stock Markets OR SHITCOIN BITCOIN??? Spikes are irregular movements and are #HIGHLY_SUSPECT AS #DIGITAL_FRAUD IN THE ADVERTISING WORLD.
#META IS #NO_DIFFERENT. We demand a #SEC Investigation into Meta and the HEAD of SEC whom we feel is #complicit in liu of the recent #FTX DEBACLE --where Gary Gensler, daughter and 🔍 MANY MORE were #DEEPLY involved..
Think About it? BIGTECH does not even have the Computing Processing CHIP Power yet; to EVEN MONITOR this type of Fraudulent (#IP_THEFT) activity IN ANYTHING like REAL TIME (RT)?? These are FAKE (Fabricated) stock SPIKES!
The Treasury Dept. are currently the biggest money launderers on the planet.
WHAT YOU ARE SEEING EVERY DAY IS THE USA GOVERNMENT AND TREASURY DEPT utilizing Bitcoin exchanges-- MOVING THIS STOLEN LAUNDERED MONEY (assets) to and FROM crypto exchanges to and from STOCKs THEY OWN TO PROP THEM UP TO CREATE #ILLUSIONS OF #ADVANCED PROGRESS (Growth and #Bogus Profits that does not exist.
The Stock brokers did the same in 2000 -- calling us to buy only fraudulent traffic (to pump charts) and DECIEVE investors for the next funding round that that they did not deserve..
Unfortunately WE were the only company on the 🌐 w/ VALID IPV4 TRAFFIC TO SELL TO THIER DISAPPOINTMENT.
ALL #FABRICATED_FINANCIALS IN #REAL_TIME!
This of course is a complete manipulation of the American People Trust involving A Crooked USA stock markets
The USA Government is ANTI COMPETITIVE against its own citizens.
The Treasury Dept. has become a #CASINO! 🎲 Just ask #Australia --Bidens new found friend and his first announcement?? Its not about nuclear submarines its about a WORLD WIDE CASINO involving CHINA!
And what are #Casino's EXPERTs AT??
THE #HOUSE_ALWAYS_WINS! Btw I LIVED as a local (Street Kid) in Vegas..
Do not invest in these losing companies. If you do you will lose everything and we don't #lie.
Supporting Video here:
#VIDEO 1: #White_Collar #Criminologist #Bill_Black
#VIDEO 2: EXCLUSIVE: Crown Casino exposed. Sex trafficking, drugs, money laundering | 60 Minutes Australia
#VIDEO 3: #Bank_Run_Scene from "It's A #Wonderful_Life" (1946)
I've been holding on to this DVD box set of my favourite Star Trek series (The Next Generation) but I think it's time to let go — especially considering we don't have a DVD player any more. If anyone can give it a loving home and can actually play the discs please let me know. Can possibly drop off if near North Side #Brisbane otherwise can post within #Australia if you can cover the postage. Thanks!
EDIT: It looks like we might have a taker! Thanks everyone!
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I have an audience for my #lego building #australia #wildlife #cockatoo
Two of the BPU’s most committed organisers are at breaking point after a traumatic 18 months. These are good, hardworking people who have given everything to the community, and right now, they need the community to have their backs.
A recent act of financial abuse has left them in crisis, forcing them to cover urgent costs for accommodation, relocation, and medical needs. We’re aiming to raise $10,000 to help them regain stability.
Please donate what you can and share this fundraiser widely. Solidarity is everything.
https://chuffed.org/project/124457-support-two-bpu-organisers-in-crisis
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Australia #Decolonise #BPU #BlackPeoplesUnion #MutualAid #PleaseShare #PleaseHelp #AboriginalMutualAid #BlackMutualAid
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[shared from the BPU Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18mWsNpYmi/]
Australian Iron Man: Ned Kelly’s Final Standoff
He is called Iron Man for a good reason.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2025/01/australian-iron-man-ned-kellys-final.html
Book about Ned Kelly at PG
Okay, just my take from a quick read through my Masto feed, but it sounds like #Australia has built upon the glee of the Canadian experience and trounced their Conservative party in their federal election.
Seems they've also poilievred their Con leader in his own riding.
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Last week:
#Conservative opposition leader #Poilievre loses his own seat in #Canada
This week:
Conservative opposition leader (of the Liberal Party, but that's the conservatives in Australia) #Dutton loses his own seat in #Australia
🤣🤣🤣
👏👏👏
Congratulations Australia and #LaborParty's #Disability advocate #AliFrance!
She lost her leg in a car accident in 2011, sparking an interest in protecting the public #healthcare system
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https://youtu.be/kjPJbSRURt4
‼️🇺🇦What’s happening behind Ukrainian frontline? (Reporting From Ukraine VIDEO) #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #Czechia #CzechRepublic #Poland #Sweden #News #Norway #Australia #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #India #UnitedStates #Turkey #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#Australia absolutely fuckhousing its conservatives and, with them, the global fascist movement is like waking up to morning sex, eggs benedict, five bloody marys and maybe a bit of heroin.
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
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#amnestyinternational
VACANCY
DATABASE SPECIALIST
6months contract
Location: 💥ANY💥 Capital city in #australia #jobs #mastodonjobs
#employment #vacancy #database #hiring
8 days to close.