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Day 21 of the road trip was a big day sightseeing around the Cape Leeuwin area. The Cape is the south western most tip of Australia and where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean. Wild seas, wild winds but a great day. #RoadTrip

'The country's in my blood': former Riverina journo wins young leader award
https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/9044488/

'The country's in my blood': former Riverina journo wins young leader award
My upbringing has been the foundation for everything that I've done.

In about 2000 I did some research into ABC radio in Brisbane as the local station was turning 75. On the 27 July this year the local radio station turns 100. The station was originally set up by the Queensland Govt, hence 4QG
Original article in the wayback machine https://web.archive.or…

Acabo de escribir "diables" en neutro, ese que no le gusta a los señoros de la RAE ni a los derechuzos y al leerlo me ha parecido tan bien puesto que no lo voy a corregir. A fin de cuentas ¿quién sabe qué sexo tienen los diables?

Fabulous move by Keith Urban
https://countrytown.com/news/keith-urban-tamworth-country-music-festival-launch-rising-star-scholarship/IUSfNTQ3Njk/19-08-25

Keith Urban & Tamworth Country Music Festival Launch Rising Star Scholarship
Attention all emerging Aussie country artists, this one’s for you! Keith Urban has teamed up with the Tamworth Country Music Festival to launch a life-changing scholarship that could catapult your career straight to Nashville.

Think this is the first time I've seen a "dangerous person" category on ABC Emergency. ( I'm not really a taxonomy nerd 🤓)
https://www.abc.net.au/emergency/warning/vic/AUREMER-10c2b0d87fedc5b1ea15a7eb922e46a0

Acting and Planning with Hierarchical Operational Models on a Mobile Robot: A Study with RAE UPOM
Oscar Lima, Marc Vinci, Sunandita Patra, Sebastian Stock, Joachim Hertzberg, Martin Atzmueller, Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau, Paolo Traverso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11345

Acting and Planning with Hierarchical Operational Models on a Mobile Robot: A Study with RAE+UPOM
Robotic task execution faces challenges due to the inconsistency between symbolic planner models and the rich control structures actually running on the robot. In this paper, we present the first physical deployment of an integrated actor-planner system that shares hierarchical operational models for both acting and planning, interleaving the Reactive Acting Engine (RAE) with an anytime UCT-like Monte Carlo planner (UPOM). We implement RAE+UPOM on a mobile manipulator in a real-world deployment…

Extra props for use of the word "canoodling"
CEO was caught canoodling with its chief human resources officer
https://share.google/wPKgnT6UM84H8FQXA

Day 19 of the road trip was spent is the pretty coastal town of Busselton. Best known for its jetty, at 1.841km it's the longest timber-piered jetty in the southern hemisphere. Made for a great walk out and back. #RoadTrip

Day 18 of the road trip saw us heading out of Perth for a trip around South West WA. Mandurah is a lot bigger than I imagined ( 100,000 people ), Bunbury is also large and has some great public art. #RoadTrip

How are health staff not innoculated against measles?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/four-new-cases-confirmed-in-cairns-measles-outbreak/105786794

Cairns maternity ward named as exposure site in Far North Queensland measles outbreak
More locally acquired cases have been confirmed with exposure sites now including Cairns Hospital's maternity ward and areas on the Atherton Tablelands.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Addison Rae:
🎵 Diet P
#AddisonRae
https://pr3ttyp3nny.bandcamp.com/track/charli-xcx-addison-rae-diet-claws-mashup
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MzofobZt2dm0Kf1hTThFz

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fonda Rae:
🎵 Over Like a Fat Rat
#FondaRae
https://zrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fonda-rae-over-like-a-fat-rat-victor-simonelli-club-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5f4KeJAqyOA6GEgXsS4341

Day 17 of the road trip was spent in Fremantle. Gorgeous old buildings, decent breweries, and great street art. #RoadTrip

The danger of not manufacturing locally can be much bigger than a few extra dollars profit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/khapra-beetle-f…

Khapra beetle, a threat to grains industry, discovered in imported nappy pants
Authorities are investigating how khapra beetle, the number-one-priority pest for the grains industry, entered Australia.

Welcome to Proclamation Day!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_Declaring_the_Establishment_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Australia?wprov=sfla1

A UN report says Israel is committing genocide. Experts hope it spurs Australia to act
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-16/un-report-on-israel-genocide-msg-to-nations-including-australia/105777232

A UN report says Israel is committing genocide. Experts hope it spurs Australia to act
What ultimately determines whether the UN's report joins the list of other shocking but overlooked inquiries is whether this latest finding moves any governments, including Australia's, to take further action.

Quantifying Visualization Vibes: Measuring Socio-Indexicality at Scale
Amy Rae Fox, Michelle Morgenstern, Graham M. Jones, Arvind Satyanarayan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06786 h…

Quantifying Visualization Vibes: Measuring Socio-Indexicality at Scale
What impressions might readers form with visualizations that go beyond the data they encode? In this paper, we build on recent work that demonstrates the socio-indexical function of visualization, showing that visualizations communicate more than the data they explicitly encode. Bridging this with prior work examining public discourse about visualizations, we contribute an analytic framework for describing inferences about an artifact's social provenance. Via a series of attribution-elicitation…

The Honest Truth About Causal Trees: Accuracy Limits for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation
Matias D. Cattaneo, Jason M. Klusowski, Ruiqi Rae Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11381

The Honest Truth About Causal Trees: Accuracy Limits for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation
Recursive decision trees have emerged as a leading methodology for heterogeneous causal treatment effect estimation and inference in experimental and observational settings. These procedures are fitted using the celebrated CART (Classification And Regression Tree) algorithm [Breiman et al., 1984], or custom variants thereof, and hence are believed to be "adaptive" to high-dimensional data, sparsity, or other specific features of the underlying data generating process. Athey and Imbens [2016] pr…

Remember working on their early website and socials - great show.
Heather Ewart reflects on the tough road to Back Roads success - ABC News https://share.google/8XHCttXqe84T9Rpo0

Heather Ewart reflects on the tough road to Back Roads success
Heather Ewart was a powerhouse political reporter when she was asked to create a show about regional Australia. A decade later, and with her final season going to air, Ewart admits that getting the idea off the ground was no easy feat.

Constraining the survival of HCN during cometary impacts
Catriona H. McDonald, Amy Bonsor, Auriol S. P. Rae, Paul B. Rimmer, Richard J. Anslow, Zoe R. Todd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08727

Constraining the survival of HCN during cometary impacts
Cometary impacts have been invoked as an atmosphere-independent method of stockpiling hydrogen cyanide (HCN), a key prebiotic feedstock molecule, into environments favourable for the onset of prebiotic chemistry on the early Earth. This work revisits the prospects for cometary delivery of HCN through new impacts simulations of idealised cometary bodies using the shock physics code iSALE combined with simple chemical modelling. Using temperature and pressure profiles for material within spherica…

Day 16 of the road trip included lunch with an old mate plus a good look around Leederville in Perth. Some great examples of street art and an excellent pub. #RoadTrip

Future of Bendigo Writers Festival unclear amid calls for transparent review. The ABC understands councillors have not had any access to primary documents about decision-making around the festival
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-16/ben

Future of Bendigo Writers Festival unclear amid calls for transparent review
A councillor is demanding answers from his own executive over the botched Bendigo Writers Festival, asking colleagues whether they want to be remembered as the council that "killed" it.

"The Australian government argued ...it shouldn’t be bound by the best available science as a legal standard. " 🤔
https://theconversation.com/federal-court-rules-australia…

Federal Court rules Australian government doesn’t have a duty of care to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change
Two Traditional Owners from the Torres Strait Islands who took the Australian government to court over climate-related harms have lost their case.

" by 2050, 1.5 million coastal residents would be at risk, rising to more than 3 million by 2090."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/15/millions-…

Voted in the Hottest 100 of Australian songs. Suspect my finished list was totally different to my first ten selections. #hottest100

Weaving Information Packets
Ole Christensen, Hong Oh Kim, Rae Young Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07503 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07503

Weaving Information Packets
The concept of weaving of frames for Hilbert spaces was introduced by Bemrose et al. in 2016. Two frames $\{f_k\}_{k\in I}, \{g_k\}_{k\in I}$ are woven if the ``mixed system" $\{f_k\}_{k\in σ} \cup \{g_k\}_{k\in I\setminus σ}$ is a frame for each index set $σ\subset I;$ that is, processing a signal using two woven frames yields a certain stability against loss of information. The concept easily extends to $N$ frames, for any integer $N>2.$ Unfortunately it is nontrivial to cons…

Day 12 of the road trip took me from Esperance to Hyden, WA. As an old Aggie I loved travelling through tens of thousands of hectares of canola and wheat crops. Found this great bit of silo art by Jerome Davenport in Varley. #RoadTrip #SiloArt

In an earlier life I grew peanuts at Tolga so happy to see a good news story. #peanuts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-09-12/b…

Bega sells peanut processing plants at Kingaroy and Tolga to family business
Workers and growers in the state's peanut industry receive a lifeline, with a major deal struck between Bega and the Crumpton Group.

Free stops for self contained RVs are a controversial topic in WA. Some shires have removed stops while others have added facilities. Last night I stopped in the free camp in Norseman which is gaining a good reputation among RVers. About 20 vans there last night.#RoadTrip

To me, having three time zones in Australia smacks of a "too many beers at the staff Christmas party" ideas. So Australian Western Time is an hour and a half behind Australian Central time. Some joker then decides to split the difference and create Australia Central Western Time. #RoadTrip

I grew up on a peanut farm near Tolga in FNQ. Sad to see the remnants of the industry declining. # peanuts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/bega-to-close-peanut-processing-plants-kingaroy-tolga/105512476

150 jobs in doubt as Bega winds down peanut processing plants in Queensland
Bega Group says Australia's peanut industry faces increased competition from imports and declining production.

Day eight of my road trip and a driving day from Nullabor Roadhouse, SA to Cocklebiddy Roadhouse, WA. Had to go through the quarantine search at the border. Great sunrise over the Nullabor weather station. #RoadTrip

Day 7, and the road trip takes me from Ceduna to Nullarbor Roadhouse. Got a great view of the bight, the cliffs and the sand dunes,as well as about a dozen Southern Right Whales, most with calves, just off the cliffs. #RoadTrip

It's about time I dumped my Adobe subscription. Anyone got a suggestion for a good Lightroom replacement? #AdobeSucks

One of the things about long road trips is the need for housekeeping. Day six was spent in Ceduna, getting laundry done, restocking the pantry, sweeping out the van and filling gas bottles. Ceduna has a good bakery and a pub on the foreshore. #RoadTrip

The AFL really needs to do something aboutthis over the finals
"The AFL grand final has traditionally coincided with an increase in rates of violence "
https://www.theroar.com.au/2025/09/05/bayer-leverkusen-ange-pos…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Corinne Bailey Rae:
🎵 Is This Love?
#CorinneBaileyRae
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FvapYqWK6TEuh4csYwQ9O

If Bayer Leverkusen select Ange Postecoglou, he may become known as Australia best ever coach
https://www.theroar.com.au/2025/09/05/bayer-leverkusen-ange-postecoglou-and-a-potentially-perfect-engagement/

I love reading stories like this!
How Boundary Islet became Australia's shortest 'land border' - ABC News https://share.google/OKR5O37LgEO3hMPnB

How Boundary Islet became Australia's shortest 'land border'
When Tasmania broke away from New South Wales politically in the 19th century it was decided all islands south of Wilsons Promontory would belong to the new colony, but it didn't quite work out that way.

Reinventing himself?
"In one he represented one of the men found guilty of murder for beating Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey to death with a pole as he walked home from school. In the other, he represented a man embroiled in a sophisticated money-laundering scheme"

Christian Porter: from attorney-general to scandal to $7000-a-day barrister
Once touted as a potential prime minister, the former federal attorney-general has quietly built a new life.

Random road trip thoughts. Diesel is my biggest expense while road tripping. I use Petrol Spy to find the cheapest anywhere I need to fill up. What fascinates me is the difference between two servos 500m apart can be 25c a litre. How does the more expensive one attract custom? #RoadTrip

Road trip day 4 - Port Augusta to Port Lincoln. I haven't been to the Eyre Peninsula before. Interesting rural landscape with farms backing onto sand dunes on Spencer Gulf. Gusts at 50 kph so not great for driving. #RoadTrip

Day 3 of the east-west road trip. Catching up with family overnight, then on to Port Augusta through 40 kph winds. Some parts of Port Augusta are very pretty while others are very raw. #RoadTrip

Alcoa's claims to have rehabilitated 75 per cent of the WA jarrah forest it had strip-mined are unclear, overstated, without a reasonable basis, and not truthful or factual.
https://www.boilingcold.com.au/alcoa-lied-about-jarrah-forest-r…

Alcoa lied about jarrah forest rehabilitation: ad watchdog
The Ad Standards decision has demolished a key plank of the US miner's expensive campaign to win public support for expanded mining in WA.

Day two of my east-west road trip and got up early in a brisk minus 2C to get some shots of Pink Lake, about 10km from Jimboomba. Great reflections before the sunrise burnt the mist off. #RoadTrip

Starting my longest road trip this year - heading east-west. First day to Dimboola, Vic with a detour to Arkoona to photograph some silo art by SMUG #RoadTrip

Happy Wattle Day! In this case Acacia rossei somewhere west of Kalgoorlie WA #RoadTrip

Random road trip thoughts. I like staying in free RV spots. Since the camper is fully self contained the main purpose I have for caravan parks is when I need to do laundry or have a full sized shower. The photo shows last night's camp in Merredin, about a dozen vans an caravans on site. #RoadTrip

Did our first longish trip in the EV over the weekend, Albury to Melbourne and back. Things we learnt:
1. I was worried about range since there was a lot of 110kph highway and a fair bit of stop start city driving. This proved unfounded as the range was pretty right.
2. There are chargers everywhere along the highway ranging from cheap 7kw AC chargers to expensive 200 kw DC chargers. You pay for the convenience of speed . Even using the most expensive chargers, costs were about a t…

Day 31 of the road trip and after dropping the copilot at the airport, headed east to the WA wheatbelt. What's more iconic than painted silos? #RoadTrip

Interested in how you food gets to your table - read it and weep. #FoodSecurity
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/food-supply…

Food supply chain system costs farmers and regions millions of dollars
Most "fresh" food travels thousands of kilometres to be sorted, divvied up and, in some cases, sent back to the place it came from — at huge cost to farmers and shoppers. But some new options are starting to sprout.

Day 29 of the road trip and what else do you find on Rottenest Island but a baby quokka. Of course the cycling, the lighthouse and the fabulous bays were pretty good as well #RoadTrip

Record 59,000 submissions to EPA on Alcoa as US boss flies in.
"It is the first time Alcoa's mining, which has already removed 280 square kilometres of jarrah forest, has been subject to an independent and public environmental review."
https://share.google/JitSfOt6Ortjo9hsF

Record 59,000 submissions to EPA on Alcoa as US boss flies in
Alcoa chief executive Bill Oplinger will look to shore up state government support for his vital WA mining that is facing public scrutiny for the first time.

As the saying goes "Better to be thought an idiot than produce a private members bill and prove it. "
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-25/barnaby-joyce-net-zero-bill-debate/105690926

Barnaby Joyce's net zero repeal bill to be debated, as Labor presses Coalition over climate divide
Labor will seek to maximise internal Coalition divisions over whether to scrap its net zero emissions commitment, allowing debate in the chamber today on Barnaby Joyce's bill to repeal climate laws.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Corinne Bailey Rae:
🎵 New York Transit Queen
#CorinneBaileyRae
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CjJtGi2x7xiBghJ4E8YIN

During my research into my family's extended genealogy, I've come across some remarkable descriptions of people from old documents.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ships & Hardships feat. Rae Khalil:
🎵 Strawberry
#Ships #Hardships #RaeKhalil
https://open.spotify.com/track/7f7uTJaivqgLEqrOk6cUkx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Corinne Bailey Rae:
🎵 New York Transit Queen
#CorinneBaileyRae
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CjJtGi2x7xiBghJ4E8YIN