2026-01-12 11:00:40
"Cyclones get names but deadly heatwaves don’t. Should Australia personalise severe weather?"
#Australia #Weather
"Cyclones get names but deadly heatwaves don’t. Should Australia personalise severe weather?"
#Australia #Weather
"Right now, new scam protections proposed by the government exclude many platforms scammers frequently use, including dating apps, email services and online marketplaces. Since 2020, thousands of Australians have fallen victim to scammers, losing $220 million through romance scams alone."
#Australia #Scams
Good news, but the #Nazis will still be out in force on #AustraliaDay, marching with the rest of the delusional bigots.
Australia heat wave stokes risk of catastrophic bushfires #Australia
My opinion - Foreign media in countries like #Australia, where this piece ran, shouldn't publish #Chinese government op-eds unless #China's state media publishes foreign diplomat op-eds.
"Australia rooftop solar installs rise as households shift to larger systems"
#Australia #SolarPower #Energy
Australiassa kymmeniä tuhansia ilman sähköä maastopalojen takia – viranomaiset julistaneet poikkeustilan #Australia
We went for a walk this morning - first time in 6 days. It's just been too hot. Nice to be moving again. We also had coffee!
#Canberra #Australia
"Plastic patrol: the citizen scientists tackling litter in Australian waterways"
#Australia #Litter #Environment
I’ve not had a deep dive into the files, but from the little I did see, it was clear #Epstein actively searched for inroads into #Australia. I’m glad our government’s taking this seriously. Who knows what they’ll dig up.
#auspol
"Australia says goodbye to plastic soy sauce fish in world-first ban"
#Australia #Plastic #Plastics
The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights | Julianne Schultz | The Guardian
#Australia #BillOfRights #AusPol
TIL if you Google for “drop bear” there’s a little #EasterEgg
#dropbear #australia
"Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies"
#Australia #Emissions #Climate
Not to be that guy, but it was #ASIS—#Australia’s *external* intelligence agency. #history
Husband went out to the back yard just after 7 pm to water some seedlings, and to refresh and refill the bird bath. Hose erupted - in several different sections.
#Summer #Canberra #Australia
"Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply"
#Australia #Technology #Energy
Today, #Australian LGBTIQ youth, abuse victims, and other vulnerable young folk lose their social media access, including vital sources of information and support.
#NotPeterDutton’s response?
“Read that book that's been sitting there on your shelf for some time.”
As a survivor of…
"Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions?"
#Australia #NetZero #Climate
"Australian renewables exceed 50% of power supply in Q4"
#Australia #Renewables #Energy
The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and
"Climate change made Australian heat wave 5 times more likely"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange
Hurja video Australiasta: Syöksytulva huuhtoo autoja mereen #Australia
Here are some more photos from our wander in Queanbeyan. The suspension bridge is quite old and rather wobbly. I loved it. We met an old man who told us about platypus sightings around the river.
#Queanbeyan #Australia
"Call for citizen scientists to monitor threatened turtle species on NSW beaches"
#Australia #NewSouthWales #Animals
We had to drive over to Queanbeyan to pick up an order at the farm shop there.
We don't get there very often so we took the opportunity to go for a bit of a wander by the river afterwards. I forgot how pretty it is.
#Queanbeyan #Australia
"Guardian Essential poll: only a quarter of older Australians believe climate change can be prevented"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange
A couple of months ago, I shocked friends in the US and UK whilst talking about #cigarette prices in #Australia. “How do people afford cigarettes?” they asked, incredulously.
"They don’t," I replied. "There's an enormous black market in
"Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis finds"
#Australia #Heatwave #Climate
Join nationwide protests against war criminal Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who is due to arrive on February 9.
Canberra people: Monday, February 9th, 5.30pm Garema Place, Civic
#Australia #Canberra #Protest
(Spotted on Reddit.)
In case you’re wondering how the Melania #Trump biopic’s doing in #Australia…
"Australian State Secures Federal Support to Achieve 100% Net Renewables Goal by 2027"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables
We don’t have #Thanksgiving here in #Australia. We just have a weird couple of weeks every year when your incoming emails surge by an order of magnitude, and then it abruptly drops back to normal.
"Why does Sydney pump sewage into the ocean and put its famous beaches at risk of poo balls?"
#Australia #Sydnry #Oceans
I let the grand-dog out at 6 am and the backdoor has been open since then but the mean grandmother won't get out of bed.
#BlueHeeler #DogSitting #Australia
Four years after jamming his party into a tree-chipper at the polls, #Australia's worst ever PM still feels a need to babble public policy from the refuge of distant shores.
"New data reveals how Australia’s threatened reptiles and frogs are disappearing – and what we have to do"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange
RE: #Australia
TIL about Oskar Speck, who kayaked from Ulm, #Germany, in May 1932, down the Danube, through to Cyprus to work in the copper mines—but decided to continue through to #Australia instead. After over seven years of paddling, he finally arrived on Thursday Island, in Torres Strait, in September 1939, whereupon Au…
Still in shock over recent events. We lived in Blair Street in the mid 80s and my daughter's first school was the local p.s. by the beach. My heart goes out to everyone impacted by this tragic act of hatred.
#Australia
Lemme get this straight: the man who led the Liberals—#Australia's more conservative major party, natch—to the worst defeat in its 60 year history wants to legally suppress the internal inquiry into its risible electoral performance because… it may suggest he was in some part responsible?
And not, say, the mythical Communist fifth column the snowflake Right routinely blames for its poor s…
"Carmaker uses repurposed EV batteries to help power factory in Australia"
#Australia #EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars
#NewGuineans and #Aboriginal #Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests
"Australia to fund national solar panel recycling pilot"
#Australia #SolarPower #Recycling #Energy
"Australia installs 5.2 GW of solar in 2024"
#Australia #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
"Australian rooftop solar reaches record 4,407 MW output in Q4 2025"
#Australia #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Very literally, for half a million #Optus customers: no one is coming to rescue you. 😬 #australia #telco #TripleZero
"Metlen flicks switch on 120 MW of solar in Australia"
#Australia #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables