Four major floods in 50 years is an interesting framing: it was one flood 50 years ago, 35 years passed, and then there's been three just in the last 15 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/15/brisbane-flood-proof-housing-developments
It's 37c here in the Adelaide Hills.
Total fire ban day.
Pretty hot for the Ides of March.
We haven't had a decently rainy day in months.
#Australia #ClimateCrisis
Drove a bucket-list track: the Blue Rag Range Track in the Victorian High Country: https://travellingworm.com/2025/03/15/blue-rag-range-track-vic/ #travel #australia #VictorianHighCountry #adventure #4wd #TravellingWorm
A Red-rumped Parrot (aka Grass Parrot) amongst the clover. The closer you look, the more colours you can see...
Prone to Resonance Found Sound Broadcast #14, with field recordings from Sydney (and Wollongong) from September 2008.
The Trump administration has issued a global questionnaire that requires foreign researchers to say whether a project or institution promotes “American influence, trust and reputation”.
Trump's overreach knows no bounds.
#F1 #Autosports #GMT #australia
15 de março (sábado)
1h30 — Terceira sessão de treinos livres;
5h00 — Qualificação.
16 de março (domingo)
4h00 — Corrida.
‘Blood moon’: Photos capture year’s 1st total lunar eclipse
March’s full moon, also called a 'blood moon,' reached peak illumination in the early hours of Friday and was visible from Toronto to Canberra, Australia.
#astronomy #photography #moon #Toronto #Canberra #Australia
https://globalnews.ca/news/11081819/blood-moon-march-2025-photos/
Cultivating Community How discourse shapes the philosophy, practice and policy of water management in the Murray–Darling Basin
Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
When: June 3, 2025, 7:00-9:30 pm
Where: And/Ore, 1040 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H7
Details and tickets: https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/
#babywombat #wombat #samjones #anthonyalbanese #australia #pm #primeminister #influencers #albanese
Reasons to love Australia. My comment of the week goes to Anthony Albanese the Australian PM, on the baby wombat debacle. What a funny, brutal, and flawless response…
“They are gentle, lovely creatures… I suggest to this so-called “influencer”, maybe she should try some other Australian animals, maybe she should try a crocodile.
Take a baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there…”
Looks like a local outbreak of measles in Victoria, Australia as well. Feels like somewhat of an international outbreak, perhaps because so many populations swallowed too much antivax propaganda the last few years?
Victoria DOH: Local outbreak of measles in Victoria
"...Five further measles cases have been identified in Victoria. Two of these cases are locally acquired and linked to the recent local outbreak reported in February. Three cases acquired their infection overseas in Bali. These cases have been infectious at multiple locations around Melbourne...."
https://www.health.vic.gov.au/health-alerts/new-measles-case-in-victoria-4
US influencer who filmed herself as she snatched baby wombat from its distraught mother has left #Australia https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rz4e9185qo
#influencers #babywombat #wombat #samjones #australia #youtube #influencer
Just been reading about “influencers” after the baby wombat debacle. If these are the kind of people others aspire to, then lord help the next generation.
Be your own person, form your own ideas, and be influenced by people from history who really count. Being obsessed with the idea of making money from tacky advertising or inane trivia isn’t a character trait I particularly admire.
I definitely feel a poll coming on…
Australia's candidate for Euro Vision 2025 is both incredibly silly and incredibly catchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_08I6mjHSLA
A map of #Australia with County #Cork placed on it to give you a sense of just how large Australia is. Not sure folks get how massive Australia is until they see it compared to Cork.
Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:
The risk estimate is trending gently upwards, now at 0.4% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-239.
That implies a 12% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
Waves driven by the new LP.8.1.* variant have shown relatively low peaks in most places, and it is showing slow growth in the Australian genomic sequencing data.
https://aus.social/@mike_honey_/114135551074607865
Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on #DEI and #gender - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/14/australian-university-sector-accuses-trump-administration-of-blatant-interference-in-research "Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate" pretty damn outrageous... #australia
Baby #wombat grabber Sam Jones leaves #Australia after intense backlash including from PM and immigration minister - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/14/sam-jones-baby-wombat-australia-backlash-leaving-australia great headline
I want to believe University adminstrations in #Australia are poaching US academics.
I've driven on Australia's country roads.
Seen the carnage of the wildlife.
I can't begin to tell you how bad it is.
It's hard knowing this and seeing the prominence given to the baby wombat handling fool.
They just don't match up.
smh
