Airborne #Perth✈️#Canberra #NowPlaying is ARIA the BOX which will be chill and relaxed. But if the ride stays as rough as it is right now I WILL break out the Mike Oldfield for 5 Miles Out…
HUH. #Qantas is labelling this stretch of water as the “South Australian Basin” rather than as the “Great Australian Bight”. Is that correct? Has there been an adjustment to Australian #geography whilst I wasn’t watching? #Perth✈️#Canberra
Screenshot from https://eldoradoweather.com/climate/world-extremes/world-temp-rainfall-extremes.php showing the top 15 places in the world today according to Ogimet data. All 15 of them, at least 41°C (105.8°F), are in Western Australia, including the Perth metro area.
We have a Queers for Palestine contingent at the Perth Pride parade this year. Please fill out the expression of interest form if you would like to join us.
March with us at the pride parade
Organised by Queer Liberation Boorloo and Friends of Palestine Western Australia
Image includes a flag that is a mash up of the palestinian flag and the queer rainbow flag
Australia is still a deeply racist country when it comes to Aboriginal people.
This is some of the oldest written communications on Earth.
This rock art was already ~40,000 years old when the Giza pyramids were an ongoing capital works project by the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
But because Aboriginal and created it, we treat it as worthless.
I can't stress this enough.
This should be a source of deep and profound shame for every non-Aboriginal Australian.
We, collectively, see irreplaceable 50,000 year old cultural artifacts as having less value than a tank full of petrol.
Because we view Aboriginal history as essentially worthless.
"The oldest petroglyphs in the world are deemed to be those at Murujuga in Western Australia, which are 40,000–50,000 years old. Some petroglyphs are classified as protected monuments and some have been added to the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, or such status has been applied for."
"The Albanese government agreed to weaken conditions it had proposed to protect world heritage-listed Indigenous rock art from Woodside’s giant North West Shelf gas development after the fossil fuel company argued it could be forced to shut the plant.
"The change is explained in a “statement of reasons” document setting out why the environment minister, Murray Watt, approved an application to extend the operating life of one of the world’s biggest and most polluting gas export developments until 2070.
"The statement shows Watt accepted environment department advice that “multiple lines of scientific and other evidence” suggested industrial emissions were having a “significant adverse impact” on rocks in Murujuga, a cultural landscape in northern Western Australia that is home to more than 1m pieces of rock art, known as petroglyphs.
"The minister also accepted advice that future pollution from the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facility could cause “degradation, damage, notable alteration, modification, obscuring or diminishing” of the area’s natural heritage."
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"Watt provisionally ruled in May that Woodside could continue operating the LNG plant beyond 2030 only if it cut acidic pollution – particularly nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide – so that there were no air emissions “above the detectable limit” that affect rock art.
"But Woodside responded this was “not technically feasible”. It said the conditions were an “effective refusal” of the development that would lead to the “cessation of business as usual operations” at the end of 2030.
It was recently 32.6°C (90.7°F) here in #Perth#Australia, which is unusually high compared to the temperatures we should be having in late autumn (about 8 to 10 degrees lower).
Those in Boorloo (Perth) Western Australia, please come along to our film screening this Saturday at 7pm of Desire Lines.
"An Iranian-American transman, Ahmad, searching for his place in history, finds more than a just link to the past in the archives. Drawing from first-person accounts, as well as fictionalized segments, filmmaker Jules Rosskam explores the lines of desire as they intersect with identity for many transmen.
Join us for a screening of Desire Lines. Followed Q&A featuring Nova Sobieralski senate candidate with the socialist alliance."
Flier for election fundraising event. There is an image of our candidates, Riley Breen, Josh Last, and Jade 'Nova' Sobieralski
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Together We Will Unfuck The World Election Rally
Live Entertainment - Licenced Bar
Support Our Campaign
April 12 - 6:30PM
15/5 Aberdeen St
Next to McIver Station
“Price was appointed to lead a government efficiency unit if the #Coalition government is elected after 3 May. The unit, which would sit within the prime minister’s department, has been compared to one led by US #tech billionaire Elon Musk (#TechWeenie, #Oligarch), whose Department of Government #Efficiency, or Doge, is taking a razor to US government departments.
“Let’s be very, very clear, media, you’re obsessed with Donald Trump 🎃. We’re not obsessed with Donald Trump. We’re actually obsessed with ensuring that we can improve the circumstances for #Australians,” she said.”
“As Price got into full flight, Dutton’s team tried to end the press conference.
But Price kept talking.”
“When the press conference’s final question turned to Price’s plans for cutting #GovernmentWaste in a potential #Coalition cabinet, the senator seized her moment. In 11 minutes, she traversed everything from the indoctrination of students to “silly ideas around ideological things like colonising breastfeeding”.
There had been no plan for Dutton’s spokeswoman for #IndigenousAffairs and government efficiency to take centre stage. Half an hour earlier, Price had led a rallying cry to “make Australia great again”.