Calla Wahlquist
@callawahlquist.bsky.social
Rural and regional editor, Guardian Australia. Frequent horse nonsense. Live and work on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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Birders - what have I got here? We’re near Kyneton in the Macedon ranges. No beak visible. Initially thought it was a wattlebird but much rounder than that?
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths
“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” - @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor
The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Some really brilliant work here … strong recommend
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
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I once tracked down the story of a famous photo that gets shared on Invasion Day for a job and spoke to someone who ran a historical society in the area where the violence took place. I explained how colonist diaries I found described what they were doing as war; she said I was "being political".
So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series. Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
theguardian.com
Do read our extraordinary investigation into the coded diaries of a Western Australian settler. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
theguardian.com
Our reversing camera is out of action so I’m quite pleased with this attempt, which would have been one and done had I had the traditional assistance of a bored teenager or random old bloke making stop/go hands.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war
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In devastating news I might have to go to a Very Rural Event tomorrow not only in the town car (because we don’t drive the ute unless we have to, for reasons of both cost and planet) but in town boots, because these guys have given up.
I love that they got every PM that Antony Green would have called for (except Keating). #auspol
For those wondering who this Keith Wolahan character is, here's the background:
OPINION: Keith Wolahan's disappointing position on Indigenous rights
OPINION: A video recording of a talk given to the Samuel Griffith Society in 2017 shows Wolahan lay out his opposition for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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Do we think Sussan Ley will be the new Liberal leader in the time-honoured tradition of giving women a shit job? #auspol
Really don’t love that Albanese threw out the acknowledgment as a victory moment then but didn’t actually say whose land he was on. Are you saying it as a gotcha to the Coalition or a genuine show of respect? #auspol
This is the most human speech I’ve ever seen Dutton give and it is a pity for him that he left it until last. #auspol
PS, this is for the next day or two, when all the conservatives start melting down on Sky News
I do appreciate that James McGrath acknowledged that “wait for the prepoll figures” could be a drinking game at this point. #auspol
Don’t mind me, just crying over Boyd Martin being named world number 1 in eventing. www.instagram.com/reel/DJJu6Ku...
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A column A look at where we are at the end of the campaign. Whatever happens, some big stuff lies ahead. bsky.app/profile/adam...
Adam Morton@adammorton.bsky.social · last yr.A climate election? The Coalition wants to take Australia backwards, while Labor is standing still www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
0.6C in Malmsbury this morning, that’s *almost* a frost.
Guardian Australia's election editorial www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The Guardian view on Australia’s federal election: progressives must vote strategically
Anthony Albanese has delivered steady, gradual reform – but a minority government might force Labor to push through bolder solutions
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To me one of the most telling signs is a very late Coalition campaign pivot away from courting independent/swinging voters back to consolidating right wing base (welcome to country). Feels they've shifted into save the furniture, win PHON preferences, save Dutton territory, not win govt mode.
My takeaways from 100+ voter conversations in Sydney and Central Coast in past months: * Cost of living no1 issue but nobody really blames Albo * Hardly anybody has heard of any of the solutions on offer * People think Dutton = Trump Coalition seem cooked. www.afr.com//politics/fe...
If Dutton’s path to victory cuts through Sydney, he has problems
In conversations with voters from Gordon to Liverpool, cost of living and housing featured again and again – but few blamed Labor and Albanese for the price rises.
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Jason Clare on RN just now finally saying the key point in this Welcome to Country “debate”. “Let’s remember where this began: it began with neo-Nazis booing Welcome to Country ceremonies at a Dawn Service.” Says we shouldn’t let neo-Nazis lead public debate.
We’re watching Drop Dead Gorgeous (currently streaming on SBS, which incidentally has a much better film selection than any paid streaming service) and the Trump presidency is really leaning into the bit more than I think we strictly required