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😷 Gardener. Retired doctor. Whatever catches my eye. Wisdom, courage and beauty where I can find it. Tasmanian affairs, some Oz politics. Desperate world events.
🇦🇺‘A managed-care system serves shareholders first. Everything else — prevention included — is secondary. America already shows the cost: less choice, and decisions made by administrators. Not doctors.’🩺 michaelwest.com.au/buyer-beware...
Buyer beware. Private health insurance funds are in your GP's office - Michael West
Private health insurers are making their way into your doctor's office and the specialists they refer you to. It may not be to your benefit.
michaelwest.com.au
🇦🇺(Tasmania) ‘the government appeared willing to write a blank cheque while cutting hospital services, biosecurity and public service jobs.’ pulsetasmania.com.au/news/rocklif...
Rockliff won’t release updated stadium costings despite parliament demand
Rockliff says releasing the figure would damage the procurement process…
pulsetasmania.com.au
‘Australia has often sought to reassure itself that at least the nation is untainted, unlike Britain and the US, by a heinous history of slavery. But “the evidence of the Australian slave trade through blackbirding is everywhere – it hides in plain sight”’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
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🇦🇺’"It reinforced that Tasmanian weather can be unforgiving. You have to carry the gear for the weather you're likely to get, not the weather you're hoping for."’ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Wind in the wilderness a real threat to unprepared hikers
Bushwalker and meteorologist Urshla Connor knows from personal and professional experience that being prepared for changing weather can make all the difference between a beautiful hike and a life-thre...
abc.net.au
Vincent van Gogh | The White Cottage Among the Olive Trees’, 1889 Private collection
Blow after blow to the gambling industry’s already tattered social licence at this week’s Senate inquiry has not moved @albomp.bsky.social. He’s totally captured by this misery sector of the economy. #FailedLeadership #auspol www.afr.com/companies/ga...
‘Policy capture’: The week that exposed Labor’s gambling ties
An explosive week of public hearings exposed the harms of the gambling industry. So why isn’t the government following its own advice on advertising bans?
afr.com
Sadly Marles is not credible as someone who puts Australia's interests first.
Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s genuinely tragic when Labor’s Defence Minister says that the US, not Australia, will decide which of their nuclear submarines will come here and how long they will stay.
🇦🇺 ‘super funds are not always reminding ⚠️ members to make nominations ⚠️ & check their nominations are up to date.⚠️ …. most trustees only contacted the member once ⚠️ before their nomination expired, & some sent notices 1 day ⚠️ before the nomination lapsed.’⚠️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Millions of Australians will have no say in who inherits their super
New research shows most Australians have not made a legally binding death benefit nomination to ensure their superannuation goes to who they want it to when they die. And many funds do not make it eas...
abc.net.au
'The Entrance to the Portal' St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise.
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...
The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for - Michael West
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. Andrew Brown
michaelwest.com.au
I took this photo of Freda Lake from Skwim Mountain in qathet BC a week ago. I shared it with a bunch of photos but I think it deserves its own post
#ResistanceRoots Matthew Henson was born on this day in 1866 in Charles County, Md. He was an African American Arctic explorer who co-discovered the geographic North Pole alongside Robert Peary. During his life, Henson was given little credit for the critical role he played in their expeditions. /1
A red-winged blackbird's breath becomes visible as it sings in freezing cold, forming smoke-like rings https://sinapti.ca/post/en/when-it-gets-cold-enough-a-birds-melody-becomes-visible-db3dqe67
The Congo Basin and the Amazon are the lungs of the planet. They store carbon. They create rain. They shelter life. We cannot solve the climate crisis while we keep cutting the forests that cool the Earth. Indigenous guardians and local communities already know this.
Banded Kingfisher Johor, Malaysia The banded kingfisher (Lacedo pulchella) is a tree kingfisher found in lowland tropical forests of southeast Asia. It is the only member of the genus Lacedo. Male and female adults are very different in plumage. 📸: @hyjgoesbirding
Damn damn! This is why Covid isn’t just like the flu. Post Covid responses are so concerning. Harms a significant number of people, different harms for each, & affects so many parts of the body. Creating disability.
Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d ago"COVID-19 May Quietly Weaken Bones Long After Recovery" Researchers warn COVID-19 may have effects beyond the lungs, heart and immune system. A new review suggests infection may cause lasting bone damage, increasing the risk of weaker bones, fractures and impaired bone repair—even after recovery.
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1930: A white mob of thousands abducts, brutally beats and lynch two young African American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. This horrific event of racial terror became the catalyst for a multigenerational saga of activism, healing and artistic controversy. /1
Medieval treasures - A great trip yesterday to the Museum of Scotland which included seeing the iconic 12th century Lewis chess set (image below of the Lewis Queen) www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat... #medievalsky
Source: Amnh The Himalayan Monal. Males use their iridescent feathers to attract mates. Found in the Himalayas, this bird inhabits high altitudes. In fact, it can be found at elevations of up to 16,000 ft (4,877 m) during the summer.
Economist Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to be awarded the #Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2009) "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." She was born #OTD in 1933. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo... #WomeninSTEM #economics
The perfect moment when a hummingbird shares a water fountain with four bees on a hot California summer day. [📸 Toshiyasu Morita]
I checked out the Morgan Library's exhibition of the world's earliest surviving tarot decks this week (1400s!!), and learned how the cards evolved from courtly game to tools of divination.... and why you won't find a devil in the original decks hellgatenyc.com/worlds-oldes...
A Magical Stroll Through the World's Oldest Tarot Decks
Thank the Renaissance's most devout for exorcising the devil from the Morgan Library & Museum's new exhibit.
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8/7/1890 — b. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American reformer, labor organizer, #feminist. Full-time organizer for Industrial Workers of the World, a champion of basic civil liberties, and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (1920) #womenshistory #labor #stikes #civilrights #ACLU #PolSky
Obstetrical anesthesiologist Dr. Virginia Apgar invented the APGAR score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn immediately after birth. Her quick evaluation method dramatically dropped infant mortality rates worldwide. She died #OTD in 1974. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky
Her name is Sister Rosetta Thorpe. Known as the "Godmother of rock" that inspired Elvis.
