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World's first legally binding treaty to protect oceans and marine life takes effect
The High Seas Treaty will govern about two-thirds of the planet's oceans including vast areas beyond any country's borders.Gillian Aeria (ABC News)
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World's first legally binding treaty to protect oceans and marine life takes effect
The High Seas Treaty will govern about two-thirds of the planet's oceans including vast areas beyond any country's borders.Gillian Aeria (ABC News)
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#SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship
‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities | Social media ban | The Guardian
“it’s okay, she should be outside playing sports” — no? “I have autism and mental health things, it’s hard making friends in real life for me,” she says. “My online friends were e…Dropsafe
New data reveals how Australia’s threatened reptiles and frogs are disappearing – and what we have to do
Australia is home to many endangered reptiles and frogs. This national snapshot shows their numbers have dropped sharply. But it’s possible to reverse this trend.The Conversation
Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future
From 2040 onwards the average year for marine ecosystems is likely to be more extreme than the worst years experienced up until 2015, researchers sayPetra Stock (The Guardian)
Teens launch High Court challenge to Australia's social media ban
The Much Needed Backlash Against Bad Laws Begins
#OurModernTimes #Internet #Australia #AgeDiscrimination
Australia social media ban: Teens challenge law before High Court
They argue the law - which will block users under 16 from having social media accounts - is unconstitutional.Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
Encountering the World’s Most Endangered Kangaroo: The Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo
Encounter the Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo. Rediscovered in 2018, these rare marsupials from West Papua are a symbol of hope amidst threats from palm oil, huntingPalm Oil Detectives
Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.
#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
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Saving the giants of the Australian forest
Mountain ash forests are predicted to lose a quarter of their trees by 2080, releasing over 100 million tonnes of stored carbon into the atmosphere. But there is a way to limit further lossDr Raphael Trouve (The University of Melbourne)
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#Australia #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ocean #oceans
Algal bloom killing marine life in South Australia is 'disaster', premier says
The catastrophe has turned South Australian waters toxic green and suffocated masses of marine life.Simon Atkinson and Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
I have posted a few fogbows previously featuring the Cradle Mountain too. This one is more minimalist with only a tree and some layers.
#mountains #Australia #landscape #LandscapePhotography #nature #naturephotography #fog #sunrise #dawn #AntonGorlinPhotos #foto #fotografie #photo #photography #minimal
i've been noticing more websites not including GST in listed prices, which, to my understanding, is illegal unless you're advertising exclusively to other businesses:
Businesses must display the total price of a product or service as a single figure. This price must be the minimum total cost – the lowest amount a customer could pay, including any taxes, duties and unavoidable or pre-selected extra fees.
here are two websites i've seen doing this in the past week alone - red hat and patreon. patreon in particular is in no way aimed at business-to-business transactions.
Price displays
There are laws about how businesses display prices. They cover how prices are displayed, and what must be included in the displayed prices.Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
#myphoto #spider #australia
St Andrew's Cross Spider
St Andrew's Cross Spiders are named for their bright web decorations - zig-zag ribbons of bluish-white silk that form a full or partial cross through the centre of the orb web.The Australian Museum
I just realized I haven't shared sandstone #photos. Sandstone is fascinating and #beautiful and forms various crazy shapes. Endless possibilities for both large and small scale #photography. Photo is titled 'Among the Waves'.
#thursday #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #rock #pink #shape #nature #naturephotography #color #australia #photographie
Happy New Year!!!
This is my last shot of 2023: rainbow bee-eater in Myall Lakes NP in Eastern #Australia enjoying a cicada
#biodiversity #birdphotography #wildlife #birds #birdsofmastodon #bird #ecology #rainbow
If you live in present-day 🌏 Australia, New Zealand, 🌎 the North or South Americas, this is a good resource for finding out whose land you occupy. native-land.ca/
#LandBack #LandAcknowledgement #TurtleIsland #USA #Canada #Mexico #Australia #NewZealand #Aotearoa #SouthAmerica #CentralAmerica
Welcome - Native-Land.ca
Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.Native-Land.ca
"Gorgeous milky way shot with a grass tree which is unique to Australia."
Stan Feldman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Can somebody help me understand this please: why would we ever give out carbon credits for not chopping down a forest? “Here’s a forest we shouldn’t cut down anyway. Because we’re not cutting it down, now you can burn more fossil fuels!”
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NSW Liberal plan to generate carbon credits by ending logging in state forests snubbed by federal Labor
Exclusive: State ministers touted ‘significant carbon abatement’ plus benefits for threatened species and regional economiesPeter Hannam (The Guardian)
Australia must not be a dumping ground for palm oil made from slavery: The Australian Greens
The recently released Global Slavery Index reveals that Australia risks importing goods amounting to US $17.4 billion, which are suspected to be produced via forced labour. A ban of these goods fro…Palm Oil Detectives
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Australia must not be a dumping ground for palm oil made from slavery: The Australian Greens
The recently released Global Slavery Index reveals that Australia risks importing goods amounting to US $17.4 billion, which are suspected to be produced via forced labour. A ban of these goods fro…Palm Oil Detectives
I just spotted my first wombats in the wild on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.
These stocky little marsupials sort of look like a cross between a baby brown bear, koala & pig. They have a pouch like other marsupials, but it’s backwards which prevents dirt from entering as they burrow.
At just over 3 ft long, they’re absolutely charming. But millions of years ago, herds of giant wombats as large as rhinoceros roamed southern #Australia. #wildlife #photography #SharedPlanet
Steam Deck:
Can't work out the logistics to ship to #Australia.
Nintendo Switch:
Ships new models to Australia almost immediately.
And don't give me the 'money' argument - a quick search shows that #ValveSoftware is worth about US$10 billion, whilst #Nintendo is worth about US$13 billion, so it's not *that* much of a difference... Our #gaming market is also larger than many of the countries the #SteamDeck is currently available in now.