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So many great people came through 2SER. And now the Uni of Technology is threatening to have it shuttered. It's dire. I'll have a petition page for you in the next day or so. We'd love your suupport.

The song for today is... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM7H...

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha - Official Music Video (Original) (Tjinder Singh)YouTube video by Cornershopwww.youtube.com

Americans don't know the reasons Iran hates the US. In 1951 Iran's democracy elected Mohammed Mossadegh. The CIA & British intelligence staged a coup, installed a dictator who tortured and killed people. It goes on from there.

Thinking of those who are waking up every day to check if family and friends are safe, and who are having to endure our government continually failing to acknowledge, call out and act on war crimes, genocide.

Yesterday I came across an article Leigh Sales wrote on Thursday when the ABC was on strike. It is one of the worst commentary pieces on Australian political-economic history I've read. It was clear no one of quality was around to check her work or prevent it from being published. 1/13

Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory | Kirsty Howey

Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory | Kirsty HoweyWe’re tough in Australia’s Top End, but there’s a limit to what communities can endure without adequate resources and if leadership isn’t honest about the cause * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Northern Territory has always prided itself on being tough. We’re known for facing down extreme heat, isolation and crocs. However, there is a point at which resilience stops being a virtue. And this wet season, we’ve felt invisible to the rest of Australia. Four separate national disaster declarations in a single wet season. And now a fifth disaster, Tropical Cyclone Narelle, is barrelling towards us. Continue reading...www.theguardian.com

You’re meant to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of. Yet Australian governments are handing out $16.3 billion in subsidies for fossil fuels. @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss why on this episode of Dollars & Sense. 🎧 theaus.in/4bm3836

Great work from Knitting Nannas. The more exposure the #AtlasNetwork and its affiliates get, the better. #auspol

Listen to The mesmerizing whale song as a humpback 🐋 whale and its calf swim in the coastal waters of Tonga 🇹🇴 📹Paul Nicklen

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Was good to write a positive story, though there is plenty we don’t know about these guys and there are challenges ahead to make sure they remain not extinct. But here’s to positive news. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New GuineaThe chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery sayswww.theguardian.com

I saw a bumper sticker with this on it about 20 years ago and have thought about it when I am in/ am being traffic ever since

What does the “international rules-based order” the Australian government is so keen on say about leaving people to drown?

“Everything could be different . . . There is no reason why we can’t produce more of the things that we need, and far fewer of the things that are destroying our world, our planet. We have the capacity to do it.” – @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Read more: https://theaus.in/4b0CZ9K

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Vanuatu’s Climate Minister, Ralph Regenvanu, is urging countries (looking at you, Australia) to resist US pressure and stand with Vanuatu for climate justice. Vanuatu wants the UN to back the ICJ’s finding that countries are legally responsible for climate damage. Australia — whose side are you on?

Regenvanu urges support after US climate rejection - ABC PacificVanuatu's Climate Envoy Ralph Regenvanu is urging countries to stay engaged, after the United States pushed for Vanuatu www.abc.net.au

Not Drowning, Waving Malira/Tabaran tour with Sir George Telek Ben Hakalitz and Pius Wasi in May. Cairns and Brisbane later in the year. Hope to see you there

D'oh! My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social (with apologies to Matt Groening) And in case you'd like to know the episode this references, it's "Duffless", Ep 16, Season 4... google "Bart gets electrocuted by muffin" for a Youtube clip of the moment. You're welcome. 🤓)

Australia Institute research shows why Australia needs more politicians: smaller electorates mean MPs who are more responsive to local communities, more accountable to grassroots campaigns, and better able to specialise in policy areas. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tF9SkF