#Australia awards

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Neighbourhood Dispute

A mudskipper and a crab have a territorial dispute in Roebuck Bay, Australia. 

by Ofer Levy

Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award

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if you saw me delete and repost these in higher definition, no u didn’t

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Margot Robbie attends the 2024 AACTA Awards Presented by Foxtel Group at HOTA (Home of the Arts) on February 10, 2024 in the Gold Coast, Australia. 

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Silver foxes

Matt and Dom's bold predictions for Muse's future, including a stellar moment where Matt asks a young and thoroughly confused Australian interviewer if he feels sexy, as well as Muse's predictions for how hot they're going to be aged 45. Safe to say, those predictions were absolutely true ;)

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Great now transbians can force their way into lesbian dating apps

Daisy Dumas Thu 22 Aug 2024 20.18 EDT

A transgender woman who sued a women-only social media app for alleged gender discrimination has been awarded $10,000 plus costs after a judge found she had been indirectly discriminated against in a landmark decision that tested the meaning and scope of the Sex Discrimination Act.

Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from regional New South Wales, sued the social media platform Giggle for Girls and its CEO, Sall Grover, claiming she was unlawfully barred from using the app in 2021 after the firm and Grover said she was a man.

On Friday morning, the federal court justice Robert Bromwich said the respondents had considered “sex” to mean an unchangeable sex of a person at birth.

“These arguments failed because the view propounded by the respondents conflicted with a long history of cases decided by courts going back over 30 years. Those … cases established that on its ordinary meaning sex is changeable,” he said.

Onboarding to the app required the user to upload a selfie verified as female by KairosAI gender detection software and then by Grover.

Tickle was barred after initially being allowed to join the platform – which was shut down in August 2022.

The judge said the evidence did not establish Tickle was excluded from Giggle directly “by reason of her gender identity although it remains possible that this was the real but unproven reason”.

Rather, the indirect discrimination case succeeded because Tickle was excluded from the use of the social media app “because she did not look sufficiently female”.

Bromwich disagreed with Grover and Giggle’s arguments about the constitutionality of the protections for gender identity in the act – in line with the position of the sex discrimination commissioner.

Tickle had sought damages and aggravated damages amounting to $200,000, claiming that persistent misgendering by Grover resulted in constant anxiety and occasional suicidal thoughts.

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2024 ALLAN BORDER MEDALLIST: MITCH MARSH

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Lasitha Liyana Patabendi. It’s time to go home. Egret, Lake Wyangan, Campbell’s Swamp, NSW, Australia

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Michael Hutchence performing "New Sensation" at the 1988 MTV Awards.

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In October of 1973 Davy and his wife Linda went to Australia where Davy was a guest host along with Maurice Gibb for the King of Pop Awards, they are photographed here with the winners Johnny Farnham and Colleen Hewitt.

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So this is going to sound Crazy, but part of why i've been so inactive lately has been because I was lucky enough to have been selected alongside 6 of my friends in Animation to get shipped out to Winton, Australia to spend a 2 weeks making an animated short for their Vision Splendid film festival.

Together, we got to work with locals, film students, Student composers, festival hosts and first nations elders to create a collection of Animated Haikus celebrating this wonderful town, but get to know ourselves and this country in a way we never even would have considered before.

And as if that wasn't enough to make us jump up and down, flapping out hands in joy... guys... We won the Kolperi Award! A first for animation in the entire 11 year history of the festival!

So thank you thank you thank you for everyone who made it possible for me and my friends to experience Winton. It's something i'll be treasuring for the rest of my days.

Voiced by my friend Kiwi and Music by my friends in the Conservatorium (Love, Lisa and Georgia)

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Congratulations The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart for winning The AACTA Awards for Best Miniseries, Best Production Design in Television, Best Cinematography in Television and Best Sound in Television.

Here is one of my fav. scene in the show :)

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Gone fishing

‘Each time this Australasian darter dived, I had no idea where it would briefly resurface; sometimes without food, sometimes swallowing it quickly, and, just this once, tossing a common galaxias into the air to ensure it went down head-first. The way the darter is rising from the water, with duck weed clinging to its feathers, reminds me of a sculpture emerging from its plinth.’

Photograph: Kim Wormald

2023 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards

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I've spent years working with very vulnerable women, but I still forget just how easy it is for a man to destroy a woman's life: chip awag at her self-esteem until she doesn't trust herself; convince her to move (so he can get a better job and isolate her, so she can work part-time and be a housewife); inflict an unwanted pregnancy (he can support her, she can leave school/work); burden her with care responsibilities (he's working, but she's not working as much, she can care for the parents and the children, just like her mum, aunts, and older female friends)...

And, when she realises what he's done, what can she do about it? If he destroyed her self-esteem, she thinks she deserved it for being stupid, because that's what society says about women like her; if he convinced her to move, she'd need to organise somewhere to live when she moves back, and rent is expensive, and all her stuff came with her (even harder if she moved countries, has a work gap, and/or her parents live overseas and depend on his income); if she's pregnant, she needs to jump through 'oh, are you sure you want this?' hoops and pay for it (apparently, it costs around AUD$500 for the abortion pills) or maintain it (and know that it'll cost more to have a child, and chain her to him); if she has those care responsibilities, she can't just walk out on those she cares for (she'll be punishing them, and she'll potentially be punished in the courts)...

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Category winners for the 2023  Australia Star Prize for Rural Photography. Nature/ Landscape: Lisa Alexander, “Channel country comes alive” Production: Jacqui Bateman, “Leaping Sheep” 

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ON THIS DAY — November 29, 2012 — 11 years ago

26th Annual ARIA Awards in Sydney, Australia

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Once Upon a Wave

by Phil De Glanville

The surfer Chris Ross charges down a monstrous wave as it begins to barrel above him. The ocean seems to swallow the athlete, who looks like a small yellow dot in the blue immensity of the wave. Shot at a surf break called The Right in Western Australia.

The Drone Photo Awards 2022