#Brisbane Region

[travelmanposts]

The Tip, Cape York, Australia: Tip of Cape York is the northernmost point of the Australian continent. It takes a lot of effort to drive to the tip of Aussie, but it is very much worth the effort. Certainly not a weekend adventure, or even a week - It really need to allow sufficient time to drive to long dusty corrugated roads that lead here, and back. The indigenous name for the very tip of Cape York, which is also the northern-most point of Australia is Pajinka... Cape York is the northernmost point of the mainland of Australia. It is within the locality of Somerset in the Shire of Torres, Queensland. Wikipedia

[pynkhues]

growing up in a cattle station family in rural Australia has its own very real baggage

curious to know more about this

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Mmm, I mean, rural Australia is its own beast, I guess, anon? My mum's from Mareeba which is way up in rural FNQ and her father / my grandfather worked in agriculture up there, so I've spent a lot of time in those sorts of towns, and while it's different from the region Sam grew up in, rural culture in Australia - particularly rural agricultural life - is generally isolating, politicised, cut off from services from healthcare to schools (I don't know why Sam went to school in Sydney obviously, but at the same time I Know Why because rural schools are underresourced, understaffed, and basically agricultural schools) and sometimes even the internet (I've worked in towns where a portable library in a truck would come to towns once a week and would literally be the only internet that town would get as the broadband infrastructure didn't work), and plagued by natural disasters - the area he grew up in in particular is extremely vulnerable to devastating bush fires almost every year.

For context, Australia's landmass is a similar size to the US, but where America's population is 335 million, Australia's population is 26 million. So think about the US, then subtract 210 million people. That's reflected in the economy, it's reflected in regional services, it's reflected in accessibility, it's reflected in capacity for community and connection, it's reflected in everything, because the myth about parts of the country being unliveable is exactly that - a myth. People live - and have lived for tens of thousands of years - all over this country, and Australia's small population size is reflective really of an attempted genocide of Indigenous peoples, the country's global status as a fairly weak middle power, a small economy, a 'young' country in terms of colonisation (Australia was colonised in 1788, but we have the longest still living culture in Aboriginal Australians, who've been here for at least 65,000 years), and, frankly, our historically racist immigration policies.

But putting that aside - - a personal anecdote; when I was at the writers centre, we helped facilitate a workshop with a food writer in the town of Julia Creek, which is a town of about 500 people (it was a part of a broader tour of rural Q). In that, one woman in attendance had driven 10 hours to come, 4 hours of which were her driving off her own sheep station. That might sound nice, but remember a lot of this landscape out there is this:

(Julia Creek!)

Or the Monaro region, where Sam's from, is a lot of the time like this:

It took that woman four hours to drive from her front door to even a road that would take her off her own land, let alone connect her to other people (and we do see the result of that in domestic violence here, but that's a whole other kettle of fish). That's what I mean when I talk about the isolation of regions like this in rural Australia. We do have some services - the Royal Flying Doctors Service literally flies doctors to people like this as a part of healthcare, right? - but on a day-to-day level, people are - - contained, for better sometimes, but I personally think mostly for worse.

Look, my point is that rural Australia is not easy country to live on, and the harshness of the landscape is intensely tied up in Australian concepts of machismo and a romanticised culture of masculinity, which in itself is tied up in what I like to call racism-but-for-mates culture (i.e. fuck off, we're full [genuine tagline of racists here], oh, but not Muhammad down the road, he's my mate], general homophobia, a culture of anti-intellectualism and also a general desperation to survive a landscape and political situation that resents you for being there (because trust me, the Australian government resents having to deliver regional services to pockets of 500 people ala those in Julia Creek).

The limitations of resource - from education to libraries to literally the internet (especially after the bungled rollout of the NBN - we're 82 in the world for internet speed lol, it's bad even in the cities) - are inherently tied up in that, which makes existing in those environments just overall weighted and complicated and tied up in identity politics that are usually contaminated by conservative ideologies. Which when you're an artist, regardless of whether or not you're a writer, painter or actor is complicated.

Plus the area he's from in particular (the Monaro / Snowy Mountains region) is heavily politicised at the moment due to the conversation around brumbies (the Australian word for feral wild horses and the need to cull them), climate change and colonialism. There's a pretty good documentary about it that came out recently if you're interested at all. Here's the trailer:

[whereimnotme]

Photo taken during climate action protest in Canberra, January 2020, featuring another of ScoMo’s tone deaf quotes - ‘thankfully we’ve had no loss of life’ - from that ill-fated small town PR tour.

"Yes, two, that's quite right. I was thinking about firefighters really," said Morrison, before expressing his "sincere condolences" for the 27 lives lost during the ongoing disaster.

Officially, 33 people were ultimately killed directly by fires that summer with another estimated 445 people dying from smoke inhalation.

Meanwhile the PM fucked off to Hawaii on holiday.

I am still incandescent with rage.

I just spent some time scrolling through this blog and am suffering from sever laughter. Thanks so much for collating the countries craziest moments. One of my favourites is when Scott Morrison was in Hawaii while the bushfires where burning.

December 2019: As Australia's east coast is engulfed in the worst bushfires in living memory, rumours begin to circulate that Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison may have secretly fucked off for a holiday in Hawaii.

Keep in mind, this is what is going down in Australia at the time:

The Hawaii rumour is initially written off as a fringe conspiracy, because surely nobody could be that fuckin tonedeaf, and it was quickly forgotten about... until an Australian man visiting Hawaii UPLOADED A SELFIE ON THE BEACH WITH THE PM THROWING A SHAKA.

At which point all hell broke loose.

Overnight the formerly popular "Scomo" became the most despised man in all of Australia. Think "firefighters shouting out of their windows to news cameras" level of despised.

After about two days of radio silence and pretending like he was still at home running the country, the Prime Minister's handlers finally dragged him onto call with an Australian radio station, where he pinky promised to return to Australia as fast as he could in an attempt to calm things down.

Unfortunately Scott's empathy consultant (a real job) then had to watch Scott pour more gasoline on the dumpster fire by uttering the now famous phrase "Look I don't hold a hose mate" when asked by the radio interviewer why the fucking fuck the fuckhead wasn't fucking in Australia doing his fucking job during a massive fucking crisis.

Testing just how much worse things could get, Scomo then proceeded to NOT rush back to Australia as promised, instead attempting to complete the rest of his holiday, a fact that was exposed when a passerby snapped a picture of him still lounging on the beach two days later.

Eventually, holiday complete, Morrison did reluctantly slink back to Australia, and in an attempt to calm things down, he decided to pay a visit to a small town that had been destroyed by the fires.

Which was a big mistake.

Scomo still had not registered how absolutely and totally he had screwed the poodle with his Hawaiian beach vacation, and he walks into what is now taught in PR classes as one of the greatest examples of "what not do do in a crisis" in all of history.

Scotty from Marketing, as he is now dubbed by the nation, spends a painfully cringe-inducing hour wandering around a burned down town with TV news cameras in tow, having to FORCE PEOPLE TO SHAKE HIS HAND in what is some of the most awkward footage you will ever see.

At this point it's probably also worth mentioning that, before becoming Prime Minister, Scott Morrison's biggest claim to fame in politics was being the guy that was so far up the coal lobby's arse that he literally brought coal into parliament and waved it around, claiming it doesn't hurt people.

So when a protest was organised it turned out to be one big national fuck you to the Prime Minister, the likes of which the world has never seen before or since.

Needless to say, at this point Scomo's career was dead in the water, but thanks to the rules brought in to stop Australian political parties from knifing their leader every two weeks (a popular Aussie passtime) Morrison basically couldn't get fired until after the next election.

And so, when the election rolled around in 2022, we decided that was an opportune time to travel over to Hawaii to erect this bad boy tribute to the Prime Minister, on the very beach where Scomo had sat and drank margaritas that one fateful week in December as Australia burned (thanks to @chaser for funding the ticket)

[aptechvisaglobalimmigration]

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The paper blamed his departure from Tent Hill on the blacks. No doubt this was the story Edmund had told for years to cover the catastrophe of Richard Jones' bankruptcy.

He migrated to the Burnett district . . . His ill-luck, however, seemed to follow him, for the catarrh attacked his sheep and destroyed the greater number of them. With the remnant of his fortune, about £1,000, he went to Maryborough, and started the first boiling-down establishment in the district, and was moderately successful.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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[dream-world-universe]

Gudda Gumoo Gorge, Blackdown Tableland, Australia: Blackdown Tableland is a national park in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. The park is in Central Queensland, 576 km northwest of Brisbane. The Blackdown Tableland is a 900 m sandstone plateau rising abruptly from the plains below. Many creeks on the Tableland have developed gorges and waterfalls along their courses, the most notable of which drains in to the spectacular Rainbow Falls (Gudda Gumoo) over a 40 m drop. Wikipedia

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Population data source.

[famousinuniverse]

Noosa Heads Beach, Sunshine Coast, Australia: Noosa is an up-market destination popular for locals and travelers taking in some of Australia's best swimming, dining and shopping. Noosa is located on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, easily accessible from Brisbane. Nosa Main Beach is popular for vacations and summer holidays... The Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban region in South East Queensland, Australia. Wikipedia

[travelmanposts]

Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia: K'gari also known by its former name Fraser Island, is a World Heritage-listed sand island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. The island lies approximately 250 km north of the state capital, Brisbane, and is within the Fraser Coast Region local council area. The world heritage listing includes the island, its surrounding waters and parts of the nearby mainland which make up the Great Sandy National Park. In the 2021 census, the island had a population of 152 people.Up to 500,000 people visit the island each year. Wikipedia

[donovankinard]

LOUIS TOMLINSON LIVE

The Greatest, Live in London. Emails: NZ region.

Face The Music, Live from Nashville. Emails: Aus region.

Bigger Than Me, Live from Vancouver. Emails: India region.

Holding On To Heartache, Live from Barcelona. Emails: Some Asian regions.

We Made It, Live from Manila. Emails: Some Asian Regions

Chicago, Live from Chicago. Emails: Some African Regions

Fearless, Live from Rio De Janeiro.

Common People, Live from Sheffield

All This Time, Live from Munich.

She Is Beauty, We Are World Class, Live from Munich

Walls, Live from Buenos Aires

Written All Over Your Face, Live from Budapest

Out Of My System, Live from Brisbane

Saturdays, Live from Paris

Silver Tongues, Live from Krakow

SNIPPETS:

Some links are to the actual snippet, others are to twitter posts with the audio files/screen recordings!!

http://louistomlinson.os.fan/lt04ty1?

https://louistomlinson.os.fan/lt9uhje3?

https://louistomlinson.os.fan/lt78dn2?

https://louistomlinson.os.fan/p-lt-36-9-y-gfhf-aa?

https://louistomlinson.os.fan/11-e-r-yxzxs-a-4-12?

https://x.com/1ddailyplanet/status/1783182597281005872?s=46

NOTES:

The password required for the app, I suspect will be revealed when all emails have been sent (1AM, BST, on the 25th. 15 hours after the first emails were sent.) but I could be wrong on that front.

The QR code at the O2 just led to the presave page, by the way!

The BG Image of the puzzle is from his show in Tallin!

It’s also worth noting that the O2 video was posted on his instagram and TikTok, but the Milan video didn’t make it to Tiktok…? +LA video??

My intro post has briefly disappeared. Will be back when this man gets his shit sorted. I love him tho.

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[abwwia]

Jan Nelson, Walking in tall grass, Shelby 2, 2011, oil on linen, 79 h cm, 56 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, warwick and Jane Flecknoe Bequest Fund 2015 © Jan Nelson/Copyright Agency

Jan Nelson (born 1955) is an Australian artist who works in sculpture, photography and painting. She is best known for her hyper real images of adolescents. She has exhibited widely in Australia as well as Paris and Brazil. Her works are in the collections of Australian galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, as well as major regional galleries. She represented Australia in the XXV biennale in São Paulo, Brazil.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

New SpaceTime out Wednesday

SpaceTime 20240925 Series 27 Episode 116

Discovery of more black holes than expected in the early universe

A new study using the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered far more supermassive black holes in the early universe that expected.

A new volcano spotted on Jupiter’s moon Io

Astronomers have discovered a new volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io.

Confirming the mass of the W boson

Scientists at CERN -- the European Organization for Nuclear Research -- have confirmed the mass of one of the fundamental forces of physics – the W Boson.

The Science Report

Tea, red wine, berries and even dark chocolate could help reduce the risk of dementia.

Fifty critically endangered night parrots found living in the far east of Western Australia's Pilbara region.

A new study has found that cats show signs of grief when fellow pets die – even dogs.

Alex on Tech: new iphone scam.

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[aus-wnt]

Matildas’ shootout win delivers biggest TV audience since Cathy Freeman

The Matildas have delivered another record-breaking night on and off the field with Saturday night’s penalty-shootout win over France becoming the most-viewed TV event in more than two decades.

The broadcast on Seven was viewed by an average audience of 4.23 million Australians, according to figures from ratings agency OzTAM.

The game’s original slot aired to a five-city metro audience of 2.507 million Australians, rising to 3.045 million during the penalty shoot-out, which ran into Seven’s news slot, with a further regional audience of 1.186 million.

The figure is set to swell even further as overnight OzTAM figures do not account for streaming viewers on Seven’s 7Plus app, which will be released later on Sunday.

The viewing figures eclipse any television broadcast of the past two decades, including AFL and NRL grand finals, Ash Barty’s Australian Open win in 2022 (viewed by 4.1 million), Australia’s 2003 Rugby World Cup loss against England, and Lleyton Hewitt’s 2005 Australian Open final loss.

While data was not tracked at the time by OzTAM, Cathy Freeman’s 400-metre final at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 is reported to have attracted 8.8 million television viewers, making it the most-watched Australian sporting event.

The game, played in front of a packed Brisbane crowd, ended in a stalemate after 90 minutes and extra time, going on to break another record, the longest-ever penalty shootout in both women’s and men’s World Cup history with 20 attempts.

Melbourne handed Seven the biggest share of its audience nationally, 984,000 tuning in from Victoria’s capital, narrowly ahead of Sydney on 931,000, while 513,000 watched from Brisbane.

The fanfare around the Matildas reached new highs this week, the AFL and its stadiums agreeing to air Optus Sport live streams in stadiums before and after Saturday’s fixtures, with crowds in stadiums continuing to watch the coverage as the shootout ran into the first quarter of a Melbourne and Carlton clash at the MCG.

The figure eclipses Monday’s round-of-16 game against Denmark, which was viewed by a metro audience of 2.294 million, and was then the biggest television audience of 2023.

Seven has sublicenced 15 games from Optus Sport, the tournament’s official broadcast partner. The record-breaking viewership figures making the deal a steal for Seven, which picked up for less than $5 million, according to a source with knowledge of the deal who was not permitted to speak publicly.

Optus Sport, the official broadcaster of the tournament on Sunday morning said the World Cup has delivered the platform’s biggest ever four-week period.

Clive Dickens, vice president of television, content and product development at Optus, said the result is a credit to the quality of athletes and football at the tournament.

“Three of the FIFA Women’s World Cup matches have jumped into the top five most-streamed games on Optus Sport, out of a total 6000 live matches in our history.