#special australia

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Give it a moment. You'll get it.

Others in the campaign here.

Agency: Special, Australia.

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“He’s almost got a better defence than a Pom, am I allowed to say that?” (x, x, x, x, x) OSCAR PIASTRI JOINS AN AUSTRALIA TRAINING SESSION AT LORD'S AHEAD OF THE SECOND MEN'S ASHES TEST 2023

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A while ago, I posted a petition, to stop the closing of a much loved museum, Syndeys Powerhouse museum, a place that's been under threat for years.

I need your help with this once again, (especially if you are an Aussie)

After years of threatening to close down and demolish our only science, tech and applied arts museum, and one attempt to turn it into an events center, they've come back with another plan, which basically amounts to "we're going to clear out the museum and demolish most of the structures inside. We definitely have a plan to put some cool stuff back, but we can't tell you it, but it's definitely gonna be great. Don't mind that a bunch of purpose built structures to display delicate objects are set to be demolished."

(That's an F1 Apollo rocket engine, very rare outside the USA. Almost 60 years old, now delicate, but it's going.)

"We've garunteed 3 of the most iconic items (not their accompanying collections) will come back. Pay no mind that we haven't allowed for where they're gonna go, or that the one object we can't move (rare, 250 year old working Boulton and Watts steam engine) is set to end up inside a corridor)

(There used to be room, elevated planforms even)

"Oh, also, you know that museum storage hall, so close by and practical, with a loading dock and workshops, that's also sitting on prime real estate? We're building a second loading dock and workshops in the main museum! Right where the all classrooms where!"

It's supposedly a heritage restoration, but in truth, it's based of a skewed heritage report which has been heavily criticised as I'll informed, and rigged to allow the place's removal.

Almost every detail goes against the spirit of the original musuem. The orginal museum was a fun, post modern place with a sciencey vibe,

Which transitioned fluidly into historic halls, with historic products and technology to match

The Musuem has an upper entrance designed to be welcoming, full of natural light, and evoke the feel of an old grand train station. This is to be bricked up.

Rather than restore the older galleries, theyre taking several of them out reducing display space from about 15,000m²ish to about 6000m² ish.

The historic halls included restored generator room filler with steam engines. This really put the museum on the map.

But that's going.

All that is going, in favour of

This kind of thing.

The plan to do this is on display untill end of may May 30th, Aussie time. It would help a lot if you (might be only Australians) log on and make a short comment opposing the project:

A lot more commentary on the project can be found at:

@protecpowerhous on Twitter

Or if you cant make a submission, and still haven't, please sign that petition:

The people reporting to government planning will be see it, and attention helps.

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FPV Super Pursuit Cobra Ute, 2008. In addition to the 400 Cobra R-Spec saloons Ford Performance Vehicles also produced 100 utes (pick-ups) the wore neither GT nor R-Spec badges though the had the same 405hp Boss V8 as the saloon.

[turnaboutstar]

autistic people when there's collectable things with tv shows with multiple generations of them:

[bloosemood]

so hold on, it will pass

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and, behold, the whole herd ran violently down a steep bank into the lake, and perished in the waters.

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Special Buddy

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The hottest Hugh Jackman character (in my opinion) has to be The Drover from Faraway Downs.

I looked up that movie (it was also under the name "Australia") and...

I can see your point 🥵🥵🥵

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Oasis - Champagne Supernova

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📍 MELBOURNE: George Russell, professional - and very enthusiastic - cap thrower

[georgiasbrainstuff]

4 Ferrari wins = 4 Italian Anthems

This is cursed. I had a completely different plan, but then I created this chaos. I hope I will be able to add to this video by the end of the season.

[nullnvoid911]

Australian Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan.

CPL Chris Moore, October 24, 2010

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Chrysler Drifter, 1977. Though both Ford and GM (Holden) had made panel van versions of their Utes (sedan-based pick-ups) from the 1960s, Chrysler came late to the market. The CL series panel van arrived in April 1977 and was soon marketed as a Drifter aimed squarely at the surfer market. The fun didn't last, when the CM series replaced the CL in November 1978 the panel van and the Drifter models disappeared from the range.

[thenixkat]

that 'humans are space orcs'/'earth is space australia' thing really aggravates me.

In one part b/c of the aftertaste of whiteness the folks writing it tend to have (where the majority of what they put as 'universal' human culture is straight-up white shit a lot of the time) Especially the all humans are the same shit just, no. Very no. Like, there's implications if humans do only have one culture/language/etc in yer setting b/c it implies someone did some genociding and forced assimilation.

And the other part being that I have a Biology degree and like?

Austrailia isn't actually that extreme or that different from anywhere else on Earth. Humans are litterally not unique even on this planet, we're just the only homos left (for now, we won't exist forever. the lifespan of species, especially mammals isn't terribly long comparitively speaking). Humans aren't the only species on this planet that uses fire, or washes food, or wears things, or uses tools to hunt, or even the only things to throw spears, or drasticlly change the envornment to suit our needs, or do agriculture.

-> Convergent evolution is a thing. More likely than not alien visitors would probably have run into something similar to us at some point.

-> Anywhere where life exists, life competes and fills niches. Any alien world would very likely be just as much a 'death world' b/c predator/prey/parasite/disease interactions tend to make shit weird and dangerous.

(side note: All worlds are fucking death worlds, just in general. If a planet has life shit dies, if a planet doesnt have life then introduced life will die without protections b/c its native conditions arent fucking compatible with life)

Another part is the inherant lazy writing these people do for their aliens.

And also I just don't care for Human Exceptionalism. Just in general. especially when fuckers who think that Human Unexceptionalism has been a trend when they're talking about shit that uses the Human as Normal/the EVeryman trope and ??? that's still fucking human exceptionalism to make humans the baseline and every other species the weird/different ones

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Jeremy's cackle 🤍

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