#the australian

[myhughniverse]

Kylie Minogue - via social media - "Hi from LA! 🌳🏰🌞" Christian Vermaak, The Australian, Chateau Marmont, Frank Strachan"

[sweetdreamsjeff]

Searchers fail to find Jeff Buckley

Date: June 2, 1997

From: The Australian (National, Australia)

Publisher: News Limited

Document Type: Brief article

MEMPHIS: Heavy rain hampered a search yesterday for singer Jeff Buckley, who vanished on Thursday while swimming in the Mississippi River.

Police boats searched for Buckley but it was too dangerous for divers.

Buckley, 30, disappeared on Thursday night after he and a friend went to Memphis harbour with a portable stereo player and a guitar, said Major Jim Tusant, of the Memphis police.

Major Tusant said Buckley had waded into the river fully clothed and began to sing and swim on his back.

Buckley was signed with Columbia Records and had been in Memphis since February working at a recording studio. Described as a folk singer, his music had gravitated more towards rock.

Critics had compared his sweeping voice to that of Van Morrison and his bombastic lyrics to those of Led Zeppelin.

His 1994 album, Grace, yielded the alternative hit, Last Goodbye, and he contributed to Patti Smith's 1996 album, Gone Again.

Buckley is the son of songwriter Tim Buckley, who died of a drug overdose in 1975, and was best known for his 1967 album, Goodbye and Hello.

[pigeonsplease]

[areawest]

[pencildragons]

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

[passerkirbius]

So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

[acrowseye]

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

[aressida]

[myhughniverse]

The Australian - via social media - "Riding a career high, ‘Min’ (as her mates call her) has proven she’s still got what it takes. In her fifth act, the tiny singer has finally made it big in America. How did she do it?"

[autisticexpression2]

Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Māori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

[tenth-sentence]

He and his wife arrived in Sydney on the day that The Australian carried a lead business article suggesting that Westpac had found a new chief executive.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[pigeonsplease]

Hey Aussies, do you want your real name and ID slapped on your tumblr account? If the answer is fuck no, our gov’s got a upcoming legislation for banning 16 year olds and under from social media even WITH parental consent. And by “Social Media”…

The code defines social media as electronic services that meet the following conditions:

The sole or primary purpose of the service is to enable online social interaction between two or more end users

The service allows end users to link to, or interact with, some or all other end users

The service allows end users to post material on the service

Such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules.

So. You know. Just the entire fucking internet. They even named youtube as banned, god forbid kids out in the bush get access to LGBTQ+ communities online when they could be watching adds for sportsbet.

I am 100 per cent supportive of eliminating bullying and fake information from online platforms. The easiest way to do that is to be able to utilise existing laws, and the easiest way to do that is to ensure there are no fake accounts. Your digital, online life is your real life. If you want to make comments, that's fine, but it should be as you, as a verified account. This means everyone knows who it is that makes those comments, that you can be found and prosecuted under existing laws, just as you would if you express those opinions in a newspaper, for example, or you went on to a television station and said something similar.

Contact an Aussie senator about this shit. They’re trying to slide it under all the USpol news.

[areawest]

ok I’m trying to see something here

[habken]

barkudeku

[ayeforscotland]

‘King’ Charles is in Australia and has just had the end of his speech interrupted by Senator Lidia Thorpe who shouted “You are not our King, this is not your land” and demanded he apologise for the atrocities the British empire committed in Australia.