Calla Wahlquist
@callawahlquist.bsky.social
Rural and regional editor, Guardian Australia. Frequent horse nonsense. Live and work on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
Doesn’t he look so handsome?
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Doesn’t he look so handsome?
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This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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October 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Birders - what have I got here? We’re near Kyneton in the Macedon ranges. No beak visible. Initially thought it was a wattlebird but much rounder than that?
September 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Birders - what have I got here? We’re near Kyneton in the Macedon ranges. No beak visible. Initially thought it was a wattlebird but much rounder than that?
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MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths
August 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths
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“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” - @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor
The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard
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August 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” - @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I once tracked down the story of a famous photo that gets shared on Invasion Day for a job and spoke to someone who ran a historical society in the area where the violence took place. I explained how colonist diaries I found described what they were doing as war; she said I was "being political".
August 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I once tracked down the story of a famous photo that gets shared on Invasion Day for a job and spoke to someone who ran a historical society in the area where the violence took place. I explained how colonist diaries I found described what they were doing as war; she said I was "being political".
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This is an insanely good and important read. Top shelf journalism.
So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
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August 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is an insanely good and important read. Top shelf journalism.
So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Do read our extraordinary investigation into the coded diaries of a Western Australian settler. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Do read our extraordinary investigation into the coded diaries of a Western Australian settler. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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March for humanity
August 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
March for humanity
Our reversing camera is out of action so I’m quite pleased with this attempt, which would have been one and done had I had the traditional assistance of a bored teenager or random old bloke making stop/go hands.
May 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Our reversing camera is out of action so I’m quite pleased with this attempt, which would have been one and done had I had the traditional assistance of a bored teenager or random old bloke making stop/go hands.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
In devastating news I might have to go to a Very Rural Event tomorrow not only in the town car (because we don’t drive the ute unless we have to, for reasons of both cost and planet) but in town boots, because these guys have given up.
May 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
In devastating news I might have to go to a Very Rural Event tomorrow not only in the town car (because we don’t drive the ute unless we have to, for reasons of both cost and planet) but in town boots, because these guys have given up.
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For those wondering who this Keith Wolahan character is, here's the background:
OPINION: Keith Wolahan's disappointing position on Indigenous rights
OPINION: A video recording of a talk given to the Samuel Griffith Society in 2017 shows Wolahan lay out his opposition for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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May 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
For those wondering who this Keith Wolahan character is, here's the background:
Really don’t love that Albanese threw out the acknowledgment as a victory moment then but didn’t actually say whose land he was on. Are you saying it as a gotcha to the Coalition or a genuine show of respect? #auspol
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Really don’t love that Albanese threw out the acknowledgment as a victory moment then but didn’t actually say whose land he was on. Are you saying it as a gotcha to the Coalition or a genuine show of respect? #auspol
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PS, this is for the next day or two, when all the conservatives start melting down on Sky News
May 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
PS, this is for the next day or two, when all the conservatives start melting down on Sky News
Don’t mind me, just crying over Boyd Martin being named world number 1 in eventing.
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May 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Don’t mind me, just crying over Boyd Martin being named world number 1 in eventing.
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A column
A look at where we are at the end of the campaign. Whatever happens, some big stuff lies ahead.
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A look at where we are at the end of the campaign. Whatever happens, some big stuff lies ahead.
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A climate election? The Coalition wants to take Australia backwards, while Labor is standing still
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A climate election? The Coalition wants to take Australia backwards, while Labor is standing still | Clear Air
Depending on where things end up after Saturday, the biggest climate push may come from the crossbench
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May 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A column
A look at where we are at the end of the campaign. Whatever happens, some big stuff lies ahead.
bsky.app/profile/adam...
A look at where we are at the end of the campaign. Whatever happens, some big stuff lies ahead.
bsky.app/profile/adam...
0.6C in Malmsbury this morning, that’s *almost* a frost.
May 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
0.6C in Malmsbury this morning, that’s *almost* a frost.
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Guardian Australia's election editorial
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The Guardian view on Australia’s federal election: progressives must vote strategically
Anthony Albanese has delivered steady, gradual reform – but a minority government might force Labor to push through bolder solutions
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May 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Guardian Australia's election editorial
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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