Judy King
@judyking.bsky.social
Family historian (Dip Fam Hist UTAS), retired librarian, grandmother, AFOL, Australian, photos my own
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The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
So many teenagers learn about the big stories through TikTok and Instagram. They won’t suddenly turn to newspapers and TV bulletins
The social media ban for under-16s is going to stop teenagers from watching a lot of things: clips from their favourite shows, sports highlights, gaming reviews and just about anything else you can imagine.
What hasn’t been discussed much is the impact it will have on young people’s ability to access news and information. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
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Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate.
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate.
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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Here's an idea, Minister Watt, activate your heart and spine, respect the advice of environment, climate and conservation experts, and work with the Greens to get the EPBC Act reform package passed. Your job is to be Minister 'for' the environment, remember?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Coalition sours over proposed reform to 'broken' environment laws
Optimism that a deal can be found to amend Australia's environment laws fades, as the Coalition raises concerns over details just days after parts of the legislation were shared with stakeholders.
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Here's an idea, Minister Watt, activate your heart and spine, respect the advice of environment, climate and conservation experts, and work with the Greens to get the EPBC Act reform package passed. Your job is to be Minister 'for' the environment, remember?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/top-100-books-radio-national-trent-dalton-numbers/105876550
What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers
The winner for the Top 100 Books has been announced. What do the votes behind it say about us?
www.abc.net.au
October 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/top-100-books-radio-national-trent-dalton-numbers/105876550
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Archives in the news!
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social
#archives #digipres
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social
#archives #digipres
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
www.bbc.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Archives in the news!
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social
#archives #digipres
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social
#archives #digipres
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Nah, you just feel like a stranger in contemporary Australia because of your own outdated dinosaur Liberal views, Andrew Hastie. They have no place here. We’re not afraid of migrants, because they are us. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Hastie taunted over claim that Australians are 'strangers in our own home'
The home affairs minister says Andrew Hastie should name which visa classes he would cut after the shadow home affairs minister suggested "unsustainable" immigration was making Australians "feel like ...
www.abc.net.au
September 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Nah, you just feel like a stranger in contemporary Australia because of your own outdated dinosaur Liberal views, Andrew Hastie. They have no place here. We’re not afraid of migrants, because they are us. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now
Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now
We want to hear which Australian birds you think should be shortlisted for the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll next month
Which of the 830 bird species that call Australia home (or at least one of their homes) should make it into the 2025 Australian bird of the year poll?
Australia has the greatest diversity of avian life in the world, home to nearly one in 10 of the world’s 10,000 living bird species. And we love to celebrate it. Australians are renowned for admiring our beautiful, bountiful and boisterous birds. And nothing highlights that more than the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll, held every two years, when birdlovers around the country battle it out to see their favourite feathered friend take the crown as best bird. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now
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“If the most prestigious university in Australia will not fund our most prestigious literary journal, then it makes you question whether or not universities actually care about Australian culture.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin
After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, is closing.
johnmenadue.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“If the most prestigious university in Australia will not fund our most prestigious literary journal, then it makes you question whether or not universities actually care about Australian culture.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
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And this is a real thing! Of all the things reading can be, first it has to be pleasurable, and entertaining, and engaging, otherwise people will do something else with their time. And pleasure reading begets more reading, or at least, more than the reading that feels like dutiful homework.
I was a high school English teacher for years. After studying and teaching classics, every time I picked up another "important" novel it felt like work. I stopped reading for pleasure.
Then one day I picked up a Star Wars novel, and I'm back to having a stack of books on the floor next to my bed.
Then one day I picked up a Star Wars novel, and I'm back to having a stack of books on the floor next to my bed.
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And this is a real thing! Of all the things reading can be, first it has to be pleasurable, and entertaining, and engaging, otherwise people will do something else with their time. And pleasure reading begets more reading, or at least, more than the reading that feels like dutiful homework.
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🧵I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about kindness since I've moved here to Aotearoa New Zealand and would like to share some thoughts. (Please bear with me!):
1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.
1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
🧵I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about kindness since I've moved here to Aotearoa New Zealand and would like to share some thoughts. (Please bear with me!):
1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.
1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.
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"It has been so long since we have not had culture wars or grievances dominating our politics — or its undertones — it is hard to imagine what it might look like.
It opens up the scope for rational discussion about policy at a time when we need it."
– Laura Tingle
#AusVotes
#AusPol
It opens up the scope for rational discussion about policy at a time when we need it."
– Laura Tingle
#AusVotes
#AusPol
Beyond Dutton's loss, this is a chance for a new type of politics in Australia
The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.
www.abc.net.au
May 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Thank you Antony Green, for teaching me about Australian politics, and the importance of preferences. Thank you also for introducing my kids to the joy that is the voting geekdom.
Can't wait to see your analysis in the coming days. Happy retirement!
#thankyouAntonyGreen #auspol #AustraliaVotes2025
Can't wait to see your analysis in the coming days. Happy retirement!
#thankyouAntonyGreen #auspol #AustraliaVotes2025
May 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Thank you Antony Green, for teaching me about Australian politics, and the importance of preferences. Thank you also for introducing my kids to the joy that is the voting geekdom.
Can't wait to see your analysis in the coming days. Happy retirement!
#thankyouAntonyGreen #auspol #AustraliaVotes2025
Can't wait to see your analysis in the coming days. Happy retirement!
#thankyouAntonyGreen #auspol #AustraliaVotes2025
If you or someone you know needs a refresher on how the Australian preferential voting system works, now is the time to check out Dennis the Election Koala! #auspol www.chickennation.com/voting/
You Can’t ‘Waste’ Your Vote! – Patrick Alexander’s Personal Internet
www.chickennation.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
If you or someone you know needs a refresher on how the Australian preferential voting system works, now is the time to check out Dennis the Election Koala! #auspol www.chickennation.com/voting/
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It’s a week till election night. Next Saturday also marks a huge end of an era with the last election for @antonygreenelec.bsky.social. What a marvellous service he has done for the nation. I propose a minute’s silence from politics nerds around the country to give him thanks. #auspol ⭐️
April 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It’s a week till election night. Next Saturday also marks a huge end of an era with the last election for @antonygreenelec.bsky.social. What a marvellous service he has done for the nation. I propose a minute’s silence from politics nerds around the country to give him thanks. #auspol ⭐️
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Albanese won't do a deal with the Greens. He doesn't need to.
Minority govt just means having to negotiate on every bit of legislation. It doesn't mean you need to have some deal in place. Some of the independents might try to get something for their support. Big whoop. So they should.
Minority govt just means having to negotiate on every bit of legislation. It doesn't mean you need to have some deal in place. Some of the independents might try to get something for their support. Big whoop. So they should.
Suggesting that a hung parliament means another election is SO F*CKING DUMB.
There won't be another election, the Greens and independents would just decide who they will support in no-confidence motions should that ever happen.
You don't need to do a deal at all. #leadersdebate
There won't be another election, the Greens and independents would just decide who they will support in no-confidence motions should that ever happen.
You don't need to do a deal at all. #leadersdebate
April 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Albanese won't do a deal with the Greens. He doesn't need to.
Minority govt just means having to negotiate on every bit of legislation. It doesn't mean you need to have some deal in place. Some of the independents might try to get something for their support. Big whoop. So they should.
Minority govt just means having to negotiate on every bit of legislation. It doesn't mean you need to have some deal in place. Some of the independents might try to get something for their support. Big whoop. So they should.
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Given how much more fucked up the world is about to get, the question isn't are you better off than you were three years ago - it's what do you think the next three years are going to be like and who do you want making the decisions? And that's not just about a PM, but the whole parliament.
April 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Given how much more fucked up the world is about to get, the question isn't are you better off than you were three years ago - it's what do you think the next three years are going to be like and who do you want making the decisions? And that's not just about a PM, but the whole parliament.
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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
April 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
This is a brilliant online resource, a guided tour in the Central Outback, featured in the Guardian article cdht.stqry.app #genealogy #familyhistory
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Crushed by rabbits, bolting horses and childhood illness: the stories buried in outback NSW cemeteries
Historians have shared research on 106 gravestones to a mobile heritage app covering the far west towns of Menindee, Wilcannia, Ivanhoe and White Cliffs
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is a brilliant online resource, a guided tour in the Central Outback, featured in the Guardian article cdht.stqry.app #genealogy #familyhistory
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Dutton mentioned the word 'nuclear' just twice in his budget reply speech. Wasn't nuclear meant to be the fix for all of Australia's woes? Now it's left in the back cupboard. He's a snake oil salesman jumping from one 'miracle cure' to another. #auspol
Numbers don’t lie: $0 for nuclear, $1.3bn for polluting gas and bucketloads of climate harm in Opposition’s budget reply | Climate Council
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s budget reply details the Liberal-National Party’s polluting policies on energy and climate change.
www.climatecouncil.org.au
March 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Dutton mentioned the word 'nuclear' just twice in his budget reply speech. Wasn't nuclear meant to be the fix for all of Australia's woes? Now it's left in the back cupboard. He's a snake oil salesman jumping from one 'miracle cure' to another. #auspol
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Please estroy this myth and share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited. #Genealogy #History #Library
February 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Please estroy this myth and share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited. #Genealogy #History #Library
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Sad and befuddling news. The NLA has removed digital historian Tim Sherratt’s Trove API access - threatening the award-winning work Tim has done over 15 years to highlight the possibilities of Trove data. Read more updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y... 🗃️
15 years of work on Trove threatened by the NLA
On Friday, without warning, I received an email from the National Library of Australia informing me that my Trove API keys had been suspended. This threatens the future of 15 years of work helping peo...
updates.timsherratt.org
February 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Sad and befuddling news. The NLA has removed digital historian Tim Sherratt’s Trove API access - threatening the award-winning work Tim has done over 15 years to highlight the possibilities of Trove data. Read more updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y... 🗃️
Still keeping up with #52Ancestors blog posts this year, short pieces about various people on my family trees in response to the weekly prompts from @amyjohnsoncrow.bsky.social eightandmore.wordpress.com/blog
February 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Still keeping up with #52Ancestors blog posts this year, short pieces about various people on my family trees in response to the weekly prompts from @amyjohnsoncrow.bsky.social eightandmore.wordpress.com/blog
This article itself is a wonderful read!
‘You do not suddenly start needing philosophy on your eighteenth birthday: you have always needed it. Fantasy is philosophy’s more gorgeously painted cousin.’
Katherine Rundell on children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell on children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children have not yet built wide hinterlands: to them, the world is still opaque and full of necessary bewilderment....
www.lrb.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This article itself is a wonderful read!
Dunes and sand and sea and a whispy clouded sky
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Dunes and sand and sea and a whispy clouded sky