Calla Wahlquist
banner
callawahlquist.bsky.social
Calla Wahlquist
@callawahlquist.bsky.social
Rural and regional editor, Guardian Australia. Frequent horse nonsense. Live and work on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
It’s all a lie, he is filthy despite my spending 45 minutes brushing him last night - but so long as you don’t actually touch him you’d never know!
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Yes I think zooming in on the tail that’s what it is - it’s just a particularly big one! Both on the bigger side and all puffed up
September 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I was so confident it was an owl but now am unsure
September 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is it the coffee machine one? That’s really done the rounds!
September 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Day two of this series is a deep dive on the Bootenal massacre, with families on both sides coming together to listen and shed what Naaguja elder Theona Councillor calls the “comfortable untruth”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Families unite at site of massacre in Western Australia: ‘Something spoke through me’
More than 170 years after shocking bloodshed at Bootenal Springs, there is at last a reckoning
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Reposted by Calla Wahlquist
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
Ariat boots are expensive and not up to the thrashing I give my farm boots! These Blundstones are only 12 months old. (My riding boots are Dublin because I’m cheap but I do have Ariat half chaps)
May 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
They do probably stink of horse piss too much to be worn anywhere I’m representing the Guardian so this may be for the best.
May 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This is genuinely lovely and Antony looks like he will explode with embarrassment
May 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ah Keating sent an email, on letterhead of I’m sure.
May 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM