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Parks and Playgrounds Movement established 1930s. Brought to Newcastle in 1952 by R.E. Farrell. Continues to safeguard our Natural and Cultural Heritage.
http://parksandplaygroundsmovement.blogspot.com/
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High impact for US but not in mainstream news.
So in 2026, the USPS will no longer process mail as it comes in. It will process mail when they feel like it. So they can deliver a letter or a package a month later. The Convicted FElon is doing this to prevent mail-in voting without outlawing it. He doesn't want the Democrats to win the Midterms.
January 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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#AlanMoir - starting 2026 in true style
January 1, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Humanity and our natural living world is in a difficult place. We rely on sovereign governments to learn how to control the Corporate Entities they have created.
These Corporations have perpetual existence & can capture politicians and outlive humanity as they drive the worsening climate impacts.
January 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Bring back Twitter
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Mainstream media is understandably hesitant to report these events , however Youtube is happy to evidence how Trump challenges are growing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecMS...
Trump FREAKS OUT after Admiral STRIKES BACK HARD
YouTube video by Players Unlimited - Media
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Today is the anniversary of when the Space Age was thrust on the World by the Soviet Union with the launch on4th October 1957 of Sputnik 1. America was planning to launch a satellite rocket for the IGY 1957-8.
October 4, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Science Week.
David F Martyn, Australia’s Upper-Atmosphere scientist who brought Radar to Australia in WW2 delivered 1st ABC lecture Series 1959 “Society in the Space Age”.

He explained Scientists during IGY 1957-8 discovered Global Warming & started measuring atmospheric CO2 .

Decarbonisation Now
August 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Palestine is now to have Australia recognise their State along with other States in the World & have a voice at the General Assembly of the United Nations.
This of course should have occurred long ago.

We hope this, with release of hostages could encourage both States to act peacefully.
August 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I recently read Rick Morton’s reporting on the rotten heart of Scott Morison’s Robodebt scheme that wrecked lives of honest People.

Last week ABC 4Corners revealed the GST Tax Return Scam for fraudsters.

An effective Aust Public Service needs to be resurrected from the damage of LNP years.
August 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
‘Mean Streak’ by Rick Morton. An important book to understand the systemic rotten behaviour of our ScoMo LNP Government & Public Service people that allowed the dishonourable, Faulty & Unlawful Robodebt raising system to continue until June 2020.
August 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
NSW Environmental Planning & assessment Act hasbecome worthless when a State proposal is involved. The Transport NSW projects Inner Newcastle Bypass destroyed it’s only promised wildlife creek & Hunter R Crossing foolishly spoiled Botanic Garden entrance etc with no professional Landscape control.
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A clear opinion of what we see of Albanese Government by Ross Gittins SMH after a resounding win at the 2025 election. All we see is his winning small target policy extending long into the future. I think I remember Albo saying he aimed to be elected and staying elected.
June 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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With its near historic mandate, the Albanese government is "extending a gas project that will pillage Indigenous lands and add substantially to the irreversible heating of the planet. It is almost cartoonish in its depravity." @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...
An oink of pure greed
Murray Watt didn’t need to consider climate change. The law didn’t ask him to, because for three years Labor has been stalling on laws that would. In a triumph of his own party’s inaction, his first d...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
May 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
PM Albanese had a great electoral win against opposition. They had no credible Climate Policy.

ALBO has now shown his own ignorance of need for Climate Policy.

Earth’s Atmospheric Carbon-dioxide has been continuously rising since accurate measured started 1958 after Global Warming was identified.
Policy.to
May 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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OUTRAGEOUS, and if any cash is in circulation by then, it's likely a tenor or a lobster will be the smallest denominator.
a man with glasses and a beard is sitting in front of a wall with the word well on it
ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is sitting in front of a wall with the word well on it
media.tenor.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Even in Australia our National & Liberal Party’s haven’t realised this yet.
May 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Time to accentuate the positive. Our Earth home is in trouble. Global Warming first officially identified 1957-8 IGY & measurement of atmospheric CO2 commenced.
It has only increased year by year as National States take no real action to halt Carbon pollution.
We must aim for a clean green world.
May 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
ACF statement is a thoughtful summing up of the 2025 Albanese victory and underlying reason for the wipe-out of the NLP.
In this day and age there is no future for a Government that has no credible Decarbonisation & Environmental Protection policy.
May 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Earth bats last, and no matter how galactically stupid or violent our politics and squabbles become - it will all reduce to trivial nonsense when our excess finally snaps the last threads still holding resilient ecosystems in tact. You don’t miss the water til the well runs dry.
April 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
April 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Over the last four years, multinational gas companies made $170 billion exporting gas they got for free.

It's a fantastic deal for Big Gas, and a terrible deal for Australians.

Time to fix this. Add your name > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...
April 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Here is an AI summary of Chapter 1 of "Vicarious Trauma and Burnout in Law" just published by Routledge.
app.heygen.com/share/8fc1b7...
Trauma & Resilience
Make videos as simply as making PowerPoints. HeyGen is an online video tool with AI talking avatar that unleash people's creativity by removing the costly barriers of traditional video shooting and ed...
app.heygen.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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You cannot trust The Thug and his gang with the public service. This is the mob that brought us Robodebt.
Labor says Dutton’s public service cuts are from the ‘DOGE’ handbook. Here’s where jobs could go
Just 7000 new public service jobs have been created in Canberra under Labor, forcing the Coalition to cut 34,000 jobs from the rest of Australia or gut the capital.
www.smh.com.au
April 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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“Australians have long been told that hosting U.S. military bases makes the country safer, but at what cost?”

theaimn.net/how-us-milit...
How US Military Bases in Australia Threaten Our Future & How to Remove Them
US military bases in Australia endanger our environment and security. Discover the damage they cause and what we can do about it.
theaimn.net
March 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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