9 women killed by male violence in the last 18 days in Australia.

A woman killed every two days on average.

Where are the emergency Roundtables for women dying, bringing together the best minds to find solutions to this epidemic?

There are none.

This is a crisis FFS.

Who doesn't love clouds? But how can an artist depict fascinating ethereal clouds? Here's artist Nikki McClure's exploration about adapting Rachel Carson's 1956 Script into Picture Book publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/ch… via @publisherswkly

#BREAKING 🚨 Israel strikes Iran | #6NewsAU

It's #WorldHeritageDay ! In 2017, caves from the #IceAge on the Swabian Jura became UNESCO World Heritage Site. Humanity's earliest portable art was found in those caves. The tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figure of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory.... 1/2

Gross comment overheard from one of the hotel staff - the hotel that the Uni has booked over the past few years for the students in Mum’s Indigenous Language and Culture degree - one of the staff said “don’t worry, things will go back to normal when the monkeys go home.”

Once every few years, the Namibian desert experiences what is known as the Sandhof lily bloom.

The lily bulbs sit in the clay beneath the desert floor, waiting patiently for years some centimers of rainfall.

[📹Kyle Goetsch]

Israeli minister Ben Gvir calls for execution of Palestinian prisoners to ease overcrowding middleeasteye.net/news/israel-it…

The Middle East is on a precipice.

The international community must work together to prevent any actions that could push the entire region over the edge, with a devastating impact on civilians.

It is high time to end the bloody cycle of retaliation.

It is high time to stop.

This 1841 watercolour is a painting by writer of 'Wuthering Heights' Emily Brontë. It depicts her pet merlin The bird of prey was rescued from the moors near her home and Brontë named the bird 'Nero'. The Brontë siblings all had good skills in art. #WomensArt

Grand Coalition of ‘dig it up & cut it down’ Laborials are not sleep-walking into the climate & extinction crisis, they are deliberately running towards it by locking in native forest logging at a time when destruction must end. #politas
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More women have been killed by male violence since April 1st than all deaths by terrorism in last 9 years, yet guess which one has an emergency security cabinet meeting right now in response and which one doesn’t?😤

The safety of women should be a national security priority.

Bologna Book Fair 2024 - where the world's children's stories (in books) are shared, bought and sold by publishers - here's how war left a mark on Bologna this year publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/ch… via @publisherswkly

#SNGGThatJob Uni of New England #ArmidaleNSWJob

Copyright Specialist,
University of New England

Full Time (Ongoing)

Close Date: 28/4/24

More Info:
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Walmart caught selling meat labeled at more than double its actual weight!

The public comment period for Empire Energy's latest frack plan, which will drain nearly one billion litres of groundwater, ends today.

But Tanya Plibersek's new water trigger won't apply. Why? Because Empire has decided it doesn't want it to.

More ⤵️

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Prioritising narrow political self-interest ahead of fixing our broken environment laws is a short-sighted misjudgement.

The Labor govt committed to comprehensive reform to fix our enviro laws this term and they must deliver on this.
afr.com/politics/feder…

Bolivia at the United Nations Security Council today:

“Clearly Israel has decided to disavow the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, of international law, of human rights, in order to perpetrate a genocide against the Palestinian people.” 🇧🇴

We have a crisis of male violence in Australia. It is a scourge in our society and it must end.

To create lasting change, women cannot be expected to solve violence against women alone. It’s time for men to step up.
theage.com.au/politics/feder…

Today Speaker Sexton had a mother arrested in the gallery while holding a sign opposing more guns in schools.

Each day he grows more drunk with power, and is enabled by an extremist supermajority complicit in his authoritarianism.

We are witnessing the death of our democracy.

Caveat Emptor: please avoid 'responsibly farmed' salmon from Norway & Scotland sold Aldi Stores UK
If you have any examples of false green claims or deceptive labelling please share - more details via scottishscamon.co.uk/news