I didn't read it that way. Sounds like for whatever reason the RMIT partnership is ending but ABC is going to carry on with it on their own.
This is probably a bad development. RMIT gave the work an extra sense of rigour and independence. It meant liberals and nationals, and conservatives in general couldn't dismiss their work as just more ABC lefty commie wokeratti greenie stuff, as so many of those people reflexively do now.
The ABC should immediately start looking for a new partner of similar calibre in this ongoing endeavour.
Over millions of years, a stable climate helped create this biodiversity hotspot. Climate change now threatens it.
Conservationists' efforts to protect a swathe of significant wetlands in Perth's south-east take a hit with a local council looking set to push on with plans for industrial park, despite concerns raised by the Environmental Protection Authority.
I'd rather chill in the spirit world. Maybe spend a few years lost in the fog of lost souls, go hang with Hei Bai, attack some rando's cause someones been breakin trees, end most nights catching up on some reading at Wan Shi's library. I'd avoid the face stealer, cause that ones a dick! Probably drop in on Iroh once in a while for an injection of wisdom in my life.
Spirit world is where its at.
A new playground has officially opened at Serpentine Dam, inspired by the surrounding natural landscape. As well as the new playground, the recreation
For all the parents of young kids new playground at serpentine dam. They're calling it a nature playground. Might be a good lunch spot.
I've seen a few like this they seem quute nice.
Not sure what you mean, but its Wine Australia doing leadership workshops down in Margaret River region.
But, judging by the downvotes, i'm not sure people are lovin the wine industry news lol :p
Maybe its supposed to be, "Out with the teapot in with the mug"?
A little update from the reasons for closure of the Guildford cafe, "Poste"
OG link, https://aussie.zone/post/10550030
Couple quotes from this article,
> We generally as a rule do not object nor support an application (but) simply put in a submission pointing out where it does and doesn’t fit in within the city’s planning guidelines – from the R codes and the local area policies – that’s what we do,’’ she said.
> Swan chief executive officer Stephen Cain said city staff had sought to work collaboratively with the café owners providing guidance and extensions along the way. “It was the decision of the owners not to lodge the development application that could have resolved their non-compliance,’’ he said.
I'm leaning towards this story being a disgruntled failing business owner wanting to lob some manure to save their own feelings of embarrassment as they exit the business. The thing is, the business owner should hold their heads high, they ran a business for a good few years and they had a go! No shame in that.
From 3 July, fifteen dynamic and skilled members of the Margaret River grape and wine community will embark on the Next Crop program, which aims to empower emerging leaders within the region to enhance their leadership capacity for their businesses and our overall regional development. The professio...
Been a bit partial to vanilla icecream with one of those mini nonnas apple pies lately. If i'm feeling adventurous, a bit a custard to.
A full-size Stonehenge replica on Western Australia's south coast is hosting a new winter solstice festival to boost tourism in the region.
Why is the southwest WA so pagan? Its such an interestingly funny quirk down there.
From Bridgetown, Margaret River all the way to Denmark, Albany and Esperance theres this streak of interest in all this kind of stuff. :)
Sub-sea fibre optic cables connect Perth to the world, and we need more of them. But are they sustainable?
Didn't know the cables came through City Beach.
The car industry execs should be laughing their heads off at naive bank execs assuming they know more about it than the car execs. Don't they think the car execs already know what the risk and competitive nature of their own business.
Guess what bankers, this is how you produce positive growth in a real productive industry, and its risky business. Instead the bankers prescription assumes managed decline.
It's like that new guy at work who constantly tells everyone about 'hacks' only they've discovered, when everybody already knows about them.
If you don't like guns, lets use a metaphor and imagine you're a golfer
Probably best to stick to guns without the metaphors.
Hard to find an apples to apples comparison. The damage a gun can do is uniquely unequal, while the products still having a societal purpose, to anything else i can think of.
This is a reason the Coalition have structured themselves in the way they have. As a mostly Liberal/National partnership, allied by a secret contract. It allows them to play to their respective bases, and as a unit, to constantly speak out of both sides of their mouth. Unfortunately the rise of the teals, and continuing denial of the climate reality have seriously damaged the Liberal/National electability in this area.
As @Mountaineer says, voter dissatisfaction on many specific points like this one is why a lot of minor parties have gained traction over the last quarter century.
Labor on the otherhand is supposed to represent workers, which is such a broad segment of society that they've never needed to form alliances to have the potential voter numbers to have a real chance of forming government before an election.
Nationals WA MP Louise Kingston resigns from the party, telling parliament it was because of bullying by party leader Shane Love.
How can you allow your party to have a fallout like this when they are in such a weak position already? Its unbelievably poor leadership by S. Love, let alone being so immature as to bully colleagues in the parliament. Who the hell would want to vote for such a foolish behaviour.
Nationals should remove him as leader immediately. Cut the snake off at the head, deal with the many smaller heads that are bound to spring up quickly, before the WA election starts getting going.
Otherwise they're going into the election with proverbial 'cement for shoes'.
Labor just lost 31,000 votes next election.
Might be water off a ducks back at the moment, but my experiences with gun owners to date, (apart from one gun owner), is they're uncomfortably fanatical about their guns. And belligerently oppose any demands they take higher precautions with the guns in their possession.
In short, they'll remember this, the laws are passed, but acceptance of them isn't.
https://theconversation.com/dont-feel-bad-about-bingeing-tv-humans-have-binged-stories-for-thousands-of-years-231713
https://heraldonlinejournal.com/2024/06/14/just-over-the-horizon/
The articles above inspired me to to meld the two premises in the articles together in the post below. A lunch time read for anyone interested. :)
Australians are a nation of travellers, it's been said that at any one time during the year there are over a million Australians abroad. It's worth noting that it's not said that a good chunk of that cohort are in Bali, our go-to destination of tropical delights!
But what are we doing when abroad? True many spend precious, and too fleeting, moments with distant families, but many are also touring a destination they may have no or minimal familial connection with. I think I have an answer, not the answer, just an answer. And this answer contains an insight into how today we are failing to design and build our own cities to capture the imagination. Bear with me, i'm gona be pulling some long bows on this one.
“Don't feel bad about bingeing TV. Humans have binged stories for thousands of years.” An article offered by Darius von Guttner Sporzynski from Australian Catholic University this week on The Conversation website is a short exploration of the consumption of storytelling.
D. Sporzynski wastes no time dispelling the negative connotations around bingeing. Instead offering an anthropic historical record of the “human desire to be completely immersed in a story.” He lauds bingeing as an act of unrestrained and excessive indulgence. Using examples as far ranging as Palawa Aboriginal (Tassie) oral stories that could refer to events 12,000 years in our pasts to theatre, television, or the moral panics brought on by serialised literature.
Of course, from a certain point of view touring a destination could then also be regarded as a form of bingeing. Certainly experiences in my pre-poll of one, (me), bear out the “unrestrained and excessive indulgence” of touring a destination, my trips to Paris were deluxe all those years ago, thank you for asking. ;) Instead of a piece of art, or literature, or even beer, I suggest we can binge on a destination, in fact why not indulge on whole cities.
Australia might not have fully bingeable cities like Paris or New York, Sydney comes closest (maybe even is), plenty of places around the country have flashes in the pan but fall a little short at the moment. Maybe it's simply due to our country being reasonably young, but I think part of it is the buildings we're constructing in this era. Even the ones where we're trying, for example One Barangaroo, (that big tall new one in Sydney), it's nice, but i'm not sure it adds a great deal to the feel or life of Sydney.
In Western Australia if there's a single destination that has the potential to be bingeable it's Fremantle. Roel Loopers’ Fremantle Herald article, Just Over the Horizon, tells us the city of Fremantle is “embarking on a spatial vision City Plan to shape the future…”
In the article R.Loopers laments sameness, and demands diversity in type, form and use of the buildings developers should be forced to build in the city of Fremantle, stating “level 2 looks the same as level 12, etc and that needs to change.”
He offers suggestions like high rises surrounded by townhouses, single function buildings broken up by different facades, he even suggests the historic Fremantle prison becoming part/neighbouring a mixed use development along with the football field.
It is right to demand this of developers in our cities, especially in those places around our country like Fremantle or Sydney who have the potential to create a touring destination, that, in its discovery and excitement can be a dopamine hit that demolishes the dopamine hits of the latest tv series. But a bingeable city isn't accidentally created, it is demanded and loved.
D.Sporzynski describes “humans desire to escape from reality and engage emotionally with stories.” I say that is what our one million travellers abroad are doing. They are engaging emotionally with far off cities like Paris, London, Tokyo, and of course even our beloved Bali. As D.Sporzynski says, we are developing the 17th and 18th century enlightenment ideal of a critical view of the world through our experiences abroad, but we should take the opportunity now and use our foresight to make our cities bingeable destinations. Sorry developers, concrete and glass boxes aren't enough.
By Gorgritch_umie_killa
Glad to see someone has mentioned this. Huge gains in time in the day for a huge part of the population.
Researchers from UWA have developed a new technique to authenticate the origin of honey through its nectar signature.
Below is the linked abstract in the article from PeerJ Analytical Chemistry.
Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) is a dominant forest tree endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Its honey is appreciated for its highly desirable taste, golden colour, slow crystallisation, and high levels of bioactivity, which have placed Jarrah in the premium product range. However, whilst customers are willing to pay a high price for this natural product, there is currently no standard method for its authentication. As honey is naturally sourced from flower nectar, a novel route of authentication is to identify the nectar signature within the honey.
This study reports on a high-performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC)-based authentication system which allows the tracing of six key marker compounds present in Jarrah flower nectar and Jarrah honey. Four of these markers have been confirmed to be epigallocatechin, lumichrome, taxifolin and o-anisic acid with two (Rf 0.22 and 0.41) still chemically unidentified. To assist with the characterisation of Jarrah honey, a range of physicochemical tests following Codex Alimentarius guidelines were carried out.
A blend of authenticated Jarrah honey samples was used to define the properties of this honey type. The blend was found to have a pH of 4.95, an electric conductivity of 1.31 mS/cm and a moisture content of 16.8%. Its water-insoluble content was 0.04%, its free acidity 19 milli-equivalents acid/kg and its diastase content 13.2 (DN). It also contains fructose (42.5%), glucose (20.8%), maltose (1.9%) and sucrose (<0.5%).
The HPTLC-based authentication system proposed in this study has been demonstrated to be a useful tool for identifying Jarrah honey and might also act as a template for the authentication of other honey types.
*Cite this as
Islam MK, Barbour E, Locher C. 2024. Authentication of Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) honey through its nectar signature and assessment of its typical physicochemical characteristics. PeerJ Analytical Chemistry 6:e33 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-achem.33*
Everytime i go for a walk i see something new that i haven't noticed before.
Doing what to casual observater seems like the same thing over and over again, can actually be the process of developing a deeper understanding of the subject area than before, (in this case your local neighbourhood).
"The action would be so cool and just so much fun to race there"
Gona do a race around the casino? Maybe they can race around the entrance and call it 'Packers u-bend'. Really drive home the key beneficiary of this plan.
Of course.. i can't think of anywhere else around Perth you'd have it so maybe i should shut up :)
The Supercars.com article has a bit more to it, but heres the watoday article, https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/perth-street-circuit-to-host-supercars-from-2026-20240616-p5jm5l.html
With producers across the state looking far and wide for hay at a time of below-average rainfall, the mining giant's sudden drop in production comes as a blow to the livestock industry.
Somewhat surprising. I don't know if its the best use of the water, but its certainly creative.
Metro's Freo announced last week that it has been busy renovated the iconic Freo nightclub and will be reopening this weekend for the launch of a "superclub".
Loctite company better watch out, clags comin in with the strong stuff!
Edit: string to strong
To mark fifteen years of The Ellington, Perth’s home of jazz, on the weekend of June 7-9, the club hosted [...]
15 years already! Can't believe its been that long already.
Good set of pictures of the event at the end of the article.
I've thought a fun promotional tag would be,
Aussie_zone, the socials alternative
Possibly recognisable from a certain media outlet ;)
Its probably better to focus on aussie_zone and any future sister servers rather than lemmy or fediverse as a whole.
Its a broad church out there. Last night i's reading about the Maven AI controversy. People here on Aussie_zone might be cool with promotion, (also might not be), but others on Lemmy might not be, its not practical to check with everyone on every Lemmy server, and it'd not be nice to garner a perception of speaking for them.
Challenge that moderator to 'Street Countdown', i bet they won't even show.
It won't halt all monied influences, lobbyists won't be hit by this it seems, (its complicated to hit the bad lobbyists without hurting the good), corruption will crop up, but its a great reform nonetheless.
What i think it will do best is reset the tone from monied interests walking honourably through the front door, to sneaking guiltily in the metaphorical back. The reputational risk increases the costs for business people being seen to be influencing politics too much.
Bonus the lack of funding might reduce the amount of scare campaigns and political slinging matches due to the campaigns needing to attend to their own platform messages in a campaign rather than their opponents. Of course there'll always be the outlying elections where the opposition can get away with virtually no platform.
Exciting news!
Hmm, gona have to think about a long term solution, but for now put something shiny in the next suburb over.
Sister instances would be my preferred option, it could mean we build the communities, but never have to sacrifice this instances culture by getting too large on a single instance.
Adding another view would be the way to go for sister instances to connect in a deeper way than the rest of the fediverse but still maintain some semblance of separateness.
It puts me in mind of the EU bloc, a supranational organisation, where the culture and way of life of the participating States is maintained, but many benefits of the closer connectedness are granted.
I'd be keen for a more descriptive view label than 'curated'. Maybe it could become an extra field that admins launching sister instances are able to fill in themselves. I guess this is something we'd have to approach lemmy developers about.
Giving them the ability to have a uniquely descriptive name could be fun though. In our case it could be Australasian Allied Instances (AAI), or Australasian Union of Federating Servers (AFUS), or my personal favourite "Warboss Gorgritch's Waargh on the Fediverse".
and, my mind is mush, i'm going to bed...
Choose native trees and plants that provide habitat and food for black cockatoos.
They're big, brash and loud. But a beautiful sight to see when a group of ten or twenty flap about overhead, or squawk at each other as you walk underneath them.
Philanthropy is a word that is bandied about in the media so often that we can forget what it means. The word is derived from Greek: philos meaning “love” and anthropos meaning “man” or “humanity”. While philanthropy is associated with giving, the Greek interpretation could be seen as a precursor, a...
Philanthropy is a 'lover of humanity', and is represented by the 3 T's (Time, Treasure, Talent) is the article in summary.
Aren't philanthropists meant to be arms length support for 'good causes' though? How does time and talent compute with that?
I think your right about a need for critical mass.
Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign is probably a topic that should be discussed at some point. Be it of this instance specifically, or Lemmy in general, or even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.
'Eames Silver Chair'
Wade Smith, Kevin Mitchem and Luke Hallaways - Co-founders of CO-architecture Image Credit: David Broadway
KINGS PARK’S long-serving director of science has added his signature to a letter calling on prime minister Anthony Albanese to protect at least 30 per cent of the South West from further deforesta…
Dr Yin said 100,000 hectares of forest had been wiped out through prolonged drought and “heat-making ecological restoration” in the last six months.
Does anybody know what "heat making ecological restoration" means? Is this a fancy phrase for the firies doing burn-offs?
This is a read twice article for sure. Stoys a bit convoluted. I don't feel like the full story behind this business closure was really explored.
Hopefully Echo follow up with a couple more articles.
