Donna Lu
@donnadlu.bsky.social
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Writer / Journalist at Guardian Australia. [email protected].
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While I'm off the science beat for a while, @petrastock.bsky.social is your best bet for science tips and @natashamay.bsky.social is your gal for health stories
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As good a week as any to mention that I have started a stint as an assistant news editor in the Melbourne bureau @australia.theguardian.com 🤠 Please get in touch if you spot things we should be covering
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Guardian Australia has launched a series about nature and threatened species. It's called Last Chance: The extinction crisis the Australian federal election is ignoring. Includes videos, news and comment pieces.

Here's a preview of what it's about:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kQ...
Last chance: the extinction crisis this election is ignoring
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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chadbourn.bsky.social
I think I missed some. But here’s a fun fact: the Heard and Macdonald Islands are uninhabited.

The tariff is on penguins.
Reciprocal Tariffs
Taritis Charged to the U.S.A.
Including
Country

São Tomé and Principe

Norfolk Island

Gibraltar

Tuvalu

British Indian Ocean Territory

Tokelau

Guinea-Bissau

Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Heard and McDonald Islands

Reunion


Currency Munipelation and Trade Barriers

10%

58%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

73%
U.S.A. Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs

10%

29%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

37%
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arc-tracker.bsky.social
Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system.

There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.

By @donnadlu.bsky.social
Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn
Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say
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earleyedition.bsky.social
Marina Hyde in form.
"They really should make a darkly satirical TV show about these absurd, degenerate, unpleasant people. Call it The White Potus"

"Hegseth’s sole comment on the bed he and the guys just shat was to attack the man to whom they personally served this scoop" www.theguardian.com/...
It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde
We absolutely won’t tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neither, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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My column this week is about how fucking BAD the body image/fatphobic vibes are at the moment and how other people need to engage before it destroys us all. I don’t ever insist you read my stuff but I’d love you to read this one www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The thin-obsessed world is growing more vicious by the minute. But fat people aren’t going anywhere | Rebecca Shaw
It’s time to open up your big fat mouths and push back against fatphobia
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Australian scientists and weather forecasters rely on US data and models — NOAA cuts will have a “chilling effect” on climate science and may impact Australia’s ability to accurately predict our future climate, scientists told me www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Trump cuts to have ‘chilling effect’ on climate science and ‘degrade’ Australia’s ability to forecast weather
Australian meteorologists and scientists will be affected by mass firings at Noaa, experts warn
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EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
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