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Phill J

@phillj24.bsky.social

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A Christian with a love of God's world. Interests include #conservation #climatechange #renewables #caringforthedisadvantaged #sustainabledevelopmentgoals

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Phill J @phillj24.bsky.social · 17h

#BirdOfTheDay. A Jabiru at Bird Billabong NT with beautiful colours on that long neck.

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#BirdOfTheDay young black swans Wandoan Queensland

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Phill J @phillj24.bsky.social · 21d

#birdoftheday. Australian Magpie stealing straw to build its nest. Blue Mountains NSW Australia

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Phill J @phillj24.bsky.social · 22d

#BirdOfTheDay. Sunbird. Cooktown Australia.

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Phill J @phillj24.bsky.social · 23d

The beautiful Hooded Parrot. Pine Creek NT Australia #birds

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Phill J @phillj24.bsky.social · Apr 8

When newspapers began shutting down in big numbers a decade ago, it was hoped that moving online would broaden news diversity and ownership.
Sadly, the opposite has happened, research by @australiainstitute.org.au‬ has found.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Apr 7

The slow death of newspapers in Australia has led to a plunge in media diversity and local storytelling, research by The Australia Institute has found.

Stephen Long joined ABC Darwin to discuss.

Listen to the full discussion here, starting at 09:25. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 2

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legalrestraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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Phill J @phillj24.bsky.social · Mar 21

It's time to show Musk who holds the true power: demand your governments to drop Starlink! action.eko.org/a/drop-starl...

Governments: drop Starlink

What happens when one billionaire controls the internet in a war zone? Elon Musk just showed us. After years of positioning Starlink as a critical tool for global connectivity, Musk threatened to cut

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Phill J @phillj24.bsky.social · Jan 22

#addBirder

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Phill J @phillj24.bsky.social · Jan 22

Australian Magpie. Awoke to the magnificent warbling to catch it stealing straw from the Bali Hut for a nest.