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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 17h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 16d

Yes I think zooming in on the tail that’s what it is - it’s just a particularly big one! Both on the bigger side and all puffed up

Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 16d

I was so confident it was an owl but now am unsure

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 16d

Birders - what have I got here? We’re near Kyneton in the Macedon ranges. No beak visible. Initially thought it was a wattlebird but much rounder than that?

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · Sep 2

Is it the coffee machine one? That’s really done the rounds!

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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · Aug 11

MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · Aug 6

“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” - @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor

The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · Aug 5

Day two of this series is a deep dive on the Bootenal massacre, with families on both sides coming together to listen and shed what Naaguja elder Theona Councillor calls the “comfortable untruth”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Families unite at site of massacre in Western Australia: ‘Something spoke through me’

More than 170 years after shocking bloodshed at Bootenal Springs, there is at last a reckoning

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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Some really brilliant work here … strong recommend

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities

Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · Aug 3

I once tracked down the story of a famous photo that gets shared on Invasion Day for a job and spoke to someone who ran a historical society in the area where the violence took place. I explained how colonist diaries I found described what they were doing as war; she said I was "being political".

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · Aug 3

This is an insanely good and important read. Top shelf journalism.

Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · Aug 3

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities

Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

www.theguardian.com

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · Aug 3

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities

Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · Aug 3

Do read our extraordinary investigation into the coded diaries of a Western Australian settler. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities

Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

www.theguardian.com

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · Aug 3

March for humanity

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · May 11

Our reversing camera is out of action so I’m quite pleased with this attempt, which would have been one and done had I had the traditional assistance of a bored teenager or random old bloke making stop/go hands.

Photographic that I am actually a bit rural aka a tow ball

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · May 10

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat

Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · May 8

Ariat boots are expensive and not up to the thrashing I give my farm boots! These Blundstones are only 12 months old. (My riding boots are Dublin because I’m cheap but I do have Ariat half chaps)

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · May 8

They do probably stink of horse piss too much to be worn anywhere I’m representing the Guardian so this may be for the best.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · May 8

In devastating news I might have to go to a Very Rural Event tomorrow not only in the town car (because we don’t drive the ute unless we have to, for reasons of both cost and planet) but in town boots, because these guys have given up.