T.J. Weber
@tjweber.bsky.social
🇦🇺 Essendon fan, public transport nerd, aspiring gunzel, social democrat. Restore rail to everywhere! Back in Melbourne 🥰
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Your regular reminder that Clive Palmer has been facing criminal charges since 2018 (his last appeal to have those charges dismissed was thrown out in February 2024; the court described the delay as an abuse of process; he has since appealed to the High Court) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet
Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is born.
www.smh.com.au
February 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Your regular reminder that Clive Palmer has been facing criminal charges since 2018 (his last appeal to have those charges dismissed was thrown out in February 2024; the court described the delay as an abuse of process; he has since appealed to the High Court) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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“On 11 February 2025, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft conducting a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea experienced an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a PLA-AF J-16 fighter aircraft.”
#Auspol
#Auspol
February 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
“On 11 February 2025, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft conducting a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea experienced an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a PLA-AF J-16 fighter aircraft.”
#Auspol
#Auspol
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Amidst all the criticism of the ABC, a reminder of why the public broadcaster is essential: a very good story by Wimmera ABC journo Julia Bergin on electoral office rorts lets by MP Anne Webster. Local regional media would be too sacred to touch this story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
The mystery of MP's empty office that has allegedly 'broken the rules'
A federal politician with two offices has used taxpayer funding to open a third. The catch? It's completely empty, and by the politician's own admission "clearly a billboard".
www.abc.net.au
February 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Amidst all the criticism of the ABC, a reminder of why the public broadcaster is essential: a very good story by Wimmera ABC journo Julia Bergin on electoral office rorts lets by MP Anne Webster. Local regional media would be too sacred to touch this story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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There are zero modern maps of the South Australian regional bus network, that is, until now
SA has an incredibly complex set of country bus services, so I have poured far too many hours into this map
Please enjoy my magnum opus, here is every single regional route in 2025
SA has an incredibly complex set of country bus services, so I have poured far too many hours into this map
Please enjoy my magnum opus, here is every single regional route in 2025
February 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
There are zero modern maps of the South Australian regional bus network, that is, until now
SA has an incredibly complex set of country bus services, so I have poured far too many hours into this map
Please enjoy my magnum opus, here is every single regional route in 2025
SA has an incredibly complex set of country bus services, so I have poured far too many hours into this map
Please enjoy my magnum opus, here is every single regional route in 2025
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"Seats on Sydney-Melbourne train service regularly sell out over holiday period, as one-way flights to Tullamarine average almost $500"
Huge demand, but no capacity to absorb it, and no firm plans from any level of government to fix this.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Huge demand, but no capacity to absorb it, and no firm plans from any level of government to fix this.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Soaring air fares between Melbourne and Sydney see travellers take 11-hour train
Exclusive: Seats on Sydney-Melbourne train service regularly sell out over holiday period, as one-way flights to Tullamarine average almost $500
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"Seats on Sydney-Melbourne train service regularly sell out over holiday period, as one-way flights to Tullamarine average almost $500"
Huge demand, but no capacity to absorb it, and no firm plans from any level of government to fix this.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Huge demand, but no capacity to absorb it, and no firm plans from any level of government to fix this.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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After the Harvest
Dooen S Road
Horsham, Victoria
#photography
#fujifilm
#snapseed
#landscape
#artphotography
Dooen S Road
Horsham, Victoria
#photography
#fujifilm
#snapseed
#landscape
#artphotography
January 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
After the Harvest
Dooen S Road
Horsham, Victoria
#photography
#fujifilm
#snapseed
#landscape
#artphotography
Dooen S Road
Horsham, Victoria
#photography
#fujifilm
#snapseed
#landscape
#artphotography
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We are here #ClimateCrisis 🔥🔥
‘Former Fire & Rescue NSW commissioner Greg Mullins said fire services around the world were confronting a new paradigm in which the ability to call on help from other nations…in winter was evaporating.’
#BlackSummer #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
‘Former Fire & Rescue NSW commissioner Greg Mullins said fire services around the world were confronting a new paradigm in which the ability to call on help from other nations…in winter was evaporating.’
#BlackSummer #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Australia leases US firebombing aircraft in the northern winter. So what happens when LA burns in January?
Experts say Australia risks being isolated from international firefighters and water-bombing aircraft in its next bushfire season.
www.smh.com.au
January 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
We are here #ClimateCrisis 🔥🔥
‘Former Fire & Rescue NSW commissioner Greg Mullins said fire services around the world were confronting a new paradigm in which the ability to call on help from other nations…in winter was evaporating.’
#BlackSummer #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
‘Former Fire & Rescue NSW commissioner Greg Mullins said fire services around the world were confronting a new paradigm in which the ability to call on help from other nations…in winter was evaporating.’
#BlackSummer #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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‘Came down on top of him’: the deadly Tasmanian bridge disaster that shocked Australia
‘Came down on top of him’: the deadly Tasmanian bridge disaster that shocked Australia
As Hobart marks the 50th anniversary of the Tasman Bridge collapse, a survivor and a historian remember the night it unfolded
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In the darkness, crewman Graham Kemp saw the Tasman Bridge…
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January 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
‘Came down on top of him’: the deadly Tasmanian bridge disaster that shocked Australia
Town Hall Station signage up at Flinders.
January 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Town Hall Station signage up at Flinders.
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Negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions together make investing in residential property attractive, adding to demand and prices, the Howard Australian government was warned in 2004. They did nothing. Non-homeowners are paying the price. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
We pored over the newly unsealed 2004 cabinet files. Here's what stood out
Hundreds of previously secret cabinet records have been made public in the National Archives' annual release.
www.abc.net.au
December 31, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions together make investing in residential property attractive, adding to demand and prices, the Howard Australian government was warned in 2004. They did nothing. Non-homeowners are paying the price. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
See if I had a girlfriend I probably couldn’t just spontaneously decide to spend my day travelling down to finally ride Melbourne’s weird little forgotten diesel Sprinter boi. Today is the day.
December 29, 2024 at 12:26 AM
See if I had a girlfriend I probably couldn’t just spontaneously decide to spend my day travelling down to finally ride Melbourne’s weird little forgotten diesel Sprinter boi. Today is the day.
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Co-op rail services in the UK - absolutely fascinating to see this develop
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
From dream to reality: Go-op, Britain’s first cooperative railway
With approval to run trains between Swindon, Taunton and Weston-super-Mare, services could start in 2026
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Co-op rail services in the UK - absolutely fascinating to see this develop
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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These sleeping cars, built 1949-72, were all named with sleep-related words from languages indigenous to the region through which they normally ran. Remarkably, every one of the 18 names ends in the letter i.
Celebration of indigenous languages in 1949 might have been a bit unusual. And I love it.
Celebration of indigenous languages in 1949 might have been a bit unusual. And I love it.
Today’s historic pic: Overland sleeper Tawarri in the consist of ‘The Sunraysia’ from Mildura at Spencer Street station, Melbourne , October 19 1987. The Sunraysia was a short-lived Mildura to Melbourne daylight train that used the Vinelander carriage set, hence the sleeping car.
December 25, 2024 at 11:30 AM
These sleeping cars, built 1949-72, were all named with sleep-related words from languages indigenous to the region through which they normally ran. Remarkably, every one of the 18 names ends in the letter i.
Celebration of indigenous languages in 1949 might have been a bit unusual. And I love it.
Celebration of indigenous languages in 1949 might have been a bit unusual. And I love it.
The Glen Melton line via a new Collins St Subway.
December 22, 2024 at 4:09 AM
The Glen Melton line via a new Collins St Subway.
Interesting one for Victorian gunzels in today's reshuffle: Gabrielle Williams will become Minister for Transport Infrastructure and stay on as Minister for Public and Active Transport.
December 19, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Interesting one for Victorian gunzels in today's reshuffle: Gabrielle Williams will become Minister for Transport Infrastructure and stay on as Minister for Public and Active Transport.
Ballarat’s other station: Wendouree.
December 15, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Ballarat’s other station: Wendouree.
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I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
December 14, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
God bless the Overland.
December 12, 2024 at 8:45 PM
God bless the Overland.
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America's First True Oligarch
idk seems pretty bad that a billionaire with a history of substance abuse and sexual misconduct is about to be serving as the shadow president
December 6, 2024 at 9:43 PM
America's First True Oligarch
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Friends overseas, I'd like to teach you something.
This word "Aussie" is not pronounced "ah-see"
It's "Ozzy"
Yes like Osbourne.
Yes, with an O, not an Ah.
This word "Aussie" is not pronounced "ah-see"
It's "Ozzy"
Yes like Osbourne.
Yes, with an O, not an Ah.
a man with long hair and sunglasses is sitting in a chair .
ALT: a man with long hair and sunglasses is sitting in a chair .
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December 5, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Friends overseas, I'd like to teach you something.
This word "Aussie" is not pronounced "ah-see"
It's "Ozzy"
Yes like Osbourne.
Yes, with an O, not an Ah.
This word "Aussie" is not pronounced "ah-see"
It's "Ozzy"
Yes like Osbourne.
Yes, with an O, not an Ah.
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Imagine having to put off 50 staff to pay for 2 middle aged has beens. #vilekyle
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Kyle and Jackie O struggles put KIIS FM owner in tailspin
KIIS FM’s owner ARN is taking some drastic action to free up cash as it looks to lock in its star breakfast duo for another 10 years.
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December 6, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Imagine having to put off 50 staff to pay for 2 middle aged has beens. #vilekyle
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
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I think it's really important to remember that Autism doesn't define individuals, what defines individuals is your favourite train on the Melbourne suburban railway network
December 1, 2024 at 6:22 AM
I think it's really important to remember that Autism doesn't define individuals, what defines individuals is your favourite train on the Melbourne suburban railway network
A 1 shilling ticket stub for the NSW government tramways. Not sure of the date, but both my paternal great-grandfathers were Sydney tram drivers.
December 1, 2024 at 9:49 AM
A 1 shilling ticket stub for the NSW government tramways. Not sure of the date, but both my paternal great-grandfathers were Sydney tram drivers.
The people of Ireland saw this and chose five more years of Fine Gael.
December 1, 2024 at 12:02 AM
The people of Ireland saw this and chose five more years of Fine Gael.
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The competition for "most egregious use of the term 'neoliberal' to describe some random thing I don't like disconnected to anything meaningful" is over. Nobody will ever top this
November 28, 2024 at 8:40 PM
The competition for "most egregious use of the term 'neoliberal' to describe some random thing I don't like disconnected to anything meaningful" is over. Nobody will ever top this