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euanritchie.bsky.social
“You’re basically saying you can trade koalas with a land snail in Tasmania or a small plant in north Queensland.” - Prof Brendan Wintle @biodivcouncil.bsky.social

What's wrong with @australianlabor.bsky.social's environmental law reforms 👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... [email protected]
Will Labor’s environment laws actually address Australia’s biodiversity crisis? Five reasons to be concerned
Experts say the proposed legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
cosmosartistry.bsky.social
Egret/Heron taunting me to get a respectable shot whilst it groomed itself. Managed to finally do so and the image deserved a black and white feel #birds #wildlife #australia #queensland #photography
Black and white image of an Egret/Heron grooming itself whilst standing in the water.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
pfwaus.bsky.social
Reflections on the ocean waters as full moon rises over #Mooloolaba Beach #Queensland #Australia

#nature #wildoz #traveloz #travel
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
qldaah.bsky.social
The Queensland Nationals did two exemplary things for Australia. One was the implementation of the Fitzgerald Inquiry under Qld Premier Mike Ahern "lock, stock & barrel". The other was sensible gun ownership under Qld Premier Rob Borbidge.

Those two were last century. #qldpol
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
neilcam57.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Fighting to whit this pair of Little Corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) wrestling at the University of Queensland, St Lucia #Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #ausbirds #AustralianBirds #wildoz #nature #wildlife #birdpic #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
A white cockatoo-type bird with a bare-skin blue ring around its black eye and its hooked beak wide open, lies on its back as its monstered by another one.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
neilcam57.bsky.social
Let's also go with #BirdOfTheDay 's alt of #fluffy. Best exemplified by 'Curious George', a Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) chick at the University of Queensland Great Court in 2022
#Brisbane, #Queensland #Australia #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #nature #wildlife #photography
Tawny Frogmouth chick in its nest and the body of its parent next to it is staring into the camera
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
walks30.bsky.social
Venomous snake found hiding inside a Queensland family's laundry basket

Turned out to be a deadly brown snake

Yup, Australia… again.
Watch: Venomous snake found hiding inside family's laundry basket - UPI.com
An Australian snake wrangler responded to a Queensland home to capture a laundry basket intruder that turned out to be one of the world's most venomous snakes.
www.upi.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
neilcam57.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay theme today is a bird you have the #least captures of. Here's a pair of Eastern Koels (Eudynamys orientalis) that I saw just the once. Male is the shiny one.
#Toowong #Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
Male Eastern Koel with vibrant satin blue/black plumage, a bright red eye and greyish beak in a tree. Female Easter Koel with dark brown flecked wings, back and tail, a beige and black neck and chest, black chin, black head, and bright red eye, and a greyish beak in a tree.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
dashcamdrives.bsky.social
Exploring Queensland | Drive Around And Leaving Cairns. 4K UHD. So Jump in and come along for the ride.
#townsville #queensland #australia #navman #4k #dashcam #drive #love #beauty #viralvideo #exploreaustralia #ingham #cardwell #tully #innisfail #cairns #youtube #bluesky
youtu.be/2we8qh02UPk?...
Exploring Queensland | Drive Around And Leaving Cairns | 4K UHD Dashcam Footage
YouTube video by Dashcam Drives
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November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
jwwr.bsky.social
Looks like the IDs of these bellends are starting to trickle in, thanks to the amazing work of White Rose Australia.

#28 – Gabriel Seymour

“Gabe Seymour was studying at the University of Queensland to be a pharmacist, and may still be working as an assistant pharmacist.”
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
chrishehim.bsky.social
Assaulting trans children is straight out of the Trump MAGA handbook to distract us from a corrupt and evil Govt.

Mother of transgender teen accuses Queensland government of privacy breach that could have ‘outed’ her child.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #qldpol #auspol #insiders
Mother of transgender teen accuses Queensland government of privacy breach that could have ‘outed’ her child
Revelation comes as LNP accused of ‘intimidation’ after demanding sensitive medical details from parents of transgender children
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
mackayim.bsky.social
#COVID-19 hospitalisations in #Queensland, #Australia are at their lowest point since January 2024. We got there via a declining biannual (=twice a year; winter & summer) peak.
Most of those being hospitalised (blue) throughout that period are the same SARS-CoV-2 target group, the elderly (yellow)
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
klstone.bsky.social
2/6

..Die Regelung gilt vorerst für die mit viel PV ausgestatteten Regionen New South Wales, South Australia und im südöstlichen Queensland. Bis 2027 soll das Programm auf weitere Bundesstaaten ausgeweitet werden.

„Wir wollen, dass die Vorteile erneuerbarer Energien allen zu Gute...
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
pfwaus.bsky.social
Cruising along at a sedate 40km/h from Normanton to Croydon on the historic #Gulflander rail motor in the Gulf Country of Outback #Queensland #Australia

#traveloz #travel #trainspotting #railway #history
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
pfwaus.bsky.social
Early morning sunlight shimmering on the waters of #Mooloolaba #Queensland #Australia

#nature #wildoz #traveloz #travel #stormhour
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
dashcamdrives.bsky.social
Exploring Queensland | Drive From Deeral To Cairns. 4K UHD. So Jump in and come along for the ride.
#townsville #queensland #australia #navman #4k #dashcam #drive #love #beauty #viralvideo #exploreaustralia #tully #cardwell #innisfail #cairns #youtube #bluesky #roadtrip
youtu.be/DaUMm1CR4T4?...
Exploring Queensland | Drive From Derral To Cairns | 4K UHD Dashcam Footage
YouTube video by Dashcam Drives
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
pfwaus.bsky.social
The Coolum Beach Surf Life Saving Club, #Queensland #Australia

#traveloz #travel
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
drongojackburb.bsky.social
(Recent art) Ceratodus nargan Illustration!

Ceratodus is a wide spread prehistoric lungfish species that is related to the extant queensland lungfish. Here lies a species in the Early Cretaceous of Southern Victoria, Australia, in the Euremella formation.

#paleoart #sciart #illustraation #fishart
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
hakeafan.bsky.social
Nelumbo nucifera
Nelumbonaceae
Anderson Gardens, Townsville Botanic Gardens,
Queensland, Australia
Nov 2025
#NelumboNucifera #Nelumbonaceae #SacredLotus #PinkLotus #AndersonGardensTownsville #TownsvilleBotanicGardens #botany #ozflora #NativeFlora #photography #bluesky #photographyofbluesky
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
slouchingtiger.bsky.social
Australia's new "solar sharer" program will give households in NSW, south-east Queensland, and South Australia at least 3 hours of free solar power each day starting in 2026 -- even for those without rooftop panels. Other areas will potentially follow in 2027.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels
Labor announces ‘solar sharer’ program for households in NSW, south-east Queensland and South Australia
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
martyessen.bsky.social
Marty’s photo of the day #4889: This is a spectacled flying fox, photographed in Queensland, Australia.

#photography #wildlife
Marty’s photo of the day #4889: This is a spectacled flying fox, photographed in Queensland, Australia.
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
pfwaus.bsky.social
Lookout & beach access stairway at #Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast #Queensland #Australia

#traveloz #travel #stormhour
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
helgaastrophysics.bsky.social
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This is over 40,000-year-old Rock art of strange humanoid creatures in Australia.
The oldest rock paintings on Earth are in Cape York, in northern Queensland, Australia. They were created by the Ang-Gnarra Aborigines around 35,000 years ago and remained mostly unknown until the 1950s.

These
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
Same in Queensland, the Texas of Australia, where the state government is currently forcing an anti-trans hate wave down our throats
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
jessicaperthwa.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.... Hey #Queensland She doesn't represent you or Australia. She only works for the top 1%. She as good as said it in America
Pauline Hanson skips parliament to speak at conservative conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
One Nation leader also seen with Gina Rinehart – and many of her talking points align with mining magnate
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM