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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It’s all a lie, he is filthy despite my spending 45 minutes brushing him last night - but so long as you don’t actually touch him you’d never know!

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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...

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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

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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 · 02/09/2025

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

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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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 · 06/08/2025

“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...

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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 · 05/08/2025

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...

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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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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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 · 03/08/2025

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

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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

March for humanity

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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 · 08/05/2025

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 · 08/05/2025

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 · 08/05/2025

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.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is genuinely lovely and Antony looks like he will explode with embarrassment

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ah Keating sent an email, on letterhead of I’m sure.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I love that they got every PM that Antony Green would have called for (except Keating). #auspol

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Do we think Sussan Ley will be the new Liberal leader in the time-honoured tradition of giving women a shit job? #auspol

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

That’s not how acknowledgments work. He’s on Gadigal country, which he would know. It may sound like I’m nitpicking but if you’re giving an acknowledgment to show respect for TOs - which is the only reason - you name the country.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Really don’t love that Albanese threw out the acknowledgment as a victory moment then but didn’t actually say whose land he was on. Are you saying it as a gotcha to the Coalition or a genuine show of respect? #auspol

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is the most human speech I’ve ever seen Dutton give and it is a pity for him that he left it until last. #auspol

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Oh absolutely, he’s sticking quite rigidly to that script. It’s not insightful but it is a particular talent.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Really is a thankless task for McGrath on this panel tonight and he’s bearing it admirably. Jim Chalmers is having fun.

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Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

PS, this is for the next day or two, when all the conservatives start melting down on Sky News

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I do appreciate that James McGrath acknowledged that “wait for the prepoll figures” could be a drinking game at this point. #auspol

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A column A look at where we are at the end of the campaign. Whatever happens, some big stuff lies ahead. bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

0.6C in Malmsbury this morning, that’s *almost* a frost.

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Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

To me one of the most telling signs is a very late Coalition campaign pivot away from courting independent/swinging voters back to consolidating right wing base (welcome to country). Feels they've shifted into save the furniture, win PHON preferences, save Dutton territory, not win govt mode.

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Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

My takeaways from 100+ voter conversations in Sydney and Central Coast in past months: * Cost of living no1 issue but nobody really blames Albo * Hardly anybody has heard of any of the solutions on offer * People think Dutton = Trump Coalition seem cooked. www.afr.com//politics/fe...

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If Dutton’s path to victory cuts through Sydney, he has problems

In conversations with voters from Gordon to Liverpool, cost of living and housing featured again and again – but few blamed Labor and Albanese for the price rises.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I can’t believe we’re 4 days into this when the first and only response should have been “oh that’s who booed? Well fuck them”.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Jason Clare on RN just now finally saying the key point in this Welcome to Country “debate”. “Let’s remember where this began: it began with neo-Nazis booing Welcome to Country ceremonies at a Dawn Service.” Says we shouldn’t let neo-Nazis lead public debate.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We’re watching Drop Dead Gorgeous (currently streaming on SBS, which incidentally has a much better film selection than any paid streaming service) and the Trump presidency is really leaning into the bit more than I think we strictly required

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Cartoonists and their editors are losing their jobs for “overstepping the mark” over Gaza and Trump. Is the art of satire in danger? Lionel and I talk with Fraser Nelson and Steve Bell. mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

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Media Confidential

Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dive into the hugely important world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong? Lionel, former editor of the Financi...

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

So sorry to hear this Tim. Wishing him all the best.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Old twitter would have been going off tonight and as nice as it is to be on a platform with fewer Naz*s it’s just not the same :(

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We had 0-7mm forecast in central vic; 0.5mm in the gauge.

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Ah, I consider myself lucky that Laurie has never yet had that kind of accident! She does frequently vomit in the hallway, particularly after just taking her pills, which was the reason for yesterday’s malaise. Can’t skip a dose!

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