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Mike Kalenderian

@mikekay.bsky.social
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Video EP at Guardian Australia. Emmy winner. Previously seen on HBO, ABC, Vice News

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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today, we’ve published a new 30-minute documentary at @australia.theguardian.com. Into the Hyperverse focuses on senior correspondent Sarah Martin's work investigating a global crypto scheme that cost investors millions of dollars. It was a big task for a relatively tiny team.
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
An exclusive investigation based on documents leaked to the Guardian and ABC revealed this week that the world’s biggest miner has hit the brakes on decarbonisation, something experts fear could put Australia’s national emissions reductions targets at risk.

 Watch our video on the investigation:
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BHP files: leaked memo shows miner backtracking on key climate projects in Australia
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Here's the first (hopefully not the last) adaptation of the @australia.theguardian.com beloved Kindness of Strangers series, and it's turned out wonderfully. Thanks to Tessa Chong and Cathy Pagett for animating it, Bonnie Malkin for voicing and Daniel Semo for making it sound great!
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I was crying at the airport carousel, then a couple offered a simple solution
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Starting today, you can watch the premiere of our @australia.theguardian.com documentary, Into the Hyperverse, as part of SF DocFest! @sfindiefest.bsky.social It's available online here: sfdocfest2026.eventive.org/films/69e111...
Poster art for documentary titled 'Into the Hyperverse'
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Excited to announce our documentary, "Into the Hyperverse", has been selected to screen in the San Francisco Documentary Festival! It'll be available to stream during the festival from May 28 to June 7 sfdocfest2026.eventive.org/films/69e111...
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Lion dancing is more than just putting on the papier mache head and colourful costume. Guardian Australia's Isabella Lee stepped into a training session with Sydney's Qing Fong lion dance team to learn just how hard the dancers work to be performance ready. Watch our vid:
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So you think you can lion dance?
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Proud of how this one turned out: Graham Readfearn put his body to the test, stepping into a climate chamber at the University of Sydney that simulates the increased temperatures and humidity predicted in a rapidly warming climate. Watch our vid:
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The unbearable experience of walking in a heatwave of the future
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Read this chronological breakdown that takes you moment by moment through what happened at Monday night’s protest, by @jordynbeazley.bsky.social and Stephen Byrne
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An ‘impossible’ situation or ‘unhinged’ police? Inside the chaos at Sydney’s anti-Herzog protest
Police have defended their actions after Monday’s protest. Here’s how the night played out
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Scenes from the anti-Herzog protest in Sydney last night: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8sJ...
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Pepper spray and questionable police tactics: how a Sydney protest ended in chaos
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICYMI: After 105,177 votes cast, @australia.theguardian.com readers chose Alison Lester's Magic Beach as the best Australian children's picture book of all time. Deputy Culture Editor Sian Cain revealed the news to Alison first:
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Alison Lester finds out Magic Beach is Australia's favourite picture book
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Here’s how an artist - with the help of dozens of volunteers - is turning three tonnes of flowers into an artwork memorialising the Bondi victims:
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How an artist is transforming three tonnes of flowers to memorialise the Bondi victims
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Back on deck today.
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Victoria’s state apology to First Nations people happened earlier this week. First Nations elders and community leaders in attendance spoke with Guardian Australia about the significance of the apology, and what makes this different from other apologies made before:
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What Victoria’s historic apology means to First Nations people
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Now 15 and living as a quadriplegic, Ezra says social media made him feel less isolated, allowing him to connect with friends and people around the world who share his interests and experiences. Watch our video:
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Ezra is a teen quadriplegic. He says Australia’s social media ban will make him lonelier
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Does Australia’s social media ban mean kids aged under 16 (or their parents) will get in legal trouble for circumventing it? Whether you’re a parent of a child, or a child watching this on a VPN, Matilda Boseley is here to clear some misinformation up:
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Are Australian kids breaking the law if they sneak onto social media?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
For the first time, Victoria police are using a new law to the maximum extent allowed. For six months, police will be able to conduct pat-downs and search vehicles for weapons without a warrant within 10 sq km of inner Melbourne. Victorian state correspondent @benitakolovos.bsky.social explains:
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Police can now search anyone in Melbourne's CBD without a warrant. How?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Can only assume NYC media editors demanding Mamdani’s take on Meadow Lane
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
There's a reported boom in people becoming certified venomous snake handlers, so @sanjanajose.bsky.social went to film reporter Joe Hinchcliffe finding out firsthand what sort of training you get to handle some of the most dangerous snakes in the world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeWw...
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Learning to handle the world's most venomous snake
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It's that time of the (every second) year: the Bird of the Year poll is open for voting! Here is a brilliant video launching the vote — if you watch REALLY CLOSELY you might work out who @matildaboseley.bsky.social is voting for this year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i30D...
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Voting is open in the 2025 Australian bird of the year poll. Here's how to vote
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Recent media coverage claims 'Australians, especially men, are reading less' and 'young men have stopped reading books'. But is that true? Guardian Australia's data editor @nickevershed.bsky.social looked into the data and came back with this factcheck: youtu.be/iThBQ91mnlk
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Have men really stopped reading? The devil's in the data
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Is Aukus a $368bn solution for Australia, or will it only serve to create more headaches? A deep-dive of an explainer (pun intended) into the Aukus agreement, with Ben Doherty: youtu.be/KsC0rqWkaw4
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Is Aukus a $368bn fix for Australia's problems, or will it create more headaches?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Suddenly thinking perhaps putting all my super into Qantas points wasn’t such a good idea
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Qantas frequent flyer points devalued as airline rolls out changes to loyalty program
Airline tries to soften blow by releasing 400,000 new Classic Reward seats across its international and domestic flights
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Please, show some respect
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
In a change of pace, a lovely video today featuring the hundreds of volunteers who got together to help Melbourne’s oldest bookshop, Hill of Content, move thousands of books to its new location down the road. @caitkelly.bsky.social was there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2yc...
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Booklovers form human chain to move Melbourne's oldest bookshop one item at a time
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
With new laws affecting the right to protest in NSW, some experts are saying the state now has the most severe anti-protest regime in the country. So what are NSW's anti-protest laws, and how have they changed? @jordynbeazley.bsky.social explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXX-...
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What are your rights to protest in NSW and how have they changed?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
How are tiny magnets shaping tariffs, the future of Australia's mining industry and the ongoing trade battle between China and the US? Matilda Boseley takes a look at those earths which are rare (rare earths): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ68...
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Rare earths: how these critical minerals impact Australian industry and global politics
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The govt is making announcements around fighting antisemitism today but the politicians and lots of departments are still posting on X, and have paid X millions in taxpayer $$$ for ads. Hard to see after yesterday's Grok incident what the justification now is. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Australian government gave $2.7m to Elon Musk’s X for advertisements in billionaire’s first year as owner
Exclusive: Spending came after the Albanese government paused ads for a week amid reports ads were appearing next to inappropriate content
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Nino Bucci @ninobucci.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Spent yesterday in Yuendumu, a place I’d wrote about and thought about for the past five years but never visited www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One report, 33 recommendations, but Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings draw on centuries of pain
The conclusions of coroner Elisabeth Armitage on how similar deaths could be prevented reflect the impact of colonial massacres and domestic abuse
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I love the internet
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
ICYMI on the weekend — Vic correspondent @benitakolovos.bsky.social got a first look inside Melbourne's newest metro stations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjaa...
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Eight storeys beneath Melbourne: first look inside the city's new metro stations
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Congrats to @cartersherman.bsky.social whose new book is out now, and you should read this extract: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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A generation of ‘virgins’ is leading America’s next sexual revolution
Although gen Z may be getting laid less than their elders, they’re resisting older definitions of sex and gender – in the face of the right’s bid for bodily control
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Bougainville fought a war to shut down Panguna mine. Now, with the goal of achieving independence from PNG, many want the mine to be reopened. Reporting by Ben Doherty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bryT...
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Bougainvilleans went to war to shut down the Panguna mine. Why do some want it reopened?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The jury in the trial of Erin Patterson is beginning deliberations as the mushroom lunch trial enters its 10th week. Here's our video from last week, recapping the closing arguments from both sides, hosted by courts and justice reporter @ninobucci.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=YarS...
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Closing arguments conclude in Australia's mushroom trial as jury deliberation approaches
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
As the Erin Patterson trial nears its end, @ninobucci.bsky.social walks us through what's been happening in court in the last few weeks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhUL...
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Australia's mushroom trial update: lead detective and mycologists among witnesses called
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
A decision on whether to extend a Woodside gas facility until 2070 is expected any day now. As @adammorton.bsky.social explains, the decision won't factor in climate concerns, only what local pollution means for the globally significant collection of rock art: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVsA...
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A major decision on a Woodside gas plant's future hinges on WA rock art
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I'm what you might call a 'savvy consumer'. Only losers pay the RRP
Screenshot of product pricing advertising item for $38.99, $0.01 Off RRP, "Don't Pay RRP: $39.00"
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
From earlier this week, @australia.theguardian.com economics editor Patrick Commins walked us through the RBA's rate cut, and what it means: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSN...
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House prices and Trump tariffs: what does the RBA's rate cut mean for you?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Erin Patterson’s trial continues today — @australia.theguardian.com justice and courts reporter @ninobucci.bsky.social has been following the mushroom trial since it began, and explains what’s happened so far: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu9h...
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Australia mushroom trial: the evidence and witnesses in Erin Patterson's murder trial so far
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
What is a hung parliament? And what happens if Australia’s major parties end up in a dead heat? Please enjoy our final episode in our Voting 101 series for the 2025 election:
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Voting 101: What's a hung parliament, and what happens if no major party wins a majority?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The final week of the campaign was filled with the cost of eggs, welcome to country heckling, and the ‘hate media’ — James Colley sifts through the wreckage of the final few days in this week’s episode:
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Election campaign final week: the cost of eggs, welcome to country booing and 'hate media'
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We’re nearing the finish line: Anthony Albanese was asked intense geopolitical questions on The Sunday Footy Show and Peter Dutton somehow managed to tie everything back to cheaper petrol, including Easter chocolate. Watch our latest 'Surviving the Election with James Colley':
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Crashing into the election’s final fortnight like a truck hitting an early voting centre
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our latest @australia.theguardian.com Voting 101 episode is all about preferential voting. It's one of the biggest differences between the Australian and US systems, so what is it? And how does it work? @matildaboseley.bsky.social explains:
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Voting 101: What is Australia’s preferential voting system and how does it work?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Despite the myth, donkey voting is not a thing! In the latest episode of @australia.theguardian.com's Voting 101 series, @matildaboseley.bsky.social dispels the idea that's seemingly been around for decades Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2kL...
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Voting 101: Don’t be an ass! Donkey votes are still valid!
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
@australia.theguardian.com political reporter @krishani-dhanji.bsky.social catches you up on the past week in the election campaign — there's just 11 days to go and one more debate after tonight's, but with early voting open as of today, voters will have already begun to switch off:
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The election campaign reaches the pointy end as early voting opens - TLDR: Election 2025
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Bursting through the lab leak like it's a finish line ribbon
Header image from the new covid.gov website, saying 'Lab Leak: the true origins of Covid-19' with a photo of Donald Trump
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Two weeks down, three to go. @krishani-dhanji.bsky.social catches you up on what's been happening the last few days in the Aus election campaign for @australia.theguardian.com:
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Albanese v Dutton, Chalmers v Taylor. The week of debates - TLDR: Election 2025
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This week in the election campaign featured the first debate, and Dutton visiting more petrol stations than any prime ministerial candidate arguably should. Watch the latest instalment of 'Surviving the Election' with @colley.bsky.social:
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Gaslighting at the petrol station and Dutton and Albanese's first debate
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Mike Kalenderian @mikekay.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In December 2024, when unseasonable flooding threatened the breeding season of a critically endangered turtle, Marilyn Connell and other members of a Queensland community conservation group sprang into action. Watch the newest episode of our Last Chance series at @australia.theguardian.com:
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Endangered bum-breathing turtles and the town working to save them
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 09/04/2025
Massive swarms of bogong moths once resembled rain clouds – then their numbers crashed to earth www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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