You may have noticed Australians declaring they live on "unceded [odd word] land".

The odd word is a location, but where is it?

I live on the land of the Bunurong, which runs Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory, taking in the north and east coast of Port Phillip Bay then along the coast to Inverloch, and inland to Bunyip and Warragul.

The Bunurong are members of the Kulin nation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulin_nation (warning: very bad map)

#Australia #Victoria #Mebourne #Bunurong

I recently came back across my old Motorola Razr phone from 2007. Back when I acquired it Instagram was years from being invented and mobile data was wildly expensive anyway so the only easy way to send pictures was a $0.50 multimedia SMS. The cameras in them were only 1.3 megapixel with no flash or ability to focus pictures. To my surprise after a while on the charger the phone came back to life.

I thought it would be interesting to go for a walk and use it to capture things that didn’t exist or at least weren’t common in Melbourne in 2007. I saw buskers fundraising using QR codes, over the top covid vaccine promotion, a bridge through the sky and drones on display in the shopping mall

#mebourne #photography

Day 1431 #Pedal2Work

Comfortable conditions to ride a bicycle into #Mebourne CBD today. Wasn't too cold. Wasn't too windy. Roads and paths were mainly dry from the rain on the weekend. Car traffic was light. #LifeIsBetterOnABicycle 🚲😀👍

I'm a Canadian in Melbourne right now, and apparently there's an election. This is what has popped up this morning:

"The Liberal Party’s candidate for Narre Warren North says Australia should not recognise First Nations people because “we won this land fair and square”, that waste from nuclear energy should be dumped in Alice Springs, and that he would vote to ban abortion."

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/bloody-aboriginal-liberal-candidate-rails-against-indigenous-people-abortion-and-climate-change-20221119-p5bzm6.html

#auspol #mebourne