Mastodawn

Richard✅Apr 29, 2024

Si Fuller Apr 29, 2024

This is the size of the local potholes.
Actually, the side of the mountain fell off back last year. They keep stabilising it, then it rains, and another bit of mountain falls off. I believe it's worse now than when they started repairs. This is the main road connecting the Atherton tablelands to Cairns and the wider world.

Richard✅Apr 23, 2024

TheCathyWilcox Apr 22, 2024

There we are.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

Richard✅Apr 22, 2024

Leon Bambrick Apr 22, 2024

Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

First they help you find good content, so people visit and use and enjoy and participate in good web sites.

Then they insist on scraping every piece of value they can, and presenting it to the user such that they never have to visit the websites at all.

Then the websites die, having been choked to death by the strangler fig, and people blame the websites for dying, not the strangler who bled them dry.

Richard✅Jan 17, 2024

https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/culture-compass/culture-compass/103307844

Betel nut, chewed almost everywhere in Papua New Guinea, has obvious health side effects – but it's creating a boom for the local economy. - ABC Pacific

"It's just like an early morning coffee. People wake up, take a shower, they brush their teeth, they're go and grab betelnut." Betel nut – or buai – is everywhere in Papua New Guinea. Buai is the seed of the Areca nut, wrapped in betel leaf… and chewed until you feel a surge of energy. It has plenty of ceremonial uses, but for everyday chewers this is a recreational activity. However, it's addictive — even deadly. So deadly the government has tried to ban it. That's not such a simple task given the informal economy flourishing around betel nut has given many families financial stability — especially in rural areas. So, how did this nut turn from a cultural keystone into an addictive pastime? You'll hear from Belinda Kora, a journalist living in Port Moresby who has seen the pros and cons of the buai boom and Sprigga Mek, a rapper from Papua New Guinea whose latest song discusses his family's connection to the buai trade. Culture Compass was produced by Deadset Studios for ABC Radio Australia.

ABC Pacific

Richard✅Jan 9, 2024

The apostrophe apocalypse continues

Richard✅Jan 9, 2024

The apostrophe apocalypse is real

Richard✅Jan 2, 2024

I'm listening to 'Tupaia - star navigator of the Pacific ' with the ABC listen app https://abclisten.page.link/sCEeKEN6YCNgM8rTA

Tupaia - star navigator of the Pacific - ABC listen

In 1768 when James Cook sailed from Tahiti looking for the great southern land, Tupaia, a traditional Polynesia navigator was on board. His knowledge proved invaluable to Cook and his sailing skills astounded the crew. What role did Tupaia actually play in the voyage and why haven't we heard heard about him?

ABC listen

Richard✅Dec 19, 2023

Gav Dear was already a legend as singer with the great FNQ band, Roadtrippers. Now he's rescued people from trees in our worst flood. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-19/18-lives-saved-far-north-queensland-cairns-flood-chopper-/103244364

18 lives saved from rising floodwaters in Far North Queensland by a boatie named Gavin and a pilot named Magoo

A group of North Queensland locals braved driving rains and rising floodwaters to rescue 17 people trapped in trees and from the rooftop of a pub.

ABC News

Richard✅Dec 12, 2023

https://www.abc.net.au/abc-international-development/from-morobe-to-brisbane-papua-new-guinea-journalist-at-abc/103186170

Papua New Guinea journalist takes on ABC Brisbane to hone her skills - ABC International Development

Carmella had the makings of a journalist as a kid, always seeking key information on the happenings in her childhood home. Now, a journalist in Papua New Guinea, she has taken an extra leap to expand her skills and knowledge through a work placement at ABC Brisbane.

ABC International Development

Richard✅Dec 1, 2023

Brian Bilston Dec 1, 2023

Today’s poem is for anyone opening the first window of their advent calendar this morning.

It’s called ‘The Good Old Days’.