Some of you may want to sign. SBS’s funding is only guaranteed for the next two years. GetUp is calling on the government to guarantee SBS funding for the next five years, indexed to inflation – and put it beyond the reach of politicians who want it gone.

Last week, Pauline Hanson stood up at the National Press Club and called for SBS to be scrapped. When an SBS journalist pushed back, she told him he’d “be out of a job.”

SBS isn’t just a television station. It’s where Australia sees itself whole – news in 63 languages, the World Cup free to every community, stories that commercial media won’t touch.

A few days ago, Socceroos star Awer Mabil sat down with SBS commentator David Basheer on the sidelines of the FIFA World Cup. Mabil was born to South Sudanese parents in a refugee camp in Kenya. Mid-conversation, he stopped to say something.

“I grew up watching SBS as a kid because it was free TV. You doing the world game – that’s where I used to see all of my highlights from all over the world of football. So firstly, thank you. You gave me good memories as a kid.”

That’s what SBS does. For fifty years, it has told stories that commercial broadcasters wouldn’t tell…

That’s exactly why Hanson wants it gone.

Sign the petition now and tell the government: protect our SBS.

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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/33984182

As illegal Israeli settlements and settler violence escalate across the occupied West Bank, Australia has sanctioned only half of those sanctioned by our allies.

Despite Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s recent announcement of additional sanctions, Australia’s response has not only been minimal, slow and ineffective, with any serious sanctions reform in effect ‘vetoed’ by the Israel Lobby.

Amnesty International has just released a major report detailing Israel’s accelerating annexation and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank – particularly the Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities.

The report is It is a detailed and chilling account of Israel’s state-led and state-funded systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing and settler-army violence. Resulting in an “exponential rise in state-backed settler violence

I don’t know if this will be assessed as advertising but I think it’s worth knowing about if you belong to a group or know of others who could do with some funding to carry out native planting in urban or peri-urban areas. Applications close 13 July.

As part of Bupa’s ‘Healthy Cities Challenge’, Landcare Australia and Bupa have partnered to deliver the 2026 Healthy Cities Landcare Grants. The Challenge’s goal is simple, the more movement by participants, the more nature regeneration projects will be funded making our cities greener and healthier.

… We will support environmental community groups and organisations to establish native plants (trees, shrubs and groundcovers) across Australia in urban and peri-urban landscapes. Project locations must be in high community use areas to support positive health outcomes for people and the planet.

Each application must contribute to the establishment of native plants and host community events open to the public.

Go to the link for details

If you saw 4Corners tonight, the answer to the question is that Victoria is getting its native milled timber and logs from Tasmania, so so much for ending native forest logging.

The posted article is a summary of the TV program which you can watch here https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2603H019S00. Although it’s not a program from which you come out optimistic it’s worth watching at least for the Greater Gliders (a protected species) you get to see and the great work being done by conservationists in NSW, tree by tree, to protect GG territory.

Eastern quolls, found in the southeast for millions of years, disappeared from the mainland about 60 years ago – and even where they remain in Tasmania, their numbers are declining. There is, however, conservation efforts in SE states (see video for example)

The size of a small domestic cat, it’s mostly nocturnal, solitary and a bold carnivore which usually hunts in open country or woodland. It tends to spend daylight hours in nests made under rocks in underground burrows or fallen logs.

The eastern quoll has a pointed nose, a bushy tail, and is covered in white spots. Eastern quolls have two colour morphs of either a soft fawn or dark colour, so while they may look slightly different, they are exactly the same species. These colour variations are an evolutionary adaptation to increase their chances of survival in the wild.

A female eastern quoll (see picture) can give birth to a litter of up to six quoll pups a year, and each litter will have a random variation of the dark and light colours.

They perform a valuable role eating invertebrates such as spiders, cockroaches and grasshoppers, but being great hunters they will also eat rabbits, mice and rats which helps to control numbers of these introduced pests.

Video: BACK FROM THE BRINK: EASTERN QUOLLS RETURN TO THE WILD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2bIGsC2Go

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/33336382

Some tips might be helpful to you.

I was thinking that as it seems times aren’t going to get easier that there should be a section aiming at supporting each other with practical info and also discussing issues to do with family or solo life, children, ageing and health.

Let me know your thoughts and if you like the concept, can you think of alternative names for the community? Let’s see what we can come up with.

Most winter energy advice focuses on heaters and insulation but energy savings often come from places people rarely check. Small and inexpensive changes can reduce heat loss more than many standard upgrades.

Interestingly, most Australian homes lose heat in simple ways. Warm air escapes through tiny gaps, cold surfaces draw heat from the body and open-plan layouts let warmth drift away.