You have NO IDEA how dry it has been in southwest WA Busselton, the gateway to the Margaret River wine & surf region, has seen LESS THAN 1 MILLIMETRE of rain in 2024 to date The ground basically hasn't been wet ALL YEAR, with no immediate relief in sight weatherzone.com.au/news/desperate…

High resolution modelling of rain from 11pm Thursday to 11am Saturday. >200mm for much of Sydney and the Illawarra. Image: Weatherzone

Happy 15th birthday to #HorribleHistories, the show that changed my life! I could live to 150 and still never do something as impactful as the thing I did aged 25 when we invented a brand new genre of TV: factual sketch comedy! I’m dead proud of it, including footnotes for kids

"Some of these carcasses were no more than skeletal remains while others were killed relatively recently." ab.co/4ayWyo4

It’s weird to simultaneously be robbed and also deserve to be down 10 goals #afl #aflcrowsdons

From me - Western Australia’s unique eucalypt forests fade to brown as century-old giant jarrahs die in heat and drought. Climate change is drying the region. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Have you noticed the weather forecast is the same every day this week? The polar and subtropical jets are splitting west of WA, cradling a near stationary blocking high south of Australia. The stagnant pattern will lead to the absence of the usual day to day variability.

EXCLUSIVE: One of SA’s leading equestrian identities is being investigated over allegations he physically attacked a horse. Warning: Disturbing video content. adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-aus… via The Advertiser w/ Carl Pfeiffer and Andrew Hough

When the world is taking spectacular skyscapes of the aurora I go "Right let's take some pictures of me doing Kate Bush dancing".

We ❤️ St. Pauli! #fcsp

Victorian Country Hour looking at the phase out of live sheep exports in Australia. Ag Min Senator Murray Watt gives the details David Jochinke on the National Farmers' Federation influence and the plan going and Matt Dalgleish from Episode 3 (EP3) on what the numbers say POD👇 abc.net.au/listen/program…

#BREAKING: Five major Australian beef exporters suspended from exporting meat to China can now resume, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has confirmed. ab.co/4eeLcbl

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Over one million birds have now been killed by avian influenza or the effort to control the spread of bird flu on farms in Victoria, Australia. Victoria's chief vet confirms the figure on the Country Hour with avian influenza now on 7 (chicken/duck) properties in the state.

Agriculture Minister Murray Watt confirms to the Country Hour that the Brazil market has opened up to Australian sheep meat exports after being suspended in 2020.

First it was the strange hue of the trees now it’s a real life nightmare. This is very hard to take, it must be shared because none of us can escape this. A catastrophe like we’ve never known is unfolding & exploding at an incredible rate. 🧵 #tasmania

NEW from me: Clean energy generated a record-high 44% of China’s electricity in May 2024, pushing coal’s share down to a record low of 53%. Coal lost seven percentage points compared with May 2023, when it accounted for 60% of generation in China.

The most irritating thing about #Olympic2024 coverage on TV is that they constantly cut away from every other event to go back to the swimming.

Skating commentators putting the rest of the Olympics coverage team on notice, amazing what happens when you let passionate people on the mic.

#Adelaide just broke its all-time spring record. 1.3C at 5:40am is easily below the old record of 2.0C from 1908