Graham Perrett

Happy 91st birthday to Carol Kaye! She is one of the most prolific recorded bass guitarists in rock and pop music, playing on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 65 years.

@TonyHWindsor All the best to Lyn and your crew Tony. ❤️❤️❤️

Some personal news. My wife Lyn has been taken off chemotherapy after four years of treatment for AML leukaemia. Very proud of her and grateful to the Specialists and Staff at the amazing Haematology Unit at Newcastle Mater Hospital. Thankyou to everyone who have been so kind. Minister @Mark_Butler_MP it would be worthwhile to look at their regional delivery model.

Fraser was still shouting orders after the blast. Stay back. More mines. Stay back. Second Lieutenant John Fraser, 23, from Surfers Paradise, was lying in a minefield in the Long Hai Hills with wounds that would kill him. His men were running toward him. He told them to stop. Hours earlier, on 24 March 1968, Fraser had been leading 9 Platoon, C Company, 3RAR, through the Hon Vung feature. The jungle ridge was seeded with mines. The Viet Cong had buried M16 bounding mines along every approach. When triggered, the device launched one metre into the air and detonated at waist height, spraying steel in every direction. Fraser stepped on one. He heard the fuze arm. Standard doctrine said drop flat. But his men were too close. A bounding blast would cut through them at chest height. Fraser forced both feet together on top of the mine and drove his weight down. The explosion tore through him. It knocked the men of 9 Platoon off their feet. But the mine never bounced. Fraser's body absorbed the force that was meant to kill at range. Three soldiers nearby were wounded. All three survived. Before he was a platoon commander, Johnny Fraser was a Gold Coast kid with a gap-toothed grin. He grew up on the Gold Coast Highway in Surfers Paradise, played First XV rugby at both Nudgee and The Southport School, and was selected for the Combined GPS First XV. He started medicine at the University of Queensland. Lasted one term. Switched to a cadet role with an agricultural company. When his birthday was drawn in the national service ballot, Fraser trained at Scheyville. Instructors noted his calm under pressure and natural authority. His two-year obligation was nearly finished when 3RAR began preparing for Vietnam. He could have gone home. Instead, he applied to extend his service and deploy. He sailed with the battalion to Vung Tau in December 1967, took command of 9 Platoon, and led his men in the 3RAR ballad, "There Won't be Many Coming Back." Gallows humour from men who knew the odds. On 24 March, Fraser didn't come back. He was evacuated by helicopter. He died before it reached Vung Tau. The radio message to battalion headquarters was short. Johnny Fraser was dead. He is buried at Allambe Memorial Park in Nerang. A park 280 metres from his childhood home carries his name. At The Southport School, the most respected rugby trophy is not awarded for tries scored. It goes to the best tackler, the player who puts his body on the line for the team. It is called the Lieutenant John Fraser Memorial Trophy. His name is inscribed on Panel 5 of the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial. Lest we forget Rod Hutchings Director Virtual War Memorial Australia Share to keep his story alive 👇🏽

@circirbocegisi @Ema_Leia You always have the best imagery Amy. Even though I rarely get the whole story. ❤️❤️❤️

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Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

Nazi punks fuck off International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, 2026 Fight racism, fascism and anti-Semitism every day, always, without compromise #fucknazis #fightracism #nazipunksfuckoff #deadkennedys #punkrockhistory

@GrahamPerrettMP I’m writing about that for tomorrow!

@TroyBramston Thank you for Mabo. And I won’t mention the dismissal. RIP

Sir Anthony Mason, former High Court judge, has died at age 100. #auspol 📷 The Federation Press

🍀 Happy St Patrick’s Day🍀 The Pogues, Kirsty Maccoll, Joe Strummer and Lynval Golding perform a special ‘Rudy - A Message To You’.  Town & Country club, St. Patrick’s Day 1988 #TwoToneTuesday @NewWaveAndPunk @GCPunkNewWave @FatOldAnarchist @lee0969

🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day 🍀 Joe Strummer & The Pogues performing 'London Calling' live at the Town & Country Club, London, March 17, 1988 Rest in Peace Shane & Joe 💔🖤 #punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #punkrockhistory

@mumbletwits @sspencer_63 Shocking if true.

Update: Greens supporters remain angry at the ALP for not being the Greens party with Greens party policies. More to come ...

This Gold Coast v Dolphins match feels like Race Eight at the Dapto Dogs.

Go the Dragons! What a kick from Val. @NRL_Dragons

@Dobboinaus @SpencerHowson Nightmare in waiting!

BIG! #motelart @SpencerHowson

@QuentinHull Latrell the hero. Perfect judgement last week - as it turns out.

AJ 213!! Alex Johnston become rugby league’s greatest try-scorer and, despite the warnings, fans storm the pitch to celebrate at the SFS. Against the Roosters no less WHAT. A. MOMENT.

@DrCraigEmerson What a beautiful bird. I’ve never seen one in canberra.

Gang Gang at Garran

Interesting article by Natasya Salim. abc.net.au/news/natasya-s…

Mount Coolum Summit Track is a 2km, grade 4 hike located in Mount Coolum National Park, Queensland. The hike should take around 1.25 hours to complete. #hiking #bushwalking #trailhikingaustralia #TrailsQLD #WalkQLD #HikeQLD #Queensland #MountCoolum trailhiking.com.au/hikes/mount-co…

Take a listen. This is the best minute in parliament I’ve witnessed in years! Fantastic point. ⁦@ANUausi⁩ ⁦@VC_ANU⁩ Sound up.

@Matt_Ros Do I get to choose the country!

@GrahamPerrettMP when you get made an ambassador ill be here watching the giant big picture in front of us I suspect you would have your eye on all the things i said So if you are reading Sorry not sorry