Tim Hughes

@gregrobertsqld @Karmageddon67 The abject lack of government planning that has allowed this to happen is unbelievable. Even worse is how complicit some of our major conservation organisations have been is this destruction. We will look back in 20-30 years and wonder: what were they thinking?

Environmental destruction of #wildlife and biodiversity on a massive scale underway in #Australia due to #windfarm developments #wildoz #birds #bats sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com/2026/02/biodiv…

@noplaceforsheep @AlboMP Grace is a total legend. Albanese would never describe a man like this. Methinks that either the job is too big for him or he is too small for the job.

Albanese described Grace Tame as “difficult” The word misogynists have used forever to describe women who won’t do as we’re told by men. @AlboMP check your misogyny, sir 🙄

@venom1s What great white hunters did was truly terrible. Yet because of hunting Teddy Roosevelt did more for conservation in the US than any other President. And because of hunting, large areas of forest were protected in India. They are now the basis of India’s wonderful tiger reserves

Between 1875 and 1925, an estimated 80,000 tigers were killed in India by British colonial hunters and local elites, reducing the population by nearly 95%. In 1878, British officials officially recorded the killing of 1,579 tigers. They hunted cheetahs to extinction. We don’t talk about the devastating effect of colonization on wildlife.

@LyrebirdDream Our spending on the environment is not only pathetic it makes no economic sense. Tourism is one of our main export earners. A huge number of those tourists come because of our environment. And we are neglecting it and destroying it. Both incredibly sad and stupid.

The Australian Government spends $1 billion pa protecting Nature and $26 billion pa harming it!👇🏽 abc.net.au/news/science/2…

@EmlynBreese I think you will be surprised at just how good it will be. At the same time it shows you just how big an Australian Rules Football ground is. The players are super fit athletes.

I'm still hoping to go but noone should be fooling themselves that this is going to be a good viewing experience for most people in attendance

@DavidShoebridge The visit is an incredible contribution to the much sought after social cohesion.

They should not have invited Herzog to Australia. Now the police are saying they have concerns about how his visit will cause “significant animosity”. The Albanese Government needs to withdraw this invitation now!

@jeremyleibler @abcnews @JoshBBornstein @Isaac_Herzog Delusional

I shared some thoughts with @abcnews in response to @JoshBBornstein article on @Isaac_Herzog State visit to Australia and why it is important - Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is not a threat to social cohesion, but a measure of our commitment to it abc.net.au/religion/jerem…

@SandyHorne61 Another great image!

I spent some quality time with a large group of pink cockatoos (formerly called Major Mitchell cockatoos) at Kinchega NP on Saturday morning. I rarely see these special birds - so it was a very nice encounter that will rank up there amongst my top birding experiences.

@sciencegirl Best, most beautiful waterfall in the world.

An incredible aerial view of Iguazu Falls

@jonnydels Yep. Would rather be the 49ers than at least we other teams.

I don't think the 49ers are as far behind the Rams and Seahawks as so many seem to be sure of. "holes everywhere" is what I keep seeing. It's not that they have holes everywhere, they're missing force multipliers. Guys whose presence amplifies the role players. Bosa is a force multiplier. He makes Bryce Huff dangerous because Bosa wins at the 5-yard mark as well or better than anyone. Pair that with Huff at 7 and IDL at 3 and it's a suffocating pass rush. Fred Warner is a force multiplier. A guy who can suffocate the hashes and close any cutbacks inside makes outside angles easier forces QB's to hold the ball. A true X-receiver becomes a force multiplier because teams can't man up a weak-side and roll zones over passing strength as easily. They aren't there yet, but they're not as full of holes as many people say.

@SandyHorne61 That is a wonderful portrait of a truly beautiful bird. Wish I could take one like that!

Mother Nature must have been smoking pot when she came up with this design. But I love it 😄 Pink cockatoo, Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.

@Vincent_Ledvina Yep looking along the mountains to Denali is one of the best views you can see from a plane.

Sorry if it’s bright, but unless you say anything the window stays open the entire time on flights to or from Alaska

@ezzingaza Genocide

A doctor friend who came to Gaza with a medical delegation told me he wanted to offer a small act of support to orphaned children. The word small felt bitterly ironic in a place where even breathing has become heavier than people can endure. We decided to go together to a school that had recently reopened in Jabalia, in northern Gaza or what is still called a school, because the word itself can no longer carry the truth. When we arrived, it felt less like entering an educational institution and more like stepping into a chapter from a book about the end of the world. No walls. No classrooms. No blackboards. Just fewer than twenty tents erected over what was once a children’s playground, a place once meant for running and laughter, now repurposed as a shelter for survival, and a stage where education rises from ashes. Children sit directly on the ground, as their ancestors once did centuries ago, but while their grandparents learned out of curiosity and hope, these children learn out of sheer necessity to survive. Small faces scorched by sun and fear. Eyes older than their years. Fragile bodies carrying a fatigue no child should ever have to bear. We asked how many students were enrolled. The number struck like a bullet to the chest: 1,884 children !! I thought I had misheard. I asked again. The principal repeated it calmly (a calm that felt like surrender ) then opened a thick notebook filled with names. Names beyond what this space could possibly contain, and beyond what the heart could bear without breaking. 1,884 children in fewer than twenty tents. Three shifts a day. Three hours per child. Only three days a week. Even education here has been rationed, fragmented, besieged, as if knowledge itself requires permits, as if the mind, too, lives under blockade. Then we asked about the number of orphans. We expected a number we could emotionally withstand .. twenty or thirty … something survivable. But the number exceeded our ability to stand: 181 orphaned children, in this one school alone !! 181 hearts broken before they could fully form. 181 children returning to tents with no father, no mother, no real roof, no shoulder to lean on. 181 young souls forced to grow too soon, learning fear instead of songs. One out of every ten children here is an orphan. One out of every ten carries a void nothing will ever fill. One out of every ten begins life standing on the edge. Orphanhood here is not merely the loss of a parent it is the loss of safety, the loss of childhood, the loss of the right to grow slowly. These children will not grow as they should. They will grow carrying memories heavier than their ages. They will grow knowing the world betrayed them early. And they will carry with them a silent question: Why us? And why alone?! And the cruelest truth of all? This is only one school. And this is only a fraction of a catastrophe too vast to count. We no longer count students. We count orphans. We measure devastation by the number of children who lost their parents. We measure the future by the number of hearts broken in childhood. This is not an education crisis. This is not a passing tragedy. This is a crime being committed against an entire generation, an uprooting of dreams before they are born, a demolition of a future before it is allowed to breathe. When we left, there were no words in my chest. only a weight that felt like mourning, a sorrow unlike any I had known before, and the realization that we were not standing before a school, but before a delayed cemetery for children’s dreams. If 181 orphans exist in a single school, how many orphans does all of Gaza now carry in its heart? And how many more childhoods must be buried before the world understands that what is happening here is not a war, but a slow slaughter of an entire people’s future? #WoundedGaza

@caitoz And hopefully it is still legal to say that by far the major cause of rising antisemitism in Australia is the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza by Israel. And the second major cause is what Israel is doing in the West Bank.

Know your rights, Australians. It is still legal to voice criticisms of Israel. So we should voice them as much as possible, because we don't know how much longer we'll have that right. It is still legal to associate with pro-Palestine groups. So we should do so at every opportunity, because we don't know when they'll start listing them as "hate groups" and imprisoning anyone who continues to associate with them. Unless you are in certain parts of Sydney while the post-Bondi protest ban remains in effect, it is presently fully legal to hold pro-Palestine marches. So attend as many as you are able, because you don't know when they'll be shut down altogether. It is still legal to say that Israel is a genocidal apartheid state, and to share information and opinions about its abuses. So we should do so as much as we can, because we don't know when that right will be taken away. It is still legal to say that Zionism is a racist and murderous political ideology and that everything we've seen in Gaza is the result of Zionists getting everything they want. So we should say it frequently, because that right could vanish at any time. It is still legal to say "Fuck Israel, free Palestine." So we should say it loud and say it often, because we don't know how much longer we'll be allowed to do so without getting thrown into prison. The Israel lobby is working frenetically to crush free speech in Australia, and the swamp monsters in Canberra are either actively facilitating this agenda or doing far too little to stop it. The more aggressively they work to take away our right to oppose Israel, the more aggressively we need to oppose both Israel and their efforts to silence us. We're not just fighting for Gaza anymore, we're fighting for our own civil rights, and for our children, and for our grandchildren. They're actively assaulting our ability to speak critically of power and make this nation a more tyrannical place. The only appropriate response to this is ferocious defiance. Our future depends on it.

@Chrisactevans @slsandpet @noplaceforsheep @AlboMP @SenKatyG I wonder if her threat to you is hate speech? I would say, yes. What an absurd law.

@noplaceforsheep @AlboMP That was quick. Wore this t shirt today. In the local shopping centre bathroom washing my hands & in walks a woman who tells me that the words on my shirt are hate speech & if she sees me wearing it again she will report me. @SenKatyG care to explain how exactly I’m safer now

So every credible HR organisation in the world states Israel is committing genocide. IJC has issued arrest warrants - but in Australia - TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ISRAEL IS A CRIME This is contemptible @AlboMP

@noplaceforsheep They banned all flags years ago to try to take nationalist violence out of the crowds. The security guy was just following standard protocol. It was nothing about Palestine at all.

Since when has it been “a law” that people can’t wear a Palestinian flag to a football match?

@MikeCarlton01 If Australia signs up for this it should be the end for Albanese and Labor. I listened to Mark Carney at Davos and it really rammed home just how much our political “leaders” have shrunk from actually being leaders.

The Butcher of Gaza joins the ‘Board of Peace.’ Somewhere, the shade of George Orwell emits a loud guffaw…

@PolymarketBlitz Three I’s in two sentences says it all.

@RonniSalt @shot_au Great article. It is just so very very hard to see how this aligns with “australian values”.

My latest article in the @shot_au on the dark days of McCarthyism coming to Australia to eclipse our cultural landscape under the guise of eradicating communism - whoops sorry - 'antisemitism'. The #AdelaideFestival, the arts and the dark arts. 🙏🏽 theshot.net.au/uncategorized/…

@DaveMilbo @AlboMP If the Greens are smart (huge assumption) they should be able to drag a big swag of votes away from Labor over this. The level of disillusionment is off the charts.

Been screaming about this sort of thing happening to our democracy, in exactly this way, for exactly this purpose, for... fucking years now. And now that it's happening I'm just kinda numb. A hearty and well deserved fuck you and suck my fucking balls to so many people. @AlboMP