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Ive been finding and uploading CMTs around the Walgett- Carinda area for almost 10 years now. The biggest and best scars are found around the Cumborah ridges while the most interesting TinTs are here in the sandhills of the old Barwon river. However, the Ginghet creek & floodplains have the most extraordinary connected coolabahs which […]
You know, the Currant bush aka Warrior bush is a very interesting guest. It can live up very high in bimblebox As well as being found in coolabahs & rosewoods and is agreeable to sharing a crotch with other guests. Below is 2 views of a rosewood & currant bush double TinT on the neighbour’s […]
Im writing this from the ‘big smoke’ (Sydney) trying out some city living for a change. I will be of ‘no fixed abode’ this time next year which will new for me. Not couch surfing as such but moving around the mid North coast hinterland, the central west, the far North west & Sydney. Over […]
The definition of gaslighting can be extended to include an act or acts perpetuated by any person in a position of power designed to manipulate less powerful others to doubt themselves or question their own sanity or memory (Davis & Ernst, 2019). Ive had some interesting emails before but a month ago I was […]
We are Australia’s only national institution focused exclusively on the diverse history, cultures and heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. Through places like AIATSIS, we can wake up the people with knowledge… There might be precious mysteries to help us understand ourselves again. We can look to the past to find our way.’ […]
Since I chose not to sign up for any social media it came as a shock to read what the racist cretins of this country had to say about Micaela Hambrett’s article “Culturally modified trees ‘a national treasure’ in outback NSW”. Originally published online by the ABC in November last year, the article is now […]
The Grampians in Vic. are alight again & threatening farms and small towns like the fires there in Feb earlier this year. The Aboriginal word for this place is “Gariwerd” and there are many ancient rock paintings as well the threatened Greater glider & Brush tailed Phascogale living there. ‘Precious environmental assets’ going up in […]
Much has happened since I wrote the Iast blog so I hope I don’t forget anything important. Ive been walking up around Cumborah again and found some astonishing trees. The problem is that since the 3G shut down there is bugga all mobile service up there so no geotags on my phone photos. When this […]
(Professor Stephen D. Hopper AC BSc (Hons) PhD Hon DSc FLS FTSE … not Charlie Windsor) I met Steve Hopper over in W.A at the Kwodjet Goorliny Symposium in Albany (Noongar boodja) back in May. He’s the top Australian botanist/ ecologist of his generation with a particular interest in indigenous knowledge systems and conservation as […]
I lost my old dog Looloo this week but it turned out she wasn’t dead but hidden under a large plastic trough. Why she had dug under there or why she didn’t bark to let me find her I don’t know. A dog’s lifespan is short compared to ours while our life span is short […]