#Calla Wahlquist

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When our miners blew up a cave of a people's sacred art 41,000 years older than most world art,⁴ it was just an accident.

4. Calla Wahlquist, 'Rio Tinto Blasts 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site to Expand Iron Ore Mine', The Guardian, 26 May 2020.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

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Australia Covid live news updates: almost 500 extra Sydney cases undetected in community for days after mistake by major testing facility

Australia Covid live news updates: almost 500 extra Sydney cases undetected in community for days after mistake by major testing facility

  This article titled “Australia Covid live news updates: almost 500 extra Sydney cases undetected in community for days after mistake by major testing facility” was written by Donna Lu (now) and Tory Shepherd (earlier), for theguardian.com on Tuesday 28th December 2021 03.29 UTC 3.29am GMT Zero new cases for Western Australia: WA Health has confirmed that, as of 10am this morning, WA has…

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Coronavirus live news: Russia sets new record daily death toll; at least 66 die in Iraq Covid hospital fire

Coronavirus live news: Russia sets new record daily death toll; at least 66 die in Iraq Covid hospital fire

  This article titled “Coronavirus live news: Russia sets new record daily death toll; at least 66 die in Iraq Covid hospital fire” was written by Mattha Busby (now); Martin Belam and Helen Sullivan (earlier), for theguardian.com on Tuesday 13th July 2021 11.33 UTC 12.33pm BST As greater Sydney prepares for its fourth week of lockdown, a multibillion-dollar Covid assistance package has been…

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‘Monstrous’ and ‘malevolent’ sculpture Quasi alarms office workers and divides opinion

A “terrifying” five-metre tall sculpture of a hand with a face has been flown in from the South Island to perch on top of a contemporary art gallery in the New Zealand capital of Wellington.

It fixes passers by with a disapproving expression. Meant to liven up the Civic Square that was damaged in a 2016 earthquake, the work has instead alarmed and terrified locals, who have described the work as “a Lovecraftian nightmare [that] has come to life”.

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Reading List, Ear for Water Edition.

The Gaps And then they revealed that solids were not solid That a wall was not solid That it consisted of molecules fixed and vibrating Some distance apart, as did the flesh That solidity was really the likelihood Of stuff not falling Between two chairs, down the gaps And that walking through the wall was not impossible That it could be like Slipping between pine trunks into a forest Which had looked from the road impermeable But was where something lived And that one could peer back from the gloom towards the light A different creature With tender eyes, with an ear for water (Frances Leviston, 2007) * [Image] What is fun? As we’re all scrambling to try and enjoy ourselves, I loved this reported feature that examines what having fun even looks like right now [Rachel Sugar, The Goods at Vox] 

I aspire to be a person who loves autumn (because my previous position of wildly resenting it as a harbinger of winter did nothing for me), but to be a white woman who loves autumn is to walk a fine line. [Hazel Cills, Jezebel] 

On the paint colours of the pandemic [Kyle Chayka, ArtNews] 

A restaurant for a chipmunk [Angela Hansberger, Bon Appetit] 

Wesley Morris grew a quarantine moustache, and realised being a Black man with a 'stache is a mood [The New York Times] 

Stevie Nicks on her only regret, her klonopin addiction: "It was not a dreadful or traumatic time, she says. She sat at home, watched films, ate good food, saw friends. But she stopped creating. “It was a totally non-time. I just existed. It took away all my wonderful drama, my tempestuousness, my compassion, my empathy – all those things that drove me to my piano. I say to myself now: ‘How did you survive eight years without your wonderful drama?’ “I always look back and think: what could I have done during that time?" [Jenny Stevens, The Guardian]  "But in this ear it goes, "You will regret it forever not knowing what happened." The little window of opportunity for that challenge came and I could have shut it down in two seconds and would have had none of the beautiful story, the life lessons in the celestial moments in the night, sitting there in the cradle of God’s hands, and thinking, "my gosh, I've found it." Then, whoosh, spitting a loogie in my face. It was beautiful.” [Matthew McConaughey, GQ] 

Why are films and books so long, all of a sudden? [Leaf Abuthnot, The Guardian] 

“A lot of medical students and doctors I have handed [the models] to have said ‘Oh I didn’t know it was as big as that’, because it’s been diminished in the medical literature.” On science including the clitoris, at last. [Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian] 

On the “Am I The Asshole” subreddit, and how it can actually help make people better. [Tove Danovich, The Ringer] A history of laundry, a never-ending chore [Rachel Sugar, The Goods at Vox] 

What is the internet doing to Boomers’ brains? A thorough investigation by Michael Hobbes on a fascinating subject - older people are actually more skeptical in general (because they have so much experience), but something happens when they go online and it’s devastating. [The Huffington Post] 

An uplifting look at the roaring 20s, which followed the last pandemic - we will get over this. Life will come back. [Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic]

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Australian Mouse Feared Extinct After Fires Found Alive

https://sciencespies.com/news/australian-mouse-feared-extinct-after-fires-found-alive/

Australian Mouse Feared Extinct After Fires Found Alive

A critically endangered Australian rodent called the smoky mouse was already fighting off extinction when the 2019-2020 fire season hit. The bushfires torched 13.6 million acres, may have killed an estimated one billion animals and put more than 100 threatened species at risk.

Before the fires, the smoky mouse was only found in the wild in a small number of forested pockets in southeastern Australia, and when more than 90 percent of the mouse’s habitat was razed by the conflagration, researchers feared the worst, says Matt Kean, the environment minister for New South Wales, in a statement.

The fires even came for the mice in captive breeding facilities hoping to restore their ailing wild populations. In February, the smoky mouse made headlines as the first recorded instance of wildlife being killed by smoke inhalation when nine mice died at a captive breeding facility near Canberra, reported Kate Midena of the Australian Broadcast Corporation.

In 2016, the Guardian’s Calla Wahlquist reported that there were just 100 recorded smoky mice left in the wild and that a captive breeding program would be essential to their continued survival. Captive breeding has produced 47 mature smoky mice over the last four years.

Now, motion-sensing cameras set up in the recovering Australian landscape have captured images of the smoky mouse at seven separate sites, hopefully indicating that the 50-gram Aussie rodent can bounce back from the brink, reports the Australian Associated Press.

Over the course of five weeks, 58 cameras captured more than 40,000 images in burnt, semi-burnt and unburnt areas of the mountainous Kosciuszko National Park, according to the statement. The cameras also revealed signs that the threatened eastern pygmy-possum had survived in three of the burnt sites.

“After such a confronting and challenging start to the year, it was a very happy moment to know a native animal already threatened with extinction has survived,” says Kean in the statement.

The rodent’s primary threats are habitat loss and being eaten by feral cats and invasive European foxes. Government programs working to eradicate the feral cats and non-native foxes may also be critical to giving the mouse a chance at continued existence.

Though he may be biased, biologist Kevin Rowe, a senior curator of mammals for Museums Victoria, told the Guardian that the mice are “really just lovely.” Their charcoal fur is reputedly soft and silky and Rowe even said that “they actually smell really nice… Males especially smell like a kind of smoky burnt vanilla, and they have really nice calm temperaments.”

In the next 12 months surveys will search for surviving pockets of the endangered mouse’s population with an eye towards future reintroduction efforts of captive bred mice.

“Population numbers in the wild are quite low for this native mouse and there are now only two sites in New South Wales where smoky mice are known to occur,” says Linda Broome, a smoky mouse expert and the threatened species officer for the New South Wales state government, in the statement.

Besides reintroducing captive-bred mice, Broome is also hopeful that the Australian spring, when the mice breed, will bring more good news for the species.

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'Ocean Elders' urge Malcolm Turnbull to reject Adani coalmine

‘Ocean Elders’ urge Malcolm Turnbull to reject Adani coalmine

  This article titled “‘Ocean Elders’ urge Malcolm Turnbull to reject Adani coalmine” was written by Calla Wahlquist, for theguardian.com on Wednesday 21st June 2017 18.00 UTC

A group of prominent oceanographers and global leaders has written to Malcolm Turnbull urging him to reject the proposed Adani Carmichael coalmine, which it says will have a devastating impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

The…

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I don’t agree with all of her opinions here (not all heroines in contemporaries are getting pregnant within six weeks -- that is a selection issue, not a genre issue -- and many romance novels have serious issues at their core that “concern real life”) but this is a lovely account of coming around on romance novels nonetheless.

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Coronavirus news live: South Korea reports daily Covid case record as Omicron variant hits

Coronavirus news live: South Korea reports daily Covid case record as Omicron variant hits

  This article titled “Coronavirus news live: South Korea reports daily Covid case record as Omicron variant hits” was written by Martin Belam (now) and Samantha Lock (earlier), for theguardian.com on Thursday 2nd December 2021 07.36 UTC 7.36am GMT UK approves GSK/Vir Biotechnology Covid-19 treatment Xevudy (sotrovimab) The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK…

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Coronavirus live news: Melbourne locks down as global cases pass 12m

Coronavirus live news: Melbourne locks down as global cases pass 12m

  This article titled “Coronavirus live news: Melbourne locks down as global cases pass 12m” was written by Helen Sullivan, for theguardian.com on Thursday 9th July 2020 03.44 UTC

4.44am BST

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany rose 442 to 197,783, data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed on Thursday, with the reported death toll up 12 at 9,048.

4.3…

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Winter is here and Covid is back – Melburnians have heard this script before | Calla Wahlquist

Winter is here and Covid is back – Melburnians have heard this script before | Calla Wahlquist

Join Hafta-Ichi to Research the article “Winter is here and Covid is back – Melburnians have heard this script before | Calla Wahlquist” Winter is here and Covid is back. Six new cases in Melbourne on Wednesday, 15 so far this week. You could be forgiven for thinking we had fallen into a timeslip and been spat out somewhere around June 2020. We have growing case numbers in the northern suburbs,…

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sequinedably replied to your link “How I fell in love with romance novels | Calla Wahlquist”

I do end up accidentally always reading ones with pregnancies whenever I least want to, to be fair to her haha

Pregnancy in general is so hard to avoid in romance! My point of contention is with her complete generalization that heroines tend “to get married and knocked up within six weeks,” which is a bit over the top. If she’d said there’s still a lot of marriage and pregnancy in contemporaries, which doesn’t necessarily reflect all of the choices available to modern women, I would have been right there with her, but I don’t like that characterization of contemporaries being rife with quickie marriages/pregnancies.

Have you tried Julie James? I’m slowly working my way through her FBI/US Attorney series and at least the first two books are pregnancy-free, iirc. Well, the heroines at least. I believe the second book has a friend who is either pregnant or a mom, my memory is fuzzy.

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Coronavirus live news: Russia sets new record daily death toll; at least 66 die in Iraq Covid hospital fire

Coronavirus live news: Russia sets new record daily death toll; at least 66 die in Iraq Covid hospital fire

  This article titled “Coronavirus live news: Russia sets new record daily death toll; at least 66 die in Iraq Covid hospital fire” was written by Mattha Busby (now); Martin Belam and Helen Sullivan (earlier), for theguardian.com on Tuesday 13th July 2021 11.33 UTC 12.33pm BST As greater Sydney prepares for its fourth week of lockdown, a multibillion-dollar Covid assistance package has been…

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Coronavirus live news: Melbourne locks down as global cases pass 12m

Coronavirus live news: Melbourne locks down as global cases pass 12m

  This article titled “Coronavirus live news: Melbourne locks down as global cases pass 12m” was written by Helen Sullivan, for theguardian.com on Thursday 9th July 2020 03.44 UTC

4.44am BST

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany rose 442 to 197,783, data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed on Thursday, with the reported death toll up 12 at 9,048.

4.3…

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Coronavirus live news: US deaths near 150,000 as Hong Kong warns hospitals could collapse

Coronavirus live news: US deaths near 150,000 as Hong Kong warns hospitals could collapse

  This article titled “Coronavirus live news: US deaths near 150,000 as Hong Kong warns hospitals could collapse” was written by Lucy Campbell (now); Kevin Rawlinson and Helen Sullivan (earlier), for theguardian.com on Wednesday 29th July 2020 12.33 UTC

1.33pm BST

A plane carrying 129 Vietnamese nationals diagnosed with Covid-19 arrived in their homeland from Equatorial Guineaon Wednesday,…

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Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion to quit politics at next election

Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion to quit politics at next election

Author: Calla Wahlquist / Source: the Guardian

The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has announced that he will not recontest the next election, joining frontbenchers Michael Keenan and Kelly O’Dwyer in the list of high profile resignations from the Morrison government.

Scullion announced his decision on Australia Day, while the prime minister, Scott Morrison, was addressing the…