#Melbourne

1/ THREAD - HOW THE CCP'S ALLIES HAVE HANDLED/USED COVID-19This thread is a survey of how some of CCP's closest allies have handled COVID-19. Some interesting circumstantial evidence can
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A thread for Dorothea Jordan, born #OTD 1761, genius of the stage. She fled rape and coercion at the hands of a theatre manager in her native Dublin, arriving in
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New ASIO boss, Mike Burgess (2019) had decades in tech security & worked for TELSTRA. This may have been critical to TELSTRA becoming part of the new CLARA Consortium &
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Thread Of Awesome Bird's-Eye Views Of Cities Around The World. (credits: http://over-view.com ) I start with my home city:1. Barcelona 2. New York City (US) 3. London (UK) 4. Madrid (Spain)
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Korumburra was on the South Gippsland Railway.Opened 1891 on the Melbourne to Port Albert line.Branch open 1894 to Jumbunna, 1896 to Outtrim.The substantial brick station constructed in 1907.1930 Network maphttp://www.vrhistory.com/VRMaps/V
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Science. What even is it? And why do even the moustachioed bad guys try and claim its authority?A thread. Essentially, science is a way of shortcutting a debate. Look, here
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The new strain is a real threat. The article is by Prof McNally, Prof of Microbial Genomics who discovered it. He's very concerned. Please read it.Then read this short thread
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[THE TRUTH ABOUT AUSTRALIA DAY]- Reflections of a High School History Teacher. Today Iโ€™ve spent my morning reading and reflecting about our past and our present. Our history is complicated,
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I've been having a look around at some of the websites identified in @Graphika_NYC's recent report on artificial Twitter amplification linked to Belgium's decision about whether to allow Huawei to
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HOPE for Australian Immigration Detainees after men FREED under centuries-old legal principleโ€œThe courts are starting to say, 'u canโ€™t take someone who HASNT DONE ANYTHING WRONG & then LOCK THEM
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NSFW Thread! This is a thread, which I will hopefully come back to occasionally to update, that lists trans-friendly adult products/services in Australia.Some of the pages may use terminology some
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Good morning sports fans Yep #BallsOnly is back! Sorry about the long hibernation, but to be frank, spending hours every Sunday morning screenshotting how badly Australian media treat #WomenInSport is
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Reading the tribunal judgment of Bryan Meagher SC in CLINCH v REP (No. 2) (Discrimination) [2020] ACAT 68https://www.acat.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/1624613/CLINCH-v-REP-No.-2-Discrimination-2020-ACAT-68.pdfIt is properly chilli
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1/ The Australian "Nebulizer-gate" maybe a red herring to distract from the fact that airborne transmission of COVID-19 happens all the timeI've been following this story, which didn't make a
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Victorian Update July 5 Dan Andrews2536 Total74 new cases16 from outbreaks1 hotel quarantine 4 routine testing53 under investigation26 in hospital3 in ICU21000+ tested 928171 tests in total since 1/1543 active
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Story of a hippie who died for Afghans. Between 1950s & 1970s, many westerners would travel overland along the Hippie trail (Eur-Turkey-Iran-Afg-Pak-India-Nepal etc.) to experience the orient โ€“ its culture,
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