The Latrobe Valley Express is reporting that Victorian government has axed the Latrobe Health Advocate. The Advocate was put in place to lobby for community health after the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire blanketed Morwell in toxic smoke for 45 days #springst

Watch as Vic Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas' media minder tries to block me getting photos of the Health Minister talking to #Wodonga Mayor Ron Mildren - Terrible behaviour bordermail

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Why don't we just put our powerlines underground?

1. It would cost more than $2.5million per km (according to AusGrid) which works out to be nearly DOUBLE last year's ENTIRE state budget

That's 15 times more than having lines above ground and would take 40 YEARS #springst

.Sarah Ferguson interviews Opposition Leader Peter Dutton (part 2 of 2) #ABC730

.Sarah Ferguson interviews Opposition Leader Peter Dutton about why the Opposition is backing the government's new tax cuts (part 1 of 2) #ABC730

My Kissinger story. Every 6 months, the DC @ap would send reporters to the National Archives in College Park to search through a roomful of newly declassified docs to see if anything 30 years old was newsworthy. I made one such trek in 2002.

Rare that you hear a detail that totally stops you in tracks.

Kerry Stokes’ Channel 7 has been paying Bruce Lehrmann’s rent for the past year, according to testimony in court via Sam Buckingham-Jones

SMH/Age executive editor Tory Maguire has posted a message in their Slack on behalf of the papers' leadership saying that staff who signed a letter about Australia's Israel-Palestine media coverage will be 'unable to participate in any reporting or production related to the war'

This actually happened. Eight people from Seven firmly in their seat like little children, a protest on behalf of BRS. Incredibly embarrassing.

Fair to guess that Mitchell Starc has finished his World Cup bowling career. Ends with a defining display in the semi and the final. Third all time for wickets, narrowly, from far fewer matches. Took one every 22 balls. #CWC23

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#BREAKING Russell Broadbent has lost his preselection battle. Mary Aldred succeeds him. #auspol

Fossil fuel industry to expand for decades despite global carbon pledges, UN report finds abc.net.au/news/2023-11-0…

Police arrest Erin Patterson over Leongatha suspected mushroom poisoning deaths abc.net.au/news/2023-11-0… via ABC Australia

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Climate change: 2023 likely to be the hottest in 100,000 years smh.com.au/environment/cl…

Less than a week since OpenAI started rolling out ChatGPT vision.

And people have been busy executing god-like tasks.

35 truly mind-boggling examples:

(29th is my favorite)

Three major bushfires are burning out of control in Eastern Victoria, as thousands of campers who took to the bush for long weekend pack up and flee.
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Victorian Premier Dan Andrews will resign as Premier at 5pm tomorrow. He said it wasn’t an easy decision, but “Now is the time to step away” #springst