Hmm... now that you've asked... 😆

In the case of these chubby lizards there's good reason because they have a pretty bright blue tongue but in Australia blue has different meanings depending on the context.

There's a tradition of calling red-haired men Bluey or Blue.

Someone who is 'true blue' is someone who is genuine and honest, the mythical 'Aussie'.

If you're 'having a blue' with someone it means you're having a fight or an argument.

And there are more uses of 'blue' but the above are the most Aussie slang ones.

As a non-Strayan, I'm a bit disappointed. I was expecting the article to be about how the dangerous beast is going to kill you. I mean, everybody knows that all animals in Australia try to kill you, right?

Hmm...there's a cartoon called Bluey. Tis an Aussie nickname eh.

“This wind farm alone will provide enough renewable energy to power 1.2 million homes – it’s a great example of why we need to press ahead with transmission infrastructure to distribute renewable energy across the state,” said Kat Lucas-Healey, Environment Victoria’s senior climate and energy advisor.

“The two battery energy storage systems included as part of the project will ensure power keeps flowing even when winds are light – keeping the lights on in Western Victoria and across the state.”

This is one reason why the LibNat coalition is deperate to block projects like this: They demonstrate the lies about reliability. It's renewables plus battery that is far more reliable than coal-fired power, and the more of these come online the more obvious that will be.

Always be weary of taking on retirees in lawfare. These people may have literally nothing else to do but fight you.

Excellent.

Now they just need to overturn the HVO approval

High Court rules in favour of climate group in Hunter Valley coalmine case

Stick a reminder on your pet brush so you don't forget.

Pet hair from brushing? I have plenty of rabbit hair and leave some out for the birds when I remember, but a lot of what could be usable angora fiber just ends up in the bin or compost.

I did some contract work in Nillumbik a couple decades ago and Rabbits were an issue then.

We would drive the truck out of the yard in the wee hours of the morning and there were bunnies everywhere.

Playing devils advocate, wombats are excellent burrowers and I am sure they should be able to escape their burrows.

Unfortunately, rabbits are even better burrowers. I’m sure they will create other exits and the existing reinforced exits will provide excellent protection from feral cats and foxes.

You know what we're like here in Oz, we like to adopt NZ stuff and say it's our own! 😆

EDIT: And the article does say

early songbirds radiated out from Gondwana – the ancient supercontinent that included Australia, Antarctica and South America.

so even broader than NZ.

It revealed that all songbirds originated in Australia, before spreading across the world.

This is an interesting snippet of information. Although, the abstract of the article it links to seems to suggest New Zealand rather than Australia; and given we're talking far enough back Australia is part of a supercontinent, it's perhaps a moot point exactly which country that would be today - might as well say Australia if we're talking to an Australian audience, right?

Nevertheless, still interesting.

It's Spring

In the meantime, we're almost in drought in parts of Qld.

So let's fight back!

They haven't won yet. Let's pull our finger out.

i'd suggest a much easier metric is how people vote. We can see from the polling results >80% are enablers of this evil. We get this info reliably every election, state or federal

The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing

And we can finally quantify by how much Evil is winning.

OG Magpies are corvids, but they’re like the biker gang of the corvid world. They do the whole CSI thing when one of them dies, and they’ll absolutely attack any threat as a group. One time my chad cat got one in his mouth somehow and ran around and its compatriots went berserk - they also never forget a face.

They’re famous for stealing stuff but all crows do that afaik.

I looked through various sources but did not keep notes because it was just a little article for a local paper and I can't remember. I've written to the Qld Museum 'Ask an expert' (great service). They reply within one month. I'll do a new post when they reply..

Happy news!

Nice. I recently was talking to about about how common these things use to be, before we crashed their population. Apparently they've found some new places to regrow their population that aren't as trashed.

AWESOME! It's been so long since I've seen a Bogong in Melbourne.

Coming out of a particular closet, are you mate?

Go ahead, expose your monumental ignorance and superstition.