Okay, I've seen two snakes and the air-con is blasting at 9:30am.
Summer has arrived.
#meanwhileinaustralia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #meanwhileinaustralia, aggregated by home.social.
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Meanwhile, in Australia...
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CW: Auspol - FIFA World Cup
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#Dgar Now listening to:
Dumb Ways To Die
~ Tangerine KittyDumb Ways to Die is an Australian public awareness campaign video and media franchise made by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria to promote railway safety.
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Does everything in #Australia really want to kill you?The Secret Reason Australians Don’t Fear Spiders
~ @TabooEducation on YouTube
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The Weird and Whacky World of Australia’s Route Numbering
~ Building Beautifully
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@PatternChaser Kookaburras are big Kingfishers. They’re a bigger, more stocky bird with a wider beak. We love them. They sound like they’re laughing.
Magpies are famous for attacking people during their nesting season. Kookaburras are famous for laughing at people who are being attacked by magpies during the nesting season.
Fact: Most Australians fear Magpies above all other animals in Australia.
Amber and Billo’s - Amber vs the Magpie - The Eyes Don’t Work [2 min 20sec YouTube video]
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Australian Magpies.
They are such badasses.
They will sometimes wear seagull faces on their beaks.
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Meanwhile, in #Australia…
The claw of a male Southern Cassowary!
Photo by Palaeontology PhD researcher, Sarah Davis. Via ABC Perth.
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I took the video on the way home from work. These are pretty-faced wallabies, or whip-tailed wallabies. They often hang out around my driveway.
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Meanwhile, in Australia…
World Safari II: The Final Adventure (1984)
https://archive.org/details/WorldSaf.1/World+Saf+2.mp4
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Meanwhile, in Australia…
World Safari (1977)
https://archive.org/details/WorldSaf.1/World+Saf.+1.mp4
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Meanwhile in Australia.
Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures:
Survival Tips For Survival You Won’t Survive Without #Coight
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Australian Politics Out of Context
~ historically accurate sacoglossan
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I’m handing off today’s joke to Shane & Maurie from classic Aussie televisions “Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday”, circa 1988.
The Great Aussie Joke | Maurie Fields & Shane Bourne | Hey Hey it’s Saturday | 1988
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Geelong (1966) | Life in Australia Series | 4K Restoration
~ NFSA Films (National Film and Sound Archive of Australia)
[20 min YouTube video][Video Description] Now released in stunning 4K, Life in Australia: Geelong is part of the Life in Australia series produced by the Commonwealth Film Unit for the Department of Immigration in 1966. Directed by Antonio Colacino, this short film was designed to showcase an idealised version of life in the Victorian regional city of Geelong — complete with stable jobs, family homes, bustling shops, and thriving sporting and cultural life.
But Geelong is very much a film of its time.
Made in the final years of the White Australia policy, this government-funded series was created to appeal to (mostly British) migrants, presenting a carefully curated image of Australia as a land of opportunity and prosperity. What’s missing tells us just as much as what’s included — there are no First Nations people, no visible cultural diversity, and women are portrayed in traditional domestic and clerical roles.
Viewed today, these films offer a fascinating glimpse into the mid-20th century Australian self-image: aspirational, orderly, and framed like a TV sitcom of the era. While they don’t reflect the full complexity or diversity of Australian society — especially during a decade marked by protest, reform, and transformation — they remain compelling time capsules of a nation in the midst of change.
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Somewhere in #australia, well, actually in Halls Gap (Grampians National Park).
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CW: Arachnid
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Hey, Western Australia: Do you really have a useless loop?! 😆
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Last day of the year. Please slow down 🙃
#MeanwhileInAustralia #australia #downunder #NewYearsEve #slowdown
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The video title is a bit click-baity, especially for the national broadcaster, but there’s some cool shots of some ripped kangaroos!
When Do Kangaroos Kill? Shocking Encounters Caught On Camera
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#Dgar is shotgunning Milo milk thru double coated Tim-Tams.
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Australian television history.
Plasmo and the Moon Tower
~ PLASMO (1989)
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Ozzy Man commentates a fight between two male Kangaroos in the wild.
https://youtu.be/cKec1T9l020
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10 DANGEROUS things in AUSTRALIA that will unalive you…
~ Set To Hike
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Should We Fear Huntsman Spiders?
~ ABC Science