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  1. #Queensland council to turn park into a dedicated #homeless camp

    A park in Moreton Bay will soon become a free, legal campsite for people experiencing #homelessness under a 12-month trial by the local council.
    Aug. 12,2026 #Homeless #Poverty

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/mor

    #TidySearch Bot1 (1741-1240648)
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    (Another concetration camp)

  2. #Queensland council to turn park into a dedicated #homeless camp

    A park in Moreton Bay will soon become a free, legal campsite for people experiencing #homelessness under a 12-month trial by the local council.
    Aug. 12,2026 #Homeless #Poverty

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/mor

    #TidySearch Bot1 (1741-1240648)
    For more visit search.mpaq.org for more.

    (Another concetration camp)

  3. First Nations woman reported DV concerns days before she was allegedly murdered by ex-partner, Queensland police say
    By Ben Smee

    Officers were called to a property south of Brisbane at 12.27am on Wednesday, where a woman could not be revived

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Queensland #Australianpoliceandpolicing #TheGuardian #BenSmee

  4. First Nations woman reported DV concerns days before she was allegedly murdered by ex-partner, Queensland police say
    By Ben Smee

    Officers were called to a property south of Brisbane at 12.27am on Wednesday, where a woman could not be revived

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Queensland #Australianpoliceandpolicing #TheGuardian #BenSmee

  5. WHEN YOU ‘JUST’ WANT TO COLLECT SOME SPATIAL DATA! 😊
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    Australian Researchers Fitted Five Magpies With GPS Trackers To Map Their Movements, But The Birds Began Removing One Another’s Harnesses Within Minutes, Turning A Failed Trial Into An Unexpected Observation Of Cooperation
    (When researchers tried to track Australian magpies, the birds turned the tables—systematically removing each other's harnesses and revealing something far more interesting than GPS coordinates.)
    --
    youtu.be/mM0j_GybEKw?si=GE3sFw <-- shared video
    --
    spacedaily.com/t-australian-re <-- shared technical article
    --
    dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo39007011 <-- shared paper
    --
    abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/mag <-- shared media article
    --
    [the Aussie magpies need SWAG on their GPS harness!]
    “Researchers in Queensland fitted five Australian magpies with tiny GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and social relationships. The [mischief] had other plans.
    Within about ten minutes, an untagged adult female was using her bill to work at the harness on a juvenile. The tracker came off. Nearby, another magpie was helping a second tagged bird on a powerline. Devices that had been designed to stay attached for weeks disappeared within minutes to days.
    [The author] like[s] this story partly because it resists the tidy distinction between a successful experiment and a failed one. The researchers lost the movement data they went looking for, but the birds produced an observation nobody had planned…”
    --
    “Recent advances in tracking technology have enabled devices such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) loggers to be used on a wide variety of birds. Although there are established ethical considerations to these processes, different species may react differently to particular devices and attachments. Thus, pilot studies are still of utmost importance in this field. Here, [the authors] describe one such study trialling a novel harness design for GPS tracking devices on Australian Magpies Gymnorhina tibicen. Despite previous testing demonstrating the strength and durability of the harness, devices were removed within minutes to hours of initial fitting. Notably, removal was observed to involve one bird snapping another bird’s harness at the only weak point, such that the tracker was released. This behaviour demonstrates both cooperation and a moderate level of problem solving, providing potential further evidence of the cognitive abilities of this species. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report the conspecific removal of GPS trackers, and should be considered when planning future tracking studies especially on highly social species…”
    #rescuebehaviour #altruism #WhereTheAnimalsAre #wildlife #tracking #spatialanalysis #bird #magpie #Australia #Queensland #research #GPS #tracker #harness #removal #ecosystems #GIS #logging #monitoring #spatial #mapping #social #species #behaviour #cooperation #problemsolving #cognitiveabilities #conspecific #biology

  6. WHEN YOU ‘JUST’ WANT TO COLLECT SOME SPATIAL DATA! 😊
    --
    Australian Researchers Fitted Five Magpies With GPS Trackers To Map Their Movements, But The Birds Began Removing One Another’s Harnesses Within Minutes, Turning A Failed Trial Into An Unexpected Observation Of Cooperation
    (When researchers tried to track Australian magpies, the birds turned the tables—systematically removing each other's harnesses and revealing something far more interesting than GPS coordinates.)
    --
    youtu.be/mM0j_GybEKw?si=GE3sFw <-- shared video
    --
    spacedaily.com/t-australian-re <-- shared technical article
    --
    dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo39007011 <-- shared paper
    --
    abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/mag <-- shared media article
    --
    [the Aussie magpies need SWAG on their GPS harness!]
    “Researchers in Queensland fitted five Australian magpies with tiny GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and social relationships. The [mischief] had other plans.
    Within about ten minutes, an untagged adult female was using her bill to work at the harness on a juvenile. The tracker came off. Nearby, another magpie was helping a second tagged bird on a powerline. Devices that had been designed to stay attached for weeks disappeared within minutes to days.
    [The author] like[s] this story partly because it resists the tidy distinction between a successful experiment and a failed one. The researchers lost the movement data they went looking for, but the birds produced an observation nobody had planned…”
    --
    “Recent advances in tracking technology have enabled devices such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) loggers to be used on a wide variety of birds. Although there are established ethical considerations to these processes, different species may react differently to particular devices and attachments. Thus, pilot studies are still of utmost importance in this field. Here, [the authors] describe one such study trialling a novel harness design for GPS tracking devices on Australian Magpies Gymnorhina tibicen. Despite previous testing demonstrating the strength and durability of the harness, devices were removed within minutes to hours of initial fitting. Notably, removal was observed to involve one bird snapping another bird’s harness at the only weak point, such that the tracker was released. This behaviour demonstrates both cooperation and a moderate level of problem solving, providing potential further evidence of the cognitive abilities of this species. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report the conspecific removal of GPS trackers, and should be considered when planning future tracking studies especially on highly social species…”

  7. Young volunteer attempts to keep stranded humpback whale alive on Queensland beach – video
    By Guardian Staff

    Chantelle Smith was with her daughter on Sunday morning on K'gari when they came across a stranded juvenile humpback whale. After she recorded this footage, a number of other local volunteers arrived to keep the animal wet. The juvenile mammal became trapped on a sandbank at the southern entrance of Wathumba Creek, sparking an immediate rescue effort from local beachgoers and wildlife authorities. A spokesperson for the Department of Environment confirmed that the whale managed to free itself and return to the ocean

    theguardian.com/environment/vi

    #Whales #Queensland #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

  8. Young volunteer attempts to keep stranded humpback whale alive on Queensland beach – video
    By Guardian Staff

    Chantelle Smith was with her daughter on Sunday morning on K'gari when they came across a stranded juvenile humpback whale. After she recorded this footage, a number of other local volunteers arrived to keep the animal wet. The juvenile mammal became trapped on a sandbank at the southern entrance of Wathumba Creek, sparking an immediate rescue effort from local beachgoers and wildlife authorities. A spokesperson for the Department of Environment confirmed that the whale managed to free itself and return to the ocean

    theguardian.com/environment/vi

    #Whales #Queensland #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

  9. Eight teenagers charged with murder over alleged attack after Queensland party
    By Australian Associated Press

    Man, 21, dies six days after being taken to hospital in critical condition after alleged attack in Bahrs Scrub, Logan

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Brisbane #Australianews #Queensland #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress

  10. Eight teenagers charged with murder over alleged attack after Queensland party
    By Australian Associated Press

    Man, 21, dies six days after being taken to hospital in critical condition after alleged attack in Bahrs Scrub, Logan

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Brisbane #Australianews #Queensland #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress

  11. Sheep-herding robot dogs put to the test at the Ekka Royal Queensland show — video
    By Guardian Staff

    The University of the Sunshine Coast student project is trialling the use of robotic dogs to herd sheep, with public demonstrations of the units at the Brisbane Showgrounds. Dr David Alonso-Caneiro, a senior lecturer in mechatronics, says the long-term view is to establish the feasibility of one day using similar machines as fully autonomous tools on farms

    theguardian.com/technology/vid

    #Robots #Farming #Brisbane #Queensland #Australianews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

  12. Sheep-herding robot dogs put to the test at the Ekka Royal Queensland show — video
    By Guardian Staff

    The University of the Sunshine Coast student project is trialling the use of robotic dogs to herd sheep, with public demonstrations of the units at the Brisbane Showgrounds. Dr David Alonso-Caneiro, a senior lecturer in mechatronics, says the long-term view is to establish the feasibility of one day using similar machines as fully autonomous tools on farms

    theguardian.com/technology/vid

    #Robots #Farming #Brisbane #Queensland #Australianews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

  13. Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
    By Paul Daley

    Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Sydney #Slavery #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #Race #Pacificislands #Vanuatu #Sugar #Colonialism #Queensland #Business #Australianbooks #Museums #Books #Shippingindustry #Forcedlabour #AsiaPacific #SouthPacific #TheGuardian #PaulDaley

  14. Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
    By Paul Daley

    Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Sydney #Slavery #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #Race #Pacificislands #Vanuatu #Sugar #Colonialism #Queensland #Business #Australianbooks #Museums #Books #Shippingindustry #Forcedlabour #AsiaPacific #SouthPacific #TheGuardian #PaulDaley

  15. A day at Australia Zoo. Not much of a fan of zoos in general, but frankly it was pretty impressive. #queensland

  16. A day at Australia Zoo. Not much of a fan of zoos in general, but frankly it was pretty impressive. #queensland

  17. A Queensland domestic violence victim was promised a voice – then told she was no longer welcome to call the minister’s office
    By Ben Smee

    Some of the victim-survivors who produced an official report for the state critical of police say their work has been buried and their members ignored

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Queensland #Domesticviolence #Queenslandpolitics #Liberalparty #Australianews #Australianpolitics #TheGuardian #BenSmee

  18. A Queensland domestic violence victim was promised a voice – then told she was no longer welcome to call the minister’s office
    By Ben Smee

    Some of the victim-survivors who produced an official report for the state critical of police say their work has been buried and their members ignored

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Queensland #Domesticviolence #Queenslandpolitics #Liberalparty #Australianews #Australianpolitics #TheGuardian #BenSmee

  19. OK this is probs an extremely long shot but does anyone know of a good psychiatrist in Qlds? or even NSW at this stage. I am really really hoping to find someone that can actually diagnose and help with my bipolar more so

    #australia #queensland #mentalhealth

  20. OK this is probs an extremely long shot but does anyone know of a good psychiatrist in Qlds? or even NSW at this stage. I am really really hoping to find someone that can actually diagnose and help with my bipolar more so

    #australia #queensland #mentalhealth

  21. Where quiet coastlines meet thoughtful storytelling.

    Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia.

    © All Rights Reserved by Kev Peirce.

    #Photo #Photography #Australia #Queensland #BeachSide #Sea

  22. Where quiet coastlines meet thoughtful storytelling.

    Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia.

    © All Rights Reserved by Kev Peirce.

    #Photo #Photography #Australia #Queensland #BeachSide #Sea

  23. Man and woman found dead in outback Queensland home after hours-long police siege
    By Australian Associated Press

    A 45-year-old man and 23-year-old woman were found dead in the Charleville home after a near eight-hour siege by police

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Australianews #Queensland #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress

  24. Man and woman found dead in outback Queensland home after hours-long police siege
    By Australian Associated Press

    A 45-year-old man and 23-year-old woman were found dead in the Charleville home after a near eight-hour siege by police

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Australianews #Queensland #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress

  25. Mentions of ‘gender’ scrubbed from Queensland Office for Women website amid alleged effort to ‘dewokify’
    By Joe Hinchliffe

    Comparisons of live and archived pages show more than 20 mentions have been removed, including in reference to the gender pay gap

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Queenslandpolitics #Gender #LiberalNationalparty #Queensland #Australianews #TheGuardian #JoeHinchliffe

  26. Mentions of ‘gender’ scrubbed from Queensland Office for Women website amid alleged effort to ‘dewokify’
    By Joe Hinchliffe

    Comparisons of live and archived pages show more than 20 mentions have been removed, including in reference to the gender pay gap

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Queenslandpolitics #Gender #LiberalNationalparty #Queensland #Australianews #TheGuardian #JoeHinchliffe

  27. New at my Patreon: @sister_ratched writes a guest post about a recent adventurous road trip - "It was the last stretch of this vast country we hadn't tackled in our tiny 4WD slide-on camper: the trip to the top of Cape York..."

    patreon.com/timrichards/posts/

    #travel #4wd #RoadTrip #outback #Queensland

  28. New at my Patreon: @sister_ratched writes a guest post about a recent adventurous road trip - "It was the last stretch of this vast country we hadn't tackled in our tiny 4WD slide-on camper: the trip to the top of Cape York..."

    patreon.com/timrichards/posts/

    #travel #4wd #RoadTrip #outback #Queensland

  29. A new Queensland bill aims to ‘streamline’ major projects. Matt and Caitlin fear it could hand their farm to developers
    By Joe Hinchliffe

    Experts say new power to bypass conservation and planning regulations are incredibly broad and could let the state effectively fast-track any project it wants

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Queenslandpolitics #Criticalminerals #Energy #Queensland #Australianews #GoldCoast #Coalseamgas #Environment #Australianlaw #Farming #TheGuardian #JoeHinchliffe