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#FNQ

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⌛️🧮 Bruce Carnwell (🐣 & 🌴)

In some ways this could be a good thing; anything that stops the #LNP getting a majority of seats in their own right makes life difficult for them & a diversity of voices in always a good thing. The Mad Katters (#KAP) have some very odd policies, and some deplorable policies (like winding back the protection of the Great Barrier Reef) and the "Carbon Tax" but neither of these will get any traction. Obviously I would like the seats to go #Green but that is effectively impossible in the #FNQ.
theguardian.com/australia-news

The Guardian · Kingmaker: Robbie Katter doesn’t want the crown, but he may decide who becomes Queensland premierBy Andrew Messenger
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Syulang

Interesting archaeological and cultural research on the interactions between the #Lapita (the ancestors of the modern cultures of #Polynesia) and the aboriginal cultures of Cape York and #FNQ that might have kick-started a flirtation with pottery and ceramics in #Australia - technologies later abandoned, perhaps due to the wealth of natural resources such as large, durable shells, which made it unnecessary.

Take-away: It's not "primitive" to not waste blood, sweat, tears and the wealth of the Earth on making and consuming technologies and products that you don't need - and it seems people figured that out thousands of years ago.

#Archaeology #Anthropology #IndigenousAustralia

abc.net.au/news/science/2024-0

ABC News · Oldest Aboriginal pottery discovered in Far North Queensland, say researchersBy Jacinta Bowler
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Si Fuller

The thing about there being a cyclone about, is it really brings the sky candy.
The first is looking east-southeast, toward the developing system. The second is facing west-northwest (at dusk). One huge band, stretching hundreds of kilometers out to sea, where it tangles with outer bands into a vortex shooting skyward. Or they will, tomorrow some time.
#cyclone #FNQ #sky #sunset #clouds

A blue evening sky, streaked with long cylindrical clouds, stretched out dramatically
A band of clouds, painted red by the sunset
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Yvonne Perkins

Cooktown in Far North Queensland has only 3 days of food left and is low on water due to flooding at their water treatment plant. The town is preparing to receive 300 evacuees from another town.

Cooktown is an isolated town in Cape York at the best of times. With the wide-spread flooding and road closures in the Far North it will not be easy to restock the town.
#FNQ #flooding

sbs.com.au/news/article/queens

SBS NewsDwindling supplies: Queensland town's plea for help as it prepares to take in flood evacueesA Queensland town that is set to take in hundreds of people from a flood-hit community says it only has three days of food left and is low on water.
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Dr Micha Campbell

The rainfall totals happening in FNQ in the last week are mind-boggling.

Myola got > 2000 mm in 5 days! That's close to what Cairns gets in a year, 800 mm more than Brisbane's and Sydney's annual average, and nearly 4 times London's annual average. It's a lot of water!

Thinking of everyone up north, what a battering to get so early in the wet season.

#TCJasper#Cairns#FNQ
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