Reinforcements will be called in to help two snake handlers remove a giant python from an abandoned building in Cairns in far north Queensland.
Aaron Chapman from the Kuranda Venom Zoo says a smaller python lifted his colleague off the ground when they tried to catch it in the Yorkeys Knob Boating Club this week.
Yep, it must be snake season already. The stingers will be here soon, no doubt.
Via the ABC. Read the full piece here.
This Friday, September 25th, campaigning organisation GetUp! will taking a full-page advert in The Australian newspaper. The advert will contain a petition signed by over 100,000 citizens voicing their concerns at planned Internet censorship in Australia. The petition states:
Senator Conroy,
I don’t want draconian government restrictions on the internet that will hold back the digital economy and miss the vast majority of unwanted content.”
Here’s the GetUp! announcement:
Hi,
Did you know the Government is proposing an internet censorship scheme that goes further than any other democracy in the world? That’s why I’m one of over 100,000 Australians who have signed the petition to Save the Net. Will you join me?
This Friday, our petition will grace the pages of newspapers across the nation. That way the Government, who are due to make a decision any day now, will be left in no doubt as to how deeply unpopular this kind of censorship is in Australia. Can you help me make that petition too large to ignore?
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/AddYourNameSaveTheNet
Our Government should be doing all in its power to take Australia into the 21st century economy, and to protect our children. This proposed internet censorship does neither. The plan has even been slammed by children’s welfare groups, who say the filter is “fundamentally flawed” and simply will not work.
Can you join me and children’s welfare groups, internet providers, consumers, engineers, network administrators, and over 100,000 everyday Australians in defence of our freedoms? Let’s make sure this Friday’s newspaper ad has an impact too large to ignore.
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/AddYourNameSaveTheNet
Thanks!
As a transvestite comic who is prone to put on weight and had never run farther than five miles, Eddie Izzard is not the obvious candidate to run 1,100 miles around Britain. But the 47-year-old stand-up and actor will today drag his aching limbs from the Olympic park to Trafalgar Square in the last of an astonishing 43 marathons he has completed in just 52 days.
Read the rest of this article in The Guardian.
That’s even more impressive than Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Mike Stroud’s seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.
Cassowary in the rainforest
The Australian Rainforest Foundation (ARF) says land purchases will not be a priority in a project to re-establish cassowary habitat corridors between Cardwell and Cooktown in far north Queensland.
ARF chairman Warren Entsch has returned from a fundraising trip to the United States and United Kingdom.
He says the foundation has mapped the corridors and most can be created on land no longer used for farming.
[…]
Mr Entsch says there is a lot of concern about the future of the endangered birds in the United Kingdom.
“They have the largest bird watching show in the world, now there were literally tens of thousands of people flocked to that, there’s something like three-and-a-half million registered bird watchers – that’s registered bird watchers – in the UK,” he said.
Read the rest of the story at the ABC site.
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