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John Chapman - books, tips, and more
Anthony Dunk - Wollemi, Dharug, & other NPs north of Sydney
Elsewhere - living in Alice Springs
Allan Mikkelson - bushwalking, trekking, and mountaineering
Dave Noble - the SUBW member, not the NPWS ranger!

News/Link Archive

gun madness in New South Wales - SMH
"children younger than 12 would be allowed to own and shoot high-powered air rifles"
Paul Keating on the carbon tax - YT
no plans to scrap the Australian 5c coin - ABC
the UK really should get rid of its 1p and 2p coins
Australia to remove cigarette-packet advertising - NewSci
Australian solar power stations - ABC
photos of Australian coal train crash - Sentimental
do bikeways increase property prices? - Crikey
but who'd trust a real-estate agents opinion on this?
the politics of means-testing welfare in Australia - SMH
what Australians actually earn - ABC
"the median earnings of all employees is $44,146 per year"
it's not safe to take newborn babies out in trendy parts of NSW - News
whooping cough vaccination rates have dropped too low
Sydney's cultural demographics - JPG
solar scheme shows why Australia needs a carbon tax and not ad hoc government subsidies - SMH
Australian treatment of asylum-seekers is brutal - NewMatilda
housing insulation program fire risk was a furphy - Crikey
a carbon abatement cost curve for Australia - MacroB
Antony Green on the three-way fight over Balmain - ABC
I'm glad I went to the trouble of voting from Arusha
the confusion that is climate change denial - ABC
"if there was a real case against a significant human influence on climate, why is so much of what passes for public debate based on fabrication?"
Australian hysteria about a carbon tax is ridiculous - ABC [via Ethos]
I hope everyone in Cairns and Townsville is battened down - BOM
before/after aerial photos of Brisbane floods - ABC
Australia: the last epic bubble - SeekingAlpha [via Bubble]
Brisbane floods could reach 5 metres - ABC
the Wivenhoe dam had better not fail
six Australian birds declared extinct - SciAm
Australian bookshops versus online sellers - FlyFalcon
80% of Emerald is under water - ABC
is Australian sovereign debt really riskier than Britain's? - Economist
Ross Gittins: limited gains for Australians from migration - SMH
the Australian keeps publishing shonky climate change stories - Deltoid
a British view of Australian parliament - FT
great Australian water myths - ABC
we really need to stop un- or marginally productive uses
Australia's last big property bubble ended in 1891 - DailyReckoning
getting the cars out of Sydney - SMH
it'll need a big culture-change to make it cycle-friendly, though
Australian housing: bubble waiting for a prick - Unconventional
a retrospective on six years in Alice Springs - Elsewhere
BHP boss calls for price on carbon - ABC
the ABC's Four Corners is a mouthpiece for the Cato Institute - ABC
NSW has the lowest Green vote of the Australian states/territories - ABC
boats and the Australian election - BatteriesRedux
does lyme disease exist in Australia? - SMH
NSW schools might get ethics as an alternative to scripture - SMH
last year I spent a day in Emerald, in central Queensland - Emerald travelogue
occupations and voting patterns in Australia - Crikey
training quolls not to eat cane toads - ABC
I've finished "Wordpressing" my - Australian Bookshop Directory
if anyone has any contributions that would be great!
writeup of a weekend away in 2008 - Kangaroo Valley
the metro proposal for Sydney is just stupid - EcoTransit
90+% of Australians support abortion, 57% on demand - SMH
many Australian homes eligible for $1600 of free ceiling insulation - InsulationRebate
Sydney is 70% the area of Oxfordshire
and the Sydney Statistical Division is 450% the area!
Tsunami Watch Number 1 for Australia - BOM [via @MarkNewton]
asking the Australian Tax Office to support cross-platform tax filing - PetitionOnline
Bundanoon moves to ban bottled water - SMH
Labor versus the Greens in inner-city Melbourne - Age
competition in Australia's international network links - AusIT
if lost in the bush, don't expect help from 000 - SMH
Sydney's old night soil laneways up for sale - WhereILive
8 square metres in Surry Hills went for $41,000...
Aboriginal rock art in Royal National Park - Les Bursill
we did a tour with Les, which was great
Australian household debt - ABS
"Between September 1990 and September 2008, the ratio of total household debt to assets held by households rose from 9% to 19%"
The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer [review]
the Simpson Desert's Waddi trees - ABC
Australia offers students visa to work in Indonesia - SMH
but maintains "reconsider your need to travel" advisory
satellite imagery of the recent southern Australian heat wave - NASA [via /.]
Australian backyards are disappearing - SMH
"You could double the Australian housing density and save your backyard by making the front yard smaller and building two storeys"
an overview of last Saturday's bushfires, and some personal stories - Australian [via Barista] - Age
"Incredibly, by 6pm, no one within the war room had yet received any confirmation that lives had been lost."
death toll from Victorian fires approaches 200 - Age
I've been too horrified by this to blog about it before
photos and notes from a Kosciuszko trip - Round Mountain to Jagungal
NSW country towns try to stay alive by offering $1/week rents - ABC
Australian house prices need to halve to become affordable - NewGeography - Demographia [PDF]
and Sydney prices have to drop by 60% to return the median price/media wage ratio to its long-term average
fighting to stop old-growth logging in Tasmania - Australian
walk writeups from two and four years ago - Corang Peak - Barrington Tops
a Tolkienesque remapping of Australia - Strange
photos and notes from a recent bushwalk - the Box Vale Track
an online bush navigation course - aburke
a gloomy perspective on Australian housing - Bloomberg
"Prices in the property market will fall 30% by 2010... Australia is headed for a once-in-100-year real-estate slump"
the flaws of the Australian network censorship trial - ThinkOfTheChildren
a new blog about leeches - Bdellanea [via SUBW]
horses, cows, and dogs are the most dangerous animals in Australia - SMH
"Two people were killed when their cars struck emus, another person died after a vehicle struck a sheep, and an elderly person died after tripping over a pet cat."
20kg savannah cats to be let loose in Australia?! - SMH
haven't we learnt anything from our experiences with cane toads, rabbits, and suchlike?
The extraordinary story of Australian marsupials - A Fragile Balance [review]
a new project for me, a directory of Glebe
Glebe Log
if you live in the area and you'd like to contribute, get in touch
the ANZAC connection with Palestine - EI
I've launched my new travelogue site - Wandering Danny
an obituary for barefoot bushwalker Dot Butler - SMH
$280 billion to cut Australia's carbon emissions by 60% by 2050 - SMH
or so claims the NSW state government, trying to protect its coal power stations - and even this is barely $1000 per person, spread over twenty years!
fish are used to monitor Sydney's water quality - SMH
photos (mostly flowers) from a recent bushwalk - Wog Wog
commonly typoed Australian tourist destinations - SMH
Tiger Air offers Australians cheaper flights: $18 Perth to Singapore - SMH
extensive fires in Sydney's Blue Mountains - RFS [via SUBW]
today is Sydney's coldest November day in over a century - SMH
koalas are not always cute - ABC [via SUBW]
"come mating time, koalas morph into aggressive, smelly creatures that you'd never want to cuddle in a million years"
stingray barbs are dangerous - Kayaker
"crocodile man" Steve Irwin has been killed by one
I've just done a two day remote first aid course - AllAidFirstAid
(it was excellent, so if you're in NSW I recommend the company)
an interactive atlas of NSW wildlife - NPWS
the Great Barrier Reef lives up to the hype - Wiki
though I only saw small bits of two reefs, a fraction of the 2000km Reef
photos of a snake eating a kangaroo - Scribblybum [via JWalk]
finally some rain in Sydney's water supply catchment! - BOM
that's the Wollondilly, Coxs, and Nattai rivers
photos with my new telephoto lens - Darter - Eastern Water Dragon
my report on a Kowmung bushwalk - Howling Dingo
photos from my last bushwalk - danny [temporary]
thumbnails are linked to larger images, though not all of those are up yet
a Tasmanian Devil FAQ - TasGov
a writeup of a camera testing bushwalk - Bouddi National Park
today was Sydney's hottest October day on record: 38.2C - BOM
I've finished the writeup of my central NSW tour - with photos
the best Japanese gardens in Australia - JGarden
an ecological overview - Australian Marine Habitats in Temperate Waters [review]
an American's view of Australian Aborigines - HeadHeeb [via Far]
a short bushwalk on the Shoalhaven - downstream from Tallowa Dam
includes a rare photo of me (obscured by campfire smoke)
photos from a bushwalk - Royal National Park
we saw whales, eagles and kestrels, but the photos are of cliffs and rock formations
Australian Aboriginal meteorology - Indigenous Weather Knowledge [via ASAONET]
Indian Mynas are overrunning Australia - ABC
I'm going bushwalking over Easter - Kosciuszko National Park [2002 walk]
so there will be no updates here until Monday
sailing across the desert - SMH
a trip across Australia's rarely full Lake Eyre
some Australian ant photos - MiyakyoU
Predator's guide to drain exploration - CAT
an easy daywalk north of Scone - Burning Mountain
a burning coal seam produces a pseudo-volcano
the Great Barrier Reef will be dead by 2050 - ABC [via Kos]
due to the effects of rising sea temperatures
remarkable marsupials: a photo gallery - Marsupial CRC
some notes on the hiking gear I use - bushwalking equipment
I did a short walk last weekend in the mountains - Mount Solitary
an American geologist in Australia - Steve Lonker
Chris Collier has photos from walks around Sydney - Gerkin Press
a writeup of my Easter bushwalk (hike) - Wild Dog Mountains
archaeological finds suggest some Australian Aborigines farmed, traded - SMH
they "farmed eels... modified more than 100 square kilometres of the landscape... exported their produce"
a dramatic firsthand account of the Canberra fires - Bernard Robertson-Dunn [via Link]
"all our fences had gone, electricity cables were sparking in the wind, gas mains were exploding"
brief writeup with photos - a three-day Snowy bushwalk
some photos from my recent trip - the Kosciuszko Lakes Walk
"Peace" theme for New Year's fireworks over Sydney Harbour - SMH
and they moved one of the launch points so we had a perfect view five metres from our front door!
Australia has a "National Public Toilet Map" - toiletmap.gov.au [only works in Windows IE, NN4.7]
Sydney still surrounded by fires - SMH - ABC
one minor effect: my modem connection keeps dropping out, so updates here may be less frequent
fires around Sydney causing power failures - SMH
and in the middle of it all, through the haze, a partial solar eclipse! - photo [Robert Beveridge]
another short bushwalk - the Box Vale Track
a write-up of my last bushwalk - Mount Paralyser [with photos] - bushwalking

Links come from my blog, Pathologically Polymathic.

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