The summer series is dragging on, and there’s still so many things on our minds. So joining me for a bonus episode is my good friend Snarky Platypus.
In this episode we talk about lego, trains full of boomers, the echidnapus, and the panic about a so-called Chinese Spy Ship. And of course there’s a few rants about election discourse and political polling.
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A platypus of many talents. Interested in politics, food, pop music & basketball.
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[27 May 2024] A 100-million year-old monotreme coined the "echidnapus", which shares platypus-and echidna-like characteristics, is one of three extinct species of egg-laying mammal unveiled by palaeontologists. Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute says that although the echidnapus is not a direct ancestor of modern monotremes, it gives palaeontologists an "important snapshot" on how the unique anatomies came to be today.
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[27 May 2024] Scientists have discovered a bizarre creature dubbed the "echidnapus" which they believe roamed Australia in prehistoric times.
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[27 May 2024] Published today in the Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, evidence of an ‘Age of Monotremes’ has been unearthed by a team of Australian scientists at the Australian Museum (AM), Museums Victoria and Australian Opal Centre.
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[17 April 2025] Scientists have just unearthed the fascinating ancient monotreme dubbed the echidnapus at Australia’s Lightning Ridge, a creature that lived 100 million years ago. This ancient blend of echidna and platypus offers a peek into a time when egg-laying mammals roamed the land, adding an exciting chapter to our prehistoric knowledge.
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Gondwanaland, originally billed as Gondwanaland Project, were an Australian ambient musical ensemble which combined the indigenous Australian instrument the didgeridoo with western instruments such as synthesiser and guitar. [This is the one I was thinking of.]
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Gondwana is a reggae group from La Pincoya, Santiago, Chile, founded in 1987 by I-Locks Labbé. [I had until this moment never heard of this one.]
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[18 April 2025] I’m proud of her and all her good girlness. I want the world to love her as much as I do – just not more than that.
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[20 April 2025] Easter Sunday has brought a brief peace to the election campaign, as Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton opted to catch their breath with less than two weeks until polling day.
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Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (Originally published 1973.)
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Analysis and discussion of elections and opinion polls in Australia
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[18 January 2022] Ahead of the 2022 Federal election, respected ABC Election Analyst Antony Green explained the statistical processes used to call Australian elections. What is the available data, what assumptions are made to predict results, and how is the Australian process more robust than in the United States?
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[19 February 2022] The Summer Series continues with special guest Leo Puglisi, the young lad from Melbourne who founded and runs 6 News Australia, and who’s been copping flak on social media from all manner of politically motivated trolls.
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[18 April 2025] The latest YouGov poll shows Labor and the Coalition TIED on 33% in the national primary vote. If this was the actual election result, it would be the lowest vote total for the Coalition since the Liberal Party was formed in 1944.
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[15 April 2025] A report that Indonesia was considering a Russian request to store aircraft on one of its military bases has set off alarm bells in Australia.
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[17 April 2025] Caught in a political storm, most claims about the mission of the Tan Suo Yi Hao don’t hold water.
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Maritime Matters is a weekly podcast where Jennifer Parker and Richard Dunley discuss the weekly maritime issues impacting Australia, and the wider Indo-Pacific's security.
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[19 April 2025] The parties need to offer nuts-and-bolts policies to address the cost-of-living crisis. But will anyone also raise their sights to take in the frightening global picture?
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[16 April 2025] The woman in charge of crisis management for the European Commission, Hadja Lahbib, has advised the European Union's (EU) 450 million residents to pack a 72-hour survival bag, as the bloc braces for threats "more complex than ever".
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Vivian Alvarez Solon (born 30 October 1962) is an Australian who was unlawfully removed to the Philippines by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) in July 2001. In May 2005, it became public knowledge that she had been deported, although DIMIA knew of its mistake in 2003. Solon's family had listed her as a missing person since July 2003, and until May 2005, did not know that she had been deported.
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[16 April 2025] Coalition frontbencher walks back claim that Russian defence minister and Chinese leader had said publicly they did not want Peter Dutton as prime minister.
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[16 April 2025] National party senator Bridget McKenzie says the Coalition has been seeking an "urgent briefing" from Albanese after reports Russia was seeking to use an air base in Indonesia.
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Welcome to the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Midwinter Ball. Traditionally held in the third week of June each year, it brings together the journalistic, political and corporate chiefs of Australia. It is always a memorable night full of entertainment and networking opportunities with the big winner being charity.
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[19 April 2025] AM PM Staffing Services, Inc. Give us a call if you are interested in this job opportunity. We're Hiring Farm Pickers to pick blueberries at our client's farm in Loranger, LA. $11 per hour, 9-10 hours a day, 7 days per week, May - July, 2025.
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Diablo is an action role-playing dungeon crawler video game series originally developed by Blizzard North and continued by Blizzard Entertainment after the original North studio shut down in 2005. The franchise is made up of the four main games: Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo III, and Diablo IV.
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Lego (/?l??o?/, LEG-oh; Danish: [?le??ko]; stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.
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Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired between 1965 and 1968 on CBS. Lightly dramatic, sometimes comedic in tone, the series was inspired by the 1812 Johann David Wyss novel The Swiss Family Robinson.
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A series of 50 posts originally begun to coincide with my 50th birthday, one representing each year. The series is continuing at a very slow pace because I’ve found that such intense reminiscences of my own past are emotionally draining. Fulfilling, but draining.
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[17 April 2025] As China and the US face off over tariffs, China is also facing another economic problem - an ageing population. But, if the country’s retirees - with potentially decades of savings - buy more goods, Chinese companies won't have to rely as much on trade overseas. To facilitate this, Beijing has introduced initiatives like “silver trains” - trains taking OAPs to tourist spots in the country, and encouraging them to spend there.
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[17 April 2025] On board the Star Express, the cocktails are poured and the karaoke microphone is passed around, as retirees party their way through China's south-western Yunnan province. The roast goose is being devoured with shots of baijiu, a Chinese white spirit alcohol.
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