In brief:
š Rise in activity from rightwing extremists who want to trigger ārace warā in Australia, Asio warns (2024-Apr-10) [The Guardian]
š Russ Cook: āHardest Geezerā makes history as first person to run full length of Africa A man from West Sussex has become the first person to run the full length of Africa after he crossed the finish line in Tunisia. (2024-Apr-08) [The Standard]
šļø Hereās What Really Kills People in the National Parks (2024-Feb-27) [Backpacker]
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š“āāļø Women’s Race – Live Stream – Paris-Roubaix 2024 Sun 7 Apr at 12:15am [SBS On Demand]
š“āāļø Men’s Race – Live Stream – Paris-Roubaix 2024 Sun 7 Apr at 7:05pm [SBS On Demand]
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Alone Australia:
šŗ Alone Australia Season 2 [SBS On Demand]
š Alone Australia: The Podcast delve deeper into each episode with season one winner Gina Chick and SBS News presenter Darren Mara [SBS|Apple Podcasts]
šŗ Out Of The Wild – Gina Chick How life has changed for inaugural Alone Australia winner Gina Chick. In conversation with Leigh Sales. (2024-Apr-08) [ABC Australian Story]
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ā Hitting the road at retirement age used to be a lifestyle choice for āgrey nomadsā with a luxury motorhome and a travel bug.
At the other end of the age scale, Aotearoa is a popular choice for Instagrammers living āvanlifeā in search of sunsets in high-end campervans decked in pale wood, white linen and fairy lights.
Now people are considering life on the road as a necessity rather than a choice. ā
ā Asked whether they can foresee a future in which gun control was effectively in place in the US, the experts who spoke to the ABC are in agreement.
“I think there’s no likelihood at all that the constitution would ever be changed so as to either remove or limit that right ā¦ I just don’t see it within the realms of possibility now,” Dr Harris says.
Professor Wolpe says: “There will be no change. Zero.” ā
ā Environmental scientists Professor David Lindenmayer and Adjunct Associate Professor Phil Zylstra, from the Australian National University and Curtin University, argued in a recent research paper that prescribed burns can actually make forests more flammable. ā
š„ Coming of age: research shows old forests are 3 times less flammable than those just burned (2024-Mar-23) [ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society]
ā Cooperating with country today means moving away from prescribed burning across large areas. Frequent burns may be useful only close to homes, or in other locations where we know with confidence they can achieve an ecological goal or help firefighters stop a burning edge.
Elsewhere, we should work with forest landscapes and allow them to become open again. We can support this process by refocusing fire management to quickly suppress fire when it does break out. ā
ā … that this isnāt just about phones, but over-anxious parenting and the decline of adventurous, unsupervised play for younger children: climbing trees and falling out of them, making dens, roaming the neighbourhood on your bike, and other experiences the National Trustās research suggests too many children lack. […]
As a society we nag kids to get off their phones into the real world, but wonāt make room for them here; we put adult convenience first, and are then surprised when children donāt flourish. ā
šļø Three-quarters of children want more time in nature, says National Trust (2024-Apr-01) [The Guardian]
ā More than three-quarters of children want to spend more time in nature, the National Trust has found, as the conservation charity pushes ministers to ensure youngsters are no more than a 15-minute walk from green spaces.
Nearly two-thirds ā 63% ā of parents are able to take their children to nature spaces only once a week or less, citing accessibility as the main barrier, the survey of 1,000 children aged seven to 14 and 1,000 parents by the trust and the childrenās newspaper First News found. ā
Visible Procrastinations 