Australia's inland bird populations booming after drought and fire left them barely hanging on.

On New Year's Eve, 2020, birdwatcher and photographer Dr John Harrison reported seeing a flock of thousands of budgerigars over Nombinnie Nature Reserve, near Mount Hope in central NSW.

Birdlife Australia's NSW woodland bird program manager Mick Roderick said it was hugely encouraging.

The crimson chat is among inland birds thriving after plenty of rainfall during 2020. This female is carrying an insect to her nest. Photo: Mick Roderick.

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Fresh milk that lasts 60 days expected to be on Queensland supermarket shelves by March.

The founder of a Queensland food technology company that has invented a process to keep natural milk fresh for 60 days expects consumers will be drinking the product by March. The Federal Government hopes the innovation will provide easier access to fresh milk for consumers across the country, and eventually the world. Dairy farmers say they would welcome the technology if it opens up new markets and better milk prices.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-09/fresh-milk-that-lasts-60-days-to-be-sold-in-qld-by-march/13042946

No thanks, how much preservative do we have in that? Rather go without milk than drink that poison.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-09/fresh-milk-that-lasts-60-days-to-be-sold-in-qld-by-march/13042946

Obviously you didn't read the article Beemee, which said the process did not require additives or preservatives, and would retain the milk's original nutritional value.

Yep like fresh cream with a due date 2 weeks ahead. Works well till left on the table on a hot day.

Basically I trust no one. Doctors are there to help you when you are ill, what a lot of crock. I know of one woman so stuffed with meds she lives on another planet, and they just keep adding more meds. Now she a screaming ab-dab all damn night and sleeps all day. She is killing her husband from the lack of sleep and he's worn out. Both would be in the 70 y.o. area.

So no, I don't trust anyone that says something is good to fix something. They said that about the flu shot. From memory the original was HN1. Now it has about 5 different things in it? And are they telling us whats in it? NO! Sent my husband in sky-rocketing BP that took months to get down to normal levels. That was the last flu shot he ever had and that was about 4 years ago.

Same with GMO foods - after some years of use, your intestines start to bleed. Trust anyone in control of something, no I prefer to be in contro and know what I am feeding my family. Milk of 60 days? No way Hosea.

Thanks RnR

Brilliant bit of technology

.. my main concern is that more milk will get exported and we will have to pay a higher cost per each litre of milk.

Aerial photos of Lake Cakora at Brooms Head reveal spectacular 'tree of life' patterns.

An amateur photographer on the North Coast of New South Wales has turned the ordinary into the extraordinary by capturing a series of mesmerising photographs of Lake Cakora at Brooms Head.

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Interesting !!!

Diver swept out to sea rescued after police see a faint torchlight.

The 45-year-old woman was in a group that was night diving at Port Noarlunga, in Adelaide's southern suburbs, when she was caught in a rip about 10:20 pm. She used a torch to get noticed in the water and a police patrol on the shore spotted the faint light about a kilometre out to sea.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-12/diver-rescued-after-being-swept-out-to-sea/13050342

Australian bird photographer of the year 2020: vote in the people’s choice awards.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/jan/13/australian-bird-photographer-of-the-year-2020-vote-in-the-peoples-choice-awards

Sure lucky to have a torch

Perhaps that may make a good avatar for you :)

What a cute little face. A well deserved award.

45,500-year-old rock painting of pigs in Indonesia become the oldest-known art depicting real, recognisable objects.

This warty pig, which is 137 centimetres long, is part of a scene which includes two other less-complete pigs. Photo: Maxime Aubert.

A research team led by archaeologists at Griffith University and the Indonesian National Archaeological Research Centre discovered the painting in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 2017. Uranium dating pins the age of the art at a minimum of 45,500 years old.

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