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Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Why the platypus is starting to disappear.

 Podcast from The Guardian

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The platypus has been listed as endangered in South Australia and there has been a recommendation to list it as threatened in Victoria. Now researchers are pushing for nationwide threatened species status.

Guardian Australia’s environment report Graham Readfearn discusses what is happening to this incredibly unusual mammal

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2021/feb/10/why-the-platypus-is-starting-to-disappear

Presented by Laura Murphy-Oates and reported by Graham Readfearn. Produced by Ellen Leabeater and Joe Koning. The executive producers are Miles Martignoni and Gabrielle Jackson

Wed 10 Feb 2021 03.30 AEDT

  • Read Graham Readfern’s report: ‘Glum future for the platypus’: why the elusive mammal is disappearing under our noses
Platypus at Eungella, Queensland
Photograph: Tamielle Brunt
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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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