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Calla Wahlquist

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Rural and regional editor, Guardian Australia. Frequent horse nonsense. Live and work on Dja Dja Wurrung country.

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It’s all a lie, he is filthy despite my spending 45 minutes brushing him last night - but so long as you don’t actually touch him you’d never know!

06.11.2025 01:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Doesn’t he look so handsome?

06.11.2025 01:29 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

08.10.2025 09:35 👍 329 🔁 193 💬 12 📌 12

Yes I think zooming in on the tail that’s what it is - it’s just a particularly big one! Both on the bigger side and all puffed up

22.09.2025 10:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was so confident it was an owl but now am unsure

22.09.2025 10:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Birders - what have I got here? We’re near Kyneton in the Macedon ranges. No beak visible. Initially thought it was a wattlebird but much rounder than that?

22.09.2025 10:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Is it the coffee machine one? That’s really done the rounds!

02.09.2025 01:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths

11.08.2025 05:40 👍 114 🔁 70 💬 2 📌 7
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Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” - @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

06.08.2025 08:41 👍 51 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 1
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Families unite at site of massacre in Western Australia: ‘Something spoke through me’ More than 170 years after shocking bloodshed at Bootenal Springs, there is at last a reckoning

Day two of this series is a deep dive on the Bootenal massacre, with families on both sides coming together to listen and shed what Naaguja elder Theona Councillor calls the “comfortable untruth”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

05.08.2025 02:40 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

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Some really brilliant work here … strong recommend

03.08.2025 21:29 👍 73 🔁 36 💬 7 📌 2

I once tracked down the story of a famous photo that gets shared on Invasion Day for a job and spoke to someone who ran a historical society in the area where the violence took place. I explained how colonist diaries I found described what they were doing as war; she said I was "being political".

03.08.2025 21:55 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2

This is an insanely good and important read. Top shelf journalism.

03.08.2025 22:31 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

03.08.2025 20:22 👍 107 🔁 48 💬 7 📌 8
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The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

Do read our extraordinary investigation into the coded diaries of a Western Australian settler. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

03.08.2025 20:10 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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March for humanity

03.08.2025 06:16 👍 323 🔁 110 💬 7 📌 5
Photographic that I am actually a bit rural aka a tow ball

Photographic that I am actually a bit rural aka a tow ball

Our reversing camera is out of action so I’m quite pleased with this attempt, which would have been one and done had I had the traditional assistance of a bored teenager or random old bloke making stop/go hands.

11.05.2025 01:25 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

10.05.2025 00:30 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Ariat boots are expensive and not up to the thrashing I give my farm boots! These Blundstones are only 12 months old. (My riding boots are Dublin because I’m cheap but I do have Ariat half chaps)

08.05.2025 06:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They do probably stink of horse piss too much to be worn anywhere I’m representing the Guardian so this may be for the best.

08.05.2025 06:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In devastating news I might have to go to a Very Rural Event tomorrow not only in the town car (because we don’t drive the ute unless we have to, for reasons of both cost and planet) but in town boots, because these guys have given up.

08.05.2025 06:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

This is genuinely lovely and Antony looks like he will explode with embarrassment

03.05.2025 13:29 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah Keating sent an email, on letterhead of I’m sure.

03.05.2025 13:28 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I love that they got every PM that Antony Green would have called for (except Keating). #auspol

03.05.2025 13:24 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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OPINION: Keith Wolahan's disappointing position on Indigenous rights OPINION: A video recording of a talk given to the Samuel Griffith Society in 2017 shows Wolahan lay out his opposition for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

For those wondering who this Keith Wolahan character is, here's the background:

03.05.2025 12:48 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 1

Do we think Sussan Ley will be the new Liberal leader in the time-honoured tradition of giving women a shit job? #auspol

03.05.2025 12:33 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

❤️

03.05.2025 12:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s not how acknowledgments work. He’s on Gadigal country, which he would know. It may sound like I’m nitpicking but if you’re giving an acknowledgment to show respect for TOs - which is the only reason - you name the country.

03.05.2025 12:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Really don’t love that Albanese threw out the acknowledgment as a victory moment then but didn’t actually say whose land he was on. Are you saying it as a gotcha to the Coalition or a genuine show of respect? #auspol

03.05.2025 12:03 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

This is the most human speech I’ve ever seen Dutton give and it is a pity for him that he left it until last. #auspol

03.05.2025 11:36 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0