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"The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking."
"I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot."
"I am very much pro-life. I'm pro the life of women who have lived for years as opposed to cells that have lived for weeks."
"[T]he rules are different for you and always will be; that you must be composed at all times and never scrap in the muck laid down by your opponents because your moral purity is measured differently to theirs."
"You can be told 20 days in (a) row that you should be raped and sodomised and beaten and strung up and thrown out and taught a lesson, but if on the 21st day you turn around and make a joke about firing men into the sun using a cannon, you are a scold who hates men and is teaching her son that he's a rapist."
"Could men just shut the fuck up?"
"Ms Ford was recently called out for signing a copy of her book with 'have you killed any men today? And if not, why not?'."
"Ford’s all-consuming hatred for men is absolutely dripping. She screams, “The framing of criminal acts like these as being somehow the result of depression or financial struggles or just a lack of appropriate emotional support cannot help but infest the circumstances with an air of sympathy and understanding.” She slams “traditional notions of masculinity”, rants about the “patriarchy” and then Lifeline’s number is listed at the end. The fact Ford blankly refuses to comprehend motivational factors contributing to human beings wanting out of life purely highlights why she was never, and should never be, given a platform to speak at any events by any suicide prevention organisation. Ever."
"Climate models are one of many tools scientists use to understand how the climate changed in the past and what it will do in future."
"Before industrial times, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere were 280 parts per million. So a doubling of CO₂ will occur at 560 parts per million."
"So should we be using climate models? We are climate scientists from Australia’s Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, and we believe the answer is a firm yes."
""Emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the concentrations of carbon dioxide [and other greenhouse gases. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.'"
"When we say there’s a scientific consensus that human-produced greenhouse gases are causing climate change, what does that mean? What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and what do they do?"
"Climate change has already altered the extreme weather we experience in Australia and will continue to do so over the coming years."
"We have already committed the planet to a certain amount of warming due to past carbon emissions. But efforts to reduce emissions now and over the next few decades will critically affect the degree of future warming."
"A carbon budget is like a household budget. You only have so much money to spend. How you choose to spend and invest your money will determine the available budget for your retirement and the legacy you provide for future generations."
"If we want a greater chance than 66% of limiting warming to two degrees, we would need to emit even less carbon dioxide. Conversely, if we accepted a lower probability of limiting the warming to two degrees, the budget would be higher."
"Our concern extends beyond the survival and protection of the single species, to the entire ecosystem the leaf oysters underpin."
"Improving our understanding of leaf oyster reefs requires more comprehensive mapping of the remaining populations and gaining a better understanding of their life cycle."
"While bleaching surveys are ongoing, a distinct pattern is emerging, whereby the severity of bleaching declines from north to south."
"At the start of southern summer it was predicted that bleaching would be largely restricted to central and southern parts of the GBR."
"If we only listened! few of those familiar with the natural heat exchanges of the atmosphere, which go inti the making of our climate and weather, would be prepared to admit that the activities of man could have any influence on phenomena of so vast a scale. In the following paper i hope to show that such an influence is not only possible but us actually occurring at the present time."
"We know that global climate is changing due to human actions, climate has changed in the past but not at the current rate and with present human population and heavily impacted global temperatures."
"Australia is the land of drought and flooding rains, and in a recent paper we’ve shown that’s been the case for more than 500 years."
"Even as people change the climate by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, variability will continue to play a large role in Australia’s climate."
"Trees and corals are sensitive to their environments. For example, trees grow less in dry years and more in wet years."
"Human activities are the highest contributors to climate change."
"The magnitude and rate of climate change together with associated risks, depends strongly on the near-term mitigation and adaptation actions."
"“These awards reflect the times, and nowadays hopefully recognise how important science has been, and continues to be, not only in understanding what’s changing but also how we can respond to those changes,”"
"“The magical experience of diving in a kelp forest is like flying through a jungle surrounded by an amazing diversity of life,”"
"“Those forests are now effectively gone because of climate change. It makes me sad when I think my kids won’t have that same experience and get to see those environments the way I did.”"
"“I’ve come from being interested in understanding the fundamentals of ecology to thinking more about how humans interact with ecosystems and how we can better connect knowledge to decision making,”"
"“We have this traditional model where scientists go off and do their work, write a paper and publish it in a journal and hope that somebody who needs it picks it up and is able to make some kind of decision based on the information. But it doesn’t work anymore because so many of the problems we have now are very urgent, and we need more efficient ways to connect science to policy.”"
"“The national finalists are an extraordinary group of people whose impact ranges from medical and scientific endeavours to volunteering, human rights advocacy, education, sustainability action and more,”"
"“I never felt like it was an option [to not be interested], to be honest,”"
"“Some people say that your parents shape your political views, but it’s been much of the opposite [for me].”"
"“My first and biggest role model is my Mum,”"
"“These are real experiences and this is a very real issue that affects people on a very personal level. Not being afraid to show that vulnerability has been really, really instrumental in getting the coverage that we did.”"
"“I used to deal with so much climate anxiety and fear, thinking, ‘Wow, we are one day closer to that deadline’.”"
"“Growing up in Australia I consider myself really fortunate,” she says. “I got an education that helped me make sense of what was happening.”"
"“I was really excited to be doing something to contribute to science. I didn’t think I would get this far with coral. I was thrilled and realized this was for real, it was really happening! I was super excited – especially because it’s an area that’s also my home”."
"I want to get more people in the water. Manado is a coastal city and people need to see how beautiful it is. If they can see it, they will appreciate it and people protect what they care about and what they are interested in."
"I hope that by promoting the unique corals and ecosystems of North Sulawesi, they will want to see what makes being Manadonese even more special."
"As climate scientists, we are disturbingly aware of the threats to society not only here in Australia, but all over the world."
"Art has always been a powerful portal to understanding how we feel about our world. Let’s hope it helps safeguard our climatic future."
"There was a shift in my perception of myself from being heterosexual to bisexual but certainly the biggest shift was just how society treated you."
"We had many years of being outward to the world, of being the perfect normal couple and then suddenly we had the experience of what it's like to be in a same-sex relationship."
"Climate change doesn’t tell the whole story, as extreme rainfall can occur for a variety of reasons."
"Realizing global aspirations for climate resilient development depends on the extent to which coastal cities and settlements close the coastal adaptation gap and take urgent action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions."
"A large proportion of the world’s population and critical infrastructure is already concentrated along shorelines."
"Globally, we expect about a billion people will be at risk from coast-specific climate hazards under all emissions scenarios. In coming decades, the risk of coastal flooding will increase rapidly. It could be two to three orders of magnitude greater by 2100, without effective adaptation and mitigation."
"Cayenne pepper is a wonderful healer... you can put cayenne pepper with any other herb and it'll intensify its action."
"The best heart herb is cayenne pepper... it stimulates the blood and the blood is the life of the flesh. Anything that stimulates blood is going to be good for the body. Cayenne pepper does three things...[1] It's a powerful blood thinner... if cayenne pepper is going through your through your arteries and your veins and it finds any bleeding [2] it'll seal the bleeding blood vessel. How come it can thin the blood and yet seal bleeding blood vessels? Well God said that he gave herbs for the service of man... [3] It opens the capillaries so you get a more powerful effective flow of blood through the whole body."
"In Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss he devotes half a page to every herb and he devotes 10 pages to cayenne pepper."
"Cayenne pepper not only thins the blood, it strengthens the arterial walls so anyone who has had damage from all the things that we talked about that cause the damage they can be repaired, and cayenne pepper helps to repair that"
"How do you take it? you can begin with a quarter of a teaspoon in a little water, three times daily. If you take it with your meals it'll certainly help your digestion by boosting even more digestive enzymes"
"Today in this lecture we're going to be looking at exercise often called The Forgotten remedy because many people don't exercise and it's one of the reasons I mentioned earlier in the week why doctors have to use mesh because the muscles are so weak and they're weak through lack of use, they're weak through lack of hydration, they're weak through... lack of proper nourishment... through not being able to rest at night... they're weak because we're not getting the sunshine to get the vitamin D to allow all the minerals into the cell... not getting enough not getting enough oxygen."
"Rebounding is something I believe everyone can do and it's such a powerful form of exercise. You don't have to do it very much and if you've got a rebounder in your house and children visit where are they? They're on the rebounder. I've come to the conclusion that people get old because they stop jumping and one of the old sayings Jump for Joy Jump for life, so start jumping."
"With the rebounder [mini-trampoline] you've got this shock absorber and then it ricochets you up in the air so running on the ground can be very jarring for your hips. It can be very jarring for your knees and for your for your ankles and also your pelvis your lower back. Whereas there's no jarring on the rebounder."
"A naturopath has been banned from providing any health service by the Health Care Complaints Commission. Barbara O’Neill has been under investigation by the health watchdog for making false claims about cancer and vaccinations, and for recommending inappropriate substitutes for infant formula... Ms O’Neill claims antibiotics cause cancer and neurotoxins in vaccines have caused an epidemic of ADHD, autism, epilepsy and cot death."
"The inferiorization of human qualities and aspects of life associated with necessity, nature and women—of nature-as-body, of nature-as-passion or emotion, of nature as the pre-symbolic, of nature-as-primitive, of nature-as-animal and of nature as the feminine—continues to operate to the disadvantage of women, nature and the quality of human life."
"One of the most common forms of denial of women and nature is what I will term backgrounding, their treatment as providing the background to a dominant, foreground sphere of recognized achievement or causation. This backgrounding of women and nature is deeply embedded in the rationality of the economic system and in the structures of contemporary society."
"Dominant western culture has systematically inferiorised, backgrounded and denied dependency on the whole sphere of reproduction and subsistence. This denial of dependency is a major factor in the perpetuation of the non-sustainable modes of using nature which loom as such a threat to the future of western society."
"It’s gettin’ bits o’ posies, ’N’ feelin’ mighty good; A-thrillin’ ’cause she loves you, An’ wond’rin’ why she should; [...] As if there’s nothin’ mattered, As if the world was good, As if the Lord was lookin’, An’ sort o’ understood."
"It's us two when it's morning, And us two when it's night; And us two when it's troubled, And us two when it's bright;And us two don't want nothing To make life good and true, And lovin'-sweet, and happy, While us two's got us two."
"I have grown past hate and bitterness, I see the world as one; But though I can no longer hate, My son is still my son.All men at God's round table sit, And all men must be fed; But this loaf in my hand, This loaf is my son's bread."
"It was, it was a fairy man Who came to town today. "I'll make a cake for sixpence, If you will pay, will pay."I paid him with a sixpence, And with a penny, too; He made a cake of rainbows, And baked it in the dew. [...] He iced it with a moonbeam, He patterned it with play, And sprinkled it with star-dust From off the Milky Way."
"Youth troubles over eternity; age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day."
"We are the sons of Australia, Of the men who fashioned the land, We are the sons of the women Who walked with them, hand in hand; And we swear by the dead who bore us, By the heroes who blazed the trail, No foe shall gather our harvest, Or sit on our stockyard rail."
"Never admit the pain, Bury it deep; Only the weak complain. Complaint is cheap."
"I never knew how wide the dark, I never knew the depth of space, I never knew how frail a bark, How small is man within his place,Not till I heard the swans go by, Not till I marked their haunting cry, Not till, within the vague on high, I watched them pass across the sky. ..."
"I span and Eve span, A thread to bind the heart of man!"
"I have no thunder in my words, Thunder is much too high; But I can see as far as birds, And feel the wind go by.And I can follow through the grass The darling-breasted quail; For, though things great in splendour mass, I choose the lesser grail."
""I'm old Botany Bay; Stiff in the joints, Little to say.I am he Who paved the way, That you might walk At your ease to-day; [...] I split the rock; I felled the tree: The nation was — Because of me!"Old Taking the sun From day to day. ... Shame on the mouth That would deny The knotted hands That set us high!"
"Never allow the thoughtless to delcare That we have no tradition here!"
"I shall go as my father went, A thousand plans in his mind, With something still held unspent When death lets fall the blind.I shall go as my mother went, The ink still wet on the line: I shall pay no rust as rent For the house that is mine."
"Nurse no long grief, Lest the heart flower no more; Grief builds no barns; its plough Rusts at the door."
"Emptied of us the land, Ghostly our going, Fallen, like spears the hand Dropped in the throwing.We are the lost who went, Like the cranes, crying; Hunted, lonely, and spent, Broken and dying."
"I am not very patient, Yet patient I must be With him beside my pillow And the babe upon my knee. [...] Strange that I was given Thoughts that soar to heaven, Yet must I sit and keep Children in their sleep!"
"Moorangoo, the dove, in her high place mourned, And Mulloka, the Water Spirit, turned In his shade as he heard her weep, Sad as the lone that cries in his sleep At the sound of the gun, Asking for pity where pity was none."
"Growing up in an ethnic family, food was always central. In the Jewish religion, on Friday nights you bring in the Sabbath – for us it wasn’t so much a religious occasion but more a ritualistic one."
"Research shows that out of every five shopping bags of produce we buy, we throw one away; we waste one."
"Since starting OzHarvest I’ve repurposed my life, and that has allowed me to find my true calling. I’m not special; I’m not exceptional – if there’s a lesson to learn it’s that all of us have the ability and capacity to be the best we can be."
"So when I suddenly looked at myself with this six inch ‘fro’ it made me feel like a newly born woman."
"Many white people of that apartheid-era have never really discussed that we were all raised by these loving black nannies."
"To look after me, Florrie had to leave her own family. Yet those black nannies came and went, and were considered disposable."