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An Australian frog, thought to have died out 30 years ago, has been found in a stream on a grazing property in the NSW Southern Tablelands.
Announcing the rediscovery of the yellow-spotted bell frog (Litoria castanea), NSW Environment Minister Frank Sartor said it was ”as significant a discovery as a Tasmanian tiger”, given 50 per cent of the world’s frogs were now threatened with extinction.
Presumed extinct after not being seen or heard in rivers since the 1980s, the bell frog was rediscovered when NSW fisheries conservation officer Luke Pearce glimpsed a big green frog while surveying a stream for a rare native fish, the southern pygmy perch.
”I saw it by chance when I was walking up the river, collecting brood stock for a fish breeding program. It was basking out on a reed during the day, and when it jumped across and started swimming away, I thought it definitely looked like a bell frog,” Mr Pearce said.
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Canberra Times: Bell frog back from dead 30 years on
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Last Thursday and Friday at 6pm the 650 residents of remote Australian desert town Lajamanu were bombarded by hundreds of white fish which fell out of the sky. Spangled perch, to be precise.
Ms Christine Balmer’s family thought she was going mad when she told them what was happening.
‘I haven’t lost my marbles,’ she said. ‘Hundreds and hundreds of fish landed in the town. Locals were picking them up off the ground everywhere.
‘These fish were alive when they hit the ground,’ she added. ‘Thank God it didn’t rain crocodiles.’
The perch are common throughout northern Australia. That’s all very well, but the nearest river is 326 miles away from Lajamanu. It seems there is a natural explanation, albeit utterly unlikely. Meteorologists say conditions were perfect for a tornado in the region which could have sucked the fish up to 50,000-ft into the air from lakes hundreds of miles away.
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Metro: Fish fall out of sky over remote Australian desert town
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Something utterly terrible is happening in Australia right now and everyone worldwide needs to know about this – We are seeing a democratic country essentially losing the right to free speech.
The Australian public doesn’t understand how dangerous this new internet filter will be , please I’m asking all Australians to write letters to your federal ministers now and join this facebook protest.. our country is going to turn out just like China with freedom of speech something of the past … nothing on the web will be censor free .. and remember how I said they would extend this filter well I was right – now youtube will be fully filtered and videos will be censored by the government – its the beginning of the end.. we must stop this now!.
I mean it was only today that i heard on CNN that Iran manipulated the web using its internet filtering to stop its people hearing about protests .. For state run countries like Iran and China i guess you would expect the governments to pull something like this but for a democratic country like Australia to roll this out its a disgrace!.
Google was shocked and angrily rejected the Australian governments call to filter all videos on youtube, things like euthanasia, graffiti and anything deemed illegal activities by the Australian government will no longer be allowed on youtube – i was shocked to hear this too.
Here’s the response from Google:
GOOGLE has angrily rejected a call from the Australia government to filter YouTube videos, after the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, said if the search engine could censor material for China, it should do the same in Australia.
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Real UFO’s : Breaking news – Australian government to filter all Youtube videos ! – mass censorship
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DOES this photograph show the figures of two children, born nearly a century apart, walking in their own paranormal playground?
The family who took this picture while on a ghost tour in Picton, NSW, swear there were no children inside the St Mark’s Cemetery.
Which begs the question: who, or what, is out there?
Local legend has it that the two children are David Shaw and Blanche Moon, who died 60 years apart.
Blanche was crushed to death in 1886 when a pile of sleepers that she and a number of children were playing on slipped.
David was the son of a minister who died in 1946 from polio.
The woman behind the lens of this mysterious photo, Renee English, said she was “a sceptic” before undertaking the ghost tour on January 9.
“When we were standing at the bank looking into the Cemetery I was just snapping away and making jokes about the whole thing and asking when the ghosts were going to come out,” the Port Macquarie resident said.
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Courier Mail: Children’s ‘ghosts’ haunt Picton cemetery
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