For the joy that wood heaters bring, asthmatics across the state monitor apps and weather patterns to remain safe.
The worst combination is cold night air and hovering wood smoke, made more harmful when training for sporting events when this potentially deadly combination is at its peak.
Throw in late autumn being the most effective time for fuel reduction burns and matters are made even worse.
Read MoreThe revelation was twenty-years in the making following the resurrection of a friendship.
The accusation of an overly-ambitious nature troubled me and forced ongoing consideration of alleged behaviour.
The trouble manifested in different ways: fidgeting, pensive, distracted, and procrastinating to a stop.
Read MoreYet, as its more fulsome term, brainrot, describes "excessive consumption of TikTok content leads to decreased attention spans and mental fatigue."
It's fair to say, as parents, we don't always model the best of behaviours to our offspring.
The truth is, I'll be rewatching Bridgerton's episodes having missed so much due to distractions that are extremely difficult to control.
Read MoreTo make matters even worse, Mr. Ellis' choice of calculated words were uttered following his government's response to the damming Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings, which highlighted that young Tasmanians have been wronged in public institutions for decades.
Read MoreWomen and girls - unashamedly, yes - as a collective - assertive, empowered, and most telling of all, safe.
Safe to walk to the MCG, safe to line-up, safe to engage with fellow fans who they may not have known, and safe to be overcome with emotion. They were free to express themselves; free of judgement, free of society's expectation to conform, and free to move and sing and jump and hug and cry and experience a state of utter happiness for three-and-a-half hours.
Read MoreThere were vapers in the mosh (jampacked dancing area in front of the stage), vapers on vapers as revellers boosted mates on shoulders, vapers in camping areas, vapers in the toilets, vapers at the food and coffee vans - it was a chemically induced cloud of vapes, vaping, and vapers.
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