megametro - new Central...

Megametro from the heartland of busy Central Station...Excavating round a Pitt Street 41 storey building today + Bradfield's vision in 1920's...
Building a #megametro under Australia’s busiest railway station...https://t.co/bZQexnf88A via @YouTube + on SBS tonight

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 12, 2020

1000 trucks on the move in CBD traffic... 

At last, John Bradfield's engineering visions of 1915 are being realised when he proposed the concurrent building of the Harbour Bridge + underground rail systems...

See more HERE

There will be a new underground tunnel...under Sydney Harbour, complete with a station - Barangaroo - 25metres underground. The station began construction in 2017 and is expected to be completed in 2024. (Central station too will have underground platforms.) pic.twitter.com/kkBiU09tMs

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 12, 2020

beeswax for painting?...

Archaeologists May Have Uncovered the Secret Ingredient Behind Australia's Mysteriously Precise Cave Paintings: Beeswax. Research focuses on Limmen National Park (site = Yilbilinji) in the Gulf of Carpentaria and 17 stenciled paintings. https://t.co/tGOHyOjXQ5

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 12, 2020

wildflowers...

Extensive display of wildflowers in Western Australia begins each June, starting in the north +swinging south. The north is nicknamed the 'Golden Outback' e.g. crimson myrtles, smokebush, mountain bells+over 150 varieties of orchid. More amazing, 60% not found elsewhere on earth. https://t.co/7Q0wYC2HrR pic.twitter.com/7CCUnSs6Qi

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 12, 2020

Bumpa...

Archibald Prize entry by Sarah Molony-Singleton. It's a portrait of Burrumbuttock Hay Runners' founder Brendan Farrell. The Burrumbuttock Hay Runners bring hay + hope to drought-affected farmers in NSW and Queensland. Brendan Farrell was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia. pic.twitter.com/e6nYPN4CQ6

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 12, 2020

Brendan is nicknamed 'Bumpa' - which becomes the title of the painting.
Further details of this painting: https://t.co/J1Z8xa0nhL

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 12, 2020

indigenous banana cultivators...

Indigenous Australians, on tiny Mabuyag Island, north of the mainland in the Torres Strait, farmed bananas.
Researchers found banana microfossils, stone tools, charcoal + a series of retaining walls at the site. These Australians were not solely "hunter-gatherers". https://t.co/NarE43dyZl pic.twitter.com/OwXdHuCmTt

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 12, 2020

a morning in a swan's life...

Love the passing flight of birds in the background + the duck doing a low level 'zoom' into the water from the left. Just beautiful.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 12, 2020

Melbourne - Stage 4 insight...

Sensitive reflection on Melbourne's Stage 4 lockdown. The 1st lockdown = a challenge; this 2nd one is harder. To watch a funny movie just doesn't feel right, when each day is about waiting for Dan's pressers + going through a grieving process. Brilliant insight into tough times. https://t.co/I7TJUoKuuk pic.twitter.com/zrMwSTglPZ

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 11, 2020