Reconciliation, pay gaps and cute animals

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We’ve got a jam-packed episode for you today, so let’s uncork the content and dive right in!

🌍 Blurt Around The World

• Reconciliation Week: “Bridging Now to Next”.

  • Reconciliation Week | Official home page

  • Reconciliation official | 1967 Referendum

  • Reconciliation official | The Mabo Native Title Decision

• Dramatic lightning strike near Everton's stadium: That was strikingly close!

  • BBC News | Dramatic lightning strike near Everton's stadium

• Gender pay gap update in Australia: Still an unequal equation.

  • Guardian AU | ABC and SBS gender pay gaps revealed as public sector wage data released for the first time

  • SBS News | The public sector gender pay gap data has been revealed. Here's what to know

• Snap ban on machetes in Victoria following gang fight in shopping centre.

  • ABC News | Victorian premier announces ban on machete sales

  • ABC News | How Victoria's machete sale ban will be enforced

🧿 Asshole of the Week

• Crowning this week's champion of churlishness. Return of Abbott: A comeback no one was Abbott to predict?

📻 Do Ya Self a Favour

Tune in and treat your brain!

• The Kegsta reviewed "The Psychology of Your 20s" podcast. He gave it 4+ out of 5 Blurtstars.

  • Official podcast | The Psychology of your 20s

  • YouTube The Psychology of your 20s | How to get your spark back 🍀🦋🤍

• Wencee reviewed a BBC podcast called "Curious Cases". Get ready for some case studies. He gave it 4.1 out of 5 Blurtstars.

  • BBC Podcast | Curious Cases

🦄 Nature Calls

Where the wild things are... and what they're saying.

• Ugly animals need love too. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, after all.

  • Ultimate Kilimanjaro | The 25 Ugliest Animals on Earth (With Photos)

• Wencee will chat about an incredible matchbox-sized bat in Victoria. Let's wing it with this tiny marvel!

  • Guardian AU | This tiny Australian bat is the size of a matchbox. But it flies up to 150km a night in search of food

  • Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research | Foraging flights of the Southern Bentwing Bat during two seasons

  • Wikipedia | Condorito

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