2024.12.23

Interview
Anna Sawai on Shōgun: ‘Our show taught women it was OK to stand up and say no’
Dale Berning Sawa
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/dec/23/anna-sawai-on-shogun-our-show-taught-women-it-was-ok-to-stand-up-and-say-no

Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’
Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania’s Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem – and local farmers’ profits
Helen Cushing
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/22/sheep-farmers-are-helping-save-tasmanias-native-grasslands-were-better-off-working-together

Guardian Australia’s best photos of 2024 – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/dec/21/best-photos-of-2024-in-pictures-guardian-australia

More than 170 snowboarders and skiers rescued after Colorado ski lift cracks
Officials investigate cause of crack after ski patrolers use rope to lower 174 people to ground at Winter Park Resort
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/colorado-ski-lift-cracks-evacuation

Alabama bishop dismissed clergy abuse claim later found credible in Michigan, report finds
Catholic bishop dismissed child sexual abuse allegations that was then settled out of court, says investigation report
Ramon Antonio Vargas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/23/alabama-bishop-clergy-abuse-claim-michigan

Critics decry Vietnam’s ‘draconian’ new internet law
Social media users will need to verify their identities under new decree 147, prompting fears it will undermine expression and expose anonymous dissidents
Agence France-Presse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/23/vietnam-identity-verification-internet-law-reactions-decree-147-censorship

Locals win fight to save mysterious, medieval Spanish chapel from oblivion
Home to vivid 16th-century frescoes, the Ermita de San Jorge is on the brink of being saved from centuries of decay
Sam Jones in Madrid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/23/locals-win-fight-to-save-spanish-chapel-from-oblivion-ermita-de-san-jorge

Stocking stuffer?
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