Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great week. I'm starting to get really excited about my next trip. I'm off to New Orleans next Wednesday for the second international MSP meet-up. A bunch of familiar faces from meet-up 1 will be there including @aggroed, @clayboyn, @crimsonclad, @isaria and @swelker101. We are excited that @discordiant will be joining us this time too. I'm less excited about having to clear US immigration at 10.30pm (urgh!) but I like direct flights and there're only a couple a week from Panama. I'll have to not freak out at being awake way past my bedtime. Plus it will probably be good training for the week since the rest of them are night owls.

Feature photo

Today's feature photo comes from @kieranstone. He's given the middle finger to Melbourne's winter and has headed north to the Gold Coast for a week. If you like this photo of Rye's clean blue water, please upvote it here.

Meet-ups

Adelaide

It's almost that time of the month again when the Mallsballers gather for end-of-month drinks. Usual time and place—The Jade, from 6pm on the 30th. @mattclarke will be bringing some of the 2018 steem silver bullion coins to sell as well.

@o07life tells you everything you need to know about it here.

Want a personalised Team Australia footer?

Both versions of the Team Australia footer are now free for approved members. Please refer to @quochuy's post or @bearone's post for details on how to get them.

The usual community notices

You should follow @mrsquiggle, who is doing a great job recognising Aussie creativity by curating quality content.

Check out the awesome Minnow Support Project (MSP). Details on how to join are here. Come say hi in the #teamaustralia chat room in PAL-Discord. It's fun and you will make new friends.

If you have spare witness votes, you should consider voting for @curie as well as the MSP witnesses, particularly @ausbitbank and @aggroed, who've a done a great job in getting the MSP project off the ground. Current active Aussie witnesses include @ausbitbank, @bobdos, @idikuci [comedyopenmic witness], @jackmiller, @quochuy, @sapphic and @thekitchenfairy.

Check out @anzub, the Australian and New Zealand upvote bot in the Australia-New Zealand Discord server. You need to register to receive upvotes and delegations are welcome. Speak to @jackmiller if you have questions.

Lastly, if you're feeling generous, you can delegate SP to the Team Australia upvote bots @centerlink, @mrsquiggle and/or @anzub (or any other bot you like) using Vessel. You can delegate to any of the MSP bots using this link.
 

Candidate 1

Name and bio

@jay.ell is @vincy's husband and is from Sydney. He's into music and gaming, looking at his blog.

Intro post here.

Fun fact

"One time I planted a sandwich hoping that one day a sandwich tree would grow up."

Lol, that would be awesome. I'm assuming you were a kid when you did this and it wasn't something you did last week? 🤔

Candidate 2

Name and bio

@apshamilton is an Aussie expat living in Tel Aviv, Israel. He's a technology entrepreneur and a lawyer in the technology, corporate and litigation fields.

Intro post here.

Fun Fact

"I live in the centre of Tel Aviv metropolis, but I have a second home in a tiny country town in outback NSW (700km from Sydney). I love the inner city and the outback but hate the suburbs!"

Makes sense. Inner cities are where the action is, and the suburbs are full of people who are really into lawns.

Congratulations everyone, you're now part of Team Australia.
 

 

The rules for joining Team Australia

If you’re not yet a member and want to be, this is what you need to do:

1. Vote here for our resident steemit witness and our Minister for Welfare @ausbitbank.
2. Send me your introduction post so I can find out a bit about you. If you’re new to steemit you'll have to write one so use the introduceyourself and teamaustralia tags to help boost your following. Use this handy guide if you don't know what to write.
3. If it’s not mentioned in your introductory post, tell me which city and country you’re in, cos let's face it, a lot of us live in Australia's fourth largest city—London. You need to have a connection to Australia to join.
4. Tell me a fun fact about yourself. This can be anything. For example, maybe you have eight kids and three dogs, or you rode your bike across America, or you won the blue ribbon for javelin throwing at sports day back in high school, or Toadie came into the pub you work at one day and you served him a beer, or, maybe you can fit 55 maltesers in your mouth like Ed Sheeran can. It doesn’t matter what it is, I want a fun fact about you! The more fun, the better.
5. Regularly check the Team Australia and Australia tags and upvote/follow the content you like. You can show your support by following the centerlink curation trail in steemauto. Instructions are here.
6. Comment below or DM me in PAL-Discord that you want to join.

Once I receive this information I will try my best to write a good introductory paragraph about you for the official Team Australia membership updates. So the better your information is, the better I can make you sound. Where relevant, please use the teamaustralia and australia tags to promote your work. I will try and post weekly updates.
 
 

 
 

 
Gif by @justcallmemyth
Team Australia footer by @bearone
Page divider by @kristyglas