Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on no pride in genocide 2 days ago:
His mission was to observe the transit of Venus. The expedition was scientific in nature first and foremost.
You’re speaking of the secret instructions issued to him by the Admiralty to locate the fabled southern continent and hopefully claim it for England. Tasman by this stage had found NZ and I think Van Diemans Land. Yes he found the east coast of Australia and “claimed” it for England. It was all in vain though, the distances were way too far for anything to come of it. To Cook at the time, it was a side trip.
There were two parliamentary inquiries submitted to the British parliament in 1779 and 1785 recommending colonisation of New Holland, but even then: well after Cook’s death, such an expedition was seen as too expensive.
Then the English learned that the French were preparing to colonise and it was suddenly a British priority to get to Australia.
I don’t see how anything to do with the colonisation had anything to do with Captain Cook. You could swap Cook out for any other ship’s captain who was taking the scientists to see Venus and the rest of the expedition plays out much the same. Cook didn’t colonise Australia. He encountered the Guugu Yimithirr people in Northern Queensland and tried to treat with the peacefully - mostly succeeding. He certainly didn’t set about killing them all.
Arthur Philip should be the person people direct their ire at. But he doesn’t have a statue in Melbourne. King George III would be another candidate that made sense. Only George III also doesn’t have a statue in Melbourne.
- Comment on no pride in genocide 2 days ago:
Captain Cook had nothing to do with the colony. He died in 1779 - years before the settlers arrived. While agreeing with the sentiment that the arrival of Europeans is not cause for celebration, Cook had always been a dumb target for protesting Jan 26.
- Comment on Melbourne goes from among the most to least expensive capital cities 1 week ago:
Southbank had residential high-rise buildings that were at least 60% empty ten years ago - and that’s being generous. It seemed like they were nearly empty. From the outside at 8 pm, there were barely any lights on to indicate the presence of people in there.
They were owned by people overseas and kept in pristine condition to maintain a higher value. Is that still going on?
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 1 week ago:
Insert “That’s bait” meme here.
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 2 weeks ago:
It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this. Whoever sent this has clearly never been to a WOMAD festival, because that crowd is not likely to appreciate someone trying to influence the lineup.
I can’t think of anything the better the writers of this letter could have done to Streisand Effect that crowd into seeking out some DJ that might otherwise have been one act among several.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day 2026 - the first time since 2005 that authors and artists have entered the public domain in Australia 3 weeks ago:
I somehow missed this and thought that Lord of the Rings was coming out of copyright about now. It seems not.
- Comment on Long Before Bondi Massacre, Australian Jews Lived With a Sense of Peril 4 weeks ago:
New York has a huge Jewish population. This is totally geared toward selling papers to them.
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 5 weeks ago:
Hrm, yours is a tricky one because I had read it and moved past it. I recognised you came from a place of hyperbole and didn’t think much of it. I didn’t remove it.
But looking at the comment again after it was removed, it does pretty much break all three of the rules I posted. So I’ll not override the mod and restore it.
It’s not that criticising actions of religious people is the issue, it’s grouping them all members of a religion into your criticism that is the problem.
‘Those two guys are bad’ is fine. ‘115,000 Aussies are terrible people because those two guys are bad’ is not fine.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
Noooo!
I used my icq all the time! In 1997. - Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
This is a great idea, but keep in mind I’m likely to test it.
- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 5 weeks ago:
We see you trying to manipulate the vote.
- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 5 weeks ago:
Excuse me, that’s a load of horse shit. The modlog is right there at the bottom of the page. From this discussion, it’ll default to filtering mod actions for /c/Australia.
Point me to any comment you think should be restored and I’ll re-evaluate. But don’t sit there and pretend we censor you from behind secret doors like this is Reddit. I see stuff I disagree with on the regular, but I very rarely step in. I let the community votes do that.
The main rules of the site are and have always been:
Golden rule - don’t be a dick. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your grandmother, don’t post it.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.In case this isn’t clear:
Criticism of a government’s actions (Ours, USA, Israel etc) is fine. Start bashing Muslims because of the actions of two jerks or start lumping all Jewish people in with the actions of the Israeli government, and we’ll step in. If/when we do though: it’s visible. You can see what was removed and what justification we used when we did it. Whatever impression left you with the attitude that we censor users is mistaken. - Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 5 weeks ago:
One sister wants cash towards a new motorcycle helmet. So yeah, she’s sorted. 😀
Another sister is all about the thoughtful gesture. It makes her super hard to buy for. She has loads more time than I do.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
Go to your messages and then “All”.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 5 weeks ago:
Hershey’s kisses would be a perfect accompaniment to this specific mug.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, that was me. I’m working from the Molly inbox because mine is full of user reports and site-wide stuff. Keeping the user verifications in the Molly account just means we keep them separate from anything else. I’ll have another look tonight (I can’t access Reddit from work) and see if I missed something.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 5 weeks ago:
There was lots of Numbat talk in last year’s thread. If you need a numbat:
shop.perthzoo.wa.gov.au/products/numbat-soft-toy - Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 5 weeks ago:
I like that little Greenhouse thing. I am not sure who I’d get it for - possibly my sister, but I can’t see her actually sitting down and assembling it. My wife probably would, but I have her more than sorted. Maybe for her next birthday. 🙂
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 5 weeks ago:
To start things off this year, I’ll share how this awesome community helped me last year.
After last year’s thread, I bought:
- A Bug-a-salt for my brother-in-law, he loved it! (Thanks @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone )
- Some nice towels for my sister (Thanks @Taleya@aussie.zone )
I got a Bluetooth transmitter (I had requested one) and it is awesome.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 21 comments
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
What does a bunch of Aussies enjoying a holiday at the beach have to do with Israel?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
I have a real 14-year-old in my house. I should see what accounts he can manage to create for himself.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Not instantly. I’ll go through all the DMs soon (I was going to go through them on the weekend but, December) and send replies. Yes, replies will come from Molly.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Ooh - I missed this update last week:
ImageThis genuinely boggles my mind. The government can make sentences like this, but they can’t make them reality. Imagine if it said that only people with red hair were allowed to access the site. What technology exists to handle that? Because it is effectively what we are facing. We can only try our best - but we can’t assure the government 100% that no user has tricked us onto the platform. And I’d still say that if I had the resources of Google to ensure compliance.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
We aren’t going to make public what people have given us in confidence. That’s simply not happening.
We might share some of the text-based responses as reference examples to inspire others, but it’s an emphatic n"o" on anything that has an above 0% chance of doxxing our people. Which will likely be all the photos.
We love you guys too much to remotely entertain that risk.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 month ago:
I think this about sums everything up. I just pinned it to the top of Local with the non-satire post. 😀
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
If it was Tom’s Diner, that song has a special place in digital music history. It was the test song for what became the MP3 standard.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Oh wow! That this came from a non-Queensland kid is extra surprising. Yes, this was the breakfast club. It gave us, Agro by the way. Queensland kids knew Agro years before the rest of Australia.
