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- Comment on What you need to know about why house prices aren't coming down 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, it matters less what people want than what these people want
Of the 227 sitting MPs and senators, only 12 declared no property ownership.
Several senators are on the list, although we cannot be sure this provides an exhaustive picture because the property holdings of senators’ spouses are not published.
Some in this group declared a financial interest in trusts but were not required to disclose any property held in those trusts.
- Comment on Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout 2 weeks ago:
It looks like you can apply even if you don’t know you’re affected and they (KPMG) will determine eligibility, but that’s a lot of personal information for a “maybe”
- Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payouttheconversation.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- 'Nothing' done to address gaps created by teen social media ban, says children's commissionerwww.crikey.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
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- Comment on Caged eggs to stay on supermarket shelves until 2030 as Coles abandons pledge 2 months ago:
“Free Range” is regulated, but the threshold is unusually low compared to other countries.
Pastured or pasture raised is a much stronger standard but as far as i can tell not legally protected.
- Comment on Australia’s highest court denies decorated Afghanistan veteran Ben Roberts-Smith’s final appeal 2 months ago:
The only Australian veteran to be convicted over war crime allegations in Afghanistan has been army whistleblower David McBride.
The former army lawyer was sentenced last year to five years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to charges associated with leaking allegations of war crimes to the media.
It’s honestly hard to keep straight in my head how awful everything to do with this is
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- Marles insists Australia ‘not supplying weapons to Israel’ but critics argue ‘parts of weapons are weapons’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 2 months ago:
In Australia: yes and it’s commonplace. But like 70% of our media is American so unsurprising.
- Comment on Lifehack 2 months ago:
This post is not about keeping shoes on
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 months ago:
You may appreciate the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License, though more alternatives are usually recommended.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 3 months ago:
There are already a bunch of them, including XMPP and Matrix which both implement Signal’s double ratchet encryption (via OMEMO, in XMPPs case)
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 3 months ago:
- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 3 months ago:
This missing key provision — called the “exemption framework” — had been previously described publicly by the government itself as being crucial to making sure that the law would “protect, not isolate, young people”. The exemption offered tech companies a way out of the ban if they were able to prove that their apps weren’t risky for teens to use.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 3 months ago:
Lots of software has credits, historically they were often hidden in Easter eggs. Small software still often credits their creators e.g. in the Help>about menu item.
But games are different, they are primarily an artistic pursuit.
- Comment on Can Australia reach its 2029 housing construction target? Data shows we’re already falling behind 3 months ago:
To hit the target we need about 240,000 new dwellings every year, and new data shows we are already falling behind. The most recent State of the Housing System report predicts we will fall short of the target by more than 260,000 homes, an even bigger miss than was predicted the year before.
I think I know what this is meant to say, but it sounds like we’re building -20,000 homes a year.
Nygaard also questions whether the 1.2m dwellings target will significantly impact affordability. “The housing affordability challenges is the greatest for young and newly establishing households, for migrants, low and moderate income households, and First Nations Australians.
“These are also the households that are least likely to be able to compete for new supply.”
This is something that always bugged me about first home buyer grants. They have always had a requirement for new builds since that’s what they’re meant to encourage, but that also means huge swathes of the people that could most benefit from the grant (because the grant can make housing more affordable), can’t take advantage of them (because new houses are out of reach).
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 3 months ago:
It’s an alternative shell for Plasma, so theoretically you should be able to do anything in it that you can do in Plasma.
On my Arch box it installed a minimal set of Plasma utilities to support it, which means my setup is still very limited (and I can’t turn off screen lock!), but I haven’t tried if it would change if offered a full Plasma install.
I can most certainly launch Steam, Kodi, Jellyfin etc.
- Comment on 8BitDo Pro 3 Controller Announced with Swappable Buttons, Available for Preorder 3 months ago:
It’s not replaceable? That’s disappointing. I expected better or controller manufacturers since they’re not space constrained.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 months ago:
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 4 months ago:
In some fields Malinauskus is more right wing than his Liberal party predecessor. Urban development is one of the big ones.
This is the premier who says “urban sprawl is not a dirty word”, totally killed the right to protest in South Australia and is dedicated to commercialising the parklands. But he did undo the insane privatisation of the rail system so he’s not totally blind to a good thing.
- Comment on Perspective 4 months ago:
They absolutely do, and you’re arguing for the opposite position of the person above you
- The motel time forgot. How the housing crisis hits our most vulnerable - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Australia’s superannuation regulator is worried about your fund’s spending. Should you be?theconversation.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 4 months ago:
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 4 months ago:
I don’t see anything in the document suggesting that, although there’s also nothing stopping companies from doing that.
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 4 months ago:
I don’t see anything in the document as written that would stop users who aren’t logged in from turning off safe search etc… Of course it’s in the company’s interest to interpret it that way, but I would think an honest interpretation based on the current document would dramatically reduce the user value of being logged in to a search engine.
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 4 months ago:
Interestingly apart from effectively mandating “safe search” on by default, this doesn’t appear to attempt to restrict users who aren’t logged in.
