eureka
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- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 day ago:
- Comment on Why Do Co-Op Stores Only Work in Small Towns? 3 days ago:
“Economics” isn’t a useful answer.
- Comment on Why Do Co-Op Stores Only Work in Small Towns? 3 days ago:
At least six food co-ops in Sydney appear to have died since 2018, which I suspect is partly due to COVID.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 4 days ago:
Could be a scraper? But it doesn’t sound much like one if the user agent wasn’t clear, or suspicious. A DoS attack would probably be making an odd request, intended to waste the most resources possible.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 1 week ago:
[I’m not sure if @ pinging works, so just in case it doesn’t, I’m replying just so you know I referenced this post over here]
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 1 week ago:
However, best to start as we would mean to continue.
Only if it makes sense. @ikt@aussie.zone has a valid point about having smaller communities until there’s enough traffic to justify dividing it up, which I personally think is less critical on aussie.zone due to how the site is set up but can be make-or-break on forums with distinct boards, where it just gets filled with 3 half-dead communities instead of 1 active, inviting community.
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Agreed.
- Comment on Star Ownership 1 week ago:
Yeah I assumed “high seas” just meant the waves were big, not “high” as in hundreds of kilometres upwards. Well we’d better be careful where we shine laser pointers if this all decides to happen.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 1 week ago:
As a counter question: if you’d prefer to see less news and politics, what sort of content would you prefer to be posted instead? There might not be enough.
I’ll leave this question to others, since my account is very much focused on news and politics.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 1 week ago:
Is there a specific issue you are trying to fix or is the duplication the issue?
It’s mostly the duplication, but also that it would frustrate people who don’t want to see all the politics posts. (For what it’s worth, I think politics is important and people should be informed whether they want to or not, but there are valid reasons for wanting to block politics comms for a while.)
Nothing’s really broken, but this is something that can be nipped in the bud if other users think it deserves fixing.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 2 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel better, I can call you a fukken seppo wanker. Will that do the trick, mate? ;)
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- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 2 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, an actual Libertarian party has since popped up and the Liberals challenged their name with the AEC, which as I said is funny because the Electoral Commision correctly pointed out that if ANYBODY has an incorrect name, it’s the Liberals.
From a historical/polsci perspective, the Liberal Party is a conservative liberalist party, and the Libertarian Party is probably also a conservative liberalist party claiming to be a classical liberalist party (right-libertarian is also appropriate, as opposed to the original meaning of libertarian, which is now called libertarian socialism).
The US discourse using “liberal” to refer to “progressive liberalism” is more the source of confusion than the Liberal Party.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 2 weeks ago:
Im not a fan of Albanese due to him largely coasting on important issues; like housing but Im not aware of the broader population thinking he was a cunt.
For what it’s worth, I’d say many online communities (including Lemmy) are more progressivist than the average population, so a non-Australian could easily get that impression.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 2 weeks ago:
It’s preferential FPTP
This contradicts FPTP - Australia does not use FPTP.
They’re far from perfect, but the alternative was Donald Dutton
I get what you’re saying, but there were other viable alternatives (as unlikely as they were!) precisely because we aren’t in a two-party FPTP system.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 2 weeks ago:
It’s also an insult. We’re a nuanced people.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 2 weeks ago:
Y’all have first past the post / winner takes all, don’t you?
Nope. Instant-Runoff Vote, where we rank preferences. It’s much better.
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ncase.me/ballot/ has a neat interactive visualisation of different voting methods.
Labor, coalition, independents, etc. what kinds of parties are these?
The Coalition is a coalition of allied parties, not just one party. Generally speaking, it’s the Liberal Party and the National Party. Now, if you’re used to American political media, you’ve probably learned an incorrect definition of ‘liberal’ - it doesn’t actually just mean ‘progressive’, liberalism is an ideology focusing on the ideal of liberty, and most parties in modern liberal-democratic countries are liberals, whether they’re classic liberals (think US Libertarians), progressive liberals (think a Green party) or conservative liberals. The Liberal Party of Australia are conservative liberals, and they’ve been mirroring some of Trump’s rhetoric and US Republican Party ideas like the DOGE. Australia apparently didn’t like that.
Labor were historically a social democrat party representing the labour movement and unions, but has drifted further away from that and is now considered either the centre or centre-left party.
The Greens are the third biggest, a populist progressive party, focusing on issues like environment and climate, social justice and housing.
Independent candidates are independent, they aren’t in a party. Some have left their old parties, some were never in one.
I thought Albanese was a “cunt” yet his party seems to have won again?
Since when has that stopped politicians from winning?
What’s going on?
The Liberal Party faceplanted, many of their voters swung to Labor. Others will have chosen smaller parties, but Labor and Coalition each had about 33% of the primary vote in the past few years with Greens and One Nation down somewhere around 10% so Labor was clearly the most likely to win this year.
Interestingly, unlike the House of Representatives which election coverage has focused on, there is still a crossbench in the Senate, it looks like Greens will still have around 11 members there, forcing Labor to appeal to them in order to pass bills in the Senate.
These are generalisations, there are some technicalities I’ve avoided.
- Comment on Should police have the power to arrest demosnag dealers who don't accept EFTPOS? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a monopoly conspiracy! Big Sausage won’t get away with this.
- Comment on Got plans for May Day tomorrow? 3 weeks ago:
We still celebrate it every year in March.
What happened in March? I don’t know as much about other states’ Labour Day history.
I’d be in favour of us changing the date to one that relates to our accomplishment as well.
I think that’s missing the point of International Workers’ Day - it’s not just about our national accomplishments like Labour Day. Our labour movement has had effects on other countries (e.g. our pioneering contribution to the eight-hour day struggle, green bans, the Dalfram dispute re: Imperial Japan, black bans of the Dutch Black Armada trying to colonise Indonesia, wharfies in general), and other countries on our struggles (again, maritime work in general is an example, where worker unions and members from different countries regularly interact and interrelate. An interesting specific example was the solidarity actions with Australian waterside workers in 1998, including parliamentary and harbour actions in Spain, anti-scab actions in New Zealand, and the picketing of Australian embassies in the Phillipines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the USA^[1]^.
We live in a global capitalist economy, our work often relies on the products and demand from other countries, and therefore an international perspective of labour is useful for any of us who want the best outcomes for our worker class. And so, while it’s obviously not the most important thing in the world, I believe celebrating an explicitly international labour day is constructive and beneficial even from a local perspective.
- Comment on Got plans for May Day tomorrow? 3 weeks ago:
Will do! Have a great time on Monday :)
[just fyi] - The Labour Day public holiday isn’t today in any state (AFAIK), this is for May Day/International Workers’ Day.
- Comment on Got plans for May Day tomorrow? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. If this is pointing out a contradiction, I can’t see it.
If you want to bring back 21 April for commemorating Australian/Victorian workers too, I will gladly join you. They deserve it. I’m saying that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t also partake in May Day (May 1), which is an international day like the Christmas holiday. Christmas still celebrates an international religious event even if the day it’s usually celebrated on was chosen by Romans.
- Comment on Got plans for May Day tomorrow? 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 3 weeks ago:
Of course! I’ve definitely got Labor above Liberal above ON. But Labor are around the halfway mark on my ballots, my electorate is blessed with better options.
- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 4 weeks ago:
If the end result is no legislation being passed then surely you agree that its not a win.
Yes, and if we’re looking at the here-and-now then objectively less housing was built and people suffered. You’re absolutely right about that.
However, my experience and perspective is that Labor are the problem in that situation, and that’s not just some blame game or complaint, it’s part of a bigger picture that Labor are a conservative force who will never do enough by choice. They’ve long abandoned their labour roots and having talked with many current and former Labor rank-and-file, there’s pretty strong signs of corruption and elitism dominating the party. So unless there is material pressure on them, enough to dominate their own interests and those of their backers, they will simply just sit comfortably as “better than the Coalition”, similarly to the US Democratic Party in their two-party system - they ended up being the moderate billionaires’ party, hijacking progressive symbolism to cover for their selling-out. And we saw the inevitable result: a steady ratcheting shift towards oligarchy.
The point of that quick rant is that, the solution - not just small wins but the solution - can’t be to just work with Labor. They will appease people with little short term gains, but rarely-if-ever enough to solve these problems. They’re just not positioned to, even if most of their members want them to, because they’re beholden to their bigger backers. If we want to actually solve these problems, the worker class needs to build collective political power and force the government’s hand away from the business-owning class and towards us. The union movement is being repressed harder and harder even under Labor, so in lieu of reliable union power, the next best option is to replace Labor with the Greens, who have at least shown some level of integrity and independence from the ruling class and have shown backbone in demanding the necessary dedication towards solving the housing crisis. Yes, their resistance resulted in a real loss, but if enough people see that Labor refuses to do enough and saw what Greens were struggling for, and that ends up giving the Greens more support and more power, perhaps enough to force through legislation in a few years, then that will be a profound long-term win. I know that may sound like a gamble, but the growth of the smaller parties is consistent and given the track record of Labor over the last century, getting rid of them will be worth the unfortunate and real losses that come from when when Labor stubbornly refuse to help this country.
- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 4 weeks ago:
“Joined forces” is a dodgy way for them to frame that. Libs and Greens both wanted different outcomes. The Greens weren’t being unreasonable and showed themselves to be open to compromise, during a housing crisis.
- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 4 weeks ago:
It’s great to see that more and more people are voting away from the ALP and Coalition every election. The false dichotomy rhetoric of “they’re better than the other party” is just insufferable, and the US has shown us how the two-party duopoly plays out.
Investigate your candidates. Don’t assume all independents and minor parties are different, many are former members of the big parties. There are plenty of resources other lovely aussies have posted in the past couple of weeks so just ask around.
- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 4 weeks ago:
Meaningful change or nothing? Blame labor all you want, the greens voted against an improvement.
Fuck ideals, I want progress.
But these aren’t ideals. Those are necessary material requirements for resolving the housing crisis. Shelter, one of the most basic requirements for people to be productive in a modern society. Idealism would be dropping the $56+ billion defense fund to zero and putting it all into housing until we can secure our own population.
Fuck the bare minimum, I want this problem solved before I die. History has shown that without real pressure from unions and “radicals”, Labor might not have even solved segregation (but they’d be making progress).
- Comment on Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case | Australia news | The Guardian 4 weeks ago:
haha wow, “intellectual property” is a scam
- Comment on Friday essay: ‘War has made me a pacifist’. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge Australia’s anti-war veterans? 4 weeks ago:
It was an act of resistance to decades of besiegement and massacres by settlers. The situation was not peaceful beforehand, we cannot isolate that event and pretend that battle was sudden and unexpected. It’s fine to be critical of how it fought, but it was certainly an act of desperate national self defense against colonial settlement.
- Comment on Friday essay: ‘War has made me a pacifist’. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge Australia’s anti-war veterans? 4 weeks ago:
Out of the conflicts Australia has fought in, I can only think of one or two involving any threat to us.