eureka
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- Comment on ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected 5 hours ago:
To add onto what Hanrahan said, it’s also one of our state-funded channels (along with Special Broadcasting Service) so it’s a lot less commercialised. There are plenty of good shows started there and it’s sometimes a lot closer to indie content.
I highly recommend trying to find episodes of You Can’t Ask That (even if you have to torrent it), and if you like mockumentaries like The Office, I recommend Utopia (not to be confused with other shows elsewhere called Utopia), many clips are on YouTube to sample.
- Comment on ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected 10 hours ago:
- Comment on Living without a private vehicle in Brisbane is impossible for residents due to the city’s sprawling layout and limited public transport options 16 hours ago:
I also think it influences what their daily schedules were. If someone expects to be able to go to certain places at certain times, that may no longer be possible, but if they were never using cars for primary transport, their obligations may be at different places or different times.
- Comment on Living without a private vehicle in Brisbane is impossible for residents due to the city’s sprawling layout and limited public transport options 16 hours ago:
Which organisation?
- Comment on ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected 17 hours ago:
From what my friends in ABC, MEAA and CPSU have told me, they can easily afford it. Their funds got restored under Labor as well.
You’re absolutely right that Australia-extraction is an absolute shocker, although we can’t pretend it’s a good excuse for this problem.
- Comment on Government says people can 'make the call' on work from home amid fuel supply concerns 18 hours ago:
Exactly. " “Work from home is a viable option for many, many people, and they’ll make that call,” he told ABC News on Monday. ", oh it’s certainly viable but we’re being forced in anyway.
- Comment on ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected 18 hours ago:
Mates and I are headed to one of their offices to cheer them on at the 11am walk-out tomorrow (I can take an early lunch break for it). I also heard there might be some action on Thursday, I’ll try my best to get to that.
(If anyone else is able to support them in person, let me know and I’ll get the details and forward them)
I just found the MEAA strike fund page, share it around and throw something in if you can: meaa.org/…/support-abc-staff-standing-up-for-qual…
- Comment on Kyle Sandilands Has Been Sacked And His Show Cancelled 4 days ago:
$100 million over 10 years
Yes. I do not expect to make $10 million in my lifetime, even before tax.
- Comment on Record January migration intake 5 days ago:
Doesn’t Advocate for their Freedom of travel.
- Comment on Kyle Sandilands Has Been Sacked And His Show Cancelled 6 days ago:
$100 million.
It really shows the level of wealth in this propaganda machine. That’s more in one year than I expect to get in my lifetime.
- Comment on Richest super balances to be taxed at higher rates after Greens agree to back Labor plan 1 week ago:
People being paid to do their job are getting what they’re owed.
Is this claiming that the amount someone deserves is determined by their contract? That’s an odd assumption, even if it’s a normalised one.
We live under a system where millions of people don’t have, and can’t get, the capital (or expertise) needed to start their own legal profitable business, and effectively must resort to selling themselves to earn a living wage. And even if that wasnt the case, we obviously can’t all run individual businesses in this system without being outcompeted and being forced back into proletarianisation. Most of the population being workers rather than business owners isn’t some personal decision, it’s a basic premise of capitalism.
And there isn’t much power a worker has to influence what salaries are being offered on the market. The business owner sets the wage, and if there are enough unemployed and underemployed people looking for jobs to avoid homelessness, business owners collectively decide how low they can all go (and luckily there’s a minimum wage so they can’t just race to the bottom livable wage). So there’s no material reason to assume that a person only deserves the amount their salary is - it’s not based on how useful a worker is, just on how low a business owner can offer.
Let’s take an extreme example to illustrate: slave labour. Or let’s dial it back: prison labour - Canberra Times reports prisoners get paid about $2 an hour for their labour, AusPrisons.com lists weekly rates the same ballpark. I got paid far more as a teen performing menial minimum wage factory work. Clearly these people are being paid so low because its legal to do so and because they’re not in a good position to decline such abysmal offers. Not because their labour isn’t valuable, not because their work isn’t worth more, not because the business owner is taking more risk. It’s because they’re vulnerable employees and they can be exploited more for profit.
As a side note:
People being paid to do their job are getting what they’re owed
I have been underpayed thousands of dollars by multiple jobs. So I’m not even getting paid what I’m legally owed until I or the union point out the wage theft.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 1 week ago:
Straight to jail, right away
- Comment on Richest super balances to be taxed at higher rates after Greens agree to back Labor plan 1 week ago:
When did this commie “successful people should be penalised more and more for being successful!” ideology become so popular in Australia?
The commie perspective is that the owning class (not the same as having a lot of money or “being successful”!) gain profit off the backs of workers, and therefore we don’t get our fair share of the value we produce. High taxation isn’t a commie idea, it’s a social democrat (capitalist) idea to try and moderate the broken system that lets the boards of mining giants sit in billionaire luxury while selling the soil beneath our feet for themselves.
But that’s nitpicking the premise. A better answer to your question:
In 1951, the top marginal tax rate for incomes above £10,000 (equivalent to $425,000 today) was 75 per cent. From 1955 until the mid-1980s the top marginal tax rate was 67 per cent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_Australia#His… for more info
So “a bloody long time ago” is my guess.
- Comment on Australia to provide military support to Gulf states attacked by Iran 1 week ago:
This isn’t Wag the Dog. The US has its own imperial interests in the region, and has for many many decades. There are plenty of cheaper and better ways to distract from scandal than a war on the other side of the world. The atrocities committed regularly by the US should not be misunderstood as a distraction.
But speaking of child abuser presidents of the USA: NonCompete - Origins of the Epstein Class - a good rundown on how Trump got there in the first place, historical precedence, and previous times major politicians have been involved in child trafficking rings
- Comment on Australia to provide military support to Gulf states attacked by Iran 1 week ago:
And somehow they ensured greens/socialist can’t raise enough funds
Could you expand on this? Who is “they” and how are they doing this?
- Comment on Australia to provide military support to Gulf states attacked by Iran 1 week ago:
the “collective self-defence of Gulf nations”
I don’t see what’s “self” about it.
- Comment on Richest super balances to be taxed at higher rates after Greens agree to back Labor plan 1 week ago:
I have no idea why every news article on this matter makes it sound like everyone should be against these changes
Broadly speaking: because news corporations aren’t owned by normal people. Reporting this kind of (mild, but nonetheless real) attack on the most wealthy in a positive light is a sure way to get censored and disciplined by the company.
Quoting the print and digital media section of GetUp’s media diversity report (2021):
- News Corp is the dominant owner of Australian print and digital media, controlling 59% of metropolitan and national readership — up from 25% in 1984
- Nine is the second-largest media owner with a combined 23% readership share. Seven West Media Limited has 15% of the market by readership (eureka’s note: 59+23+15 = 97%)
- News Corp now controls the majority of local and regional newspaper titles in Australia
It doesn’t take much digging into these three companies’ major stakeholders to find key people with net worth in the billions. And unless you’re going out of your way to avoid them, most news articles you’ll see are controlled by this upper owning class through various filters (incl. board selection of executives, editorial policy, advertiser pressure).
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Senior ADF source confirms Australian Army preparing for war 2 weeks ago:
A reminder to all: there’s far more to the ballot than whose on television! IIRC Greens were only 4th or so on my senate ballot, Labor were almost at 10th.
While I have plenty of pragmatic criticisms of The Greens, I can’t abide by what Labor has done to unions and other parts of the labour movement, not to mention the frequent other betrayals which enabled this crisis, and the resulting PHON populist campaign to be so potent.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 2 weeks ago:
I want to raise a point on the “Nazi talking points” response:
- On one hand, it’s certainly more useful when a report is more specific, yes. I know plenty of fascist talking points which aren’t common knowledge or obvious.
- On the other, it sounds like they’re talking about Lebensraum - “living space”. If we look at it technically, it was a common concept in German politics decades before the Nazi Party was formed. And it’s a far cry away from the various social reforms implemented in the Third Reich you mentioned. But in context, I think it’s clear that someone on aussie.zone reporting a post for “Nazi talking points” is reporting that a post is fascistic, supporting the supremacist aspects Nazism is famous for. People surely aren’t going to report pro-vegetarian posts for this reason, or even anti-union posts (despite the crushing of worker’s organisations being core to fascism).
Lebensraum is a relatively infamous policy, and one which neo-Nazis like the NSN explicitly invoke. They’re never holding up banners saying “protect the wildlife”, “support animal rights” or “fast roadways now!”, this is the bigoted supremacy generally associated with Nazism and carried on by neo-Nazism.
If you delete all the users from your politics community that you don’t agree with, what is the point of the community?
But this isn’t just “all the users you disagree with”, or even just disagreement - if someone, when discussing an expansionist regime, tries to justify “living space”, that makes me think that person might well want me thrown in a camp and killed. It’s no smoking gun, but it’s a loud wolfwhistle.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see the point in beating around the bush.
A glance at the homepage tells us that Nazism would break the first 3 instance rules, there’s no reason to expect it to be allowed. The difficulty comes when bigoted rhetoric is subtle enough to go unrecognised, or has been normalised. So it would help to know which comment is repeating which talking points.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 2 weeks ago:
This is a user on aussie.zone on the meta community of aussie.zone talking about a user of aussie.zone.
And it’s bizarre and ridiculous to claim that lemmy.ml allows Nazis.
- Comment on Pornhub’s owner to block Australians over age check laws 2 weeks ago:
Semi-relevant: “I’m onboard.”
- Comment on The REAL reason Aussies don't use route numbers | Building Beautifully 3 weeks ago:
The number of contradictions they call out is impressive.
- Comment on The REAL reason Aussies don't use route numbers | Building Beautifully 3 weeks ago:
First time seeing the Ring Roads shield… I can’t really think of any ring roads in Sydney but I might be wrong
- Comment on High-speed train ticket between Newcastle and Sydney to cost $31 for one-hour journey from 2039 3 weeks ago:
How about we build the bloody thing before bragging about the ticket price.
- Comment on Queensland Tesla registrations in free-fall, as Musk embraces far-right 3 weeks ago:
Attributing the rise of one nation to “Nazis”
That is not what they said.
- Comment on Over 200K Australian Driver’s Licences Exposed in youX Cyber Breach 3 weeks ago:
I’ve salted some of my old accounts a while before closing them, but Facebook already though I was a baseball fan and other clear nonsense according to those GDPR data downloads you can grab, so I like to think they’ve mined so much incorrect data from me that it’s not worth much.
- Comment on What makes people proud to be Australian? The answer might surprise you 4 weeks ago:
Preferential voting is a huge step further than most other Western countries. Huge. To the point where states using FPTP should seriously hesitate in calling themselves democratic at all.
- Comment on Australia: Chinese HungryPanda food delivery drivers say police contacted family members back home as part of pressure campaign to stop them protesting 4 weeks ago:
