vividspecter
@vividspecter@aussie.zone
- Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?theconversation.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 58 comments
- Comment on Spiralling costs spark 'urgent' overhaul of $2.3b battery subsidy scheme 1 week ago:
You can also just discharge the battery to the grid if you have excess (or soak up more from the cheap middle of the day grid power, although presumably there are charge rate limitations).
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, seeing that conservative hack Haidt being invoked undermines the whole premise.
- Victorian premier delivers formal apology to Australia’s First Peoples for ‘rapid and violent’ colonisationwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- The lesson of the Cronulla riots was that the beach was not for people like me. But it’s a myth I am increasingly resisting | Sarah Malikwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Academics hit back after leading universities seek changes to key environmental legislation 4 weeks ago:
Labor made a deal with the Greens today so hopefully that means none of the Go8 requested amendments will occur. Gross behaviour in any case.
- Comment on 100 years ago today 5 weeks ago:
This is a bit like the opv vs fpv back and forth at the state level. Party in government thinks they can get a benefit from switching but it invariably backfires.
- 150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checkswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Private health insurance offered little relief for my dental woes 1 month ago:
My (likely delusional) hope is that Labor are quietly working on this in the background, but haven’t worked out the details yet. But if they are, they should get on with it while they have a massive majority and the Liberal party are imploding.
- Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencieswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day 1 month ago:
Requires a smart meter, although they are getting rolled out to most people. My cheapskate landlord won’t address the asbestos ridden meter box so I’m stuck with a traditional meter for the moment though.
- Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system? 1 month ago:
My suggestions off the top of my head:
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Abolish mutual obligations - it’s punitive, expensive, and causes significant harm to the most vulnerable while doing little to help people gain employment
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Raise the payment - there have been some very minor increases and fiddling around the edges but the payment is still well below the poverty line
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Bring back the CES - private job providers are worse than useless and have little ability or intention to help the most vulnerable.
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- Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Federal class action lodged over ‘racially discriminatory’ work for the dole scheme 2 months ago:
The lawsuit covers 2015-2021 so peak Morrison years unsurprisingly, although it appears the scheme hasn’t been entirely dismantled yet.
- Federal class action lodged over ‘racially discriminatory’ work for the dole schemewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- More than 300,000 Australians had Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, new analysis showswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
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- Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australia is about to get a centre for disease control. How will it tackle public health challenges? 3 months ago:
Timely, given what is happening in the US. Hopefully this is a truly independent organisation that can’t be easily compromised by the government of the day.
- Comment on ‘A fundamental part of growing up’: Why Aussie kids can’t swim any more 3 months ago:
Stannis?
- Sydney Marathon 2025: thousands turn out and records tumble in race’s debut as a major – in pictureswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- About 3m Australians affected by unlawful Centrelink debt calculation to be eligible for up to $600 compensationwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Australia Post suspends parcel deliveries to US on eve of Trump’s new import tariff schemewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Traffic pollution contributes to more than 1,800 premature deaths per year, study estimateswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
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- Academic labels Julie Bishop ‘hostile and arrogant’ in tearful evidence to ANU inquirywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Mark Baxter stopped talking about his upbringing to break through the ‘class ceiling’. Now he’s fighting for changewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Can you house-sit instead of renting? Australians turn to pet-minding to escape the housing crisis 4 months ago:
Can you pick fruit in the middle of nowhere instead of renting?
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 4 months ago:
so this is a far cry from the “ban” it has been hysterically portrayed as in the media.
I agree the media reporting has not been great, but the concern is more about slippery slope type effects where this will be extended to cover more and more sites. Some would argue that “slippery slope” arguments are fallacious, but I think there is a point here, especially when laws that can be argued to “protect children” are hard to roll back due to the political risk (and are easy to expand for the same reason).