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- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 1 day ago:
members of the Australian public were asked if sentences were too lenient. The same question was asked of jurors from the actual court case. The results were that the public was far more likely to have the opinion that a sentence was too lenient where as the jury was more likely to believe it was appropriate. Normally considering this helps me take a step back from being outraged; Those who are closer to the case have considerations that aren’t making the paper.
I agree and havw read the same, I rarely comment or post about such things for that reason. This wasn’t a jury case though, he plead guilty
This case has to be an exception though.
Indeed and why I posted about it. Shocking as it would have been If the.dude had hit them and killed him but if he’d stooped amd rendered assistance but this … this is next level
In the hours after the crash, Danby sent a series of text messages to his friends in which he called the victims “dogs”, “n*****s” and “oxygen thieves” and boasted about the collision.
“Nah c***, I’m on a come down for work, I ain’t stoppin’ for no one,” he wrote in one message.
"It was pretty funny watching them roll around on the road after going over my bonnet and through my windscreen
This update has some reasons given as well as the family being upset by it all
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/…/105787700
The family of an Aboriginal man run down and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Darwin last year have voiced their “disgust and dismay” at the lack of a prison sentence for the offender
From the judge
In sentencing Danby, NT Supreme Court Justice Sonia Brownhill described the texts as “shockingly callous”.
She accepted Danby had shown remorse since the incident and had good prospects for rehabilitation due to his young age, lack of criminal history, and strong employment record.
NAAJA chair Theresa Roe said in a statement the messages were “racist and dehumanising”.
There is little to suggest the offender’s racist attitudes have been reformed, despite the immense harm for Aboriginal communities across the NT caused by such attitudes."
I can only agree mith Ms. Roe.
- Man claims council bid to remove 'therapy' roosters is contrary to human rights conventionswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 day ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 days ago:
I kibd of agree.with this one, on the other hand reddit is not my circus and those mods are not my monkeys.
Hell, I never understood why anyone worked for free to make the owners richer ? Here I get (and thank you), like an old school BBS but reddit makes zero sense as a mod.
- SBS resists calls to join EU boycott of Eurovision 2026 if Israel allowed to compete | SBS | The Guardianwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate? 3 days ago:
Feedly supports OPML though
- Comment on Mining companies leave many Queensland farmers’ land barren and broken. When they go belly up who pays for rehabilitation? 3 days ago:
Well,.in Qld they’ree mostly uaing the legislation drafted by Bob Katter when hnwas a Bjelke-Peterson government mimater,.so there.ia that to thank him for.
maybe the.farmer can go punch him in the face /s.in rferce.to Katter’s recent outburst when a journalist pointed out his Palestinian heritage (his last name was anglicised by his grandfather as well) reminds me of Ted Cruz in the US
- Comment on Some weird bad luck... 3 days ago:
Presumably USD ? Not being an ass but NZ, Australia Canada amongst others use the “dollar” and this is an international forum.
But thanks for this, it’s really interesting !
- Comment on Some weird bad luck... 3 days ago:
Ok, others users should stay away from lemny.zip.it.niw has the kiss of death ;)
DIY for suriety I guess ? Or stick with .world?
- Comment on ANZ, NAB and ‘Bigger for You’ Bendigo’s ever bigger greed 4 days ago:
I have a friend who is a senior manager at BCU, as he said to me, we’re much the same as the bigger banks, just with better PR.
I liked being with Citi as the services it provided could not be sourced from any Aussie bank, alas…
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 days ago:
The actual fuck? This is the dumbest take I’ve seen in a while (yeah, including all the commentary around the Charlie Kirk shooting), a
So trans communities should keep TERFs around ?
- Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief'www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 27 comments
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- Comment on Someone else will retire me when the time comes. 1 week ago:
Have theu changed hands ? I bought a pair in 1994 and still wear them, I only wear them a couple times a year… but still
- Comment on Loops - short form video with ActivityPub - is now open source! 1 week ago:
@dansup@mastodon.social
On Mastodon
- Comment on On Sunday, I walked among those who want me gone from Australia 2 weeks ago:
Why are so many people having a hard time understanding this?
Because its the same as blaming immigrants for Aldi running out of some.Wednesday special, one thing has nothing to do with the othe, so suspicion then falls to racism being the real motivation becase no sane person balmes the housing shortage on immigrants.
It’s a managed, restricted supply thats the issie, compounded by dipshit voters reelecting the asshat polticans who cause it, rather then giving politcans who want to solve it a go eg The Greens.
We punish the homeless, protect the investor and blame the immigrants, talk about ass backwards.
- Comment on Who is your favourite Superman? 2 weeks ago:
James Earl Jones.
- Comment on Thousands of Australians call for neo-Nazi leader to be deported to New Zealand 2 weeks ago:
Why not send him to Naru?
- Comment on Thousands of Australians call for neo-Nazi leader to be deported to New Zealand 2 weeks ago:
Naru?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Australian slang, a very rude euphisism for a US citizen.
It’s rhyming slang for Yank (Yankee doodle dandy) --> septic tank – > Seppo
- Comment on Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
This is why I’m here, quality posts like this.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 weeks ago:
So why does everyone keep referring to Bluesky as decentralized or even comparable to the fediverse
Parrot the marketing hyperbole.
The enshitification continies.
- Australia is ill-prepared for sea level rise, human displacement and other security risks posed by climate change, warns a group of former national security leaders.archive.md ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Gambling and debt left Mic Whitty ashamed and homeless. Kindness and a war diary were his path outwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 2 weeks ago:
AI v Ingenious Redneck
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
I have no idea but thought I’d throw out that, as a 58yr old cis white guy I’ve never been lonely in my life, i have literally no idea what that’s like and don’t get involved in hypotheses about it all because I have nothing to bring to the debate. I do find human behaviour interesting (and mostly bizzare) though.
The more time I spend with people the more I crave being alone but that’s a different thing.
I now live on the edge of a tiny village in the middle of no where Australia and lived in a small cottage off grid in the bush for 10 years previously bit alos loved in an apartment in the sky in a largish city.
One thing I noticed, I found the car free existence ina city bought me into contact with people all the time, even walking you’d see people people and say hello. Stop at a crossing and have a small conversation occasionally etc. i even said hello to women and was never called a pervert ;)
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 3 weeks ago:
Yeah know over the years I have gone from let the idiots be idiots
The problem is they take over the world, they end up in the positions of power etc. How to contain that, short of derision I’m not sure and even derision often doesnt work, some wear their stupidity as a badge of achievement!
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” - Franz Kafka
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who wins a Nobel in physics by watching people in a cafeteria is worth llistneing to.
There are some interviews in YT with him. I like the one where he tells the interviewer if he wants to stump a physicists ask them how ice skates work.
- Buckling rails and lines underwater: how Australia’s ageing train networks are crumbling as the climate changestheconversation.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
