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- Koala rescued from Brisbane city bus after death-defying dash across busy Camp Hill streetwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 day ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
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- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
I had previously got a similar impression from the eSafety Commissioner’s publication of those lists of platforms, but it does not seem to be the case they are actually defining regulation there. The lists seem to be, essentially, only statements of intent about which platforms that eSafety will seek enforcement of compliance on.
See here: …gov.au/…/which-platforms-are-age-restricted
eSafety does not have a formal role in declaring which services are age-restricted social media platforms. In the absence of any rules made by the Minister of Communications specifying a service is either an age-restricted social media platform or not an age-restricted social media platform, any determination that a service is or is not an age-restricted social media platform is a matter for the court.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Just be aware that there’s an infinitesimal chance (but not zero) that whatever you send may be sent to some government agency to demonstrate that we are complying with the law.
On this point, as I understand it, the personal information provided for verification can - and indeed should - be destroyed once it has been used for the purpose it was provided.
I assume you might need to keep a (non-identifying) record of how a user was age-verified to prove that you’ve been complying, but not the personal data used to do the verification.
Albo has been claiming that Australian privacy law requires that the data be destroyed once it’s used for age verification, but the language of the law I think has ‘reasonable’ in there, which gives more wiggle room than the GDPR, for example. It was discussed on the Law Report on Radio National: www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/…/105871968 (sorry, no idea of the timestamp, and there doesn’t seem to be a transcript either,
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastlewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Australia is bringing in ‘world first’ minimum pay for food delivery drivers – here’s how it will workwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- TPG Telecom says Sydney person died after outdated phone software blocked Triple Zero callswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- Comment on Good chance of aurora tonight, as two-year peak solar activity nears its end 5 weeks ago:
Damn! Hopefully you’ll have more luck tonight!
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on ‘Less like Monopoly, more like Lego’: Labor’s plan to scrap lock-in contracts 5 weeks ago:
Just put ‘archive.is’ at the front of the URL to de-paywall it. Works with most major news sites.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 18 comments
- Comment on Warning over deadly virus after bat bites Pilbara woman 1 month ago:
It’s a reference to this comedy sketch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
And dockedatthewrongworf was playing along with the next line in the sketch.
- Comment on Warning over deadly virus after bat bites Pilbara woman 1 month ago:
Incurable once you’re symptomatic, and, to be totally clear for anyone not aware, invariably fatal. It’s a horrible death, too. Also, the incubation period can be anywhere from a few weeks to two years.
The ABC article could have benefited from making that clearer. It calls the virus ‘deadly’, but doesn’t impress upon the reader just how deadly.
- Comment on Warning over deadly virus after bat bites Pilbara woman 1 month ago:
You shouldn’t touch any wildlife if you can avoid it, but especially not bats!
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Aussies go viral for booing American national anthem at WWE Crown Jewel event in Perth7news.com.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 28 comments
- Comment on Miles Herbert: Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions 2 months ago:
Only a suggestion, but perhaps more suitable for !worldnews@aussie.zone
- Comment on Pocock reinvited to parliamentary sports club after PM weighs in [after being kicked out for criticising their gambling sponsor] 2 months ago:
Whether Pocock, individually, is in or out is pretty irrelevant to ordinary Australians, yeah, and there’s probably a bit too much of the word count spent on that aspect. However, that MPs’ leisure activities are being funded by the gambling lobby and other corporates does seem worth public scrutiny.
- Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immunewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 11 comments
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- Comment on Australia may be losing its sweet tooth – but sugar is only part of our health story 3 months ago:
Specifically fructose (which is one half of sucrose, which is what we mostly think of as ‘sugar’ when cooking) is processed in the liver, and can cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: …harvard.edu/…/abundance-of-fructose-not-good-for…
- Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Who is telling the truth? 3 months ago:
The ‘1500 per day’ figure that was bandied about isn’t accurate:
- Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 38 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment