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- Submitted 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 21 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australia may be losing its sweet tooth – but sugar is only part of our health story 1 week 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 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Who is telling the truth? 2 weeks ago:
The ‘1500 per day’ figure that was bandied about isn’t accurate:
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 38 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australian university(University of Melbourne) used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors 3 weeks ago:
You don’t - and can’t - connect to wifi on the trams. It doesn’t provide an internet, it just logs devices that have their wifi turned on and scanning for wifi networks.
From the article:
To opt out of the trial, passengers must either have wi-fi capabilities turned off on their devices before they get on the light rail or give their MAC address within three hours of it being collected by filling out an online form.
- Comment on Australian university(University of Melbourne) used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t as directly tied to people’s identities, but trams in Sydney also collect device data via wifi: www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-18/…/104559538
- Comment on Australian university(University of Melbourne) used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors 3 weeks ago:
No idea what the protest in question was about
The protests were in relation to Palestine/Israel:
- Pro-Palestine protesters fill the streets in cities and towns across Australia after Gaza famine declarationwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Films and video games have age classifications. Should books? 4 weeks ago:
There’s tools online for parents that want this kind of information.
- Comment on Legendary film critic David Stratton dies peacefully aged 85 5 weeks ago:
The list of all films ever banned in Australia, for anyone interested: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_films_banned_in_Austra…
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 5 weeks ago:
Israel is capable of being shitty on its own.
Is it, though?
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 5 weeks ago:
It’s not about lobbying, it’s that the USA owns Australia.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 5 weeks ago:
It won’t.
If they thought it would do any good, then they wouldn’t have the spine to do it.
We know they don’t have the spine to do anything with any practical effect, because otherwise they would have done it by now. They could have instituted broad trade sanctions, or prevented the export of military goods including F-35 parts and steel armour plating.
- Comment on Why commitment to quality childcare and early education is incompatible with the profit motive 5 weeks ago:
I was not expecting a headline that goes that hard from the ABC
- Comment on How many Australians are fighting with Israel's military in Gaza? This group is monitoring 5 weeks ago:
This article from November last year covers Israeli “immigration” programs being conducted in Australia: …com.au/lone-soldiers-new-australian-idf-recruits…
Despite it being illegal to recruit soldiers for foreign armies, the Israeli Defence Forces recruiters are hard at work here enticing young Australians to join Israel’s army. Yaakov Aharon investigates.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Aussie funk music recommendations? 1 month ago:
Donny Benet? youtu.be/EwPUtEMms4E
Also, FYI, we have !rage@aussie.zone as a community for Aus music specifically 🙂
- Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gazawww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on abc.net.au/news/?future=false no longer works 1 month ago:
You might be able to set up a user-script to bring it back if you feel strongly-enough about it.
- Comment on First Australian-made orbital rocket crashes shortly after takeoff 1 month ago:
Video from Aussienaut that was mentioned in the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4xv0UxIhY&t=5554s (link should take you to timestamp 1:32:34)
- Comment on The Australian government recalls Google Pixel 6a 1 month ago:
I’m guessing it’s phrased as a ‘recall’ because either
A) It’s an ‘optional recall’ and you could return the phone if you want (in which case they will probably just factory reset and update the firmware and give it back to you)
B) The terminology the ACCC uses (possibly must use due to legislation) is old and just doesn’t neatly fit the case of a fault that can be addressed by an over-the-air firmware fix - Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 1 month ago:
If we are banning wood heaters, then we should ban fossil fuel cars as well.
The article specifically mentions that fewer deaths are attributable to vehicle emissions than to wood heaters:
The Centre for Safe Air at the University of Tasmania estimates long-term exposure to wood-heater smoke causes 729 premature deaths every year in Australia, which is more than the deaths attributable to emissions from the national fleet of 20 million vehicles, or from energy generation, or even bushfires.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 42 comments
- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 1 month ago:
De-paywalled archive link: archive.is/EE2r6
- Alleged 'Pam the Bird' graffiti creator exits court in Spider-Man costume while facing 208 chargeswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Daily Telegraph headline wrongly claiming ‘Labor backs Hamas’ breached accuracy rules, Australian Press Council finds 1 month ago:
But its findings have been openly mocked by journalists and publications it has found to have breached standards, including News Corp, which has allowed its journalists to call the body “foolish” and “idiots”.
Yet if the government ever tried to regulate, the first thing the Murdoch press would do is talk about the Press Council and how good the self-regulation system is.
Guardian Australia is not a member of the Australian Press Council but it has an independent readers’ editor who investigates complaints and publishes corrections and clarifications.
I wasn’t aware of that. I’d be interested to know why. I guess it being a largely Murdoch-funded initiative might factor into it, but I suppose also that a publication doesn’t really need a self-regulatory body to deflect from the introduction of government regulation if that publication isn’t constantly doing the kind of stuff that warrants regulation (like News Corporation is).