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- Comment on Legendary film critic David Stratton dies peacefully aged 85 1 day ago:
The list of all films ever banned in Australia, for anyone interested: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_films_banned_in_Austra…
- Submitted 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 5 days 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 days 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 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Aussie funk music recommendations? 1 week 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 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on abc.net.au/news/?future=false no longer works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 42 comments
- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Daily Telegraph headline wrongly claiming ‘Labor backs Hamas’ breached accuracy rules, Australian Press Council finds 3 weeks 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).
- Comment on An Indigenous Australian community is fighting to protect sacred springs from a coal mine 5 weeks ago:
Oh hey, it’s Gurridyula!
- Comment on Cancer rates are rising for generation X and millennials. What can we do about it? 5 weeks ago:
We don’t really do that in Australia.
- Comment on Two cockies sitting in a tree, surveying the area 1 month ago:
Great shot!
- Comment on Check your energy rates! 1 month ago:
Link in body needs a
https://, just FYIHad no idea that site existed, though, great post!
- Comment on Christopher Luxon ranked Australia's most trusted world leader in new poll 1 month ago:
Direct link to the referenced poll:
poll.lowyinstitute.org/…/global-powers-and-world-…
Or, for convenience, a screenshot:
If you hit the ‘Explore’ button, you can segment by respondent age.
- Comment on Plastics campaigners warn Australia’s pledge at UN needs to be matched with ‘high ambition at home’ 1 month ago:
I was gonna ask in !Meta. I’m guessing a mod/admin asked them to moderate their posting frequency and they didn’t reply or comply.
- Comment on Aussie flag on canvas will have pixel art on it this year, help wanted! 2 months ago:
Petition to change the canton as per Sam Neil’s patch in Event Horizon
- Comment on The communist Albanese government is introducing a new superannuation tax 2 months ago:
I assume they’re referring to the fact that moniker of ‘the lucky country’ was originally intended as a perjorative:
from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Country
The title has become a nickname for Australia[1] and is generally used favourably, although the origin of the phrase was negative in the context of the book.
Horne’s intent in writing the book was to portray Australia’s climb to power and wealth based almost entirely on luck rather than the strength of its political or economic system, which Horne believed was “second rate”. In addition to political and economic weaknesses, he also lamented on the lack of innovation and ambition, as well as a philistinism in the absence of art, among the Australian population, viewed by Horne as being complacent and indifferent to intellectual matters. He also commented on matters relating to Australian puritanism, as well as conservatism, particularly in relation to censorship and politics.
- Comment on Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves 2 months ago:
But birds are AI!
- Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moveswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on [Satire] Beef Wellington sues Death Cap Mushrooms for defamation 2 months ago:
Have you read a local paper lately? They fired all the sub-editors to cut costs, so this is pretty accurate 😆
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 2 months ago:
I often downvote Hotznplozn’s posts because those posts are exclusively warmongering propaganda. That is literally the only posts they make here, so I’m usually downvoting them whenever they appear here. Other users have reported them, and their previous aliases, in the Overseas News comm so I’m not alone in thinking this.
I’ve avoided mentioning them by name in my comments in this thread and elsewhere, but I agree on this.
