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- Comment on THIS IS A TEST - Sexing an albino echidna- it ain't easy! (video) 1 week ago:
See here: aussie.zone/post/30686818/21970947
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- Comment on Punters 'unlikely' to see millions in ticket sales refunded as long-running festival shutters 1 week ago:
I would guess the artists will also need to get mostly paid with a cancellation as late as this. Three weeks out, the musical acts have spent money on travel costs, support staff, costumes, pyrotechnics, gear hire, etc., and they’ve also forgone booking other gigs for those dates.
Basically, everyone the festival would have paid, they’re going to need to pay a significant amount, or even the full amount, when they’re cancelling so late.
Add to that, they probably cancelled because they didn’t sell enough tickets, and so they don’t have that much cash laying around to begin with.
- Comment on Punters 'unlikely' to see millions in ticket sales refunded as long-running festival shutters 2 weeks ago:
The UK listings for the word on the Cambridge dictionary are pretty reflective of Australian usage: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/punter
UK
a person who gamblesUK informal
a customer; a user of services or buyer of goods - Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Punters 'unlikely' to see millions in ticket sales refunded as long-running festival shutters 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing the festival already incurred costs with all sorts of staff and suppliers already, and the money will be going to them before any reaches ticketholders.
- Comment on Adelaide has its own version of Pokemon Go called 'Polites, gotta find em all' 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, even the contemporaneous reporting is unclear, but I suspect it was buried above his body. If his body was missing I assume that would have been mentioned…
Articles at the time:
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 2 weeks ago:
This protester’s charges have been resolved by their acceptance of an ‘adult caution’, so they won’t be facing any more legal proceedings over this incident. More details in my comment here: aussie.zone/post/30509630/21880036
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 2 weeks ago:
She was arrested and charged, and took the option of receiving an ‘adult caution’. (Mentioned in this Guardian article.)
I think it would be misleading to say that’s ‘a warning and nothing more’.
If she hadn’t opted for the ‘adult caution’ - which requires that you don’t deny committing the offence - then she’d still be facing charges and gaol time.
So I reckon ‘complete lie’ might be a bit uncharitable, when really the information is just out of date.
Thanks for raising the point though, good to hear this protester doesn’t have legal proceedings hanging over their head.
- Comment on Adelaide has its own version of Pokemon Go called 'Polites, gotta find em all' 2 weeks ago:
Do you have an estimate of how many there are? Has anyone ever catalogued them all?
The article you linked says ‘Polites bought and sold hundreds of properties in the 1970s and 1980s’, but I assume many of the signs would have been taken down some time after the buildings were sold.
And wow, that article takes a turn at the end!
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 2 weeks ago:
Is there an open donation box for this person’s legal fees open?
Just had a look and found this one: chuffed.org/…/173177-justice-for-palestine-legal-…
Are there any planned protests?
Justice for Palestine Magan-Djin (indigenous name for Brisbane) has announced a ‘weekend of action’ against the laws on the 18th-19th of April: www.instagram.com/p/DVvfrhOk20n/
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- Comment on Why some Australians are spending $35,000 a year on food delivery apps 4 weeks ago:
De-paywalled link: archive.is/Emaug
- Comment on Children in camp for IS-linked families speak about attempt to get to Australia 4 weeks ago:
This is a national disgrace, just leaving children to rot in a camp indefinitely. Force of habit, I guess.
- Comment on Australians' personal data could soon be accessible by US agencies. Here's why 4 weeks ago:
This is a significant escalation from existing arrangements, at least officially:
Biometric sharing programmes already exist between Five Eyes countries (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom) as part of Migration Five arrangements but typically operated on a ‘hit/no-hit’ basis where initial biometric checks provided minimal information, and further data requests were considered on a case by case basis.
But EBSPs could provide full automated access to other countries’ national databases, according to critics and minutes from European Union member state negotiations.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Ban under-16s from riding ebikes and e-scooters then require a driver’s licence, Queensland inquiry to recommend 4 weeks ago:
You have to demonstrate an understanding of road rules and signage to get a driver’s licence, which is pretty relevant.
I agree it would be better if there was a separate licensing system - one that would allows younger people to access some categories of e-bike - and I imagine we will in the long-run, but using existing systems as a stop-gap doesn’t seem unreasonable.
- Canberra bar declared a crime scene as police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new Commonwealth hate lawswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Man jailed for a year after endorsing neo-Nazi views and making antisemitic speech at Sydney rally on Australia Daywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 38 comments
- Comment on Health star rating to become mandatory on all packaged food in Australia 5 weeks ago:
If you had a unified scale of 1-100 instead, you would have the granularity to make comparisons between both similar and dissimilar products.
- Comment on Health star rating to become mandatory on all packaged food in Australia 1 month ago:
The Health Star Rating system is corrupted and unhelpful.
From theconversation.com/parents-find-health-star-rati…
The Health Star Rating’s own consumer research found 74% of consumers do not understand that the rating cannot be used to compare dissimilar products.
There’s no reason it shouldn’t be comparable across categories, either. I think originally it was designed so to be, and then the lobbyists got to it. People’s intake of each category isn’t some fixed ratio, and how are they supposed to get a signal to cut down on one category if they can’t compare products across categories?
Even if people are aware that products can only be compared within categories, do we expect everyone to know what those categories are and which one any particular product fits into? The HSR panel doesn’t contain any category information!
From theconversation.com/australias-food-labelling-sys…
So, is there an alternative?
Yes – warning labels.
Using simple statements or symbols, warning labels are designed to inform consumers if a food product is high in fat, sugar or salt. In future, they may also indicate whether a product is an ultra-processed food.
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A global study published in late 2025 suggests warning labels are the most effective way to reduce the consumption of ultra-processed foods. This is compared to other ranking-style labelling schemes such as Health Star Ratings.
Seems like a pretty simple and reasonable approach to me. Also, it seems like it can be applied comparably across all categories of packaged food.
I can see people arguing that an incremental scale like the HSR allows for companies to compete on small differences (unlike a simple binary ‘high in sugar’ warning label) and that little differences would help over time. I’m pretty sceptical of that, though, and I think encouraging people to eat fewer chocolate biscuits is likely more important than slightly reducing the amount of sugar in the biscuits. (If anyone’s seen good research on the topic, let me know!)
It’s not like the ‘warning label’ approach stops people from making a comparison on the details anyway. If you see a ‘high in sugar’ label on something it might prompt you to check the nutrition panel to see just how much sugar is in that biscuit, and its competitors.
- Comment on Angus Taylor says party on track for Net Zero women by 2040 – The Chaser 1 month ago:
Great move.
- Comment on 'It was agony': Grandparents injured in Sydney anti-Herzog protest 1 month ago:
Wow, that’s nuts! No wonder the cops were acting as if they could get away with anything!
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