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- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 1 day 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 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Daily Telegraph headline wrongly claiming ‘Labor backs Hamas’ breached accuracy rules, Australian Press Council finds 2 days 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 2 weeks ago:
Oh hey, it’s Gurridyula!
- Comment on Cancer rates are rising for generation X and millennials. What can we do about it? 2 weeks ago:
We don’t really do that in Australia.
- Comment on Two cockies sitting in a tree, surveying the area 4 weeks ago:
Great shot!
- Comment on Check your energy rates! 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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’ 5 weeks 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! 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
But birds are AI!
- Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moveswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on [Satire] Beef Wellington sues Death Cap Mushrooms for defamation 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 month ago:
Geez, putting me on blast a bit 😆
For the record, I only downvoted two of the linked posts (once each!)
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 month ago:
What, @eureka? ‘Eureka’ isn’t a right-wing dogwhistle, if that’s what you mean. @eureka is a good leftist - the red variant of the flag for their avatar is a bit of a giveaway.
Right-wingers and racists who uses the Eureka flag (any colour) can get fucked, it’s a union flag.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 month ago:
I just checked and I only downvoted two of those posts.
My reason would have been some combination of a) I thought the posts didn’t belong in the comm, b) I thought the news source was low quality, or c) for reasons covered in previous threads regarding “Objectification of our community":
I had noticed and was surprised by the significant downvotes on the posts mentioned in the OP. I figured either people were sick of it like I was, or the accounts were just under attack by accounts that serve the same function for the other side(s).
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 1 month ago:
The 7% difference in insolation between perihelion and ahelion (a figure I’ve seen mentioned in multiple places) seems like it would be significant for sunburn and skin cancer, at least at the population level.
I found an ABC article that doesn’t specifically say the 7% figure, but mentions perihelion as a factor in 10% higher UV in Australia. It downplays the role that extra 10% plays in our melanoma rates, though, and I suppose that’s fair, I don’t think anyone’s getting caught out by burning 10% faster, because they would have gone inside 10% sooner if they had known, haha
Together, Professor Whiteman says, these factors mean Australia’s UV is “probably about 10 per cent higher on average” than the equivalent latitude in the Northern Hemisphere.
“That would mean for people living in Brisbane it is higher than for people living in Miami in the US, and for people in Melbourne, it’s higher than for people living in Athens, Greece.”
While a 10 per cent increase in UV is significant, and might account for that sting in our summer sun, reasons for Australia’s high melanoma rates are more lifestyle-related, he says.
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 1 month ago:
Ah, thank you for the clarification! I hadn’t realised that the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit made an appreciable difference, but apparently yeah, especially at the equator: journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371%2Fjo…
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 1 month ago:
I don’t think your interpretation is correct. I think that comparison was of data for the two cohorts when they were the same age.
The study, yet to be peer-reviewed, found 28,265 cases of early-onset bowel cancer over the 30 years studied. An estimated 4,347 additional cases were attributable to the rising rates of the disease.
Early-onset cases, however, are increasing by up to 8% per year, the study found.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 1 month ago:
Thanks, I was finding it pretty astounding as well, so it’d make sense if it was the misinterpretation you’ve described. Maybe send the Guardian a message noting it so they can check?
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 1 month ago:
The sun isn’t always a fixed distance from earth. It’s closest in January
Forgive me if I’m just missing a joke, but it’s not about the distance, it’s about the angle. In the summer the angle means the days are longer, and sunlight travels through less atmosphere (and is therefore less attenuated) before it reaches you and gives you sunburn.
- Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blamewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 26 comments
- Comment on Andrew Leigh says Australia is a generation away from “US-style inequality” 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, I have full confidence the U.S. will always stay one generation ahead of us 🫡🍔
- Tributes flow for the Australian who saved millions of brains; Creswell Eastman remembered for identifying health risks of iodine deficiencywww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- Comment on Pro-Palestine educators send teachers new classroom resource challenging ‘Anzac mythology’ 2 months ago:
Are you talking about Australian war crimes in 1918 or the fucking events of 1947.
Both - they’re drawing parallels between the two events.
That quote is actually from the booklet they published last year, which you can find here: drive.google.com/file/d/…/view
Specifically, in this section:
WHAT DOES PALESTINE HAVE TO DO WITH ANZAC DAY?
Few students and teachers sitting through the annual Anzac ceremony, for instance, would associate Anzac day with Palestine — but the first Anzacs invaded Ottoman Palestine in World War I, and they took control of the land and the people for the British Empire.
After the armistice in 1918, Anzac soldiers of the Light Horse brigade remained in Palestine, waiting to be demobilised and sent home to Australia. During this time, some returned to the Gallipoli Peninsula, where they engaged in what was described as the “holy task of locating the graves of Anzacs, and in collecting trophies for the Australian national memorial collection,” solidifying the nationalist myth of the Gallipoli Landings, the anniversary of which was already being observed as Anzac day from 1915 onwards.[1]
Such acts of quasi-religious myth-making about the Anzacs have continued to this day. In 2017, to mark the centenary of the Anzacs’ capture of Palestinian territory, then Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten attended a commemoration service at Beersheba with Benjamin Netanyahu.
In his official address, PM Malcolm Turnbull stated that the Anzacs “like the State of Israel has done ever since … defied history and with their courage fulfilled history. Lest we forget.”[2] His words are striking, not only because of the monumental historical narrative that they invoke (the Anzacs “defied” and ‘fulfilled’ history), but also because of the way in which they situate the Anzacs as “courageous” heroes who birthed two nations.
Turnbull was right to connect the Anzacs’ military successes with the creation of Israel. The Australian victories set in motion a series of devastating events, enabling the fulfilment of the Balfour Declaration, where Britain agreed, despite separate and contradictory promises, to recognize “a National Home of the Jewish people” to be located in Palestine, and the establishment of a “Jewish National Colonising Corporation for the resettlement and economic development of the country [Palestine].”[3] In short, the British mandate was secured in part by the Anzacs, and this laid the ground for the creation of the state of Israel, while preventing the creation of a Palestinian state.
There are some other parallels with Israel that Turnbull did not draw. If both countries form their identities through stories of noble military successes, they both also hide a history of horrific, racially motivated violence against Palestinians. More than this, the brutal massacre committed by the Anzacs at Surafend chillingly portended the Nakba, the catastrophic displacement of Palestinians in 1947-1949.
Turnbull did not share this darker parallel because it did not suit the heroic myth-making project of the Australian and Israeli governments to do so. As teachers, however, it is our obligation to bring this history to light.
- Pro-Palestine educators send teachers new classroom resource challenging ‘Anzac mythology’www.theage.com.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Early voting is now open. Find out if you're eligible and where to vote where you arewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
