Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Pocock reinvited to parliamentary sports club after PM weighs in [after being kicked out for criticising their gambling sponsor]www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition 2 weeks ago:
Based only on my reading of this article, the ABC would permit calling the place “Palestine”, for example saying “Gaza is part of Palestine” (geography) or that a person being interviewed/talked about is “from Palestine” (community). SBS would not.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Only one of these genocides is receiving direct military support from western countries. That is why westerners are so concerned with it, and you know that.
- Comment on Australia Post releases footage of posties being hit by cars as it urges drivers to ‘keep an eye out’ 2 weeks ago:
!fuckcars@lemmy.world
Also, come on AusPost… crashnotaccident.com
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, SHE̶P̴RδBORE, Montana, my favourite Canadian city.
- Comment on Governments keep making our housing crisis worse – and they’ve just done it again 2 weeks ago:
The entirety of every city should be, at a minimum, low-medium density, permitting 2–3 storey row houses, townhouses, and apartments, without restricting people’s ability to do low density if they want. And then everywhere within 500 metres of a train or BRT station should be zoned properly for 4–6 storeys at least.
But market forces cannot do the job alone. They don’t have the incentive to. It’s far more profitable to slowly release more properties on the market to keep prices high. So we need significant government involvement too. Fully 30% of the market should be owned by the government, with more under some form of government-mandated “affordable housing” category.
Plus strong tenant’s rights, treating their home as their home first and foremost, more important than someone else’s investment. That works with the tax incentive changes you mentioned to ease demand and reduce property prices, by making investment in housing look less appealing.
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 2 weeks ago:
It’s because legally, it’s part of a single Local Government Area. The same could be said of the Sunshine Coast, which contains 6 different sub-regions according to Wikipedia, and frankly I think that’s cutting it short (I count roughly 10 distinct towns). And, though it’s not included on this map (presumably because it’s considered part of “Greater Brisbane”) Moreton Bay City has at least 3 distinct areas (Redcliffe/North Lakes, Pine Rivers/Strathpine, Caboolture. And each of those slashes could almost be separated too).
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know for sure, but that doesn’t really sound true. It sounds like on of those “just so” stories. Like when people say the definition of a “city” is a place that has a cathedral.
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 2 weeks ago:
Ok I reverse image searched it, and apparently it’s at least 7 years old. Since Bendigo was at 103,000 in 2021, I’m guessing it just missed out on the cutoff in 2018.
Tagging @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure I take your meaning. As best I can tell, it’s simply a Varonoi diagram centred on Australia’s cities of over 100k. The only complicated bit is how they chose the exact centre point of each city, especially Sunshine Coast and Central Coast. How the lines are drawn doesn’t seem to be based on any statistical data beyond that.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- The majority of Queensland councils are washing their hands of fluoridation under the watch of both sides of politicswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 15 comments
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s fair. I’m not the creator of this video, but I think this is an interesting case. Because I too hate clickbaity titles. But I actually think that the combination of the thumbnail (“I was there”) with the title made it clear enough what the video would be about. Sure, rephrasing the title as “the true story of how Raygun represented Australia in the Olympics” or something like that would have been better, but that probably still would attracted criticism for clickbaitiness, despite being about as accurate and straightforward as you can get in the short space of a title.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 4 weeks ago:
For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women
I found this strange. He said himself that she had to do 4, and then just…discounted one of them, for some reason? It was a field of 15, that got cut down to 8 in a process he didn’t explain, except to say that it wasn’t the normal group stage.
I’d add a third important bullet point to your summing up: that the points system breaking uses is not necessarily just rewarding the flashiest physical dancing. And that while she is bad, she’s not necessarily as bad compared to other dancers—within the point system used—as you might expect as a complete amateur watching her and watching some other Aussie.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 4 weeks ago:
If you want to provide a title of your own, be my guest. I prefer when Lemmy users keep their editorialising to a minimum when sharing content from elsewhere in the web, so I stick to OG titles or visible headlines, adding necessary context in square brackets when I feel it’s necessary.
- The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene]www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 23 comments
- Comment on NT prosecutor appeals hit-and-run driver sentence 4 weeks ago:
Gods damn it. I hope they’re successful in this, and that the Attorney General is forced to resign over this.
- Comment on 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! 4 weeks ago:
No government system works well under FPTP, that’s the problem the UK has. If parties like the Lib Dems and Greens had been getting the seats they deserve over the last 15 years, the UK would be in a very different place, politically.
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 5 weeks ago:
I think ChocolatChaud may have been deleted before it got caught. fraiserouge got banned first.
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 5 weeks ago:
Oh I thought you or one of the admins was the one banning him?
afaict they’re getting banned by their own instance admins. Mostly LW admins, but a few other instances too.
- Comment on SBS resists calls to join EU boycott of Eurovision 2026 if Israel allowed to compete | SBS | The Guardian 5 weeks ago:
If they make the rules more strict to exclude Israel
Israel shouldn’t be excluded because they’re not European. They should be excluded because they’re doing a genocide. The same way they already excluded Russia for their war on Ukraine. There’s no reason that should have any bearing on Australia one way or the other.
As for not rocking the boat, that’s an incredibly weak excuse. I’d rather Australia be kicked out of Eurovision permanently than give one ounce of support to genocide.
- Comment on SBS resists calls to join EU boycott of Eurovision 2026 if Israel allowed to compete | SBS | The Guardian 5 weeks ago:
I went to the SBS website to submit a complaint, before realising that you actually can’t submit a complaint unless you specify a date of the program. And then I realised…we’re talking about an event that’s a year away? Surely that’s excessive. The last one wasn’t that long ago.
But yeah, our public broadcasters should not be promoting genocide. They were more than happy to boycott Russia immediately for their war of aggression. Why is Israel given special dispensation for genocide?
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah I get it. They didn’t think there was anything wrong with what they did at the time. I was merely addressing one part of your own comment:
which was effectively an attempt at cultural genocide
There’s no such thing as “an attempt at…genocide”. If the act was carried out with the intent to eradicate (even if, as was the case in Australia, they believed the eradication was in the best interests of the individuals), then the action is genocide, whether or not the targeted group actually ceases to exist.
If you think about it, that has to be the case. Otherwise we would say there has never been a genocide in history. The Nazis only attempted genocide against the Jews, Roma, gays, etc. But we don’t say that, we say what the Nazis did was genocide, even though Jews, Romani, and gay people still exist today. (And likewise, the genocide Israel is currently perpetuating against Palestinians is a genocide, not an “attempted” one, which is why the common genocide denialist’s attempt to point to numbers killed as a sign that it’s not genocide is irrelevant.)
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 5 weeks ago:
Fyi there is “attempt” at cultural genocide. Genocide is a crime in the act itself, regardless of the success of lack thereof in the outcome.
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 5 weeks ago:
Not sure you understand the context here. This is complaining about motornormativity and how people can get away with murder if they do it with a car. It’s got nothing to do with nazis.
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 5 weeks ago:
Not a federal thing. I was specifically thinking of the Brisbane City Council local government which was repeatedly removing “white ghost” memorials to Philip Pawsey…until the memorialists put a white ghost bike on a trailer parked in the bike lane (which is a legal place to park a car here…), which because it’s legally parked on the road, it would be illegal for them to remove. It ended up highlighting the irony of their failure to build proper infrastructure (i.e., separated bike paths where a car can’t park and thereby endanger cyclists) far more than a normal memorial would have.
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 5 weeks ago:
This is atrocious. It needs more public attention.
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 5 weeks ago:
Lucky he didn’t run Charke Kirk down
I was just thinking in another thread, how easy it would have been to kill Kirk with a car and just get away with it. Because I don’t agree with your comment here. Using a car is the best way to get away with murder. You have to be extremely unlucky to get any significant penalty when you kill someone with your car. Just ask the killers of Michael Hall, Carolyn Lister, Philip Pawsey, Richard Pollett, Richard Burden, and countless others around the country. Most of those were never charged. The one that was charged was never convicted. And our government spends more effort removing memorials than it does on actually addressing the problem.
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 5 weeks ago:
Wait what? Have you got a link? It at least a date?
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 5 weeks ago:
Haven’t seen much scrutiny
I’m pretty sure we criticised it pretty roundly in this Community (or other Communities on this Instance) back when it came out. But yeah, not much serious pushback from established media.
