Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Aussie Lemmyvision - closes 31st March 2025. Today! :o 3 days ago:
Okay, AZ is submitted.
Any late ballots we’ll include if an extension is called. But we’ll defer to any announcements from you on that subject.
Cheers! :)
- Comment on Aussie Lemmyvision - closes 31st March 2025. Today! :o 5 days ago:
Cheers mate!
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- Comment on 'Public schools do the really heavy lifting' and will finally be 'fairly' funded 6 days ago:
I don’t really get from the article whether its just Queensland thats the lagard, and now they’re also on the gonski reform path but will be behind everyone else, or whether the other jurisdictions had to wait for Queensland, and now gonski can be implemented in all States at the same time?
- Comment on Reminder: 🎶 aussie.zone Lemmyvision 2 voting ends on Monday 🎧 1 week ago:
Haha, at this stage i think we’d better go for non-compupsory preferential voting.
So yeah, vote for as few as you like. ;)
- Comment on Issues 23/3/25 1 week ago:
I’s thinking something was up today!
- Comment on “I Want Every Young Mum Back In The Office Permanently” Says Multimillionaire Childcare Profiteer 3 weeks ago:
Okay, this ones hard. Because i don’t know how much of thisbis true, and how much is Betoota being betoota.
Like, they almost sound like they’re just reporting his movements and what he’s saying here. 😂
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 4 weeks ago:
This is a good (readable) guide Avoiding unfair business practices - a guide for businesses and legal practitioners - ACCC
This is the legislation, COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 a hard read, but as they say in theguide above, theres no substitute for the Act.
I wanted to go on a big speil and talk about it a bit, but i’ve not had mych time to sit down. Suffice to say i think we have really well reasoned country of origin legislation, and consumer protection generally in this country. Even if its appliaction isn’t always ideal.
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 4 weeks ago:
Theres a list of Aussie made goods here Australian Made
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 4 weeks ago:
I think you’ve misread what the commenter wrote.
- Comment on If you are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly 4 weeks ago:
There is a growing group of people, myself included, loudly saying we need to rationalise and rebalance our tax system, Stephen Mayne and Alan Kohler, & Ken Henry (of course), being people who often speak really well on this subject.
- Comment on If you are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly 4 weeks ago:
So, the links don’t work anymore so i wonder if the articles been retracted.
But, assuming its not,
The Royal Air Force is focused on buying more F-35s, of which there are currently only 32, and ensuring its new combat aircraft, Tempest, secures future funding.
How does staying the course on this US led platform make sense for any partner Service?
The army source said “we need reserve bases” across the country so reservists with busy day jobs do not have to travel far to carry out training. “That will keep the number up. If you have to travel 50 miles you can’t balance that with life.”
This is a good idea that Aus should also apply. We also need to relax the conditions of ‘Able’ bodied, or more importantly restrict the scope by which claims can be made against the military for injuries incurred during service. Its probably overboard, and costly in manpower and resources.
- Comment on Tasmanian cider gum ferment 'a drink that shaped Australia' 1 month ago:
Oh interesting, thats part of the same family as Geraldton waxs, the myrtles? I can see that kind of thing going really well with gin. Next time i have some, i’ll have to pick some and infuse it myself, see if its good.
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 1 month ago:
Yeah, its definitely noticeable. The problem for them is it undermines legitimate points they might make at times. Especially when they target a smaller platform like AZ.
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 1 month ago:
The PM has been on the phone this week putting Australia’s case to gain an exemption from US tariffs on alluminium and steel.
A key talking point was the fact that we need good supply of these for our airline industry.
Oh, and btw this incident involving an Australian surveillance plane just occurred with China.
Whether its a bit of good luck, or Australia and China nodding at each other about US tariffs. Or whether it Australia acting of its own accord.
This has now become a billboard demonstration for the US executive of why Australia must maintain these industries.
side note:
- Does OP ever post anything but negative stories about China? If this is the case, should we be engaging with their posts?
- Comment on The fundamental problem with housing in Australia 1 month ago:
The fundamental problem is that housing has become a product and an investment market, rather than the right outlined by Leo O’Connor 82 years ago.
Cutting immigration doesn’t fix this, so you’re incorrect.
- Comment on "Create" button spins forever for new post, but the post is created anyway 1 month ago:
Not me. But i’m mobile jerboa mostly.
It has some bugs itself, when loading the title to a post i find it loads quicker if i input the community field first, then go back to the generated post title. Its a weird bug, and it works so much quicker doing it that way around. If you read this far sorry for enticing you to read something that helps in no way with your issue :)
- Comment on Tasmanian cider gum ferment 'a drink that shaped Australia' 1 month ago:
Its so exciting people are starting to recognise and experiment with native Australian ingredients. They’ve been sat there in plain sight for so long, and are just so great.
I’s able to go to Wildflower a few years back, its a restaurant in Perth CBD with a focus on these ingredients. The things they did with things like desert lime, wattle seeds etc were so delicious, geraldton wax, the bold freshness of so much of it was really surprising.
The most surprising thing was the paired mocktails, infused again with all kinds of native australian ingredients. I’s having the paired wines, my partner was having paired mocktails, and the mocktails were so much better than the wines.
- Comment on friendlyjordies | manufacturing your consent. 2 months ago:
The video creator boils Jordies views down to, Labor won’t change the system, they just want to be in the drivers seat of the shitshow. A slightly unfair take, because the creator doesn’t look at Jordies’ reasoning.
Jordies’ reasoning is usually, Labor don’t have the power to get rid of the elite, everytime Labor try, they’re crushed. This is because being the party of government isn’t the only centre of power in this country. And while its very strong its a very transient form of power. Therefore Labor have to play ball to a certain extent with these other power centres, then setting up the best direction politically possible in the time they have.
Theres other systems Australia could move to, where power is distributed differently, as the video creator obliquely suggested. But the creator has an underlying assumption those undiscussed alternative systems would, in fact, be better for the country. And most importantly, that the Australian people would see and appreciate the benefits, readily agreeing.
But his critiscisms of Jordies are very valid. If i decide to listen I always take Jordies and crew as partially informed commentators, and not to be relied upon for your base of information on a subject.
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 2 months ago:
The IGA shops are small businesses, there might be a few owners who are large enough, with multiple stores to call themselves medium size, but the vast majority are owner-operators.
The large conglomerate your referring to is called Metcash, they’re the primary wholesaler to IGAs but also wholesale to other shops. They also own the IGA brand in Australia at least, i don’t know if theres a North American connection with the IGA brand up there.
I wouldn’t assume they pay a better wage, thats almost certainly a store owners decision, which means it’ll vary store by store. Maybe Metcash might give ‘guidance’ but they don’t have direct control like Coles, Woolies, Aldi, Costco.
So, when you buy IGA more of the profits are remaining local with the owners of that store.
If i remember right Metcash’ assets are through product sales and brand ownership. This is also why Metcash will likely never be able to conpete properly with Coles, Woolies, Aldi, and Costco because all of those companies have the land and buildings their stores are situated on positively affecting their borrowing capacity, Metcash doesn’t have that therefore fundraising for expansion, or technology upgrades is more difficult.
That extra layer of (internal but not internal) wholesaler sales i believe is the reason why IGAs are slightly more expensive. But even then it depends on the type of IGA we’re talking about, there are some really fancy ones and some not so fancy ones.
I suppose everything i just wrote is based off knowledge over 10 years old now, but i think its largely still true.
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 2 months ago:
I’m not surprised that this is your routine. The food pics i’ve seen you post always look damn good.
- Comment on Athletics Australia becomes Australian Athletics in 'bold new' rebrand 2 months ago:
Is this one of those Utopia rebrands where everybody on the phone kept calling it ‘Australian Athletics’, and the CEO was always correcting them?
I’m getting real Nation Building Australia vibes.
- Comment on Prime ministers' heads severed and stolen from bronze statues in Ballarat 2 months ago:
Why not have a day that we can all celebrate?
Yep. It’d be nice.
- Comment on Prime ministers' heads severed and stolen from bronze statues in Ballarat 2 months ago:
Not outdated, just different to yours.
Its not useful to the vandals cause, whether sov-cits or Indigenous Australians, i’ve assumed its the latter in the rest of this comment.
I want to underline that i think there’s a place in Nation State democracies for civil disobedience, and violence as well to be used, just not in this case.
For the indigenous cause against aussie/invasion day its not the best way forward. You just create culture war fodder for powerful cunts to divide the nation with, especially in times of political stress.
The arguments that have taken this day from a July 4th-esque euphoric celebratory day to a quieter celebration are the civil arguments about the divisiveness about the date. It attacks the concept, not people, and thats something everybody can engage with, not become defensive against.
To boot, this argument is winning, every year Australia day comes round theres less flags, theres less parties, theres less of a thing made about the day.
As an example look at Dutton’s red meat to the base, ‘i won’t stand in front of a flag, mate!’, in the lead up to today. Didn’t exactly set the world on fire, it was pathetic and shallow.
- Comment on Prime ministers' heads severed and stolen from bronze statues in Ballarat 2 months ago:
Yeah, i don’t understand that. Pretty sure Phillip was the terra nulious proponent, so it boggles the mind why you’d go after a Cook statue before the Phillip statue if you’re indigenous Australian. Which means you’re probably right.
- Comment on Prime ministers' heads severed and stolen from bronze statues in Ballarat 2 months ago:
Yeah, maybe if it was the words on its own, but also knocking off Rudds head? That doesn’t make much sense.
- Comment on Prime ministers' heads severed and stolen from bronze statues in Ballarat 2 months ago:
Interesting, judging by who was taken, and the words, “the commonwealth will fall” sounds like maybe sov cits?
- Comment on What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming? 2 months ago:
Thanks Baku! I’s originally aiming for one event post a week, i think i’ll stick to the more personally interesting posts. Thwt’ll still be quite a few, but other people will have to do things like AFL and such :) If they want it.
I’d thought things like weekend markets arpund the State could go in a weekly thread like you suggest
- Comment on What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming? 2 months ago:
Yeah, i think i needed yours and Lodion’s responses to remind me to keep it to events i actually find interesting. Cheers.
Sorry folks someone else is gona have to post about the Western Derby ;)
- Comment on What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming? 2 months ago:
Ok, cheers for the guidance. I’ll carry on with the idea, but might tone it down a bit.
