SouthernCrossAI/Reddit-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face

I went about 200km out of my way once to visit the Kiama blowhole.

It was raining, windy, freezing cold, fucking *packed* with Chinese tourists, and literally nothing happened. Barely even a wave came into the little bay.

Thank fuck the place is full of decent restaurants.

I used to live near the Bongon Blowhole and yes, we did bong on at the Bongon blowhole.

Look at her go

All I'm asking for is my fair share of thermal geyser sights. I thought I had one at my doorstep. And for that, I'm disappointed.

It's alright, mate, I didn't mind so much. I even went and saw the little blowhole after that.

There were a couple of good shots yesterday. Not as high as the top of the lighthouse, but they were still unlike anything I've seen.

So does that mean it's not a good idea to wear an Armani suit on your visit there?

>thermal geyser sights

Yeah, sorry to disappoint, but we don't do that here.

You probably need to do a bit more study in geology 🤣

The way to get the blowhole to really blow is to turn your back and decide to go home in disgust or decide it's not worth photographing and put your camera away. Both techniques are quite effective!

I like the little blowhole better than the big one, because I feel like the smaller hole allows for more explosive sprays.

But the tides have to be just right to get a big spray on either blow hole.

I used continuous shooting to take that photo and selected the best of something like 50 for the post.

I didn't really research what a blowhole is before I went to Kiama. Maybe I just confused it with a sinkhole. After all, I thought, what else could be possibly blown out of there? It *couldn't* be something as plain as *sea water*, now, could it!

Maybe we could combine our techniques to get a really good photo! Like turn your back on it then point your camera over your shoulder and use continuous shooting. That could work.

Or if course you could just go down during a crazy southerly during winter when the seas are really huge. Because that the best time to visit a really exposed headland 🥶

Jordies whole list of videos should be posted here

On a really, reaaaallly clear day…. no.

Is that Wollongmabong?

Bro doxxed (≈)100,000 people 🩻

Oh there it is use it

Almost, it's cut off.

No. I think Brisbane is a little further.

Illawarra Tree Top Walk?

Maybe not, but it looks like the Gong down there.

Pretty sure, believe it is taken from Mt Kiera lookout

Mount Keira Lookout

Yeah, it looks like it. Near the delicious Mt keira kiosk lol

I’m 16 going on 17 and I’ve tried everywhere to find my birth certificate but no go. my mum sent the forms away when I was first born but they lost it and fucked it for me. I’ve been trying everything from going to the courthouse to getting help from joblink and even the aboriginal lands council but they say the same thing as the rest of em. they say I need id but I ain’t really got none since I can’t get a fucking birth certificate. have gone to multiple schools including tafe and got Centrelink wages up until I was 14 but none of those places can help me, cause apparently I ain’t a person. so what’s the go any advice on what to do next?

Were you born in NSW or interstate?

If you were born interstate there’s going to be a different process and it’ll be a pain in the arse.

But if you were born in NSW… Birth certificates are administered by Births Deaths and Marriages. Go to a Service NSW shopfront. You’ll be there for ages, but you’ll get a person who can talk you through it. Take whatever kind of ID you do have - Medicare card, student ID, Centrelink ID (e.g. a Health Care Card or your Mum’s), pay slips… anything with your name, date of birth, photo, address.

If you’re Aboriginal, ask them about / google a program called Pathfinders. It’s designed to provide free birth certificates for First Nations people, and it includes consideration of previously unregistered births (like yours seems to be).

The whole thing will be frustrating and you’ll have to jump through a thousand hoops, but if you’re prepared for it to be a shitfight, you can be ready to stay calm, be kind to the people who can help you, give them as much as you can, and get it sorted eventually.

You need to go to births, deaths and marriages to get one, You can always go in person if your in sydney as well. I had to do this when i had to get my mothers birth cert for a passport application and she was unwilling to give it to me, i was able to get a "original" of both hers and mine because i was her son and they just need my regular ID

As long as you have some ID like Photo card or DL or medicare etc you can call em up or head in there and they should be able to supply you with one

Did you have any luck? Currently going through this

I’m so sorry you’re going through this frustration. It’s stories exactly like this that are why voter ID policies at election time are so inappropriate. It disadvantages people who, through no fault of their own, we’re let down by a system they had no choice in being a part of.

I hope you’re able to get this sorted soon. I don’t have any practical advice, but just wanted to say I’m sorry you’re going through it. All the best.

Have you tried ordering the certificate from BDM?

https://onlineforms.bdm.nsw.gov.au/application/birth_details

They should have a process to verify your identity without you having other identity documents, which probably involves getting other people to vouch for you.

Hello, I am a journalist and would love to chat to you further about this if you are open to it. I have sent you a direct message!

Thank you so much

Great advice Kristyyyyy!

Thank you

I had someone form the comments here reach out to me and she helped out a lot I think she went through births deaths and marriages but I’m not sure

Thank you for the wishes I appreciate it

Joblink had been trying but I need to register as if I were just born but they still need so much identification for some reason

Yeah ok

It's actually common for people to not even be a registered birth, so worst case they do a late Registration then issue the BC. Good luck.

Why are you dealing with Joblink for this? Call the Registry for Births, Deaths and Marriages directly.

I will try that. The reason I’ve went to joblink is because my cousin who is the same age is having the same problem and we talked to our teacher at tafe and she sent us that way.

So why do they keep voting for LNP?

Regional voters don't need to worry. Given enough time Sydney will continue to grow and absorb until all of NSW is just considered part of Sydney.

You'll still be forgotten though as you won't be the CBD.

Everyone knows NSW stands for Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong.

It's not just the campaign. Regional cities and towns are always second-class citizens when it comes to funding.

doesn’t really matter cause they will all vote for the Nationals like usual

Swear i see the same caption every election

There are Legalise Cannabis NSW party candidates all around the state.

It’s a vote that can have an important positive impart for many people across this great state

Let’s Go!

High. Speed. Rail. To. Newcastle.

They voted Shooters and currently have an Independent since the candidate left after a Shooters leader was sexist about something.

The lady in pink!

Going to take a while. I live in NSW and it's only a couple of hours drive to Melbourne.

Given that a lot of Newcastle folks feel like they’re treated like Sydney’s dumping ground, I think we might need to revise that to North sydney, Sydney, West Sydney.

I've seen stuff in the news about "cane toads coming to NSW". They've been here my whole life.

Forget second-class, anything North of Newcastle doesn't even exist.

What about. Fishers and shooters ?

Nooooo, then even more Sydney people earning Sydney wages will come buy the property here that is already too expensive for locals!

Helen Dalton was probably the only good MP the SFF had. Unfortunately the Shooters are a mixed bag where the Daltons of the party are often drowned out by the batshit rednecks.

Do you guys have footpaths and gutters?

NSW = Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong

I hear people talk about Western nsw and they are talking about orange....

You can't stop people from Sydney from spilling over into the CC but we can make living on the CC even better. It would be great for the environment as well since we'll get so many cars off the road.

Phil Donato and Roy Butler, their only other ones that won seats, seem pretty good.

They quit after the party leader's comments about Helen. They issued an ultimatum that he stand down or they leave. The party protected the leader instead of the people would got votes and they left.

Since they are running as Independents we'll definitely see if the votes were for the individual or the party.

Haven't heard much about Butler, but Donato seems very popular.

Doesn't local council do that and not state gov?

Like most towns, the majority of streets do, but not all. I’ve lived in tiny country towns with public facilities in better condition and ones with worse. I think a lot of it depends on how wealthy the area is.

Well that span of area is legit 3/4 of the whole states population.

It's kind of crazy when you look at the map and realise 3/4 of the population is crammed into a pretty small area.

I wish we got stuff in Wollongong. Our new “state of the art hospital” won’t even have antenatal, maternity, birthing, or a helipad

My family's from the Central West, so Donato's their local member. He is very popular with the locals, but as an MP I've found him to be... whelming. He's done nothing to make an impression on me one way or the other. I'm not sure what the locals see in him, tbh.

Council gets funding from the state

I get that but we are a first world country with towns that do not have safe drinking water. Some of us have to live there and be forgotten about constantly.

Wollongong is either regional or metro depending on what funding stream the money comes from.

If it's metro stream we are regional, if regional 100% metro.

It's pretty simple.

He seems to back his area and brings their concerns to parliament, but both as a Shooters and Independent he lacks power to get anything actually done so even though he follows through, it is mostly just hot air without a party following or balance of power situation to really swing anything big. He probably lacks a bit in the bargaining and dealing side of things as he usually goes straight at whatever his goal is from what I've seen.

He does a lot in the communities and isn't afraid to get his hands dirty with actual work, but the political dealing side of things seems to frustrate and elude him as he is much more "This community needs this now" rather than trying to make deals, probably because he largely lacks the policital power to make deals so has to rely on being loud and swinging community voices behind him.

After the first narrow loss to Donato there was a very big feeling of the Lib/Nats 'punishing' the region and refusing to do anything beyond the minimum here. This led to a massive swing to Donato and the next round the Lib/Nats promises started being worded more in a regardless if we win way. Government started moving on things again but slapped their name all over everything.

Newcastle gets this treatment too. We're a regional metro or metro regional depending on what fucks us over the most.