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1d07pjk | We need them, all of them, for our workforce. Housing will sort itself out in time. | 0 |
1d5j84n | I've been in Kew for a while now, welcome! The closest I've found to a social activity is [Studley Parkrun]( on Saturdays, but I'm 15 weeks in and haven't spoken to anyone. The [pottery classes]( in Kew Junction look a bit chattier but it depends how much money you have to fire. [Archery in Hays Paddock]( was a good one-off activity.
As for entertaining oneself, Kew's a great base for [cycling]( there's access to the Main Yarra Trail, Darebin Creek, Koonung Creek, Anniversary Trail, Merri Creek/Capital City Trail, as well as Yarra Boulevard. There are also some fun cliffside and bush walking trails around Yarra Bend, nearly all the way from Walmer St, above Dights Falls, through the flying fox nesting area, under the Fairfield Pipe Bridge and around to Chandler Highway.
Once you get the hang of getting out of Kew quickly, there's lots more to do. | 0 |
1cwtko0 | There are 2 types of people that think that nuclear is a good idea. Political hacks who know it is just a distraction and people who get their news from the Herald Sun headlines as they try and find the latest footy scores. Neither will care or be aware that Dutts is floundering on his nuclear policy. | 1 |
1d0yimb | The “polite” thing would be that conversation B never even gets started while A is ongoing.
I’m guessing OP uses 4 as they believe that 4 is a small enough group such that there shouldn’t really be branching conversations. It’s different to a group of 10 at a long table where you’re obviously not going to be invested in a conversation with several other people in between you. | 1 |
1d4rhnw | I don't need to sell my model to anyone, it's what we already have. The legal and political position is that the default is whatever we have now.
If you want us to have a republic, then it's your job to come up with a model people actually want, to get your MPs to present it to parliament, and then to get a majority of voters in a majority of states support it.
I don't need to do anything to keep my King. He's with us until republicans get their shit together and present a better alternative. Which means he's with us for the life of the Commonwealth of Australia, since the republicans can only ever choose alcoholics and lefty sportspeople and failed ALP MPs as their leaders, so they'll never come up with an inspiring vision.
Love live the King! | 1 |
1cp0296 | Wishful thinking from Adelaide. Melbourne is still growing and the majority of people leaving tend to go North. Dan’s long gone but his “why would you want to go there” comment lives rent free in OPs head. | 1 |
1d20ln6 | Oo thank you for the tip | 0 |
1cyhh7e | I wonder if Australians currently doing their military duty in Israel will get a military pension from the Israeli govt? | 1 |
1d0vfvd | How are you getting from Melbourne to Sydney? | 0 |
1d5wft9 | If employers stopped forcing people back into the office, that might help? People come in sick because then they demand you go pay for a medical certificate for missing your office day instead of allowing you to wfh. | 0 |
1d2z0b3 | Generally no unless they did something extra or were particularly accommodating.
As a token of appreciation
Australia has laws to prevent underpayment, of staff high end restaurants will be paying staff more than the minimum wage.
Some people get really weird about it, but for at least the last 24 years people have been tipping for exceptional service not just standard service. | 0 |
1d5xw1l | The cheapest toilet paper is a bidet. Then you'll only use two squares to pat yourself dry and it won't matter where you buy your TP from. | 1 |
1d4j6lo | I was meaning there isn’t a medication for autism that will ‘fix’ it, compared to adhd.
Although, some antidepressants or diazepam meds help with anxiety that can arise due to autism (Valium is great lol, I wish it wasn’t addictive). | 1 |
1d4im5u | I get what you mean, but also, single lane and they're turning from the middle. Get over it Mr impatient. | 1 |
1d1qksq | Officeworks collect ewaste | 1 |
1d3louj | Wexler in Frankston is excellent. Did my choppers and my sons. Excellent work. Definitely not the cheapest though. | 0 |
1d4lx64 | I’m sort of baffled that the moral of the story is to add to the chaos and barge on rather than encourage others to help people with prams (or mobility aids) if they’re struggling… why did nobody help her? | 1 |
1d5jl7e | Same thing happened to my partner. Cops said it’s a civil matter. Haven’t been able to resolve it. | 0 |
1d37iys | Cottees, IXL SPC, Oak, Bega, Farmers Union, Coopers Brewing
Unfortunately not all Australian owned anymore | 0 |
1d2hg8b | Been looking more into it and yeah, may see if I can go to the airport and spend a couple of nights there instead of Melbourne! Does look expensive though but I guess it's a once in a lifetime opportunity! | 0 |
1cxv5kt | Angus Taylor's National Press Club performance was shockingly bad today.
It's like he's not even in the Shadow Cabinet meetings despite being Shadow Treasurer. He couldn't provide any details of any policies, and his premeditated lines completely contradicted Dutton's Budget Reply speech last week. Especially on Immigration and Nuclear where the Liberal's numbers are all over the shop. | 0 |
1crcyya | This reads like a pre-prepared Chinese astroturf propaganda post. | 1 |
1d30cgv | Tell me you've never worked in retail without saying you've never worked in retail.... | 1 |
1csf5w3 | Bail is now trying to predetermine guilt by using profiling characteristics.
In my opinion, if you want to minimise deprivation of freedom and maximise security of the public, you have to find a measure that accomplishes both without predetermining the outcome of the judicial process: that means detention in a secure hotel with all conventional freedoms provided except leaving the premises and a protection detail on the accused home to prevent taking advantage of the situation. We could even combine court accommodation in a separate part of the building.
If it was not an emergency 5 years ago or even 1 year ago, it is not a national emergency now when crime is steadily falling. It's simply not possible to get to zero crime and whilst we should try to minimise crime, events will still happen like the stabbing of 5 people at Bondi: it's a tragedy, but it doesn't represent an emergency.
I believe this is all stemming from idiotic legislation on indefinite detention and equally idiotic lack of a legal alternative.
I also don't understand how the High Court can suddenly strike down legislation after years of inaction and result in a compromised security of the public as government rushes to implement emergency legislation as a knee-jerk and compromised solution. Surely the High Court could advise government of a likely challenge sufficiently in advance to permit well-thought out legislation to be put in place before striking down legislation and putting the public at risk, especially since this was about indefinite detention and nothing had been done up to that point.
Isn't the High Court also bound to minimise harm, or die on the hill of point of law? | 0 |
1czwypv | Thanks! Turns out they will :) | 0 |
1d0wqfz | 17bn and by 2040 is fine by me, let it happen. Just don't let the liberal party near it. | 1 |
1d4r9n1 | They’ll have a crack at it, but they usually back off if you’ve got a good bitchy hen in charge. | 1 |
1cpqqgf | Rebecca Huntley assesses the public mood for a living. Right now, she says, it is grim, and the housing crisis is at the root of it.
“You actually can’t have a conversation about anything in any focus group about any topic that doesn’t begin and end with housing. There is a deep, almost intractable despair,” says Huntley, director at the strategic communications consultancy 89 Degrees East.
The way people in her focus groups see it, she says, “it doesn’t matter whether interest rates are up or interest rates are down, or unemployment is up or unemployment is down, doesn’t matter if it’s a pandemic, not a pandemic, GFC or not a GFC, housing is a horror show”.
To an ever-increasing extent, they see just one solution to their woes: cut immigration.
“They’re like, ‘We can’t get ourselves out of this mess, therefore, we just need less people lining up for the rental property, less people trying to buy the house. Just less people’,” says Huntley.
It’s not such a new sentiment, though perhaps not previously so keenly felt. Opinion polls have consistently shown over many years that a substantial majority of Australians want a smaller migrant intake and a significant number want a much smaller intake. One poll last year found as many as a quarter of respondents wanted zero net migration.
Pauline Hanson reeled off the results of 11 of these polls, conducted over the past six years, in a speech to parliament in March.
Of course, Hanson has been railing against immigration since she was first elected to federal parliament back in 1996, famously warning in her first speech that Australia was being “swamped by Asians”. Two decades later, after having lost her seat in the lower house, she made a triumphant return as a senator for Queensland in 2016, warning Australia was being “swamped by Muslims”.
In her March 21 speech, though, Hanson focused less on matters of race and religion than on the pressures of the sheer number of migrants on housing, transport, health, education and other services. In reciting the findings of various reputable pollsters, she claimed vindication. The major parties and big media had called her a racist and ignored her warnings that the numbers were “out of control”.
“Was I right?” she asked her fellow senators. “You’d never admit it, but yes I was,” she said.
It’s hard to think of any issue other than immigration on which public opinion has been so at odds with accepted policy for so long. The large majority of people want it cut; the great majority of the political, media and economic establishment have ignored their concerns.
It has long been the multipartisan political position that high immigration is a good thing, enriching the nation culturally and economically. Questioning the orthodoxy has been a reputationally dangerous act, leading many people and organisations to be reluctant to share their qualms about the size of Australia’s immigration intake.
Ian Lowe, emeritus professor in the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University, can attest to that.
Lowe was president of the country’s pre-eminent environmental organisation, the Australian Conservation Foundation, for 10 years until 2014.
During that time, he tells *The Saturday Paper*, he advocated for the ACF to “prosecute the idea that population growth was a significant environmental pressure”. The organisation was reluctant to take a position, however, on the basis that advocating for a lower intake would be “taken as a sort of Pauline Hanson-type racist comment”.
“Cutting migration will make housing cheaper, but it would also make us poorer … The boost to government budgets is enormous.”
So the ACF avoided the issue, and it still does today – as do most other civil society groups concerned with environmental and social justice issues.
Meanwhile, Australia’s population is on track to grow to about 40 million people – an increase equivalent to the combined current populations of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane – by 2060. | 0 |
1d60iqa | In North Queensland so this is probably different. Our commercial fish boats freeze fish at sea and it is usually labelled fresh. | 0 |
1d5jmmm | If you change the account password on booking.com, they won’t be able to sign into booking.com again, which will stop the influx of failed payment Noti emails into your inbox.
There’s no need to close your email account, really. I’ve had my info in data breaches 6 times in 2013 and I’m still using the same email address, although I’m now using “hide my email” in iOS so it isn’t being put out online anymore. It makes up an random email address when signing up for things and diverts them into my one inbox. If something looks a little suspect, it’s easy to deactivate the fake address and that’s the end of that. Also handy to catch out companies that have sold someone else my info.
The card is old, so that’s sweet. Weird that they tried to use it though. They’d have seen the expiry date and they don’t work very well after the end of the month that it expires in.
Phone number… unless they ‘re sophistcated enough to clone the SIM, you’re sweet. Would look into calling your mobile provider and ensuring that account changes cannot be made without two-factor authentication. | 0 |
1d5z5pc | We could, but the extra 10% or so it would cost would screw the economy.
Plus, while relatively small amounts might be undetected, the larger quantities we'd need are easier to detect and stop. So that 10% would be an absolute minimum.
As for food, China itself cut off food from Australia. They weren't worried. Our good friends in America fell over themselves to supply whatever the Chinese wanted. | 1 |
1d5z5pc | Aren't they supposed to talk?
And that Philippine president is just looking for an excuse to declare martial law and stay in power for two decades like his father. | 0 |
1d1j8n7 | Fix the power grid with 100% clean, renewable energy and dispatchable storage. And while we’re fantasising, make it free and unlimited. | 1 |
1d2z4dt | The funny thing was when The Age came late to the party and decided to give out their "Express" paper in the mornings for free. But it was as cringe as Paul Barry trying to be hip with his "Media Bites" segment on ABC that only masochists watch to experience some second-hand embarrassment.
And of course pretty much all the content in it was the same news as MX had shared the day before, so there was nothing new to read. It very quickly become a section in the Age newspaper somewhere and then disappeared. | 1 |
1d22asn | Victoria seriously needs a competent opposition. The flagrant fiscal mismanagement of state labor is ridiculous eg accepting comm games. Yet the majority of the public give them a pass | 1 |
1d5jl7e | You’re fucked. All the other guy has to do is say it wasn’t him or that someone took his car but he doesn’t know who. Get insurance. | 0 |
1d4u3n2 | Venue makes it or breaks it, in my experience.
Have been to quite a few through Speed Dating Social just because they have the tickets at the right price point.
Worth doing at least once but it's a mentally exhausting exercise as you'll meet up to 20 people in a 2 hour timeframe and have 5 min conversations that mostly revolve around the same topics: occupation, hobbies, location.
If you get a conversation that doesn't rely on these fallback topics you're more likely to match.
The people are no better or worse than those on dating apps, the same flakey behaviour can occur.
I have since found meeting people in real life through hobbies etc is better. Quality over quantity. | 0 |
1d2d7ge | Hot water is classed as an urgent fix so they shouldn’t have to wait. The real estate should be authorised to action this without the owners authority. Post this over in r/shitrentals to name and shame the real estate. | 0 |
1d605km | Funny, I could've sworn just last year old Joshy boy, bungler of JobKeeper, confirmed he wouldn't return to politics after he was appointed as the chairman of Goldman Sachs’ Australian and New Zealand operations.
I mean, there was more than one article about it:
[Josh Frydenberg puts political comeback on hold, becomes Goldman Sachs Australia chairman](
[Josh Frydenberg won’t run in Kooyong at next election after Goldman Sachs appointment](
[Frydenberg rules out Kooyong run as Wyatt laments his absence]( | 0 |
1d5klqx | They don’t even know they existed in the first place. | 1 |
1d02u3e | You think the boomers or Gen X give a flying f*ck about the future generations though?
Cmon. Let's get real. They would rather absolutely f*ck the future generations if it means they don't have to pay an extra $200 a year on taxes.
Neoliberal hyper-individualism has completely wrecked this world and until all the selfish oldies die out. There's not much that can be done. Raising taxes is political suicide, advocating for the youth is political suicide. The Boomers and Gen Xers would rather live as luxurious as possible knowing they will die before suffering the concequences of their greed. | 1 |
1ct44ue | The Australian business council will neuter him in public view lol. They won't stand for wages rising. | 1 |
1d2dqiz | Probably a decent deal, I had one room re carpeted via insurance and based on that one room this doesn't seem too bad. | 0 |
1d1ngrk | same age and similar situation to you. cost of living has been fucking me without the lube for a while now… hopefully it gets better soon otherwise i’ll be hosting a self deletion party lol | 1 |
1cyb6ga | The Conversation: [‘No one can act with impunity’: ICC arrest warrants in Israel-Hamas war are a major test for international justice](
> Khan has asked ICC judges to issue warrants on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes against Yahya Sinwar (head of Hamas in Gaza), Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (also known as Mohammed Deif, the commander of the military wing of Hamas) and Ismail Haniyeh (head of Hamas’ political bureau, based in Qatar).
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> They are alleged to bear responsibility for international crimes on Israeli and Palestinian territory at least since October 7 2023.
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> Khan has also requested arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, again for war crimes and crimes against humanity. They are alleged to be responsible for crimes in the Gaza Strip since October 8 2023. | 0 |
1d0upb1 | Lol like what ? go back in time and buy 150million $ lotto ticket numbers | 1 |
1d2d1bi | I can’t really find any transcript of Tingle’s speech in which the context of the ‘racist’ quote was made, so it’s very difficult to judge the intent and meaning behind the comment.
The only bit I can find:
>“We are a racist country, let’s face it. We always have been and it’s very depressing,”
There’s no metric on what qualifies as a ‘racist’ country or not; but it is obvious that racism has played a part in the national psyche and conversation.
The treatment of massacres of indigenous people pre 1901
The fact the first Federal Parliament passed the White Australia Policy, a blatantly racist law which remained in law for 70 years, the majority of Australia’s existence up until this time
The practice of forced removal of children from parents of only one race again for the majority of the nation’s existence (again up until the 70s)
Fearmongering and dogwhistling against non white races being prominent in political discourse even up until today.
Different legislation for those living in indigenous communities (like NT alcohol laws)
On a non political level (as her comment didn’t specifically mention politics only):
The vast vast majority of commercial TV and media featuring white faces. Today 1 out of 5 Australians are of Asian heritage (there’s more Australians of Asian heritage than Americans of black or Latino heritage) but you wouldn’t know it from watching Australian TV.
The national character and story being almost exclusively from a white Anglo Saxon perspective, with only fleeting mentions of a vague ‘multiculturalism’.
News media quick to label the race of a non white offender but you never hear the opposite.
News media egging on race riots like Cronulla.
Tingle is right, racism is a big part of the Australian story. Australia may not be as racist as other nations, and we may have improved the situation in recent years but neither of those facts invalidate her comments.
Besides beyond the Sky ‘News’ and LNP outrage brigade who deities the ABC 24/7 (even though the comments were made outside her employment so there is no breach of charter) who else is criticising her? No one. | 0 |
1d4lztg | Yeah they’re just people like anyone else. It would be weird to assume someone’s a bad person because of their financial circumstances.
People can be lovely and they can be huge pieces of shit. | 1 |
1cwrdmn | What would it mean to reject something not based on cold hard facts? What would cold hard facts look like and how would one determine that? | 0 |
1cozx5z | Is this at the same time they are also throwing hundreds of thousands of new migrants at the problem also. A pox on both major parties. | 1 |
1d4lztg | I've given some money in the past on days where it's extremely hot or cold because I worry about how someone will do in harsh conditions. But I won't be able to spare cash for a bit.
I thought I could at least give someone the opportunity to get their own hot chocolate or coffee etc from the Woolworths Metro because of that offer that comes up sometimes. Instead it just goes on the rewards card and not a receipt that I could give to someone to turn in. Maybe they did that on purpose specifically to block people from that? | 0 |
1d54cey | Really? People were allowed to make informed decisions on their own health and safety were they?
Oh wait, no they weren't. Their human rights were denied based on poor science and cowardice, which has week and truly been confirmed over the past number of years. | 1 |
1d4j6lo | Not being a smart ass, but what do you do with your assessment? Was there a need for you to end up on medication or something? Is it different from like adhd testing? | 0 |
1d3yn9l | Heater? You mean on special occasions and when I have guests? | 1 |
1d63pw0 | This happened often in my company - even in Singapore.The application is usually done by yourself, with a full letter of support from your company stating your position, salary and conditions and they would be responsible for your return to Australia. You shouldn't have any problems at all if you give full details. Good luck with landing the job. | 0 |
1d5zgnb | Life itself. I hate life | 0 |
1d3t3d0 | Better Schools website will give you school rankings for results, Melbourne School Discussion Group FB page will provide answers as well. Obviously a good school is more than just results, which is why the FB page is good as you can get honest opinions from people with experience in different schools.
If your child is 10 you shouldn't worry too much about primary school. More about whether you want public or private high school, and if feeder primary school is needed for primary, or residential zoning for a particular public, etc. | 0 |
1d66324 | I never shop at my local Woolies but did the other week. I didn’t have my bags organised so said “I’ll pack myself, it’s fine”. The attitude I copped from both the checkout staff AND the customer behind me for being “an Aldi shopper” just cemented why I never fucking go there. | 0 |
1d284x4 | The Coalition seems to be blathering here. If they are charged with a crime, they are held in prison and thus are not a danger to Australians, and even so they have a right to stay here (they lived here most of their lives).
If a crime is committed here by an Australian resident or *de facto* citizen, it's our problem to fix, not another country's. | 1 |
1d67m5c | I had someone using high beams at 2pm in the afternoon the other day. They were rather confused when I gave them the finger. | 1 |
1cye52b | Obviously everyone knows that the government has to do all the actual hard work of spending taxpayer money & acquiring land & developing a greenfield site before any private developers will come in & reap the profits. That's capitalism! | 1 |
1d31ykp | Friends just got the dreaded increase letter and was going to tell the landlord where to go and look at moving out until they looked at the rental rates in the area and saw it was worse off to move. Cooked everywhere. | 0 |
1crheft | A really embarrassing day for Australia politically when this happens. The government should try not committing crimes in the future. | 1 |
1czgx88 | Because I don't want to any time soon. If I do, I won't take his surname. But simply put, I like the independence. I want to merge my life with someone at my pace, my comfort, and allow us to come together and achieve space in a nice symbiosis. That's more achieveable by a partnership that doesn't involve living together or legally tying yourselves to each other.
I already have all my stuff in place regarding life insurance, last will, organ donation etc. I don't need someone to make the decisions, and I don't want anyone blocking them out of their own emotions.
I have a man. I absolutely love him to the ends of the earth, he is my sweetheart and my beacon of sunshine in life. But he and I both like exactly what we have, the way we have it. It works for us and how we live our lives. | 0 |
1d2h47p | TL:DR
Get financial advice asap. Yesterday would be better.
Centrelink are useless.
Quality of care varies from day to day. Visit and be your mum’s advocate.
I was the same as you, and retired as well, with hours on my hands each day. Both mum and dad went in together, owning their home and with some cash investments. It’s a nightmare!
Here are my pro-tips!
*If your mother has assets like a family home and money in the bank, then pay for financial advice from someone who specialises in the field. They will do detailed scenarios and calculations which will let you determine what you need to do financially. It may be to sell the house, it may be to rent the house and pay interest costs etc.
From memory it cost about $3500.
They also offered an annual fee of $1500 or so to deal with all the Centrelink and nursing home stuff that occurs each year. I knocked that bit back. How hard can it be? Dumb decision, at least for the first 12 months.
*Centrelink have no idea. I repeat, they have no idea. And just when you think you have it sorted, you realise again, that they have no idea.
You will need to spent hours on the phone waiting, and days and weeks and months following them up to make sure that they have got things right.
Because I had financial advice I knew what mum and dad should be paying, 85% of the full age pension plus $25 a day each in means tested care fees. It took me 13 months of dealing with Centrelink to get to that stage. We are finally there.
I actually had to tell them what they were doing wrong each step of the way. But actually getting them to fix it was a nightmare.
I’ve just paid $8000 in back fees even though they are the ones who messed up. And let’s not forget the 6 weeks where they charged $168 dollars a day each because someone added an extra zero when inputting the nursing home deposit. There is a significant difference between a deposit of $550000 and $5500000 when it comes to fees!
*Aged Care - family visits are a must. If staff know that there is a chance that someone may pop in to see your mum, I can guarantee that she will be cared for in a more timely manner.
Homes are short staffed, overworked and subject to so much red tape that it’s surprising that they function. Even the best ones have good and bad days depending on which staff are available.
Ask around and find the good ones, but realise even then, that some times you will be disappointed in them.
Be your mum’s advocate. That’s the key word. Use it when you speak to management, which you will, I guarantee. It’s enshrined in the aged care charter of rights.
That said, I’ve found most staff to be excellent, pleasant and caring, but they can only do so much if they are under- resourced.
Good luck. It mightn’t be an easy transition but it does get better. | 0 |
1d13itp | Bargearse was better than the original. | 0 |
1d3znbk | Illegal dog fighting... fuck me the imaginations on some people | 1 |
1d4p302 | Lol 110k after tax you'll be fine.
The fact that you still think about the 30% rule tells me everything. | 1 |
1d36p9f | Australia is like the same size of USA.
Think about how many resources we have.
But the usable land is like 25 percent. | 0 |
1cufk6t | Ah yes, reduce international students, who live in student accommodation.. and this will relieve residential housing how exactly?
Dutton is a con.
E: the minority of international students who do live in residential housing, still only live in the university suburbs. So this really is a 'do nothing' idea, aimed to indirectly de-fund Universities. | 1 |
1d1mf9x | I'd pay the amount you think it would cost to cater for your husband ($100-$200). Lower end if appetisers or buffet, higher end for sit down, full booze package etc. You've already covered yourself. | 0 |
1czcrzr | Rich families that own houses getting a free reno. Just love to see it. | 1 |
1d3yxnw | mom with baby sooked and cried unfair because venue didnt allow her and baby into an 18yo+ event.
this very much reeks of entitlement. | 1 |
1d4im5u | So that their front bumper doesn’t get taken off by someone cutting the corner turning right from the street in front | 0 |
1czdql8 | Casual work suits me. I like the higher pay rate and ability to work hours that suit me and not work when that also suits me. | 0 |
1d43it3 | Why would a conservative choose Melbourne of all places? | 1 |
1cuq695 | While we are all distracted by cost of living and staring into the barrel of the oncoming poverty train, there are several other more disturbing things happening;
A decent man who revealed war crimes was sentenced to prison for not committing crimes, but revealing the crimes of others.
Family court judges are ordering children who have been proven to be abused to live with the abusive parent, sometimes full time.
In a country with a hard stance against guns, more and more people seem to be getting shot
Domestic violence deaths are increasing
The NDIS is being rorted to the extent people that actually need the help aren’t getting it and is causing real life issues. Yet sex offenders are getting millions to rort.
There are not enough police, teachers, doctors, nurses or paramedics.
Airbnb needs to be tightly regulated and is most definitely a contributing factor to the housing crisis. | 1 |
1d3tjx3 | Great work! Hopefully these guys get adopted quick! | 0 |
1d2ufq1 | The Conversation: [The coverage of Laura Tingle’s comments on racism is a textbook beat-up, but she’s not in the wrong
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> Separating personal preferences from professional decision-making is a standard ethical expectation in all professions, including journalism. It requires intellectual self-discipline of a kind well-trained professionals are routinely able to exert. It does not require them to be intellectual eunuchs, only that they avoid allowing their personal preferences to taint their professional work. | 0 |
1d34g2t | How do these wars work ?
How does the tobacconist get approached to sell illegal smokes?
Surely couldn't be in person..
Also what brand are these cigarettes, I assume it's the Manchester one they always try to push when you ask for darts? | 0 |
1csw003 | > This legally speaking is a nothing-burger.
Yes but it makes it seem like they are doing something | 1 |
1d59lcc | One way to measure Australian luck is that last time Australia was in recession was in way back in 1991.
Australia has experienced the longest period of growth without a recession for any developed country since World War II.
That’s a lot of economic pain Aussies have avoided compared to anywhere else. | 0 |
1d28q90 | Anything is possible with Aus Post. I had a package come from USA to Melbourne Airport to China then back to Melbourne Airport. Added a considerable delay.... | 1 |
1d05ofu | AAT senior member Chris Furnell said the man’s case was finely balanced between protecting the Australian community against other considerations including his ties to Australia. Mr Furnell ultimately opted to cancel the revocation of the man’s visa.
The fallout from Direction 99 comes amid ongoing scrutiny of Mr Giles and the Albanese government’s handling of the 152 people released from indefinite detention following a High Court decision late last year. Several of those individuals have since been arrested on fresh offences.
Opposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan said it was clear that Direction 99 was having an impact on community safety.
“Andrew Giles needs to explain why he won’t change this direction and why he won’t change it immediately,” Mr Tehan said.
“What this clearly shows is that your ties to Australia are given primacy over everything else. No matter how Andrew Giles tries to spin it, he is endangering the Australian community through the changes he made. Once again, this is a complete mess of the minister’s own making.”
Mr Giles said this week he was seeking urgent advice in relation to Saki, and criticised the AAT’s decision to reinstate Saki’s visa as “inconsistent” with Direction 99.
Asked on Friday about the number of visa reinstatements that had relied on Direction 99, a spokesman for Mr Giles said the direction placed a “significant emphasis on serious offending and family violence – which need to be considered in all matters”. | 0 |
1d2gbvv | I think it's mostly just a case of styling the car to hide necessary functional components and accentuate attractive personalised parts. Every car has rubber tyres but not every car has custom rims, make them as large and appealing as possible i suppose is the philosophy. I'm surprised to hear its not a thing elsewhere, its not unique to car design for people to compromise practicality/function in the name of aesthetics. | 0 |
1d3w59e | Enshrining human rights here doesn't negatively impact the American Empire, McBride did, big difference. | 1 |
1cszxwq | It is easier, yes. But ultimately sees a major party decline in vote. The preferential system's keeping them in for now. But it's becoming more and more likely we'll see more and more hung parliaments, and eventually someone will have the intelligence and leadership ability to create a serious third party catering to the middle, rather than the extremes.
As time goes on, expect to see more "electoral reform" on donations and spending so they can prevent that third party from gaining ground. | 1 |
1d66324 | >Aldi got away with it cause they have cheaper prices. COVID times it was for germs. But now? If I’m gonna be packing myself anyway **I’ll just keep going to self checkout where I can go at my own pace.**
Then do that? Why is this a thread?
Do you not have a Facebook account? | 1 |
1d28erd | squatting on public toilets with their fkn shoes on the seat to have a shit instead of sitting on the damn seat! | 1 |
1d4kufy | Greasy Zoe's in Hurstbridge. Don't let the name fool you - it's a 2 hatted restaurant. I am 100% confident that the all of employees are getting treated well because the owners are the only 2 employees | 1 |
1d4tlv6 | The ignorance of this comment. | 1 |
1cxpdgd | I always assume it's just one of those people that has some obscure and horrendously diluted uranium pennystock that they think will pump if they can sell the nuclear debate. They are a dime a dozen these days. | 1 |
1ctuvdq | It wasn’t for the greater good. The responses have been widely discredited since. It should never happen again and the decision makers should be held accountable. Unfortunately in Victoria, by the former Premiers own admissions, we don’t know who was actually making some of the decisions. | 0 |
1d41669 | Not sure if it’s the best but I rate Angus and Bon :) | 0 |
1d2bxho | DOC is my fave on lygon street | 0 |
1d5rzal | You're comparing possession charges to distribution charges. Without knowing the laws I would guess that distribution of CSAM would have a higher penalty. I would also guess that possession of deep fake porn would have a lower penalty | 0 |
1d3s9h6 | Focus on your own progress, don't mind the other people. I'd take an earnest overweight dude improving his health in there than some douchebag ego lifting without the proper form (good luck on your back, asshat) | 1 |
1d0bo37 | It’s just banter. | 0 |
1cw9vcr | I said nameplate capacity, did I not?
> Taking Finland's approach would have been faster, cheaper and more sustainable.
I doubt it. As I said, Snowy 2.0 would have to take another 13 years to construct and have an extra $10bn cost blowout. And as far as sustainability, there’s no uranium to mine or radioactive materials to store. It’s the most dogshit way to do renewables and even so it doesn’t put Finland’s nuclear in the best light. | 1 |
1d3t5mt | If you're out north. Sammy's in Mill Park/Mernda are damn good. | 0 |
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