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1d3k6b7 | Make sure you check the school holiday schedule for each state you're going to be in, so you can try to avoid the crowds and higher accommodation costs | 0 |
1d1eojd | Food disposals aka insinkerators. We just don't have them. | 1 |
1czynj3 | What happened the last time an Australian PM made moves to decouple from the US (including Pine Gap)?
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1d66qny | Right now, no.
However, it would only be a few moments work to take associated images.
Are there specific details you want to see? | 0 |
1d4k42f | That's common in all the cities I've been in , give way to pedestrians. Never seen a blinking orange arrow. | 0 |
1d34ad5 | Berry, small town big town vibes | 0 |
1d5wft9 | Everywhere i go, everyone has some sort of a cough right now. It’s nasty | 0 |
1cye52b | No this is why, we need to divorce infrastructure from politics and let engineers make decisions rather than politicians. Every project, the big decisions are made by people with little to no-understanding of what they are deciding upon. | 1 |
1d5j03x | Call your local council and get them to do a mid week pick up. Will cost around $25 | 0 |
1d06cd8 | He's a white private school wanna be gangster. Couldn't be more cringe if he tried | 1 |
1d4q10g | one of the people there said something about the driver jumping the lights and being intoxicated or on some drugs, looked p bad when I walked by | 0 |
1cyyfzp | If they're older women then yeah very normal if they're dudes then absolutely not. Regardless you don't have to put up with it, I wouldn't. | 0 |
1d3u21h | I haven’t been there in ages but want to check out that Joy exhibit. Is it good?
The immigration museum is totally underrated. | 0 |
1d35p9o | Shorts and a t-shirt, when I was living in the UK I’d only really put a long sleeve t-shirt on of it was snowing or raining and I’d pair it with a waterproof running jacket. | 0 |
1d67m5c | When I started driving in the late 90s I saw a lot more police on the roads, pulling people over for all sorts of reasons including just random breatho + roadworthy checks.
I hardly ever see them around these days. But if they started pulling people over and issuing fines for driving with high beams on in inappropriate situations that might bring some serial offenders into line. | 0 |
1d68uab | Hi there, I recommend you call both EastLink and CityLink to see if there’s been any travel. If you have an eTag, check the account online and see what direction it’s going in. Hopefully it’s just a joyride and they dump it somewhere. Best of luck. | 0 |
1d2d7ge | It's not hard to get a plumber. What the Rea really means is they want to use their preferred/cheapest plumber. They don't call around ..they just send it to their usual guy and the tenant is expected to wait so the landlord avoids paying for an emergency/urgent call out. I had a situation recently ..called one plumber and they came out that day. The idea that there's not a single plumber to be found for days anywhere in Melbourne is just nonsense. | 0 |
1d63w7o | My school, just Japanese. Did it all the way through | 0 |
1d13itp | There was a Bluey event in a Brisbane park yesterday. Bluey is the new Wiggles. | 0 |
1d1j6ic | I had a uni lecturer (white American-born “artiste” type) that would dramatise the acknowledgement of country so bad.
She’d add all this extra emphasis and be like “I really cannot, as an ALLY, reconcile STANDING HERE on THEIR LAND. It breaks my heart. I struggle with this every day.”
It drove me crazy. I wanted to tell her to sell her house and quit her job, then promptly fly back to the US, if it was hitting her that hard. | 1 |
1d4pzpv | Omg thank you | 0 |
1d36ejb | It's not about the game at all. This is the government's strategy to become closer culturally and politically to PNG. The aus governments worst nightmare is Chinese influence in PNG, especially if it means chinese military bases will be built right on our doorstep. | 0 |
1d3ze8a | Check these out — Farmer’s Daughters, Flower Drum, The French Brasserie, The George, Marameo | 0 |
1d1nhyk | 36M and cut. I honestly see no problem with it having been done. I find the argument between cut and uncut is a very American argument personally and I see them bickering all the time about it.
That being said:
Pros:
-Easier to keep clean
-Not overly or under sensitive
-Less chance for it to get caught on anything if I go commando
-Phismosis is not a concern for me
Cons:
-Looks dry compared to uncut
-Being middle ground on sensitivity means you can still feel negative things
-See above, then add in the textures of the wrong types of pants
-More likely that if I get sweat pimples, they can form around and even at the tip at times.
Both sides of it have their ups and downs, but most women have told me they prefer cut because the idea of peeling back the skin to find something nasty beneath it due to the persons lack of hygiene is an ever present fear. | 1 |
1d4mhl1 | Hectic morning, wasn’t it | 1 |
1d5bkeu | Australia is the biggest nanny state in the world.
They are more likely to make cycling licenses mandatory before removing helmet laws. | 1 |
1d5f2t8 | Yes. The determiner for how good a school is is checking the ICSEA value. That is the socio-economic score of the students that attend. In general, the higher it is the better the school.
It's why the schools you see in the VCE honour roll at the end of the year are either private schools, public schools in rich areas or selective schools where parents have enough money to get their kid tutoring to pass the entrance exam. | 0 |
1d357ly | This is a Seinfeld episode. | 1 |
1d39ehz | NSW Liberal MP Julian Leeser has expressed alarm that a hung parliament at the next election could see the Greens making the “unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state and the weakening of the Western alliance a price of government.”
On Wednesday morning, Labor and the Coalition teamed up to oppose a Greens motion in the House of Representatives recognising the state of Palestine, with Mr Leeser telling The Australian after the vote that Labor needed to take key steps to distance itself from the minor party.
“It’s time Labor stopped preferencing the Greens on their ballot paper,” he said.
Mr Leeser expressed grave concern at the prospect of a hung parliament at the next election and the emergence of a Labor/Greens coalition.
“It is bad enough that Labor foreign policy is made on the floor of their national conference where they sell out one ally – Israel – to placate the Corbynites from attacking AUKUS,” Mr Leeser told The Australian. “But how much worse would it be if Labor allowed the Greens to dictate our foreign policy as the price of government?” “This is not an environmental party,” he said. “This is party that is obsessed with Israel and Jews.”
‘What is Adam Bandt advocating for?’: Labor MP questions Greens leader’s announcement
Only five people supported the Greens motion, including the four lower house Greens MPs and Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie, while 80 MPs voted against it.
Speaking in support of his own motion in the House of Representatives, Mr Bandt said that recognition of Palestine was long overdue and was not “just a symbolic move.”
“It is a critical step towards peace and towards ending the slaughter we are seeing with the invasion of Gaza,” he said. “It is a concrete step towards peace.”
“As the Prime Minister of Norway said last week, there cannot be peace in the Middle East if there is no recognition.” Mr Bandt said the “scale of the slaughter and the genocide that we are witnessing is now topping 36,000 people.”
“A health system has been destroyed. There are mass graves in hospitals. Aid has been blocked. Children are now dying because they do not have enough to eat or drink.”
He warned that a “human engineered famine” was now taking its toll on the civilian population in Gaza that “amounts to collective punishment of these people.”
Mr Bandt said that Labor’s credibility was also on the line, declaring that a two state solution could not be realised if you “recognise just one side.”
“Labor backs to the hilt a genocidal war that is destroying the possibility of a state of Palestine,” he said. “Labor has stood with the extreme Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu.” Josh Frydenberg slams the Greens for promoting ‘un-Australian values’
Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts took aim at Mr Bandt for the motion, arguing it was a stunt and an exercise in politics that would divide the community.
“Why he would be deliberately setting up a vote on Palestinian recognition to fail is something that only he can answer,” Mr Watts said..
“Simplistic wedge motions in the House do nothing to advance the cause of peace,” he said.
“Wedge politics only divides the community,” he said. “Anyone who is serious about peace knows that that requires a two state solution … but the Greens aren’t serious. They prefer slogans to policy. A two state solution requires working together and the recognition of each other.”
“On the question of recognition, we have made clear that we will be guided by whether recognition will advance the cause for peace. Like many countries Australia has been frustrated by the lack of progress in this regard,” he said. “Australia no longer sees recognition as only occurring at the end of the process. It could occur as part of a peace process.”
But Mr Watts said there would need to be serious governance reforms, noting that Hamas was a terrorist organisation. “We see no role for them in this,” he said. “A Palestinian state cannot be in the position to threaten Israel’s security.”
“We want to see a reformed Palestinian governing authority … We want to see a commitment to peace and how the Palestinian authority leads its people.”
Mr Leeser, who spoke against the motion, told the parliament that recognition should only occur after a peace agreement with Israel had been reached and negotiations on the ground had concluded. ‘End the occupation’: Greens Leader calls for Labor to 'take action' against Israel
“This motion … sends the message that Hamas’ violent terrorist attacks, its murders, its abductions, its gang rapes, and its dismemberment of innocent children and its torture of people should somehow be defendable,” he said. “This motion means recognising a Palestinian State when Hamas refuses to release more than 130 Israeli hostages.”
He also took aim at the Greens, saying that it was a party that promoted women’s rights and those of the LGBTI community but which was also advancing the “cause of organisations like Hamas which are among the greatest abusers of women (and) LGBTI people in the world.”
Mr Leeser, who describes himself as a proud and public Jewish MP, also said that anti-Semitism had “become a central plank of Green philosophy.”
“The Greens voted against the bipartisan motion that condemned the 7 October terrorist attacks that passed this House on 16 October – even before Israel had begun its operations in Gaza,” he said. “They refused to condemn Greens MP Jenny Leong for her comments that said Jews have tentacles and that Jews should not be able to participate in the public life of this country.”
Mr Leeser also noted that Mr Bandt, when directly asked on the ABC’s Insiders program about whether he supported the idea of a Jewish homeland state, would not answer.
Reflecting on the Greens motion, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the minor party had exposed “how hateful their ideology is and why the major parties should both pledge to preference this despicable party last.” | 0 |
1d5ime1 | For me it’s a 5km walk back to my car which I park at my office with 2 young kids it’s just not possible to walk back. Seems like we can’t even get the basics right when it comes to operating good reliable PT | 1 |
1cz84qa | No.
I don't even know what means | 0 |
1d61bgb | Ageism has replaced Racism as the popular form of prejudice. People can no more control their birth era than their skin colour so it's a similar but more insidious and deniable form of prejudice. Better still, it's Woke-Approved so people can hate on Boomers as much as they want without any risk of being Cancelled or even disliked or downvoted | 1 |
1cvi72m | Is that right is it? Aside from the OP also quoting a "assistant professor of economics at George Washington University and visiting fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU" (but we'll ignore that won't we).
Where exactly is the analysis In TG? Your mistaking analysis for opinion through a subjective lens of who says it. It's a shame.
Anyway, we'll leave it there unless you want to discuss the premises of the article. | 1 |
1d4fl4d | The only irl person I met who cares is my ex mil who lives in northern rivers nsw but was raised in Sydney. And she *really* cares. To a psychotic degree. When I moved to Melbourne and my son decided to come too, she quit talking to him for months, and then every time he went back to visit she’d bitch non stop about Melbourne. She’s never actually been to Melbourne. | 1 |
1d0s25i | >"Most people don’t know that alcohol is the most common drug used in drink spiking,” she said.
Huh? | 1 |
1ctzm63 | Who in the political world has been called a hero for talking shit about Palestine? Palestine is not Hamas. | 1 |
1d38xk0 | I believe you! It's beautiful. | 0 |
1cyk40i | Mate DSP is already way higher than jobseeker as it is.
And in turn, jobseeker is higher than student payments and youth allowance.
Either increase jobseeker and youth allowance and students... or just increase everything. | 0 |
1d1j8n7 | Corruption. | 0 |
1d2gnlt | It was an accident! "The heat standard charge is an accident and we don't use it at all, that's why it is built into our register" | 1 |
1d0vfvd | Blue Mountains are very scenic. If you're wanting to actually see the Great Ocean Road you'll need a night or two travelling on it. Ballarat and Sovereign Hill and the Gold museum could be worth a day. | 0 |
1cyvuc4 | I have a divergent view.
1. The main reason is soil. Australia is a very old country, which means a lack of good volcanic soils over most of the country. Lack of phosphorus and sulfur.
2. There's water in the outback, in the Great Artesian Basin. And a huge number of rivers and lakes. Mostly dry, but that still means subsurface water.
3. Australian deserts are covered in vegetation, all of them. Australia's famous Nullarbor has no trees, but still have as much vegetation as the American west.
4. When the explorer Sturt reached the most isolated point in Australia, he was met by a tribe of Aborigines who greeted him with a masonic handshake and knew how to tie boots.
In summary, it's Australia's poor soils that are the main reason. That and the lack of water which is exacerbated by inadequate steps to reduce water loss. | 0 |
1d2d1bi | Lets be clear - calling out actual racism is not divisive, it is pointing out actual division. Classic conservative playbook approach to quash movements for equality.
However I feel like progressives labelling the whole country racists is having diminishing returns. Of course some people in Australia are racist and this may be worse in certain demographics. But for those that aren't who aren't also progressive, it is just alienating
Labelling everyone as racist will often mean you are blind to the true forces underlying racism or what appears to be racism, which IMO is usually economic inequality. People in economic hardship are more easily convinced their circumstances are the result of the other tribe and race can so easily play into that (eg if you are poor, why does it make sense to vote Yes in the referendum if you perceive that someone else gets a leg up when you are doing it tough)
In this sense, this type of rhetoric is divisive to the working class who need to be in solidarity to overcome those real economic problems. You can't let either side of politics tell you ordinary people are the problem.
This is of course not the actual motivation of Price, who doesn't give a flying F about ordinary people when it actual comes down to it | 0 |
1d1l9fw | Department of Honesty aka DoH! | 1 |
1d6a115 | Broken Hill as others have said is fascinating. Really like it. Camped at the race course, and then Lake Mungo.
Something different - Take the Castlereagh Highway to Lightning Ridge/Grawin for Opal, visit the Brewarrina Fish Traps. Time your trip for the October Long weekend, and go to the Let's Dance Carinda David Bowie festival. I've been three times from Canberra.
Coonabarabran has a really good optical telescope, with fun educational Solar System markers en route, where the "Sun" is the telescope. The Narrabri Radio Telescope is not as iconic as Parkes, but it is it enormous, with six full sized dishes on railway tracks. Also look for some Artesian baths on whatever route you take up that way. | 0 |
1d5n16x | Sounds like you're pretty sensitive to perceived rejection. Sometimes things come up and unfortunately people might need to cancel, but I think you've possible grenaded things with your response to him if I'm following correctly. | 1 |
1cxmdye | # Australian Education Union
**Members**: 50,000
**Status**: Ongoing
Victorian TAFE teachers began [industrial action ]( last month after the state government failed to put a “fair and reasonable pay and conditions offer” on the table.
On Friday, members voted to further escalate their fight by taking stop work actions in June and July, before escalating to a 24-hour work ban on August 21. They also won’t attend meetings.
Australian Education Union Victorian president Meredith Peace said for too long the concerns of TAFE teachers have been “neglected” by the government and TAFEs.
“TAFE teachers are burning out due to excessive and unsustainable workloads … This is unacceptable, particularly as Victoria deals with ongoing skills shortages, that require urgent intervention from the state government,” she said.
Other actions to be taken by members include stopping work for the duration of any campus visit by a state Labor MP, bans on performance of Excess Teaching Duty Hours and work related to auditing and professional development and recording student engagement or attendance.
Staff are also refusing to respond to management inquiries other than inquiries related to OHS matters, teacher’s entitlements, or student welfare.
# Community and Public Sector Union (Public servants)
**Members**: 56,000
**Status**: Won
# The CPSU [reached a deal ]( the state government in April, granting its 56,000 members access to reproductive leave and flexible-working trials as part of a new four-year pay deal. A three per cent annual wage increase and a 0.5 per cent bonus that would average $1400 per employee each year. The union, however, failed to secure a four-day work week trial. | 0 |
1d2x52g | Im in Brunswick and had it for a few weeks now. No issues apart from realising I had been driving round with an expired license for four months! | 0 |
1cu3fbw | Has there ever been a liberal policy the experts supported? Business and mining council yes,anyone looking at Australians best interests? No | 0 |
1d2k5bf | I thought thursgay shut down? I used to go all the time! | 0 |
1d3al5t | You could combine your favorite ’Shitcunt’, with the old classic ‘Dogcunt’, for the new and improved ‘Dogshitcunt’ | 1 |
1cpqqgf | Rotting detached house in Detroit versus modern apartment in Europe we assume Leith would think the former is better to live in. | 1 |
1ctvihi | What is causing this problem is nothing more than government policy.
The problem is created by government policy and can only be solved through changing laws.
We are governed by political interests that undermine economic interests.
It’s like asking the children to run the kindergarten.
All of these essential services and healthcare, aged, doctors, teachers, are all ultimately being paid for by taxpayers.
Increasing their salaries only increases our inability to afford it.
There is no doubt that we need to raise the minimum wage to meet the demands of the cost of living.
$30 per hour is not unreasonable.
However you would currently after a 38 hour week receive
$930 a week.
At $29 per hour you would be getting $905 .
If we just paid a basic minimum wage of $550 per week and a flat tax rate of 47 percent then we could actually pay people to look after our elderly at $20 per hour.
Far more affordable.
They would be receiving $907 a week nett.
Someone receiving $30 per hour would be on $1154 per week nett, hundreds more. But only $15 a week nett to the government in cost.
People can then work 5 hours or 50 , we don’t spend billions of dollars on pedantic nonsense about people asset’s and everything little things they earn.
You cut off hundreds of thousands of pages of red tape.
Government departments should be running as they are all part of the same organisation, but they don’t.
They have no idea how to cooperate with each other and work together towards a common cause.
All fighting for their own patch of money and funding.
Who yells louder and can wangle their political agenda.
We have the one percent club on the television, pity these people are not in parliament. | 1 |
1d4jcta | Always get a building inspection before buying a house, it’s like 1200 bucks. Very silly you did not do that, did your REA not advise you? You could have foundation problems or termites and now you don’t know if you just purchased a possible money pit. | 1 |
1d3w71e | I believe that quite a few of these cases are New Zealanders who grew up here....although I don't have data on that so it may be rumour.
Sending a person to a country they don't know with no support system will likely increase the chance of them repeating the offence. So, are we saying that the wellbeing of those who live in NZ is significantly less important that the wellbeing of Australians? People are people, wherever they live. | 0 |
1d237qo | I like it. It's pretty chaotic and a lot happens in the short run time but the humour appeals to me. I'm glad it's doing well.
Also hearing the cute optimistic Aussie accent is a nice change as Americans usually play us as some tough no BS character with a deeper voice. | 0 |
1d26657 | In Tasmania, we can take a car seat into RACT and they check if compliant and fit the car seat for you. There may be something similar in each state. RACT is Royal Automotive Club of Tasmania. In Qld, there is RACQ so you could contact them, idk about NSW. | 0 |
1d60aw0 | J&Co ! Love their stuff. | 0 |
1cs31w4 | Sorry if this has been asked already but can someone outline the positives for these immigration levels?
Making up for the deceit during covid? Okay but surely we can re-assess given how shit things are for everyone right now.
Inflation and housing can both be improved quite easily by dropping these numbers.
Can someone explain why we don’t just do it? | 1 |
1csuhhz | Is that you, Neville Chamerlain? | 1 |
1d3znfx | Depends on interests. On way to Grampians short detour from Ararat, up to One Tree Hill lookout. After Grampiams head up to Murtoa Stck Shed ( very unique). Stop off at Pink Lake past Dimboola. In South Australia Birdwood Motor Museum is a must. Whispering Wall near Adelaide, combine with wine region tour, | 0 |
1d2dkfl | Cool, without knowing your prospective field, this is impossible to answer | 1 |
1cqsjbd | Take away the subsidy and see what happens.
Go on I dare you. | 1 |
1d3yg6y | ooh, does melbourne not have timtams? we don’t have that many here (or so i think) | 0 |
1d61thq | We have glow worms in Qld too. | 0 |
1d3zccb | She has lived in an America or Canada. That R at the end of McKellar and in the R or "more than just a job". | 1 |
1d1n3sv | Tbf, inflation is great for those of us who are already asset owners. Renters would probably get fucked once the initial party was over. Kinda like how they are feeling right now. It's almost like there are consequences for economic stupidity. | 1 |
1d3yyfg | Tunnocks tea cakes, caramel bars, Jaffa cakes, galaxy stuff can be hard to come by, jelly babies aren't the same, wine gums, Percy pigs, obviously anything super market branded in general, malt biscuits, foxton biscuits, Swiss rolls.
Edit: hotel chocolat! | 0 |
1d31y51 | $2 per kilometre is a decent rough guide to get you started. Cheaper if you want to throw up a tent and more if you want to stay in fancy hotels.
Between $5000 and $10000 will get you a decent reliable car depending on your exact needs/wants.
Pick a list of places you want to visit and a time frame and then you can start planning from there. | 0 |
1d421d6 | You might like to read this about how Medicare works. Nothing wrong with not knowing if you're not from here and unfamiliar, not sure why people are down voting
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1d5iiip | Righteo.
Just messaged an MEL ATC friend. She said "The lights are all synced via GPS/GNSS off the clock. The new CASA standard for obstruction lights requires it".
We went on to say that most planes do no synchronisation, so it makes it easier to see. Particularly when arrivals are tracking on any of the "NINE" series of standard arrivals, as they go south of the city.
I learnt a thing today. Way cool. | 0 |
1d3qufm | I don't really think about it? My thoughts reading this post are that you've created a false dichotomy. If someone uses the word dude they're using the word dude. They could have used mate, buddy, cobber, buggalugs, titfucker, or anything else but it would take a really really long time to think about all the words someone didn't say whenever they speak. There's a lot of words. | 0 |
1d367a1 | Wait, hold up - since when did the Swanston St Macca's close? | 0 |
1cquohn | Yeah we just don’t have the excuse over here. We don’t have the high population and limited space as an excuse. Perth is the largest metro area in the whole world, with a smallish population. Yet they just fumble so hard. | 0 |
1crcyya | I think you mean these "dissidents" are usually criminals who are anti china because they don't want to get in trouble for committing crimes. | 1 |
1d03qfh | Go back again
Assuming a teenager at the counter didn’t know the difference between a normal return and a faulty return. Have had it happen before to me and had to point out the faulty part and they swapped it no issues once the brain cells clicked over. | 1 |
1csfnw5 | Yes, if nuclear power plants were free and everyone was happy to have one nearby, they'd threaten all coal power, even some wind and solar.
But they're not and they aren't. It's nothing to do with not being "allowed". Literally no energy company is asking for "permission", because they know that nuclear makes no business sense. | 0 |
1czkzax | I'm probably of no help but for me a square meal for dinner consists of meat and veggies. So a steak/lamb/chicken/piece of meat with mixed veggies and potato or rice is optional to really fill you up. I personally believe that's an adequate meal for anyone who isn't trying to body build and try to be the next Mr/Mrs Olympia.
My go to for something quick and easy is a piece of meat and just microwave a handful or two of mixed frozen veggies on butter on the side. (I could be totally wrong)
Edit: I have a 4 year old at the moment so they're having water for hydration and milk for bed if they ask for it, otherwise a glass of juice with the meal if they aren't fussy with just having water to wash it all down | 0 |
1d5q1gh | 5 minutes from the beach, gold coast, sunshine coast | 0 |
1d3iwgi | Carlton is beautiful and lively with lygon st (little Italy) and the student population, and Brunswick isn’t rough at all. Both have their pockets of activity but can be quiet/residential despite close proximity to activity, transport and the CBD.
Fitzroy may be the most ‘happening’ but is busier & noisier, parking is a nightmare and gentrification has well and truly hit and imo it’s too bougie now. All of the inner northern suburbs are alternative and queer.
Brunswick is very cool but behind in the gentrification compared to fitzroy. Have you considered Footscray? It is further behind in gentrification but is diverse and bustling, it is very cool.
Parkville is beautiful, central and green, but quiet in itself. | 0 |
1d6f04i | Drink, mostly. Sometimes, eat and go to the beach depending on the weather | 0 |
1d43uv2 | I met a German woman who had lived in Australia - that's where she learned most of her English. Her accent was truly unique. | 0 |
1ct4epu | Agreed, however red tape can go too far. Gas needs to be opened up and let loose in Australia and we have so much of it it should be dirt cheap. Frustratingly we export pretty much all of it and make heaps of money and screw our own people with high prices.
More gas will probably lower all energy prices across the board tbh | 1 |
1cp0296 | Read your own first article. This data is how much GSP has grown expressed in percentages. And the article very early on says Victoria leading the charge is not impressive as it looks because it had the worst COVID lockdowns and therefore the greatest ability to bounce back. So in 2022, Victoria’s GSP growing by 5.6%? stiff shit, we were closed for the previous 18 months. | 1 |
1d5klqx | Never watched any of their games, and probably never would have.
AFL is enough to keep me entertained in the winter. I would watch the odd Victory game if it was on Kayo, and not Paramount.
And then there's plenty of wonderful test cricket in the summer! | 0 |
1cpqqgf | >“The average skilled visa holder offers a fiscal dividend of $250,000 over their lifetime in Australia.”
>Typically, they’ve been educated before their arrival in Australia, or have paid for their own education here, he says. Then they work for 30 to 40 years, because they come through that program in their 20s.
And yet the median age of permanent migrants is 37 years, while the median age of the whole Australian population is 38 years.
All those family reuinion and partner visas for each skilled visa holder surely dilutes that $6000 a year 'divdend'... | 1 |
1csw003 | When the defamatory allegation is that the defamed person has committed some crime, it’s a difficult issue because the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt is so much higher than the civil standard of balance of probabilities. Both sides of an issue will leverage that difference, as has happened in the Lehrman case; his supporters were insistent that “he wasn’t found guilty so you can’t call him a rapist!” and his detractors were insistent that the criminal case was wrongly decided and that obviously common sense, balance of probabilities, and the Reasonable Young Liberal With The Sloshed Hottie test meant that he probably did rape her. A position the defamation trial judge agreed with.
“Truth” is always a very hard problem for the law to deal with and our adversarial system makes it even harder. We tend to substitute consensus, and/or the side of the argument that the jury or judge like better. | 0 |
1d4v5cb | Life long weird brekkie here : Rice Bubbles with milo on top | 0 |
1d29tvx | Our OT is going to do a couple of school visits so we’ll see how it goes - it’s just such a different system and it’s clear the kid is falling between the cracks already and we are relatively early in their school career. | 0 |
1d3om48 | Don't open new gas wells, simple. There is plenty of gas in the market, if we need some gas for the energy transition it should reflect the cost of its pollution legacy, be expensive and if the investors can make money from it - in the market - then ok, otherwise competition policy rules ok! But what the LNP want is to lock in the gas subsidies and a period of gravy - a protected investment! | 1 |
1cyripc | No. In fact it could help hide a default | 1 |
1d3iphm | Not for over 40 years
Few times when I was growing up but SPF was only 4 back then. | 0 |
1d0wuye | I just read the article and their arguments against limiting migration all seem like good reasons to limit migration.
1. Companies will struggle to get cheaper skilled labourers and will be forced to increase wages to attract them here in this country or start offering solutions to upskill. Seems like a positive to me.
2. Higher wages will attract more people towards those locations which will inevitably cause property to maintain their value in those locations, but free them up in other locations so end result is more available housing. Seems like a positive to me.
So, what am I missing? | 1 |
1d07lhu | After getting some free tickets, I have a grudging respect. Their big commercial songs still suck. | 1 |
1czv2em | We have everything from tropics to desert to alpine with snow. Depends entirely on where you are going and a bit on what you are used to. | 0 |
1ct44ue | I’m surprised they acknowledged the current rate will head toward 250,000 with existing measures (which has been the ‘normal’ rate). Has usually been massive exaggeration around it, but he would have been labeled a fraud if he promised something that was already coming. We might find out if people hate migrants more than being employed. Personally I suspect they do | 1 |
1d5q1gh | Just gonna do the major cities in alphabetical order here:
Adelaide - has suburban beaches all along its western side (other than some small areas with cliffs and others with mangrove forest), but lies in a sheltered gulf so the surf is minor at those beaches (which is mostly a good thing for swimming, obviously). Surf beaches are about an hour or two to the south. The climate is Mediterranean (hot, dry summers, mild/cool wet winters) and the ocean temperature is a little colder. So access is good for most of the year but a bit limited in winter, unless you are a hardcore. "5 minutes from a beach" is very attainable in a significant proportion of metropolitan Adelaide and most beaches are very uncrowded and peaceful. It's also decent for scuba in some parts of the state where there are seagrasses and cuttlefish.
Brisbane - slightly limited access to beaches in Brisbane itself - there are much better beaches slightly further afield in the Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast, which are separate cities. Brisbane itself has a kind of "city beach" thing on the Brisbane riverfront area, but it's not really much of a place to swim. The climate is subtropical - generally very warm and agreeable.
Canberra - inland city in the "mountains", with no ocean coastline and no beaches. Climate is generally quite cool. Very poor option for a beach lover, but a lovely city otherwise.
Darwin - has beaches, but you really can't swim at most of them because of the jellyfish and saltwater crocodiles (this applies generally in the tropical north). There is a sheltered "waterfront" area you can swim in that's very popular with locals and tourists alike. They also have a wavepool there. The climate is tropical - easily hot enough to entice you to swim all year long. But yeah, your options will be limited and in general you'd be better off with access to a pool.
Hobart - has some beaches I assume, but it is considerably cooler than the mainland cities and so you will probably need to be selective with when you go. Beachgoing is generally not seen as a theme of Hobart life.
Melbourne - has beaches, but like Adelaide it is on a sheltered bay/gulf so the surf is poor. You can venture further afield to towns along the southern coast for much better surfing beaches. The climate is marine coastal - some very warm and sunny days in summer, but more erratic weather in other months. It's probably more than fair to say that Melbourne is not as famous for its beach lifestyle as Sydney is. Although St Kilda and Brighton Beach are quite popular.
Perth - like Adelaide, has suburban beaches all along its western side, and like Adelaide, has a Mediterranean climate. Unlike Adelaide many of its suburban beaches are on the open Indian ocean and therefore have a stronger surf. They also are a bit narrower and rockier than Adelaide beaches I think. Some may argue, but realistically I think Perth is probably the best answer for your question as far as larger cities go - weather, surf, ease of access. Although Adelaide is very comparable/close (moreso than a lot of people think).
Sydney - has very highly rated beaches on its Eastern side towards the Pacific Ocean...but so highly rated that they are invariably very crowded, which can be a hassle for actually going to them in several ways (parking/access, crowds, etc). The surf can be quite strong unless you go to a more sheltered beach. Most people in Sydney live a long way out to the west due to very unaffordable housing elsewhere, so "being 5 minutes from a beach" is much less attainable than it might seem. The weather is subtropical like Brisbane, but Sydney tends to be a bit prone to strong storm fronts which can present challenges for beachgoers. You will need to be very aware of things like rip tides and the importance of swimming between the flags. That said, it's hard to deny that Sydney is famous for its beaches and is internationally recognised for that fact - that's not without reason. They are stunning, and it almost goes without saying that beachgoing is a huge part of the culture/lifestyle in Sydney.
So those are the capitals/major cities. Adelaide, Perth and Sydney would be my top recs to seriously think about. You can find plenty of pics and vids online to get a feel for what the beaches look like in these places. Here are some samples which I think give you a good enough overview of what to expect in each city, but there are lots and lots of these sorts of videos floating around:
[Perth (tour of general suburban coastline)](
[Sydney (tour of several most popular beaches)](
[Adelaide (Henley Beach)]( [Adelaide (Brighton Beach)]( [Adelaide (Grange Beach)]( [Adelaide (Glenelg Beach)]( [Adelaide (Glenelg Beach)]( [Adelaide (Semaphore Beach)]( [Adelaide (Aldinga Beach)]( [Adelaide (Christie's Beach)]( [Adelaide (Sellick's Beach)]( [Adelaide (Maslin Beach)]( - (I couldn't find a good general tour video, but as you can see there are a lot of beaches and quite a bit of variety)
[Melbourne (St Kilda, Brighton)](
[Gold Coast (Surfer's Paradise)]( - arguably one of the nation's best (or best known) beaches, but a lot more than 5 minutes away from Brisbane. Gold Coast is its own distinct city, but much smaller than Brisbane and very much a tourist hotspot. All those buildings you can see in the video are hotels and apartments.
[Darwin (Waterfront)]( - very limited area you can actually swim, but it is literally almost always 32°C
[Hobart (Nutgrove Beach)]( - realistically quite often too cold to swim AFAIK...but very beautiful.
However, you might want to consider some smaller/regional coastal cities as places where you are more likely to be able to get accommodation within 5 minutes of the beach. I will list a few towns that are well known for their beachgoing lifestyles by state:
NSW - Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Wollongong, Newcastle
QLD - Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Mackay, Airlie Beach, Bundaberg, Yeppoon
SA - Ceduna, Port Lincoln, Moonta/Wallaroo, Port Elliot/Victor Harbor, Robe, Emu Bay
TAS - Bicheno, Coles Bay
VIC - Apollo Bay, Torquay, Lorne, Warrnambool, Sorrento, Bell's Beach, Geelong, Sale
WA - Margaret River, Bunbury, Albany, Broome, Esperance, Shark Bay
There are many others. These are mostly quite small places - accommodation will possibly be cheaper, but work will likely be much harder to find. | 0 |
1ctzm63 | >He said it was ultimately up to the ICJ to make that call. "They've said there's plausible grounds to believe that that's happening, but I'll leave that to the ICJ to make
There's no guarantee (nor should there be) that the Australian Government will agree with the ICJ
Particularly not where Albo has already declared that the outcome of the case is not their focus
>Albanese said the Australian government would instead focus on “a political solution” based on “a pathway to security and peace and prosperity in the region”. “That’s the main game – not any court case, not anything else. That is the main game that we need to work on - that durable peace that has been absent for far too long.”
and
>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australia was not a party to the ICJ case, which was brought by South Africa." The spokesperson noted the ICJ's decisions "are binding on the parties to a case". | 0 |
1d1cqon | Was he? I'm pretty sure he was saying the voice was in trouble a lot throughout the campaigning period. Maybe in the beginning. But their polling data was consistently saying it wasn't going to get up. | 0 |
1cyk225 | Typical VIC ALP double speak, the same as during COVID.
"We have health advice that says we should close playgrounds"
"show us"
"nahhhh"
The VIC dept responsible for energy knows there is a shortage coming as electrification just is not happening quickly enough. The VIC minister continues to bury her head in the sand. | 1 |
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