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  • The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban

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  • Daily Telegraph headline wrongly claiming ‘Labor backs Hamas’ breached accuracy rules, Australian Press Council finds

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  • But its findings have been openly mocked by journalists and publications it has found to have breached standards, including News Corp, which has allowed its journalists to call the body “foolish” and “idiots”.

    Yet if the government ever tried to regulate, the first thing the Murdoch press would do is talk about the Press Council and how good the self-regulation system is.

    Guardian Australia is not a member of the Australian Press Council but it has an independent readers’ editor who investigates complaints and publishes corrections and clarifications.

    I wasn't aware of that. I'd be interested to know why. I guess it being a largely Murdoch-funded initiative might factor into it, but I suppose also that a publication doesn't really need a self-regulatory body to deflect from the introduction of government regulation if that publication isn't constantly doing the kind of stuff that warrants regulation (like News Corporation is).

  • Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who vote on some motions]

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  • You may have 'accidentally a word' in the title here, FYI:

    and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions

  • [Satire] C’mon Aussie! Nation gets around our Rupert after Trump sues him for defamation

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  • An Indigenous Australian community is fighting to protect sacred springs from a coal mine

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  • Cancer rates are rising for generation X and millennials. What can we do about it?

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  • We don't really do that in Australia.

  • Two cockies sitting in a tree, surveying the area

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  • Great shot!

  • Check your energy rates!

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  • Link in body needs a https://, just FYI

    Had no idea that site existed, though, great post!

  • Christopher Luxon ranked Australia's most trusted world leader in new poll

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  • Plastics campaigners warn Australia’s pledge at UN needs to be matched with ‘high ambition at home’

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  • I was gonna ask in !Meta. I'm guessing a mod/admin asked them to reduce their posting frequency and they didn't reply or comply.

  • Aussie flag on canvas will have pixel art on it this year, help wanted!

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  • Petition to change the canton as per Sam Neil's patch in Event Horizon

  • The communist Albanese government is introducing a new superannuation tax

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  • I assume they're referring to the fact that moniker of 'the lucky country' was originally intended as a perjorative:

    from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Country

    The title has become a nickname for Australia[1] and is generally used favourably, although the origin of the phrase was negative in the context of the book.

    Horne's intent in writing the book was to portray Australia's climb to power and wealth based almost entirely on luck rather than the strength of its political or economic system, which Horne believed was "second rate". In addition to political and economic weaknesses, he also lamented on the lack of innovation and ambition, as well as a philistinism in the absence of art, among the Australian population, viewed by Horne as being complacent and indifferent to intellectual matters. He also commented on matters relating to Australian puritanism, as well as conservatism, particularly in relation to censorship and politics.

  • Brisbane hotel workers walk off the job to protest over Zionist-booked event

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  • Both have been used as alternative names for Brisbane, I couldn't tell you if one is better than the other, seems like it's disputed:

    Part of the Brisbane conurbation is located on traditional indigenous land known also as Meanjin, Meaanjin, Maganjin or Magandjin amongst other spellings.[32] There is a difference of opinion between local traditional owners over the spelling, provenance and pronunciation of indigenous names for Brisbane.[33] Tom Petrie in 1901 stated that the name Meeannjin referred to the area that Brisbane CBD now straddles. Some sources state that the name means 'place shaped as a spike' or 'the spearhead' referencing the shape of the Brisbane River along the area of the Brisbane CBD.[34][35][36][37] A contemporary Turrbal organisation has also suggested it means 'the place of the blue water lilies'.[38] Local Elder Gaja Kerry Charlton posits that Meanjin is based on a European understanding of 'spike', and that the phonetically similar Yagara name Magandjin — after the native tulipwood trees (magan) at Gardens Point — is a more accurate and appropriate Aboriginal name for Brisbane.[39]

    From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane#Toponymy

  • Brisbane hotel workers walk off the job to protest over Zionist-booked event

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  • $2,000 was the goal, yeah

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    *4 June 2025 by Ari Russell, OrganiserThank you to everyone who has chipped in to support the workers at The Wickham who took bold action against their employer Aus Venue Co and the State Zionist Council of QLD. Our goal of $2,000 has now been reached and their missed wages have been covered!

  • Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves

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  • But birds are AI!

  • [Satire] Beef Wellington sues Death Cap Mushrooms for defamation

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  • Have you read a local paper lately? They fired all the sub-editors to cut costs, so this is pretty accurate 😆

  • my kid is movin to AU

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  • The 7% difference in insolation between perihelion and ahelion (a figure I've seen mentioned in multiple places) seems like it would be significant for sunburn and skin cancer, at least at the population level.

    I found an ABC article that doesn't specifically say the 7% figure, but mentions perihelion as a factor in 10% higher UV in Australia. It downplays the role that extra 10% plays in our melanoma rates, though, and I suppose that's fair, I don't think anyone's getting caught out by burning 10% faster, because they would have gone inside 10% sooner if they had known, haha

    Together, Professor Whiteman says, these factors mean Australia's UV is "probably about 10 per cent higher on average" than the equivalent latitude in the Northern Hemisphere.

    "That would mean for people living in Brisbane it is higher than for people living in Miami in the US, and for people in Melbourne, it's higher than for people living in Athens, Greece."

    While a 10 per cent increase in UV is significant, and might account for that sting in our summer sun, reasons for Australia's high melanoma rates are more lifestyle-related, he says.

    source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-02-04/sun-summer-uv-sunburn-skin-cancer-australia-ozone-layer/104870806

  • my kid is movin to AU

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  • Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame

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  • I don't think your interpretation is correct. I think that comparison was of data for the two cohorts when they were the same age.

    The study, yet to be peer-reviewed, found 28,265 cases of early-onset bowel cancer over the 30 years studied. An estimated 4,347 additional cases were attributable to the rising rates of the disease.

    Early-onset cases, however, are increasing by up to 8% per year, the study found.