Nath @ Nath @aussie.zone

Posts

125

Comments

2,841

Joined

3 yr. ago

Moderating

---

I'm ambivalent. The friendship between Australia and USA surpasses the present government. The friendship has been stretched, and I think support for the current US presidency in Australia would struggle to get into double-digits. But it isn't gone, yet.

I am not against this support of the nation of USA. I still hold hope that their people will begin the process of repairing the damage their government has wrought - starting with their mid-term elections later this year. I hope further that they will seriously set about mending fences with the inauguration of a new president. Because I hold that hope, I am not against this show of support to the nation.

That hope will be extinguished however if they double-down and keep the crazies in power.

There's a lot of domestic solar in WA, same as most of Australia, I guess. There isn't a lot of sun at night, though. There are a few places like Albany on the south coast that are almost 100% renewable (wind farms).

We still have some coal in the mix, but I'm not an expert/couldn't tell you how much.

We don't have peak/off-peak prices. That's the rate. I remember being pleasantly surprised because our bill halved coming to Perth from Melbourne.

Around 20 years ago, the WA state government introduced a gas reserve. It has been reinforced multiple times since then by premiers on both sides of government. Short version: 15% of offshore gas and 20% onshore is reserved for WA before whoever is extracting it is permitted to sell it outside the state.

I think WA is doing alright, here's an extract from our energy bill (family of four) to compare:

Your average daily usage 15.7778 units
Your average daily cost $6.27 per day

So after doing it last year, I'm being asked to stay overnight at the kids' band camp again this year. Only I was wrong a year ago: it was Sunday Night > Monday morning. As I predicted, I got insufficient sleep that night and went from the band camp straight to work the next day. It sucked.

I don't especially want to do it, but I'm being guilted by the whole "Sadly, we won't be able to proceed with the overnight stay if this spot remains empty" bit of the email. I'll hold back a little and hope another dad steps up this year. And if I do end up caving, I'll be taking that Monday off.

It depends on the position of the person who accessed the prime minister's account. The way this would work with most computer systems (including several places I've worked), you'd be given access because there could very-well be a reason why you'd need to access the customer's details. But the access would be flagged and reviewed as a routine process.

"Why did you access this celebrity's details?"
"They came into the branch and were in front of me."

Very well, carry on.
Obviously if you can't answer this question correctly, bad things appropriate consequences happen.

We trust these companies with our private details. They need to have systems in place to ensure they are worthy of their trust. At one job, it was my role to drill the Australian Privacy Principles into every single new hire. Reputable companies take this stuff very seriously, and CBA will be no different.

I can imagine that a contractor seconded to CBA, and not a direct hire might have skipped their equivalent induction session. If so, I expect that would be remedied for future secondments.

As a matter of fact, there is such a force.
Perhaps you should instead pop into some vegan community and tell them how you aren't affected by their issues because you consume meat?
Or maybe a women-focussed community and tell them you aren't affected by their issues since you have a penis?

So, the seafood restaurant purchases some seafood from a supplier. The supplier says "it came from my farm", and the restaurant happily labels their food as such.

Only, it turns out the supplier lied - is the restaurant in some sort of trouble? There is one link in this article - and it is literally to itself. I'm too busy/don't care enough to go looking for any potential changes to the law. I'm unsatisfied with the content of this article however. It uses a lot of words to not really say anything more than what is in the headline.

Had this been posted to an international community, you could potentially have a point.

My Achilles heel: Spam posted on the site before about 7-7:30 Perth time.

It's funny. We're insanely busy because EOFY and need to get stuff done by tomorrow.

Then with the new budgets and stuff becoming available later in the week, we'll be busy for different reasons.

I have mostly forgotten what 'quiet this week' looks like. Maybe Christmas time? But I always take leave then.

It is only because I am perpetually online that I recognise the name "Mamdami" and know who he is. Politically in Australia, the new(ish) mayor of New York is not a figure. I can only assume this headline is trying to get attention - even international engagement.

Rather than hanging the potential policy on a foreign name, let's outline what the actual plan is.

... a new land tax bracket on investment property holdings worth more than $5m, with the proceeds helping to fund a doubling of public housing and the scrapping of stamp duty for first home buyers.

Under the plan, from 1 January 2027, affected properties would face a base charge of $100,000 plus a 5.3% rate on land value above the threshold. The policy, costed by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office, would raise about $1.46bn by 2028/29 or $6.4bn over a decade.

As the Greens are not in power, and don't have the ability to pass such a bill, this is all just a pipe-dream. Even should the Greens win the state election in November, there is 0% chance of getting such a policy in-place by Jan 1.

They're much easier to support when they have realistic goals.

Perth. Though I've lived in most of Australia's cities during the winter - including Brisbane/Gold Coast. Most of us get the mercury down around 0° - 5°.

What Brisbane considers cold, and what most of us consider cold are not the same thing. 😂

If you are insinuating that being an Australian is a requirement to post here, you'd be in error.

The teen engaged in “clearly dangerous experimentation” with household chemicals, defence barrister Laura Reece told the jury on Monday during her closing statement.

The central issue at trial was the teen’s state of mind or intention at the time of these acts, Reece said.

“He was a troubled kid. He was experimenting not only with explosives but with ideas and beliefs,” she said.

“He was seeking out extremist material from wildly contradictory sources from the dark corners of the internet.”

The boy was about to turn 16 when he texted a school friend in July 2024 about bombing the Liberal party over its support for nuclear power and filmed himself testing incendiary devices in his back yard, the jury had heard.

The teenager was serious when he wrote of copying US domestic terrorists like Ted Kaczynski, the anti-technology “Unabomber”, and Timothy McVeigh, who killed 167 people with a truck bomb in Oklahoma City, crown prosecutor Sally Flynn told the jury.

“Technology has left a very clear indication of his acts and a very clear indication of his thoughts,” she said.

“There is a very powerful body of evidence in that case that comes directly from the defendant. It’s his messages that are relied upon, his web searches and the documents he downloaded.”

Yeah, we're waaaaaay past edgy joke territory, here. We're at least planning phase - possibly at conspiracy to involve likeminded individuals phase. An edgy joke is made once or twice. It doesn't involve Internet research into terrorists followed by experimentation and filming oneself making and testing IEDs.

It's so hard to wrap your head around what $1 Million would be to this guy.

Let's say the median net-worth of an individual Australian is $400k (scarily, this is pretty close to the truth).
A Happy meal is around $8.

So, a Happy Meal is around 0.00002% of an average Aussie net-worth.
Extrapolating that 0.00002% to someone with a Trillion-dollar net-worth makes the Happy-Meal cost $20 Million.

Uh, we have to vote. It's one of the best things about our democracy - it's moderately representative.

I don't think I could manage to listen to her speak for over 8 minutes, so here's a tldw:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/pauline-hanson-press-club-address-banner-stunt-one-nation/106808570

PM Pauline's wishlist:

• End multiculturism.
• End the SBS.
• End free ABC in cities - only regional areas get ABC.
• End access to media she dislikes from the Canberra Press room.
• End all immigration (from non-white places).
• End families speaking languages other than English at home.
• Reduce employee rights. Reduce minimum wage.
• End Trans rights.
• Scrap National Indigenous Australians Agency.
• Reduce abortion access.

That looks like a pretty solid 'go after the white boomer vote' checklist to me. I saw her last year, in person she looks oooold. That trademark hair is all fake these days, she's in her 70's now. Fairly standard boomer look. Going for the boomer vote is a strategy has been failing the Liberal party of late, there just aren't enough boomers any more. But if she wins them then yeah - she might get a third of the vote.

Hey that's me! My mum was a Kiwi. Despite my family having been on this island for at least 200 years, my ancestors weren't bigots, so some of them married foreigners! gasp

I mean - what coverage do we want as a society on this? The headline tells just about everything we know. This sentence is carrying all that anyone has: "NSW police said a report would be presented to the state coroner to determine if an inquest into Chebii’s death will be held. A spokesperson for SafeWork NSW confirmed it was “making inquiries” into the matter."

It'd be wall-to-wall if we knew she was murdered. It'd get nothing if we knew she killed herself. It'd get a minor article and the hotel would face charges if we knew a railing failed or something.

But we have nothing in this case. It's weird that she fell to her death, and a bit suspicious. But I don't actually know what coverage I would demand in this situation.

"The Family want answers" is probably about the only angle they can go with.