And it’s not like they’re being pushed out the building. There are transition packages, support payments. They’re getting a LOT in the process.
Even if the coalition decides to reopen the trade, any sensible business will stay clear because the next labor government will shut it again.
Not exactly a class act 😉
Phone etiquette for the 2020s:
Message:
Hi, I wanted to talk about X. I think it’ll take about 5-10 minutes. When would be a convenient time to call?
Phone calls themselves don’t annoy me. People who expect to call you at any time and then get upset you won’t drop what you’re doing to speak to them annoy me.
This seems much lower than other studies. I think a repeat might be needed to find out if this was a rogue survey
Passed through earlier this year specifically to visit Caldea mineral springs. Absolutely worth it if you’re nearby.
‘Renegade breakaway province’
apparently my city literally literally banned public rail funding
How to say you’re in America without saying you’re in America
I’ve had success with Focalboard and noticed nobody is using it here! Should I look at alternatives?
I mean, I was very surprised to hear that when the announcement was made. May the truth come out
First OS was DOS, though my parents used a computer with Windows 3.1 on it before we got the dos box.
Excluding Damn Small Linux, first real Linux was Mandrake 9.2 (download edition).
Got these near my house. Actually it’s the grey headed flying fox. Cutest bats of all time but their shit is not something you want on your car
Go visit in winter, it’s spectacular. Go away from where tourists go, it’s an incredibly intimate country to visit.
Just been diagnosed but haven’t started treatment yet. I’m excited for the next stage of life!
I mean, Australia is one of the best places in the world to send nuclear waste. Seismically inert, sparsely populated in remote areas, strong regulatory competency to ensure a compliant industry. With it buried deep underground, life on the surface won’t be affected nor will the hydrology.
Know when to ask for help. You can’t always hold the world on your shoulders.
Confidential projects, etc. amirite?
SOLVED: it’s Antitrust! Thanks everyone!
It’s a tech related movie came out probably early 2000s.
Bits I remember:
- A group of home brew coders watches a webinar of some large software company.
- One of them gets hired by the company to work on a large project
- The project is supposed to enable content delivery/streaming while overcoming bandwidth constraints, but they’re stuck in development
- Main character is working on the project and is making headway but discovers something nefarious might be going on in the company
- He checks around the place and realises a large mouse sculpture in the company campus playground is actually a hidden satellite
- Using a computer in the children’s daycare room he uncovers the conspiracy
- He manages to finish off the project, and the company thinks everything is fine
- The tech company tests the system and it works perfectly broadcasting everywhere.
- But the guy uses this test to present a montage of all the evidence of the conspiracy. Also uploads the project source code
- Company CEO gets arrested or something, everyone lives happily ever after.
A new taskforce to police how universities are run will be pitched to state education ministers, as figures reveal the extent of corporatisation of university councils.
Growing numbers of students are typing rather than writing their exams, due to fears their messy or illegible penmanship will hurt their marks.
The long-awaited rail link has survived a federal infrastructure review, setting up a financial headache for the Victorian government which sought to stall the project.
For the same price as just the first stage of the loop, Victoria could have had a dedicated airport rail line and fast train services to Geelong.
Keen to hear people’s thoughts. Personally I think the SRL will change how Melbourne works in ways current modelling won’t consider. That comes at a high cost, but is it too high?
The State of Victoria has agreed to pay the Commonwealth Games parties $380 million in compensation after pulling out of the 2026 regional event.
Part of me is inclined to say might as well keep going with the games, but then I think sunk cost fallacy.
Does anyone even care about the commonwealth games?
Train is listed as stopping at MCE but the train’s stopping pattern says not.
Landlords would only be able to increase rent once every two years and may face a cap on the amount they can hike it by under sweeping planning and housing reforms being considered by the Andrews government.
Most Australian landlords lose money on their investments, earn modest incomes and don’t have fancy jobs.
Anthony Albanese to fly to the Vilnius for NATO summit, government services minister says robo-debt victims could sue ministers and PwC bans political donations.
Crown Resorts’ lawyers have warned the federal court that the casino operator would face “significant financial hardship” if forced to immediately pay its $450 million settlement with Australia’s financial crimes regulator Austrac.
Crown and Austrac jointly agreed to the settlement, over the group’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism failings, in May but need court approval.
Crown Resorts claims in court it would face “financial hardship” if forced to immediately pay its $450m settlement. The settlement would see Crown take two years to complete the $450 million payment.
Justice Lee said that the $450 million figure may be acceptable, albeit at the lower end of an acceptable range, but indicated that the actual value of the settlement - once the instalment payments are taken into account - is just $405 million and might not be within the acceptable range.
“If they have to pay the whole amount in a lump sum, they need to enter into negotiations, and the CFO [chief financial officer] of the company says, ‘I’m uncertain as to the outcome of such negotiations, given the impact of the challenging trading conditions’,” Crown’s barrister, Philip Crutchfield, KC, told the court today.
The hearing continues.
Yarra Ranges Council said in April it was closing its meetings due to intimidatory behaviour by some members of the public. Now an associate of a conspiracy group that has been disrupting local government meetings has taken the council to court.
