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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.

I hired a Yaris in Adelaide for a week once. It drove great but I couldn't get over the dashboard console all being in the centre of the car. And nothing in front of the driver.

I figured I'd get used to it after a couple of days, but nope.

Is it only Aussie.zone where the posts/comments are failing to appear?

Alternately, are people seeing comments/posts from other instances failing to appear on aussie.zone?

I'm 99% local to this instance, so I probably wouldn't notice either scenario without replicating it myself.

I was about to make the chronic condition caveat. It's crazy that people with lifelong conditions that will require medication for the rest of their lives need to go to their GP to renew their script every couple of months. Make that twice a year and ad-hoc as required and pharmacists can assist with the middle ground.

I'd trust then to mostly manage repeats. I'm not so sure about diagnosing and prescribing meds though.

Moving states helps a lot! When I moved to Melbourne, I offloaded so much! It was so easy to justify when the cost of transporting a thing exceeded its value.

Ten years later now with a wife and two kids moving back to Perth with me - same deal. Another huge downsize.

We still have too much stuff. Our last move was a downsize to three bedrooms and there are a few boxes in the garage that can't fit in the place. I've pretty much forgotten what's in them.

It's weird: you go on holiday somewhere and live in a quest apartment with barely anything in it for a week and don't miss your stuff at all.

Sell. Flood that market!

People want an alternative to Labor. The lazy strategy of vaguely catering to boomers is no longer working for the coalition - that base is simply dying out and they've never gotten around to appealing to anyone else.

Now their voters are splintering and ONP is picking up the nutters.

You'd think compulsory voting in and of itself would be a smarter early policy to aim for if you want a US political shit show. Then you make elections a workday. Then you make it so you fall off he roll every year or so. Finally you make it difficult to get onto the roll itself.

Even in the USA, if you divide the population into categories, the 'did not vote' cohort would win every election.

We are not anywhere near as religious a nation as the USA. Abortion just isn't really a topic here, because the 10% who'd be against it wouldn't stand a chance of passing such a change. I think getting rid of compulsory voting would be a more popular policy to start with.

It probably isn't actually $7k from those 3.7 million people. It's more like $1k from every Australian. They haven't only taken from the poorest among us.

It's a strange world. It isn't that there aren't enough houses - well not just that. It's that too many houses are owned by people who do not live in them.

Mr. and Mrs. Boomer and their property portfolio of seven homes are suppressing supply for six other people/families.

Then you have Mr. Foreign who has a place or two in Australia as a safe way to secure wealth in a place out of reach of his own government who might one day decide to simply take over all his assets.

50 years of successive Australian governments have been encouraging investment in real estate. I'm sure there were great reasons for it initially like keeping wealth within the nation. But now we've gone too far.

If we could get all those property investors to sell their properties, we'd go a long way toward meeting housing demand with existing supply.

https://chaser.com.au/general-news/landlord-warns-he-will-raise-rent-if/

Ok you're a mod. Feel free to set up your new community.

I can change the display name of a community, but not its url. I could probably edit the database record, but I'm not sure what that would do on the Federiverse front for other instances looking for the old name. The only supported way is to delete the community and make a new one.