My question is: why should we host a /c/WorldNews at all? What unique value does it have by being “for Aussies”?

I think there’s value in being able to find world news that other Australians find interesting and discuss it with other Australians.

World news often has different implications for different countries, and being able to raise those points (without them being buried under a pile of other comments) and discuss them with other people who share your context is something that I think people find useful.

At the most basic version, that this comm is “News from outside of Australia” does provide value in that it won’t include news stories about Australia. Also, many ‘world news’ comms are defined as ‘news from outside the US’, which Australians probably do want to see and discuss in a world news comm.

So I wouldn’t be in favour of dismantling the comm in any case.

How would that change the posts in the comm?

I actually think it would stop the comm from changing. Until recently the posts and discussion in the comm have been Australia-centric by virtue of most engagement coming from people on this instance. There’s been some examples I’ve noticed lately where that hasn’t been the case, which is what prompted me to write this post.

Is there any reason why international news (not world news) specifically affecting Australia or Australians should be separated from other local comms like /c/news and /c/AustralianPolitics? e.g., news about a conference between officials from Australia and Pacific islands, or incidents involving Australian tourists.

Yeah, I already post that kind of stuff in those places.