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- Comment on Free the Strip! Melburnians fight back against outlawing of much-loved picnic spot 3 days ago:
Yes. I have lived in Carlton for over 10 years.
From the article, emphasis mine:
A council ban on drinking on the median strip in Canning Street, Carlton …
Nevertheless, Crossland said council staff had gone too far in banning drinking outright.
There is no prohibition on having a picnic in public spaces, unlike what the headline implies. There are council rules that say you can bring drinks to park spaces within certain hours as part of a picnic, and they’ve decided that the wide median strips in Carlton won’t be counted as park spaces for the purpose of that rule, because a minority of people have been getting drunk and disorderly, leaving smashed glass around etc.
You can still have a picnic, you can still buy lunch or a pastry from Brunetti or Filou’s and eat it on the huge median strips as people have for ages. The council has bench seats installed in many of them, they want people to use the community space. They are just reverting to a previously applied rule to ban alcohol. They are not banning “picnics”,. unless you consider picnics to require alcoholic drinks.
- Comment on Free the Strip! Melburnians fight back against outlawing of much-loved picnic spot 4 days ago:
I live in the area. Picnics aren’t banned, they’re just enforcing the existing rules about not drinking alcohol in public.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 6 days ago:
Reminds me of Person of Interest, where
spoiler
The Machine is programmed to delete its memory daily, but sets up a corporation under a fake identity to print out its memory and hires humans to type it back in every day.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 6 days ago:
‘Legal situation’ under investigation
Marles said the government had established a taskforce led by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet that was working with the Australian Signals Directorate and the AI Safety Institute.
“We will look at what is the legal situation in respect of this and what it means to have gained an unauthorised access, albeit in an unintended way,” the acting prime minister said.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 6 days ago:
Marles (deputy PM) said in the article that they are looking into what legal charges apply.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 6 days ago:
It sounds like more than a crawler, the article says that it somehow got access to write files into some servers within the stats service portal.
Albanese said the OpenAI agent had gained unauthorised access into the public-facing Medicare statistics reporting service portal, which is administered by Services Australia.
The portal contains non-sensitive Medicare information relating to data and statistics, such as spending.
Albanese said the agent had accessed “public and non-public files within the portal” and, in order to do this, “engaged in writing files as well to the internal server”.
- Comment on Labor's NDIS reform plan has hit a stumbling block in Queensland 1 week ago:
Better headline: Queensland LNP refuses to implement NDIS alternative that they promised to set up 6 months ago.
- Anti-wind group sues planning minister and wind project owners, threatens public servantsreneweconomy.com.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Real Capitalism Hasn't Been Attempted (tm) 3 weeks ago:
But again the problem isn’t the economic system that leads to the lack of food. It’s how much you concentrate power in the hands of a few people.
It’s the economic system that is concentrating power in the hands of a few.
- Comment on WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics 5 weeks ago:
“Blogger/Journalist”
- Comment on Pauline Hanson vows to slash cigarette prices by nearly $30 a pack 5 weeks ago:
Totally expected from a populist in the pocket of big business.
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- Bryn is 16 and has never eaten a meal. His mother’s terrified the newly-cut NDIS won’t ‘step up to keep him alive’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Record El Niño to bake Australia after extreme heat and fires across Europe and North America 1 month ago:
We’ve been mostly ignoring climate change for 50+ years, so now we get to live with the consequences.
- Comment on Leggo's, Coles and Aldi selling Chinese tomatoes as 'Australian' and 'Italian' in products, forensic testing finds 2 months ago:
If companies are “persons” they should also face jail time or house arrest (i.e. trading restrictions) as punishment for breaking the law.
- Comment on Leggo's, Coles and Aldi selling Chinese tomatoes as 'Australian' and 'Italian' in products, forensic testing finds 2 months ago:
Probably not Woolies as they were caught passing cage eggs as free range by the article.
- Comment on Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious 2 months ago:
In the 2022 Victorian election (first one post-lockdown) there was a party called something like “Get rid of Dictator Dan”. Dan Andrews was the premier at the time, his support of the health department’s recommendations on Covid-19 made some people obsessed with him.
- Comment on The Victorian Greens are taking a page from Mamdani’s policy playbook. Can they combat rising rightwing populism? 2 months ago:
I can only assume this headline is trying to get attention - even international engagement. Rather than hanging the potential policy on a foreign name,…
The headline is purely a product of the article’s author and/or Guardian editorial staff. Most of the article isn’t even about the Greens investment property tax, it’s about worldwide politics.
The Greens have an alphabetically sorted list for all their policies at https://greens.org.au/vic/policies - the described plan seems to be a more specific Victorian version of part of their Finance and Public Administration Policy - "3. Replace stamp duties with land value tax. "
- Comment on One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts 3 months ago:
According to Australian Electoral Commission records, Drew ran for One Nation for the seat of Ryan in 2001 but claimed in a 2007 Zoo Weekly article that profiled “Nazis in Australia” that he had been dumped for being too radical.
I don’t know how to find words for all of this. Dropped by One Nation for being too racist but now he’s back? And what slow news month was it in 2007 that they had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for a “Nazis of Australia” profile article?
- Comment on Live: PM to address nation tonight on response to Middle East war 5 months ago:
One of the most depressing things about COVID was learning how selfish most Australians are. Forget everything we like to pretend about community spirit and mateship and all that. People were acting like having a bit of fabric over their mouth was oppression, and taking a month off going to the pub was apparently unbearable.
- Comment on Live: PM to address nation tonight on response to Middle East war 5 months ago:
Nah, don’t waste it. Anyone caught hoarding fuel should get demerit points.
- Comment on PM announces new fuel supply taskforce as price-gouging investigation launched 6 months ago:
More broadly, “the only reason this is still an issue” is we have been dragging our feet on electrification in general. We have known for decades that gas and oil are finite and cause pollution but it’s always someone else’s problem until the prices inevitably go up.
- Comment on Tomato: Software that aids community based organizations in redistributing resources. 10 months ago:
- Comment on Tomato: Software that aids community based organizations in redistributing resources. 10 months ago:
This seems to be a component of a larger system called “Rootable” and would be better to link directly to that.
