Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Coalition shamelessly uses tragedy for political gain 2 days ago:
Cannot believe that headline isn’t satire.
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- Comment on Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green 4 days ago:
whoops: typed this up immediately after submitting the post, but forgot to actually post the comment.
Greens voters giving preferences to the Coalition have fallen from 21.2% in 2010 to just 11.8% in 2025
Note that Antony Green ascribes this to voters who primarily identify as Coalition voters who previously might have decided to give the Greens their first vote, but who now, thanks to continuing demonisation of the Greens by the Coalition, are less willing to do that.
Green preference now flow to Labor at a rate that the Liberal and National parties struggle to achieve between each other in three-cornered contests. In reverse, Labor preferences to the Greens where counted are often about 10% weaker in flow.
This contrasts with previous wisdom that Labor and the Greens preference each other at roughly the same rate. Disappointing, but not exactly surprising, given how much Labor and Labor’s supporters tend to demonise the Greens…and given the natural votes for where the two parties sit in the political spectrum, with Labor in the middle of the Greens and LNP.
- Submitted 4 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on Aussie travellers who criticise US most at risk as Trump administration proposes social media disclosures 1 week ago:
That’s cool. I already didn’t want to go.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Yeah, no carve out. The only way to be exempted is for them to specifically choose to exempt you. Or if you’re for one of the specific purposes listed as exempt, like education and work.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
According to the AFR…almost literally any. Many platforms don’t even stop you if you tell them you’re under 16. And none seemed to stop you viewing content if you told them you’re an adult, without any further verification.
- Comment on Israel to compete at Eurovision Song Contest in 2026, prompting several nations to withdraw 2 weeks ago:
she was narcissist wing
lol what? That couldn’t be further from the truth. The biggest defining feature of her prime ministership was her she contrasted with the actual narcissist that was Kevin Rudd. Rudd initially got kicked out because his coworkers hated working with him. And his rather extreme failure to be open to negotiating (yunno, the *main part of politicians’ job!) and the subsequent failure to pass his lacklustre excuse for climate law ended up providing the requisite excuse to roll him. Then Gillard comes along, does an amazing job of negotiating with the crossbench, and passes world-leading legislation on climate, along with passing more legislation overall than any other PM had to that point in living memory.
Her ties to America and its interests are a legitimate angle of criticism of her. But her personality certainly is not.
- Comment on Israel to compete at Eurovision Song Contest in 2026, prompting several nations to withdraw 2 weeks ago:
Really disappointed with the SBS that Australia is not among those boycotting. We’re repeating the Australian Rugby Union team’s tours of South Africa in the '70s and '80s. Except worse, because Israel has been doing apartheid for decades…it’s just that now they’ve escalated to genocide, worse than South Africa ever did.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t been to Melbourne since like 2011, so I’m just taking AllNewTypeFace at their word that you’re mistaken about 2019.
Is it possible you’re conflating it with Sydney, which has allowed paying with credit cards since 2017? Or maybe with Melbourne’s free tram?
- Comment on Right faction stages walkout at Labor conference over CFMEU motion 2 weeks ago:
Labor Left members should just be part of the Greens. They reason they’re not is because they value the power associated with being part of a larger major party more than they value good policy. That’s the same reason Labor won’t split.
- Comment on Accidentally range testing an electric motorcycle, and unexpected kindness 2 weeks ago:
and I don’t think anyone actually looked at a map. They were just going from memory and heading in a general direction
Yeah honestly that’s fair. But I do think it’s on them to at least give you a heads-up ahead of time about their level of confidence that the distance will work out, if you’ve given them prior warning that it’s necessary.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Haha fair enough! I guess it’s not quite as widely spread as I thought.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Haha yeah I know! I was actually watching a streamer (who mostly streams completely unrelated stuff—Photoshopping thumbnails for others’ aoe2 YouTube channels) just a few weeks ago, and the topic of Zoombinis came up. She’s apparently the moderator of the Zoombinis speedrunning records. Which…is apparently a thing.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean Lodion and you. I thought Molly was doing the verification!
- Comment on Accidentally range testing an electric motorcycle, and unexpected kindness 2 weeks ago:
Kinda sucky of your ‘friends’ to do a 140 km route when you had specifically told them you only had range for 100 km. Did they misjudge the route? Did they never actually check the length of the route before telling you it’d be ok?
But everything that happened after that is a great wholesome story. Thanks for sharing! I agree that on the whole people are pretty great. The number of times I’ve been on the side of the road with my pushy and had people offer help, even when the only reason I’m stopped is something simple like “I’m taking off my arm socks”. Even if I genuinely wouldn’t benefit from any help, it always puts a smile on my face knowing people would be willing to help out.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I can confirm I had a birthday at some point between 16 June 2023 and 2 December 2025.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Damn, that’s just wild to me. As I said above, I came in near the end of their era, so just storing one project on there was at times stretching the limits of what they could do. It’s kind of incredible to think of how far we’ve come.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Dayum, you were using floppies to hold multiple different unrelated files? Like a USB today?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Wait, you’ve never heard of it? Not having seen it is one thing, but never heard of it‽
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Oof, you just have to say that today‽ After my terrible performance on yesterday’s Connections?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
This one’s more my era: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombinis
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
I was under 30 when I made this account.
I no longer am.
Dunno if that counts.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Am I allowed to deliberately ignore that part of the message because it’s more fun to be verified in public?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Oh and if that’s not enough, hopefully you can believe that I didn’t have Reddit at the age of 3 years old on an account that is today 13?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
gaming off floppy discs as a child
Dang. I’m a little younger than you. We had floppy disks when I was in year 1 & 2, but I remember having a Powerpoint project where some of the kids’ Powerpoint files were too big to fit on a floppy.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Proof of age:
I’m using method 3 and telling you that I never watched a lot of the show, but I have a very strong distinct memory of one episode of Round the Twist (last released in 2001, 24 years ago) where one of the characters gains the ability to read minds. But then it messes up and suddenly it reverses, so everyone can read their mind instead. That’s the only episode that’s absolutely seared into my brain for some reason.
I also distinctly remember at one point somewhere in the range '99-'04, a block of children’s programming (I think it was on the ABC) on a Friday, which you knew was over when the MASH theme started playing. I’ve never properly watched the show, but Suicide is Painless is stuck in my head because of that fact. I don’t even know how long that block of programming lasted.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
how about a HRT label pic
Definitely should qualify if you’re in Queensland!
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Fwiw although the legislation says it applies to all social media, it seems as though the regulation that’s been imposed by the eSafety commissioner to actually implement that legislation relies on designating platforms. And AZ has not been designated. Only “Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X, YouTube, Kick and Reddit are age-restricted platforms”. So it seems as though there may not be any obligation for us to comply.
IANAL though, so take this with salt.
But if you are going to preemptively comply, taking the chinwag approach as you have seems like a pretty good method.
- Comment on 'Gone nowhere': Government criticised as progress fizzles on 'dangerous' reforms [on freedom of information laws] 2 weeks ago:
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland argues this is necessary to weed out the “abusive and frivolous requests” that delay genuine requests and tie up resources.
They will also remove anonymity to prevent identity fraud and assess security risks, a measure that could deter whistleblowing, including from within departments.
There are also new ways FOIs could be rejected, including if it takes the department more than 40 hours to provide the information.
It will also lead to cabinet exemptions being expanded, with the government having greater power to redact certain documentation if it can claim that its release may be harmful to public interest.
Sounds like its failure to pass the Senate is a good thing.
Which only raises the question…why has the LNP not backed it? It seems right up their alley.