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- Comment on Should Australia lower the voting age to 16 like the UK? We asked 5 experts 4 hours ago:
It rankled with me when I was 15-17 that I had to pay income tax as a kid making ~$70-$90 per day. My paltry income would be doing nothing for Mr tax man, but that money would be much better given to me on payday. I think I would have signed up to vote and get a say in how it was spent. But there are also a lot of 16 year old morons who would act in predictable ways if forced to vote.
Maybe introduce it as optional until you are 18? And then it goes compulsory.
- Comment on Bob Katter refuses to swear oath to King Charles 3 days ago:
What makes you come to this conclusion? Given that Australia has been connected to the British crown since colonial days - before federation, and we haven’t gone down that path, I’m wondering what makes you think we will? The UK has had its attachment for half a millennia, they also seem to be doing ok.
In fact, I’ll go one further and give a counter-example: India detached from the monarchy nearly 80 years ago and I think they’ve gone way further down that path. Presidents Modi and Trump have a fair amount in common.
So, I think I disagree with you on this point. At least, I can’t see what you’re getting at.
- Comment on Bob Katter refuses to swear oath to King Charles 5 days ago:
I don’t call myself a monarchist. But I am in favour of someone holding the power to send us to an election if we get a non-functional government. Whoever that is needs to be totally independent of our day-to-day politics and essentially un-bribable.
Right now, that’s the king in England. I’m not against disconnecting from that - but like I said, I don’t know where else you’ll find someone who is outside daily politics in Australia and can’t be bribed to act against our interests. If you have a name, I’m all ears (so is the king! 😆).
If you are proposing we just do away with that, then I’d love to know how you’d deal with an Australian Trump administration. Because 3-4 years of that doesn’t sound fun.
- Comment on Australia joins other nations in call for an immediate end to war in Gaza 5 days ago:
While Australia is in that supply chain, “stopping it” wouldn’t do anything. For a start, the manufacturer/seller of the parts is Lockheed Martin. The government can sanction a country and tell LM they can’t send their parts from Australia to Israel.
But all that will happen from this is LM will send the parts to their USA operations and from there, they’ll magically be reassigned to Israel. Or worse: They move production of those parts to another nation and Australians lose their jobs. Either way, the parts will still get to Israel. The government holds no actual cards in this equation.
- Comment on Bob Katter refuses to swear oath to King Charles 5 days ago:
It might be time for another referendum on this topic. However, given the chaos that has come out of the USA in the hands of a rogue government, I’d be hesitant to completely remove the role the monarchy plays in our government. We need that check on power and I don’t know what you’d replace it with.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Thursday 17 July 2025 1 week ago:
Huh. A Switch 2 game besides Mario Kart World. I haven’t been able to justify upgrading. I’ll likely go to Steam Deck instead.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Thursday 17 July 2025 1 week ago:
Only about half an hour left to vote in:
hottest100.abc.net.au - Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 2 weeks ago:
Theoretically, “they” in this story includes us. According to the definition in the bill, aussie.zone counts as social media.
And I personally have zero interest in dealing with government IDs. So, I hope they figure out a way of doing verification before you get as far as the sites themselves. Because while we’ll be bound by this legislation, I can’t see any other instance out there caring in the slightest about it - why would they? So it’ll do diddly-squat. - Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Wednesday 9 July 2025 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Wednesday 9 July 2025 2 weeks ago:
School holidays and nobody to look after the kids. Arranged to come into work at midday so I could cover the morning.
I’ve brought them into town, bought them movie tickets and then lunch before ditching them. They ate lunch and made their way to the cinema. When the movie finishes, they’ll make their own way home and get ready for swimming lessons. Mum will get home around 4 to take them to the pool. They’re basically out in the city and independent of adult supervision for four hours.
So I’m at work now and the kids are in their first movie session ever with no adult present. They’re making core memories right now. The first movie I saw with no grown up in the cinema with me was Flight of the Navigator - I remember it vividly.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
I was convinced she’d done it a month ago. I did not hear the defense testimony of the past few weeks though - so I didn’t have the complete picture.
I am surprised. Not that she did it, but that the defense testimony hadn’t swung the jury to “Not guilty”.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
So I’ve volunteered to spend the night overseeing an unknown number of kids on music camp.
*Numbers may change dependent on enrollment
Overnight stay in dorm room with year 5/6 boys from xxxxxxxxxxxxxx primary
Now that I’m staring at the email and imaging what this is going to entail, I can see why they struggle to find parents willing to do it. I think I need to accept that I’m going to get five hours sleep that night if I’m lucky. Set aside time on the Sunday for a good nap.
- Comment on Australia's protester crackdown didn't start with Hannah Thomas — and it won't end with her 3 weeks ago:
“I’m five foot one. I weigh about 45 kilos. I was engaged in peaceful protest, and my interactions with NSW Police have left me potentially without vision in my right eye, permanently,”
Can we have a few more details of what these interactions are, please? Because if Police simply charged in with batons swinging, it’s a problem worthy of much wider coverage. The way she’s worded this sounds cagey though - like she’s painting herself in a positive light and not asking for any sort of investigation into the incident nor calling out for excessive force/assault against the officer(s) involved.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💾 Saturday 28 June 4 weeks ago:
Fresh donuts! I have not found a decent fresh jam donut in Perth. The closest I have found didn’t have jam and were like $4ea.
I miss the Preston Market.
- Comment on Donald Trump dominated extraordinary NATO summit that saw European defence spending increase 4 weeks ago:
Well, you did downvote the post, so it’s a fair question in your specific case, @teft@lemmy.world. In case you are unaware, mods and admins can see votes.
- Comment on Sydney Muslim cleric tells court Jewish people can’t be offended by him calling them ‘vile’ as lectures were private 1 month ago:
Sorry Willie, you can’t upload a video to YouTube and then say it was a private setting.
I doubt you’d get away with calling the lecture private even if it weren’t broadcast.
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 1 month ago:
The problem is I love all three publications and would struggle to choose one name.
/c/NotBetootaShovelChaser ?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦉 Saturday 7 June 2025 1 month ago:
Every Saturday is much the same: Hockey, Shopping, Extra thing.
The kid lost hockey to the team on top of the ladder, but still scored a goal. Shopping was mostly a success, I need to go back for more stuff soon.
Not sure what Extra thing will be at this stage, but it’s my wife’s birthday soon, might take the kids shopping for that.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦉 Saturday 7 June 2025 1 month ago:
I hate getting up early for parkrun. But I’ve never regretted doing it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 6 June 2025 1 month ago:
Emergency Cheese has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I have emergency cheese in the fridge, I find I suddenly have an emergency that requires cheese.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 6 June 2025 1 month ago:
My wife has been fascinated by this case and listens to the daily podcast about it. She’s gone from “oh she definitely did it” to “maybe she’s innocent, I can’t be say beyond reasonable doubt” after this week’s testimony. So Erin is clearly doing some good for her case on the stand.
I haven’t been following the case closely, but I listened to one recap podcast a week ago where they describe the multiple phones, the missing phone seen on camera that wasn’t provided, with the one provided to police being factory reset first, and taking her dehydrator on CCTV to the tip after telling police she didn’t have one - it was all pretty damning.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 month ago:
Full disclosure: I honestly thought everyone could. 😆
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 month ago:
That sort of vote manipulation wouldn’t be posted to this community. 😄
I’m a little surprised at how many people have seen this post. More people subscribe to Meta/browse Local than I would have guessed. Whichever it is, I love how engaged our users are in the health of the instance. You guys are great!
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 month ago:
You are absolutely allowed to downvote anything you’d like to see less of. Yours was one of the two legitimate downvotes I was speaking of.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 month ago:
Nah, Eureka is legit. He just doesn’t think news should be in Australia. And that’s perfectly fine. There will come a time where we are getting enough content that we’ll want to introduce that as a rule.
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- Comment on New Zealand teenager dies playing ‘run it straight’ viral challenge 1 month ago:
The competition is built around actions seen in rugby union, rugby league, the NFL and AFL. Opposing individuals – a ball runner and a tackler – stand at each end of a 20m x 4m field, and run full speed at each other with the goal of trying to bowl each other over.
RUNIT Championship League released a statement to Stuff on Tuesday afternoon after news of Satterthwaite’s death was made public, saying it did “not encourage any copying of the sport as it should only be done under the strict conditions”.
I don’t know what to say in response to that. Nobody (even a teenager) who actually thought about it would read this and think it sounds like a good idea. As a dad to a teenage son, it hits a bit close to home - feeling terrible for the family, but also wondering how you teach a teenage boy not do such stupid stuff.
I remember being young and invulnerable as well. I think teenage me could have been talked into doing this. That kid was an idiot.
- Comment on Australian PM Albanese says Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is ‘an outrage’ 1 month ago:
although birth to an Italian father would ordinarily confer citizenship by descent, Albanese had no father recorded on his birth certificate and thus meets the parliamentary eligibility requirements of section 44 of the Constitution.
That’s an interesting little bit of information. He could have been caught up in the whole citizenship dramas of 2017 had he not been exempted by this. Though he had likely already known about his exemption since he knew his father was Italian and would have investigated whether he needed to renounce Italian citizenship.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 2 months ago:
Ha! We are not even the biggest instance in Australia. Nor are we the oldest or most used.
The biggest/oldest Australian instance I know of is Blahaj. While you can argue they’re more global than Australian, I count them because 1. I am super proud of them and what they’ve built and 2. Ada is in Brisbane and active in our communities. 😀
- Comment on Almost 2,000 missing ballots found at election worker's home 2 months ago:
“While concerning, this case does remind us that there are many layers of protection built into the electoral system to ensure it is secure.”
“The system ensured there was accountability, although it seems likely there was some kind of failure to identify immediately that the container had not been delivered to the counting centre.”
My confidence in the AEC remains strong. It is a little concerning that the container wasn’t noticed immediately, but it doesn’t appear to be anything malicious. Just an oversight on both sides for a scenario that will undoubtedly be corrected.
I think they’d have made a point of saying that the temporary staffer was facing further consequences or wouldn’t be a part of future elections if there was more to this. The fact they haven’t and that the case was sealed/intact leads me to believe it was an innocent mistake.
