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- Comment on Greenland stands up to bullying by Australian mining company 1 day ago:
A mining company that nobody has ever heard of with a <5c ASX share price. Are these guys seriously in a position to actually bully anyone?
They’re mad that they can’t keep digging up Greenland.
… k. - Comment on Nobody's happy with Telstra today 1 day ago:
What about 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3 ?
- Comment on PM 'unequivocally' apologises for 'shag, marry, date' podcast comments 3 days ago:
A day later, this is the main front-page story of The West Australian:
On a day where there’s actual real shit going on (Australia/Fiji mutual defence pact and China throwing an ICBM over the ocean as a ‘test’ hours later).
- Comment on PM 'unequivocally' apologises for 'shag, marry, date' podcast comments 4 days ago:
Albanese initially declined to answer, noting he had recently married.
So, he’s stuck here - He did not want to engage with the stupid question.
But when Osborne pressed him on what he would say if his marriage were to end, he replied: “Oh, Kylie, clearly.”
Further asked to confirm whether he meant he would marry, sleep with or date the singer, Albanese said: “All of the above. She’s terrific.”
Holy storm in a teacup, batman. This dumb game is played by teenagers everywhere and has been at least throughout my life. When you stop to think about it, it’s demeaning and not a nice game to play. And a far better answer would have been to point that out. But what political staffer preparing the PM for interviews is going to cover that question? He’s stuck in a place of not wanting to be ‘boring’ and engages with the stupid game. And now he needs to apologise for all this?
Why isn’t Nikki Osborne apologising for reducing three Australian women to simple potential prizes in a hypothetical game? And besides, he’s right: Kylie is terrific. Who can argue with that?
- Comment on White nationalist group marches as US celebrates July 4 4 days ago:
Please don’t report for rule #2.
While correct literally - this event is pure internal US stuff, there are clear parallels to local Australian losers doing similar marches. They feed off and inspire each other (because they can’t find closer support). If this goes without comment, it signals that similar white racist stuff can go ahead in Australia without comment. - Comment on Mysterious debris found on Queensland beaches could be ‘space balls’ – and may contain toxic rocket fuel 4 days ago:
I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Now let’s see how well you handle it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Wednesday 1 July 2026 1 week ago:
So after doing it last year, I’m being asked to stay overnight at the kids’ band camp again this year. Only I was wrong a year ago: it was Sunday Night > Monday morning. As I predicted, I got insufficient sleep that night and went from the band camp straight to work the next day. It sucked.
I don’t especially want to do it, but I’m being guilted by the whole “Sadly, we won’t be able to proceed with the overnight stay if this spot remains empty” bit of the email. I’ll hold back a little and hope another dad steps up this year. And if I do end up caving, I’ll be taking that Monday off.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦭 Monday 29 June 2026 1 week ago:
My Achilles heel: Spam posted on the site before about 7-7:30 Perth time.
- Comment on The Victorian Greens are taking a page from Mamdani’s policy playbook. Can they combat rising rightwing populism? 1 week ago:
It is only because I am perpetually online that I recognise the name “Mamdami” and know who he is. Politically in Australia, the new(ish) mayor of New York is not a figure. I can only assume this headline is trying to get attention - even international engagement.
Rather than hanging the potential policy on a foreign name, let’s outline what the actual plan is.
… a new land tax bracket on investment property holdings worth more than $5m, with the proceeds helping to fund a doubling of public housing and the scrapping of stamp duty for first home buyers.
Under the plan, from 1 January 2027, affected properties would face a base charge of $100,000 plus a 5.3% rate on land value above the threshold. The policy, costed by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office, would raise about $1.46bn by 2028/29 or $6.4bn over a decade.
As the Greens are not in power, and don’t have the ability to pass such a bill, this is all just a pipe-dream. Even should the Greens win the state election in November, there is 0% chance of getting such a policy in-place by Jan 1.
They’re much easier to support when they have realistic goals.
- Comment on I'm not sure that talking-point is a winner... 3 weeks ago:
I can’t believe I’m defending her, but she’s no Trump wannabe.
She’s been saying this crazy shit since 1996. All that’s changed is the level of attention she’s been getting for some reason. If it turns out that there’s been an orchestrated campaign to mass-spam social media with ONP propaganda a couple of years down the line, I’d believe it. She’s been around for decades, and catering to her 5% fringe whack-jobs all this time. Suddenly in 2026, she’s mainstream-relevant. - Comment on I'm not sure that talking-point is a winner... 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I could manage to listen to her speak for over 8 minutes, so here’s a tldw:
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/…/106808570PM 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.
- Comment on I'm not sure that talking-point is a winner... 3 weeks ago:
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
- Comment on Kenyan student Sheila Chebii fell 15 floors to her death while working at a Sydney hotel. Her family want answers 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on You rock up to Super Cheap to deck out your silver 2009 Toyota Yaris. Which aisle endcap you going with? 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on One Nation wants to roll back abortion rights in Australia – and is emboldening activists seeking US-style laws 5 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on 'What a surprise': Butler hits back at forecast suggesting tax reforms will hurt renters 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why are people trying to raid Scientology buildings around the world? 1 month ago:
I mean, was this not obvious from the beginning?
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 1 month ago:
I don’t know whether it’s the reason, but a super obvious one would be to be able to measure how many people consume different shows etc.
If you read their articles or listen to their shows on third-party feeds, they have no way of knowing. Before you claim this is a good thing, some show you love might get cut because they don’t know it’s actually popular.
I just use their apps, so I’m not affected. I can see how people who prefer aggregate apps would dislike this, however.
- Comment on Who do you blame the most for the ongoing fuel crisis in Australia? 2 months ago:
I see dumb people. They’re everywhere. And they don’t even know that they’re dumb.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😛 Friday 17 April 2026 2 months ago:
Disappointed that today’s emoji was not the fire one, @YarraByte.
- Comment on Former US Marines pilot Dan Duggan loses bid to avoid extradition from Australia 2 months ago:
Really? Giving lessons on taking off/landing on short runways - lessons that could be applied to air operations on an aircraft carrier, constutute state secrets? He hasn’t denied teaching pilots this stuff, though he claims he never knowingly taught Chinese airforce pilots. He also taught tight formation aerial exhibition flying, which again could have military applications.
From what I can tell, that’s the main thing he’s accused of. There’s been no accusations of weapons or combat training, actually landing on aircraft carriers etc. As I read it all, I thought “that’s it?” He’s also accused of sending money abroad in some sort of laundering thing, but I can’t see how the US military would care about that enough to extradite him.
They might have more charges once he’s in US hands, but from what I’ve seen in the indictment documents, people could probably learn that stuff in Australia.
- Comment on Former US Marines pilot Dan Duggan loses bid to avoid extradition from Australia 2 months ago:
What a fascinating case! Former US fighter pilot becomes an Australian citizen. Then trains pilots in Australia and overseas.
Is he training pilots in military flying? Or just civilian flying? Is he breaking any laws? Who bloody knows?Reading more about his case:
The 2017 indictment said “Duggan provided military training to PRC (People’s Republic of China) pilots” through a South African flight school on three occasions in 2010 and 2012.
He’s denying this. Though the fact that he lived in Beijing for eight years looks pretty sus. He claims he’s just teaching civilian flying.
His defence lawyer is claiming that ASIO gave him a security clearance to acquire an aviation license in 2022 while he was still in China, enticing him to return to Australia. That clearance was revoked a few days after he arrived and suddenly he’s facing extradition to the USA. The defence is saying they lured him to Australia only to extradite him. And to be frank, that holds water. Though, I could probably also be convinced that US officials were monitoring his movement and started proceedings once he entered a country they had an extradition treaty with.
Dude has been in solitary confinement in Lithgow for over three years so far. That’s frankly pretty damn harsh all on its own for the accusation of ‘three cases of military training’. Three years in solitary for a person who hasn’t even got a guilty verdict? Are the yanks saying that you go to prison for a year per military flying lesson? Are they going to recognise time served if they find him guilty? Are both government going to compensate him for what this has all cost him and his family if he’s found innocent? They have frozen the family home half-built. It can’t be sold or lived in. The family have racked up half a million dollars defending the case so far.
I have trust issues around releasing an Australian citizen to the mercies of the present US administration/military. I am unconvinced he’ll face a fair trial.
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- Comment on Girl, 13, looked up punishment for running someone over after hitting cyclist in stolen car, court hears 2 months ago:
I don’t know what the maximum sentence it is possible to give a kid in this situation, but the longer she’s away from whatever toxic community such acts bring notoriety, the better. Also, there is a significant danger she’ll kill someone if let out onto the street. That simple fact has to weigh down on whatever judge gets this case.
We’re talking about a kid born in 2012, here. She was in 2/3 during Covid lockdowns. It boggles the brain that someone so young can be acting this way.
- Comment on Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested, expected to be charged with war crime of murder 2 months ago:
There was probably reluctance to accept it as true because he’s a VC recipient. One of the only seven living recipients in the world. These guys are meant to all be heroes. And what this dude did in 2011 was heroic. It’s just that he (allegedly) did stuff after that date that we don’t want to believe a hero is capable of.
- Comment on The ‘Third Front’: China resurrects Mao’s military capabilities 3 months ago:
I was speaking of conventional warfare - which is what it would take for a “third front” to be necessary. There’s a huge difference between the assorted military operations we’ve seen in my lifetime and total warfare. Even in Vietnam, the major powers held back. The USA hasn’t actually declared war on a country since 1942.
If the USA actually decides to go all-in on a country, that country is in for a bad time. Even if that country is China. That said, **any **nation that invades China is also in for a bad time. The very idea of such a war is horrendous.
- Comment on The ‘Third Front’: China resurrects Mao’s military capabilities 3 months ago:
In a land of spy satellites, stealth bombers and ICBMs, “hiding” critical infrastructure in your remote mountain fortress is a little archaic in thinking.
- Comment on The ‘Third Front’: China resurrects Mao’s military capabilities 3 months ago:
I believe all nations should have strategies to defend themselves in the event of an attack by a foreign power. I see no controversy, here.
- Comment on Thieves steal 12 tons of KitKat chocolate bars in Italy 3 months ago:
The truck and cargo are both missing.
Fun fact: The KitKats are worth more than the truck!
