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- Labor and Liberals will get double their public funding if ‘biased’ electoral rules are passed, Climate 200 sayswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update 2 days ago:
New commentary for HL2 if anyone’s looking for an excuse to play it again.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update 2 days ago:
New commentary for HL2. Gonna have to play it again.
- Comment on Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure 3 days ago:
Hard to know. Maybe it’s a tactical move in preparation for the next federal election. Seeing the Dems get obliterated after supporting Israel’s slaughter for the past year might have given them food for thought.
- Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departurewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to news@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Democrats bet on women showing up in force. They didn’t. 4 days ago:
It’s only short sighted if people are educated and motivated and chose not to go and vote regardless. But I don’t think that’s what happened. A key part of educating people about progressive causes and initiatives is running progressive campaigns and motivating people to get involved in those campaigns or to support them. If competing major parties run on right wing platforms whether it be in the US or Australia or anywhere where parliamentary politics is dominated by a parliamentary duopoly then it should come as no surprise that folks who are not inspired by right wing politics don’t get involved in anything and don’t get educated or informed about other progressive causes etc.
- Comment on US finds that Israel is not impeding assistance to Gaza; aid groups disagree 5 days ago:
Can’t tell is serious.
- Comment on Democrats bet on women showing up in force. They didn’t. 5 days ago:
I agree that there’s more than one reason but I’m not sure we’re on the same page about the rest.
If people failed to be motivated to go and vote for a presidential candidate, in an election where voting is voluntary, I think it stands to reason that they wouldn’t bother going to vote for anything else on the ballot. Maybe I am ignorant about how these ballot initiatives work. Don’t people vote on them at the same time as the presidential election?
- Comment on Democrats bet on women showing up in force. They didn’t. 5 days ago:
It’s more the case that the Democrats ran a right wing campaign and didn’t convince or inspire thier own supporters to vote for them. Kinda important when voting is voluntary.
- Comment on Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it 5 days ago:
May I ask, how did you end sharing an amp link? Is that what the Guardian uses in their newsletters or social media posts?
- Comment on Greens announce plan to wipe HECS debts and make university free 6 days ago:
Dont get me wrong, im not dumping on trying to do the right thing …
That’s exactly what you’re doing.
- Comment on Dutton is already testing Trump's campaign slogans 1 week ago:
And Howard, multiple times.
- 100,000 Chinese students join 50km night-time bike ride in search of good soup dumplingswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 1 week ago:
It would be hilarious if it became the biggest instance of its kind within a very short amount of time.
Tempting.
- Comment on Former president Donald Trump claims US presidential election as count continues 1 week ago:
I don’t think Dutton is the blocker to a Coalition victory anyone to the left of the Coalition thinks he is.
- High court quashes Albanese government’s ankle bracelet and curfew regime for former immigration detaineeswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 1 week ago:
Kinda:
Costasiella kuroshimae are capable of a physiological process called kleptoplasty, in which they retain the chloroplasts from the algae they feed on. Absorbing the chloroplasts from algae then enables them to indirectly perform photosynthesis.[6]
Source: Costasiella kuroshimae
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 week ago:
This thread might be a good place to request asklemmy@aussie.zone (or something similar) be created. I know that the federation issue with LW will eventually be fixed but with only two other asklemmy communities (that I know of) already playing a role across Lemmy a third asklemmy on AZ might become the preferred asklemmy for folks who don’t want to hang out elsewhere while also helping to promote AZ among folks who just haven’t clocked it’s existence yet.
- Comment on School lunches, royal tours, foreign wars & the myth of Australia’s classless society 2 weeks ago:
Well that was a bit silly of them.
- Comment on School lunches, royal tours, foreign wars & the myth of Australia’s classless society 2 weeks ago:
I like my news to be boring. Just give me the bare facts. Don’t tell me how I should feel about them, I’ll make my own mind up, thank you.
This article is filed under analysis. Should analysis or opinion be boring and bare facts also? I think answers to your other questions kind of flow on from there if I’m not mistaken.
- Comment on In Australia you can abuse public office any way you like and get away with it 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the below sounds better.
Campaigning for and winning public office while being fundamentally opposed to the best use of public office for public good: Priceless.
- Comment on Israeli parliament votes to ban Unrwa from Israel within 90 days 2 weeks ago:
Expelling all Palestinians from any part of Palestine has always been the plan though. No spiking of water necessary.
- Comment on In Australia you can abuse public office any way you like and get away with it 2 weeks ago:
Campaigning for and winning public office while being fundamentally opposed to the best public office has to offer: Priceless.
- Comment on LNP wins the Queensland election after nearly a decade in opposition but it wasn't the emphatic victory predicted 3 weeks ago:
That certainly sucks. Especially about The Greens. What do you make of it Queenslanders?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I hope that floating navbar style doesn’t become mainstream. Distracting to the point of making me sick.
- Comment on High-profile restaurateur pleads guilty to displaying Nazi symbol at pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney 3 weeks ago:
This is absurd.
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t find anything send me the links for the deleted posts and I’ll have a go tonight or tomorrow morning.
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what the state of the Internet Archive is with the recent attacks but you could try to find a cached copy of those posts with the Wayback Machine.
- Comment on If Australians knew the whole truth about Indigenous history, Lidia Thorpe’s royal outburst would not have been a shock | Celeste Liddle 3 weeks ago:
She got the publicity she was after.
- Comment on If Australians knew the whole truth about Indigenous history, Lidia Thorpe’s royal outburst would not have been a shock | Celeste Liddle 3 weeks ago:
No she’s not. It was a protest and it was effective. The King of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth was called out and on a world stage.
Lidia Thorpe is a legend.