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- NSW police restricts public assemblies in Sydney for 14 days under laws passed after Bondi terror attackwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 1 week ago:
… he isn’t himself a war criminal any more than Sam Mostyn could be considered a war criminal if Australia were committing an ongoing genocide.
Herzog isn’t subject to an arrest warrant by the ICC (Netanyahu and Gallant are), but it’s at least arguable he’s a criminal under international law for incitement to genocide. Remarks by him form part of the evidence in the ICJ case: www.icj-cij.org/node/203447
I think even in the absence of such remarks you could make the argument it’s Herzog’s responsibility (or Mostyn’s, hypothetically) under international law to use the powers available to him to remove the government to prevent genocide.
But yeah, as you say, the statement “the UN has declared him a War Criminal” is factually incorrect in that there’s been no finding or warrant against him as an individual.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 29 comments
- Comment on Activist groups flag constitutional challenge to proposed NSW protest restrictions 1 week ago:
Some analysis from Anne Twomey, professor emerita of constitutional law at the University of Sydney (you may have seen her on YouTube): theguardian.com/…/nsw-parliament-rushing-anti-pro…
- Comment on Activist groups flag constitutional challenge to proposed NSW protest restrictions 1 week ago:
Coverage by the Guardian: theguardian.com/…/activist-groups-to-challenge-ns…
- Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Massacre as political theatre: our shameful national response to Bondi | Amy Remeikiswww.deepcutnews.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- The NSW premier’s outrageous rhetoric on peaceful protests sows division in our community. It’s unbecoming of his office | Timothy Robertswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- ‘Miracle’ of Zealandia: chick is born to rare takahē pair thought to be infertilewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- ‘We are unbreakable’: defiance marks Bondi attack commemoration after PM is booedwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- ‘Protests had nothing to do with the attacks’: activists condemn premier’s plan to restrict rallies after Bondi shootingwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Aussie travellers who criticise US most at risk as Trump administration proposes social media disclosureswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation as sitting MP with promise of future Senate ticketwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Israel to compete at Eurovision Song Contest in 2026, prompting several nations to withdrawwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Comment on Merry Christmas, James 🎄 4 weeks ago:
A key piece of information some people may not be aware of is that James Packer and Mariah Carey were engaged in 2016. So the idea is that Packer suffers even more than the rest of us for having to hear that song a hundred times in December, as each time he is also reminded of his ex.
That it’s dIcTaToR dAn making a menacing phone call from Tiananmen Square, is, as far as I know, just a template and a bit of surreal flair. I suppose it makes some sense for an ALP politician to have a hostile orientation towards an Australian billionaire, especially one who has owned news media.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 4 weeks ago:
I had previously got a similar impression from the eSafety Commissioner’s publication of those lists of platforms, but it does not seem to be the case they are actually defining regulation there. The lists seem to be, essentially, only statements of intent about which platforms that eSafety will seek enforcement of compliance on.
See here: …gov.au/…/which-platforms-are-age-restricted
eSafety does not have a formal role in declaring which services are age-restricted social media platforms. In the absence of any rules made by the Minister of Communications specifying a service is either an age-restricted social media platform or not an age-restricted social media platform, any determination that a service is or is not an age-restricted social media platform is a matter for the court.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 4 weeks ago:
Just be aware that there’s an infinitesimal chance (but not zero) that whatever you send may be sent to some government agency to demonstrate that we are complying with the law.
On this point, as I understand it, the personal information provided for verification can - and indeed should - be destroyed once it has been used for the purpose it was provided.
I assume you might need to keep a (non-identifying) record of how a user was age-verified to prove that you’ve been complying, but not the personal data used to do the verification.
Albo has been claiming that Australian privacy law requires that the data be destroyed once it’s used for age verification, but the language of the law I think has ‘reasonable’ in there, which gives more wiggle room than the GDPR, for example. It was discussed on the Law Report on Radio National: www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/…/105871968 (sorry, no idea of the timestamp, and there doesn’t seem to be a transcript either,
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Local volunteer groups here on Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Do organisations like that generally use platforms like Lemmy? Do they have a presence on Reddit for example?
I’d have thought that platforms like Mastodon (or Twitter) were more suited to things like making announcements.
I suppose forum-like platforms (like Lemmy) could be used for discussion and coordination of initiatives, I just haven’t seen it used like that myself. I would think they’d mostly want at least a semi-private space for that (e.g. an old-school dedicated forum, or a private Facebook group), not just on the open internet like Lemmy.
- Massive industrial fire in Sydney's west could burn for days, explosions felt kilometres awaywww.9news.com.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on When your most obnoxious coworker starts up with their bullshit again 5 weeks ago:
Aussie DT?
That would be Clive Palmer.
- Comment on When your most obnoxious coworker starts up with their bullshit again 5 weeks ago:
Not sure if it would have prevented her running for office again, but in any case the conviction was overturned on appeal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson#Fraud_convic…
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 18 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on TOOT TOOT CHUGGA CHUGGA MOTHERFUCKA 5 weeks ago:
Amazing stuff 😆
For future reference, this is what Tony Abbott looks like in speed-dealer sunnies:
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 22 comments
- Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipelinewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Ex Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's daughter Kathrine Keating linked to Epstein in emails. 1 month ago:
Anyone else find it odd that this article doesn’t contain the word ‘Trump’ even once?
