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- Aussie travellers who criticise US most at risk as Trump administration proposes social media disclosureswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation as sitting MP with promise of future Senate ticketwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days 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 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Merry Christmas, James 🎄 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Local volunteer groups here on Lemmy? 2 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 2 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on When your most obnoxious coworker starts up with their bullshit again 2 weeks ago:
Aussie DT?
That would be Clive Palmer.
- Comment on When your most obnoxious coworker starts up with their bullshit again 2 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 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 18 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on TOOT TOOT CHUGGA CHUGGA MOTHERFUCKA 2 weeks ago:
Amazing stuff 😆
For future reference, this is what Tony Abbott looks like in speed-dealer sunnies:
- Submitted 2 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 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Ex Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's daughter Kathrine Keating linked to Epstein in emails. 3 weeks ago:
Anyone else find it odd that this article doesn’t contain the word ‘Trump’ even once?
- Comment on Ex Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's daughter Kathrine Keating linked to Epstein in emails. 3 weeks ago:
Full text, to save you giving Murdoch the clicks.
I appreciate it! Archive link as another option: archive.is/vRG0P
formally unknown
Whether Epstein was “well” or not in October 2011 is not known but what is is that the world knew who he was a sex offender.
Good grief! I guess news.com.au fired all the sub-editors?
- Mark Speakman stands down as leader of NSW Liberals with Kellie Sloane expected to replace himwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down Aussie.Zone 3 weeks ago:
Nobody should ever apologise for taking down X and ChatGPT 😆
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Legal experts, civil libertarians warn the NSW government is 'eroding' the right to protestwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Did anyone catch Amyl and the Sniffers last night? 4 weeks ago:
That sucks, especially when it was cancelled about 10 minutes before they were due to play.
Can’t really blame the organisers for making a decision on the basis of safety at the time, although maybe they need to invest in better security barriers.
I hope you at least scored a free drink (aussie.zone/post/26700589).
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answerswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
