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- Submitted 1 day ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Submitted 1 day ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Submitted 1 day ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Industrial action on Sydney trains to recommence 'immediately' after court decison, union warnswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 day ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Vale @Ilandar 2 days ago:
Jesus, I thought they were actually dead!
- Comment on Pages randomly not loading 2 days ago:
This is more what I’ve experienced, but in the evening.
- Comment on Pages randomly not loading 2 days ago:
I’ve also noticed this sort of thing happening roughly around 7pm
- Australia sends 'immediate' search and rescue assistance to Vanuatu following powerful earthquakewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- The Antisemitism Envoy’s Call to Ban Antigenocide Protests in Cities is Undemocraticwww.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au ↗Submitted 3 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Victoria plans protest crackdown in bid to boost social cohesion 4 days ago:
What the fuck does the synagogue arson attack have to with protests?
- Submitted 4 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Queensland children as young as 10 face life sentences for murder as tough new laws pass parliament 1 week ago:
Children convicted of them are subject to the same length of sentence as adults. If convicted of murder they must be given a life sentence with a 20-year minimum non-parole period.
Imagine deliberately setting up a legislative environment where a 10-year-old kid could be sent to jail for 20 years.
- 'Intimidatory': Antisemitism envoy says city streets no place for pro-Palestinian protestswww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Australia backs UN call for 'immediate, unconditional, and permanent' Gaza ceasefirewww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Coronial inquest hears Adelaide woman died of brain bleeds days after migraine diagnosiswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- [Melbourne] Road blocked as Israeli adviser's [Mark Regev] charges withdrawnwww.canberratimes.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Alan Yazbek ‘no Nazi lover’, magistrate says, as restaurateur escapes conviction for displaying swastika 1 week ago:
The legislation contains an exemption if you have a ‘reasonable excuse’, and it lists some examples without restricting it to those. So I think the judge has fairly wide latitude.
Legislation: www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/…/bill-details.aspx?pk=…
93ZA Offence of displaying Nazi symbols
(1) A person who knowingly displays, by public act and without reasonable excuse, a Nazi symbol commits an offence. Maximum penalty—
(a) for an individual—100 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both, or
(b) for a corporation—500 penalty units.
(2) For subsection (1), the display of a swastika in connection with Buddhism, Hinduism or Jainism does not constitute the display of a Nazi symbol.
(3) Also, without limiting subsection (1), a reasonable excuse includes the display of a Nazi symbol done reasonably and in good faith—
(a) for an academic, artistic or educational purpose, or
(b) for another purpose in the public interest.
(4) In this section— public act has the same meaning as in section 93Z.
- Alan Yazbek ‘no Nazi lover’, magistrate says, as restaurateur escapes conviction for displaying swastikawww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on NSW Police face fresh calls to be banned from Mardi Gras 1 week ago:
Do you mean the double-murder of Luke Davies and Jesse Baird? The alleged murderer in that case was gay himself, so it hasn’t been interpreted a hate crime or indicative of homophobia in the police force, if that’s what you mean.
News story on the case: www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-24/…/103505602
- Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on NSW Police face fresh calls to be banned from Mardi Gras 1 week ago:
I don’t believe the cops who want to march are the same cops exhibiting homophobia and disdain for gay hate deaths.
Sure, but if they’re in uniform they’re representing that institution as a whole. Marching in uniform, in formation, with guns, no less.
“It’s a bit hypocritical to ban them from marching if you’re going to rely on them, as everybody does for major events, for security.”
I think that’s legally mandated. If there were any other option available I’m sure Pride In Protest would be pushing for that too.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 26 comments
- Melbourne synagogue fire condemned by PM as 'act of hate', as witnesses describe seeing masked attackerswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Fair Work Commision decides pickets are bad faith and not allowed. 2 weeks ago:
Workers are asking for community reinforcement at the picket of the Dandenong distribution centre tonight.
- Words reportedly written onto ammunition found at scene of health insurance CEO's killing [USA]www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 21 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
My question is: why should we host a /c/WorldNews at all? What unique value does it have by being “for Aussies”?
I think there’s value in being able to find world news that other Australians find interesting and discuss it with other Australians.
World news often has different implications for different countries, and being able to raise those points (without them being buried under a pile of other comments) and discuss them with other people who share your context is something that I think people find useful.
At the most basic version, that this comm is “News from outside of Australia” does provide value in that it won’t include news stories about Australia. Also, many ‘world news’ comms are defined as ‘news from outside the US’, which Australians probably do want to see and discuss in a world news comm.
So I wouldn’t be in favour of dismantling the comm in any case.
How would that change the posts in the comm?
I actually think it would stop the comm from changing. Until recently the posts and discussion in the comm have been Australia-centric by virtue of most engagement coming from people on this instance. There’s been some examples I’ve noticed lately where that hasn’t been the case, which is what prompted me to write this post.
Is there any reason why international news (not world news) specifically affecting Australia or Australians should be separated from other local comms like /c/news and /c/AustralianPolitics? e.g., news about a conference between officials from Australia and Pacific islands, or incidents involving Australian tourists.
Yeah, I already post that kind of stuff in those places.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I didn’t want to name names (even though it was pretty clear), but I agree with everything you’ve outlined here. “Objectification of our community” is a particularly good articulation.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
I’m an ocker but this post and comments is coming off pretty rough.
Yeah, I was not wholly comfortable while writing this post - it’s against my instincts to be exclusory. Sometimes, however, exclusory spaces are helpful for certain purposes.
Feels like you’ll want an echo chamber not a place of discussion.
I hope I can reassure you that this is definitely not my intention.
What it boils down to is:
What is !worldnews@aussie.zone for? Why does aussie.zone have its own ‘world news’ comm? Why don’t aussie.zone users just subscribe to any other world news comm?
For me, I saw this as having been answered by the sidebar in !australia@aussie.zone , which lists !worldnews@aussie.zone with the text “World News (from an Australian Perspective)”.
I interpreted that as meaning that this comm was intended as a space for Australians (in the broadest sense possible) to post news of interest to themselves, and to discuss it (largely) from an Australian perspective.
In any case, I certainly wouldn’t want there to be any hard-and-fast rules or strict enforcement!
I suggested the simple measure of adding ‘for Aussies’ to the display name as it’s a simple way to note the purpose of the space with the hope that people will just self-regulate with the purpose of the comm in mind.
If someone from another country jumps in the comments to explain some news story for us, that’s great! That’s adding to the purpose of ‘world news for aussies’ by helping an Australian audience understand certain issues abroad.
Regarding submissions, though, I think there could be some use - in terms of achieving the purpose of the comm - in a guideline that submissions should be made by users with some meaningful connection to Australia.
As @eureka@aussie.zone noted in a comment, one specific user is currently just dumping copy-pasted submissions they’ve posted in a dozen other places in this comm without any thought or respect to the purpose of the community, or even that it is a community. I believe the comm would be better without their submissions.
I don’t think it’s coincidence that this user has no meaningful connection with Australia, or even conversational engagement with this instance and comm.
Perhaps, though, that specific issue would be better addressed with a general ‘over-posting’ rule to be enforced with discretion.
Maybe my interpretation of the purpose of this comm is incorrect or not supported by the community. Maybe its purpose is really just as simple as ‘News from outside of Australia’ and as long as that bar is met, people are happy with it.
Personally, though, I think that guiding this comm towards Australia-centric discussion, posting and voting would make it a more unique and valuable forum. I think it already is that to a fair degree, but some of the post-flooding and comment sections lately have been otherwise, which of course is what prompted me to write the original post to begin with.
