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- Submitted 18 hours ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- How election candidates are boosting The Noticer, a news site promoting neo-Nazi ideologieswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 day ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial 3 days ago:
Where did their 2 phones and drug selling claims come from?
I don’t think it’s unfair to assume they’re just making shit up. Either for fishing/intimidation, or just trying to meet some kind of quota for deportations. They’re just deporting people arbitrarily.
As another example, ICE is rounding up Venezuelan men with tattoos and sending them to prison in El Salvador, because tattoos must mean you have a gang affiliation:
- apnews.com/…/gang-deportation-trump-tattoos-c0bd5…
- abcnews.go.com/Politics/…/story?id=119983892
- ketr.org/…/dallas-man-may-have-been-deported-to-n…
Did he have clearance/permission to have the ashes in his bag?
According to the article he didn’t have ashes, be just had the empty urn, as he’d scattered the ashes in Australia.
- Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorialwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Submitted 4 days ago to news@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Australia turns down China's offer to 'join hands' to fight US tariffs, aims to diversify trade, strengthening ties with Europe, India, Britain, Middle East 5 days ago:
This happened in Australia, so it should really be posted in !news@aussie.zone or !australianpolitics@aussie.zone
- Comment on Poorest urban fringe electorates gained most from Labor’s first-term tax and welfare reform, Australian University research shows 5 days ago:
At the other end of the spectrum, the wealthiest households on average will be nearly $800 worse off, the modelling shows, as the rejigged stage-three tax cuts leave them worse off than they would have been without the change.
I think it should be stressed: they still got a tax cut, though, just not as big as the original cuts.
- Comment on Go Private? 6 days ago:
As others have mentioned, there’d seem to be hard downsides:
- Can’t send direct links to people without an account
- Harder for people to ‘discover’ the instance or check it out, which would surely reduce people signing up to the instance and participating in our community
So I’d be against it unless there’s really strong reasons for it. I haven’t really experienced bad server-load issues.
There’s conceivably a middle-ground where the instance becomes logged-in-only automatically under high load. That’d no doubt be a considerable extra work, but just throwing it out there as an idea. I still don’t think even that’s necessarily a great idea, because again, if the traffic is people showing interest in the instance, that’s a good thing in the long term. It’d be better than setting it to logged-in-only permanently.
I think this should be pretty much a last resort for any performance issues, and any other measure should be considered first, including spending more money.
- Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Vote Compass Australia 2025 - Australia Votes 1 week ago:
The labels in the middle of the sides are confusing, but if you focus on the labels with the arrows at the corners you’ll see the x-axis is economic, and the y-axis is social:
‘Left’ points left
‘Right’ points right
‘Progressive’ points up
‘Conservative’ points down
(though not sure why you’d flip it rather than just using the Political Compass as it is).
Yeah, I guess ‘Progressive’ and ‘Conservative’ aren’t exactly ‘Libertarian’ and ‘Authoritarian’ on the usual compass.
- Comment on Vote Compass Australia 2025 - Australia Votes 1 week ago:
Not sure why it puts me more economically conservative than the Greens but more socially left.
I think you’re mixing up the axes! You are economically to the ‘Left’ (on the left-right axis) of the Greens, but slightly more socially conservative (up-down axis).
- Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Dutton flip-flops on proposals for three separate referendums if Coalition wins election 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bit weird that Dutton doesn’t seem to have much of a plan for the campaign.
That’s what most struck me about this story. Is Dutton really just ad-libbing without a plan? Could it be some kind of Trumpian ploy to suck up attention?
- Dutton flip-flops on proposals for three separate referendums if Coalition wins electionwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on [Satire] Dutton opens budget reply speech: “Jim Chalmers is limp-wristed and his budget is gay” 2 weeks ago:
Jim Chalmers is an economic girlie man
- Brisbane City Council pulls funding for Queensland Music Awards over jazz award winnerwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australian FM calls ‘reprehensible’ letter targeting Hong Kong activist in Australia a ‘threat to national sovereignty’ 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t ‘Overseas News’, this happened in Australia
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- A whooshing sound, then panic: Claims ‘sonic weapon’ used at protest over train tragedywww.smh.com.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Rodrigo Duterte in custody of International Criminal Court on crimes against humanity chargeswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on !ask@lemm.ee, an Ask community that can be used by Aussie.zone! 4 weeks ago:
We already have one: !ama@aussie.zone
- Comment on Trump rejects Australia's bid for tariff exemptions 4 weeks ago:
The tariffs started at 3pm today
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Staff at the Age protest over Trumpet of Patriots gender ad as Newcastle Herald apologises for running itwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
