AnAustralianPhotographer @ AnAustralianPhotographer @lemmy.world

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This mighnt be exactly what your asking for, but i hope it helps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate

Im envisioning a quest involving a singing bush and the summoning of the invisible swordsman.

"We choose to go to the moon" was the first thing that popped into my mind.

And related to OPs quote. "If you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life".

Some say that trooper cracked the shits with Dark Helmet then and there and vowed to leave the first chance he could get. Shortle after, he got a commission in Starfleet before finding his way to the Delta Quadrant.

Doom.

It was the first 3(well, 2.5)D shooter. Plus, I can hear E1M1.

And using the shareware license for distribution widely helped it's popularity and it had multiplayer.

Honorary mention to Carrier Command ( the first one with like a 5 polygon island and a 40 polygon volcano).

And plan = "Thrawn Trilogy".

Chris Watson, Harold Holt, Earle Page, Franke Forde, Julia Gillard.

Don't rule out midi or mod music file formats

To the fridge. For a beer.

The law specifically mentions government IDs in the legislation . If(edit:i'd) have to check, but Im confident they're specifically excluded.

Ive had a look at the legislation, its an ammendment to an existing set of laws. It underwent some changes as it passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate, so i had a look at the 'As passed by both houses' version at https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7284

So it looks like what is 'Social media' can be defined by a Minister / Commissioner, it looks like there needs to be something documented by the entity to prevent underage users(again not calling on lemmy.world to do something for this as part of this post) by the Social media company, and it looks like the recording of government id's for the purpose of confirming ages is expressly prohibited.

A penalty Unit is around $300.

Rookie Numbers. It only uses electrical power generated. Why not cook turkeys in heat destined for cooling towers ? Gotta push those numbers way up.

Not exactly a story, but an ad from Australia post showing their evolution of delivery over the decades. https://youtu.be/T-ItHe5WxE4

I remember ads shown about how dogs run up to posites etc, so checked out their website.

Here are some other videos from them you might like.

https://youtu.be/bAzEeu8PV-k

Michael works at star track, a courier arm of Australia Post.. https://youtu.be/V1AAj0qvyGc

And a postal worker. https://youtu.be/teLmg_2vF0w

I'm not associated with Auspost , but did watch the videos and OP, hope it helps. Posted on mobile so missed some details.

In English we write left to right and lefties smudge their writing (or adapt their grip I guess) so, for right to left languages it's a plus.

After typing there para above, I guess they could also be better drawers if they have done more practice or use a different grip or draw instead of write if they're part of a class doing pencil and paper time.

Have a look at https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities . I just know it exists and have got looking at it's rules and checking it out more on my to-do list.

Thank you.

Australia is its own country, however we still have ties and the King/Queen can cause a ruckus if they want, however recently we've been left to our own devices. I see people over in the UK as 'Royal Watchers' and monarchists, and dont see any similar level of affection for the royalty here. Sure when we get a visit, crowds will turn up, but im confident the size relative to the population over time has declined.

Not exactly a historian, so could be a wrong with this. In WW1, When Britain went to war, a lot of the people had the intent to follow and saw it as a duty to 'defend the empire' . In WW2 i think we had a bit more independence and remember a story about a troop ship being redirected to fight the Japanese rather than fight the Germans. That was was seen as a lot closer to home with the bombing of Darwin and fighting on the Kokoda track.

Now, i think the population would be totally indifferent.

We have the King and Queen on our coins, and the Queen is on the $5 note, but notable australians are also printed on other notes.

To pass new laws in our Federal Parliament (i think state parliaments are similar but there might be exceptions), it needs to be voted on by the House of Representatives (151 elected politicians from 151 geographically organised electorates with roughly an equal number of voters. e.g. NT has two electorates which is effectively Darwin and the rest of the NT. An electorate in Sydney might only be several suburbs while a country electorate in WA could be a third of the state). it also needs to be voted on in the Senate which consists of 76 Senators ( Each state elects 12 Senators (QLD,NSW,VIC,TAS,SA & WA) while territories each get 2 (ACT & NT).

Once its past both the house and the Senate, it also needs Royal Assent by the Governor General. The Governor General can refuse to give assent but i cannot point to a time when this has happened. The Governor General can also reserve legislation for the Queens Pleasure which defers approval to the Queen.

The Governor General is not elected, and appointed by the Queen/King. I understand that convention recently has been that the Queen meets with the Prime Minister and appoints whoever the Prime Minster recommends. I think the Queen can change who is appointed as Governor General at will, so theoretically could call them to direct them to not give royal assent to particularly controversial legislation.

Right now, the Queen or King could take a seat in the Senate if he or she wished, but not in the House as it was seen as to be for the people. He or She wouldn't get a vote, but I guess it would only be to give royal assent as soon as a bill has passed. If it happened, it would make national news.

Was there an Australian Revolution ? We floated the idea somewhat recently, and there was a referendum (a vote to change the countries constitution) on whether to become a republic. For it to pass it needed a majority of votes and a majority in the majority of states/territories. I think the wording was that we replace the governor general with a president elected by the people. It didnt get up, and the idea has been left alone since.

I think if you ask most Aussies, the like being in the commonwealth as we get more medals at the commonwealth games than the Olympics and they enjoy thrashing the Poms at Cricket/Rugby / Othersports.

As for our relationship with other commonwealth countries, I wouldnt say theres anything really special there except for New Zealand and this probably dates back to the ANZAC Corps and Gallipoli which is seen as our emergence of a country (i dont want to speak for NZ on this one). We might make fun of our 'cousins' across the ditch but i'd like to think that if something seriously went wrong, we'd be ready to lend them a hand in a heartbeat.

Edit: Im not aware of Royalty having any power like the United States presidents Executive Orders, however the Queen can dissolve parliament which ends the term of everyone in the House of Representatives. The parliament still exists, but Australians need to go have an election, and the same people might get re-elected. There was an issue in 1975 where parliament wouldnt pass legislation to fund the government so the Governor General stepped in to cause an election. it has been called 'The Dismissal'