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Article says they've got 30 days to publish it, and also that they're planning to appeal, so that might delay it further.

I'm an Australian, and I also don't know why I know Oodnadatta! Probably it's just one of those words that sticks in the brain, and it comes up every so often because it is a key point between Adelaide and Darwin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodnadatta (population 102)

Wittenoom, WA - population 0

I didn't instantly recognise the name, but I've heard the story.

Coober Pedy, SA - population 1437

This is a very solid one.

@gnu@lemmy.zip beat me to the punch with Port Arthur, and I think they've hit the nail on the head there. Although, as they note, maybe the name recognition isn't there for younger generations.

Here's some suggestions that haven't been made yet:

• Gundegai - population 2,057 (2021 census) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundagai
  • Featured in songs and poetry, most famously Along the Road to Gundegai
  • 'The Dog on the Tucker Box' sits on the road outside the town (and is itself a reference to a poem mentioning Gundegai)
• Betoota - population 3 (2023) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betoota,_Queensland
  • Known because its name was adopted by the satirical news website The Betoota Advocate

Are the major vaccines the RNA ones where it’s just the protein?

• Moderna and Pfizer are mRNA.
• Novavax is protein subunit.
• AstraZeneca is viral vector (not an attenuated SARS-CoV-2, a completely different virus).

But don’t call it the “best Australian songs of the 90s” if you’re going to leave out so many of the best songs of the 90s.

Yeah, the title is intentional click-bait/engagement-bait

Madison Avenue - Don’t Call Me Baby

I had no idea this was Australian! Now you've mentioned it, though, there's a noticeable lack of hard 'r' in some lines (for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-mRcnF5tSc).

Some classics in this list. Such a list can’t exist without people pointing out who was missed, though. This reads like a top 50 of what JJJ had on high rotation. It’s missing several acts that were bigger than most of the names on this list.

Agreed - and thanks for making your list of things it omitted - but the list was compiled by a poll of Double J staff, so it was always going to be biased towards deep-cuts, and it's a good thing to bring lesser-known and forgotten music to attention (so long as people don't take the list to be authoritative).

"People who believe system is failing have less faith in system"

I know it's the headline writer, who I think isn't usually the author of the article (I don't know how The Conversation does it, though), and much less still is it reflective of worth of the study, but these kinds of headlines still annoy me. Maybe they're written to annoy people, I don't know.

The headline isn't even accurate. The question asked in the survey isn't about whether respondents think inequality is high, but whether they think income distribution is fair (the exact wording is: "How fair do you think income distribution is in Australia?").

Department of Home Affairs Strengthening Democracy Taskforce

This is a slightly terrifying phrase. I still associate Home Affairs so strongly with Dutton - as the mega-portfolio that was created to placate him - that it's hard not to read 'Strengthening Democracy Taskforce' in the same way as American war-mongering rhetoric of 'SPREADING FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY'.

This impression is not helped by this bit of double-speak later in the article 😂:

The Department of Home Affairs’ 2024 Strengthening Democracy report describes Australia’s democratic resilience as “strong, but vulnerable”.

This suggests Australia’s satisfaction with democracy is at risk. It may erode further if voters think the major parties aren’t sufficiently responsive to the economic pressures they are under.

Not to defend the state of our 'democracy', but I feel compelled to point out that thanks to preferential voting we can vote for parties other than the major parties. Unfortunately many of the minor parties are also in favour of policies that would increase inequality, but the Greens consistently campaign on reducing inequality. I suppose a lot of people who might be roughly characterised as 'right-wing populists' and against status-quo neoliberalism would find the Greens unpalatable, though. Do we need a party that's like the Greens but with One Nation's aesthetics or something?

Haha, holy shit, what a damning excerpt! Thanks for saving me some time.

That'd rely on tenants reporting their evictions to the tentants' union, and most people aren't engaged with the tenants' union, and even among those who are, relying on tenants reporting would probably be a bit spotty.

If the government is serious about enforcement, I think the logical thing would be for the bond authority to track it. They could be required to log the reason when the bond is claimed, and then their system would flag it if another bond was lodged for the address within the specified period.

If the government doesn't implement a real system for enforcement, though, then yeah, some system through the tenants' union would be better than nothing.

In Victoria, renters can challenge a rent increase "if they believe the increase is higher than the market range"

See: https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/housing/renting/rent-bond-bills-and-condition-reports/rent/challenging-rent-increases-or-high-rent

I assume, like with many renter protections, it's a pain in the arse to actually do in practice, but it's there, so they can't just double your rent in one go to force you out.

Also, rent can only be increased once every 12 months in Vic, so landleeches may need to wait months before they can increase the rent by any amount at all.

Not that I doubt there will be some dodgy workarounds. I suspect landlords might try to abuse the "if the owner is moving back in" exemption, because even if there's strong provisions - e.g. the property can't be advertised again for at least 12 months - it still requires someone to be paying enough attention to notice and report any violations.

She explained Sturgeon had "somewhat unconventional and unorthodox views", but had not been diagnosed with or hospitalised for mental health conditions, and no psychological report was presented.

Yeah, I think the court should have ordered some kind of evaluation...

Coles' answer to that question was hiring Palantir

Power to them, I hope people support them however they can!

Ridiculous that this trainee stuff is still going on with Grill'd specifically - they've been in the news media for it since at least 2016 (earliest story I can find).

What this SBS article doesn't mention is that Grill'd has been known to drag their feet on progressing a trainee, to just keep them on the lower rate indefinitely.

Crisafulli said he would also aim to change the full preferential voting system, which he labelled “corrupt”, back to optional preferential voting.

Under the current system, it is compulsory for voters to number all boxes on the ballot paper in order of their preference or their vote is not counted.

“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.

???

The initial Israeli evacuation area was within 2 kilometres of the border with Lebanon. There seem to have been some expansion of evacuations since, but I believe it's still only within a few kilometers of the border. Estimates in March were that about 60,000 Israeli citizens remain evacuated (source: AP).

The IDF camp in this article is around 55 kilometres from the Lebanese border, and about 30 kilometres south of Haifa (a city which is not evacuated) (source: ABC News (AU)).

Non-AMP URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-11/platforms-not-parents-to-enforce-social-media-ban/104459876

Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) and The Cabin in the Woods (2012) (go in spoiler-free with this one) are both good comedy horror.

You need it to not be cloudy, for starters 😆

But even if it's not cloudy, light pollution can also be an issue, so it might help to head further out of the city (see: https://darksitefinder.com/map/?i=/%234/-37.84/144.94)

Basically, if you can't see the stars, you can't see the aurora.

The only equipment that can help you 'see' it better would be taking a long exposure with a camera.

EDIT: Apparently you're going to want to see some red on the map here: https://seetheaurora.com/live-data

Marinara.