Australia

http://sapienlabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/4th-Annual-Mental-State-of-the-World-Report.pdf

I'm sure if we keep voting for the Libor and Laberal parties they will eventually fix it right?

All three major telcos have been warning customers to make sure they upgrade from 3G-only devices, but also to check if their 4G and 5G devices have something called Voice over LTE (VoLTE), so that they don't get caught out when 3G networks shut down.

Telstra and Optus 3G shutdowns

Telstra: June 30, 2024

Other affected carriers using the Telstra network include:

• ALDI Mobile
• Belong
• Boost Mobile
• Exetel
• Lycamobile
• MATE
• More
• numobile
• Superloop
• Tangerine
• Woolworths Mobile

Optus: September, 2024

Other affected carriers using the Optus network include:

• amaysim
• Aussie Broadband
• Catch Connect
• Circles.Life
• Coles Mobile
• Dodo
• iPrimus
• Moose Mobile
• Southern Phone
• SpinTel
• Yomojo

The 25 most common devices which may be affected

According to the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association.

• Alcatel 2038
• Alcatel OneTouch 2045
• Apple iPhone 5
• Apple iPhone 5C
• Apple iPhone 5S
• Aspera A42
• Doro PhoneEasy 623 OPTUS
• Doro 6521
• Google Pixel 2 XL
• Huawei E5331
• Huawei E5251s-2
• Huawei Y6 Prime
• Nokia 301
• Oppo A57
• Oppo F1s
• Oppo F5 Youth
• Optus X Smart
• Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini
• Samsung Galaxy S5
• ZTE Blade A0605

"Billionaire businessman, Clive Palmer, has warned Labor against legislating electoral spending and donation caps, accusing it of attempting to “silence the diversity of ideas in this country”.

The Albanese government is preparing legislation to cap political donations and electoral spending, citing the influence of Palmer’s hundreds of millions of electoral spending, backed by donations from his company Mineralogy to the United Australia Party.

Although the reforms are backed by an inquiry into the 2022 election by the joint standing committee on electoral matters (Jscem), Palmer’s intervention into the debate spells trouble for the government, which could face a high court challenge on the basis caps infringe the implied freedom of political communication."

Unlike in the UK and the European Union where card surcharges are banned, retailers in Australia are allowed to recoup their payment costs through surcharging their customers, as long as they are not making a profit out of it.

• In short: David Brian Shinner, 62, has been sentenced to three and a half years jail, with two years and one month non-parole.
• The court heard Shinner pulled a gun on a chef in Branxton, NSW, because he was angry over the quality of his sweet and sour pork.
• Shinner pleaded guilty to using an offensive weapon at the restaurant.

Try and get past the fact that this is sort-of about Facebook. Because it's more about the demise of news than it is about Facebook, specifically.

news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said.

"They were in the attention-attraction business.

"In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be.

"But now there are just much better places to be."

The moment news moved online, and was "unbundled" from classifieds, sports results, movie listings, weather reports, celebrity gossip, and all the other reasons people bought newspapers or watched evening TV bulletins, the news business model was dead.

News by itself was never profitable, Professor Bruns said.

"Then advertising moved somewhere else.

"This was always going to happen via Facebook or other platforms."

It's a really fascinating read. We can all agree that independent journalism is valuable in our society, but ultimately, most of us don't so much seek news out as much as we encounter news as we go about our day.

I'm sure the TL;DR bot is about to entirely miss the nuance of the article. I recommend reading the whole thing.

Tesla announced it had quit the FCAI on Thursday and Polestar followed it up on Friday, saying the FCAI campaign – driven largely by Japanese car makers led by Toyota – is intolerable.

...

Tesla and now Polestar’s announcement that they intend to leave the FCAI adds to mounting pressure on CEO Tony Webber who last month came under fire for threatening to run a 2010 anti mining tax style fear campaign against the government’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard.

The fossil car lobby group CEO claimed that the NVES would cost the entire car-buying public $38 billion in the first five years, which led to the AFR running a story titled “Labor’s new EV-boosting rules will cost $38b, auto group says” followed by Coalition leader Peter Dutton and Nationals Senator Matt Canavan parroting claims that the NVES would see the price of popular vehicles increase by up to $25,000. Claims that have been widely rejected including by the Electric Vehicle Council.

Cheers 🥂

Still waiting to see if they return that soccer ball.

The racial slur Matildas superstar Sam Kerr is alleged to have used against a British police officer was “stupid white bastard”, according to sources with knowledge of the case.

• It's weird
• It's political
• It's recent
• It's Australian, but the title will confuse people
• It's the vibe

I think it'll resonate well with the Lemmy audience, see these instant upvote lyrics:

When the Orange man
Came into power
The Minutes
Soon Felt like hours
Then the Old man
Won the election
But the world
Didn’t change direction

From the event page:

Join us for the long anticipated screening of the film in Australia. If you reserve a ticket, we encourage you to host a screening party at home for your friends and family.

Following the film there will be a panel discussion where we'll debrief the film and reflect on education in Jewish schools and youth movements in Australia. We will interrogate how this informs the Jewish community's views on Israel and zionism.

About the film

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.

G'day mates! I hope I'm not spamming your community, please redirect me if it's inappropriate.

I'd like to invite you to participate in Lemmyvision, a Eurovision(which your country is already participating to!)-like Song Contest for Lemmy communities around the world ! I'd love for people across Lemmy to participate, and I hope it will bring people together through our diverse taste of music, so join us if you'd like to discover new music and culture from around the world!

TLDR

• From right now and until April 1st, discuss with your country's community on Lemmy about a song that released in your country, to send and share to the Fediverse.
• On April 1st, voting will begin, where you will rank your favourite songs. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On April 8th, results of everyone's favourite songs will be published.

There's a lot of info I posted on this post and the dedicated community on !lemmyvision@jlai.lu, stop by if you have any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you'd like to stay in the loop.

Thanks for your time, hope to see you there! ❤ 🇦🇺

This week, in Melbourne, the Australian government for the second time is hosting leaders for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-Australia Special Summit.

While many countries in the region have seen economic growth during that time, repression and democratic backsliding has also been growing. The rights of people across the region are being trampled or ignored. The summit is an opportunity to put those issues, and the rights of south-east Asian people, front and center.

China’s leading spy agency has been revealed as the organisation behind the sustained targeting of Australians detailed by the nation’s spy chief in his annual threat assessment.

In an exclusive interview with this masthead and 60 Minutes, ASIO Director General Mike Burgess has separately hit back at calls for him to identify the “traitor” ex-politician who he accused of betraying the nation in last week’s threat assessment. ASIO chief Mike Burgess says a former politician “sold out their country, party and former colleagues to advance the interests of the foreign regime”.

While Burgess repeatedly refused to name any overseas intelligence agency, this masthead has independently confirmed the spy unit he described as the “A-Team” in his threat assessment speech involves a division of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) devoted to Australia.

And while Burgess also steadfastly declined to discuss the work of MSS, he said he stood by his rare and “worthy” decision last October to publicly call out the Chinese government’s “unprecedented” theft of western intellectual property through hacking and other covert means.