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Housing and welfare groups call on Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to show leadership amid rise in ‘nonsense’ rhetoric

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Australia’s number one grocery prison has announced a brand new policy stating that loss prevention officers will be granted license to shoot any suspected shoplifter on sight.

“Do you think this is a fucking joke?” sprayed a nameless executive wearing a balaclava at a press conference.

“We put in the security gates, the guards, the cameras everywhere and even fitted our creepy cleaning robots with lasers, and we’re still seeing a small amount of people who are doing the wrong thing, it’s not on!”

Woolworths have also announced 9 cents a litre fuel discount as a reward for any information leading to the capture of a shoplifter this holiday season. “This Christmas, snitches get the riches,” said the masked executive.

“Woolworths needs to be treated with the respect a corporate giant deserves,” he said, as he gently patted a baseball bat in his hands. “What we did to Australian farmers we can do to you. Don’t tempt me.”

“Our new partially trained loss prevention officers didn’t have the skills to be full police officers, so we’ve given them jobs as a private militia. They are authorised to use lethal force in any situation where they believe someone is taking our overpriced, invisibly shrunk products without paying above full price.”

The new security comes in the wake of a successful strike from a Coles Brand MQ9 reaper drone which neutralised a customer who allegedly stole a red seedless grape.

Karen Payne says the debt notices had triggered a significant increase in complaints, and may require the government implementing a legislative fix

Relentless rain is smashing FNQ

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/5028069

Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

Law Enforcement Conduct Commission is ‘conducting independent investigation of this matter’ following May incident in NorthConnex tunnel

The inspector-general of taxation is investigating the theft and hijacking of personal information that has allowed millions of dollars of tax fraud by professional scammers.

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The inspector-general of taxation believes millions of dollars is being lost through fraudulent access to myGov ATO accounts
Once inside the account, scammers redirect tax refunds to their own bank accounts, sometimes creating bogus claims

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"It does rattle confidence in the tax system," Ms Payne told the ABC's AM program.

"How many of those tax debts have been created because people have fraudulently accessed people's personal details to claim refunds they're not entitled to?

"How has somebody been able to infiltrate the tax system?"

Contemporary discussions about the lives and care and education of children in Australia are so cooked, so impoverished and hedged about with assumptions of control and paranoia, that writing an essay like this about childhood, about what it means to be a child in modern Australia, feels like I’m presenting evidence of alien life.

Australia’s top medicines watchdog has raised the alarm over a sweep of dodgy imported tablets from China, warning consumers the products contain serious health hazards and have not been tested to Australian standards.

Tablets labelled ‘Maximum Powerful’, ‘Bigger Longer More Time More Sperms’ and ‘Ying Da Wang’ have been flagged for an undeclared substance that can lower blood pressure to dangerous levels, while capsules under the Li Da Daidaihua brand increase the risk of cardiac events and stroke.

Key points:

• The case centred on legislation brought in after a series of climate-related protests in 2022
• They introduced penalties of up to $22,000 and two years in prison for damaging or disrupting major facilities
• Justice Michael Walton found part of the laws "burdens the implied freedom of political communication"

We have tickets for a festival he's headlining next month. I'm sure the promoters will line up someone else who'll put on a good show but, having seen Jimmy at this festival before, I know he'll be missed.

Wishing Jimmy a full, and speedy, recovery. The man's a national treasure!

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

More on this:

John Shipton: “Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call.” Speech outside Prime Minister Albanese’s Office, 09-12-2023 https://odysee.com/@Activism4Assange:6/John_Shipton_Speech_outside_PM_Albanese_Office_09-12-2023:a

Albanese’s “Enough is Enough” Stance on Assange Is Pitiful. The People Demand More https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/albaneses-enough-is-enough-stance-on-assange-is-pitiful-the-people-demand-more/ https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/albaneses-enough-is-enough-stance-on-assange-is-pitiful-the-people-demand-more/

John Shipton speaks outside Anthony Albanese's office on Saturday 9th December.

"Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call."

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) members have voted to cancel the Mardi Gras Police Accord and abolish the controversial decency inspections. At the December 9 SGLMG Annual General Meeting (AGM), an amended motion six, which removed the sentence calling for police abolition, but cancelled the Police Accord, was approved.

The officers issued him an official warning after determining his actions were not racially motivated.