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It's that time of year again where Santa brings the gifts of Summer to our blessed shores. Stay safe, stay hydrated.

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Home affairs minister’s explanation of how Labor has handled the high court decision defies everything we know about the case

Presence of officers can increase distress, according to a study in which people with lived experience suggest they could be talked down

Hello everyone ,

There have been concerns raised lately over issues with the Auto tl;dr bot which creates summaries of news articles from several known sites, however only really ABC news is applicable here. Relevant threads:

• Truck stowaway 'lucky to be alive' after travelling nearly 400km on metal racks beneath B-double (no problem with summary - just discussion of concerns)
• Small modular nuclear reactor that was hailed by Coalition as future cancelled due to rising costs (Australian Politics)

There are also many other occurrences (I haven't been keeping track), if there are some you would like appended to this list comment with a link below.

Most concerns are that the bot misses important information and/or gives a misleading summary. I'd like to see where people sit on the issue and how we could potentially deal with it. There are a few options I can think of:

1. Remove the bot (through a ban)
2. Get @dalekerrigan@aussie.zone to comment a disclaimer underneath all of its comments
3. Get @dalekerrigan@aussie.zone automatically delete all comments by the bot which have been reported (may open door for abuse)
4. Do nothing

I don't hate the bot - it can be useful, and I like the concept, however, just like us it gets things wrong.

Anyway feedback is welcome, if you have an opinion on this please comment below so I can judge where we all stand on this and try to make the right decision

New cyber security strategy cites business concerns at having to store large amounts of data for excessive periods of time, increasing breach risk

This statement from the article is so poignant, **"I've got a full-time job, you know, I've got a life. I don't want to be spending all my time thinking about this." **

We are obsessed with increasing our productivity in this country. A measure i'm unsure is appropriate, or even directly comparable historically in an economy that has switched from agrarian and closed off manufacturing, to mining and services.

I see the housing system we have as a great example that fails Banerjee and Duflo's second key lesson about improving the lives of the poor.

"the poor bear responsibility for too many aspects of their lives." (Poor Economic, Banerjee and Duflo)

By increasing housing pressure by,

1. Increasing buyer competition for a home,

2. inflating prices in comparison to wages,

3. Rising insurance costs, and now finally,

4. interest rates

we are tamping down on the productive potential of generations of Australians coming through the system.

I am sure, (but have no evdence for this), these generations of people are spending more time, capital, and energy on housing themselves than the generations in later half of the 20th Century. In other words, we are actively making each generation relatively poorer than the last. I think there is a productivity dividend that we are leaving on the table by making housing oneself relatively more difficult.

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!

Bill authorises previous uses of coercive powers, removing legal question mark that had dogged Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said China's denial of the sonar incident was "propaganda and we shouldn't abide it for a second".

"It's exactly what happens in relation to Japan, in relation to the Philippines, and in relation to other countries in the region," Mr Dutton said. "The fact is that there is aggressive behaviour taking place and our country should call it out."

China's defence ministry denied carrying out any activities that might have affected Australian diving operations: "China kept a safe distance from the Australian ship," a statement from its defence ministry said.

Defence Minister Richard Marles said the sonar was activated despite the Chinese ship receiving multiple warnings that the personnel were operating below the surface.

A court has found the police officer son of former senator and NSW premier Kristina Keneally fabricated evidence with the intent to mislead a judicial tribunal, landing a wrongly accused man behind bars.

A multi-layered strategy of vaccines, masks, safe indoor air, testing and treatment will help us navigate this COVID wave.

No one cared who I was until I put on the mask

--person trying to reduce the number of people dying

Australians’ tipping habits are not keeping pace with higher menu prices, new research shows, as household costs soar and diners grapple with pandemic-era hospitality charges.

A report by Lightspeed Commerce, using payments platform data, found that the average tip amount dropped in August to 8.1% of a total bill.

This is the lowest amount in four years recorded by the point-of-sale and software company, and the first time it has dropped below 9% since early 2021.

Anthony Albanese has slammed China over a “dangerous” incident involving Australian navy divers.

Australia has confirmed the naval personnel were hurt on Tuesday while performing a mission in support of United Nations sanctions enforcement.

Naval divers were in the water to cut fishing nets away from an Australian frigate’s propellers when a Chinese ship approached and emitted dangerous sonar pulses.

Imagine being the engineers in the middle of this. It's one thing that your incident is so bad it makes the news, it's another entirely when it is so bad the CEO resigns.