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Queensland Ambulance says his symptoms suggest it was a highly venomous brown snake

A UN Special Rapporteur has raised concerns about increasingly draconian laws that restrict citizens’ rights to peaceful protest around Australia. UN Special Rappoteur Dr Marcos Orellana [1] said in his interim report today that: “Draconian restrictions on the right to protest in several states are also very troubling. Peaceful protests are a legitimate exercise of [...]Read More...

Following the "unprecedented price rises" in the past year for retail electricity rates across Australia, it looks like we have some "unprecedented price drops" just around the corner!

I'm not sure whether I need to end this post in a /s or not.

Alt-text: Line graph of annual avg wholesale electricity prices in NSW/QLD/SA/TAS/VIC over F.Y. ending 2010-2024. 2022,2023 show an increase of 100~130% compared to 2021; 2024 shows a return to ~2021 prices (except SA).

Data source: https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem

Our business accounts are now with ANZ, who appear to be a bit sucky to interact with online. They seem to have pulled a Microsoft and have this weird disconnect between "business" and "personal" accounts but don't disclose what works where so if you try and perform certain actions via your account online it'll get all the way to the end then end up just randomly redirecting to the main page or give you a popup saying "not supported on this account" or whatever. Kinda lame for a big bank but that's not actually the point of this post.

They have ANZ Shield, which is just a 2FA app except it sucks. It's got 2 star Google reviews with countless complaints about how much it sucks, but apparently with their brazillions of dollars they haven't got around to fixing it as yet. It's not compatible with my Pixel 7 on Android 13 apparently so I can't see the suck for myself, but going by the comments and reviews there is still suck aplenty.

I want to enable 2FA because aside from sucking in general and at making 2FA apps, ANZ also sucks at passwords and has a limit of 16 chars and no non-alphanumeric characters - that's less secure than what I use for my Pattismiths account which is limited to ordering fat burgers on a weekend. Since ANZ Shield won't work I'm currently on SMS for my "second factor" but since its on the same device (so won't need a second auth, and can be spoofed to boot) it's not as good as a 2FA app.

Long story short... Has anyone worked out a way to enable ANZ Shield, but using Authy or Google Authenticator or some other 2FA app instead of the proprietary ANZ app that sucks?

https://www.crikey.com.au How is it?

Last year I gifted a news junky friend a year subscription to the New York Times. That was cool but they are more interested in Australian stories. Normally they browse the ABC and BBC apps.

EXCLUSIVE: An Australian Federal Police officer arranged for the Clearview AI CEO to appear at a meeting with Australian top police to 'get some education on the Clearview issue'.

Key points:

• Claude the koala is estimated to have eaten $6,000 worth of seedlings
• The seedlings were meant to be used to establish koala habitat
• A conservationist says many landholders have expressed interest in the habitat project

A Supreme Court justice orders the NT government to pay more than $200,000 each to four men who were tear gassed when still teenagers in the Darwin detention facility.

Exclusive: Greg Mullins calls for fossil fuel subsidies to be torn up as he blasts Labor over ‘incomprehensible’ coalmine approvals

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!

Hey, I'm putting together a list of places where you can buy ethical and sustainable stuff made in Australia.

As a quick and dirty example. check out this organisation that accredits Australian clothing brands.

Post linking on lemmy sucks but check out the post:

• Navigate to the post from !breathe@slrpnk.net
• Aussie.zone link

Alternative title: Gutless worm flees the mess he made, having extracted the maximum personal wealth he could at the expense of staff, customers, and the public

ABC's Resources page for the upcoming referendum

Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry is calling on the state government to create an independent watchdog to tackle police complaints, a First Nations-controlled child protection system and to stop detaining children under the age of 16.

A very good read about the voice to parliament, I believe it addresses some of the concerns raised in the megathread.

A reminder that we encourage discussions about the voice itself to take place in the megathread

Low- to moderate-income Melburnians are being priced out of “affordable” housing, according to new research.

Just a heads up for those who feel like doing something for the day but haven't been focusing too much on the calendar.

Two-thirds of people want more transport funding to go into walking, cycling and public transport.

The decline in cycling probably shouldn't surprise us.

In the past 40 years, the percentage of children who walk or ride to school has dropped from 75% to 25%. Furthermore, cycling receives only about 2% of transport budgets.

As well as the three transport priorities, we can of course take many more actions that would help increase walking and cycling.

These measures include: boosting housing density, beautifying our neighbourhoods, programs to build people's confidence and skills to walk and cycle, such as beginners bike tours, and more frequent public transport.