Australia

Imagine Canada, Australia and New Zealand join the EU and adapt the Euro and become the global money currency. This would destroy the US economy and probably end Trumps second term immediately.

(Do not take it seriously)

I find this remarkable (and wonderfully recreshing) , in Australia we seemingly want to buy expensive housing to get on the grift.

As John Howard said, he was never approached by anyone about making housing more affordable, as well as Plibersek as Housing Minister in the Rudd government,.wbere before that election saying first home owners gramts where a bad idea as all they did was raise house prices, gets elected to government and increases the first home owners grant as her first task.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has indicated he would look to buy back the Port of Darwin from Chinese company Landbridge under a re-elected Labor government, the most significant move yet to bring the strategic asset once more under Australian ownership.

Mr Albanese said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp radio on April 4 the port needs to be “in Australian hands”, including the possibility that a private buyer would be sought to take control.

“We will enter into negotiations to do that,” Mr Albanese said. “That is what we’ve been doing informally through potential buyers up to this point already, and if it reaches a point where the Commonwealth needs to directly intervene, then we’d be prepared to do that.”

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Local man Don has told shopping centre security that he did not attack Coles by stealing an entire shopping cart full of groceries, claiming that he was simply balancing a trade deficit.

The thief announced a sweeping plan to steal 10% of all items from every store, which he claimed will help bring down the heavily inflated prices of groceries.

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The federal health department has accepted an expanded definition of infertility that would allow LGBTIQ+ couples and single people to be able to access Medicare rebates for assisted reproductive technology.

In short

The RSV Nuyina icebreaker is part-way though its first mission dedicated solely to marine science.

Along with understanding the impacts of warmer waters in the Antarctic region, scientists have been recording the rich and unique biodiversity — parts of which could be new to science.

What's next?

As the planet warms, scientists say Antarctica's Denman Glacier is a region of concern for sea-level rise, making the Nuyina's mission crucial to informing how humans adapt to climate change.

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The Australian government has ramped up scrutiny on the education centres in recent years over concerns that Beijing is using them to spread propaganda and spy on Chinese international students.

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There have been growing global concerns about the Chinese government's reach overseas through such education centres, with universities in America and Europe also choosing to close some of their branches.

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Confucius centres have now been removed from the campuses of the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland (UQ), the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

Several universities cited disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic as the reason for not renewing their CI contracts.

A spokesperson for UNSW said the university was developing its own programme in Chinese studies and is committed to "encouraging open dialogue in the China-Australia bilateral relationship".

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Full credit to the rouge republic of Western Australia on this one. What a friggin sick idea! Wish vicpol had the stones to do this.

They should scrap uniforms entirely imo

I'm generally a fan of pretty shit beer (XXXX is my day-to-day). But even I have my limits.

Back in the day, it was clearly Tooheys Red Bitter, but I think these even Red is getting a run for it's money, e.g. from Byron Bay Premium Lager, which is something like James Boags but with all the soul sucked out through the nostrils. Obviously Foster's fucking sucks too, but I don't think you can even buy their lager in Australia, the only place I ever drank it was on a Singapore airlines flight out of the country, and once in Paris. Though I just realised that "light ice" was theirs too, and my Grandparents somehow always had one bottle of that in their fridge in the 90s, and it was shit too.

Anyway, there's about a million types of beer produced in australia these days, and heaps of them suck, but I want to know if Red has been knocked off it's podium for the worst beer ever.

Red drinkers: fite me.

Didn't work out as she'd hoped I guess ?

The trial heard the "statement of notice" the woman handed to the care worker asserted she was "a living being sovereign to this land" who "hereby renounce and reject my former engagement with the courts… and their kronies (sic)… and disregard all orders as null and void".

Throughout the trial the woman regularly interrupted the proceedings, resulting in Judge Haesler finding her in contempt of court.

"[She] repeatedly interjected, directed personal insults to me and others, harassed witnesses (including her own [children]), refused my directions and orders and talked over me excessively," Judge Haesler wrote in a scathing judgement.

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The link on this post should take you to the voting page, cast your vote as a comment as explained. If the way we're doing it is confusing, just do the best you can, and we'll try to deliver a free and fair election with whatever we get! ;)

Its been fun exploring Aussie music from the last year with everyone, head over to the folks at jlai.lu over the next week or so as the international songs start getting nominated!

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20190657

Landmark report makes 34 recommendations to overhaul the superannuation sector, citing delays, poor customer service and ineffective procedures

From quaint beginnings as log crossings to sophisticated structures of modern transportation, timber bridges are interwoven in Australia's history.

And despite a number of government-owned timber bridges in Australia being in disrepair in the past decade, an engineer says there is still a place for clever uses of wood.

Over the decades, more than 200 bird species have been recorded at the EBO, which is wedged between Western Australia's remote south coast and arid Nullarbor Plain.

Originally a station on the Trans-Australian Telegraph Line, the remote property is now a known ornithological hotspot.

But for Ms Sobey, who has previously run as a Greens candidate for the federal seat of Farrer, the bush is the perfect escape from the "disappointment" of humanity.

I can emparhise with that feeling completely.

Research article referenced in the article (open access): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2025.2462988#abstract