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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

I'm curious if it's actually preference or if it's supply side. From casual browsing Toyota looks to have completely eliminated their small cars (e.g. Echo) and their smaller cars (e.g. Yaris) are getting bigger and more SUV-like. Volvo stopped selling their station wagons in favour of SUVs and I can't think of any station wagons left on the market. Most of the EVs in the Australian market seem to be SUV-like, especially the MGs which have dominated the "remotely affordable" category for a while.

It's possible the manufacturers are just responding to consumer demands, but I'd like to see some evidence of who's driving the change.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there any technical or policy reason that they need a new leader? Or did Adam Bandt just step down? Presumably most of the parties that have no MPs still have a leader.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 39 points 2 weeks ago (24 children)

How many children died because Bill Gates lobbied for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine to be patented?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

Does it use Fabric or Neoforged?

More seriously this looks like a really neat way to build TUIs

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

I want a small EV

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Some of this is the fault of the design of Word. Even modern versions have direct formatting in the Home tab, to the left (chronologically "before" for people used to left-to-right paradigms) of the styles box. The styles box itself becomes rapidly less accessible if the window is not full sized.

If they moved direct formatting to a formatting tab, had a more focused concept of styles, and possibly repurposed some of the direct formatting buttons for quick style application, people would use them a lot more reliably without any training.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Material from breaches shows that during a portion of this period, she used the same password across multiple email addresses and online accounts, in contravention of well-established best practices for online security. (There is no indication that she used the password on government accounts.)

This is... not interesting

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's disappointing to see that an article with such a flaky premise is written by the political editor of Crikey.

The shift from purely environmental policy to a broad progressive platform that he ascribes to Adam Bandt was complete when Di Natale was party leader, possibly before but I'm not doing the research that this editor should have done to check.

Marginally more controversially, while I think Labor was probably successful at painting the Greens as "obstructive" over the HAFF, they did exactly what they should have; they voted against bad policy, negotiated with the government and got a hell of a lot better policy passed. What else could the job of a minor party possibly be?

Most controversially, I don't think the author is even wrong about the misalignment between who traditionally votes Greens and who their policies have the biggest impact on. But, the idea that they should therefore tailor policies to benefit their voters instead of, you know, maintaining anything resembling ideological integrity, is a gross "realpolitik"-style attitude that our political landscape could do without.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

Tape the cord to the top

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Peeeeeeeewdududududududududududuh

I use to live next to a silent crossing and it threw me every time, despite crossing it twice every week day for years

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do they have to be open for this or is closed fine?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 19 points 1 month ago

Chuck them in an open fire then get out your paraglider for a quick ascent

 

Furness recommended the Nacc revisit the controversial decision, which had already been the subject of 900 complaints when she promised in June to inquire into the matter.

Following the inspector’s recommendation, the Nacc will now appoint an “independent eminent person” to deliberate afresh on a possible corruption investigation into robodebt.

 

They found a 110 year old thylacine head in a bucket of ethanol in the back of a cupboard in a museum with RNA intact.

 

The National Anti-Corruption Commission Inspector has announced she has launched a formal investigation into the regulator’s refusal to investigate six public officials referred by the Royal Commission into Robodebt.

For anyone missing the significance, the Inspector announced "looking into" complaints about the NACC decision months ago, but this is the first time the word "investigation" has been used.

The distinction is important because once a formal “investigation” is commenced the NACC Inspector has additional powers, including the power to obtain documents.

 

Title edited down from first paragraph

Original title: "GUESS WHO? The $600,000 question at the heart of Robodebt"

 

former Queensland secretary Michael Ravbar – who’s been dismissed together with almost all other officials – said he would launch a challenge against the legislation passed last week to put the union into administration.

 

The decision by the National Anti-Corruption Commission not to investigate the six public servants over the Robodebt scandal appears to have been “infected by the bias of Commissioner Justice Paul Brereton and, if so, should now be disregarded”, says Stephen Charles AO KC, a former judge at the Victorian Court of Appeal and a former board member of the Centre of Public Integrity.

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