Many genXers and boomers arent able to critically evaluate social media with the distrust that it’s earned. They came from an age where the person who presented the opinion was real and could be held accountable for it. i dont think they have a visceral feel for how almost everything they see now has been put in front of them with the intent to sell something or shape their opinion. They believe it when some unaccountable fake account tells them something with conviction. (Which is why Im not on r/australia and use Fedeverse/Lemmy ❤️)

“Suggest” and “could be used” are weasel words already. When they're spoken by researchers with no say in how the budget is spent, i cant help feeling sceptical.

More likely it gets lost into general revenue with only some big media buys and ad campaigns to show for it; (with message variations of “Govt good😀, Sugar bad☹️” )

So this these “initiatives funded by the tax”, this will be dental in medicare?….right?

Yeah whinge away. We don't care. Our country, our rules.

Crocodile tears. Albanese’s mother would probably have been homeless and considerably poorer if it was now under his PMship.

Hanson and albanese are both wealthy crocodiles staging a tiff for kayfabe’s sake.

The fascist and the neoliberal both want no public housing and people on Centrelink to be in poverty

Someone should pitch the reality show “Farmer wants a Slave”.

Crushing the bikes so wastefully reminds me of deodand in the middle ages, like when they tried and punished a statue for falling on someone.

“The bikes are evil and they too must be punished”

They want it weakened for them.

Once theyve ingested everyone else's work, copyright will be pursued with a vengeance by other means. Trying to train your own specialised LLM to save on tokens using their outputs will soon likely be forbidden under “AI weapons of mass destruction apocalypse terrorism act (that we’re the only ones who are allowed to do it even though we’ve been recklessly irresponsible so far)” and attract a 20 year prison sentence. They just tell our govt what they want and they obligingly give it to them.

Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.

Solid suggestions but missed “lock food in the car or esky” At Mambray creek from our deckchairs, we watched a 1.5m water monitor ransack the campsite opposite us over half an hour. Ate scraps out of their firepit, Managed to get its front half into their food bag hanging on the camp kitchen with its tail whipping around in circles. It even licked a couple of their mugs on the table. The grandad came back and i told him to wash his cups because a goanna had been licking them. He just simpered and avoided my eyes as if i was crazy.

No longer Adelaide, nor Darwin. (Aukus sub construction, US Marine base.)

They’ve now become targets.

In sure this approach worked well for them before the consequences of climate change started appearing.

Talking like this on the cusp of this mega El Nino summer is either politically very brave or very foolish.

”Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.”

The photos are deceptive - taken with long exposure. The bioluminescence is actually very faint. You need a dark night with no clouds to see them glow. I’ve seen them closer to Adelaide - in Marc Oliphant Conservation Park, Kuitpo forest and Belair National Park. If anyone is interested I can share exact locations.

This guy is why insurance is expensive.

Pity. She was a great communicator.

Being located nearby doesn't mean much so long as the IT side is set up securely.

My experience is Unis now take this seriously and have compulsory induction courses for staff on foreign interference. I’ve had to do them.

It also seems a bit hypocritical considering defence signals directorate and other Australian intelligence agencies are so inappropriately influenced by their US equivalents. The needs of Australians seem to come a very distant second in their priorities compared to what US govt and business want. Im guessing it’s because orgs like ASIO and DSD have gotten too lazy to develop their own sources, and have come to rely mostly on secondhand US intelligence. Their worldview is shaped by whatever heavily curated intelligence the US chooses to feed them. This in turn flows through to the advice they give to the Foreign minister… I could be wrong, but it would seem to explain a lot of the decisions she makes.

Preserve Koala habitat that may be annually burnt out by the effects of global heating, driven in part by the extra carbon burned because of the deal for not chopping it down. Its a shit deal either way. I don't envy anyone making this decision between such poor (and artificially contrived ) outcomes.

The gambling lobbyists voted down most of the ideas in their breakfast meeting with our PM.

The public scare campaign seems a bit redundant. In the halls of parliament house they already have several lobbyists schooling around each of our pollies like remoras. The public are an afterthought for this issue.

Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.

I think people underestimate all the potential channels for lobbying. Try to regulate the obvious channels and lobbyists will slither just out of sight and influence the people you aren't watching.

Trading bribes and future jobs for introductions and influence is easy in a major political party with their powerbrokers and informal mates networks.

Im starting to wonder if data centres are a pretext to grab and hold licenses to as much fresh water as possible. Awaiting the announcement of their pivot to water speculating