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Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers

by zero_gravitas
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Head of nursing body sacked following financial investigation

by skribe
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Budget 2024: "You better fucking re-elect us" - By Jim Chalmers – The Chaser

by lastjunkieonearth
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Why won't 'Fluffy' the red-bellied black snake leave Lisa's car?

by zero_gravitas
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Petition to establish and enforce consumer protections for digital software.

by DemSpud
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‘Hate is not a family value’: protesters clash as Sydney council considers rescinding same-sex parenting book ban

by vividspecter
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Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait

by vividspecter
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If you're seeing this, I'm in jail.

by ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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Australia's housing crisis in 10 graphs, from the federal budget

by Baku
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Budget Night Thread

by kerr
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Car spotting game

by fivemmvegemite
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Former spy for China's secret police reveals operations targeting dissidents in Australia and overseas

by 0x815
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‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world

by Hanrahan
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Media Release: The BOM issues a warning for a G4 geomagnetic storm

by WaterWaiver
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Melbourne man 'dumbfounded' after finding out he lost Australian citizenship 33 years ago

by Hanrahan
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Stop Killing Games Australian Petition - Open for Signature Until **20 May 2024**

by Rentlar
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15 Reasons I may not be riding in the bike lane

by Zagorath
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Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy

by MHLoppy
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WFH, paid overtime: What Australian workers really want

by Zagorath
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Australian Eurovision performer posts in support of Palestine 🍉

by zero_gravitas
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Our friend is going to jail.

by BeeDemocracy
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What is the PRRT? (how gas companies dodge tax)

by quoll
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David McBride vs Goliath: chapter infinity minus 5000: sentencing. Come to Canberra Supreme Court May 14, 8am rally. #operation500

by BeeDemocracy
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Health and fitness

by CEOofmyhouse56
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David McBride vs Goliath in a nutshell

by BeeDemocracy
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Chinese fighter jet endangered Australian military helicopter during "unsafe" and "unacceptable" confrontation over the Yellow Sea, Australia says

by tardigrada
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Koala 'on a mission' surprises athletes in Ironman Australia triathlon

by Zagorath
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Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades

by Baku
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HECS changes to see $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out'

by veroxii
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Investors with questions: how a ‘clean food’ farm scheme born of Covid vaccine fears descended into rancour

by vividspecter
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SBS advertising Tucker Carlson event in Aus

by Quokka
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The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it

by melbaboutown
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Recommend me a music streaming service?

by 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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Sex work decriminalised in Queensland after decades of campaigning

by vividspecter
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'I don't think it's that hard': The former cop who says he knows how to save more domestic violence victims

by ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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The budget reveals what Australia's governments actually care about. And Labor has chosen to keep jobseekers in poverty | Greg Jericho

by vividspecter
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Qantas investigating reports customers have access to other passengers' information on app

by 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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[Microblog] UQ students standing in solidarity with Palestine

by Jim
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Foreign investment proposals with implications for Australia’s strategic or economic security will face tougher scrutiny, under a policy overhaul to be announced by Treasurer Jim Chalmers

by tardigrada
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India's Modi government operated 'nest of spies' in Australia before being disrupted by ASIO

by ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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Stop Killing Games: Petition EN6080 - Define & enforce consumers' ownership rights for digital software

by PetulantBandicoot
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Why the Guardian is investigating the deep failings in Australia’s school system

by vividspecter
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The government ordered an investigation into last year's Optus outage. Now its findings are in

by 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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Indigenous Australians: First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism

by tardigrada
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School refusal and the Australian families gripped by blame, shame, and the fear of a lost education

by Baku
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How many of you 9-5s have been given work from home forever ?

by YⓄ乙
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We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago

by 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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‘A deeply colonial backward step’: why are donors, staff and politicians up in arms about the South Australian Museum?

by vividspecter
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'Enough’: thousands to join protests across Australia opposing violence against women

by tardigrada
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Captain Cook gave this island [Magnetic Island] the wrong name, but somehow got it right

by Zagorath
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Inside the plan that could rein in vice chancellor salaries and overhaul uni boards

by Railison
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Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely

by MHLoppy
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Gold Coast City Council under investigation after major sewage spill into Albert River

by Hanrahan
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Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’

by tardigrada
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Australia's first solar garden sprouts in Grong Grong, taking the renewables boom to the community

by Hanrahan
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'Nothing short of horrifying': Rental affordability in Australia the worst it's ever been, report says

by zero_gravitas
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No issues with climate change or Cost of Living then huh ?

by Hanrahan
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Aurora Australis goes 'berserk' across South Australian and Tasmanian skies

by MHLoppy
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There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF?

by TinyBreak
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Sydney church stabbing: Australian bishop forgives alleged attacker

by n7gifmdn
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4th Place! - Lemmyvision - The Results Are In!!

by ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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Teenager accused of church attack received good behaviour bond for knife crime

by TinyBreak
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Man in custody, four people injured in alleged stabbing incident at Sydney church

by 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities

by vividspecter
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Anthony Albanese has praised a lone police officer who pursued a man on a stabbing spree through a shopping mall, saying ‘there is no doubt that she saved lives through her action’

by 0x815
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Proposed new Australian broadcast rules: how much sport will you be able to watch for free?

by vividspecter
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Forrest’s Facebook fight dropped by Australian prosecutors

by Gorgritch_Umie_Killa
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Chris Uhlmann joins Sky News as analyst and contributor

by rainynight65
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Trial finds cashless gaming makes little difference to gambling behaviour on pokies

by zero_gravitas
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Molly the magpie is homeward bound, but carers barred from using bird for commercial gain

by 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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Nick Powell [horticulturalist] speaks up about Bunnings

by tavu
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Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down

by Hanrahan
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Australian fossil car industry spends over $500 per vehicle on advertising

by vividspecter
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I'm Alive (as of April 2024) - FriendlyJordies

by ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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While Australia’s relations with China have warmed, data shows economic ties are at their lowest levels in more than five years and are unlikely to bounce back

by tardigrada
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US President Joe Biden has said that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

by tardigrada
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Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors

by useless_modern_god
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Scott Morrison-era ‘accounting tricks’ to cost public schools $13bn over next five years

by rainynight65
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(NSW) LGBT Equality Bill Is Now Open For Consultation: Here's Why You Should Fill The Online Survey - Star Observer

by vividspecter
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Vote for your favourite Lemmyvision songs!

by ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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The rise of financial sovereignty — and why some Australians believe they don't have to pay tax - ABC News

by Hanrahan
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Life on Willis Island in the Coral Sea, one of the world's most remote weather stations

by zero_gravitas
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Whether Australia’s budget has a surplus tells us little about the government’s worth – it’s all on the choices made | Greg Jericho

by brisk
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An Australian citizen under surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party: "I’m not the only China scholar who lives in fear of abduction or assassination"

by tardigrada
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Daylight saving has 80% support in Australia and a majority in every state

by Ilandar
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How a Taylor Swift faux pas led to the upending of Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case's final days

by ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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Spending a billion dollars to bring solar manufacturing back to Australia is 'worth a shot', researchers say

by tardigrada
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TIL Julia Gillard has a podcast, on which she interviews prominent women from a range of fields

by Zagorath
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A mere 57 mega polluters produce 80 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, new analysis shows

by Nath
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An Australian aid worker has been killed in Gaza by an IDF strike

by assassinatedbyCIA
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Brock got the news the day he asked for repairs – one of 30,000 NSW renters evicted without a reason each year

by vividspecter
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Federal Court publishes affidavit detailing Seven Network payments to Bruce Lehrmann, including for sex, drugs

by vividspecter
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Australian aid worker 'Zomi' Frankcom killed by apparent Israeli air strike

by 0x815
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‘Poison portal’: US and UK could send nuclear waste to Australia under Aukus, inquiry told

by maniacalmanicmania
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‘We know the community is over it’: how self-regulation of gambling ads came unstuck minutes into an AFL game

by vividspecter
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Measles alert for Sydney as experts call for improvement in indoor air quality

by vividspecter
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Happy Easter!

by Baku
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Royel Otis - Heading for the Door is our Lemmyvision Nomination

by ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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Think $5.50 is too much for a flat white? Actually it’s too cheap, and our world-famous cafes are paying the price

by Ilandar
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We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago

by Nath
27