I was hoping we’d get some discussion happening. If the title of the article put you off, the content is more nuanced.

I know a couple of millennials who were able to do some sleight of hand with renting/not renting and it did help them to get a foot in the door, but this was about 10-12 years ago.

For anyone interested, there’s a PETITION active right now by the Australian Institute.

The Trump Administration has announced a review of AUKUS, joining the UK in reviewing the joint security pact. Australia now has a real chance to escape this disastrous deal, which has not been properly scrutinised by the Australian Parliament.

AUKUS ties us ever closer to an increasingly volatile and aggressive America.

We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia’s interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into the AUKUS security pact.

https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parliamentary_inquiry_now_a

Glad to hear you’re taking steps.

The article points out that

while data suggested young people were now drinking less than previous generations… A smaller number of people are also drinking more, including binge drinking, resulting in harmful alcohol consumption and its adverse consequences."

If I’m not mistaken there is a sub culture of young people who drink shots, and that is very heavy-going on the liver (and a lot else besides).

Don’t let the bastards get you with their marketing and don’t get sucked in by drinking culture. 😪

Lol, we need more of your kind to ‘pollute’ our shores. It might encourage more locals to appreciate what we have. You might warn them personally what you have to contend with in the US as we seem to copy so much of popular US culture here.

Guardiani was only kidding!

Maybe it’s ‘Take Victoria Back to pre WW2 times’

The algorithm has no liability. The assessor has no override. The TGA says it falls outside its remit. AHPRA’s standard requires a registered practitioner — the IAT and I-CAN have none. The Department of Health and Ageing wrote the parameters. The minister set the policy.

A departmental spokesperson told MWM,

“The Government decided in 2024 that funding allocations and priority classifications would be determined by assessor input and application of algorithms, without the ability for an assessor to override the outcome.”

The accountability gap is not an accident. It is the design.

Is this supposed to be an efficient way to get NDIS and aged care patients to die sooner?

And the Christmas Beetle Count is on! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/christmas-beetle-count

I’ll put up post tomorrow.

The ideological poison that has overtaken Israeli society is programmed into them from babyhood. To see one country doing this is disgusting but to see so many liberal democracies that big talk their ‘values’ supporting such a morally compromised society (which allows them to keep committing mass killing and ethnic cleansing) says a lot about our supposed humanity. Are those power structures which support genocide at arm’s length the ones acting in a sub-human way?

The Zionists have used the WW2 Holocaust to OWN victimhood. No one has or can suffer as much as Jews. This is not a stance that many Jews take, let me be clear. It is a Zionist ploy to give Zionists the ‘right’ to ‘defend’ themselves by any means they like. It is a deception that is hurting non-Zionist Jews as well as anyone they see as an obstacle to their aims.

I am sorry to hear about your family. The Nazis were twisted and barbaric when it came to groups they thought did not fit into their racial ideology including people with disabilities, gay people, Jehova’s Witnesses, Roma, and then different nationalities including Slavs, as you say. The majority of Jews they exterminated were in fact, not German Jews, but Jews from Eastern Europe.

There has been a large amount of $$$ invested this year in pumping up the narrative about antisemitism, trying every possible source to make up for the failure of social media to get the Zionist message through. Less and less people are buying it. I could almost bet that Andrew Roberts and Simon Schama are on the payroll.

I heard the Doogue interview with Roberts and it was gobsmacking how much blatant propaganda this supposed historian was spouting.

(Jewish) holocaust education will soon become compulsory in Australian schools while we are told to ignore the Palestinian holocaust and ethnic cleansing happening in the here and now in front of our faces via our digital devices. We are being told not to believe our eyes or what genocide scholars and international institutions have also confirmed. We should believe what Zionist organisations say and do what they tell us to do.

I find shocking that our govt should go along with the order if they are truly serious about social cohesion. Holocaust or education about mass extermination should cover not only the Jewish experience but the experience of all groups that have been subjected to the evil criminality of authoritarian regimes, e.g under Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Milosevic and others. The Jewish community would garner a lot more respect this way than by having themselves singled out by Zionist influences. ‘Never again’ should include all peoples.

I feel for the progressive Jewish voices who are not being listened to.

We live in a technocracy which is becoming all-encompasing.

Have you considered getting an independent journo group to look into this? If what you are saying is accurate then it needs to be investigated.

Speak up folks. Loud. Complain to your local MPs and ask them if they’d like for you to vote for the Greens.

This seems to be promising. Now if anyone here is still on Fb, Insta etc, they can let others know.

Maybe 32.5%? Who’s quibbling? 😆

As for the immigrant groups people dislike, it’s always the latest ones. I’m surprised there’s no mention of Africans. When my parents immigrated in the early sixties we were all lumped together as ‘wogs’. People were not as fussy then!

But the rate rises mean that you pay more on your loan, doesn’t it? Anyway, you know your own financial situation and i hope you find the home that’s right for you and your family.

Yes, why aren’t our govts taxing Fb and so many other giant corporations and industries? I’m no economist but it just seems like lack of duty of care towards the Australian people. Instead, hit the masses with more interest rate rises.

We need to change the system.

shit that seems to have spread throughout many western democracies.