Straight to the Pool Room #46: Top Posts from Australian Communities
Straight to the Pool Room #46: Top Posts from Australian Communities
These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week
Top 5 from Australia:
- Weekly Random Thread #46 14-11-2023
- Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800
- Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate
- McDonald's loses out in legal beef with Hungry Jack's
- [Satire] - People who build wind turbines at sea do not care if whales live or die. Monsters! | First Dog on the Moon
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- El Niño is laying the foundations for unprecedented global temperatures next year
- “Farcical:” Wind industry in shock as draft NSW guidelines say no to new wind projects
- NSW Planning backflips on wind energy map messaging: Everywhere is now suitable!
- Ferrero Group to rip out Australian hazelnut trees due to unsuitable climate
- Deciding on a koala community that will be interlinked with Aussie Enviro
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Renters in every capital city worse off as affordability in the regions deteriorates, Rental Affordability Index shows
- Government formally responds to Robodebt royal commission, revealing 16 public servants being investigated over scheme
- Qantas found guilty of illegally standing down worker over aircraft cleaning safety fears during COVID-19 pandemic
- Whistleblower David McBride declares ‘today I serve my country’ as trial starts over alleged leaking of war crime documents
- Tens of thousands gather across Australia for Israel-Gaza rallies
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- We could make most Australians richer and still save billions – it’s not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts
- Gregory Andrews used to be a senior Liberal advisor. Now he's 14 days into a climate action hunger strike
- Immigration detention explainer: how is Labor responding to the landmark high court ruling?
- How does Anthony Albanese's international travel stack up against other recent prime ministers?
- 'Call for a ceasefire now': Mehreen Faruqi and Penny Wong in heated debate over Gaza
Top 5 from World News:
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Here's the top posts from some of our major cities:
Top 5 from Melbourne:
- Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 18 Nov 2023
- Domino's getting desperate...
- Chain hurled at girl in wheelchair, dad assaulted 400m from police station, but no emergency response
- Victorian man planned to abuse baby, caught with 6,300 child sexual abuse files, jailed for 20 months
- Hundreds of compensation claims for pothole-damaged vehicles on Victorian roads rejected
Top 5 from Brisbane:
- Daily Discussion Thread - Sat Nov 18 2023
- Bin Chicken
- Man allegedly stabbed at Mantra on Mary hotel in Brisbane's CBD
- Daily Discussion Thread - Sun Nov 12 2023
- Brisbane City Council Meeting - 14 November 2023
Top 5 from Sydney:
- Daily Discussion Thread - Sun Nov 19 2023
- NSW Police 'overly defensive, even adversarial towards gay hate deaths inquiry
- NSW Police news: Identity of high-ranking NSW cop charged with drink-driving to remain secret
- Police confirm Sydney man Donald Gordon Buckley last seen in 1953 changed his identity and died decades later
- P-plater caught at more than 85km/h over the speed limit
Top 5 from Perth:
- Anti-vaxxers are winning local elections across Western Australia
- WA farmer suffers first hail 'wipe-out' as freak storm wreaks havoc during harvest
- Astrofest 2023 tonight!
- Perth CBD rescuers free man trapped in tiny cavity after falling between two buildings
- Cool Clouds
Top 5 from Canberra:
- Daily Discussion Thread - Sat Nov 18 2023
- ACT government prepared to 'go it alone' in banning engineered stone if national agreement isn't reached
- ‘Trifecta of non-compliance’: Contentious car park dispute finally comes to a conclusion in ACAT | Riotact
- Daily Discussion Thread - Fri Nov 17 2023
- Daily Discussion Thread - Thu Nov 16 2023
Top 5 from Adelaide: