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Straight to the Pool Room #49: 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 #49 05-12-2023
- Parking isn't as important for restaurants as the owners think it is
- After all those dole diaries and ‘mutual obligations’, it turns out Australia’s privatised employment services don’t work | Van Badham
- Catholic Education Tasmania head takes issue with mandatory consent education
- As a trans man, Max Simensen says he has unique insights everyone could learn from
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Andrew Forrest calls for fossil fuel bosses' 'heads on spikes' in extraordinary outburst
- Greed trumps climate as Origin bid voted down by dividend hungry shareholders
- Son of farmer who murdered environmental officer ordered to pay $405k land-clearing fine
- Windfarm plans in choppy waters as Coalition and One Nation whip up doubts
- Interested in studying climate change or sustainable living online for free?
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Faced with 'certain death', Professor Richard Scolyer is having an experimental treatment
- Greens move to establish Senate inquiry into allegations of price-gouging by Coles and Woolworths
- Outrage in Ballarat at white supremacist march, 15yo questioned over banned Nazi salute
- Man arrested in Arizona over religiously motivated terror attack at Wieambilla sent shooters 'end of days' ideological messages
- Catholic Education Tasmania head takes issue with mandatory consent education
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- Queensland premier to receive almost $50k pay bump as politicians granted 11 per cent salary increase over three years
- NZ has already held a supermarket study. Did it disrupt their duopoly?
Top 5 from World News:
Straight to the Pool Room #48: 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 #48 28-11-2023
- Employers push for staff to return to the office after working from home as commercial property values plunge
- Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed?
- Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw
- Elon Musk’s X is betting that Australia is too weak to protect its elections
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Case for gas as transition fuel falling apart on both economic and environmental costs
- 'It's basically dead': AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging
- “Outrage economy:” Sky News and Alan Jones in global list of climate misinformation
- CDS VIC - Victorian Container Deposit Scheme Xpost Aussie Frugal Living
- Homebuilders urged to flick electric switch as new gas connection ban looms | Riotact
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Federal government moves to ban Nazi salute after spike in anti-Semitism, racism
- From today voluntary assisted dying will be allowed in NSW. Mark wants to be one of the first to access it
- Bruce Lehrmann's defamation action was set to be a re-run of his trial, but some key evidence is unravelling
- Casket holding Cleveland Dodd's body lowered into the ground on Yamaji country after boy's death in custody
- Two protesters fined after more than 100 climate change protesters charged after blockade at Port of Newcastle
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- How are younger workers expected to compete with 'Generation Landlord'?
- Legalise Cannabis Party member waves cannabis in NSW parliament during bill introduction
- Powerful Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo sacked after investigation into backchannel lobbying
- Peter Dutton demands apology from Anika Wells after breakfast television 'paedophile protector' comments
- Australians Are Poor Now? - FriendlyJordies
Top 5 from World News:
Straight to the Pool Room #47: Top Posts from Australian Communities
These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week
Top 5 from Australia:
- Discussion on Concerns over Auto tl;dr bot
- Weekly Random Thread #47 21-11-2023
- Younger people now even cutting back on essentials, as older Australians spend up on cruises and restaurants
- No one can escape this housing crisis — it's coming for homeowners too
- Report critical of big four consultancies was censored by Australian government agency, academic claims
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Solar smashes more records, as coal power sent to another new low
- Clive Palmer fails in second attempt to overturn $6.5 billion coal mine refusal
- ‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarm
- Antarctica's ozone hole may not be mending as well as we thought, study says
- Bowen dumps RET for 32GW of auctions in massive policy shift to supercharge renewables
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Young people dominate pro-Palestine protest attendance
- Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns 'in the best interest of Optus' following nationwide outage
- Whether you work from home or in the office, here's how 'Big Brother' employers might be watching you
- Properties believed razed as massive bushfire continues to rage in Perth's north amid extreme spring weather
- The odds of becoming a doctor when you live west of the 'Red Rooster line'
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- Coal giant headhunts commissioner who oversaw agency investigating it for workplace deaths
- Peter Dutton links visas for Palestinians with prospect of a 'catastrophic outcome' for Australia
- Have our attitudes towards immigration changed ?
Top 5 from World News:
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:
Straight to the Pool Room #45: 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 #45 07-11-2023
- Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy
- Aussie households are spending less on streaming services, annual report reveals
- Melbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll finds
- Indefinite immigration detention ruled unlawful in landmark Australian high court decision
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Meat-loving Australia has no appetite for vegetarian diet to help planet, study finds
- Big rise in kangaroo collisions prompts appeal to country drivers: Don't leave them dying
- Coalition’s nuclear SMR poster boy cancels flagship project due to soaring costs
- The world has experienced its hottest 12 months on record, and El Niño is set to drive temperatures higher
- Researcher says feral bees face extinction as deadly mite spreads in swarms
Top 5 from Australian News:
- This psychologist groomed her client, then married her. Now 20 years of deception are coming undone
- After the driest September-October on record, much of Australia to cop severe thunderstorm activity
- Lawyer for driver in Daylesford crash says man is insulin-dependent diabetic who needed immediate treatment
- Aussie breaks world record by paddling in to surf 13-metre wave
- The inside account of how Commonwealth Bank tried to bury the scandal that sparked a royal commission
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- They risked their livelihoods to speak up, but these whistleblowers are warning others to stay silent
- Small modular nuclear reactor that was hailed by Coalition as future cancelled due to rising costs
- Greens stage Senate walkout in protest for Palestinians, call on government to support Israel-Gaza ceasefire
- White man's dark money: Meet the No campaign bankrollers
- CheckMate: Are koalas being clubbed to death to make way for a Queensland wind farm?
Top 5 from World News:
Straight to the Pool Room #44: 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 #44 31-10-2023
- YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!)
- John Howard says he ‘always had trouble’ with the concept of multiculturalism
- Australian producers to keep prosecco, feta and parmesan as European Union trade deal doomed
- This Soldier Threatened to Sue Me - Friendlyjordies
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Rooftop PV takes a bite out of everyone’s lunch as minimum demand records tumble again
- Rare white platypus named Bloop stuns researchers as genetic abnormality found
- Escaping underground: the eerie new age of bushfire bunkers
- Wildlife friendly netting
- Beetaloo Basin greenhouse emissions significantly underestimated, climate institute claims
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Only 2% of freight between Melbourne and Sydney goes by rail – putting Australia’s emissions targets at risk
- Elderly Aboriginal woman repeatedly dragged across the ground by government-funded security guards
- Coles subjecting employees to bag checks in crackdown on some of Australia’s lowest paid workers
- Greens and Coalition slam Australian abstention of United Nations vote for ceasefire in Gaza
- Major thunderstorm outbreak to deliver much needed rain to Queensland and NSW
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
Top 5 from World News:
Straight to the Pool Room #43: 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 #43 24-10-2023
- This seems to happen more and more recently
- 'Super rare, beautiful animal': White echidna spotted near Tasmania's Cradle Mountain
- The ‘Yes’ case responds: ‘It’s a white flag from Labor’
- Children and babies ‘at risk’ as childcare centres scramble for staff, insiders say
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Exhausted Queensland fire crews battle 420 bushfires in a week amid warnings of worst fire season in 70 years
- 'The public needs to know': Ecologists and climate scientists reveal devastating culture of suppression
- “The SEC is back:” Victoria flicks switch on state-owned utility in push to 95 pct renewables
- 'Super rare, beautiful animal': White echidna spotted near Tasmania's Cradle Mountain
- 'Irreversible, catastrophic impacts': UN warns humanity must act now to survive
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Neo-Nazis walk free from court, spared further jail time over attack on Victorian hikers
- Front page of yesterday's West Australian
- Bruce Lehrmann revealed as high-profile man charged with Toowoomba rape
- A full year of paid parental leave and no activity test on childcare subsidies among ideas put to government by women's taskforce - ABC News
- Zak Grieve freed on parole after serving 12 years of life sentence for murder he didn't take part in - ABC News
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- Indigenous leaders break their silence, call referendum defeat 'appalling and mean-spirited'
- Centrelink jobseeker payments suspended more than 450,000 times in three months
- Liberal MP delivers ultimatum to force Bridget Archer from opposition
- With Albanese in the US, Israel-Gaza conflict is shining a light on the differences between his deputies
Top 5 from World News:
- Israel claims dozens of Hamas fighters killed as Gazans face deadliest night of bombing, UN says 'clear violations' of international law committed
- Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza - Amnesty International
- Stop asking everyone to condemn Hamas
- Gigi Hadid TARGETED By ISRAELI STATE Online; MSM CENSOR Dissident Views On Palestine: Report
Straight to the Pool Room #42: 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 #42 17-10-2023
- ‘Oh fuck, I’ve let everyone down’ local AEC staffer realises he forgot to rig the vote like everyone said he would
- Sara Lee Crumbles as company heads to voluntary administration (headliner writers must've waited their whole career for that pun)
- Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News
- Fossil Fuel Voice to Parliament to Remain in Place — The Shovel
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- RET is still the best: Why it’s time to renew Australia’s renewable energy policy
- Seed bombing for native pollinators?
- We need new solutions to reach Australia’s 2030 renewable goals
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Indigenous communities overwhelmingly voted yes to Australia’s voice to parliament
- Today, I tried to call Centrelink 17 times. I got through to hold music once, then it hung up
- NSW will push on with First Nations treaty despite Voice referendum's defeat. Here's what it means
- Distinguished service medals awarded to army's top brass might be 'illegal'
- Lisa Wilkinson suing Network Ten for $370,000 over legal bills for Bruce Lehrmann defamation case
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- 'Not the end of the road': PM accepts referendum result, maps path forward for Indigenous recognition
- Days after Voice vote, Peter Dutton waters down Indigenous recognition commitment
- The libertarian think tank that helped build the ‘No’ case
- Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges
- Colours of Palestinian flag take over streets in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth
Top 5 from World News:
Straight to the Pool Room #41: Top Posts from Australian Communities
These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week
Top 5 from Australia:
- Splitting off Environment, Politics and News
- Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations
- Weekly Random Thread #41 10-10-2023
- ‘If they don’t comply, they die’: family of fatal NSW police shootings call for independent inquiry
- Still trying to get me
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Endangered nocturnal possum survey ‘done in daylight’
- Environment: Australia labelled a ‘Planet Wrecker’
- Tiny pocket parks make a big impact on urban living
- Australia doing ‘very poorly’ at protecting unique plants, researchers warn
- There's a hidden source of excess nutrients suffocating the Great Barrier Reef. We found it
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Heat kills more people in Australia than any other natural disasters. These researches are looking at a simple solution
- [satire] “How did this result happen and how did the debate get so toxic?” asks nation’s media that kept uncritically repeating Dutton’s racist lies
- Victoria's Jewish community encouraged not to fear and not to hide 'Jewishness'
- [satire] No Camp Claims It Received More Votes, in First Factually Correct Statement of Campaign — The Shovel
- From missing Anya's 'seven-second hugs' to raising childhood cancer research funds, NSW family turns grief into hope
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- Liberal MP Julian Leeser says no campaign’s American-style politics are ‘damaging’ Australia
- Foreign minister says 'very difficult' to judge from afar, as Israel vows to cut off food and water to Gaza
- We fact checked Jacinta Nampijinpa Price on Indigenous disadvantage. Here's what we found
- PM makes impassioned final Voice plea, Dutton repeats 'risky' claim as more than 9 million Australians still to vote
- How do I even begin to learn about Australian politics?
Top 5 from World News:
Straight to the Pool Room #40: Top Posts from Australian Communities
These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week
Top 5 from Australia:
- Referendum Q+A thread
- Weekly Random Thread #40 03-10-2023
- Should Australian cities adopt car-free days? - ABC listen
- Decision to allow wider truck bodies paves way for electrification of big rigs in Australia
- Why cyclists should NOT get the same fines as motorists | Car Culture 6 - Motonormativity
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- WA banishes loggers from old growth native forests
- It's estimated there are between 250 and 400 of these birds left in the wild — but there's no plan to save them
- Cadmium at 50,000 times the legal level found next to farm near disused gold mine, inquiry told
- Secret Forest: Australia rivals The Congo on deforestation, blocks media access to world scientists - Michael West
- 50 Scales of Grey: Crocodile lovemaking triggered by Chinook helicopters and thunder in central Queensland
Top 5 from Australian News:
- It's 175 years since William Arnott first made biscuits in this small-town bakery — and it's still running today
- ABC says it won’t reveal sources but does not rule out handing over footage of climate protesters to police
- Home Affairs and Immigration websites hit by denial-of-service cyber attacks
- Jason died the night before our wedding. Three years later, our daughter was born - ABC Everyday
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- Yes23 campaign asked to keep purple and white signs away from AEC voting centre signage
- Dutton hits back at home affairs minister's claim that the immigration system 'broke down' under his watch
Top 5 from World News:
Straight to the Pool Room #39: Top Posts from Australian Communities
These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week
Top 5 from Australia:
- Banner Photo
- Weekly Random Thread #39 26-09-2023
- Major car brands accused of trying to write 'loopholes' into Australia's looming fuel efficiency laws
- Australia’s wealthiest 20% worth 90 times the country’s poorest, new report reveals
- [Australia] Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- A farmer set a trap to catch whatever was killing his chooks. He caught a quoll extinct in SA for 130 years
- Koala lover here still looking for any discussions on conserving koala habitat
- Recovered RNA has put scientists one step closer to resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger
- As Antarctic sea ice continues its dramatic decline, we need more measurements and much better models to predict its future
- We should use Australia's environment laws to protect our 'living wonders' from new coal and gas projects
Top 5 from Australian News:
- This nurse has had to rescue clients 'abducted' by unscrupulous NDIS providers
- Australia has long debated this housing idea, but in Auckland it's already working
- COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in Australia last year, ABS data shows
- Federal Court grants injunctions against online piracy requested by Foxtel and Disney
- Senator claims former Qantas boss Alan Joyce could face jail if he avoids airline inquiry
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- Daniel Andrews resigns as premier of Victoria
- Another one bites the dust: Labor's national leader's border depleted again
- The Parable of the Politician
Top 5 from World News:
- Japanese scientists developing drug to grow new teeth in humans
- On a remote atoll, a concrete dome holds a leaking toxic timebomb
- 16-year-old arrested after cutting down of iconic Robin Hood tree in northern England
- Nuclear bombs vaporised parts of the Bikini Atoll decades ago. What are the lasting impacts today?
Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses
www.abc.net.au Opting out of targeted ads, and a 'right to be forgotten': Government agrees to sweeping privacy reforms
The government has agreed to proposals that would allow Australians to opt out of targeted advertising, require search engines to "de-index" certain information about them, and draw small businesses into Australia's privacy scheme.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/4017115
> Related material, not all as optimistic as the ABC news article: > - Video interview with Dr Katharine Kemp. > - Government response to the Privacy Act Review Report. > - Govt kicks Privacy Act can down the road - > Only commits to a handful of review recommendations.. >
Straight to the Pool Room #38: 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 #38 19-09-2023
- Rooftop solar eats up all demand in South Australia, world’s most renewable grid
- Scientists take out full-page New York Times ad calling on Australia to end ‘climate annihilation’
- Australian journalist calls her baby ‘Methamphetamine Rules’ as a test of naming regulations
- Tens of thousands of Australians hit the streets in support of the October 14 referendum
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Australians support fossil fuel industry paying for the costs of climate change
- Fenced in from predators, these numbats are thrilling ecologists as they repopulate the Eyre Peninsula
- Colonists upended Aboriginal farming, growing grain and running sheep on rich yamfields, and cattle on arid grainlands
- Honeypot ant honey used in Indigenous traditional medicine effective against golden staph bacteria
- [Opinion] Don’t mention the coal: Australian Government tries to walk both sides of climate policy.
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Poll is Complete Satire is allowed
- [satire] Guy who says unemployment should rise weirdly doesn’t want to lose his own job
- Australians left with rotting teeth, unable to smile in 'completely unaffordable' dental system
- Fears lives could be lost due to lack of volunteer rural firefighters during 'traumatic fire season'
- Dating apps threatened with regulation unless they improve safety
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- Emotion
- Labor scraps Peter Dutton's billion-dollar military drone plan
- Scheme to ask by-election rival about her pregnancy plans ends in 'regret' from candidate
Top 5 from World News:
Straight to the Pool Room #37: 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 #37 12-09-2023
- Keeping cats indoors is a rare solution where everybody wins
- Hundreds of Aboriginal children likely buried in unmarked graves at three WA missions
- Came across this guy catching some rays in Sydney today
- Intergenerational Report 2023: Australian economy built on rent seekers who produce nothing
Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:
- Bit by bit microplastics from tyres are polluting our waterways
- Australia's iconic eucalyptus was shipped across the globe. Now, this flammable tree has 'gone feral'
- "Complete habitat destruction" - scientists rally against NSW Forestry Corporation clear felling
- Loopholes and carve-outs: how tricky accounting makes a farce of carbon neutral claims
- Environment watchdog to take mine giant to court for polluting national park
Top 5 from Australian News:
- Satire Content in the Australian News Community
- Five cars destroyed at Sydney Airport after EV battery explosion
- Australian greyhound Katoby disappeared after retirement. We found him on a Chinese breeding site
- NT fire crews battle outback bushfire triple the size of the ACT
- Moderation
Top 5 from Australian Politics:
- they were warned!
- Mark McGowan pressured EPA boss to drop tough emissions guidelines in 'extraordinary' phone call
- Decision not to light up Opera House for King Charles coronation was political, emails reveal
- Every time there are 'rumours' that a leader is unpopular
- Government's $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund passes parliament - ABC News
Top 5 from World News: