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Laws to ban live sheep exports by 2028 pass parliament following lengthy debate
  • Most people in the meat industry agree it's a good move.
    It's only the unscrupulous and greedy ones that are kicking up a fuss.
    Just because we raise animals for slaughter doesn't mean we can't minimise the discomfort the animals experience.

  • www.abc.net.au Life expectancy in Australia has fallen for the first time in about 30 years

    It's the first time in more than 50 years that an infectious disease is among the five leading causes of death in Australia.

    Life expectancy in Australia has fallen for the first time in about 30 years
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    Australia explained to Americans
  • Adelaide ... associated with religion/church

    Please, tell me more about a place you've never been, but half remember hearing it's the "city of churches".

    https://profile.id.com.au/adelaide/religion

    51.3% of people had no religion

    https://profile.id.com.au/melbourne/religion

    49.1% of people had no religion

    https://profile.id.com.au/perth/religion

    43.8% of people had no religion

  • www.abc.net.au South Australian MP found guilty on four counts of deception over his misuse of accomodation allowance

    South Australian Independent MP Fraser Ellis has been found guilty of four counts of deception over his misuse of the Country Members Accommodation Allowance.

    South Australian MP found guilty on four counts of deception over his misuse of accomodation allowance

    I imagine he didn't bother considering the implications of being found guilty, as he's not used to negative consequences.

    I picture him miming this to his lawyer:

    !

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    As Fact Check signs off after 11 years, here's your guide to being your own fact checker
  • Whilst I didn't always agree with their pronouncements, having a fact checker at this time seems to me a very important thing.

    They include reference to "a new in-house verification reporting team, ABC News Verify", but that sounds like they'll only be verifying their own news, which is nice, but not the point.

  • www.abc.net.au As Fact Check signs off after 11 years, here's your guide to being your own fact checker

    Eleven years ago, the first formal fact check was published at the ABC. A lot has been fact checked between then and now — here's how to spot a dubious claim.

    As Fact Check signs off after 11 years, here's your guide to being your own fact checker
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    Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra
  • You could read David Leigh's book, in which he published the full decryption key: https://www.amazon.com/WikiLeaks-Inside-Julian-Assanges-Secrecy/dp/161039061X

    That's literally how he leaked it.

    The wikipedia article on it has the whole "he said - she said":
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assange's_War_on_Secrecy

    Including the lie that is frequently parroted about Assange not caring about people dying.

  • Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra
  • That was an editor at The Guardian, David Leigh.

  • Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra
  • This didn't happen, Wikileaks vetted information before releasing it for exactly this reason.

    Name one person.

  • Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says
  • Its technically US soil, so he could enter his plea there in a US court, but its the closest place to Australia, because he obviously refused to step foot on the American continent.

  • Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says
  • The US get to show just how tough they are on whistleblowers and their associates.
    Assange gets to go home.

    If I was him, I'd keep my head down and try to get to know my kids.

  • www.abc.net.au Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says

    WikiLeaks says its founder, Julian Assange, has been released from prison and has left the United Kingdom, shortly after court documents revealed a plea deal that would allow him to return to Australia.

    Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says
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    github.com Release 10.9.7 · jellyfin/jellyfin

    🚀 Jellyfin Server 10.9.7 We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 10.9.7! This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. As always,...

    Release 10.9.7 · jellyfin/jellyfin

    https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-7

    #Jellyfin Server 10.9.7 General Changes Fix HDR detection for 4K Blu-Ray BDMVs [PR #12166], by @Bond-009 Log album name and id in normalization task [PR #11911], by @Bond-009 Try to add extracted lyrics during scanning [PR #12126], by @gnattu Fix season backdrops [PR #12055], by @Shadowghost Rewrite PlaylistItemsProvider as ILocalMetadataProvider [PR #12053], by @Shadowghost Fix empty image folder removal for legacy locations [PR #12025], by @Shadowghost Fix season handling [PR #12050], by @Shadowghost Only cleanup children on specific exceptions [PR #12134], by @Shadowghost Remove incomplete mediatype restriction from playlists [PR #12024], by @Shadowghost Fix MicroDVD being recognized as DVDSUB subtitles [PR #12149], by @nyanmisaka Fix Cleanup Task metadata saving [PR #12123], by @Shadowghost Fix the Australian PG rating [PR #12043], by @oddstr13 Map IPv6 mapped IPv4 addresses back to IPv4 before running checks [PR #12094], by @Shadowghost Do not override if is set [PR #12120], by @Shadowghost Make m2ts extension case-insensitive [PR #12065], by @Rivenlalala Overwrite supported codecs for livetv [PR #12017], by @gnattu Check hearing impared flags with equality instead of contains [PR #12026], by @Bond-009 Fix local episode image thumb recognition [PR #12039], by @Shadowghost Fix video embedded image detection [PR #12031], by @nyanmisaka Fix replace all and respect metadata settings [PR #12028], by @Shadowghost Fix Music Brainz release group query [PR #12073], by @Shadowghost Fix mpeg-ts detection [PR #12046], by @gnattu Do not fail user deletion if we have no playlist folder [PR #12037], by @Shadowghost

    #Jellyfin Web 10.9.7 Security Disable eval support in pdfjs [PR #5694], by @thornbill Fix episode overview markdown render [PR #5680], by @Chaitanya-Shahare

    General Changes Fix loading hides too early [PR #5681], by @dmitrylyzo HtmlVideoPlayer fix and cleanup [PR #5718], by @dmitrylyzo

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    SA reverts to historic Housing Trust name, halts sale of homes in major public housing revamp
  • For those not aware of the history, the Housing Trust was originally a Liberal policy in SA.
    It was designed to keep rents under control and spur the construction industry, providing cheap basic accommodation.
    It implemented the revolutionary idea of spreading out the 'poor houses' amongst the 'normies' in the community, so you didn't end up with slums.

    Whilst I have never lived in one and hopefully would never have to, I'm glad that it's going to return to it's original mission because we need those things back.

  • glamadelaide.com.au SA reverts to historic Housing Trust name, halts sale of homes in major public housing revamp

    The South Australian government is renaming its housing authority back to the Housing Trust, stopping the sale of 580 properties and committing to unprecedented public housing expansion by 2026.

    SA reverts to historic Housing Trust name, halts sale of homes in major public housing revamp
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    WA now has the 'toughest firearms laws' in the country. So who can keep their guns?
  • I didn't say they were great.
    I'm saying that the current rise in minors is a symptom of voter dissatisfaction.

    These changes to WA law related to firearms are sold to the general public as being "tough on crime" or in some nebulous way "making communities safer", when realistically they won't impact criminals in any but the most tangential way.

    What is going to happen is that someone who is a law abiding citizen, already subject to all sorts of regulatory compliance, is going to have decide which of their guns they can most easily forgo to get under an arbitrary cap.

    If you don't like guns, lets use a metaphor and imagine you're a golfer who is now forced to choose whether they are going to forgo the putter, the sand wedge, the iron or the wood - because people who don't even play golf have decided you can only have 3.

  • WA now has the 'toughest firearms laws' in the country. So who can keep their guns?
  • There are very few people, even in a dyed in community like shooting, that are so one eyed as to wholly pivot their vote on a single issue.
    But it has lead directly to minor parties and independents gaining traction in regional areas (places where gun owners per capita are higher).
    This is why groups like Shooters Fishers and Farmers sprung up.

  • Does the Coalition’s case for nuclear power stack up? We factcheck seven key claims
  • the cheapest and most widespread nuclear reactor design

    Can you share this knowledge, please?

  • WA now has the 'toughest firearms laws' in the country. So who can keep their guns?
  • This specific image from the article has me cringing:

    Argh my eye

  • www.abc.net.au WA now has the 'toughest firearms laws' in the country. So who can keep their guns?

    The WA government says its new firearms laws are the toughest in the country, “making explicit that the possession and use of a firearm is a privilege but not a right”, according to the police minister.

    WA now has the 'toughest firearms laws' in the country. So who can keep their guns?
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    Coalition announces where they want to build nuclear power stations
  • So 450 x 1.8 = $810B

    (I’m assuming I haven’t made a mistake about the 14 hours of storage and the converting between GW and GWh).

    You have, that $1.8B would get 14GWh, not 1.
    So 450 / 14 = 32.2
    32.2 * 1.8 = $57.96B

    These are all back of the envelope numbers of course, but 58 is ~ 14 times less than 810.

    Would their seven proposed nuclear stations be cheaper than $810 Billion?

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-22/nuclear-power-double-the-cost-of-renewables/103868728

    CSIRO has cranked these numbers out in a whole bunch of configurations.

    In short: Australia's leading scientific organisation found it would cost at least $8.5 billion to build a large-scale nuclear power plant in the country.

    8.5 * 7 = $59.5B

    So it's within the ballpark to build 7 nuclear powerplants, compared to 33 (more likely less but bigger) off river pumped hydro locations.

    Which don't cost as much to run, have no "scary" nuclear and can be operable much sooner, integrating with the existing infrastructure (instead of replacing it, as Nuclear effectively would have to).

    If we build even one Nuclear power plant, we're going to see continuing solar and wind curtailment, exactly like they do with coal right now - which will effectively set an expensive floor on power prices.

    Nuclear isn't happening if we follow the science, the money and the NIMBY sentiment.

    Edit to add:
    The BIGGEST difference in my mind is where the money will come from.
    No financial institution will touch Nuclear, it would have to be tax dollars.
    Whilst private companies are always angling for government subsidy, they are also clamouring to invest in this themselves.

    A quick google search gives me a private example that is projected to come online this year: https://genexpower.com.au/250mw-kidston-pumped-storage-hydro-project/

    It's only 2GWh, but it's going to start contributing to the end of coal by the end of this year, which ignoring the environmental benefit, is going to reduce wholesale power prices.

    Waiting for Nuclear will make power prices worse, as the interim calls for continuing to run the coal and gas, which isn't going to make it 15 years, so new coal (or more likely a buttload more gas) will have to be built.
    Which is going to RAISE prices, as it's no longer just running costs on paid off installations, it's repaying loans on new constructions.

  • glamadelaide.com.au South Australia's most awesome donut named

    Browns Barossa Donuts in Tanunda has won Jodie & Hayesy's Most Awesome Donut Competition on Nova 919.

    South Australia's most awesome donut named

    Tanunda isn't that far. And fat+sugar is my favourite food group!

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    www.abc.net.au New mobile phone detection cameras to catch distracted drivers on busy Adelaide roads

    South Australian drivers will be given a three-month "educational period" as new mobile phone detection cameras are officially switched on.

    New mobile phone detection cameras to catch distracted drivers on busy Adelaide roads

    Time to get a windscreen/dash mount people. Or get a carplay/android auto head unit - they're really good.

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    Coalition announces where they want to build nuclear power stations
  • That source doesn’t have a link to their paper that works.

    Yeah, link rot.
    I did some googling for you: https://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/Low Emission Fossil Scenarios.pdf

  • Coalition announces where they want to build nuclear power stations
  • But as far as I know we can’t build anywhere near enough hydro in Australia.

    https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp2021/AustralianElectricityOptionsPumpedHydro

    A study at the Australian National University (ANU) identified about 3,000 low-cost potential sites around Australia with head typically better than 300 metres and storage larger than one gigalitre (see Figure 3). The sites identified have a combined energy storage potential of around 163,000 GWh. To put this into perspective, a transition to a 100% renewable electricity system would need 450 GWh of PHES storage. The potential pumped hydro energy storage resource is almost 300 times more than required. Developers can afford to be very selective since only about 20 sites (the best 0.1% of sites) would be required to support 100% renewable electricity generation.

    Emphasis mine.

  • Coalition announces where they want to build nuclear power stations
  • Let me paraphrase the LNP here:
    "Private companies have researched Nuclear and decided it's not cost effective."
    "Financial institutions have investigated Nuclear and decided they WILL NOT INVEST."
    "But our financial backers at the Mineral Council and the private companies dragging the last of the profit out of their end of life coal power stations are insisting that we continue with our current market AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, so we've decided to announce an extremely long term plan, to scare private investment out of renewables short term."
    "Don't worry, between NIMBYs in the target areas, laws surrounding nuclear energy, lack of local expertise and the general unsuitability of Nuclear for our widely dispersed yet small population, we won't actually build more than one of these things."
    "Jokes on them, we were only pretending to be retarded."

  • 2024 Winter Solstice events in Adelaide
  • For instance, personal favourite The Prancing Pony has a special menu on: https://prancingponybrewery.com.au/event/winter-solstice-celebration/

    However, NOLA in the city is repeating last years "Festival of Darkness" https://www.nolaadelaide.com/events/festival-of-darkness-2/ which seems like a good idea (especially as it's in the city, so if it turns out to be not so good, I'm surrounded by options).

  • 2024 Winter Solstice events in Adelaide

    glamadelaide.com.au Your guide to 2024 Winter Solstice events in Adelaide

    From epic yoga sessions, to paddle evenings and beer festivals, the Winter Solstice is bringing some great events to SA this year.

    Your guide to 2024 Winter Solstice events in Adelaide

    The next few days shows a host of venues offering special events on the solstice theme. Is anyone in here aware of anything else not listed at the link?

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    www.theguardian.com Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economy

    Mining magnate says investors need certainty as opposition’s climate policy comes under increasing scrutiny

    Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economy

    cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/10841937

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    www.theguardian.com Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economy

    Mining magnate says investors need certainty as opposition’s climate policy comes under increasing scrutiny

    Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economy
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    www.theguardian.com Coalition to impose ‘cap’ on renewable energy investment, Nationals leader says

    David Littleproud claims Australia doesn’t need ‘large-scale industrial wind farms’ like the planned offshore zone south of Sydney

    Coalition to impose ‘cap’ on renewable energy investment, Nationals leader says
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    www.abc.net.au Opposition vows to scrap NSW offshore wind farms in Labor heartland

    During a rare visit to Wollongong, National Party leader David Littleproud confirms that, if elected, the opposition will scrap both offshore wind zones in New South Wales.

    Opposition vows to scrap NSW offshore wind farms in Labor heartland
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    www.indaily.com.au Private e-scooters to get legal green light - InDaily

    Private e-scooters may be ridden on South Australian roads and in public areas without registration or a licence under proposed legislation.

    Private e-scooters to get legal green light - InDaily

    Having skimmed the proposed legislation, it looks like scooters are limited to 10kph but "personal mobility devices" can do 25. Sometimes.

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    www.abc.net.au Fake job ads waste applicants' time and harm their wellbeing. So why are companies posting them?

    Fake job listings are increasingly used by companies to give the illusion they're thriving and to placate overworked staff. If you're applying for work, there are plenty of clues to look out for to avoid wasting your time.

    Fake job ads waste applicants' time and harm their wellbeing. So why are companies posting them?

    It's been a long time since I was on the job market, but it was certainly disheartening how low the response ratio was. I must have sent out 40 applications for every response, even an acknowledgement of receipt was rare.

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    www.abc.net.au Terminally ill man admits to being 'bicycle bandit' who terrorised victims at gunpoint

    South Australia's notorious "bicycle bandit", accused of carrying out armed hold-ups over a decade, has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of aggravated robbery.

    Terminally ill man admits to being 'bicycle bandit' who terrorised victims at gunpoint
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    glamadelaide.com.au SA households to receive additional $243.90 payment this week in cost of living boost

    The aim is to provide immediate financial support to South Australians on low or fixed incomes, particularly as the winter season begins and households face escalating energy expenses.

    SA households to receive additional $243.90 payment this week in cost of living boost
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    glamadelaide.com.au First train tested along new Port Dock spur line, marking milestone in $51m Adelaide revival project

    The inaugural test run of the Port Dock Railway spur line marks a major advancement in the $51 million project aimed at rejuvenating Port Adelaide's transport system, with complete operations beginning in August.

    First train tested along new Port Dock spur line, marking milestone in $51m Adelaide revival project
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    'Own goal': One Nation mocks Robert Irwin's legal threat to sue over cartoon
  • A parody mimics an original work directly.

    This is One Nation abusing the copyright exception of "Parody or Satire" to deliberately to stir up controversy for their own gain.

    He might not have a legal case, but using a famous persons likeness without their permission is dirty.