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please don’t make statements about other groups (like they are over-represented) if you can’t provide evidence

Your own quote in the body of this post states that First Nations women are more likely than any other woman to experience traumatic injury or death as a result of intimate partner violence, and neither you or the article linked to evidence for this.

If Telstra wasn't obligated to provide them I'm sure they wouldn't exist anymore, but I do still see the occasional person at one (particularly after calls were changed to be free from them).

On link aggregator sites like this you would normally put the article URL as the main link so people can click on your title and be taken to the article. Having a picture as the main link like you've done would normally be done if the picture was what you wanted to discuss. It's not a real problem how it is currently but it is different to how someone would normally post article links.

Luckily you can edit posts on Lemmy, so what they're suggesting is to go to edit the post and put the article URL in the field labelled URL so your post follows expected behaviour, and if you really wanted a link to the picture you could put that in the description like you currently have the article link.

Seems a sensible use for electric - last mile short range stuff with lots of stop/start, predictable max mileage, and return to base each night. Much better use case than linehaul or other long range stuff - I can't see that being sensible without a lot of infrastructure investment. As long as they have chargers sorted at the bases it should work (barring people forgetting to plug the thing in which will happen but hopefully not too often).

The range on these is still a bit low for a full days work even in short range urban delivery (claims up to 200km, so maybe 150 you can rely on) so I wonder if they're planning on spruiking for fast chargers at the bases - could fit in a morning and afternoon/evening run that way.

Geez, what a bunch of pearl clutchers.

I'd guess it's because fuel prices became something people were paying a lot more attention to, from both the general public and the government. When people go back to just going to the nearest station instead of checking online for prices and the government stops feeling pressured by fuel prices being in the news regularly I suspect the old games will start reappearing.

I will note that the local price differential that usually exists around me has markedly decreased - typically fuel gets noticeably more expensive when you drive the couple of km from Queanbeyan into the ACT (can be up around 20c/L difference) but it's currently pretty comparable.

I'd have a chance if the people who were supposed to change my meter for a smart meter the other day had actually done so, but they were thwarted by the lock on the meter boxes despite it being one that utility companies are supposed to have a master for (seems to work for the meter readers at least).

Does remind me though that I need to ask the strata manager exactly which master key they bought padlocks for and then get back to the electricity company to tell them to come back again equipped with said master. Could do with a few hours of free electricity to heat the place a little over winter.

At least it's slowing down I guess

The brick probably would be enough to stop it being opened (unless a particularly inquisitive cockatoo pushed it off) but the problem is that you have to remove the brick just before the garbage truck comes - if you don't then either the lifting mechanism flings the brick over the truck or you lose your brick into it.

This sort of holier than thou attitude is definitely one reason why people aren't flocking to the Greens...

The Victorians apparently had almost 25000 machetes between those put into their 45 bins and handed back from retailers, that's a lot for a tool you reckon nobody uses or buys. I seriously doubt that any major percentage of that came from the criminals - it was already illegal to carry machetes in shopping centres and have fights with them and they obviously didn't care about that so why would they hand any in just because that was also now illegal.

For the small chance you're not doing some sealioning bullshit with your questioning I've used mine to clear a considerable amount of lantana and crofton weed every time I head up to Grandad's property, as well as controlling a bunch of invasive running bamboo and clearing blackberry from single track runs. It's an effective and useful tool - I just don't make youtube videos of me using it so I guess it's not real in your world.

Who did the machete ban inconvenience exactly?

People who had one and used it for the actual purpose of the tool rather than street fights.

I've had one for a few years now and it's been quite useful, particularly when you want something more portable than a brushhook (which is another useful tool idiots would probably like to ban because it looks scary). I don't live in Victoria but the push to expand the ban would directly inconvenience me.

Believe it or not it's not just the far right who use edged tools, and it's annoying how often people who don't have or use one feel the need to pop up and speak authoritatively about how nobody should use one because they don't (this goes all the way down to pocket knives sadly).