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[–] eureka@aussie.zone 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

aussie.zone, admin takes requests for new communities if we want them.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 4 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

If anything, I'd rather we leave that one abandoned and make one here where more Aussie users will see it.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 19 hours ago

Absolutely. Plenty of freely available PDFs and other formats online.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 5 points 19 hours ago

Exactly, for example just look at real cases of people born intersex and try and plot out which of them are 'more' or 'less' male. [Human] sex isn't binary and it isn't an orderable continuum. It's a complex result of reality and a simple binary model just isn't realistic.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I'm tired so please correct any mistakes.

If we just take the current count as-is (55% counted, 34 seats decided, 3 in doubt):

  • labor = 15
  • lib+nat = 10+2 = 12
  • greens = 4
  • one nation = 1
  • aus christians = 1
  • legalise cannabis = 1

19 votes is a majority.

  • If Labor get all three remaining, they end up with 18 and need any one extra vote to give them a majority.

  • But if Labor only get two and the other goes to Lib/Nat, only Lib, Nat or the Greens can give them a majority

  • If Lib+Nat get all three remaining, and if we assume for the sake of example that they always have one nation and aus christians, they still only have 17 and need either Green or Labor for a majority. Greens can also still give Labor a majority in this situation.

  • If, somehow, one nation, christians or cannabis get all three, they can give Labor a majority without Greens' help, but can't give Lib+Nats a majority without Greens.

The bottom line is, in any situation from here, Labor cannot form majority alone, and Labor+Greens will always form majority. However, if Labor are lucky, they could instead form a majority with Legalise Cannabis Australia, or another minor party, rather than Greens. And, obviously, Labor and Liberals can always form a majority on issues they agree on.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 39 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Hoarding a scarce, essential resource to make money is villain shit, yes. Get a real job, Margaret.

That said, the real villains are politicians for not outlawing housing investment. Privileged opportunists will do it until it's illegal.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago

There arr some great sailing guides on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

 

This is the B-plot of Utopia (2014) Season 4 Episode 8.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If we're going to be specific, then those restrictions just mean it's not FOSS according to the Free Software Foundation. The source is still open, it's auditable.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hello. We are a community talking about Australian News. While US policy is indirectly related, these outbreaks are part of a global trend rising since 2020.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, and abstaining only gives them a larger proportion of the votes.

Find the left wing candidates (the senate has some even if your local ballot doesn't) and preference them, if you want to help keep out Lib and Lab.

 

Summary:

Today, Australia’s 39 universities endorsed a dangerous and politicised definition of antisemitism which threatens academic freedom, will have a chilling effect on legitimate criticism of Israel, and risks institutionalising anti-Palestinian racism. They did so without meaningful consultation with Palestinian groups or diverse Jewish groups who are critical of Israel.

The Jewish Council of Australia strongly opposes the antisemitism definition developed by the Group of Eight (Go8) universities and adopted by Universities Australia. By categorising Palestinian political expression as inherently antisemitic, it will be unworkable and unenforceable, and stifle critical political debate, which is at the heart of any democratic society.

The definition dangerously conflates Jewish identities with support for the state of Israel and the political ideology of Zionism.

I was going to include some key dot points, but this statement is succinct enough that you should just read it, or at least skim it.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

Mate, give it another read. They're pointing out that foreign state interference in our military and society should be a number 1 priority for ASIO.

Antisemitism should absolutely be combatted, ASIO should be helping more, and I hope they stop wasting resources pretending that anti-Zionism is antisemitism and instead focus more on targeting actual antisemitism and the Zionist agitators encouraging it, along with the niche neo-Nazi scum trying to encourage it.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Is it all really genuine?

The only recent acts of antisemitism (not to be conflated with anti-Zionism) are from fringe neo-nazis (who have always been racist pricks) and a wave of vandalism and arson which, so far, appear to have been done for pay rather than sincere political motivation, with police saying they're looking into foreign actors funding them.

All that to say, I doubt it's genuine. The rest of the things I've seen called antisemitism in the mass media are simply protesting against the Zionist Regime ('Israel'), which disingenuously attempts to conflate itself with all Jewish peoples.

 

On Saturday the 25th of January, an Aboriginal inmate was bashed by the Corrective Services Immediate Action Team at Long Bay Correctional Centre.

After being tear-gassed and beaten by officers, he sustained head lacerations, a broken eye socket, broken ribs and ankle

It has been reported that he has not received any medical treatment for the past 5 days nor has he eaten anything since the incident,

This is inhuman behavior and unjustified. Withholding basic medical care and general health needs like food, nutrition and hydration is against the basic human rights.

The family will be attending this weekend on Saturday to protest and demand the end to brutalization in custody.

JOIN THE FAMILY THIS WEEKEND‼️ MEET ON THE CORNER OF ANZAC PDE & BILGA CR

 

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Anonymous Submission 🎄 24.12.24

Christmas came early when, this week, the NWA's door was shattered, and the inside of their office ruined with a mystery liquid.

Overnight, the head office of the fascist group National Workers Alliance (NWA) was attacked by anti-fascists. The NWA has been acting as a bridge for uniting the far right under the guise of "working class organizing".

NWA has hosted three fascist events this year, with members of neo-nazi groups such as NSN attending each one, along with other far right figures. They also march most Saturdays through so-called melbourne CBD.

This office was the location of the most recent (failed) recruitment event for NWA.

Solidarity with all anti-fascist action taken in this colony. We must continue to shut down fascism everywhere, in the streets, in the workplace and in the community.

No mercy for fascists.

I suppose the Polish Club are glad they didn't host this time. More context.

 

In memory of Jimmy Carter.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by eureka@aussie.zone to c/worldnews@aussie.zone
 

gday everyone. In response to the recent meta discussion, I've volunteered as a moderator for /c/worldnews.

The main reasons I volunteered is to make this comm less generic and more suited to aussie.zone, as well as reducing the stream of drive-by spam posts.

There are a few ways I aim to achieve this:

  • We'll change the community title. I've already picked an example title, Overseas News, although this is temporary for now so critique and suggestions are welcome! I picked this name to keep the basic idea of this comm clear while distinguishing us from generic "World News" clones, and so even a federated Lemmy user searching for world news comms to post to will have a fair chance to see we aren't just an extra opportunity for attention. (I understand it might be confusing that this is still https://aussie.zone/c/worldnews, but changing the comm's id is much harder and needs a serious discussion first)
  • We'll create basic rules to codify our expectations. I've added some already, and again, feedback is wanted. I've tried to keep them direct and lenient, based on the previous meta discussion and prior deletions from the modlog. Once we reach a general consensus, I will apply them to posts from the past few months, to set the stage. [edit: this is now in motion]

Let me know if you have other ideas. I'll be pretty hands-off beyond removing blatant agenda spamming from outsiders and global rule violations, since this is a casual and open community and I have a job and hobbies ;)

 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/15787666

Speakers at the gala include war hawk David Weinberg and a Technion graduate talking about their recent duty in the IDF. Many Australian universities including UTS and USyd have partnerships with Technion.

Protest was announced to be taking place at 151 Castlereagh St, Sydney (near Town Hall Station).

The rally is organised by Stop the War on Palestine, and supported by UTS Staff for Palistine, NTEU for Palestine, PalSoc UTS, Students against War and Palestine Youth Movement.

 

Speakers at the gala include war hawk David Weinberg and a Technion graduate talking about their recent duty in the IDF. Many Australian universities including UTS and USyd have partnerships with Technion.

Protest was announced to be taking place at 151 Castlereagh St, Sydney (near Town Hall Station).

The rally is organised by Stop the War on Palestine, and supported by UTS Staff for Palistine, NTEU for Palestine, PalSoc UTS, Students against War and Palestine Youth Movement.

 

I realise that all the screenshots of evidence make this article look longer than it is, so I've written some bullet points, but the whole article is worth reading (if you're willing to handle content mentioned in the warnings). Breaking federal laws, offering lawyers to neo-Nazis, getting into tiffs with said neo-Nazis when they turn out to be misogynist turds, it's a ride.

Bullet-points

  • Louise recently ran as a candidate in the Victorian council elections, contesting the Melaleuca ward in the City of Kingston, in Melbourne’s South-East. [and came in second place]

  • She also ran the 'Victoria Says No' Twitter account
  • And has a Telegram account very clearly linked to that Twitter account and herself (used photos of herself as the avatar), which, among other account names, included 'Batwaff3n' (a reference to the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the Nazi Schutzstaffel). She constantly posted anti-Indigenous and antisemitic content, including while at work and about work as a Liberal Party member.
  • One of this account’s contributions is the creation of racist & antisemitic wildlife-themed Telegram sticker packs. These Telegram stickers are all in breach of the Australian Federal government’s anti-swastika legislation.

  • [...] this account made over 22,000 comments in the Telegram chat of Brisbane-based neo-Nazi Daniel Seery-Walker. They also commented in other chats belonging to Young Liberal turned neo-Nazi Stefan Eracleous and Proud Boy Tim Wilms. In June 2024, this account abruptly stops posting – only for a new account called Batwoman to take its place. As Batwoman, they explain that they lost access to their old account. This Batwoman account has posted nearly 3000 comments in Daniel Walker’s chat since June.

  • In 2022, Louise made a chaotic appearance on the podcast of American neo-Nazi Jovi Val as ‘Batwaffen’ to discuss her involvement in organising anti-Andrews ‘Kill The Bill’ rallies using the Dan Andrews Must Go Facebook group. When some trolls joined the call and accused her of a romantic entanglement with fellow ex Young Liberal-turned-NSN “treasurer” Stefan Eracleous, she explained that she didn’t have time to discuss such matters because she was doing the podcast from her desk at work.

  • Louise made a number of references to working on material directly for Advance Australia, the conservative propaganda outfit – though at times her content was knocked back for being too edgy.

  • At one point she rants about volunteers not showing up for the No campaign: "I've got fucking Peter duttons chief of staff manning one of my booths tomorrow morning even cos I had a meltdown over all the volunteers pulling out" [...] "where are all these tough white men huh" [...] "they're too busy looking at themselves in the mirror at the gym no doubt". Later, "Shouldve gotten those Nazis out on my booths". These comments are referring to the NSN, those weirdos who keep getting on the telly.
  • After joining an NSN chat, offering to make banners and advising them legally on the symbols ban, Moira Deeming’s ill-fated Let Women Speak rally happened. Louise Black said the Nazi salute "wasn't the best pr move", leading NSN members to reply with aggressively misogynistic remarks, assert she had an intellectual disability and then claim they were protecting women. For over an hour.
  • [A few months later] we found Louise complaining about the NSN in a [Melbourne] Proud Boys chat

  • Still, Louise Black’s relationship with the organisation had sufficiently thawed by the time anti-fascist influencer Tom Tanuki had produced a video highlighting the National Socialist Network’s internal paedophile problems that she was willing to put NSN SA leader Cameron Brodie-Hall into contact with a KC specialising in defamation.

  • We find it telling that, while Louise Black has been shut out of a number of extremist groups—due to her habit of spitting the dummy when her unsolicited advice is ignored—the one organisation which hasn’t seen fit to show her the door is the Victorian Liberal Party.

 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/15185451

  • 11:00am Tuesday 12 November
  • Belmore Park near Central Station

Join us to rally for the rights of the CFMEU and defend our democratic rights.

The new legislation targeting the CFMEU, stripping away its democratic processes based on unproven rumours is still standing. This is a dangerous precedent, threatening every union member’s right to organise and be heard. This precedent is undemocratic and anti-union! Let’s show up and demand these unjust laws be repealed!

It's important to understand the administration as a precedent, rather than specifically looking at the CFMEU. This has already had a chilling effect on other unions wanting to avoid similar repression, and just like many times before, sets up an attack for the Liberal Party to extend when next elected. That's why it's critical for other workers like us to stand together in solidarity, before there's no strong unions left to stand for ours. I urge those who can to come and bring friends, and those who can't to donate to the campaign - since the administration has seized the union's funds, they are relying on the generosity of other unions and political parties for printing fliers, buying flags, providing spaces and other basic organising needs.

See also this excellent article shared by @zero_gravitas recently: https://aussie.zone/post/14941033

 
  • 11:00am Tuesday 12 November
  • Belmore Park near Central Station

Join us to rally for the rights of the CFMEU and defend our democratic rights.

The new legislation targeting the CFMEU, stripping away its democratic processes based on unproven rumours is still standing. This is a dangerous precedent, threatening every union member’s right to organise and be heard. This precedent is undemocratic and anti-union! Let’s show up and demand these unjust laws be repealed!

It's important to understand the administration as a precedent, rather than specifically looking at the CFMEU. This has already had a chilling effect on other unions wanting to avoid similar repression, and just like many times before, sets up an attack for the Liberal Party to extend when next elected. That's why it's critical for other workers like us to stand together in solidarity, before there's no strong unions left to stand for ours. I urge those who can to come and bring friends, and those who can't to donate to the campaign - since the administration has seized the union's funds, they are relying on the generosity of other unions and political parties for printing fliers, buying flags, providing spaces and other basic organising needs.

See also this excellent article shared by @zero_gravitas recently: https://aussie.zone/post/14941033

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