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My Ina!! (fan animation) (youtu.be)
Flare going full takodachi.
Mocotummy for rent? (clip) (youtu.be)
Thousands of people pass through this station each day, but experts say it has some of the worst air in Melbourne (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Data detailing the air quality at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station has been released for the first time....
ASIO reveals plot by retired politician to introduce a prime minister's family member to foreign spies (www.abc.net.au)
An unnamed former Australian politician, who was successfully cultivated by an international spy ring, once suggested bringing a prime minister’s family member into contact with their foreign handlers.
Ziga's van runs on solar panels, three lawn mower motors and 8,000 laptop and power tool batteries (www.abc.net.au)
Kaela's tomato (Hololive fan animation) (youtu.be)
Original stream source: 【PlateUp!】 The Sweaty TryHard Gamers Collab (Piped)
Mumei talks about her long absence (Hololive clip) (youtu.be)
I’m not returning to my regular schedule for a long time. It is for me. I’m basically working on myself....
'We will find our freedom': Maori protesters deliver clear message to PM on the grounds where NZ's treaty was born (www.abc.net.au)
More than 1,000 people have marched into the treaty grounds at Waitangi on New Zealand’s north island — the culmination of a week-long protest against a controversial government bill.
Tech community
Can we get a tech com please? I don’t mind modding. I know the bigger insts have very large tech coms but I figure a place for locals to post about tech without the whole fv watching could also come in handy. Probably best to call it technology but I don’t mind tech either. Whatever yall want to roll with.
We sat down with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and asked her your questions (www.abc.net.au)
Ahead of her first sit-down TV interview since becoming premier, the ABC asked voters in Croydon, Werribee, Geelong, Mildura and Ms Allan’s hometown of Bendigo what issues they thought were most pressing, and if they had any questions for the premier.
[Satire] Australia Day to be moved to Scott Morrison’s resignation day (chaser.com.au)
In calendar news, Australia Day is officially changing date after this year and will no longer be celebrated on January 26th. With a new date of January 20th chosen instead in order to celebrate the day that Scott Morrison announced his departure from politics....
‘Dark money’: $57m of donations to major Australian parties in 2022-23 of unknown origin (www.theguardian.com)
The origin of at least $57m – amounting to about a quarter of all funding to major political parties – is unknown, according to an analysis by Guardian Australia....
Grattan on Friday: Albanese’s Stage 3 rework invites a wider tax debate the government doesn’t want to have (theconversation.com)
For the longer term, the Stage 3 decision has burst a dam, unleashing a much wider tax debate....
Vacuum cleaner retail chain Godfreys collapses, 193 job losses expected in coming fortnight (www.abc.net.au)
Godfreys has entered voluntary administration while looking for a potential buyer for the vacuum cleaner retailer....
HoloEN - Mind Craft (song cover MV) (youtu.be)
Original song by Gero: YouTube (Piped)...
'Like being strapped to a suicide bomber': Coalition insiders detail the toxic rivalry that destroyed two political careers (www.abc.net.au)
It was a political rivalry so utterly self-destructive that one cabinet minister compared it to being “strapped to a suicide bomber”....
Senior Coalition figures have opened up about their nine years in power. You won't believe some of the things they told us (www.abc.net.au)
Over months of filming and 60 on-camera interviews for the ABC’s landmark political docuseries Nemesis, the free character assessments between former Coalition colleagues fly thick and fast. But as well as the blue language and invective, there are also moments of remorse and regret....
Labor is taking a six-to-one gamble that money in the pocket is more important than a broken promise (www.abc.net.au)
ANU economist Ben Phillips ran the government’s proposed stage 3 tweaks through his PolicyMod simulator to weigh up the winners and losers....
Stage 3 tax cuts calculator: See how the changes will affect you (www.abc.net.au)
What are the new stage 3 tax cut brackets?...
A few months ago BlackRock launched low-cost ETFs for global infrastructure and property (www.investordaily.com.au)
I haven’t seen much discussion about this, but noticed them when perusing some PDS’s. The headliner is that they both have fees of 0.15%, lower than everyone else’s equivalent offerings in the Australian market:...