Budget Night Thread
Let’s party!
Car spotting game (aussie.zone)
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Former spy for China's secret police reveals operations targeting dissidents in Australia and overseas (www.abc.net.au)
The inner workings of China’s notorious secret police unit and how it hunts down dissidents living overseas – including in Australia – have been exposed by a former spy in a Four Corners investigation, raising tough questions about Australia’s national security....
‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world (www.theguardian.com)
Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t....
Media Release: The BOM issues a warning for a G4 geomagnetic storm (media.bom.gov.au)
8PM (right now) +/- 10 hours...
Melbourne man 'dumbfounded' after finding out he lost Australian citizenship 33 years ago (www.abc.net.au)
Wtf ?
Stop Killing Games Australian Petition - Open for Signature Until **20 May 2024** (www.aph.gov.au)
This petition is part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign led by Scott Ross (Accursed Farms), to end in Australia the practice of software licensors to render purchased software completely unusable at arbitrary points in time....
15 Reasons I may not be riding in the bike lane (www.youtube.com)
Video concentrates on particular roads in Victoria, and points out Victorian road rules, but the vast majority of this content is applicable around the whole country....
Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy (theconversation.com)
A much-awaited report into Coles and Woolworths has found what many customers have long believed – Australia’s big supermarkets engage in price gouging....
WFH, paid overtime: What Australian workers really want (www.sbs.com.au)
Australian Eurovision performer posts in support of Palestine 🍉 (aussie.zone)
source: www.instagram.com/p/C6sUpWuIf3y/
Our friend is going to jail. (www.youtube.com)
Video by Boy Boy, features David McBride, Afghanistan war crimes whistleblower....
What is the PRRT? (how gas companies dodge tax) (www.youtube.com)
David McBride vs Goliath: chapter infinity minus 5000: sentencing. Come to Canberra Supreme Court May 14, 8am rally. #operation500 (sh.itjust.works)
-> ALT: a Poster incl a picture of David with a x drawn over his mouth....
Health and fitness
Hey guys and girls. We don’t have a health and fitness community. I was thinking of starting one where we can post achievements, fitness videos, questions etc. Would anyone be interested?
David McBride vs Goliath in a nutshell (sh.itjust.works)
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Chinese fighter jet endangered Australian military helicopter during "unsafe" and "unacceptable" confrontation over the Yellow Sea, Australia says (www.reuters.com)
A Chinese fighter jet endangered an Australian military helicopter during an “unsafe” and “unacceptable” confrontation over the Yellow Sea, Australia said on Monday....
Koala 'on a mission' surprises athletes in Ironman Australia triathlon (www.abc.net.au)
Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades (www.abc.net.au)
HECS changes to see $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' (www.abc.net.au)
Investors with questions: how a ‘clean food’ farm scheme born of Covid vaccine fears descended into rancour (www.theguardian.com)
SBS advertising Tucker Carlson event in Aus
What the absolute fuck? Has anyone else seen this ad play on SBS, how can they advertise for such a piece of shit to spread his brand of hate here.
The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it (www.abc.net.au)
I saw that they weren’t going to go ahead last year, but now apparently there will be a pilot.
Recommend me a music streaming service?
I’ve had YouTube Music since it was Google Music, but the price has recently doubled and at the same time I’ve started noticing my “Radio” keeps playing the same dozen songs over and over again. Started to feel like I was listening to Triple M....