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The lack of ads!

Was just thinking how nice it is to be on social media and not be bombarded with ads!...

Australian company suing Twitter for more than $1m over alleged unpaid bills, rents (www.abc.net.au)

Australia to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin for PTSD and depression in world first (www.nature.com)

In a controversial move, Australia will become the world’s first country to allow the drugs psilocybin and MDMA to be prescribed by doctors to treat psychiatric conditions including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder....

Can we stop buying these stupid things? Thanks (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

It barely fits in the bloody car park. So bad for pedestrians and the environment.

Clinic associated with cult that teaches that people with disability are experiencing 'karma' receives thousands in NDIS funds (www.abc.net.au)

Legally blind woman left anxious and in tears after rideshare drivers refuse to pick her up 23 times in six weeks (www.abc.net.au)

Victorian woman Kathryn Beaton says repeated, illegal denials of service from drivers refusing to allow her guide dog into their vehicles have left her effectively housebound....

Lab-produced meat could be on Australian supermarket shelves as soon as next year (www.abc.net.au)

Adobe Photoshop's AI tools put women politicians in bikini bottoms and their male colleagues in suits (www.crikey.com.au)

After Nine blamed an 'automation' error in Photoshop for producing an edited image of Georgie Purcell, I set out to find out what the software would do to other politicians.

Indefinite immigration detention ruled unlawful in landmark Australian high court decision (www.theguardian.com)

Decision overturns 20-year-old precedent and could trigger immediate release of 92 people, with detention of 340 others also in doubt

Major car brands accused of trying to write 'loopholes' into Australia's looming fuel efficiency laws (www.abc.net.au)

Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns (www.theguardian.com)

Aboriginal 18-year-old with disability thrown to ground during NSW police arrest while having seizure (www.theguardian.com)

Exclusive: Police launch internal investigation over arrest at Taree, as footage shows officer performing a leg sweep while man is handcuffed

Greens push Labor to release declassified climate crisis report ‘full of explosive truths’ (www.theguardian.com)

Transparency would help MPs ‘weigh up predicted wars, water shortages and supply chain collapses against every new coal and gas approval’

Greens decry property tax breaks costing 78 times what Labor proposes to spend on social housing (www.theguardian.com)

Captain Cook statue sawn off at the ankles on eve of Australia Day (www.theage.com.au)

The metal sculpture on Jacka Boulevard in St Kilda was sawn off at the ankles about 3.30am Thursday, with vandals also spray-painting “the colony will fall” on the statue’s granite plinth.

Elon Musk’s X is betting that Australia is too weak to protect its elections (www.crikey.com.au)

The platform once known as Twitter failed the lowest of hurdles this week. Will we do anything about it?

‘My heart is chanting’: Palestinian voices ring out at largest anti-war rallies in Australia since Iraq war (www.theguardian.com)

Up to 50,000 people in Sydney and 100,000 in Melbourne were reported to have marched last weekend and organisers say rallies will continue to growGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

Rooftop solar eats up all demand in South Australia, world’s most renewable grid (reneweconomy.com.au)

In Australia 6,000kg of clothing is dumped in landfill every 10 minutes. This is the life cycle of polyester T-shirt (www.abc.net.au)

Many of us are now dressed head to toe in plastic....

TIL that 80% of Australian homes are colder than is recommended by the WHO safety standards for indoor air temperature. (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1232260...

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