Australians’ tipping habits are not keeping pace with higher menu prices, new research shows, as household costs soar and diners grapple with pandemic-era hospitality charges....
Australia is now into its next COVID wave. We’ve seen hints of this for a while. Case numbers and indicators of severe disease began rising in Victoria in August. But it has taken several months for a consistent pattern to emerge across Australia....
According to past experience, if this wave is any serious, the gov will wait until too late to take any action to reduce potential deaths because Christmas business takes priority
Many countries have guns and I tell you the big secret: it is not about the numbers, it is about reducing a certain types and the number of people waving them around
No one needs an “assault” rifle to “defend” themselves on a daily basis. A hunting rifle is for useful in hunting area, no one needs one in the car when they are sending their kids to school. If that is the case, you are at war and you should just migrate
Having semi/automatic weapons around is just going to arm that person at a bad day to do lot of damage. And fuel a civilian arm race which only benefits the weapon companies
A few dinner with government officials later, the findings would be that Optus is underfunded and should be granted with some public money for improvement. COE get a raise. Everybody is happy /s
Seriously, this can really happen, just look at qantas
UTS Online’s Dr. Parvez Mahmud, Program Director of the Master of Sustainable Energy and Master of Sustainable Leadership, said with carbon emissions and sustainability targets now being urgently adopted by governments and organisations worldwide, education providers have a key role to play in eliminating the ‘sustainable...
Universities need to stop claiming they create career because we all know most people don’t end up working on things they study in uni. And that’s okay, because all they are doing is more important which is call education:
Uni help building up knowledge in one field so student is comfortable to adapt in other disciplines - understand and experience the process require for one to become an decent expert
Much like public services, as most uni are funded by tax directly or indirectly, they ideally aren’t expected to make profit. Only exception is when education exported.
Imagine Centrelink and NDIS starts to make profit? Would be a funnier world
We contributes to wifi, google map, electronic pacemaker, blackbox, electric drill, ultrasound, hollow knight, McCafe, avocado toast to prevent the next gen buying houses /s
I guess we are taking a break for a while after all these
Australians’ tipping habits fail to keep up with rising restaurant prices, data reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Australians’ tipping habits are not keeping pace with higher menu prices, new research shows, as household costs soar and diners grapple with pandemic-era hospitality charges....
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We're in a new COVID wave. What can we expect this time? (theconversation.com)
Australia is now into its next COVID wave. We’ve seen hints of this for a while. Case numbers and indicators of severe disease began rising in Victoria in August. But it has taken several months for a consistent pattern to emerge across Australia....
Supreme Court revisits the scope of the right to bear arms in the wake of latest mass shooting (www.cnn.com)
'Unacceptable': Experts say Optus coverage outage could happen again (www.abc.net.au)
Optus is investigating the cause of Wednesday’s nationwide outage....
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Australia Post reports $200m annual loss, its first since 2015, amid push to close city branches (www.theguardian.com)
Australia's transition to a cashless society is underway — but not everyone wins when we get rid of cash (www.abc.net.au)
How are people going all-electric at home? (www.smh.com.au)
"Not everyone can afford these things because they require some upfront investment,” he says....
Space junk: India says object found in Australia is theirs (www.bbc.com)
Contentious? Supermarket Roast Chooks put to the test. (www.smh.com.au)
Good Food tastes and rates six supermarket roast chickens to find out which rules the roost.
UTS Launches Master Degrees To Address The Sustainable Skills Gap (www.ecovoice.com.au)
UTS Online’s Dr. Parvez Mahmud, Program Director of the Master of Sustainable Energy and Master of Sustainable Leadership, said with carbon emissions and sustainability targets now being urgently adopted by governments and organisations worldwide, education providers have a key role to play in eliminating the ‘sustainable...
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
Twelve-year-old girl goes missing from Sydney’s east (www.smh.com.au)
A 12-year-old girl has been missing for more than 24 hours after disappearing from Sydney’s east on Tuesday morning....
[Call for action] Continuity from Reddit
Since Reddit will likely implode or at least rather inhabitable soon or later....
Perhaps consider creating r/straya/
r/straya/ is one of the more casual aussie sub, perhaps we should continue the tradition and have a c/straya
Hourly 502 errors
Due to this bug that results in the Hot listing not updating, I've scheduled lemmy to automatically restart every hour on the hour....