Reopened further towards city down Swan street, in the same building Red Rooster recently closed shop in. I imagine the rent is much cheaper.

Source: YouTube

>The Chaser's War on Everything was an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the ABC.

>The stunts displayed on the show have often been controversial. For example, on 14 July 2006, Licciardello was charged (being later acquitted) after selling fake knives to Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs fans. Licciardello was again arrested, alongside Morrow and nine crew members, on 6 September 2007 after breaching security at the 2007 APEC summit. ~Wikipedia

Source: ABC Instagram, u/abcnews_au.

>While all generations are better off than they were in 2000, some major domains analysed by the Actuaries Institute have highlighted growing inter-generational inequity. Housing and wage growth are two main factors driving generational inequality.

>Research by Cotality reveals housing affordability has reached new lows. It now takes 11 years to save for a 20% deposit, compared to 8 years in 2005.

Source: Back to Back Barries podcast

Barrie Cassidy is an Australian political journalist, well known radio and television host and presenter and commentator for the ABC. Barry was Bob Hawke's personal Press Secretary. Tony Barry served as a senior strategist for the Liberal Party and was an adviser to Malcolm Turnbull and Christopher Pyne.

Amid choppy waters around ‘secondhand subs’ and Trump, Labor’s sensitivity about the Aukus debate is growing

>After meeting with his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, in Singapore, Marles said that Australia would no longer receive two Virginia-class submarines already in service and one new vessel. Instead, Australia would take three secondhand boats.

>Marles said the change made sense. Instead of running two different models of American submarines – each with their particular sensibilities and training requirements – streamlining the plan would make operations more effective. The Pentagon told journalists the cost efficiencies were likely to be in the workforce, maintenance and supply chains.

>The new defence department secretary, Meghan Quinn, went further in Canberra, saying Australia had always wanted three in-service boats. Labor is sensitive about the phrase “secondhand”. While the subs won’t be newly built, they will be operating at peak condition after about six years in the water and having just undergone their first major service.

Source: ABC, u/abcnews_au.

>Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says the reasoning behind the latest changes to the AUKUS deal in which Australia receives only second-hand Virginia class submarines doesn’t wash. However, he says the main issue with the deal is that Australia will likely not receive any Virginia class submarines from the United States as American shipyards are struggling to supply their own navy’s needs.

>Changes to the AUKUS deal mirror Australia's initial preference of receiving a second-hand submarine, Senate estimates has revealed. Labor backbencher Ed Husic has called into question the future of the AUKUS pact and argues Labor needs to renegotiate the deal. ~ABC

Source: MichaelWestMedia

>Breaking BHP trying to get us into court tomorrow!

BHP seeks urgent suppression orders in trial against coal miner and MWM publisher

>In an extraordinary move to muzzle press coverage of a wages theft claim by disabled coal miner Simon Turner, Australia’s biggest company BHP sought an urgent application from the Federal Court asking for suppression orders over its case set down to be heard before Justice Needham at 10am this morning.

>In February, former coal miner Simon Turner brought a claim against BHP and four related entities for underpayment of wages. Turner injured his back at the Mt Arthur coal mine in 2015 and has been fighting to get compensation since. This publication covered the case, which was also subject to suppression orders at the request of BHP.

Source: SBS

>Do you feel like you're always being watched while you're shopping? Well, you probably are. Five years after Bunnings stopped using facial recognition in their stores, a recent legal win has them planning to bring it back.

>"We don't have confirmed timelines at this stage; however we look forward to working with government, industry and the union to roll this out as quickly as possible," a Bunnings spokesperson told SBS. Digital rights advocates are concerned the move will support the growth of facial recognition technology in Australia, despite a lacking privacy legislation framework.

Bunnings decision may open door to facial recognition surveillance free‑for‑all

>A seemingly minor decision handed down last week by the Administrative Review Tribunal may open the door to widespread use of facial recognition technology in shops and other privately owned spaces in Australia. Australia’s privacy act protects personal sensitive information, including facial information. It states that such information can be collected only with consent of an individual.

>If the decision is not appealed to the Federal Court, we may see a future in which retailers and other organisations can use biometric technologies on members of the public without consent. All they will need to justify their actions is a risk-management narrative based on personal statements.

>The ruling lowers the threshold for more surveillance. If non-consensual biometric processing is accepted in retail, the same logic can apply to workplaces, schools and other public but privately owned spaces. Each expansion can be justified using the same language of safety, deterrence or necessity.

Source: ABC, u/abcnews_au.

>Australians lose up to $32 billion a year to gambling, the highest per capita losses in the world. So, what's stopping the government from going all-in on a total gambling ad ban?

>From a survey of 3,881 Australian adults, about 65 per cent gambled once in the 12 months up to October, 2024, and more than one in seven experienced gambling-related harms. This was an increase of 8 and 4 percentage points, respectively, since 2019. ~Yahoo

>The Murphy inquiry was focused on online gambling harm and identified gambling advertising as a major culprit. Gambling advertising exposes large numbers of Australians, including children, to a dangerous product and increases losses, with little corresponding economic or social benefit.

>Almost three years ago, a federal parliamentary inquiry into online gambling harm reached a rare multi-partisan consensus on all 31 recommendations – with the headline recommendation being a total ban on gambling advertising. Yet the government has responded years later with a proposed partial ban. ~The Conversation

Source: ABC, u/abcnew_au.

>A group of so-called teal independents are reportedly discussing the prospect of forming a new political party, as polls suggest One Nation is emerging as a serious challenger to the Coalition. Senator David Pocock says he is open to the possibility of joining forces with his independent colleagues.

>A formal collaboration would allow crossbenchers to gain better access to resources and streamline their policy proposals.

Source: ABC, u/abcnews_au.

>The federal government faces growing pressure to explain how it will support start-ups and small businesses amid changes to the capital gains discount. As the ABC's Alan Kohler explains, Australians on lower incomes also face tax increases on investments.

>As backlash against the federal budget has grown from isolated outcry to dull roar, Labor has continued to cling to its argument that most of the complaints aren't valid.

>With the exception of a yet-to-be-finalised capital gains tax (CGT) carve-out for start-ups and a likely minimum tax exemption for prospective testamentary discretionary trusts, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is sticking to his guns.

>On breakfast television Social Services MinisterTanya Plibersek said the government was "in the process" of making sure Australians "aren't listening to the misinformation and disinformation … being peddled by our political opponents".

>Labor, it warned, was up against the Liberals, One Nation and their "hard right allies" who have "wealthy backers and vested interests pouring money into attacks designed to protect the status quo" on housing and asset taxation. ~ABC

Source: SBS Instagram

>One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has apologised to a journalist after a staffer told her to "shut up", in the latest run-in between the party and the press.

>The exchange between Richard Henderson, a media adviser to One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, and a Guardian Australia reporter was captured on camera. Henderson made the comment as he tried to wrap up a press conference announcing the party's gas policy in Adelaide.

>The reporter was attempting to ask Senator Hanson if James Ashby would be running for Senate pre-selection at the next federal election. Later, Senator Hanson was caught on camera remarking to her entourage, including Mr Joyce and Mr Henderson, "Should've said, 'You're the nasty b-tch"".

Just a quick update to Rule 2: Does it pass The Pub Test? -

When we started the sub we wanted to balance being as open as possible without being taken down for not moderating within Reddit's User Agreement & Australia's Online Safety Codes and Standards.

We created "The Pub Test" as a safety net while we established a fair and transparent rule-set that would allow us to operate under Reddit's upvote/downvote system as much as possible, as an alternative to the growing over-moderation problem we have all experienced across Reddit.

In theory it was a good idea, in practice it gave us a bit too much subjectivity in moderation, which goes against the point of r/OpenAussie. More importantly it didn't properly incentivise us to establish the open ruleset we had set out to refine.

The following changes have been made:

• Moderators are no longer permitted to use The Pub Test unilaterally.

• The Pub Rule can only be used when 2 or more mods agree that a post or comment needs to be taken down, without a previously established rule.

It has become obvious over the last few months that not everyone's idea of open is the same, which is why we need more transparent rules that are open to feedback.

What we've found is that when moderators don't have an established rule to fallback on and utilise The Pub Test as a catchall without collaboration, there isn't a discussion being had about the need for a new rule being required from that scenario.

By requiring moderators to communicate when an issue occurs that is not covered by the rules in the sidebar, they are more likely to actually discuss the creation of a rule that users can see beforehand.

Hopefully this gets us closer to our goal of retiring "The Pub Rule" altogether.

Source: Back to Back Barries

>Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry deliver their verdict on Budget week – including the opposition leader, Angus Taylor’s focus on reducing migration numbers to solve the housing crisis. They also discuss Pauline Hanson’s soon-to-be-released energy policy.

>The government’s instinct is right: passive property investors extracting wealth from a broken housing market through negative gearing and CGT concessions should not be subsidised. That case is iron-clad.

>But business builders are not the same category. Someone who started an agency from nothing, employed thirty people for a decade, paid their taxes every quarter, and sold it is not the same as someone who bought five investment properties and waited for them to appreciate. Treating them identically in the tax code is a category error — and it has real consequences for the industries that actually create jobs, IP, and export revenue. ~Mumbrella

Do you believe that the upcoming Capital Gains Tax changes should effect all asset classes, or just real estate?

Source: If You're Listening, u/abcnews_au. This is part two of How did Palantir get so powerful?

>“Governments in this country are rushing to sign contracts with Palantir despite a growing public backlash and with zero clarity about what data they are giving to this multinational threat,”

>“We should be deeply concerned when [Palantir] is embedded in institutions across Australia and vacuuming up ever more sensitive datasets.”

>Senator David Shoebridge said a blanket ban on new Australian government contracts with US tech company Palantir would be ‘sensible’, adding there was ‘zero clarity about what data [governments] are giving’. ~Guardian

>Companies and government departments, including Coles, RioTinto, Westpac, the Victorian Department of Justice and Department of Defence have chosen to work with Palantir.

>This is particularly worrying given the gaps in our current privacy protections. While Michelle Rowland continues to deny us stronger privacy laws, she allows Australians to be exposed to data misuse and excessive surveillance.

>Palantir collects data in Australia but is unrestricted in where it stores the data and who it allows to access it. As a U.S. based company, Palantir is subject to American laws that allow access to foreign data. Australians need to be able to protect our sensitive information. ~digitalrightswatch.org.au