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The only thing to do is stop Australia from moving! And gently shove it back where it belongs!
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The only thing to do is stop Australia from moving! And gently shove it back where it belongs!

u/BrittaUnfiltered67 — 10 days ago
▲ 5 r/darwin

The Northern Territory must become an operational ecosystem: ASPI

What do we reckon chat - is it time for the NT to become "the first Australian region deliberately governed, tested and developed as an operational ecosystem"?

aspistrategist.org.au
u/cincinnatus_lq — 12 days ago
▲ 24 r/darwin

Diphtheria outbreak - what to watch out for

Taken from NSW Health:

  • There are two main forms – respiratory (lungs/airway) and cutaneous (skin).
  • Median incubation period from exposure to onset of symptoms is 1.4 days. The range is generally 2 to 5 days but may be longer, with duration up to 10 days reported.
  • People can be long-term carriers of diphtheria without showing symptoms.
  • Treat the infectious period as starting: 7 days prior to onset of respiratory symptoms OR 7 days prior to positive nose/throat swab (if asymptomatic) OR on the date that skin infection begins.

Respiratory:

  • The case fatality rate of classic respiratory diphtheria is 5-10%, even with appropriate treatment.
  • Onset of respiratory diphtheria is often gradual, with symptoms of fever, sore throat and weakness.
  • Trouble swallowing, headache and altered voice occur in fewer than half of patients. Significant neck swelling (“bull neck") and difficulty breathing occur in <10% of patients and are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Isolated spots of grey or white gunk appear on the back of the throat, which extend and coalesce over 24 hours to form a nugget/growth of gunk. It progressively thickens, becomes tightly stuck to the underlying tissue, and darkens in colour.
  • Dislodging the nugget, mechanically or as the disease progresses, may cause profuse bleeding, asphyxiation and death.
  • Myocarditis and polyneuropathy are the prominent toxic manifestations.
  • Cardiac effects usually begin about one week after onset of illness and may include abnormal or irregular heartbeat, conduction disturbances and dilated cardiomyopathy (marked by chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath or fainting).
  • Neuropathy typically begins weeks to months after onset of diphtheria in 20%–25% of untreated cases and is the cause of 15% of deaths. Neuropathy can present as cranial nerve paresis, respiratory and abdominal muscle weakness, quadriparesis or quadriplegia, peripheral sensory disturbances, and a variety of autonomic disturbances.

Cutaneous:

  • Cutaneous diphtheria usually appears on exposed limbs, particularly the legs and presents either as secondary infection of existing skin sores or primary punched out ulcers with well-demarcated edges and a cover of bluish-grey necrotic slough or membrane.
  • Transmission from sores/ulcers can cause respiratory disease, both in the person with the sores/ulcers and other people who come into contact with the sores/ulcers.
  • Due to prolonged bacterial shedding, cutaneous diphtheria plays an important role in transmission to susceptible persons, via contact with the wound or contaminated materials (bandages, bedding, clothing etc).

Infection can occur in vaccinated as well as unvaccinated people. Lifelong immunity is generally (but not always) acquired following disease or subclinical infection. Vaccination reduces the frequency and severity of disease and provides prolonged, but not lifelong, immunity. Post-vaccination antibody levels wane by 0.6% per year since vaccination. Immunity is antibody modulated and primarily against the toxin rather than the bacteria; therefore, vaccinated persons can still harbour the organism.

u/cincinnatus_lq — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/AustralianCoins

Australian coinage proposal

I can't think of a better place to post this, so here goes.

Back in the old days, coins were worth something. Nowadays the relative utility-to-weight of the 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c is so abysmal that they are routinely referred to as 'shrapnel' (apologies to Australian decimal coin collectors).

Any redesign of coin dimensions would be expensive and annoying for the Mint and any business that interacts mechanically with Australian coinage (e.g. vending machines, cash registers), not to mention that it would be a departure from one of the few things we have that is unmistakably Australian (particularly our iconic 50c coin).

Therefore, I propose that Australia reissues its coinage in the following denominations and dimensions:

Denomination Dimensions
10c Current 5c
20c Current 10c
50c Current 20c
$1 Current $1 (no change)
$2 Current $2 (no change)
$5 Current 50c, but 92% copper like $1 & $2

Rather than recalling existing coinage, I propose that existing coins remain in circulation with their legal tender value increased to match the corresponding new denomination-dimensions. So yes, if you have a drawer full of 50c pieces, they will instantly be worth 10 times as much - somehow, I don't see this being a major windfall for anyone that doesn't deserve it.

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u/cincinnatus_lq — 4 months ago
▲ 10 r/OpenAussie

'It's OK, he's worth saving': man's priority in hospital triage determined by reference to health condition

People with intellectual disability experience more than twice the rate of avoidable deaths, compared with the rest of the Australian population, according to research from the University of New South Wales.

Those studies show better healthcare could have prevented 38 per cent of deaths experienced by people with intellectual disability, when it was 17 per cent for the rest of the population.

abc.net.au
u/cincinnatus_lq — 4 months ago
▲ 8 r/shitrentals

Whenever I hear about superannuation funds divesting themselves from 'unethical' industries (fossil fuels, military arms etc), I'm surprised at the fact that nobody in the mainstream media is calling them out for failing to objectively maximize returns for their members. I had always assumed that maximizing returns was a legal imperative for the fund manager. It seems like Australia has accepted that superannuation funds are allowed to act in the holistic best interests of their members as opposed to the short-term financial ones. This does not even appear to be controversial.

With that in mind why isn't there a super fund that specializes in affordable housing developments? 70,000 people (i.e. less than half of the 141,000 who visit this subreddit every week), all under the age of 35, contributing $6,000 - $8,000 a year for the next 10 years, minus 25% for ✨stuff✨, gives that fund a base annual income of $315m - $420m to borrow against, plus the backing of HAFF and desperate state and local governments grateful that someone has come to fix their problem. Yes these numbers are arbitrary but you get the idea.

The government already gives free land and/or windfall zoning improvements to developers, while letting people invest their 12% mandatory super in obscure assets like shitcoin cryptocurrencies and NFTs via SMSFs. Meanwhile, industry super funds refuse to take a punt on social housing unless they're underwritten by the taxpayer AND guaranteed a competitive level of profit, while paying out to well-heeled boomers who already own property.

Why not let young Australians invest directly in their generation's collective future instead?

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u/cincinnatus_lq — 5 months ago