r/australian

I'm a 'murican visiting my daughter who lives on the Gold Coast. I like cream in my morning coffee and when I arrived she told me she remembered to get me some. I asked "pouring cream?" as that was what she had on hand for my previous visits. She, a little bit apologetically, replied "no, thickened cream".

In the good old US of A, we have the following milk/cream hierarchy:

Skim milk, 1% milk, 2% milk, whole milk, half & half, and whipping cream

with skim milk having no fat, 1% having 1% milk fat, and whipping cream being 100% the fat that rises to the top when unhomogenized milk separates. Half & half is half whole milk and half whipping cream and is my preference for whitening my coffee.

Coles, Woolies, Aldi have many many kinds of cream, cooking, dollop, pure, etc. Would someone fill me in on the Australian Cream Hierarchy and where it matches up to the US one?

PS my daughter just got her citizenship! Yay! Now I might be able to emigrate to here if things keep going to hell in a handbasket at home

I’ve been eating about a cup of overnight soaked rolled oats everyday for the past 6 months - mixed with whey, fruits etc.

Recently came about an article about glyphosate residues in Aussie grown oats. Apparently organic oats are not good either, seems pesticides used on them are of organic nature and are a lot more harmful! Then there was news recently about high pesticide content in everyday fruits and veggies. I’ve had family members succumb to cancer and it genuinely is horrible what had the world gotten into!!!

Anyone with firsthand experience, ie someone in the food industry know how bad the pesticide content in oats are?

Scrolling through the comments in posts on Facebook and TikTok discussing whether QLD should adopt DLS gave me a headache. Some of the absolute rubbish I saw:

• One woman claiming she lived through the trial in early 90’s while living in Rockhampton and couldn’t get the kids to sleep because the sun was still up at 10pm. It took me about 3 seconds to google the latest sunset time for Rockhampton and it is 6:49pm in mid January - meaning the latest sunset during the trial was 7:49pm, not 10pm or later.

• A dude saying it’s unfair to the farmers because they work by the sun. If farmers work by the sun, why would it matter what time it is anyway? They can still work by the sun like they did before.

• Someone saying it would cause a crisis in North Queensland because of the humidity in the afternoon. Last time I checked, DLS has exactly 0 impacts on the weather. You will still experience the exact same humidity levels you experience today if DLS was implemented.

• An insane amount of people saying “just wake up earlier if you want more sunlight at the end of the day”. Doesn’t this work both ways? Couldn’t QLD just get daylight savings and those same people suggesting everyone wakes up earlier just wake up later and they wouldn’t be impacted? It’s literally exactly the same argument.

• A bloke claiming it’s unfair for tradies to expect them to work an extra hour in the arvo sun. What?? DLS would mean outdoor workers are in the afternoon sun for an hour LESS. Typical tradie hours in QLD are tools down at 2:30pm, so if it was DLS tools down would realistically be at 1:30pm during summer months.

Idk man I’m all for people saying they don’t like DLS, but the reasons people were giving just made no sense. Most comments were from people of an older age too, which makes me think this is some sort of generational thing. Interestingly, retirees would be the least impacted by DLS too but many of the comments were from people clearly over the age of 70 (whether they are retired or not is unknown though I guess).

Has anyone else noticed the hysteria and borderline fear mongering over DLS that comes from Queensland? What happened here compared to other states?

Media headlines about falling house prices miss the point entirely.

A minor market correction is not a disaster; it is a necessary adjustment for an inflated $12 trillion market.

Blaming immigrants for housing unaffordability ignores recent history: when borders were shut during the pandemic, immigration fell off a cliff, but dwelling prices soared to record highs anyway.

The real catalyst is policy.

Data shows over 1.3 million Australians utilise negative gearing, alongside generous CGT discounts that treat existing housing as tax shelters rather than shelter for people.

Now, with values easing roughly 5% off their peak, many over-leveraged multi-property owners are panicking over prospective tax reforms and rate pressures.

Threatening to leave properties vacant or unload them to avoid paying taxes highlights a fundamental flaw in how investment is approached.

Tax incentives should encourage genuine productive growth and new construction, not subsidise investors to outbid first-home buyers for existing homes.