G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #49 05-12-2023
• Parking isn't as important for restaurants as the owners think it is
• After all those dole diaries and ‘mutual obligations’, it turns out Australia’s privatised employment services don’t work | Van Badham
• Catholic Education Tasmania head takes issue with mandatory consent education
• As a trans man, Max Simensen says he has unique insights everyone could learn from

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Andrew Forrest calls for fossil fuel bosses' 'heads on spikes' in extraordinary outburst
• Greed trumps climate as Origin bid voted down by dividend hungry shareholders
• Son of farmer who murdered environmental officer ordered to pay $405k land-clearing fine
• Windfarm plans in choppy waters as Coalition and One Nation whip up doubts
• Interested in studying climate change or sustainable living online for free?

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Faced with 'certain death', Professor Richard Scolyer is having an experimental treatment
• Greens move to establish Senate inquiry into allegations of price-gouging by Coles and Woolworths
• Outrage in Ballarat at white supremacist march, 15yo questioned over banned Nazi salute
• Man arrested in Arizona over religiously motivated terror attack at Wieambilla sent shooters 'end of days' ideological messages
• Catholic Education Tasmania head takes issue with mandatory consent education

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Queensland premier to receive almost $50k pay bump as politicians granted 11 per cent salary increase over three years
• NZ has already held a supermarket study. Did it disrupt their duopoly?

Top 5 from World News:

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #48 28-11-2023
• Employers push for staff to return to the office after working from home as commercial property values plunge
• Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed?
• Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw
• Elon Musk’s X is betting that Australia is too weak to protect its elections

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Case for gas as transition fuel falling apart on both economic and environmental costs
• 'It's basically dead': AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging
• “Outrage economy:” Sky News and Alan Jones in global list of climate misinformation
• CDS VIC - Victorian Container Deposit Scheme Xpost Aussie Frugal Living
• Homebuilders urged to flick electric switch as new gas connection ban looms | Riotact

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Federal government moves to ban Nazi salute after spike in anti-Semitism, racism
• From today voluntary assisted dying will be allowed in NSW. Mark wants to be one of the first to access it
• Bruce Lehrmann's defamation action was set to be a re-run of his trial, but some key evidence is unravelling
• Casket holding Cleveland Dodd's body lowered into the ground on Yamaji country after boy's death in custody
• Two protesters fined after more than 100 climate change protesters charged after blockade at Port of Newcastle

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• How are younger workers expected to compete with 'Generation Landlord'?
• Legalise Cannabis Party member waves cannabis in NSW parliament during bill introduction
• Powerful Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo sacked after investigation into backchannel lobbying
• Peter Dutton demands apology from Anika Wells after breakfast television 'paedophile protector' comments
• Australians Are Poor Now? - FriendlyJordies

Top 5 from World News:

• If this was supposed to be an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, strap yourself in

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Discussion on Concerns over Auto tl;dr bot
• Weekly Random Thread #47 21-11-2023
• Younger people now even cutting back on essentials, as older Australians spend up on cruises and restaurants
• No one can escape this housing crisis — it's coming for homeowners too
• Report critical of big four consultancies was censored by Australian government agency, academic claims

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Solar smashes more records, as coal power sent to another new low
• Clive Palmer fails in second attempt to overturn $6.5 billion coal mine refusal
• ‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarm
• Antarctica's ozone hole may not be mending as well as we thought, study says
• Bowen dumps RET for 32GW of auctions in massive policy shift to supercharge renewables

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Young people dominate pro-Palestine protest attendance
• Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns 'in the best interest of Optus' following nationwide outage
• Whether you work from home or in the office, here's how 'Big Brother' employers might be watching you
• Properties believed razed as massive bushfire continues to rage in Perth's north amid extreme spring weather
• The odds of becoming a doctor when you live west of the 'Red Rooster line'

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Coal giant headhunts commissioner who oversaw agency investigating it for workplace deaths
• Peter Dutton links visas for Palestinians with prospect of a 'catastrophic outcome' for Australia
• Have our attitudes towards immigration changed ?

Top 5 from World News:

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #46 14-11-2023
• Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800
• Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate
• McDonald's loses out in legal beef with Hungry Jack's
• [Satire] - People who build wind turbines at sea do not care if whales live or die. Monsters! | First Dog on the Moon

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• El Niño is laying the foundations for unprecedented global temperatures next year
• “Farcical:” Wind industry in shock as draft NSW guidelines say no to new wind projects
• NSW Planning backflips on wind energy map messaging: Everywhere is now suitable!
• Ferrero Group to rip out Australian hazelnut trees due to unsuitable climate
• Deciding on a koala community that will be interlinked with Aussie Enviro

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Renters in every capital city worse off as affordability in the regions deteriorates, Rental Affordability Index shows
• Government formally responds to Robodebt royal commission, revealing 16 public servants being investigated over scheme
• Qantas found guilty of illegally standing down worker over aircraft cleaning safety fears during COVID-19 pandemic
• Whistleblower David McBride declares ‘today I serve my country’ as trial starts over alleged leaking of war crime documents
• Tens of thousands gather across Australia for Israel-Gaza rallies

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• We could make most Australians richer and still save billions – it’s not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts
• Gregory Andrews used to be a senior Liberal advisor. Now he's 14 days into a climate action hunger strike
• Immigration detention explainer: how is Labor responding to the landmark high court ruling?
• How does Anthony Albanese's international travel stack up against other recent prime ministers?
• 'Call for a ceasefire now': Mehreen Faruqi and Penny Wong in heated debate over Gaza

Top 5 from World News:

• 'Xi Jinping is loving this': Is a US senator's abortion protest threatening America's national security?
• UN official says 'amnesia and myopia' present in international response to war

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #45 07-11-2023
• Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy
• Aussie households are spending less on streaming services, annual report reveals
• Melbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll finds
• Indefinite immigration detention ruled unlawful in landmark Australian high court decision

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Meat-loving Australia has no appetite for vegetarian diet to help planet, study finds
• Big rise in kangaroo collisions prompts appeal to country drivers: Don't leave them dying
• Coalition’s nuclear SMR poster boy cancels flagship project due to soaring costs
• The world has experienced its hottest 12 months on record, and El Niño is set to drive temperatures higher
• Researcher says feral bees face extinction as deadly mite spreads in swarms

Top 5 from Australian News:

• This psychologist groomed her client, then married her. Now 20 years of deception are coming undone
• After the driest September-October on record, much of Australia to cop severe thunderstorm activity
• Lawyer for driver in Daylesford crash says man is insulin-dependent diabetic who needed immediate treatment
• Aussie breaks world record by paddling in to surf 13-metre wave
• The inside account of how Commonwealth Bank tried to bury the scandal that sparked a royal commission

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• They risked their livelihoods to speak up, but these whistleblowers are warning others to stay silent
• Small modular nuclear reactor that was hailed by Coalition as future cancelled due to rising costs
• Greens stage Senate walkout in protest for Palestinians, call on government to support Israel-Gaza ceasefire
• White man's dark money: Meet the No campaign bankrollers
• CheckMate: Are koalas being clubbed to death to make way for a Queensland wind farm?

Top 5 from World News:

• Millions are waking up to the ugly reality of Israeli apartheid

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #44 31-10-2023
• YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!)
• John Howard says he ‘always had trouble’ with the concept of multiculturalism
• Australian producers to keep prosecco, feta and parmesan as European Union trade deal doomed
• This Soldier Threatened to Sue Me - Friendlyjordies

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Rooftop PV takes a bite out of everyone’s lunch as minimum demand records tumble again
• Rare white platypus named Bloop stuns researchers as genetic abnormality found
• Escaping underground: the eerie new age of bushfire bunkers
• Wildlife friendly netting
• Beetaloo Basin greenhouse emissions significantly underestimated, climate institute claims

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Only 2% of freight between Melbourne and Sydney goes by rail – putting Australia’s emissions targets at risk
• Elderly Aboriginal woman repeatedly dragged across the ground by government-funded security guards
• Coles subjecting employees to bag checks in crackdown on some of Australia’s lowest paid workers
• Greens and Coalition slam Australian abstention of United Nations vote for ceasefire in Gaza
• Major thunderstorm outbreak to deliver much needed rain to Queensland and NSW

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• All of Australia's living prime ministers except for Paul Keating have joined to express their support for Israel

Top 5 from World News:

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #43 24-10-2023
• This seems to happen more and more recently
• 'Super rare, beautiful animal': White echidna spotted near Tasmania's Cradle Mountain
• The ‘Yes’ case responds: ‘It’s a white flag from Labor’
• Children and babies ‘at risk’ as childcare centres scramble for staff, insiders say

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Exhausted Queensland fire crews battle 420 bushfires in a week amid warnings of worst fire season in 70 years
• 'The public needs to know': Ecologists and climate scientists reveal devastating culture of suppression
• “The SEC is back:” Victoria flicks switch on state-owned utility in push to 95 pct renewables
• 'Super rare, beautiful animal': White echidna spotted near Tasmania's Cradle Mountain
• 'Irreversible, catastrophic impacts': UN warns humanity must act now to survive

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Neo-Nazis walk free from court, spared further jail time over attack on Victorian hikers
• Front page of yesterday's West Australian
• Bruce Lehrmann revealed as high-profile man charged with Toowoomba rape
• A full year of paid parental leave and no activity test on childcare subsidies among ideas put to government by women's taskforce - ABC News
• Zak Grieve freed on parole after serving 12 years of life sentence for murder he didn't take part in - ABC News

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Indigenous leaders break their silence, call referendum defeat 'appalling and mean-spirited'
• Centrelink jobseeker payments suspended more than 450,000 times in three months
• Liberal MP delivers ultimatum to force Bridget Archer from opposition
• With Albanese in the US, Israel-Gaza conflict is shining a light on the differences between his deputies

Top 5 from World News:

• Israel claims dozens of Hamas fighters killed as Gazans face deadliest night of bombing, UN says 'clear violations' of international law committed
• Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza - Amnesty International
• Stop asking everyone to condemn Hamas
• Gigi Hadid TARGETED By ISRAELI STATE Online; MSM CENSOR Dissident Views On Palestine: Report

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #42 17-10-2023
• ‘Oh fuck, I’ve let everyone down’ local AEC staffer realises he forgot to rig the vote like everyone said he would
• Sara Lee Crumbles as company heads to voluntary administration (headliner writers must've waited their whole career for that pun)
• Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News
• Fossil Fuel Voice to Parliament to Remain in Place — The Shovel

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• RET is still the best: Why it’s time to renew Australia’s renewable energy policy
• Seed bombing for native pollinators?
• We need new solutions to reach Australia’s 2030 renewable goals

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Indigenous communities overwhelmingly voted yes to Australia’s voice to parliament
• Today, I tried to call Centrelink 17 times. I got through to hold music once, then it hung up
• NSW will push on with First Nations treaty despite Voice referendum's defeat. Here's what it means
• Distinguished service medals awarded to army's top brass might be 'illegal'
• Lisa Wilkinson suing Network Ten for $370,000 over legal bills for Bruce Lehrmann defamation case

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• 'Not the end of the road': PM accepts referendum result, maps path forward for Indigenous recognition
• Days after Voice vote, Peter Dutton waters down Indigenous recognition commitment
• The libertarian think tank that helped build the ‘No’ case
• Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges
• Colours of Palestinian flag take over streets in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth

Top 5 from World News:

• Many rushed to condemn Israel for the Gaza hospital blast. But what does the evidence say?
• The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Splitting off Environment, Politics and News
• Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations
• Weekly Random Thread #41 10-10-2023
• ‘If they don’t comply, they die’: family of fatal NSW police shootings call for independent inquiry
• Still trying to get me

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Endangered nocturnal possum survey ‘done in daylight’
• Environment: Australia labelled a ‘Planet Wrecker’
• Tiny pocket parks make a big impact on urban living
• Australia doing ‘very poorly’ at protecting unique plants, researchers warn
• There's a hidden source of excess nutrients suffocating the Great Barrier Reef. We found it

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Heat kills more people in Australia than any other natural disasters. These researches are looking at a simple solution
• [satire] “How did this result happen and how did the debate get so toxic?” asks nation’s media that kept uncritically repeating Dutton’s racist lies
• Victoria's Jewish community encouraged not to fear and not to hide 'Jewishness'
• [satire] No Camp Claims It Received More Votes, in First Factually Correct Statement of Campaign — The Shovel
• From missing Anya's 'seven-second hugs' to raising childhood cancer research funds, NSW family turns grief into hope

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Liberal MP Julian Leeser says no campaign’s American-style politics are ‘damaging’ Australia
• Foreign minister says 'very difficult' to judge from afar, as Israel vows to cut off food and water to Gaza
• We fact checked Jacinta Nampijinpa Price on Indigenous disadvantage. Here's what we found
• PM makes impassioned final Voice plea, Dutton repeats 'risky' claim as more than 9 million Australians still to vote
• How do I even begin to learn about Australian politics?

Top 5 from World News:

• Live: Israeli death toll rises to more than 300 after Hamas attack, with over 1,800 injured
• Musk’s auto firm, Tesla, sued by government for years of racism

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Referendum Q+A thread
• Weekly Random Thread #40 03-10-2023
• Should Australian cities adopt car-free days? - ABC listen
• Decision to allow wider truck bodies paves way for electrification of big rigs in Australia
• Why cyclists should NOT get the same fines as motorists | Car Culture 6 - Motonormativity

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• WA banishes loggers from old growth native forests
• It's estimated there are between 250 and 400 of these birds left in the wild — but there's no plan to save them
• Cadmium at 50,000 times the legal level found next to farm near disused gold mine, inquiry told
• Secret Forest: Australia rivals The Congo on deforestation, blocks media access to world scientists - Michael West
• 50 Scales of Grey: Crocodile lovemaking triggered by Chinook helicopters and thunder in central Queensland

Top 5 from Australian News:

• It's 175 years since William Arnott first made biscuits in this small-town bakery — and it's still running today
• ABC says it won’t reveal sources but does not rule out handing over footage of climate protesters to police
• Home Affairs and Immigration websites hit by denial-of-service cyber attacks
• Jason died the night before our wedding. Three years later, our daughter was born - ABC Everyday

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Yes23 campaign asked to keep purple and white signs away from AEC voting centre signage
• Dutton hits back at home affairs minister's claim that the immigration system 'broke down' under his watch

Top 5 from World News:

• China gave the ABC a tightly controlled tour of Xinjiang. Here's what we saw