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EXCLUSIVE: An Australian Federal Police officer arranged for the Clearview AI CEO to appear at a meeting with Australian top police to 'get some education on the Clearview issue'.

 

A Supreme Court justice orders the NT government to pay more than $200,000 each to four men who were tear gassed when still teenagers in the Darwin detention facility.

 

The fourth Victorian coroner in six years has called on the state government to introduce pill testing to stop people from dying from accidental overdoses.

 

Exclusive: Greg Mullins calls for fossil fuel subsidies to be torn up as he blasts Labor over ‘incomprehensible’ coalmine approvals

 

Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry is calling on the state government to create an independent watchdog to tackle police complaints, a First Nations-controlled child protection system and to stop detaining children under the age of 16.

 

Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry is calling on the state government to create an independent watchdog to tackle police complaints, a First Nations-controlled child protection system and to stop detaining children under the age of 16.

 

Low- to moderate-income Melburnians are being priced out of “affordable” housing, according to new research.

 

Low- to moderate-income Melburnians are being priced out of “affordable” housing, according to new research.

 

As the Northern Territory government announces $20 million in domestic violence funding, one Darwin shelter is being forced to cut back staff hours due to budget constraints.

 

Electrical Trades Union boss Troy Gray says campaign to continue the activity will now expand

 

Electrical Trades Union boss Troy Gray says campaign to continue the activity will now expand

 

Exclusive: Guardian Australia obtains legal letter that appears to cast doubt on some of the state’s key justifications

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Hopefully the crossbench has another shot at forcing this government to lift welfare rates above the poverty line.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Long past due that this was scrutinised. 50+ years past due.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

The search paradigm on Mastodon greatly reduces the platform’s usefulness and I expect presents to many users as simply being broken rather than an intentional choice.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Google still does some specific things better, coding searches for instance, but if you haven't tried DuckDuckGo as your daily driver it's well worth a shot.

It's perhaps not what Google once was, but it's far more than Google is. Plus if you need to fallback to Google for something specific it's only a !g away.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

It’s pretty much by design with IBAC, and part of the reason that the NACC copying the model is so concerning.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unless we standardise on a single formulation of soft plastic, recycling it seems doomed.

Prohibiting it being used in the first place seems like it might actually be the simpler task.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Hopefully the remasters do well enough to demonstrate an interested market.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

A Victorian Ombudsman's review later found the lockdown was "rushed" and "not compatible with the residents' human rights".

Several residents have called on the government to issue an apology, but it has refused.

The failure to offer an apology was fairly predictable but it's still extraordinarily disappointing given both the events during the lockdown and the warnings that had been given to government in the months before the lockdown, and in a few instances before COVID entirely.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago

There’s no latitude for other choices whilst first past the post voting systems remain.

If you want minor parties in the US then your first priority must be establishing ranked choice voting. Any other approach just hands power to your opponents.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The Australian Federal Police and financial crime agency Austrac have spent months probing the payments. But no charges have been laid, and sources aware of both agencies’ work, speaking anonymously to detail confidential investigations, said the National Anti-Corruption Commission or a commission of inquiry was needed to examine a money trail that spans 10 years and several governments.

A good way of putting to bed any concern that the NACC was partisan would be to go after both major parties' involvement in our systematic torture of asylum seekers and refugees as the first matter before it.

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