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And I'm also surprised it was higher for 25-44 than 15-24, although it could simply be that vehicle accidents knocked it down a spot.

It's complicated.

Unfortunately, the Wikipedia articles I found lack citations, so they probably aren't a good source. They claim that the ROC (Taiwan) claims all of the mainland.

This reddit thread refers to the ROC constitution and interprets it as:

In the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan area and the Mainland area, the following is stated:

"Taiwan Area" refers to Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and any other area under the effective control of the Government.

"Mainland Area" refers to the territory of the Republic of China outside the Taiwan Area.

"People of the Taiwan Area" refers to the people who have household registrations in the Taiwan Area.

"People of the Mainland Area" refers to the people who have household registrations in the Mainland Area.

The implication is that wherever this law applies, is what the ROC government considers to be "territory of the ROC outside of the Taiwan Area". Currently the application of this law overlaps the entirety of the PRC, minus HK and Macau.

This the fun part. If you look at the ROC constitution, it makes [...] mention to Mongolia and Tibet.

I don't know how much of this applies beyond the KMT.

In what country? It's pretty normal to see companies lobbying for policy here, or urging people to sign petitions.

Bowel cancer is now the leading cause of death in people aged 25 to 44 in Australia.

This is surprising. It wasn't even in the top 5 a couple of years ago, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (gov).

[edit: another article the day after says it's "the deadliest cancer for Australians aged 25 to 44", which I suspect may have been mistakenly transformed into "leading cause of death"]

https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/life-expectancy-deaths/deaths-in-australia/contents/leading-causes-of-death

The incident last week is not an isolated provocation, but part of a continued deterioration of security in the waters around us.

It's in the northern hemisphere about 3000km away at closest. This article is using some underhanded rhetoric here.

Sandy Cay is unoccupied and is claimed by Vietnam, Taiwan (ROC), China (PRC) and the Philippines. The article says "The incident was well within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone", neglecting to point out that it's also well within the exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, Taiwan and China. So while factually correct, it's intentionally misleading to say "well within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone" like that, because that's one of many conflicting claims and it's clearly not exclusive in practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollongong

Yeah so that's a coastal city south of Sydney, NSW, I don't know much more about it beyond a few quick visits and their university. I had a look at their official website (https://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/) and I like that it's got a separate homepage for tourists and residents, so that site will have some useful tips for him.

Australia has a reputation for the dangerous critters but it's exaggerated a bit. It's not like we have bears or wild dogs (apart from dingos), the venomous animals generally want to run away from us. The exception would be crocodiles, and crocs aren't native to NSW.

I don't think there's anything too wild about our culture which would trick an internet-connected east coast fella, maybe that a fair bit of our (colonial) culture is closer to the UK than the US, so we might share things like understatement and a drier sense of humour. This page could also be fun to skim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English_vocabulary

I don't know what the situation is in Wollongong, but in Sydney there's plenty of opportunity to explore different cultures. Depending on where you are on your east coast, you might have had similar immigration waves (e.g. initial European colony states, Central/South European WWII immigration, Pacific conflicts and general Pacific regional interests (e.g. gold rushes), Middle Eastern conflicts immigration) so in cities there's plenty of great cuisine from all around Asia, Lebanese/etc. food, Italian and Greek food, and plenty else around. Italians are sometimes credited with fueling a notable coffee culture in our cities. Wikipedia says Wollongong has Macedonians rank unexpectedly high up the demographics chart (~2%).

Does the name "french fries" get used?

Cheers, much appreciated mate!

any tips? warnings?

For your kid? Or for you?

If you're ok sharing it with us, it would help to know what city/area they're moving from and moving to, or even if it's city vs suburbs vs rural. Even something as simple as "footy" could mean three different types of football depending on what state they're in (and none of them are gridiron).

If you're not from somewhere with many spiders, might be good for your champ to quickly learn the most common ones here and whether to run from them or keep them around to eat annoying flies. Plenty are harmless to humans.

And if you're not from somewhere with ocean beaches, learn basics (how to stay afloat, riptides, basic beach safety like swimming between flags) and sun safety ("slip, slop, slap").

Please post a link to the article instead of only posting quotes or sections.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/28/anthony-albanese-downplays-prospect-of-imposing-sanctions-on-israel-over-gaza-ntwnfb

Earlier this month, Pesutto was ordered to pay $2.3m of Deeming’s legal costs after it was found he repeatedly defamed Deeming by falsely implying she sympathised with neo-Nazis and white supremacists in December.

Ah, too bad he didn't call out a proven case like Louise Black.

but it would also be a mistake to ignore her altogether

Just because she might be factually correct doesn't mean her comment, in context, is worth listening to. It's a bad-faith deflection. It's pretty bloody unlikely that people who care about fossil fuels are oblivious to their own decisions. She's not teaching anyone something we don't know, or making a valuable point. She's trying to tarnish the character of her critics by (falsely) suggesting that their own consumption makes it hypocritical to criticise Woodside.