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Labor shelves election promise for inquiry into prosecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I know it's a little old. Thought it was more relevant given the recent confected outage over Labor and election promises.

E-scooters are linked with injuries and hospital visits – but we can’t say they are riskier than bikes yet in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

This wouldn't surprise me at all, if it almost entirely be rental scooters.

Here in Adelaide, they have these rental scooters lining the sidewalks on the nightlife strips - on the weekend!

This seems to me to be almost criminally negligent. What do they think young people are going to do with these things, while drunk? They are going to ride them, while drunk, and they are going to have accidents, of course. Because they're drunk.

I like the rental scooters, as they're a great way of getting round the city when you're in a hurry, but they should shut them down on the weekend evenings, FFS.

An Australian sentenced to death in China in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder whether there'll be this much outage when Jillian Assange is sentenced to decades in prison in the US.

There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen [actual article] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Looks like we have a movement then. Only small, so far, but ......

There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen [actual article] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I'm just wondering if we could substitute our current monarchy for the Danish one. Maybe if a Danish naval officer lands at Sydney Cove and plants a flag there? This has a precedent I believe.

There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I honestly don't know what happened there.

Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Cancel culture exemplified.

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Scientists take out full-page New York Times ad calling on Australia to end ‘climate annihilation’ (www.abc.net.au)