Australia
With so many scams out there, especially now as we face the end of the financial year and the pinned "How to spot a tax scam" post being nearly a year old, I'm going to pin this thread as a place to share advice regarding scams or any new scams you might have noticed. This isn't to say not to post scam related stuff in the main community but to create a place to keep track of scam related stuff which might get washed away over time.
Hello from across the fediverse! If you've contributed to the conversation in discussions in this community you may have noticed you weren't getting a lot of interaction (at least from outside your instance: lemmy.world). There are a couple of reasons for this and I will unpin this post when the issues are resolved. The problem is basically that lemmy.world is sending too many activities for aussie.zone to keep up with, this is mostly due to the latency going from Europe to Sydney. There are some features being developed for Lemmy to hopefully fix this issue (expected in 0.19.5). The delay currently means that activities are taking around 7 days to reach aussie.zone. The admins of aussie.zone do a great job keeping the instance going as a place for us to gather and discuss Australia and related issues so please do not direct any criticism at them over this. To be able to properly interact with our community I would recommend creating an account on another instance for the time being (as far as I know lemmy.world is the only problematic one). If you're interested there is currently a discussion ongoing in [!meta@aussie.zone](https://aussie.zone/c/meta) ([link for aussie.zone users](https://aussie.zone/post/9964509)) covering this.
www.sbs.com.au
This is very reminiscent of the On The Run traineeship scandal that occurred in South Australia not long ago. Anyone know of other companies still using these traineeship loopholes to commit mass wage theft?
And as the article says - this data is only from individual tax returns. It doesn't cover companies.
> This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne. https://xkcd.com/2999/
reneweconomy.com.au
> Solar Quotes, the pioneering and highly regarded instant quote comparison service for the installation of rooftop PV, has been snapped up by Big Three gentailer Origin Energy, 16 years after its genesis in the walk-in robe of its founder, Finn Peacock. Well, thats the end of Solar Quotes. What a pity, it used to be a great resource for finding information (and installers who werent cowboys).
www.theguardian.com
> Unions plan to rally members after vice chancellor Prof Genevieve Bell requests forgoing 2.5% December increase
What a bunch of stupid money wasting cunts.
This looks so fucking bad.
> **In short:** > > A tourist has been accompanied down Cradle Mountain, in Tasmania's north west, after attempting to climb it without footwear. > > Police say the man contacted emergency services Saturday morning, reporting that he was unable to walk due to his toes being frost-bitten. > > **What's next?** > > Police have urged people to remember the importance of going out into the wilderness with appropriate equipment.
This is just a backdoor way to tie real names to online accounts. Someone think of the children! /s So, show me a photo of your driver's licence to prove you aren't one.
consortiumnews.com
Please support David's fight in court if you can: https://chuffed.org/project/davidmcbride
michaelwest.com.au
>In 2019, the Middle East supplied around 17% of Australia’s crude oil imports around 1% in refined products. However, the three largest suppliers to Australia of refined products, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, sourced 20, 35 and 44%, respectively, of their crude oil from Saudi Arabia and Iran. ... >Australia is supposed to, by international agreement, have 90 days of petroleum reserves. Even using dodgy calculations by the Australian Government (the IEA does not accept them as proper), which includes in its reserves the fuel at sea on its way to Australia, our current reserves are 51 days. > >Our real current reserve figures are at 31 days for petrol, 24 days for diesel (which keeps the country supplied with food and medicines) and 21 days for aviation fuel.
[Archived link](https://web.archive.org/web/20241004154827/https://www.bestit.wang/2024/09/27/10000-foreigners-detained-across-ccp-prison-network-journalist/) **Addition**: This is a [Witness Statement to the U.S. Congressional Executive Commission on China (pdf)](https://www.cecc.gov/sites/evo-subsites/www.cecc.gov/files/evo-media-document/Cedric%20Witek%20-%20Statement%20to%20the%20US%20Congressional%20Executive%20Commission%20on%20David%20McMahon%20Case_0.pdf) by Cedric Witek, a French national and corporate-crime investigator who has helped foreign nationals imprisoned in China. An Australian Senate Committee has been told that around 10,000 foreigners, including Australians, are currently held in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) prison system. At an inquiry hearing on Sept. 26, Peter Humphrey, a former British journalist and businessman involved with China for 50 years, shared his experience of being wrongfully detained by the communist regime. Humphrey and his Chinese American wife were arrested in 2013 on false charges of illegal “information gathering.” [...] Humphrey also said the CCP did not provide Australians or foreigners with proper legal proceedings. “Not a single Australian prisoner has had a fair and transparent trial. Some are in dire health. Some are over 50, aging rapidly,” he told the Senate Committee. [...] The former businessman explained that all organs of the judicial system–the police, the prosecution, the judiciary, the prisons, and Chinese lawyers–formed an organic whole under the regime’s complete control. “No judge is independent or impartial. He is just a messenger of the party,” he said. **“The system is exploited by connected individuals to harm people they have a grudge against."** “Cases are built upon forced confessions, often televised and upon forced witness statements.” At the same time, Humphrey shared about the harsh living conditions of prisioners [...] in CCP’s prisons, where they had to sleep on the floor in a small cell full of people and eat filthy, appalling food. [...] There was also the withholding of proper medical treatment [from prisoners], even for cancer, Humphrey added. [...] Furthermore, Humphrey said Australia and other countries had a mindset of putting commercial relations above the interests of individual citizens who had been wrongfully detained. [...] Specifically, Humphrey said there needed to be legislation that would put a greater onus on the Australian government to act, and legislation that would punish China for its acts of arbitrarily and unjustly detaining Australian citizens. “You need to send out the message that if you touch an Australian, we’re going to make you and your friends’ life hell,” he said. “Western democracies should link hands in this approach and put on a united front. [...]
www.theguardian.com
Bank-owned ATM numbers are down almost 60%, with many spots now taken by privately-owned machines charging about $3 per withdrawal
 source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=8709502339094581 group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/auroraaustralia --- EDIT: Apparently you're going to want to see some red on the map here: https://seetheaurora.com/live-data
>Andrew King, a lecturer in climate science at the University of Melbourne, said there was "evidence to suggest climate change is intensifying those kind of extreme rain events". >"With larger cities and larger urban areas, we'd expect to see more incidents like these floods affecting more people," he said.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13929272 > So, what's the take away here ? make it so expensive to live people choose cycling and we get better cities ?
It fell out of the air and died right next to me. Spotted in Melbourne Australia. Quite small, a bit smaller than the tip of a standard flathead screwdriver A bit of Google Lens'ing suggests it looks quite similar to *Eupeodes lapponicus*, but that's a European/North American species. I'm a bit awestruck by the pattern No stinger
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/21795594 > When? > > Oct 1st, 8:30am CEST > --- > --- > > More info on the event: > > https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-to-attend-a-pace-hearing-in-strasbourg-on-his-detention-and-conviction-and-their-chilling-effect-on-human-rights > >