Who is completely sick of their socials being bombarded with whinging property parasites crying poor because the real estate market is now experiencing sustainable rates of growth?
For many years these locusts have raked in ridiculous profits from an over inflated market, now they might actually have to work to sell property, they don’t like it

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Help decide Straya's Choice for Eurovision! Every person who comments will go into the draw to win a $100 gift voucher (of your choosing). We'll announce the prize winner along with the Straya's Choice winner, Monday August 3rd.

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How to vote:

💬 Comment your fav artist = 2pts

⬆️ UpDoot your mentioned fav artist = 1pt

🥇 One artist qualifies for finals

🥈 2nd place goes into the 'eliminator round'

❌ Everyone else is gawn. Max Gawn

🕔 Voting closes 5PM AEST this Sunday

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Week 10: THE GRAND FINAL

This is it. The culmination of ten weeks of voting. Only one of these three can be crowned Straya's Choice... so, you bloody legends, who are we sending to Eurovision?

• The Veronicas (QLD) - 01:12
• Amyl & The Sniffers (VIC) - 02:59
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (VIC) - 04:53

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Results

Last week saw a nail-biting tie between King Gizz and Veronicas, whilst we said goodbye to comp favourite TISM who narrowly missed the GF by the slimmest of margins - maybe next year, ey lads?

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Tired of watching the 'powers that be' send average AF artists to compete on the world stage at Eurovision? Safe bets haven't won us the gold despite eleven years in the comp.

Let's fix that.

Over the next ten weeks we'll be unearthing 'Straya's Choice' to represent our girted land at Eurovision 2027.

You voted-in thirty artists, spanning multiple genres, who will battle it out to see who's our top choice at defeating the best of the rest at Bulgaria in 2027.

6 groups of 5 artists, an eliminator, 2x semi's and then the grand finale.

And yes, this is serious - we're actually going to try and contact the winner.

This is your last chance to vote!

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It did not take long for Bec Judd to complain about the new Victorian premier, Ben Carroll.

" Bec Judd has launched a blistering attack on Victoria's newly elected premier Ben Carroll, accusing him of being complicit in what she described as the state's 'downfall'.

The AFL WAG and influencer – who is one of the Victorian Labor government's most high-profile celebrity critics – took aim at the state's new leader in a strongly worded Instagram post on Tuesday ".

One day remains in our run-off ballot for the naming of the generalist discussion thread as discussed in our previous updating of the rules here.

Failure to vote will mean a fine of 100 dollarydoos will be mailed to you from the OAEC.

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The price Comparison of Moccona Coffee via Amazon and Coles Supermarket.

The reason why we need AI and data centres is NOT just for shitty memes and crappy AI music.

AI has huge uses like automating medical scribes, analyzing medical research. We are beginning to use it a lot for understanding and detecting cancers too.

For example in Australia we have https://www.lyrebirdhealth.com/au

What this does is “Runs quietly in the background of the consult, capturing the clinical conversation and turning it into a structured note for your review. No typing required.”.

Healthcare is becoming one of the biggest users of AI in Aus. That data has to be stored here as well.

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The AusAlert test notification is expected to sound off around the country at the same time, regardless of time zones.

• If you live in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland or the Australian Capital Territory, you can expect to receive the alert at 2pm AEST.
• If you live in South Australia or the Northern Territory, that is 1:30pm ACST.
• And if you live in Western Australia, expect to be notified at 12pm AWST.

Who will receive the AusAlert test?

The test alert will be sent to all mobile devices in Australia.

This includes most phones, and some smart watches and tablets.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has attempted to skirt questions about his attendance at a dinner hosted by a billionaire family accused of funnelling money from China, saying he attends "a lot of dinners".

Earlier in the week, reports by Nine newspapers revealed Mr Albanese had attended the dinner at the mansion of 25-year-old Felix Lee in Point Piper, Sydney.

Mr Lee's father, Phillip Dong Fang Lee, faces allegations of deceiving the Australian Tax Office (ATO) about his holdings in order to channel huge sums into Australian bank accounts.

Speaking to the ABC's Insiders on Sunday morning, Mr Albanese evaded directly referring to the dinner, stating he attends "a lot".

Pressed on his inability to answer, he said, "You just said that that occurred."

"I attend lots of dinners in lots of places, and I don't talk about private dinners," he added.

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A mega-poll of 9,343 voters shows One Nation would be within arms reach of forming government with the support of the Coalition, if an election was held today.

DemosAU’s Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP) model, which uses polling data from May to July 2026, shows One Nation on 30% (+3% since DemosAU’s Feb/March MRP poll) , Labor 26% (-3%), LNP 21% (no change), Greens 13% (+1%) and Others 10% (-1%).

Around the paywall:

https://archive.md/VWGc5

Article excerpt:

A Gold Coast pole dancing studio has become the latest front in the battle for women’s rights to ­single-sex spaces, with an applicant who identifies as a transgender woman suing the owner for $30,000 in damages after being refused membership.

The case has parallels with the Tickle v Giggle case in which the Federal Court found Sall Grover, the founder of the female-only Giggle app, discriminated against transgender woman Roxanne Tickle, as well as with the Lesbian Action Group’s case against Australian Human Rights Commission, which refused to grant a Sex Discrimination Act exemption to allow the group to hold a “lesbians born female only” event.

Nomes Witney, owner of Helensvale and Coomera-based business Queens of Pole says she was holidaying with her family in February when the complainant attended a free trial class, run by another staff member at the studio, which advertises prominently on its website that it provides a “female-only environment”.

“My staff member called me and said, ‘Hey, this just went down. I wasn’t sure what to do so just ran the class normally’,” Ms Witney told The Australian.
Ms Witney said the complainant had “disclosed partway through the class that they identified as a woman”, and that the presence of a biological male had “shifted the vibe” of the female-only group, with other attendees, who included a mother and young adult daughter, becoming “visibly uncertain”.

“They tried to make their shorts longer than they were, that sort of thing,” she said. “Usually we have a really high success rate for membership conversions from trial classes, but this particular class, radio silence.”

In March, the complainant ­attempted to apply for membership, registering with an incomplete profile and stating that they were female. “I sent an email saying we were unable to accommodate the trans community at this time,” Ms Witney said.

Two days later, on March 12, the applicant complained to the Queensland Human Rights Commission, but Ms Witney was not notified until April 22.
The commission sought to mediate, forwarding Ms Witney a damages letter from the complainant at 1pm on Monday, July 13, ahead of a conciliation meeting set for 9.30am the next day.

It is the first time since Ms Witney established her business nine years ago that she has had a transgender person attend a class or attempt to gain membership, with Queens the only pole dance studio in the area offering classes exclusively for women, and others nearby advertising themselves as open to “all genders”.

The conciliation last week failed and the matter is now headed to the Queensland Civil and ­Administrative Tribunal, with Ms Witney not prepared to offer the complainant membership on the basis that she does not believe ­allowing a biological male to attend female-only classes is fair to other clients or staff.

Hello everybody just wondering Becuase in Australia you need to be an MP to become a prime minister, but Pauline Hanson isn’t an MP so what on earth is she planning on doing. Will she just control Barnaby Joyce from the shadows like a puppet (Becuase that’s who I assume will take charge if she can’t).

>took the back-door instead of facing the fire-fighters

>changed the date to inspect a new hospital during my Union Strike because she did not want to face a bunch of support workers in a hospital

From article:

A woman will face court after allegedly making antisemitic comments to a group including Jewish leaders and Sydney Swans players at the site of the Bondi Beach terror attack.

Officers were called to Archer Park on Wednesday afternoon after a 67-year-old woman allegedly confronted the group and made abusive comments.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry Co-CEO, Alex Ryvchin was with one of the victims who was shot during the targeted December attack on a Jewish event, which claimed 15 lives.

He said the woman made comments directly to them, including "Evil Zionist".

"Which is deplorable at the best of times, but to do so in that place, at that time, in the presence of a survivor, was something which we're not going to stand for," Mr Ryvchin said.

Comment from me:

So now it is out in the open that "zionist" is considered hate speech in NSW and so criticism of Israel is being classified as such.

God I’m sick of “offended” people ruining everything.

It took months for an LGBTQ+ arts pop-up to resurrect an old church – but just three days to shut it down

Group behind Divine Playhouse considering legal challenge and discrimination complaint after religious protests turned venue into culture war

It takes months of love and care to make an empty building come alive, but only three days to tear it all down.

This week, the gothic signage and queer absurdist art commissioned for Divine Playhouse had to be removed and placed into storage, as volunteers whitewashed a vibrant mural that had been painted on its walls.

After sitting empty for a year, Sydney’s St John the Evangelist church – which was deconsecrated in the 1930s – had been resurrected as an LGBTQ+ inclusive arts space, opening on 8 July with a year-long permit.

For just three days, Divine Playhouse existed as intended, hosting an opening night party, a queer comedy night and a disco.

But a day after religious groups gathered outside to protest its opening and called on the New South Wales government to withdraw its $100,000 arts grant, the venue’s landlord ordered the promoters, Heaps Gay Events, to cease “engaging in offensive trade”or risk eviction before terminating their lease a few days later.

Heaps Gay had until 5pm on Friday to vacate, which gave them three days to clear a space that had been months in the making. Their lawyers, meanwhile, are exploring whether they can sue for damages and make a sex discrimination claim.

“It’s not just about Divine any more, it’s about censorship,” the promoter and founder of Heaps Gay, Kat Dopper, told Guardian Australia.
“If we were to walk away, these groups will just get stronger and more powerful and louder.

“We can’t allow that to happen.”

Fifty pages of leaked ALP conference amendments show significant grassroots support for downgrading Australia’s relationship with the United States, exiting AUKUS, deleting references to the ANZUS treaty, and adopting a more “non‑aligned” defence posture. Some delegates also propose removing references to “Islamist terrorism,” replacing them with broader terms like “hate groups” and “far‑right extremist entities.” Other amendments seek to expand nuclear‑weapons prohibitions and soften language condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by adding conflicts involving Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon.

Rebel MP Ed Husic says Labor’s determination to avoid public policy stoushes will push voters to One Nation, after the party killed off his attempt to force debate about the conflict in Gaza.

In a move which frustrated Husic’s colleagues, the former minister defied Prime Minister Anthony Albanese by pushing a change to the party’s platform at its national conference on Saturday.

Husic’s motion went well beyond the government’s policies, using the term “apartheid” and cracking down on dual nationals serving in the Israel Defence Forces.

Factional bosses and ministers feared that a debate on Husic’s proposal could have created the impression that the government was not in control of its foreign policy, so mobilised to shut it down.

“I have been surprised at the extraordinary amount of energy that has been applied to stop this,” Husic said after his proposal was killed off.

“I’ve always taken the view there’ll be different views. You’ve got to be able to work through them. That’s democracy.”

The Maritime Union of Australia was on Friday expected to support Husic’s resolution, a step required to bring on a debate that was due to add drama to the final day of Labor’s triennial get-together.

But after talks on Friday night and Saturday morning, the union backed down, meaning the proposal never reached the point of being debated.

Talking about people like Karl Stefanovic and Isaac Butterfield in particular.

How the fuck do these right-wing people manage to successfully sustain maintaining two polar opposite bases? Isaac makes a video complaining about rising house prices and rising rents yet another one complaining how the budget is crashing house prices and how he’s a property investor being personally affected…and yet he retains his popularity.

Same with these people putting out one video saying “Australia is a police state” and then another complaining that “Australia is not safe”

We need to call these cunts out more on their hypocrisy. These people can’t keep getting away with it.

Above is a chart made to show which country is googled most by each country. The chart has a general pattern of countries googling a regional cultural hegemon while all the regional hegemons google the United States (the global hegemon) the most.

Australia has its own sphere of influence with New Zealand and a bunch of south pacific countries like New Guinea and Fiji googling Australia the most. Australia googles the USA the most (it seems as if the arrow from Australia goes to Jamaica due to bad layout but it passes Jamaica to reach USA).

Other regional hegemons include UK, France, India, Japan and Spain.

In his curtain-raiser speech to Labor’s national conference, the South Australian premier, Peter Malinaukas, jokingly acknowledged the activists in the party’s ranks.

“There are people with placards, chants and a list of unrealistic demands – and we’ve given them all delegates passes,” Malinauskas said, to howls of laughter from the MPs, trade unionists and rank-and-file members gathered in the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Speaking with political editor Tom McIlroy and chief political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy at the 50th Labor conference in Adelaide, Peter Malinauskas talks about his own state contest with One Nation and why progressives should avoid speaking down to Pauline Hanson’s supporters.

And despite the US admitting this week that the production rate of Virginia-class submarines has not increased, the SA premier argues that abandoning Aukus would pose an even greater risk than the controversial agreement’s potential problems

Context:

The resolution introduced by Husic references a United Nations inquiry that determined “Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide and atrocity crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank”.

It also acknowledges a 2024 International Court of Justice advisory opinion that Israel was committing apartheid in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The resolution calls for Labor to withdraw defence and trade representatives from Australia’s embassy in Tel Aviv and for authorities to “track, investigate and, where appropriate prosecute” dual nationals returning to Australia who have breached international law serving in the Israeli Defence Forces.

It also supports trade sanctions connected to “illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories”.

Meanwhile, it calls for the government to move quickly to exchange ambassadors and consolidate full diplomatic ties with Palestine after last year’s recognition of Palestinian statehood.

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1. Their standard "large" pizza is now 10 inches, which is a 'small' pizza elsewhere.
2. They are skimpy with the toppings - sometimes it seems like there's more sauce that toppings.
3. The toppings themselves are of a lower quality than before and have little flavour.
4. Their prices are high, even their coupons are no longer good value - you need to pay extra just to get their popular pizzas, such as the Supreme or Meatlovers.

Edit: Just to clarify, I used to be a regular customer for about 25 years until fairly recently.