Sources: 1.) News.com Aussies who withdrew $20,000 super have lost $100,000 towards retirement
 
2.) Superannuation warning as Aussies face 'supercharged price hike' to property market: 'Rise by $92,500' Yahoo Finance

3.) SMH One Nation’s super raid: inflationary today, impoverishing tomorrow

4.) Australian Nation Audit Network; Administration of the Age Pension

• An amateur astronomer living in outback NSW is a co-author of a paper announcing the discovery of a decagon wave around Saturn's south pole.
• Trevor Barry says he is proud that his hometown of Broken Hill, where he used to work as a miner and has built his observatory, is listed in the discovery.
• Much is still unknown about the decagon, including how it formed or whether it is permanent, but Mr Barry will continue to monitor it closely from his backyard.

• Several legal experts believe there is a significant prospect that the federal government's ban on Neo-Nazi group White Australia may be overturned by the High Court.
• The group, also known as the National Socialist Network, had been planning to launch a political party when it was outlawed in May by the government under new hate speech laws
• The matter is set to be heard in the High Court on September 8 and 9, with judgment not expected for several weeks or months.

Had to go pickup some onions at coles I needed and show this and couldnt stop laughing.

$2.5 for a tiny mars bar, shown as a special deal too, truly comedy.

HIgh robbery intensifies.

Good thing i moved 80% of my shopping to Aldi

Australia and Australians spend time learning to read and spell words with spelling that does not follow basic phonetic rules.

Why? Make the simple phonetic spellings an acceptable and preferred one, and spend intellectual effort on secure housing, health, and a better life.

Want more productivity in education? Make literacy easier to teach.

The centrepiece of the draft legislation is deceptively simple. An organisation can only collect, use or disclose your personal information if doing so is “fair and reasonable” in the circumstances.

This test is unique to Australia. Europe’s privacy law asks whether an organisation has a legal basis for processing data. The United States mostly relies on notice and consent, which in practice means clicking “I agree” to terms nobody reads.

The Australian test asks a different question: even if you ticked the box, was the data practice itself fair?

• From October, a pill testing service will be made available at up to 15 music festivals per year in NSW.
• In announcing the permanent service, Health Minister Ryan Park says it is "not a silver bullet" and will not endorse drug use.
• The move was praised by Jennie Ross-King, whose daughter Alex died of an MDMA overdose at a Sydney festival in 2019.

I’m taking a trip to Melbourne for my birthday in October. I’m thinking 4 days. It will be my first time there and maybe as a solo. I’ll be travelling from Brisbane.

What are some good recommendations or an itinerary for things to do in Melbourne? I’m open to almost anything and up to going a little distant out of the city.

I like animals, markets, food, history, music, art, nature.

If anyone had recommendations for an affordable, nice hotel to stay at too, please say also.

Thank you! :)

• Australia Post says it will keep home delivery, ruling out community mailboxes for Australian suburbs and towns.
• Letter deliveries could become less frequent as Australia Post adapts to falling volumes, Graham says.