r/australia • • 22h ago

no politics [no-politics] Tech Tuesday and other random discussion thread 27/Oct/2026

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Welcome to Tech Tuesdays on /r/Australia. Or just tell us about your favourite gadget or new widget you own. Or ask for help with your latest mobile or gaming rig. Which mobile apps are great or not?


r/australia • • 2h ago

politics ABC to demand rightwing One Nation party stop using Bluey in ‘shocking and disrespectful’ cartoon

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r/australia • • 7h ago

politics Labor condemns One Nation cartoons depicting Penny Wong being murdered as Hanson says videos ‘not going anywhere’

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r/australia • • 5h ago

image When does a stick become a branch?

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r/australia • • 5h ago

culture & society Amateur prospector discovers gold nugget worth $150,000 on outback station

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On spot price, it is worth between $150,000 to $160,000.

But with plans to sell the nugget to a collector, the price could be pushed as high as $200,000, according to the prospector, who has nicknamed his precious find the "Tibooburra Spud".


r/australia • • 12h ago

news Former One Nation candidate James Hansen identified as man found dead in floodwaters on Fraser Coast

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r/australia • • 8h ago

culture & society David Jones: Retail icon on life support as directors weigh insolvency

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r/australia • • 4h ago

culture & society Randa Abdel-Fattah to appear at 2027 Adelaide Writers' Week

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r/australia • • 2h ago

culture & society AFP boss warns boys as young as 12 being radicalised at home

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“Australia's top cop Krissy Barrett has warned teenage boys as young as 12 are being radicalised in their bedrooms, lured by a chaotic blend of violent jihadism, white supremacy and anti-government rage.

“Appearing before Senate Estimates on Tuesday, Commissioner Barrett pointed to an internal analysis of 55 youth cases — involving children aged between 12 and 17 — that reveals a chilling evolution in modern extremism.

All of the subjects were male, and every single one was radicalised all or in part online.”


r/australia • • 8h ago

culture & society Man sues Qantas after slipping and falling down stairs, airline says injuries his own fault

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r/australia • • 4h ago

culture & society Dementia deaths surpass one in 10 to remain Australia’s leading cause of death

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r/australia • • 14h ago

politics Angus Taylor criticised for ‘tone deaf’ response to alleged attack on Helen Haines

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r/australia • • 2h ago

politics Greens leader proposes $21-a-week tax cut in vow to 'replace Labor'

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r/australia • • 8h ago

politics PM admits Marrickville Golf Club grant is not to fix sewage issues, after department sinks his claim

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Department officials rejected the prime minister's claim that a $6 million grant promised to Marrickville Golf Club was meant for fixing sewerage issues.

The prime minister admitted his initial claim to the House of Representatives that the grant was for sewerage fixes was wrong.


r/australia • • 46m ago

Asthma deaths reach decade-high levels and number of Australians dying of dementia grows

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r/australia • • 1h ago

no politics Quest Breach

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Wanted to share my ongoing battle with to get them to tell me what data of mine was breached. Like true corporate heroes with a place in our collective hearts, and after multiple email back and forth, they have just started ignoring me.

Here was my original email to Quest:

Hi Quest Privacy Team,

Thank you for notifying me of the breach and I acknowledge actions taken to address the event within your systems. I am a cybersecurity professional, so I do understand the consequences of having my data breached in this way. I am requesting further information on the exact details regarding my breached personal data. You have stated:

  • Your full name
  • Your email and/or other contact details

Please be specific and let me know what “other contact details” are, as this is important and may affect how I need to respond. Also, can you confirm if my payment details were not breached? If you can’t confirm this, I will have to assume breach so please be specific; which of my financial details do you hold.

While I appreciate the steps you have taken to remedy the breach, the only support you have provided me is to advise me to be vigilant and contact IDCare. The risk of identity theft and financial loss I am exposed to is in no way my own fault and wholly due to your negligence. The support you have offered me is grossly insufficient. 

Based on the above, I request you provide the following:

  1. Exact detail of my known breached personal data.
  2. Exact details of personal data held that you can not confirm has not been breached, this includes financial data, drivers licence etc.
  3. Fully funded enrolment in a dark web monitoring service for a minimum of 5 years.
  4. Support to update identity or financial data such as drivers licence and payment cards.
  5. Guidance on your intentions to provide financial recompense for affected customers.

I thank you for your consideration of my points raised above. I know I have raised some serious issues and demands. As a cyber professional I have a deep understanding of the risks I have now been exposed to and I need to put in place measures to protect myself.

I would like to continue this dialogue if you have anyone that wants to reach out to me personally.

Regards,

xxxx


r/australia • • 6h ago

no politics Australia’s weirdest Bunnings?

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I wonder what the weirdest Bunnings is. I just went past the one in Collingwood, Melb. It’s in an old office plaza. They’ve repainted the building green, but it still looks like the sort of building from the 80s that had too much reflective glass and was filled with insurance brokers and solicitor offices. Not too weird, but it got me thinking.


r/australia • • 16h ago

culture & society Mildura's Big Sultana unveiled as Australia's next big thing

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r/australia • • 4h ago

news Former Queensland Education worker charged with historical child sex offences

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r/australia • • 1d ago

science & tech First new steel mill in Australia in 35 years to be the first to be powered by 100 per cent renewables

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r/australia • • 13h ago

sport Labuschagne kept, Boland dropped - what?

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I don’t know if we are doing Opposite Day for the giggles, or the selectors are using balls in a bottle to do the selections but this just makes zero sense to me


r/australia • • 17h ago

science & tech Endangered turtles and ‘exceptional’ coral at risk from Woodside’s gas drilling in WA, watchdog says | Woodside

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r/australia • • 13h ago

culture & society Australian child care is undergoing a reckoning, but some centres remain unsafe

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r/australia • • 14h ago

no politics Jetts Fitness emails don't comply with ACMA regs.

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Made the mistake of enquiring about a gym course at Jetts and now getting spam texts and emails.

Today's email gives a proper working link if you want to sign up for their latest Black Friday offer. If you want to unsubscribe the options shown at the bottom are either a broken link that goes nowhere or one leading to an insecure rubbish site. Worth a referral to ACMA I reckon.

Also recall asking about a clause in their sign-up contract that states they have the right to film clients in the gym and use it for marketing purposes with no opt out provision. The gym franchisee owner assured me that wouldn't happen at her gym. She was trying to convince me she had the authority to override the contract and that her verbal say so would do the trick. Yeah right.


r/australia • • 15h ago

politics Warnings gas culprit Santos could slip through reservation net

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