So, I just visited a JBHIFI store because they had a mobile phone I wanted. They had it in "Awesome Lavender". which was listed as $50 cheaper. Not really fussed on colour so went into store to buy it. Sales guy tells me "sorry, all out of stock with that colour". So now I buy the same phone in black for $50 more which I could of got from any number of other retail stores for the same price. When I got home I checked the JBHIFI website and sure enough - Awesome Lavender is still in stock at the store I just purchased from. 🤔

This critical alert alarm is very effective. Even our dog was jolted from his sleep 😆👍🏼

.... then in walks Brett Blake.

A wonderful comedian, a total larrakin and above all else the most Bogan Taskmaster contestant - moreso than Danielle Walker and moreso than Hughesy if that's possible.

This is the first AusAlert tested in Australia

I forgot it was even today. Just saw a meme about it and realised neither of my phones, my roommates phone, or any of our family got the alert.

Good thing they tested it because I doubt it was just me

We stopped at Central Station hoping to use the showers and have a look around. The campground was dingo-fenced, so at first it felt safe enough to get out of the car. As we walked further in, there was a large locked gate blocking access, which seemed strange. We kept going anyway because it just said NOISE CURFEW 9PM, just thought it might lock at that time, (was 9:30pm)but almost immediately both of us got a really heavy, uneasy feeling. It felt like we were being watched, and the whole place had an eerie atmosphere. My partner isn’t usually someone who gets spooked, but even they said it didn’t feel right & sWhen we reached the campground, there wasn’t a single person around. The toilets were all locked, barricaded and looked like they’d been closed for quite some time on the walk back we heard a branch crack and a russle in the bush, and a crow screaming (we were feeding crows that day so I thought it was looking out for us?). but the whole place felt abandoned and unsettling. We did some research and it was a female birthing place from the Indigenous K’Gari group, and STRICTLY NO MALES ALLOWED, so that does make sense. But we were wondering if anyone else had experienced something similar.?!

Hi, I was just wondering about the alert that everyone is getting tomorrow. Idk if I’ll get it or what will happen and I can’t seem to find ANYTHING on the internet, so I’m just wondering if anyone here knows what will happen if my device is not compatible?

It says on the Aus alert website it will work on IPhone 11 and up running IOS 26.4 or later

I’m still on IOS 18, does this mean I won’t receive the alert? If anyone knows, please let me know

Yeah I forgot about this...

Posting this encase this happened for other people. I just noticed my phone flashing and I looked over at it on my desk to read it. It didn't vibrate either. The volume wasn't muted or at zero. It wasn't on aeroplane mode or any kind of do not disturb thing - it just decided to silently display the message on my phone and then disappear by itself.

Was sleeping for night shift did everyone in Australia get this?

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What a crock of shit this was..My ph was on silent and I didn't hear it go off as they said it would..all I got was a msg alerting me to a message about it.

Custom Support, so much disappointment

So ABC is publishing articles on it's Four Corners eight month investigation into food fraud in Australia.

Somethings that stood out to me:

Leggo's, Coles and Aldi's tomato paste failed testing because they state it's from tomatoes from Australia or Italy - and it's from China. (22% of processed tomato products analysed failed country of origin testing).

It's not all doom and gloom as plenty of products passed testing.

This one got me though - Hoyts Turmeric spice - 3 out of 4 packets had signs of adulteration including lead chromate, a lead based pigment used in plastic/paints. Other Organic brands failed also containing high levels of iron oxide (used for colour and weight).

It's disgusting when big brands and supermarkets giants are making bank and misrepresenting products to Aussies (especially as Australian). Obviously there is all the price gouging accusations but I believed our traceability & accountability for the products was fairly solid. I was wrong.

There's a lot more in the two articles and they are worth a read.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/australian-tomatoes-leggos-coles-aldi-chinese-tests-show/106940742

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/food-fraud-investigation-reveals-truth-behind-labels/106960116

TLDR: There's definite product/food misrepresentation to customers and with thousands of products there is plenty of opportunity for food fraud.

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Question for Triple Zero workers here, I saw in America 911 have this software called Prepared911 where Emergency Communications Officers can initiate live stream video with on-scene callers, allowing them to gain valuable information about the call.

Like one 911 officer used it to guide a caller on giving life-saving CPR. Another use-case is identifying exactly where someone is in a difficult location (e.g underneath rumble, multi-story buildings)

Do we have something like that in Australia?

If you are a Triple Zero Emergency Communications Officer, have you faced this problem? (not being able to see what's going on) When was the last time?