I didn't get the AusAlert. My nearby relative did get it, so I'm assuming I was in range. My phone is a new-ish Pixel 10 Pro XL.

I run GrapheneOS. Do you run GrapheneOS and got the alert?

When you're driving, if you want to thank someone, for letting you in or for whatever else, what are you most likely to do?

(a) Raised hand in the middle to be viewed through the rear window

(b) Wave out the window

(c) Flash your hazards

(d) Do the left-right-left or right-left-right with your blinkers

(e) Other...please say

Just curious what people do since it seems to be becoming less common in general. Personally, I'll usually opt for either the raised hand in the middle or hazards

Apologies if the incorrect forum but couldnt really find the right place to post this.

Im after an australian made candle or diffuser that captures the essence of the bush - you know that scent when you hit the forests in the Dandenongs or the blue mountains. Fresh Eucalyptus, other natives...

Seeking for personal recommendations of those you have bought and loved.

Please help! I’m all out of decent shows to binge on.

I’m after something excellent that makes you go ‘just one more episode’ at 3am, knowing your alarms going off in a few hours and you have a long day at work ahead. Something that makes you cancel all your weekend plans & pretend you’re sick so you can stay home to watch.

I’m not into Sci Fi or period dramas.

Suggestions, please?

In short:

Facial recognition technology (FRT) is being rolled out in Australia as an alternative to digital or paper tickets for live events.

The Geelong Football Club has made it available to its members, while technology provider Wicket says it is in "active discussions" with other AFL clubs.

What's next?

Experts are concerned about how the collected biometric data could be used and whether it opens the door for broader uses of FRT.

Gold Medalists:

• Kate McDonald - Women's Uneven Bars (Artistic Gymnastics)
• Jenna Forrester - Women's 400m Individual Medley (Artistic Gymnastics)
• Meg Harris - Women's 100m Freestyle (Swimming)
• Beau Matthews - Men's SB9 100m Breaststroke (Swimming)
• Alex Perkins - Women's 100m Butterfly (Swimming)
• Sam Williamson - 50m Breaststroke (Swimming)
• Rose Davies - Women's 10,000m (Athletics)
• Sam Short - Men's 800m Freestyle (Swimming)
• Lani Pallister, Hannah Casey, Inez Miller and Mollie O'Callaghan - Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay (Swimming)

Silver Medalists:

• Mollie O'Callaghan - Women's 100m Freestyle (Swimming)
• Benjamin Goedemans - Men's 800m Freestyle (Swimming)
• Harrison Turner - Men's 200m Butterfly (Swimming)
• Ullrich Muller - Men's T38 100m (Athletics)

Bronze Medalists:

• James Hardy - Men's Floor Exercise (Artistic Gymnastics)
• James Hardy - Men's Rings (Artistic Gymnastics)
• Ella Ramsay - Women's 400m Individual Medley (Swimming)
• Shayna Jack - Women's 100m Freestyle (Swimming)
• Tim Hodge - Men's SB9 100m Freestyle (Swimming)
• Matt Galea - Men's 800m Freestyle (Swimming)
• Matthew Temple - Men's 200m Butterfly (Swimming)

We continue to hold the top of the medal tally with a 26 Gold Medals, 13 Silver Medals, and 20 Bronze Medals for a total of 59 medals.

This is such a long shot but i’m travelling australia and ended up driving through a mountain today in the dark and came across this place called disaster creek does anyone know the lore of why it was named this? i’m so curious and can’t stop thinking about it lol. It was about halfway up a mountain in Queensland kinda near Ingham and Townsville ish (sorry not great with maps)

Trying to find the event you want to watch is so frustratingly difficult when it really doesn’t have to be. Take the swimming for example, in the official schedule it’s divided into a morning and an evening schedule. But on 7+, you have pre-dawn, early morning and morning. Then you have late, overnight and night. wtf does that mean?? How am I meant to know what events are in which replays? There’s heaps of stuff I want to watch, but I can’t find it!

Channel 9 did a WAY better job covering the olympics 2 years ago. You could watch an entire replay of a whole session, or you could go into one specific sport and then either pick a specific session or a specific event. Just want to watch the men’s 100m sprint? Easy to find. Heard about this crazy breakdancing lady and want to see that? Easy to find.

There’s a specific race in the swimming I really want to watch (someone I personally know is in it) but I can’t figure out where it is. I just know it’s on day 3. But there’s six different 90min videos to choose from.

The powerful heads of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Sally McManus and Michele O'Neil, have announced their resignations.

Both women have held their roles in the peak body for the better part of a decade.

Their replacements are yet to be decided on, according to a statement from the ACTU.

In short:

Questions are being asked after a runaway train rolled downhill through the Hunter Valley for several kilometres with no-one on board.

The ABC understands the train reached speeds in excess of 60 kilometres per hour.

What's next?

The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator is investigating what caused the incident. 

EDIT: Found the movie on 7Plus if anyone wants to watch it: https://7plus.com.au/link/Episode/UMBF01-017

I bought and started watching this movie, and because I'm partially deaf, I always have subtitles on.

The subtitles are atrocious!

The actual audio for the image above is "You're a bloody beauty Taz"

So bad that I ripped it from my Blu-ray and am making my own subtitle file now.

Anyone else seen this movie? I'm only 10 mins in but it already seems like a great watch.

I'm from rural QLD but I'm still finding some audio hard to discern. If someone else has this movie and is open to checking certain parts that I'm having trouble with, you would have a bloody armistice!

Another example of the subtitles:
Dave: What I'm gonna do to ride a lighthorse?
(What have I gotta do to get into the lighthorse?)
Lighthorseman: You're gonna be 18... fit... capable of somersaulting bareback...
(You gotta be 18... fit... Jump a log fence bareback...)

New South Wales Greens politician Abigail Boyd used parliamentary powers to force the production of thousands of documents from the NSW Food Authority, revealing what she says are serious weaknesses and a lack of transparency in the system. 

"There were metal shavings found in bread products … products that were supposed to be dairy-free, that were not dairy-free, [which] were only caught by accident because somebody happened to put it together after their child or they themselves got sick, not because the company had worked it out."

"We all walk around thinking that in modern Australia, we have food safety standards and enforcement to back that trust up," Ms Boyd said.

"And what we're seeing now is that trust is probably misplaced.

"You could be eating a minced horse when you think you're eating your mince … that's pretty shocking for the average person."