Australia

Opposition leader adds caveat to campaign vow on eve of Queensland election day as polls tighten

The Labor opposition, conservationists and Indigenous groups have expressed shock at the move

It's not a bad night in Melbourne tonight. I'm getting pissed and listening to music as per usual. What's everyone else doing?

Dolphins surf shore break, and... so do black swans.

Anyone seen this live? Is it common, or a one off group?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30092271

Australia just overturned 20 years of case law to allow environmental groups to take corporations harming the environment to court.

Please crosspost to other communities which might be fitting.

An Australian senator has defended heckling King Charles and accusing him of genocide after he addressed Australia's Parliament House, telling the BBC that "he's not of this land".

Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal Australian woman, interrupted the ceremony in the capital of Canberra by shouting for about a minute before she was escorted away by security.

After making claims of genocide against "our people", she could be heard yelling: "This is not your land, you are not my King."

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"To be sovereign you have to be of the land," she said. "He is not of this land."

Thorpe, who is an independent senator from Victoria, is among those who have advocated for a treaty between Australia’s government and its first inhabitants.

Unlike New Zealand and other former British colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never established. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people emphasise that they never ceded their sovereignty or land to the Crown.

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This is very reminiscent of the On The Run traineeship scandal that occurred in South Australia not long ago. Anyone know of other companies still using these traineeship loopholes to commit mass wage theft?

Solar Quotes, the pioneering and highly regarded instant quote comparison service for the installation of rooftop PV, has been snapped up by Big Three gentailer Origin Energy, 16 years after its genesis in the walk-in robe of its founder, Finn Peacock.

Well, thats the end of Solar Quotes. What a pity, it used to be a great resource for finding information (and installers who werent cowboys).

This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.

https://xkcd.com/2999/

And as the article says - this data is only from individual tax returns. It doesn't cover companies.

Unions plan to rally members after vice chancellor Prof Genevieve Bell requests forgoing 2.5% December increase