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G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #43 24-10-2023
• This seems to happen more and more recently
• 'Super rare, beautiful animal': White echidna spotted near Tasmania's Cradle Mountain
• The ‘Yes’ case responds: ‘It’s a white flag from Labor’
• Children and babies ‘at risk’ as childcare centres scramble for staff, insiders say

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Exhausted Queensland fire crews battle 420 bushfires in a week amid warnings of worst fire season in 70 years
• 'The public needs to know': Ecologists and climate scientists reveal devastating culture of suppression
• “The SEC is back:” Victoria flicks switch on state-owned utility in push to 95 pct renewables
• 'Super rare, beautiful animal': White echidna spotted near Tasmania's Cradle Mountain
• 'Irreversible, catastrophic impacts': UN warns humanity must act now to survive

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Neo-Nazis walk free from court, spared further jail time over attack on Victorian hikers
• Front page of yesterday's West Australian
• Bruce Lehrmann revealed as high-profile man charged with Toowoomba rape
• A full year of paid parental leave and no activity test on childcare subsidies among ideas put to government by women's taskforce - ABC News
• Zak Grieve freed on parole after serving 12 years of life sentence for murder he didn't take part in - ABC News

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Indigenous leaders break their silence, call referendum defeat 'appalling and mean-spirited'
• Centrelink jobseeker payments suspended more than 450,000 times in three months
• Liberal MP delivers ultimatum to force Bridget Archer from opposition
• With Albanese in the US, Israel-Gaza conflict is shining a light on the differences between his deputies

Top 5 from World News:

• Israel claims dozens of Hamas fighters killed as Gazans face deadliest night of bombing, UN says 'clear violations' of international law committed
• Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza - Amnesty International
• Stop asking everyone to condemn Hamas
• Gigi Hadid TARGETED By ISRAELI STATE Online; MSM CENSOR Dissident Views On Palestine: Report

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #42 17-10-2023
• ‘Oh fuck, I’ve let everyone down’ local AEC staffer realises he forgot to rig the vote like everyone said he would
• Sara Lee Crumbles as company heads to voluntary administration (headliner writers must've waited their whole career for that pun)
• Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News
• Fossil Fuel Voice to Parliament to Remain in Place — The Shovel

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• RET is still the best: Why it’s time to renew Australia’s renewable energy policy
• Seed bombing for native pollinators?
• We need new solutions to reach Australia’s 2030 renewable goals

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Indigenous communities overwhelmingly voted yes to Australia’s voice to parliament
• Today, I tried to call Centrelink 17 times. I got through to hold music once, then it hung up
• NSW will push on with First Nations treaty despite Voice referendum's defeat. Here's what it means
• Distinguished service medals awarded to army's top brass might be 'illegal'
• Lisa Wilkinson suing Network Ten for $370,000 over legal bills for Bruce Lehrmann defamation case

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• 'Not the end of the road': PM accepts referendum result, maps path forward for Indigenous recognition
• Days after Voice vote, Peter Dutton waters down Indigenous recognition commitment
• The libertarian think tank that helped build the ‘No’ case
• Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges
• Colours of Palestinian flag take over streets in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth

Top 5 from World News:

• Many rushed to condemn Israel for the Gaza hospital blast. But what does the evidence say?
• The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Splitting off Environment, Politics and News
• Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations
• Weekly Random Thread #41 10-10-2023
• ‘If they don’t comply, they die’: family of fatal NSW police shootings call for independent inquiry
• Still trying to get me

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Endangered nocturnal possum survey ‘done in daylight’
• Environment: Australia labelled a ‘Planet Wrecker’
• Tiny pocket parks make a big impact on urban living
• Australia doing ‘very poorly’ at protecting unique plants, researchers warn
• There's a hidden source of excess nutrients suffocating the Great Barrier Reef. We found it

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Heat kills more people in Australia than any other natural disasters. These researches are looking at a simple solution
• [satire] “How did this result happen and how did the debate get so toxic?” asks nation’s media that kept uncritically repeating Dutton’s racist lies
• Victoria's Jewish community encouraged not to fear and not to hide 'Jewishness'
• [satire] No Camp Claims It Received More Votes, in First Factually Correct Statement of Campaign — The Shovel
• From missing Anya's 'seven-second hugs' to raising childhood cancer research funds, NSW family turns grief into hope

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Liberal MP Julian Leeser says no campaign’s American-style politics are ‘damaging’ Australia
• Foreign minister says 'very difficult' to judge from afar, as Israel vows to cut off food and water to Gaza
• We fact checked Jacinta Nampijinpa Price on Indigenous disadvantage. Here's what we found
• PM makes impassioned final Voice plea, Dutton repeats 'risky' claim as more than 9 million Australians still to vote
• How do I even begin to learn about Australian politics?

Top 5 from World News:

• Live: Israeli death toll rises to more than 300 after Hamas attack, with over 1,800 injured
• Musk’s auto firm, Tesla, sued by government for years of racism

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Referendum Q+A thread
• Weekly Random Thread #40 03-10-2023
• Should Australian cities adopt car-free days? - ABC listen
• Decision to allow wider truck bodies paves way for electrification of big rigs in Australia
• Why cyclists should NOT get the same fines as motorists | Car Culture 6 - Motonormativity

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• WA banishes loggers from old growth native forests
• It's estimated there are between 250 and 400 of these birds left in the wild — but there's no plan to save them
• Cadmium at 50,000 times the legal level found next to farm near disused gold mine, inquiry told
• Secret Forest: Australia rivals The Congo on deforestation, blocks media access to world scientists - Michael West
• 50 Scales of Grey: Crocodile lovemaking triggered by Chinook helicopters and thunder in central Queensland

Top 5 from Australian News:

• It's 175 years since William Arnott first made biscuits in this small-town bakery — and it's still running today
• ABC says it won’t reveal sources but does not rule out handing over footage of climate protesters to police
• Home Affairs and Immigration websites hit by denial-of-service cyber attacks
• Jason died the night before our wedding. Three years later, our daughter was born - ABC Everyday

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Yes23 campaign asked to keep purple and white signs away from AEC voting centre signage
• Dutton hits back at home affairs minister's claim that the immigration system 'broke down' under his watch

Top 5 from World News:

• China gave the ABC a tightly controlled tour of Xinjiang. Here's what we saw

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Banner Photo
• Weekly Random Thread #39 26-09-2023
• Major car brands accused of trying to write 'loopholes' into Australia's looming fuel efficiency laws
• Australia’s wealthiest 20% worth 90 times the country’s poorest, new report reveals
• [Australia] Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• A farmer set a trap to catch whatever was killing his chooks. He caught a quoll extinct in SA for 130 years
• Koala lover here still looking for any discussions on conserving koala habitat
• Recovered RNA has put scientists one step closer to resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger
• As Antarctic sea ice continues its dramatic decline, we need more measurements and much better models to predict its future
• We should use Australia's environment laws to protect our 'living wonders' from new coal and gas projects

Top 5 from Australian News:

• This nurse has had to rescue clients 'abducted' by unscrupulous NDIS providers
• Australia has long debated this housing idea, but in Auckland it's already working
• COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in Australia last year, ABS data shows
• Federal Court grants injunctions against online piracy requested by Foxtel and Disney
• Senator claims former Qantas boss Alan Joyce could face jail if he avoids airline inquiry

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Daniel Andrews resigns as premier of Victoria
• Another one bites the dust: Labor's national leader's border depleted again
• The Parable of the Politician

Top 5 from World News:

• Japanese scientists developing drug to grow new teeth in humans
• On a remote atoll, a concrete dome holds a leaking toxic timebomb
• 16-year-old arrested after cutting down of iconic Robin Hood tree in northern England
• Nuclear bombs vaporised parts of the Bikini Atoll decades ago. What are the lasting impacts today?

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #38 19-09-2023
• Rooftop solar eats up all demand in South Australia, world’s most renewable grid
• Scientists take out full-page New York Times ad calling on Australia to end ‘climate annihilation’
• Australian journalist calls her baby ‘Methamphetamine Rules’ as a test of naming regulations
• Tens of thousands of Australians hit the streets in support of the October 14 referendum

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Australians support fossil fuel industry paying for the costs of climate change
• Fenced in from predators, these numbats are thrilling ecologists as they repopulate the Eyre Peninsula
• Colonists upended Aboriginal farming, growing grain and running sheep on rich yamfields, and cattle on arid grainlands
• Honeypot ant honey used in Indigenous traditional medicine effective against golden staph bacteria
• [Opinion] Don’t mention the coal: Australian Government tries to walk both sides of climate policy.

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Poll is Complete Satire is allowed
• [satire] Guy who says unemployment should rise weirdly doesn’t want to lose his own job
• Australians left with rotting teeth, unable to smile in 'completely unaffordable' dental system
• Fears lives could be lost due to lack of volunteer rural firefighters during 'traumatic fire season'
• Dating apps threatened with regulation unless they improve safety

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Emotion
• Labor scraps Peter Dutton's billion-dollar military drone plan
• Scheme to ask by-election rival about her pregnancy plans ends in 'regret' from candidate

Top 5 from World News:

• VIRAL GAFFES: Trump Talks About Poll Numbers Against Obama, Warns Biden Is Taking Nation Into WWII
• 'The time is right': Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp