spiffmeister

"if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" was always BS.

Yeah but how are the cops supposed to access our data without a warrant or any form of notice?

None of this is surprising but it's good to get the names of these people. This sort of shit rambling about elites works in the US and UK, so of course it works here too.

Not from bris but been seeing a psychologist for a while. It may be hard for people to recommed since the way I've found it is that I had to see a few before I found one that "clicked" for me.

Have you got a family doctor? They might have a recommendation and they can get you a mental health care plan which will pay for some of your psych appointment for like 10 visits (any doctor can give you the plan afaik).

I don’t even understand much of the basics of how the Australian government works

It's a meme but if you don't know how the government works maybe start with Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system

There's also boring arse government info: here

Most of this still will probably be pretty dry, but that's politics for you.

I am completely uninformed and have to vote based off of the miniscule amount of information I have which may not even be correct

To be honest this is probably most people. Even people who think their well informed can be way off the mark also (look at the cookers for instance). The only thing you can do is try get news from a range of sources, be careful to note what is opinion and what is not and try to analyse the source itself. All sources are biased, but some are more well researched or more truthful. Remember also that if you doubt something said in an article you can always cross check with another article, or even do a quick google scholar search (look at a few articles or try and find a review paper - most will tell you what they conclude in the abstract, which you can read for free).

While its true that there are open-access journals and conferences without such costs

To publish open access normally costs upwards of $3k USD as well. There's practically no point in the publishing chain where academics aren't getting screwed.

Let's also not forget that you have to review other people's papers for the journal for free.

There's only so many trees, we can beat them!

The rate of false accusations of rape is really hard to determine but is generally regarded as being pretty low (Vicpol puts it at ~5% based on studies). It's also extremely hard to get a good number though, since false does not mean unfounded.

I don't think it's justified drawing an equivalence between rape and rape accusations given the evidence we have on the rates, it makes it seem like false accusations are happening way more than they actually are.

Also given who this probably is, this is likely not the only accusation of rape also, which decreases the likelihood the accusations are false I would suggest.

The no campaign is run by pretty seasoned wreckers.

Just now you haven't answered the queries he had repeatedly made, you've shot them down.

The same line used by climate change deniers for ages, while they disingenuously repeated the same arguments that had been debunked or were nonsense.

liberal party

Probably thinks misogyny is okay tbh

The guy did say some disgusting shit though.

Edit: not so satire: https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/we-need-to-see-pain-the-developer-who-says-unemployment-must-rise-20230913-p5e48g.html

$387 billion cost

You could get a whole new fleet of nuclear subs for that!