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With so many scams out there, especially now as we face the end of the financial year and the pinned "How to spot a tax scam" post being nearly a year old, I'm going to pin this thread as a place to share advice regarding scams or any new scams you might have noticed. This isn't to say not to post scam related stuff in the main community but to create a place to keep track of scam related stuff which might get washed away over time.
Hello from across the fediverse! If you've contributed to the conversation in discussions in this community you may have noticed you weren't getting a lot of interaction (at least from outside your instance: lemmy.world). There are a couple of reasons for this and I will unpin this post when the issues are resolved. The problem is basically that lemmy.world is sending too many activities for aussie.zone to keep up with, this is mostly due to the latency going from Europe to Sydney. There are some features being developed for Lemmy to hopefully fix this issue (expected in 0.19.5). The delay currently means that activities are taking around 7 days to reach aussie.zone. The admins of aussie.zone do a great job keeping the instance going as a place for us to gather and discuss Australia and related issues so please do not direct any criticism at them over this. To be able to properly interact with our community I would recommend creating an account on another instance for the time being (as far as I know lemmy.world is the only problematic one). If you're interested there is currently a discussion ongoing in [!meta@aussie.zone](https://aussie.zone/c/meta) ([link for aussie.zone users](https://aussie.zone/post/9964509)) covering this.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2962218 > [Source.](https://www.statista.com/chart/33079/average-waiting-times-for-a-doctors-appointment/)
www.bbc.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22774303 > > The state is grappling with the legacy of a surgeon who allegedly mutilated an Aboriginal man's remains.
Council elections may not the be most exciting but don't be like me a few years ago and forget they're on until after all the polling booths close...
www.abc.net.au
An insightful article.
www.abc.net.au
> **In short:** > > Surfers say they feared they were about to "witness something pretty horrible" as the door from a plane fell towards South Broulee Beach last week. > > The door landed in coastal scrub 20 metres from a fisherman, with the pilot telling airport staff its "latch was not secured properly". > > **What's next?** > > The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says it will not conduct an investigation as it would be "unlikely to yield any new safety lessons".
www.abc.net.au
>It found about 70 per cent of existing homes have building quality problems, while more than two-thirds of homes have an energy rating of three stars or lower. >Australia really just doesn't have the policy instruments or policies in place that one might expect for building performance and housing quality and condition," Dr Daniel said. >So all of these homes were almost effectively reducing their useful life, because it's almost as soon as they're built, they're not up to what we might consider a standard that's fit for purpose," she said. >"In the future, we can imagine that people living in those homes are going to be much more exposed to fluctuations in energy prices because they're over-reliant on heating and cooling. What a cluster fuck
www.abc.net.au
Highly relevant to us (as admins)
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
theconversation.com
Interesting article in relation to the media pile-on of Elle Macpherson earlier this week. According to the authors, her decision to avoid chemotherapy may have been completely normal and sensible given her circumstances. We don't actually know because no one from the ABC or any other outlet bothered to check before running their stories citing her former relationship with an anti-vaxxer, or claiming that she ignored centuries of medical advice. The authors conclude that Australians have missed a great opportunity here to discuss the current state of non-invasive breast cancer research and treatment.
www.abc.net.au
The new theme seems deadset on replacing content with whitespace, driving my father in particular mad (he's having more luck finding Australian news on DW than the ABC right now; and he is sore that he has to hunt for the "Science" news category now in menus). Not sure how long they'll keep the ?future=x flag available, but for now it gives you about double the number of articles per page.
Up! Up! Coles' annual profits are up to $1.1 billion. And to think the Reserve Bank still acts as though inflation and the cost of living crisis is due to wages (below the rate of inflation) or consumer spending, rather than corporate profiteering. [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/27/coles-reports-8-surge-in-annual-profit-to-11bn-amid-cost-of-living-crisis](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/27/coles-reports-8-surge-in-annual-profit-to-11bn-amid-cost-of-living-crisis) [@australia](https://aussie.zone/c/australia) [#news](https://aus.social/tags/news) [#politics](https://aus.social/tags/politics) [#finance](https://aus.social/tags/finance) [#business](https://aus.social/tags/business) [#auspol](https://aus.social/tags/auspol) [#coles](https://aus.social/tags/coles) [#woolworths](https://aus.social/tags/woolworths) [#capitalism](https://aus.social/tags/capitalism) [#auspol](https://aus.social/tags/auspol)
theconversation.com
> > > We were dismayed to see no Australians on the New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century – so, with the help of 50 experts, we created our own, all-Australian list. You can have your say, too! > >
www.middleeasteye.net
Former staff members at the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have accused the rights group of mistreating them over their pro-Palestine views. "In one instance, I was informally cautioned by a senior official for using the phrase ‘from the river to the sea’ on my personal social media," said Badge's letter. "Similarly, I was informally reprimanded for summarising a UN press release on the situation of women and girls in Gaza." Since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza in October there has been a public outcry from pro-Palestine campaigners over what they say is "censorship" across Australia's institutions.
> On Sunday August 23rd 1851 a hard fought riot broke out in Sydney. Whilst such disturbances were common place at the time this particular riot is interesting in that it was sparked by the arrest of a sailor for wearing women's clothing, was led by military men and involved attacks on a number of police watch-houses. Despite police and newspaper reports of the incidents being confused and often contradictory the riot tells us much about attitudes of Sydney's population towards cross dressing, police and the law.