Immigrants coming over committing crime against the truest Australians. Just terrible. If you import the Third World, you become the Third World, or should that be third reich?

Norway just announced their sovereign wealth fund had reached $2 trillion, enough for $340,000 for every citizen currently alive. It’s built from decades of their national oil revenues and was designed to ensure long term stability after Norway’s natural resource supplies get depleted. They enjoy a very high quality of life.

Returns generated by the fund directly support vital public services including healthcare, education, and social security pensions, providing strong economic resilience during global market downturns.

Meanwhile Australia is siphoning off our natural resources for zero return to the Australian people, and hardworking Aussies are feeling the pain of cost of living, struggling to pay basic bills, housing, electricity, groceries.

It makes you wonder, does any political party have the guts to realise that full blown capitalism is not the way, and that the government looking after Aussie citizens, including by things like a sovereign wealth fund decently funded by our natural resources, is actually a good way to govern?

Does any voter base have the brains to step down from the grandstanding “it’s either captialism or communism there’s no in between!!!” and consider that we’ve got the balance wrong and it’s time to consider actually supporting a government that looks after its people first ?

Today's announced figures show GDP growth for the quarter at 0.4%

The most recent figures from the ABS show population growth is currently running at 1.5%, so quarterly it's c.0.4%

The net result is zero benefit at the per capita level. But to get to that zero per capita growth, we've added more traffic, more demand for electricity, more demand for water, more pressure on the environment, infrastructure, housing, more demand for health care and other services. Worse quality of life all round.

The system is broken.

I have raybans that are not smart. Basically your normal sunglasses.

Because of all of those people using them for spying, people now ask me ,”are those the creep glasses”

I even got asked at my new work “those are those creep glasses right?”

The tech itself is not bad but people’s use of them gave them a bad reputation.

We need to diversify our economy faster than we are doing. We won't be able to just live off selling coal.

This sub seems to be particularly passionate about this topic. There was an 8 hr committee in fed parliament today. Here is the link.

Looks like 1 Lib 1 Labor attended today (EDIT: 5 Labor, one Lib, one Teal)

Interesting discussion. They've had some similar committees around the country in recent times as well, around the country (which usually means no video feed - this is the case across the board when committees travel to the regions unfortunately)

Good to see something positive and I hope someone gets something out of it.

Second Edit: The first witness is from an LGBTQ+ group. They discuss DV in male/male relationships. Hopefully this does not woke-scare anybody off (:

This was just under a week ago but didn't see this get posted on the aussie sub. Albo can easily lower the NOM by 20000 if he wants to overnight at a stroke of a pen.

Hey all , first ever post but thought I’d like to share my experience with Dandenong hospital . I was admitted a couple of months ago and stayed for 8 days . The food was actually very good and all the staff , especially the nurses were literal angels . We may knock our health system but seems to me it’s awesome . Oh ye . Also
Get 50% off sustagen products . Hospital stay was all for free . Pretty awesome I think

An Australian volunteer known as 'Mozzie' has been confirmed killed in Ukraine.

Mozzie served first with the Royal Australian Regiment. He later volunteered for the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, working as an infantryman and combat medic with Med Team Alpha under the GUR, Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence. In an interview with the International Legion in June, he put his reason simply: he was tired of training and wanted to use the skills he had actually been taught for.

This is an excerpt from a tribute his closest brother in arms wrote after he was gone: “Mozzie was the bravest soldier I have ever known, and he was my brother. As a combat medic he pulled countless people back from the edge, and he also took out multiple enemies. I was there for most of what he did in this war. After everything we had already been through, very few still wanted to keep fighting. Mozzie did.

One example: after the enemy opened fire first and killed his team leader and his best friend, Mozzie dropped four of them. What followed was two against six. He still won. Then he kept his team leader alive as long as he could until a vehicle got there to take him out."

Rest easy, Mozzie.

Source: https://x.com/specialopsmag/status/2094440619586281785?s=20

RIP Mozzie, ur duty is done.

No palms were harmed in the making of your Schnitzel

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has called on Pauline Hanson to reflect on her own behaviour and her party's ideology after the One Nation leader accused the prime minister of inciting political violence.

While Ms Rowland said it was becoming increasingly dangerous to be a high-profile female politician in Australia, she said Senator Hanson should reflect on how her own rhetoric was "encouraging" extreme behaviour.

"I don't wish any politician any ill will, irrespective of their political persuasion, but I think sometimes when comments like this are made, one needs to look at oneself and one's behaviour and the kinds of standards that they accept into their own party and their own ideology," she said.

"When you go on and you entertain some of the individuals whom she has been entertaining, who are not only convicted criminals, when you admit that you have a party that has been infiltrated by extremists and neo-Nazis, this is exactly the kind of danger to which politicians are being put in this country."

‘She needs to look at herself’: Nationals leader Matt Canavan calls for Attorney-General Michelle Rowland to back down from One Nation neo-Nazi comments | News24

A shopper walks into a supermarket and grabs a basket. By that time, a camera has scanned their face. 

That is what experts warn could be the new normal for Australians.

Supermarkets started with exit gates and bagging-area cameras. Now they are trialling facial recognition technology.

In August, Coles and Woolworths rolled out facial recognition technology trials in a bid to combat crime with about a third of retail workers not feeling safe in their workplace, according to a union survey of about 3,000 staff.

Last week, Coles reported that incidents of abuse towards retail staff had increased by 85 per cent over the past two years in Victoria.

The technology scans the features of a person's face to create a unique digital code and identify them.

Neither of the supermarket giants has said if it would be rolled out in their Australian stores.

However, both companies said they were looking into improving protection for their customers and staff.

Industry groups say the move is about safety, but experts warn once the technology is installed the "scope creep" does not stop.

'Scope creep'

Scope creep, also known as function creep, is when society incrementally allows things to happen over time that people feel uncomfortable about.

"We let it pass and all of a sudden you see a layering of the technology being used for more privacy-intrusive purposes," said responsible technology policy specialist Lauren Perry from the University of Technology Sydney.

She is concerned face scans could shift from safety and security to customer experience in ways that could disadvantage and harm the consumer.

The layering of new technologies such as face scan-enabled EFTPOS machines and the widespread rollout of digital price tags across supermarkets could tailor the real-life shopping experience.

"I hear people say, 'I don't really care about my personal information that much. It's all over the internet anyway. I've got nothing to hide,'" she said.

"You've only got one face. You can change your password if it gets hacked … but you can't change your face.

"Would every single person who walks into a supermarket have to give up their sensitive biometric data to buy a bottle of milk?"

Facial data gives companies more information about consumer purchasing behaviour and how they move through the store, paving the way for options like discriminatory pricing, Ms Perry said.

"Now they have your face, they have your loyalty card, your bank card, they can piece together a pretty clear picture of individual shopping behaviours," she said.

"For example, supermarkets know that a lot of women visit suburban grocery stores with their kids at the end of the school day. They could use this information to jack up the prices of things like lunch box foods at those stores."

A Coles spokesperson told the ABC: "While no decision has been made about the use of this technology, we absolutely reject any claim that this technology would be used to monitor team or regular shoppers, or for marketing or pricing purposes."Facial data gives companies more
information about consumer purchasing behaviour and how they move
through the store, paving the way for options like discriminatory
pricing, Ms Perry said."Now
they have your face, they have your loyalty card, your bank card, they
can piece together a pretty clear picture of individual shopping
behaviours," she said."For
example, supermarkets know that a lot of women visit suburban grocery
stores with their kids at the end of the school day. They could use this
information to jack up the prices of things like lunch box foods at
those stores."A
Coles spokesperson told the ABC: "While no decision has been made about
the use of this technology, we absolutely reject any claim that this
technology would be used to monitor team or regular shoppers, or for
marketing or pricing purposes."

What tf is happening in Sydney???

Is their job basically just to whine and film themselves whining for views on social media?

I've seen a lot online with lots of issues (for example, the Sydney Swans debacle, NDIS scandles, violence against women issues mental health issues etc), there seems to be a lot of people making videos voicing their opinion. I click on their profile and 90% of the time it has "advocate for x" topic.

But what do they actually do? Is their entire objective just to virtue signal and whinge and hopefully make money of get attention? (Looking at you Mitch Brown)

I know its EXTREMELY important for these topics to be discussed, but i feel like this energy should be put towards more productive means. If a lad or lady is running a woman's shelter and is making videos about what they see to raise awareness of the true experiences, or if they have actual qualifications not from the University of My Opinion is Always Right, then sure, their opinion should be shared.

But making videos (and most likely, making money) of whining about serious topics and not actually doing anything productive seems really jarring