Glad to hear you're taking steps.

The article points out that

while data suggested young people were now drinking less than previous generations... A smaller number of people are also drinking more, including binge drinking, resulting in harmful alcohol consumption and its adverse consequences."

If I'm not mistaken there is a sub culture of young people who drink shots, and that is very heavy-going on the liver (and a lot else besides).

Don't let the bastards get you with their marketing and don't get sucked in by drinking culture. 😪

Lol, we need more of your kind to 'pollute' our shores. It might encourage more locals to appreciate what we have. You might warn them personally what you have to contend with in the US as we seem to copy so much of popular US culture here.

Guardiani was only kidding!

Maybe it's 'Take Victoria Back to pre WW2 times'

They'll probably wriggle out of it.

The algorithm has no liability. The assessor has no override. The TGA says it falls outside its remit. AHPRA’s standard requires a registered practitioner — the IAT and I-CAN have none. The Department of Health and Ageing wrote the parameters. The minister set the policy.

A departmental spokesperson told MWM,

“The Government decided in 2024 that funding allocations and priority classifications would be determined by assessor input and application of algorithms, without the ability for an assessor to override the outcome.”

The accountability gap is not an accident. It is the design.

Is this supposed to be an efficient way to get NDIS and aged care patients to die sooner?

And the Christmas Beetle Count is on! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/christmas-beetle-count

I'll put up post tomorrow.

Does seem the entrenched powers want to undermine the Greens as much as possible.

I hope there's a lot of Greens volunteers in Prahran talking to people.

The ideological poison that has overtaken Israeli society is programmed into them from babyhood. To see one country doing this is disgusting but to see so many liberal democracies that big talk their 'values' supporting such a morally compromised society (which allows them to keep committing mass killing and ethnic cleansing) says a lot about our supposed humanity. Are those power structures which support genocide at arm's length the ones acting in a sub-human way?

The Zionists have used the WW2 Holocaust to OWN victimhood. No one has or can suffer as much as Jews. This is not a stance that many Jews take, let me be clear. It is a Zionist ploy to give Zionists the 'right' to 'defend' themselves by any means they like. It is a deception that is hurting non-Zionist Jews as well as anyone they see as an obstacle to their aims.

I am sorry to hear about your family. The Nazis were twisted and barbaric when it came to groups they thought did not fit into their racial ideology including people with disabilities, gay people, Jehova's Witnesses, Roma, and then different nationalities including Slavs, as you say. The majority of Jews they exterminated were in fact, not German Jews, but Jews from Eastern Europe.

There has been a large amount of $$$ invested this year in pumping up the narrative about antisemitism, trying every possible source to make up for the failure of social media to get the Zionist message through. Less and less people are buying it. I could almost bet that Andrew Roberts and Simon Schama are on the payroll.

I heard the Doogue interview with Roberts and it was gobsmacking how much blatant propaganda this supposed historian was spouting.

(Jewish) holocaust education will soon become compulsory in Australian schools while we are told to ignore the Palestinian holocaust and ethnic cleansing happening in the here and now in front of our faces via our digital devices. We are being told not to believe our eyes or what genocide scholars and international institutions have also confirmed. We should believe what Zionist organisations say and do what they tell us to do.

I find shocking that our govt should go along with the order if they are truly serious about social cohesion. Holocaust or education about mass extermination should cover not only the Jewish experience but the experience of all groups that have been subjected to the evil criminality of authoritarian regimes, e.g under Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Milosevic and others. The Jewish community would garner a lot more respect this way than by having themselves singled out by Zionist influences. 'Never again' should include all peoples.

I feel for the progressive Jewish voices who are not being listened to.

Great news. For billionaires $120 million is not a lot but it will be of substantial use in conservation. I hope other billionaires take note.

We live in a technocracy which is becoming all-encompasing.

In case anyone thinks that in the post text I am quoting some little-known organisation about child amputation, consider what Save the Children has to say in its April, 2026 blog (https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2026/how-save-the-children-helps-in-gaza):

More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 - around one child every hour over nearly two years of war. As of July 2025, over 40,500 children are estimated to have been injured.

Gaza is now home to the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history.

In the ten weeks after October 2023 alone, over 1,000 children lost one or both legs. Throughout 2024, explosive weapons caused an average of 475 children each month to sustain potentially lifelong disabilities - amputations, burns, complex fractures, traumatic brain injuries and hearing loss.

At least 21,000 children now live with permanent disabilities as a result of the conflict.

In an area where 2.2 million people are confined to just 365 square kilometres, there is nowhere safe to go.

Bins must be treated with respect at all times.

Have you considered getting an independent journo group to look into this? If what you are saying is accurate then it needs to be investigated.

Really happy to hear that. There's so many more!

We are a disaffected populace who are entirely too driven by the narratives coming out of the various idiot boxes we pay way too much attention to.

So those of us who are not disaffected need to keep talking to people wherever we can and particularly get young people more involved and talking to disengaged people in their cohort.

Despite the panorama not looking great we must not allow pessimism to get hold. Look at what the Americans have had to face: as well as serious financial hardship for everyday people in the millions, they've had to deal with big losses in all public services, ICE on the streets intimidating, roughing up people and worse, young military personnel losing their lives in the Gulf State US Bases, and a deep level of political decay to name a few issues. They saw how people in their communities were suffering and they gave their govt the finger. Young men and Hispanics turned the election around because they could see what their government was doing to them. They still have a lot more to face but what I'm trying to say is that painting a dark picture for our future and believing in it will only make us create that future.

So, we have to want a decent future and bring people along, especially young people who have a long life ahead.

EDIT: We must keep our govts and local MPs know what we want and what we need now. We cannot allow money that is needed by our communities to be lost on nuclear submarines, nuclear waste dumps and bloody weapons consultants and the like.

Michael West speaks here about the AUKUS gravy train, the little coverage on the report in the mainstream media and other issues: AUKUS Public Inquiry: $368 Billion, No Guarantee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEhqaE3vpdY