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‘Discontent and distrust’: annual social cohesion checkup shows exactly what’s making Australia angry in c/australia@aussie.zone
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Nearly one-third of respondents expect their lives to get worse over the next four years. That is up from 29% last year.

... Is that 33% ? 32% ? Guardian pls

Interesting section on Immigration and Multiculturalism

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    I saw a thread elsewhere with people retelling stories and it clicked with me how early this, and two-up, were introduced to us, but also how it was often introduced through institutions such as schools and workplaces.

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    The Pedo Convergence Zone: on neo-Nazism & paedophilia (www.youtube.com)
     

    While lots of the focus is on Australia, the themes discussed are certainly not exclusive.

    Tom gives a "small sample" montage of known cases of child abuse in far-right circles, and while it's a long list, it's one Tom acknowledges is very incomplete. Here is a much longer, but obviously still incomplete, list with sources of strictly fascists. Tom also doesn't emphasise how many fascist organiser leaders were on that list.

    Community icon for /c/support4life - Life Support in c/meta@aussie.zone
    [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Thanks! I found a high resolution version of that picture to work with from a stock image site (unnecessary in this case but good practice), then used GIMP (other photo editors can do the same) to Fuzzy select (aka. Magic Wand) the white background areas, shrink the selected area by about 10 pixels to retain a small white border, then delete the selected background to leave it transparent. With a bit of experience, this doesn't take long to do as the plain-coloured geometry is easy to select.

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    The off-grid house that costs just $300 a year to run (Michael Mobbs, inner-city Sydney) (www.realestate.com.au)
     

    Twenty years ago Michael Mobbs began disconnecting his home from the grid. He didn’t have the luxury of acres of space for waste water treatment, rainwater tanks and a solar farm – or even a new home purpose built for self-sufficiency.

    His off-grid home is a 19th century terrace in Chippendale, bang in the middle of inner-city Sydney. Mobbs is convinced that if he can do it, anyone can.

    More unions down tools in Labor’s Victorian election campaign as ‘trust broken’ in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
    Antisemitism envoy urges visa holder checks, mask ban and ABC, SBS changes in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
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    Community icon for /c/support4life - Life Support (aussie.zone)
     

    Here's our list of most active communities, and two of them don't have a community icon. I personally blame Lemmy for not putting an empty margin there to line up all the names, although it's a good reminder that we can decorate the community with an icon.

    I've quickly searched, and I'm happy to clean any of these up, or clean up another suggestion, so it can be used.

    Wikipedia Commons - these are all some form of Creative Commons (and therefore 200% legal to use)

    Unknown or licensed (this is a content sharing site on the internet, online copyrights are a joke)

    Tagging @arbilp3@aussie.zone , @Nath@aussie.zone

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    'Things could have been different': Former neo-Nazi speaks at antisemitism probe (www.abc.net.au)
     

    Highlighting this story for opinions. If you're familiar with neo-Nazism and deradicalisation experiences, there might not be anything new here.

    In short:

    A reformed neo-Nazi has spoken about his deradicalisation process at the antisemitism royal commission.

    The man referred to as ADC said he was sold "falsehoods" and a "load of lies", and is pushing to "reinvent" himself.

    The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is examining how programs and policies could support people vulnerable to extremist ideologies.

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    [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 (aussie.zone)
     

    Update 1: Thanks for your patience, IRL got in the way. The responses to this post are quite varied, and that makes me happy that we discussed this instead of me unilaterally just banning posts and narrowing our scope. The discussion also helped us uncover ideas I wouldn't have realised on my own. Thank you all for being a community, and not just in name.

    Due to the way online forums work, multiple replies suggesting they'd be happy with my decision whatever it is, and my previous experiences being too bureaucratic in casual communities, I've decided to instead make small adjustments which we can extend (or revert) easily if they don't work.

    • I've added a kangaroo emoji to draw attention to the community title and to the fact that this is an Australian-themed place
    • I've added a new rule: "News posts must include some body text explaining how the article is particularly relevant to the Australian perspective, rather than mere global news."
    • Zagorath has offered to create an automated bot to remind posters of that rule. In the meantime, I've added them as a moderator to give us an extra pair of hands - although I want to say I'm already satisfied with the admin team's help, that was reassuring to see.

    Also, in response to Nath's advice, I'm considering if the group name should change to Overseas Tidings, yes because of the pun, but admittedly I didn't even know that word so I won't go forth with that unless there's community backing.

    A user has pointed out that a recent post about the US military doesn't appear to follow Rule 1 of this community, and I now notice many other recent posts from various users are also straying further and further away from having direct links to our region.

    While one can argue that these posts are significant or insightful to Aussies, and I agree, these stories are general world news, for which there are many other communities on federated instances, and which may overshadow the regional-specific news that is unlikely to interest users outside of our region.

    I want to begin a conversation to find out whether this community is in support of our team enforcing the rule more strictly, to keep this community in line with it's unique purpose.

    I also propose that news about international conflicts, such as the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war and Middle-Eastern conflicts, should also be considered as general global news unless the news itself specifically discusses the involvement of Australia or another country in our region. While Australia is continuously participating in these conflicts, and while I believe that's an important political and economic issue for Australians to grapple with, general updates on conflicts we're involved in are more suited to other global news communities.

    I'm also considering adding more staff to this community to help prevent rule-violating posts staying up for hours or days if existing staff are busy, to avoid normalising general world news here and avoid non-community think tank spam from abusing this community.

    I haven't yet locked or deleted existing posts which may violate this rule, even if I believe some cases are clear violations, because I don't want to suddenly clamp down on posts on a whim when they were normal to post before.

    Tagging fellow community staff: @lodion@aussie.zone and [inactive account?] @deadcat@aussie.zone

    Tagging all posters from the past month, as this rule affects new posts: @zero_gravitas@aussie.zone @arbilp3@aussie.zone @Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone @TheHolm@aussie.zone @bpalmerau@aussie.zone

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    BHP staff down tools for historic strike in Western Australia (www.abc.net.au)
     
    In short:

    Unionised staff at BHP's operations in Port Hedland have walked off the job for an eight-hour strike.

    Family and supporters of the workers began gathering about half an hour before the strike began.

    The ABC understands there has been no disruption to operations at the port, with BHP on track to load seven ships by 10pm tonight.

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    Final Report: Police Operation at the Town Hall Protest 9 February 2026 (legalobserversnsw.org)
     

    Highlighting a couple of points from the bottom of the key findings:

    • A bystander was handcuffed by police for making a comment towards them as they were passing by the pub where the was sitting. The police handcuffed him in such a way that the handcuffs pierced his skin and his wrists were bleeding.

    • Continuing arrests of participants in the rally following the 9th of February have directly restricted the capacity of community members to provide evidence to the LECC, because participation now carries the risk that police will bring further prosecutions on the basis of relatively minor conduct.

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    Why 'Housos' is the most important Australian sitcom of the 21st century (2017) (www.sbs.com.au)
     

    This is SBS publishing an article about a show which they broadcast, so this could be considered akin to 'sponsored content' (advertisement).

    Nevertheless, I don't think that detracts from Anthony Morris's article. I also note that this overall message, of working class depiction in entertainment media, has been echoed by proponents in community theatre, such as the New Theatre.

    "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."

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