I want complete control of my technology after I buy it. I don't want my phone to assume things that I like based on my input. If something goes wrong, I want it to be my fault because I enabled the wrong setting. I also want physical buttons. I miss those so much.

I will never stop saying "shiver me timbers"

To The Moon; Once you go through the experience of the story, there's really no need to replay again.

Discord's main purpose is to be a gamer focused chat program. Isn't Instagram a selfie chat app?

Until Australia considers cycling as a legitimate mode of transport, you'll never see any changes. The average person just sees a person on a bike as a casual cyclist at best and a Lycra wearing wanker at worst; not as a person legitimately using the road to get somewhere.

We've actually spent tax dollars sending council members over to Holland to check out the safe bicycle infrastructure there to bring the knowledge back here. Wonder what came out of that trip...

Wow. I just looked at the front page and that's actually amazing.

Short answer - no. Australia does not have such a thing, especially with that much support. We have some indigenous people in government but they represent their seat, not specifically indigenous affairs. There is currently no body that represents indigenous affairs as a whole.

It can be established by the government of the day, which it was back when Kevin Rudd was our PM (Labor Party). However, this body was then abolished by the next government, run by Tony Abbott and others since (Coalition).

Now, we have Labor in power again and this referendum was called to have a voice enshrined in our constitution so that it couldn't be abolished by future governments. Since we nationally voted no, our current Labor government can establish something like the BIA, however there is a high risk that this will be yet again abolished like last time.

That's a fair assessment.

I'm so shocked and saddened. I had a great conversation with her a few years ago when we got her to do a gig for us and she was so lovely and encouraged me to follow my passions...

Damn.

There are also those who make bad decisions and are lazy but have a lot of money and power regardless. Being lazy/making terrible decisions does not equal poor; same as being hard working/making good decisions.

The system at this stage is just geared towards making the poor poorer and the rich richer. E.g. making people pay lots of money to stay healthy rather than give people equal opportunity, making good education only accessible to the rich by making it prohibitively expensive, the wage divide between an employee and a CEO, family trusts and associated taxes etc.

For what it's worth, a lot of my neighbours have a vote yes sign on their doors. It makes me feel like we'll get the yes to change the constitution. That'd be awesome. I'm hanging onto hope.

In my captial city, the lead city designer's wife owns an industrial design company. All of the bollards, lights, bins, seats... everything is given to the wife's company for manufacturing because the lead city designer only ever puts orders in to that company.

Everyone in the industry knows but doesn't want to do anything because he's a nice guy.

Give me a European style apartment with high ceilings and generous space and you have yourselves a deal!

That said, I've been working in my local building industry for almost 20 years and the trend that I see is that though there are more apartments being built, the quality has tanked. We have huge issues with mould, flammable facades, exploding glass, alternatives are rampant through the roof and price gouging.

Unfortunately this has fed the idea that apartment living is no good.