G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #49 05-12-2023
• Parking isn't as important for restaurants as the owners think it is
• After all those dole diaries and ‘mutual obligations’, it turns out Australia’s privatised employment services don’t work | Van Badham
• Catholic Education Tasmania head takes issue with mandatory consent education
• As a trans man, Max Simensen says he has unique insights everyone could learn from

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Andrew Forrest calls for fossil fuel bosses' 'heads on spikes' in extraordinary outburst
• Greed trumps climate as Origin bid voted down by dividend hungry shareholders
• Son of farmer who murdered environmental officer ordered to pay $405k land-clearing fine
• Windfarm plans in choppy waters as Coalition and One Nation whip up doubts
• Interested in studying climate change or sustainable living online for free?

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Faced with 'certain death', Professor Richard Scolyer is having an experimental treatment
• Greens move to establish Senate inquiry into allegations of price-gouging by Coles and Woolworths
• Outrage in Ballarat at white supremacist march, 15yo questioned over banned Nazi salute
• Man arrested in Arizona over religiously motivated terror attack at Wieambilla sent shooters 'end of days' ideological messages
• Catholic Education Tasmania head takes issue with mandatory consent education

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Queensland premier to receive almost $50k pay bump as politicians granted 11 per cent salary increase over three years
• NZ has already held a supermarket study. Did it disrupt their duopoly?

Top 5 from World News:

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #48 28-11-2023
• Employers push for staff to return to the office after working from home as commercial property values plunge
• Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed?
• Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw
• Elon Musk’s X is betting that Australia is too weak to protect its elections

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Case for gas as transition fuel falling apart on both economic and environmental costs
• 'It's basically dead': AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging
• “Outrage economy:” Sky News and Alan Jones in global list of climate misinformation
• CDS VIC - Victorian Container Deposit Scheme Xpost Aussie Frugal Living
• Homebuilders urged to flick electric switch as new gas connection ban looms | Riotact

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Federal government moves to ban Nazi salute after spike in anti-Semitism, racism
• From today voluntary assisted dying will be allowed in NSW. Mark wants to be one of the first to access it
• Bruce Lehrmann's defamation action was set to be a re-run of his trial, but some key evidence is unravelling
• Casket holding Cleveland Dodd's body lowered into the ground on Yamaji country after boy's death in custody
• Two protesters fined after more than 100 climate change protesters charged after blockade at Port of Newcastle

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• How are younger workers expected to compete with 'Generation Landlord'?
• Legalise Cannabis Party member waves cannabis in NSW parliament during bill introduction
• Powerful Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo sacked after investigation into backchannel lobbying
• Peter Dutton demands apology from Anika Wells after breakfast television 'paedophile protector' comments
• Australians Are Poor Now? - FriendlyJordies

Top 5 from World News:

• If this was supposed to be an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, strap yourself in

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Discussion on Concerns over Auto tl;dr bot
• Weekly Random Thread #47 21-11-2023
• Younger people now even cutting back on essentials, as older Australians spend up on cruises and restaurants
• No one can escape this housing crisis — it's coming for homeowners too
• Report critical of big four consultancies was censored by Australian government agency, academic claims

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Solar smashes more records, as coal power sent to another new low
• Clive Palmer fails in second attempt to overturn $6.5 billion coal mine refusal
• ‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarm
• Antarctica's ozone hole may not be mending as well as we thought, study says
• Bowen dumps RET for 32GW of auctions in massive policy shift to supercharge renewables

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Young people dominate pro-Palestine protest attendance
• Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns 'in the best interest of Optus' following nationwide outage
• Whether you work from home or in the office, here's how 'Big Brother' employers might be watching you
• Properties believed razed as massive bushfire continues to rage in Perth's north amid extreme spring weather
• The odds of becoming a doctor when you live west of the 'Red Rooster line'

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• Coal giant headhunts commissioner who oversaw agency investigating it for workplace deaths
• Peter Dutton links visas for Palestinians with prospect of a 'catastrophic outcome' for Australia
• Have our attitudes towards immigration changed ?

Top 5 from World News:

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #46 14-11-2023
• Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800
• Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate
• McDonald's loses out in legal beef with Hungry Jack's
• [Satire] - People who build wind turbines at sea do not care if whales live or die. Monsters! | First Dog on the Moon

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• El Niño is laying the foundations for unprecedented global temperatures next year
• “Farcical:” Wind industry in shock as draft NSW guidelines say no to new wind projects
• NSW Planning backflips on wind energy map messaging: Everywhere is now suitable!
• Ferrero Group to rip out Australian hazelnut trees due to unsuitable climate
• Deciding on a koala community that will be interlinked with Aussie Enviro

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Renters in every capital city worse off as affordability in the regions deteriorates, Rental Affordability Index shows
• Government formally responds to Robodebt royal commission, revealing 16 public servants being investigated over scheme
• Qantas found guilty of illegally standing down worker over aircraft cleaning safety fears during COVID-19 pandemic
• Whistleblower David McBride declares ‘today I serve my country’ as trial starts over alleged leaking of war crime documents
• Tens of thousands gather across Australia for Israel-Gaza rallies

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• We could make most Australians richer and still save billions – it’s not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts
• Gregory Andrews used to be a senior Liberal advisor. Now he's 14 days into a climate action hunger strike
• Immigration detention explainer: how is Labor responding to the landmark high court ruling?
• How does Anthony Albanese's international travel stack up against other recent prime ministers?
• 'Call for a ceasefire now': Mehreen Faruqi and Penny Wong in heated debate over Gaza

Top 5 from World News:

• 'Xi Jinping is loving this': Is a US senator's abortion protest threatening America's national security?
• UN official says 'amnesia and myopia' present in international response to war

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #45 07-11-2023
• Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy
• Aussie households are spending less on streaming services, annual report reveals
• Melbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll finds
• Indefinite immigration detention ruled unlawful in landmark Australian high court decision

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Meat-loving Australia has no appetite for vegetarian diet to help planet, study finds
• Big rise in kangaroo collisions prompts appeal to country drivers: Don't leave them dying
• Coalition’s nuclear SMR poster boy cancels flagship project due to soaring costs
• The world has experienced its hottest 12 months on record, and El Niño is set to drive temperatures higher
• Researcher says feral bees face extinction as deadly mite spreads in swarms

Top 5 from Australian News:

• This psychologist groomed her client, then married her. Now 20 years of deception are coming undone
• After the driest September-October on record, much of Australia to cop severe thunderstorm activity
• Lawyer for driver in Daylesford crash says man is insulin-dependent diabetic who needed immediate treatment
• Aussie breaks world record by paddling in to surf 13-metre wave
• The inside account of how Commonwealth Bank tried to bury the scandal that sparked a royal commission

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• They risked their livelihoods to speak up, but these whistleblowers are warning others to stay silent
• Small modular nuclear reactor that was hailed by Coalition as future cancelled due to rising costs
• Greens stage Senate walkout in protest for Palestinians, call on government to support Israel-Gaza ceasefire
• White man's dark money: Meet the No campaign bankrollers
• CheckMate: Are koalas being clubbed to death to make way for a Queensland wind farm?

Top 5 from World News:

• Millions are waking up to the ugly reality of Israeli apartheid

G'day all! Just thought I'd chuck up this random thread for a bit of a yarn. You know, sometimes it's nice to have a chinwag about anything and everything – could be your latest DIY project, a recipe you're stoked about, or even just how your day's been. It's all about sharing the good vibes and having a fair dinkum chat. So, what's the goss? Jump on in and let's have a good old chit-chat, like a bunch of mates sitting 'round the table. Cheers!

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #44 31-10-2023
• YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!)
• John Howard says he ‘always had trouble’ with the concept of multiculturalism
• Australian producers to keep prosecco, feta and parmesan as European Union trade deal doomed
• This Soldier Threatened to Sue Me - Friendlyjordies

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Rooftop PV takes a bite out of everyone’s lunch as minimum demand records tumble again
• Rare white platypus named Bloop stuns researchers as genetic abnormality found
• Escaping underground: the eerie new age of bushfire bunkers
• Wildlife friendly netting
• Beetaloo Basin greenhouse emissions significantly underestimated, climate institute claims

Top 5 from Australian News:

• Only 2% of freight between Melbourne and Sydney goes by rail – putting Australia’s emissions targets at risk
• Elderly Aboriginal woman repeatedly dragged across the ground by government-funded security guards
• Coles subjecting employees to bag checks in crackdown on some of Australia’s lowest paid workers
• Greens and Coalition slam Australian abstention of United Nations vote for ceasefire in Gaza
• Major thunderstorm outbreak to deliver much needed rain to Queensland and NSW

Top 5 from Australian Politics:

• All of Australia's living prime ministers except for Paul Keating have joined to express their support for Israel

Top 5 from World News: