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Who said Woolies wasn’t celebrating ANZAC Day

7 Comments
2024/04/09
10:53 UTC

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What is the best city in Australia to be a successful model?

Example is that someone wanted to be an Australian version of Bella Hadid or Gigi Hadid, which city would have the best career opportunities for that?

15 Comments
2024/04/09
10:37 UTC

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Why does the Torres Strait Islander flag fly above all government buildings in Victoria and other southern states?

Reliable data is hard to find but surely the TSI population of Victoria is in the dozens.

And wouldn't they be the colonisers if they came from so far away?

If every community needs a flag in every context, why not fly the Greek, Vietnamese or Italian flags?

Or why don't we all live under the ONE flag - the Australian flag.

61 Comments
2024/04/09
10:10 UTC

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Who was in the wrong here?

16 Comments
2024/04/09
08:36 UTC

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What is your opinion on the Eastern suburbs of Sydney?

The lies, the drama, the cheating, the sex, the houses, the cars, the wealth, the parties, the exclusive social scene.

What do you think? What’s the tea?

22 Comments
2024/04/09
08:05 UTC

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Housing

If immigrant's usually earn less than Australian Citizen's (Note. They must earn more than 90k a year to stay) and employees who earn more than 170k per year are in the top 5-10% of wage earners in the country.

  1. What immigrants are buying houses?
  2. Who is buying these houses the Top 10%?
  3. Why would property continue going up if only the top 10% can only afford such high prices?
214 Comments
2024/04/09
07:08 UTC

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I got questions about DAI post

Tomorrow I am not not going to be home, for few hours. What happens to my package, do they leave on the door or take to some where?

2 Comments
2024/04/09
05:14 UTC

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Rate of racial discrimination amongst primary school students. Why do you think Asian kids have it so bad?

I have some opinions on why it maybe so bad for Asian children in Australia but I’m curious what others think.

I’m imagining this has changed over time. Some of my older European relatives who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, they told me stories about their struggles growing up in Australia because they were ‘wogs’. That doesn’t seem to be as big of an issue anymore for Europeans today.

82 Comments
2024/04/09
02:11 UTC

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Has anyone else heard about the theory that there was a race of pygmies living in Australia before the indigenous folks came here and wiped them out?

I’m not sure where this came from and the only evidence I’ve found is that ‘Mungo man’ was pretty short so he was supposedly part of this race. I only ever hear it parroted by bigoted folks who claim it as evidence that Aboriginals were a savage race and weren’t so peaceful.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t believe they were fundamentally a peaceful culture, we are all human and we all have the capacity for cruelty and greed but the fact this theory is used to discredit and demean them is quite insane.

The only concrete evidence I know we have of pygmies in this area of the world are a couple tribes in New Guinea and the long extinct race of Homo Floriensis that inhabited a small island or two in Indonesia.

I’ve known a couple people IRL that have spouted this and when pressed had 0 evidence of it but still refuted any evidence against it.

Cheers all.

55 Comments
2024/04/09
00:52 UTC

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I woke up to this creepy thing

NOT what you want to wake up to 😱😱😱

Burn it!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

It won't die 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

This thing is that big I think he's opened the screen door on his own and let himself in. 😬

#Townsville #Australia #spider

8 Comments
2024/04/09
00:13 UTC

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Australians Work and Retirement Australians are expecting to keep working until their oldest age since the early 1970s and putting in some of the longest hours in the world as the average working life extends well past 64 years of age as older professionals opt for “semi-retirement”.

4 Comments
2024/04/08
23:44 UTC

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Tuesday Tune Day 🎶 (Drunk Mums)

Welcome to 'Tuesday Tune Day 🎶'

Post one of your favourite Australian songs in the comments or as a standalone post.

If you're in an Australian band and want to shout it out then share a sample of your work with the community. (Either as a direct post or in the comments). If you have video online then let us know and we can feature it in this weekly post.

If you've heard an Australian song you like in another community then feel free to cross post it.

Here's our pick for this week:

"New Australia" - Drunk Mums, 2024

Previous ‘Tuesday Tune Day 🎶’

1 Comment
2024/04/08
21:22 UTC

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Can someone explain the response toward Israel killing civilians recently?

I feel likeI am missing something, but the hypocrisy is almost too much to believe it's not just taking the piss.

People from journalists to business leaders to former politicians to the current government are incensed about this. Penny Wong is demanding a criminal investigation be opened by Israel and is appointing a special envoy to advise on progress.

But Australia has not been in one single conflict in its history where civilians were not killed by their side. America has killed enormously more civilians in its military operations, all of which Australia fought side by side with them.

We know the ADF has killed civilians on operation. We recently had credible allegations of war crimes against the SASR and the government basically did nothing.

The current government is demanding Israel respond far more seriously to far less than Australia and its allies have done repeatedly. There is hardly a peep by comparison when the US kills far more civilians.

31 Comments
2024/04/08
11:47 UTC

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