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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

they’re saying everything the gambling companies aren’t allowed to in their ads with none of the disclaimers

For all intents and purposes, "influencers" are commercial ads. It's a shame that law doesn't seem to keep up with these simple workarounds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

oh 'fining'. Because I suspect plenty of politicians would take them to a restaurant and make a deal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I have almost zero doubt that it will be after fabricating some sort of nonsense casus belli that gives them a veneer of legitimacy.

The People's Republic of China already take the official position that the Chinese Civil War is an ongoing conflict. And while I haven't looked much into the Republic of China (Taiwan) position on the ground, taking their constitution at face value, they officially claim mainland China is their territory. So I don't think the casus belli will be a problem, at least internally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Ah alright. Yeah that happens to us all these days, journos jumping the gun to get a scoop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Under the agreement workers will get a 12 per cent pay rise over three years plus back pay, they will also see an improvement to their conditions and technological advances.

Important to remember these negotiation aren't just about the pay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

That string of attacks was determined to be a hoax, but I don't know where that claim of Jews is coming from. Police claim the fake caravan bomb plot "was concocted by criminals who wanted to cause fear for personal benefit" so members could hand over evidence or information to reduce their prison sentences^[1]^. The named key suspects are associated with the Nomad bikie gang and included Sayed Moosawi (Arabic names) and Sayet Erhan Akca (Turkish surname and believed fled to Turkey, so I assume they're most likely Turkish). Again, this was determined to be a criminal plot for their own benefit, not a real political act of antisemitism.

So unless I missed some announcement about these, I don't think Zionists or other Jews were behind that hoax. But I am wary that staged false flag attacks are a realistic possibility and we should not jump to conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I can't see it over there, I assume this whole reply chain doesn't get federated to them because I started it. But I don't know how mentions work so I'm curious too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

https://aussie.zone/post/21229070

Some fake vote manipulation instances were spun up last month and apparently I'd downvoted some of the same posts that were getting brigaded (see Quokka's reply) so a lemmy.world admin jumped the gun and banned me for "Vote manipulation". I haven't had the time to bother appealing the ban since I didn't post to there often anyway, but I didn't realise that a few of their users post here and wouldn't see my replies so I'll send .world a message about it tomorrow or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Just realised OP can't see my post on .world, so if you found this interesting I'd appreciate if you share this link with them: https://aussie.zone/comment/17588950

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Thanks for sharing, definitely a huge leap from our situation over here. Monthly loss limits seem so obvious as an anti-addiction measure but I hadn't thought or heard of it.

As for the argument a Norwegian policy researcher quickly raises on personal liberties of citizens and which the US section expands on, I don't believe that applies well to machines designed to exploit human psychology to form addictions. Addiction is contradictory to liberty, it coerces a person to pressure them into a decision they likely would not make otherwise:

In 2007, the government ordered the removal of all slot machines that had been operating in public places. [...] Eidem said gambling support group members would cry with relief “because they were so happy they could go to the store and buy milk and bread without having to fight their way through the hallway with 10 slot machines.”

I think it's also interesting that they bring up this lad:

Gasparim said he doesn’t like to be told how much money he can lose. And he doesn’t appreciate the restrictions over what times he can gamble in Norway, especially since he likes to bet on U.S. ice hockey games that are in a different time zone. So he goes on foreign gambling websites that are illegal in Norway and have no limits at all. “I know that it's not healthy,” Gasparim said. “I could have saved all the money that I've spent all these years, but I do it because I think it's fun.”

[...] Magnus Eidem, the addiction specialist, says the foreign gambling sites are much more likely to lead to gambling disorders than the legal market; the more money people lose through unregulated play, the more they try to gamble it back. That includes young people who find foreign sites before they’re old enough to legally gamble.

So there becomes an element of pragmatic balance: if people feel too limited, they might just jump into fully unregulated territory and suffer more harm than the regulated solution. It's something to be careful of, and something which applies to all kinds of regulation.

Something I didn't see mentioned is that in Norway, the "gambling industry is run almost entirely by the government itself — one of the only countries with a state monopoly". Even casting aside US ideological issues over government ownership of industry, I simply wouldn't trust their current regime to balance, let alone prioritise, public health over corporate interests (profit). With Australia... maybe under Labor? Definitely more confident if Greens have the power to pressure them.


After the on-screen graphics spin for a few moments, the display lets him know he won 30 kroner. But you can hardly tell. There are no bells, no manufactured sounds of coins falling into a steel bowl. “All those sounds are meant to make you play more,” he said.

I recently came across an interactive article (similar to ABCs scrolling graphic articles) about some of the basic psychology and cues behind pokies. Not just triggers like the sounds and graphics, but also some tricks like 'losses disguised as wins':

For example, if you bet three credits on three lines, but only win one credit on one line, you might win back less money than you bet overall. This means you lost money, but because you get the flashing lights and reward from winning, you still get the good feeling of a win.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2017/sep/28/hooked-how-pokies-are-designed-to-be-addictive [sound warning]


Also relevant, and my account's banner image: FriendlyJordies and Boy Boy collaborated with whistleblower Troy Stolz [omg I didn't know he got elected to council last year!] to make a fun but educational video about laundering in NSW casinos through pokies. How Much Money Can We Launder In A Day?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Horrible stuff. I'm glad no-one was injured, antisemitism has no place here (and attacking a synagogue and the surrounding community is certainly that).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

oh yeah nah course we care about *checks notes* US lawmakers and their thoughts. utmost respect for em.

There is an interesting, complex conversation going on between the many different Australian advocacy groups here in the article, it's clearly got a few interesting angles to it. But if one thing is clear, the US lawmakers are not only ignorant of the discussion but incidentally hypocritical (see the Game Industry Council comment on US deer practices). They seem to mean well, in a surprising way, but that's no excuse for professional lawmakers to be so blatantly ignorant. Although, to be honest, I'd be surprised if any conservationist legislation went through their congress under this regime, so I doubt it will pass.

 

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Anonymous Submission 🎄 24.12.24

Christmas came early when, this week, the NWA's door was shattered, and the inside of their office ruined with a mystery liquid.

Overnight, the head office of the fascist group National Workers Alliance (NWA) was attacked by anti-fascists. The NWA has been acting as a bridge for uniting the far right under the guise of "working class organizing".

NWA has hosted three fascist events this year, with members of neo-nazi groups such as NSN attending each one, along with other far right figures. They also march most Saturdays through so-called melbourne CBD.

This office was the location of the most recent (failed) recruitment event for NWA.

Solidarity with all anti-fascist action taken in this colony. We must continue to shut down fascism everywhere, in the streets, in the workplace and in the community.

No mercy for fascists.

I suppose the Polish Club are glad they didn't host this time. More context.

 

In memory of Jimmy Carter.

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gday everyone. In response to the recent meta discussion, I've volunteered as a moderator for /c/worldnews.

The main reasons I volunteered is to make this comm less generic and more suited to aussie.zone, as well as reducing the stream of drive-by spam posts.

There are a few ways I aim to achieve this:

  • We'll change the community title. I've already picked an example title, Overseas News, although this is temporary for now so critique and suggestions are welcome! I picked this name to keep the basic idea of this comm clear while distinguishing us from generic "World News" clones, and so even a federated Lemmy user searching for world news comms to post to will have a fair chance to see we aren't just an extra opportunity for attention. (I understand it might be confusing that this is still https://aussie.zone/c/worldnews, but changing the comm's id is much harder and needs a serious discussion first)
  • We'll create basic rules to codify our expectations. I've added some already, and again, feedback is wanted. I've tried to keep them direct and lenient, based on the previous meta discussion and prior deletions from the modlog. Once we reach a general consensus, I will apply them to posts from the past few months, to set the stage. [edit: this is now in motion]

Let me know if you have other ideas. I'll be pretty hands-off beyond removing blatant agenda spamming from outsiders and global rule violations, since this is a casual and open community and I have a job and hobbies ;)

 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/15787666

Speakers at the gala include war hawk David Weinberg and a Technion graduate talking about their recent duty in the IDF. Many Australian universities including UTS and USyd have partnerships with Technion.

Protest was announced to be taking place at 151 Castlereagh St, Sydney (near Town Hall Station).

The rally is organised by Stop the War on Palestine, and supported by UTS Staff for Palistine, NTEU for Palestine, PalSoc UTS, Students against War and Palestine Youth Movement.

 

Speakers at the gala include war hawk David Weinberg and a Technion graduate talking about their recent duty in the IDF. Many Australian universities including UTS and USyd have partnerships with Technion.

Protest was announced to be taking place at 151 Castlereagh St, Sydney (near Town Hall Station).

The rally is organised by Stop the War on Palestine, and supported by UTS Staff for Palistine, NTEU for Palestine, PalSoc UTS, Students against War and Palestine Youth Movement.

 

I realise that all the screenshots of evidence make this article look longer than it is, so I've written some bullet points, but the whole article is worth reading (if you're willing to handle content mentioned in the warnings). Breaking federal laws, offering lawyers to neo-Nazis, getting into tiffs with said neo-Nazis when they turn out to be misogynist turds, it's a ride.

Bullet-points

  • Louise recently ran as a candidate in the Victorian council elections, contesting the Melaleuca ward in the City of Kingston, in Melbourne’s South-East. [and came in second place]

  • She also ran the 'Victoria Says No' Twitter account
  • And has a Telegram account very clearly linked to that Twitter account and herself (used photos of herself as the avatar), which, among other account names, included 'Batwaff3n' (a reference to the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the Nazi Schutzstaffel). She constantly posted anti-Indigenous and antisemitic content, including while at work and about work as a Liberal Party member.
  • One of this account’s contributions is the creation of racist & antisemitic wildlife-themed Telegram sticker packs. These Telegram stickers are all in breach of the Australian Federal government’s anti-swastika legislation.

  • [...] this account made over 22,000 comments in the Telegram chat of Brisbane-based neo-Nazi Daniel Seery-Walker. They also commented in other chats belonging to Young Liberal turned neo-Nazi Stefan Eracleous and Proud Boy Tim Wilms. In June 2024, this account abruptly stops posting – only for a new account called Batwoman to take its place. As Batwoman, they explain that they lost access to their old account. This Batwoman account has posted nearly 3000 comments in Daniel Walker’s chat since June.

  • In 2022, Louise made a chaotic appearance on the podcast of American neo-Nazi Jovi Val as ‘Batwaffen’ to discuss her involvement in organising anti-Andrews ‘Kill The Bill’ rallies using the Dan Andrews Must Go Facebook group. When some trolls joined the call and accused her of a romantic entanglement with fellow ex Young Liberal-turned-NSN “treasurer” Stefan Eracleous, she explained that she didn’t have time to discuss such matters because she was doing the podcast from her desk at work.

  • Louise made a number of references to working on material directly for Advance Australia, the conservative propaganda outfit – though at times her content was knocked back for being too edgy.

  • At one point she rants about volunteers not showing up for the No campaign: "I've got fucking Peter duttons chief of staff manning one of my booths tomorrow morning even cos I had a meltdown over all the volunteers pulling out" [...] "where are all these tough white men huh" [...] "they're too busy looking at themselves in the mirror at the gym no doubt". Later, "Shouldve gotten those Nazis out on my booths". These comments are referring to the NSN, those weirdos who keep getting on the telly.
  • After joining an NSN chat, offering to make banners and advising them legally on the symbols ban, Moira Deeming’s ill-fated Let Women Speak rally happened. Louise Black said the Nazi salute "wasn't the best pr move", leading NSN members to reply with aggressively misogynistic remarks, assert she had an intellectual disability and then claim they were protecting women. For over an hour.
  • [A few months later] we found Louise complaining about the NSN in a [Melbourne] Proud Boys chat

  • Still, Louise Black’s relationship with the organisation had sufficiently thawed by the time anti-fascist influencer Tom Tanuki had produced a video highlighting the National Socialist Network’s internal paedophile problems that she was willing to put NSN SA leader Cameron Brodie-Hall into contact with a KC specialising in defamation.

  • We find it telling that, while Louise Black has been shut out of a number of extremist groups—due to her habit of spitting the dummy when her unsolicited advice is ignored—the one organisation which hasn’t seen fit to show her the door is the Victorian Liberal Party.

 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/15185451

  • 11:00am Tuesday 12 November
  • Belmore Park near Central Station

Join us to rally for the rights of the CFMEU and defend our democratic rights.

The new legislation targeting the CFMEU, stripping away its democratic processes based on unproven rumours is still standing. This is a dangerous precedent, threatening every union member’s right to organise and be heard. This precedent is undemocratic and anti-union! Let’s show up and demand these unjust laws be repealed!

It's important to understand the administration as a precedent, rather than specifically looking at the CFMEU. This has already had a chilling effect on other unions wanting to avoid similar repression, and just like many times before, sets up an attack for the Liberal Party to extend when next elected. That's why it's critical for other workers like us to stand together in solidarity, before there's no strong unions left to stand for ours. I urge those who can to come and bring friends, and those who can't to donate to the campaign - since the administration has seized the union's funds, they are relying on the generosity of other unions and political parties for printing fliers, buying flags, providing spaces and other basic organising needs.

See also this excellent article shared by @zero_gravitas recently: https://aussie.zone/post/14941033

 
  • 11:00am Tuesday 12 November
  • Belmore Park near Central Station

Join us to rally for the rights of the CFMEU and defend our democratic rights.

The new legislation targeting the CFMEU, stripping away its democratic processes based on unproven rumours is still standing. This is a dangerous precedent, threatening every union member’s right to organise and be heard. This precedent is undemocratic and anti-union! Let’s show up and demand these unjust laws be repealed!

It's important to understand the administration as a precedent, rather than specifically looking at the CFMEU. This has already had a chilling effect on other unions wanting to avoid similar repression, and just like many times before, sets up an attack for the Liberal Party to extend when next elected. That's why it's critical for other workers like us to stand together in solidarity, before there's no strong unions left to stand for ours. I urge those who can to come and bring friends, and those who can't to donate to the campaign - since the administration has seized the union's funds, they are relying on the generosity of other unions and political parties for printing fliers, buying flags, providing spaces and other basic organising needs.

See also this excellent article shared by @zero_gravitas recently: https://aussie.zone/post/14941033

 

The CFMEU are hosting rallies in various cities this Tuesday and are encouraging the community to join them. Despite any critiques we have of the union leadership, it is important to show solidarity in protesting the dictatorial union-busting administration laws, which were covered well in a post made here this week and which have a serious chilling effect on other unions and workers altogether as we fight for better conditions. Among other things, it's noteworthy that the CFMEU have been one of the few unions to strike in solidarity with Palestine encampment protestors at ANU.

"We encourage all members of the community to join us. CFMEU members deserve control over their Union, just like any other worker. Together, we stand strong to defend the future of our families and our union. ✊"

CHECK YOUR OWN CITY, the following are just some examples I've been able to find out so far, and more are being added as I've typed:

 

Linked is the USyd magazine article published by their Student’s Representative Council.

The article says 'over 500 students', although other sources such as Green Left estimate over 700, with even News Corp publications (The Australian, Sky News, etc.) claiming almost 800 students.

One part which isn't mentioned in those articles: Witnesses at the meeting told me there was some attempt to finish up the meeting before the second motion could be declared, which was counted with a chorus of "Let us stay!". Apparently the meeting was only scheduled for an hour and delayed by a filibuster from a S4P speaker.

 

Unfortunately the guides I could find for Dixon Street (Chinatown) were ten years old and the places no longer exist, but I've heard there's a place somewhere upstairs in Dixon House Food Court with huge plates for average prices.

Outside of this and memories of the Town Hall classic 'Big Bite', I wouldn't know where to start.

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