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  • In short: The ANU has announced it will no longer invest in certain weapons companies in the long-term, following months of pressure from pro-Palestinian student groups.

  • The university said its council had decided that its "long term investment pool [would] not invest in controversial weapons manufacturers and civilian small arms manufacturers".

  • What's next? Pro-Palestinian students on campus say their protest action will continue until further demands are met by the university.

 

The NSW Liberals’ local government campaign is in complete disarray after the party missed the deadline to nominate candidates in several council areas, including Canterbury-Bankstown, Shoalhaven and Wollongong.

Canonical URL: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-libs-in-chaos-as-party-fails-to-nominate-council-candidates-20240814-p5k2f4.html

 

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has cancelled a performance by an acclaimed pianist over comments he made while introducing a new piece of music dedicated to journalists killed in Gaza.

Canonical URL: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/orchestra-cancels-acclaimed-pianist-who-acknowledged-journalists-killed-in-gaza-20240813-p5k1we.html

 

The unlikely gourmands are pilfering thousands of dollars of farmed black truffles a night, but a PhD student has been working to get them to change their ways.

Canonical URL: https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/the-bandicoot-bandits-causing-a-truffle-kerfuffle-20240806-p5jzyv.html

 
  • In short: More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a Gazan school, according to local media.
  • The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has confirmed they attacked the school, but claimed it was harbouring Hamas militants.
  • What's next? Ceasefire talks between Israel and its adversaries are expected to resume next week.
 
  • In short: Special legislation to force the CFMEU to accept an administrator will be introduced to parliament "as a matter of urgency".
  • The workplace relations minister said the CFMEU had acted too slowly on an application before the courts to appoint an administrator.
  • What's next? The legislation will be introduced when parliament resumes next week, which the government hopes can be passed without review.
 
  • In short: A 47-year-old man has been charged after allegedly stealing over $600,000 worth of limited edition Bluey coins.
  • Police allege the man was an employee at a warehouse where the Australian Mint packages were being held before their release.
  • Police says only 1,000 of the coins have been accounted for a most will now be in circulation.
 
  • In short: Scaffolding has fallen from a construction site onto a Sydney CBD street.
  • A van was hit by the materials but a man inside the vehicle was not injured.
  • What's next? Police are investigating the cause of the incident.
 
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Less nefariously: it's a poetry slam, organised in their spare time and making no profit, and they don't want to go to the effort and expense of getting a bank account, setting up a merchant account, and buying a card reader.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Usually I'd say 'fuck the SDA', and today will be no exception: Fuck the SDA. Join RAFFWU.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, that is very silly. The usual convention when you have a tie for a ranking is to skip the appropriate number of rankings afterwards. Probably deliberate so that more countries' media picks up the story because their country has a high ranking.

Also, hats off to Henley & Partners for somehow convincing the media that a very straightforward ranking needs to be a brand-named 'index'. They don't even compile the data! They just take it from IATA.

Full rankings and more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_Passport_Index

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

~~Should just be able to do it with one rule of Disallow: /c/*@*, I think?~~

I forgot that federated posts are just under /post/* like local ones are. You'd have to block each federated post individually. Not sure if you can do that on each individual page? Certainly adding every federated post to the top-level robots.txt isn't feasible.

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

Maybe they were comparing the physical area? Which seems the most useless comparison…

Yeah, that's all I can think of too, but they didn't mention it anywhere in the article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

New SA battery storage project approved near Mount Gambier will be three times the size of 'Tesla battery'

Pacific Green says the Limestone Coast Energy Park, which will have a capacity of 1,500 megawatt hours ...

The latter battery, colloquially known as the "Tesla battery", can store up to 193 megawatt hours (MWh) and was once the world's biggest.

1500 / 193 = 7.77

So while that is 'more than three', why doesn't it say 'more than seven'? Am I missing something? When they say 'size' do they not mean capacity?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Chas was still doing the Planet Extra Podcast while he was on break 😆

I highly recommend it, if too much detail is never enough: https://planetamericapodcast.libsyn.com/

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

🤮 What a fucking embarrassment that we still officially have a monarchy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fucking Setka. As always, folks, power corrupts. Unions need to be under the control of an active and engaged rank and file base.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's a developing story, but at least two are dead - the shooter and an attendee.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, fair enough. I don't have any first-hand experience, but advice I've heard is that if you can get just one other committed person on board, you're halfway there.

If you've got a local Food Not Bombs group, that's a good place to find people that are into cooperation. There's other community groups around that might have people who are interested or that are willing to provide infrastructure of some kind - men's sheds come to mind. Otherwise, it's worth a try posting on local Facebook groups.

There's probably a guide or blog written around getting something like this set up. I should have a dig around.

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