Same for me

Fucking hell SA

This screams “look we’re doing something about the cost of living crisis!” energy without tackling the major influences in the cost of living like housing and grocery prices.

Woo! Get in everyone, we’re going back to the good old days! No uppity women, no trans people and burning shit tons of coal!

/s

I mean games, tv, movies all have some sort of rating system so you don’t really have to spend a lot of time reviewing the content for your kids. Seems like a gap that this doesn’t exist for books.

On mobile I get (almost) 3 lines of 1 story. lol

I hate it. Really hard to skim read.

This misalignment is also shitting me to tears.

Another one in FNQ that isn’t getting much media coverage too https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/29/man-allegedly-stabbed-woman-to-death-before-attempting-carjack-on-major-queensland-highway

Im sure both of these will go on a list somewhere and we’ll continue to ask “what can we do?”

Credit to the Australian members of parliament who haven’t let this go:

[Prime Minister Anthony] Albanese has said he raised the matter directly with the US, including with the president, Joe Biden, during his visit to Washington in October 2023.

In February this year, Albanese and cabinet members supported a motion put forward by independent MP Andrew Wilkie urging the UK and US to allow Assange to return home to Australia.

The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said he also raised the matter with his US counterpart, Merrick Garland, during a meeting in January this year.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-australia-reaction-wikileaks-founder-plea-deal

Thanks to those 900 complainers who got this to happen!

Beach Read by Emily Henry. Both protagonists are authors.

Absolutely. Great idea.

Good on her for standing up.

He’s getting grilled about that now on 7:30 report!

Looks like no increase in Jobseeker (big miss IMO). Everything was pre-released, so no big announcements.

• 29 Medicare urgent care clinics ($227 million)
• National digital mental health service + other services ($361 million)
• Aged care ($2.2 billion)
• NDIS crack down on fraud ($469 million)

• Biggest cost of living relief is the stage 3 tax cuts
• $300 for energy bill relief for all Australian households, beginning July 1 (eligible small businesses will receive $325)
• 10% increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance ($1.9 billion)
• Cheaper medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
• Waiving $3 billion of student HECS-HELP debt (and adjusting the indexation rate)
• Aim to build 1.2 million homes ($6.2 billion)
• Superannuation to be paid on all government-funded paid parental leave ($1.1 billion)
• Limit university students based on how much student housing they build
• Sunshine Coast rail link

Here’s what we know already: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/federal-budget-2024-chalmers-tax-cuts-cost-of-living-surplus/103810306

That is amazing.

Pretty much my process as well!

Because while the sun is up it’s extraordinarily hot and the UV is high. The more north you go, the hotter it is in the evenings and the less it makes sense.