{"id":"1d5cns8","text":"This is very helpful, thankyou so much for your reply!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5fqvb","text":"It's all about me. Something happens which is close to home for Hill so he wants changes immediately.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1b31z","text":"The Conversation: [\u2018Everybody has not won\u2019: trickle-down economics was an idiotic idea. How do we fix the inequality it causes?\n](\n\n> Wealth, Orseme recognised, is not just about economic inequality but also about political inequality.\n> \n> The threat of extreme wealth to the political promise of democracy runs like a red thread through Alfani\u2019s book. He demonstrates that, despite their power, rich people have been treated historically with suspicion and even disdain: considered dubious for their lack of a valuable social role or political contribution.\n> \n> The wealthy generally lack understanding or sympathy for the struggles of the less fortunate, choosing instead to moralise their wealth through the pretence to good deeds or merit. As a result, Alfani concludes that wealthy people hold a fragile social position, always running the risk that the majority will turn against them.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp6js4","text":">Hume said the force respected the public interest need for transparency, however\n\nOh, look, police being bastards. How utterly out of character.\n\nBullshit. 9\/10 times, the cops don't disclose because they know they fucked up. And when they do disclose, it's always swept up as quickly and cleanly as possible. They see us as the enemy. Police culture is infested with this \"us vs. them\" mentality.\n\nFun fact -NSWPOL still has senior officers involved in Sydneys gay bashing epidemic on the force. \n\nFun fact 2 - NSWPOL can't stop itself from abusing its powers to strip search children.\n\nThe best thing NSW could do would be to redirect like 40% of the police's budget elsewhere. Fuck em.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d35ec2","text":"He\u2019s the last gasp of what LNP used to be, nothing to be feared about.\n\nNo one that\u2019s left leaning (which is clearly the majority now) is going to vote for him unless it\u2019s a protest vote.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxv5kt","text":"Easy collapse of our service economy, maybe","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d52gio","text":"Have you looked at somewhere in NZ? Its the best part of Australia.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3yxnw","text":"\u201cShe\u2019s revealed she\u2019s reached out to the human rights equal opportunity commissioner.\n\u201cI have reached out to the minister for women. as well creative industries,\u201d she said.\u201d\n\nThis is clearly a media stunt. She rocked up knowing she\u2019d get turned away and to manufacture a news story. I suspect Jasmine is a friend of Jacqui Felgate or is otherwise associated with 3AW\/Nine. Especially after the whole Arj Barker thing (that the media cared way more about than the public). This is not a coincidence.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d51qif","text":"Obese people aren't avoiding exercise becsuse of bike helmets lol.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cq4slp","text":"Is there a single country in the world where mental health access is actually done well. What are they doing that we aren\u2019t.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1nhyk","text":"37M, grew up in regional NSW. Uncut.\n\nI have a 40M brother who is cut.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1m0lw","text":"I guess I'm playing the role of captain hindsight a little here so apologies, but an observation for others and the future. When thinking of moving, knock on a few doors and ask your potential neighbours about the area, the peole, the turnover of residents, the community. Worst case they look at you weird at the door and don't want to talk and best case you have a new friend when you move in. For time like OPs you get a little heads up and can make the decision fully informed.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csf15u","text":">Last week The Australian reported that global food giants Mars, Nestle and PepsiCo had \u00adissued stark warnings about the cost of manufacturing in Australia, citing sky-high energy bills and accelerating wages.\n\n>Mondelez brands include Cadbury, Ritz crackers, Toblerone and Sour Patch Kids lollies.\n\n\"Food\"","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3i32i","text":"We had someone try unlock our front door at about 1am two nights ago in the eastern suburbs. Are you in that area?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wuye","text":"So you theory is that flooding the market with a specific skill will lead to 'business expansion' resulting in more senior roles being available at a higher pay, which roles can be filled by the native population since they have been in the workforce longer? \n\nI'm very skeptical and this sounds like disinformation. Why do you assume that business will expand when business cannot possibly expand beyond demand for goods or services? Why do you assume that the native population will fill senior roles when there may be experienced migrants available to fill these roles? Like how many senior IT industry roles are taken by migrants? Have these claimed effects of increasing wages been noticed in any industry which has been flooded by migrants? Does the theory of demand and supply not apply to labour?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz25nx","text":"The best nightlife in Australia would be Melbourne or Brisbane. Melbourne is the city to eat, shop , drink and has a great nightlife but the downside of it is the weather resembles the UK quite a bit and you can get the 4 seasons in 1 day and winter is cold and rainy. \n\n  \nBrisbane is a great city very underrated. It has plenty of parks, walking trails, markets and great bars and brewery's it is only 1 hour drive to Gold coast beaches , nightlife in surfers paradise and theme parks. It is 1 and a half hours to sunshine coast which also has the same minus the nightlife. Compared to Melbourne and Sydney I find Brisbane people to be a lot more friendly and the weather is a lot warmer and sunnier than Melbourne. \n\nGood luck :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d08rxp","text":"And yet she refuted climate change \n\nCan't be that interested in Pacific development issues.....","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d58r9b","text":"Love how you blame Labor for what the LNP did to it. All the horror stories is due to LNP. NDIS has been managed by LNP for a decade. \n\nSince you are so concerned about money.\n\nYou must absolutely hate LNP handling of the economy and our taxes. A decade of debt growth never seen before covid. Year on year deeper into debt. Never once a budget that reduces it. Only grew it. Oh and this is all before covid. So no excuses. Just utter rubbish Financial Managers. \n\nAre you overjoyed at ALP being back in power and stop wasting our money?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czd6oy","text":"Good on yas for getting more mods, seems needed","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gt0e","text":"Melbourne is far worse when it comes to homeless. I dont know why theres just a big disparity but it sure sucks","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5nm3z","text":"Got some veggies ready for roasting! In the words of Mark Corrigan: mmm\u2026why toast when you can have a roast","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxmdye","text":"Thank fuck the court\/board over-turned th  we attempt by the UFU to be completely in charge of who gets to join Fire Rescue Victoria. Since when was the union solely in charge of that on a legal basis. Imagine the jobs for mates bullshit that would\u2019ve gone on with that. \n\nThe UFU is a worse version of the CMFEU. And that\u2019s saying something.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3r63l","text":"Mascoma St IGA in Strathmore did for a while. Not sure if they still do. That thing was huge. Took me a good few hours to get through it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3k5pj","text":"Around $400 for frames with lenses.. Medicare will provide you with nothing. Look into this scheme: ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1mf9x","text":"$200 is alright","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d34yf6","text":"I wouldnt shower at work. Too much involved getting a change of clothes, towel, toiletries etc ready.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz25nx","text":"Hi! I'm a doctor here in the Philippines who's about to move in Australia later this year under the specialist pathway. Between, Bunbury\/Australind, WA, Port Macquarie, NSW and Towoomba, QLD, which do you recommend as the best place to live and\/or practice? Thank you!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz8de0","text":">Left\n\n>The Age \/ SMH\n\n pull the other one!!!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d395tb","text":"Oh really thank you so much im going to buy it w amazon right now","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ct3uc7","text":"Not too sure how all consumers are going to eventually benefit from the $1 discount as the guild says? Sounds like it will slowly go away.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d31bfw","text":"There\u2019s still lots of money out there being spent and it\u2019s pushing up inflation. I work in sales, we distribute composite decking, cladding and screening through trade hardware stores. \n\nGenerally speaking cladding goes on new builds while decking is mostly for the renovations\/add on market. Usually the colder months are slow, with cladding holding sales together, while summers the decking really takes off (people are short sighted, they only want to put in decks when it gets warm and realise they don\u2019t have one, or their existing one is falling apart). \n\nWe had a bit of a slow start this year, but this month we are getting \u2018summer\u2019 level of sales, both in decking and cladding, which is something that none of us really expected. Cladding would make sense because builds happen year round, but people are spending big on renovations as well, which isn\u2019t what you\u2019d expect during a cost of living crisis. \n\nAs much as I\u2019d love to say this is because I\u2019m an amazing sales rep, every other state is pushing similar numbers, with sales at 120% of budget coming into the end of financial year. I\u2019ve got friends that work for our competitors and they are also seeing the same results. There may be a cost of living crisis somewhere, but it sure as shit isn\u2019t everywhere, and we expect even more money pumped into the economy come early August as that\u2019s bonus\/commission season for anyone in sales and corporate, as well as tax return season.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2z4dt","text":"I wish it would return permanently, I might consider going into the office every now and then","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5fsq6","text":"I didn't think they would be coordinated nor talented enough to skate.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxtves","text":"The text of the article:\n\n> 'Cross your legs?': Queensland parliament reacts in disgust to LNP politician's comment \u2013 video\nQueensland opposition MP Ros Bates caused outrage in parliament after yelling 'cross your legs' in question time. Labor health minister Shannon Fentiman wrongly accused her of yelling 'close your legs', but parliamentary Hansard quotes her as saying 'cross your legs'. Bates's interjection occurred after another MP asked Fentiman about patients in Brisbane being sent to a different hospital because of closures. Bates interjected by asking what the minister tells pregnant women during those periods the hospital was shut. 'Cross your legs?' she asked\n\nWhile heckling at work would be a little frowned upon (it's not Question Time) it's a fair statement. If my boss told me I needed to keep a pregnant woman waiting even if she was going into labor, I'd say something similar.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2do69","text":"Vertical gardens\/green walls. That's the only thing I've seen that solves this. For example, the railway bridge pillars at Murrumbeena etc stations now have a wraparound trellis that plants grow up. Vandals can't access the surface below to deface it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctv2cf","text":"LNP voters and media moaning about this after over a decade of the most blatant pork barrelling I've ever seen in my lifetime (nearly 50 years) really are quite impressive in their hypocrisy. Morrison in particular would have to be unbeatable in this regard. Not to mention they were pouring money into some of the already wealthiest places in the country.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4lcsf","text":"I'm sure Ananda-Rajah has enough Investment Properties to pull herself up by the bootstraps in case she decides not to contest, or goes for Melbourne or Kooyong and loses. \n\nI have a feeling that she might have a crack at Kooyong though to try turning Teal to Red - I think that she would be quite palatable to the demographics of Kooyong + the 1\/5 of Higgins which becomes Kooyong despite the Labor brand. However Monique Ryan has proven to be an effective MP who is a tier above what she can offer, so I don't like her chances.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5xw1l","text":"Ditch the supermarket and get it online. Cheeky.net.au is great","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3a0uz","text":"Yes, it's compulsory douchebag uniform.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cpvmsp","text":"Honestly just read the wiki on how our voting system works, pay attention to the news (lots of sources, not a couple) and if youre really interest read some biographies of former PMs. Thatll cover most of it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cozx5z","text":"I would also say raise the bar for entry as well. So many dead beats I\u2019ve seen go through my trade with the pay to pass system we have now. We shed on average three a year from our class due to not being able to complete the tasks in a satisfactory manner","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5f2t8","text":"I\u2019m blown away that you don\u2019t have more selective schools in Melbourne. They\u2019re so common in Sydney, and while they don\u2019t solve everything, they ensure that no matter where a kid lives if they\u2019re bright and academically driven then they\u2019ll get a spot in a good school. I was shocked to find out that they\u2019re pretty much not a thing down here.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyhh7e","text":"You can believe the Netanyahu is a criminal and still support Israel right to exist.  Like wise you can believe the Palestine's have the right to exist and still believe HAMAS is a terrorist organization.  The only person here I see abandoning principles is a journalist who would prefer to try and score political points instead of reporting news.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cw9vcr","text":"Well I'm not really confident that we'll see mismanagement on the scale of Turnbull's Hydro 2.0... especially given several of the issues with building Hydro 2.0 came from stuff they couldn't reasonably have predicted in the first place. \n\nThis the real reason why we have an energy crisis and why nuclear won't be built here anytime soon. The media actively criticises any investment in building assets or infrastructure and if there are any snags in the project, the criticism flows even harder. No consideration for any aspect of the project beyond the price tag. And the writer of this article thinks they're being clever by drawing a spurious inference between Snowy 2.0 and the FMIA program, which ultimately amounts to \"uhhh watch out for unforeseen liabilities!\" That's the state of political journalism in this country; business economics 101 presented as cogent criticism of government ministers.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxvd1m","text":"And this will be better under LNP? If anything they love to kick the disadvantaged and the poor so it\u2019ll be even harder for them to afford sport","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3zbot","text":"They can withhold the value of whatever is specified in your contract\/the relevant award. However, they can't withhold more.\n\nFor example: if you have three weeks accrued annual and personal leave and they are allowed to claim two weeks in lieu of the two weeks you didn't give them, they  have to pay you out the third week's value.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5xu97","text":"A succulent Chinese meal!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1n51w","text":"Yeah maybe Dutton can pop down to Collie and ask \"hey you know how you're building that battery? Why don't you just stop all that investment and instead do this? Don't mind the nuclear waste trucks.\"","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d13itp","text":"Nope.  Never watched","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ime1","text":"Walk back an extra tram stop and catch it there","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d25xi7","text":">Labor already has said it will delay introducing legislation for its $13.7bn package of production credits for hydrogen producers and critical minerals processing announced in the federal budget to allow time to negotiate with the Greens\n\nThis article exists for this sole paragraph.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5n16x","text":"Yeah you\u2019re right. I deleted him.  see my updates, I\u2019m going to question myself","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ycgm","text":"I worked in hospo for 12 years. Many cafes that charge these fees are not passing this onto the staff (illegally). Of the ones that do, **at least** 50% complain openly and constantly about having to pay their staff the correct wages on weekends. \n\nJust to say, I wouldn\u2019t be shedding too many tears for these places.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1crpjgi","text":"It's really interstate migration that's affecting Queensland (Brisbane in particular).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d05ofu","text":"It also makes Albo look weak for not taking action unilaterally. Like I said I suspect factional politics is involved here, to the detriment of us all.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1n51w","text":"Calling it a plan is a bit strong don\u2019t you think? :)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ef9q","text":"They're just people blaming immigration rather than government for the property crisis.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d348o3","text":"Party house?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5yfds","text":"Man Richmond station needs a Reno looking at these pictures","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2cfsd","text":"I give a salary range where I know I'm happy to meet in the middle if need be.\n\nSo for example, If asked that. I would give a range of $80-90,000 knowing that I would happy with an offer of $85,000 plus super of course. I personally try to avoid having the salary include super.\n\nAfter 3 years of getting a nice say 2% pay increase which kicks in before the new financial year for my take home to drop by 0.5% due to the super increase. Honestly it's a kick in the balls.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3own2","text":"I can\u2019t remember, I think it was about $5000. There was some significant discount (10%?) if I had Medibank Private insurance (but you could sign up and immediately be able to claim the discount, and cancel shortly after - something like that). Sorry I\u2019m not more help.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d44ezg","text":"You fucked up by going direct to F&P.\n\n​\n\nYou should have contacted the retailer you bought it from, and demanded a warranty repair or exchange, as the goods were not of merchantable quality, and a door seal tearing in such a short period is a manufacturer defect.\n\n​\n\nYou absolutely should push on with this, and push very hard.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvczli","text":"More oversight from a suitable entity, sure. The greens have no experience and are demonstrably anti-defense.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4j6sl","text":"Our council didn't send us a notice for a year and each of us thought the other had paid it. No late fees and no reminder (although they weren't sending anything. Once I got them to manually delete and re-enter us as the landowners we started getting the mail again ). But no fees.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2bvm2","text":"Corella pears are the fucking best for just cutting up to eat as is.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csw003","text":"Anyone able to give me one example of a defamation case in Victoria that this bill would have prevented. Ffs it wouldn\u2019t even have prevented Canberra\u2019s most famous one because it doesn\u2019t prevent complaints made to me the media. \n\nThis legally speaking is a nothing-burger.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d15q3q","text":"Yes","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1hwkr","text":"Scents are known for stimulating memory. Is there something specific that she might smell and think \u201csmells like home\u201d?\n\nI remember when I returned from my first trip overseas in 1992, I could smell the eucalyptus in the air as soon as I got out of the airport. Smelled like home. Unfortunately that\u2019s not the case anymore, but is there something that would work for her? The smell of Nag Champa incense reminds me of a certain time in my life when I was younger.\n\nJust a thought :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2emnt","text":"Traffic is getting worse in Melbourne so trams are being held up","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5b0v2","text":"Classics: The Everleigh\n\nModern: Caretakers Cottage (also cheeky Guinness), Above Board\n\nWhiskey: The Elysian\n\nVino\/bites: Bar Liberty, Henry Sugar\n\nOpen into morning hours\/hospo discount: Loch & Key","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2flpg","text":"I had a mild heart attack, didn't even know it was one, and The Alfred had me doing tests within 15 minutes. Have had a few scares since then and always got in quick.\n\nGetting out once you're admitted has always been the hard part for me.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3p306","text":"Money","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d34yf6","text":"Yes. I leave home early, beat traffic, go to the gym in the neighbourhood and then shower in the \u201cend of trip\u201d facilities in the work building, then head to my desk","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2j49l","text":"This might help: \n\n\nYou can apply via their portal for the report. They say it should take about 10 days.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crkdoo","text":"Good. No democracy should be censoring videos on the internet, come on now.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ct40gb","text":"Why do people feel the need to even respond to propaganda crap pumped out by outlets like murdoch press?\u00a0\n\nThe dozens of knuckle-draggers who still read that drivel will never be swayed by any response you give anyway. All you achieve in responding is creating a semblance of legitimacy to these rags...\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d421d6","text":"If the pain is unbearable you need to go to a hospital, it will be free","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz2gy8","text":"Cops don\u2019t need more powers as it is.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ct33jg","text":"Saying it again doesn\u2019t make it so.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctucxt","text":"*Mr D'Adam did not raise his criticisms about NSW Police with me, the police minister or with NSW Police. The first we heard about it was his speech in parliament,\" the premier said.*\n\n*\"Mr D'Adam's comments do not represent the views of the NSW government.*\n\n*\"I have formed the view that his actions and criticisms of the NSW Police, without at any time speaking with colleagues to convey his concerns in relation to this matter, are incompatible with his position as parliamentary secretary.\"*\n\n\nAll seems pretty reasonable. If you want to be a member of the government, you need to follow correct processes.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5zd9v","text":"Fun fact, most jobs are repetitive and boring, and that will include the FIFO job.  This is a fact of life that you're gonna have to deal with.  The vast majority of people do not like their jobs, so you're gonna need to harden the fuck up.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d28y8c","text":"*MassACKre","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d44q9g","text":"How\u2019s your hay fever? I stopped taking my antihistamines a couple of days ago and my allergies came back. I\u2019m usually fine between May and September, so I dunno what\u2019s changed this year. Anyone else feeling it?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5kce4","text":"Night shifts suck whatever the time of year. This will never change.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2ieem","text":"Governments are serious about domestic violence, except when it comes to deporting offenders it seems.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"Di Stassio Citta in cbd, it's a bit fancy looking but food is unpretentious and delish. I went at 5pm sitting and there were a couple of parents and kids. Their bolognaise, lasagne and crab linguini were so good.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ahim","text":"The one on the corner of Queen and Flinders Lane also has it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3adea","text":"Inform them that you would prefer to hold the meeting when your union rep can be in attendance as your support person.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6asdo","text":"Mate, if you think we're going to be able those nuclear subs without a few cutbacks elsewhere you're kidding yourself. RAAF has been told it's make do and mend for the time being.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czmt8g","text":"I don't understand why all the comments are about the u16 ban when the article is about the clearly better over 65 ban?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d40tzt","text":"Heard one on a podcast that was extremely funny. It\u2019s not real, as in the hosts didn\u2019t actually believe it, and more of a misunderstanding they riffed on but:\n\n\nelectricity isn\u2019t real. It can\u2019t work like how the scientists say it does in real life, it needs extra intervention and direction from \u201csomeone or something\u201d. Otherwise the electricity wouldn\u2019t flow in the neat circuits it does and would get lost. There\u2019s \u201celec-trickery\u201d afoot.\n\nMaybe there\u2019s actually a shady world government spy agency who\u2019s in charge of all electricity flows. Maybe it has a will of its own. Maybe there\u2019s some omnipotent figure guiding all electricity. Either way, there\u2019s something \u201cthey\u201d aren\u2019t telling us and all is not what it seems.\n\nIt\u2019s not a real conspiracy but it\u2019s stuck with me and makes me laugh every time I think about it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxm0x5","text":"Because the LNP donors aren't foreign, so the policy can't hurt them. This shit isn't complicated.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1igrd","text":"Interesting that it says Labor could lose Robertson; it\u2019d be the first time since 1980 that it backed a candidate from the Opposition party.\n\nMinority government is probably the most likely outcome for the next election. Labor probably aren\u2019t in much danger of losing the election outright, but you\u2019d have to think they\u2019ll need to concede a few things to stay in power.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3tcou","text":"When I take my used car oil to my recycling centre they charge me two dollars a litre. Lots of people would not pay that and tip it down the storm water drain, which ends up in the river.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d66qny","text":"Yeah, good point about the Rising Sun.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d02u3e","text":"Clowns tend to be the only candidates, for the most part.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5xw1l","text":"Get it delivered along with the kitchen paper towels from Who gives a crap. It's quality and it's always on time.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3iwgi","text":"I reckon you\u2019re on the money with Fitzroy, but also worth considering Kensington or north Melbourne - a quick tram ride or walk back up to Parkville and will be slightly cheaper than Fitzroy. There\u2019s not quite as much by way of nightlife, but they\u2019re both still popular with younger folk.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csiwhx","text":"This senator has an interesting background. Dad was a refugee who arrived by boat. Originally from Afghanistan, some technical questions over dual citizenship as she is unable to surrender her citizenship of Afghanistan due to the political situation there (but looks fine to me FWIW).\n\nShe can probably indicate where the Jordan river is on a map.\n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5galx","text":"Precinct used to have a decent cover band that would fill the dance floor, perseverance was good for late 90s early 00s hits - depends on if you like yah yahs for a boogie or more just a general vibe","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d07pjk","text":"We need them, all of them, for our workforce. Housing will sort itself out in time.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5j84n","text":"I've been in Kew for a while now, welcome! The closest I've found to a social activity is [Studley Parkrun]( on Saturdays, but I'm 15 weeks in and haven't spoken to anyone. The [pottery classes]( in Kew Junction look a bit chattier but it depends how much money you have to fire. [Archery in Hays Paddock]( was a good one-off activity.\n\nAs for entertaining oneself, Kew's a great base for [cycling]( there's access to the Main Yarra Trail, Darebin Creek, Koonung Creek, Anniversary Trail, Merri Creek\/Capital City Trail, as well as Yarra Boulevard. There are also some fun cliffside and bush walking trails around Yarra Bend, nearly all the way from Walmer St, above Dights Falls, through the flying fox nesting area, under the Fairfield Pipe Bridge and around to Chandler Highway.\n\nOnce you get the hang of getting out of Kew quickly, there's lots more to do.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwtko0","text":"There are 2 types of people that think that nuclear is a good idea.  Political hacks who know it is just a distraction and people who get their news from the Herald Sun headlines as they try and find the latest footy scores.  Neither will care or be aware that Dutts is floundering on his nuclear policy.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0yimb","text":"The \u201cpolite\u201d thing would be that conversation B never even gets started while A is ongoing.\n\nI\u2019m guessing OP uses 4 as they believe that 4 is a small enough group such that there shouldn\u2019t really be branching conversations. It\u2019s different to a group of 10 at a long table where you\u2019re obviously not going to be invested in a conversation with several other people in between you.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4rhnw","text":"I don't need to sell my model to anyone, it's what we already have. The legal and political position is that the default is whatever we have now. \n\nIf you want us to have a republic, then it's your job to come up with a model people actually want, to get your MPs to present it to parliament, and then to get a majority of voters in a majority of states support it. \n\nI don't need to do anything to keep my King. He's with us until republicans get their shit together and present a better alternative. Which means he's with us for the life of the Commonwealth of Australia, since the republicans can only ever choose alcoholics and lefty sportspeople and failed ALP MPs as their leaders, so they'll never come up with an inspiring vision.\n\nLove live the King!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cp0296","text":"Wishful thinking from Adelaide. Melbourne is still growing and the majority of people leaving tend to go North. Dan\u2019s long gone but his \u201cwhy would you want to go there\u201d comment lives rent free in OPs head.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d20ln6","text":"Oo thank you for the tip","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyhh7e","text":"I wonder if Australians currently doing their military duty in Israel will get a military pension from the Israeli govt?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0vfvd","text":"How are you getting from Melbourne to Sydney?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5wft9","text":"If employers stopped forcing people back into the office, that might help? People come in sick because then they demand you go pay for a medical certificate for missing your office day instead of allowing you to wfh.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2z0b3","text":"Generally no unless they did something extra or were particularly accommodating.\n\nAs a token of appreciation \n\nAustralia has laws to prevent underpayment, of staff high end restaurants will be paying staff more than the minimum wage.\n\nSome people get really weird about it, but for at least the last 24 years people have been tipping for exceptional service not just standard service.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5xw1l","text":"The cheapest toilet paper is a bidet. Then you'll only use two squares to pat yourself dry and it won't matter where you buy your TP from.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4j6lo","text":"I was meaning there isn\u2019t a medication for autism that will \u2018fix\u2019 it, compared to adhd.\nAlthough, some antidepressants or diazepam meds help with anxiety that can arise due to autism (Valium is great lol, I wish it wasn\u2019t addictive).","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4im5u","text":"I get what you mean, but also, single lane and they're turning from the middle. Get over it Mr impatient.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1qksq","text":"Officeworks collect ewaste","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3louj","text":"Wexler in Frankston is excellent. Did my choppers and my sons. Excellent work. Definitely not the cheapest though.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4lx64","text":"I\u2019m sort of baffled that the moral of the story is to add to the chaos and barge on rather than encourage others to help people with prams (or mobility aids) if they\u2019re struggling\u2026 why did nobody help her?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5jl7e","text":"Same thing happened to my partner. Cops said it\u2019s a civil matter. Haven\u2019t been able to resolve it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d37iys","text":"Cottees, IXL  SPC, Oak, Bega, Farmers Union, Coopers Brewing\n\nUnfortunately not all Australian owned anymore","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2hg8b","text":"Been looking more into it and yeah, may see if I can go to the airport and spend a couple of nights there instead of Melbourne! Does look expensive though but I guess it's a once in a lifetime opportunity!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxv5kt","text":"Angus Taylor's National Press Club performance was shockingly bad today. \n\nIt's like he's not even in the Shadow Cabinet meetings despite being Shadow Treasurer. He couldn't provide any details of any policies, and his premeditated lines completely contradicted Dutton's Budget Reply speech last week. Especially on Immigration and Nuclear where the Liberal's numbers are all over the shop.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crcyya","text":"This reads like a pre-prepared Chinese astroturf propaganda post.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d30cgv","text":"Tell me you've never worked in retail without saying you've never worked in retail....","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csf5w3","text":"Bail is now trying to predetermine guilt by using profiling characteristics.\n\nIn my opinion, if you want to minimise deprivation of freedom and maximise security of the public, you have to find a measure that accomplishes both without predetermining the outcome of the judicial process: that means detention in a secure hotel with all conventional freedoms provided except leaving the premises and a protection detail on the accused home to prevent taking advantage of the situation. We could even combine court accommodation in a separate part of the building.\n\nIf it was not an emergency 5 years ago or even 1 year ago, it is not a national emergency now when crime is steadily falling. It's simply not possible to get to zero crime and whilst we should try to minimise crime, events will still happen like the stabbing of 5 people at Bondi: it's a tragedy, but it doesn't represent an emergency.\n\nI believe this is all stemming from idiotic legislation on indefinite detention and equally idiotic lack of a legal alternative.\n\nI also don't understand how the High Court can suddenly strike down legislation after years of inaction and result in a compromised security of the public as government rushes to implement emergency legislation as a knee-jerk and compromised solution. Surely the High Court could advise government of a likely challenge sufficiently in advance to permit well-thought out legislation to be put in place before striking down legislation and putting the public at risk, especially since this was about indefinite detention and nothing had been done up to that point.\n\nIsn't the High Court also bound to minimise harm, or die on the hill of point of law?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czwypv","text":"Thanks! Turns out they will :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wqfz","text":"17bn and by 2040 is fine by me, let it happen. Just don't let the liberal party near it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4r9n1","text":"They\u2019ll have a crack at it, but they usually back off if you\u2019ve got a good bitchy hen in charge.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cpqqgf","text":"Rebecca Huntley assesses the public mood for a living. Right now, she says, it is grim, and the housing crisis is at the root of it.\n\n\u201cYou actually can\u2019t have a conversation about anything in any focus group about any topic that doesn\u2019t begin and end with housing. There is a deep, almost intractable despair,\u201d says Huntley, director at the strategic communications consultancy 89 Degrees East.\n\nThe way people in her focus groups see it, she says, \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter whether interest rates are up or interest rates are down, or unemployment is up or unemployment is down, doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a pandemic, not a pandemic, GFC or not a GFC, housing is a horror show\u201d.\n\nTo an ever-increasing extent, they see just one solution to their woes: cut immigration.\n\n\u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018We can\u2019t get ourselves out of this mess, therefore, we just need less people lining up for the rental property, less people trying to buy the house. Just less people\u2019,\u201d says Huntley.\n\nIt\u2019s not such a new sentiment, though perhaps not previously so keenly felt. Opinion polls have consistently shown over many years that a substantial majority of Australians want a smaller migrant intake and a significant number want a much smaller intake. One poll last year found as many as a quarter of respondents wanted zero net migration.\n\nPauline Hanson reeled off the results of 11 of these polls, conducted over the past six years, in a speech to parliament in March.\n\nOf course, Hanson has been railing against immigration since she was first elected to federal parliament back in 1996, famously warning in her first speech that Australia was being \u201cswamped by Asians\u201d. Two decades later, after having lost her seat in the lower house, she made a triumphant return as a senator for Queensland in 2016, warning Australia was being \u201cswamped by Muslims\u201d.\n\nIn her March 21 speech, though, Hanson focused less on matters of race and religion than on the pressures of the sheer number of migrants on housing, transport, health, education and other services. In reciting the findings of various reputable pollsters, she claimed vindication. The major parties and big media had called her a racist and ignored her warnings that the numbers were \u201cout of control\u201d.\n\n\u201cWas I right?\u201d she asked her fellow senators. \u201cYou\u2019d never admit it, but yes I was,\u201d she said.\n\nIt\u2019s hard to think of any issue other than immigration on which public opinion has been so at odds with accepted policy for so long. The large majority of people want it cut; the great majority of the political, media and economic establishment have ignored their concerns.\n\nIt has long been the multipartisan political position that high immigration is a\u00a0good thing, enriching the nation culturally and economically. Questioning the orthodoxy has been a reputationally dangerous act, leading many people and organisations to be reluctant to share their qualms about the size of Australia\u2019s immigration intake.\n\nIan Lowe, emeritus professor in the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University, can attest to that.\n\nLowe was president of the country\u2019s pre-eminent environmental organisation, the Australian Conservation Foundation, for 10\u00a0years until 2014.\n\nDuring that time, he tells\u00a0*The Saturday Paper*, he advocated for the ACF to \u201cprosecute the idea that population growth was a significant environmental pressure\u201d. The organisation was reluctant to take a position, however, on the basis that advocating for a lower intake would be \u201ctaken as a sort of Pauline Hanson-type racist comment\u201d.\n\n\u201cCutting migration will make housing cheaper, but it would also make us poorer \u2026 The boost to government budgets is enormous.\u201d\n\nSo the ACF avoided the issue, and it still does today \u2013 as do most other civil society groups concerned with environmental and social justice issues.\n\nMeanwhile, Australia\u2019s population is on track to grow to about 40 million people \u2013 an increase equivalent to the combined current populations of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane \u2013 by 2060.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d60iqa","text":"In North Queensland so this is probably different.  Our commercial fish boats freeze fish at sea and it is usually labelled fresh.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5jmmm","text":"If you change the account password on booking.com, they won\u2019t be able to sign into booking.com  again, which will stop the influx of failed payment Noti emails into your inbox. \n\nThere\u2019s no need to close your email account, really. I\u2019ve had my info in data breaches 6 times in 2013 and I\u2019m still using the same email address, although I\u2019m now using \u201chide my email\u201d in iOS so it isn\u2019t being put out online anymore. It makes up an random email address when signing up for things and diverts them into my one inbox. If something looks a little suspect, it\u2019s easy to deactivate the fake address and that\u2019s the end of that. Also handy to catch out companies that have sold someone else my info.\n\nThe card is old, so that\u2019s sweet. Weird that they tried to use it though. They\u2019d have seen the expiry date and they don\u2019t work very well after the end of the month that it expires in.\n\nPhone number\u2026 unless they \u2018re sophistcated enough to clone the SIM, you\u2019re sweet. Would look into calling your mobile provider and ensuring that account changes cannot be made without two-factor authentication.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"We could, but the extra 10% or so it would cost would screw the economy.\n\nPlus, while relatively small amounts might be undetected, the larger quantities we'd need are easier to detect and stop. So that 10% would be an absolute minimum. \n\nAs for food, China itself cut off food from Australia. They weren't worried. Our good friends in America fell over themselves to supply whatever the Chinese wanted.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"Aren't they supposed to talk? \n\n\nAnd that Philippine president is just looking for an excuse to declare martial law and stay in power for two decades like his father.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1j8n7","text":"Fix the power grid with 100% clean, renewable energy and dispatchable storage. And while we\u2019re fantasising, make it free and unlimited.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2z4dt","text":"The funny thing was when The Age came late to the party and decided to give out their \"Express\" paper in the mornings for free. But it was as cringe as Paul Barry trying to be hip with his \"Media Bites\" segment on ABC that only masochists watch to experience some second-hand embarrassment.\n\nAnd of course pretty much all the content in it was the same news as MX had shared the day before, so there was nothing new to read. It very quickly become a section in the Age newspaper somewhere and then disappeared.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d22asn","text":"Victoria seriously needs a competent opposition. The flagrant fiscal mismanagement of state labor is ridiculous eg accepting comm games. Yet the majority of the public give them a pass ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5jl7e","text":"You\u2019re fucked. All the other guy has to do is say it wasn\u2019t him or that someone took his car but he doesn\u2019t know who. Get insurance.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4u3n2","text":"Venue makes it or breaks it, in my experience.\n\nHave been to quite a few through Speed Dating Social just because they have the tickets at the right price point. \n\nWorth doing at least once but it's a mentally exhausting exercise as you'll meet up to 20 people in a 2 hour timeframe and have 5 min conversations that mostly revolve around the same topics: occupation, hobbies, location. \n\nIf you get a conversation that doesn't rely on these fallback topics you're more likely to match. \n\nThe people are no better or worse than those on dating apps, the same flakey behaviour can occur.\n\nI have since found meeting people in real life through hobbies etc is better. Quality over quantity.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2d7ge","text":"Hot water is classed as an urgent fix so they shouldn\u2019t have to wait. The real estate should be authorised to action this without the owners authority. Post this over in r\/shitrentals to name and shame the real estate.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d605km","text":"Funny, I could've sworn just last year old Joshy boy, bungler of JobKeeper, confirmed he wouldn't return to politics after he was appointed as the chairman of Goldman Sachs\u2019 Australian and New Zealand operations.  \nI mean, there was more than one article about it:  \n[Josh Frydenberg puts political comeback on hold, becomes Goldman Sachs Australia chairman](  \n[Josh Frydenberg won\u2019t run in Kooyong at next election after Goldman Sachs appointment](  \n[Frydenberg rules out Kooyong run as Wyatt laments his absence](","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5klqx","text":"They don\u2019t even know they existed in the first place.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d02u3e","text":"You think the boomers or Gen X give a flying f*ck about the future generations though? \n\nCmon. Let's get real. They would rather absolutely f*ck the future generations if it means they don't have to pay an extra $200 a year on taxes. \n\nNeoliberal hyper-individualism has completely wrecked this world and until all the selfish oldies die out. There's not much that can be done. Raising taxes is political suicide, advocating for the youth is political suicide. The Boomers and Gen Xers would rather live as luxurious as possible knowing they will die before suffering the concequences of their greed.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ct44ue","text":"The Australian business council will neuter him in public view lol. They won't stand for wages rising.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2dqiz","text":"Probably a decent deal, I had one room re carpeted via insurance and based on that one room this doesn't seem too bad.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1ngrk","text":"same age and similar situation to you. cost of living has been fucking me without the lube for a while now\u2026 hopefully it gets better soon otherwise i\u2019ll be hosting a self deletion party lol","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyb6ga","text":"The Conversation: [\u2018No one can act with impunity\u2019: ICC arrest warrants in Israel-Hamas war are a major test for international justice](\n\n> Khan has asked ICC judges to issue warrants on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes against Yahya Sinwar (head of Hamas in Gaza), Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (also known as Mohammed Deif, the commander of the military wing of Hamas) and Ismail Haniyeh (head of Hamas\u2019 political bureau, based in Qatar).\n> \n> They are alleged to bear responsibility for international crimes on Israeli and Palestinian territory at least since October 7 2023.\n> \n> Khan has also requested arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, again for war crimes and crimes against humanity. They are alleged to be responsible for crimes in the Gaza Strip since October 8 2023.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0upb1","text":"Lol like what ? go back in time and buy 150million $ lotto ticket numbers","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2d1bi","text":"I can\u2019t really find any transcript of Tingle\u2019s speech in which the context of the \u2018racist\u2019 quote was made, so it\u2019s very difficult to judge the intent and meaning behind the comment.\n\nThe only bit I can find:\n\n>\u201cWe are a racist country, let\u2019s face it. We always have been and it\u2019s very depressing,\u201d\n\nThere\u2019s no metric on what qualifies as a \u2018racist\u2019 country or not; but it is obvious that racism has played a part in the national psyche and conversation.\n\nThe treatment of massacres of indigenous people pre 1901\n\nThe fact the first Federal Parliament passed the White Australia Policy, a blatantly racist law which remained in law for 70 years, the majority of Australia\u2019s existence up until this time\n\nThe practice of forced removal of children from parents of only one race again for the majority of the nation\u2019s existence (again up until the 70s)\n\nFearmongering and dogwhistling against non white races being prominent in political discourse even up until today.\n\nDifferent legislation for those living in indigenous communities (like NT alcohol laws) \n\nOn a non political level (as her comment didn\u2019t specifically mention politics only):\n\nThe vast vast majority of commercial TV and media featuring white faces. Today 1 out of 5 Australians are of Asian heritage (there\u2019s more Australians of Asian heritage than Americans of black or Latino heritage) but you wouldn\u2019t know it from watching Australian TV.\n\nThe national character and story being almost exclusively from a white Anglo Saxon perspective, with only fleeting mentions of a vague \u2018multiculturalism\u2019.\n\nNews media quick to label the race of a non white offender but you never hear the opposite.\n\nNews media egging on race riots like Cronulla.\n\nTingle is right, racism is a big part of the Australian story. Australia may not be as racist as other nations, and we may have improved the situation in recent years but neither of those facts invalidate her comments.\n\nBesides beyond the Sky \u2018News\u2019 and LNP outrage brigade who deities the ABC 24\/7 (even though the comments were made outside her employment so there is no breach of charter) who else is criticising her? No one.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4lztg","text":"Yeah they\u2019re just people like anyone else. It would be weird to assume someone\u2019s a bad person because of their financial circumstances. \n\nPeople can be lovely and they can be huge pieces of shit.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwrdmn","text":"What would it mean to reject something not based on cold hard facts? What would cold hard facts look like and how would one determine that?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cozx5z","text":"Is this at the same time they are also throwing hundreds of thousands of new migrants at the problem also. A pox on both major parties.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4lztg","text":"I've given some money in the past on days where it's extremely hot or cold because I worry about how someone will do in harsh conditions. But I won't be able to spare cash for a bit. \n\n\nI thought I could at least give someone the opportunity to get their own hot chocolate or coffee etc from the Woolworths Metro because of that offer that comes up sometimes. Instead it just goes on the rewards card and not a receipt that I could give to someone to turn in. Maybe they did that on purpose specifically to block people from that?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d54cey","text":"Really? People were allowed to make informed decisions on their own health and safety were they?\n\nOh wait, no they weren't. Their human rights were denied based on poor science and cowardice, which has week and truly been confirmed over the past number of years.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4j6lo","text":"Not being a smart ass, but what do you do with your assessment? Was there a need for you to end up on medication or something? Is it different from like adhd testing?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3yn9l","text":"Heater?  You mean on special occasions and when I have guests?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d63pw0","text":"This happened often in my company - even in Singapore.The application is usually done by yourself, with a full letter of support from your company stating your position, salary and conditions and they would be responsible for your return to Australia. You shouldn't have any problems at all if you give full details. Good luck with landing the job.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5zgnb","text":"Life itself. I hate life","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3t3d0","text":"Better Schools website will give you school rankings for results, Melbourne School Discussion Group FB page will provide answers as well. Obviously a good school is more than just results,  which is why the FB page is good as you can get honest opinions from people with experience in different schools. \n\nIf your child is 10 you shouldn't worry too much about primary school. More about whether you want public or private high school, and if feeder primary school is needed for primary, or residential zoning for a particular public, etc.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d66324","text":"I never shop at my local Woolies but did the other week. I didn\u2019t have my bags organised so said \u201cI\u2019ll pack myself, it\u2019s fine\u201d. The attitude I copped from both the checkout staff AND the customer behind me for being \u201can Aldi shopper\u201d just cemented why I never fucking go there.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d284x4","text":"The Coalition seems to be blathering here. If they are charged with a crime, they are held in prison and thus are not a danger to Australians, and even so they have a right to stay here (they lived here most of their lives).\n\nIf a crime is committed here by an Australian resident or *de facto* citizen, it's our problem to fix, not another country's.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d67m5c","text":"I had someone using high beams at 2pm in the afternoon the other day. They were rather confused when I gave them the finger.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cye52b","text":"Obviously everyone knows that the government has to do all the actual hard work of spending taxpayer money & acquiring land & developing a greenfield site before any private developers will come in & reap the profits. That's capitalism!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d31ykp","text":"Friends just got the dreaded increase letter and was going to tell the landlord where to go and look at moving out until they looked at the rental rates in the area and saw it was worse off to move. Cooked everywhere.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crheft","text":"A really embarrassing day for Australia politically when this happens. The government should try not committing crimes in the future.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czgx88","text":"Because I don't want to any time soon. If I do, I won't take his surname. But simply put, I like the independence. I want to merge my life with someone at my pace, my comfort, and allow us to come together and achieve space in a nice symbiosis. That's more achieveable by a partnership that doesn't involve living together or legally tying yourselves to each other.\n\nI already have all my stuff in place regarding life insurance, last will, organ donation etc. I don't need someone to make the decisions, and I don't want anyone blocking them out of their own emotions.\n\nI have a man. I absolutely love him to the ends of the earth, he is my sweetheart and my beacon of sunshine in life. But he and I both like exactly what we have, the way we have it. It works for us and how we live our lives.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2h47p","text":"TL:DR \n\nGet financial advice asap. Yesterday would be better. \n\nCentrelink are useless. \n\nQuality of care varies from day to day. Visit and be your mum\u2019s advocate. \n\n\n\nI was the same as you, and retired as well, with hours on my hands each day. Both mum and dad went in together, owning their home and with some cash investments. It\u2019s a nightmare!\n\nHere are my pro-tips!\n\n*If your mother has assets like a family home and money in the bank, then pay for financial advice from someone who specialises in the field. They will do detailed scenarios and calculations which will let you determine what you need to do financially. It may be to sell the house, it may be to rent the house and pay interest costs etc. \n\nFrom memory it cost about $3500. \n\nThey also offered an annual fee of $1500 or so to deal with all the Centrelink and nursing home stuff that occurs each year. I knocked that bit back. How hard can it be? Dumb decision, at least for the first 12 months. \n\n*Centrelink have no idea. I repeat, they have no idea. And just when you think you have it sorted, you realise again, that they have no idea. \n\nYou will need to spent hours on the phone waiting, and days and weeks and months following them up to make sure that they have got things right. \n\nBecause I had financial advice I knew what mum and dad should be paying, 85% of the full age pension plus $25 a day each in means tested care fees. It took me 13 months of dealing with Centrelink to get to that stage. We are finally there. \n\nI actually had to tell them what they were doing wrong each step of the way. But actually getting them to fix it was a nightmare. \n\nI\u2019ve just paid $8000 in back fees even though they are the ones who messed up. And let\u2019s not forget the 6 weeks where they charged $168 dollars a day each because someone added an extra zero when inputting the nursing home deposit. There is a significant difference between a deposit of $550000 and $5500000 when it comes to fees! \n\n*Aged Care - family visits are a must. If staff know that there is a chance that someone may pop in to see your mum, I can guarantee that she will be cared for in a more timely manner. \n\nHomes are short staffed, overworked and subject to so much red tape that it\u2019s surprising that they function. Even the best ones have good and bad days depending on which staff are available. \n\nAsk around and find the good ones, but realise even then, that some times you will be disappointed in them. \n\nBe your mum\u2019s advocate. That\u2019s the key word. Use it when you speak to management, which you will,  I guarantee. It\u2019s enshrined in the aged care charter of rights. \n\nThat said, I\u2019ve found most staff to be excellent, pleasant and caring,  but they can only do so much if they are under- resourced. \n\nGood luck. It mightn\u2019t be an easy transition but it does get better.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d13itp","text":"Bargearse was better than the original.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3znbk","text":"Illegal dog fighting... fuck me the imaginations on some people","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4p302","text":"Lol 110k after tax you'll be fine.\n\nThe fact that you still think about the 30% rule tells me everything.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d36p9f","text":"Australia is like the same size of USA.\n\n\nThink about how many resources we have.\n\n\n\nBut the usable land is like 25 percent.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cufk6t","text":"Ah yes, reduce international students, who live in student accommodation.. and this will relieve residential housing how exactly?\n\nDutton is a con.\n\nE: the minority of international students who do live in residential housing, still only live in the university suburbs. So this really is a 'do nothing' idea, aimed to indirectly de-fund Universities.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1mf9x","text":"I'd pay the amount you think it would cost to cater for your husband ($100-$200). Lower end if appetisers or buffet, higher end for sit down, full booze package etc. You've already covered yourself.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czcrzr","text":"Rich families that own houses getting a free reno. Just love to see it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3yxnw","text":" mom with baby sooked and cried unfair because venue didnt allow her and baby into an 18yo+ event.\n\nthis very much reeks of entitlement.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4im5u","text":"So that their front bumper doesn\u2019t get taken off by someone cutting the corner turning right from the street in front","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czdql8","text":"Casual work suits me. I like the higher pay rate and ability to work hours that suit me and not work when that also suits me.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d43it3","text":"Why would a conservative choose Melbourne of all places?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cuq695","text":"While we are all distracted by cost of living and staring into the barrel of the oncoming poverty train, there are several other more disturbing things happening;\n\nA decent man who revealed war crimes was sentenced to prison for not committing crimes, but revealing the crimes of others.\n\nFamily court judges are ordering children who have been proven to be abused to live with the abusive parent, sometimes full time. \n\nIn a country with a hard stance against guns, more and more people seem to be getting shot\n\nDomestic violence deaths are increasing \n\nThe NDIS is being rorted to the extent people that actually need the help aren\u2019t getting it and is causing real life issues. Yet sex offenders are getting millions to rort. \n\nThere are not enough police, teachers, doctors, nurses or paramedics. \n\nAirbnb needs to be tightly regulated and is most definitely a contributing factor to the housing crisis.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3tjx3","text":"Great work! Hopefully these guys get adopted quick!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2ufq1","text":"The Conversation: [The coverage of Laura Tingle\u2019s comments on racism is a textbook beat-up, but she\u2019s not in the wrong\n](\n\n> Separating personal preferences from professional decision-making is a standard ethical expectation in all professions, including journalism. It requires intellectual self-discipline of a kind well-trained professionals are routinely able to exert. It does not require them to be intellectual eunuchs, only that they avoid allowing their personal preferences to taint their professional work.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d34g2t","text":"How do these wars work ? \n\nHow does the tobacconist get approached to sell illegal smokes?\n\nSurely couldn't be in person..\n\nAlso what brand are these cigarettes, I assume it's the Manchester one they always try to push when you ask for darts?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csw003","text":"> This legally speaking is a nothing-burger.\n\nYes but it makes it seem like they are doing something","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d59lcc","text":"One way to measure  Australian luck is that last time Australia was in recession was in way back in 1991. \n\nAustralia has experienced the longest period of growth without a recession for any developed country since World War II. \n\nThat\u2019s a lot of economic pain Aussies have avoided compared to anywhere else.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d28q90","text":"Anything is possible with Aus Post. I had a package come from USA to Melbourne Airport to China then back to Melbourne Airport. Added a considerable delay....","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d05ofu","text":"AAT senior member Chris Furnell said the man\u2019s case was finely balanced between protecting the Australian community against other considerations including his ties to Australia. Mr Furnell ultimately opted to cancel the revocation of the man\u2019s visa.\nThe fallout from Direction 99 comes amid ongoing scrutiny of Mr Giles and the Albanese \u00adgovernment\u2019s handling of the 152 people released from indefinite detention following a High Court decision late last year. Several of those individuals have since been arrested on fresh offences.\n\nOpposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan said it was clear that Direction 99 was having an impact on community safety.\n\u201cAndrew Giles needs to explain why he won\u2019t change this direction and why he won\u2019t change it immediately,\u201d Mr Tehan said.\n\u201cWhat this clearly shows is that your ties to Australia are given primacy over everything else. No matter how Andrew Giles tries to spin it, he is endangering the Australian community through the changes he made. Once again, this is a complete mess of the minister\u2019s own making.\u201d\n\nMr Giles said this week he was seeking urgent advice in relation to Saki, and criticised the AAT\u2019s decision to reinstate Saki\u2019s visa as \u201cinconsistent\u201d with Direction 99.\n\nAsked on Friday about the number of visa reinstatements that had relied on Direction 99, a spokesman for Mr Giles said the direction placed a \u201csignificant \u00ademphasis on serious offending and family violence \u2013 which need to be considered in all matters\u201d.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gbvv","text":"I think it's mostly just a case of styling the car to hide necessary functional components and accentuate attractive personalised parts. Every car has rubber tyres but not every car has custom rims, make them as large and appealing as possible i suppose is the philosophy. I'm surprised to hear its not a thing elsewhere, its not unique to car design for people to compromise practicality\/function in the name of aesthetics.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3w59e","text":"Enshrining human rights here doesn't negatively impact the American Empire, McBride did, big difference.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cszxwq","text":"It is easier, yes. But ultimately sees a major party decline in vote. The preferential system's keeping them in for now. But it's becoming more and more likely we'll see more and more hung parliaments, and eventually someone will have the intelligence and leadership ability to create a serious third party catering to the middle, rather than the extremes.\n\nAs time goes on, expect to see more \"electoral reform\" on donations and spending so they can prevent that third party from gaining ground.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d66324","text":">Aldi got away with it cause they have cheaper prices. COVID times it was for germs. But now? If I\u2019m gonna be packing myself anyway **I\u2019ll just keep going to self checkout where I can go at my own pace.**\n\nThen do that? Why is this a thread?\n\nDo you not have a Facebook account?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d28erd","text":"squatting on public toilets with their fkn shoes on the seat to have a shit instead of sitting on the damn seat!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4kufy","text":"Greasy Zoe's in Hurstbridge. Don't let the name fool you - it's a 2 hatted restaurant. I am 100% confident that the all of employees are getting treated well because the owners are the only 2 employees ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4tlv6","text":"The ignorance of this comment.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxpdgd","text":"I always assume it's just one of those people that has some obscure and horrendously diluted uranium pennystock that they think will pump if they can sell the nuclear debate. They are a dime a dozen these days.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctuvdq","text":"It wasn\u2019t for the greater good. The responses have been widely discredited since. It should never happen again and the decision makers should be held accountable. Unfortunately in Victoria, by the former Premiers own admissions, we don\u2019t know who was actually making some of the decisions.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d41669","text":"Not sure if it\u2019s the best but I rate Angus and Bon :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"DOC is my fave on lygon street","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":"You're comparing possession charges to distribution charges. Without knowing the laws I would guess that distribution of CSAM would have a higher penalty. I would also guess that possession of deep fake porn would have a lower penalty","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3s9h6","text":"Focus on your own progress, don't mind the other people. I'd take an earnest overweight dude improving his health in there than some douchebag ego lifting without the proper form (good luck on your back, asshat)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0bo37","text":"It\u2019s just banter.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cw9vcr","text":"I said nameplate capacity, did I not?\n\n> Taking Finland's approach would have been faster, cheaper and more sustainable.\n\nI doubt it. As I said, Snowy 2.0 would have to take another 13 years to construct and have an extra $10bn cost blowout. And as far as sustainability, there\u2019s no uranium to mine or radioactive materials to store. It\u2019s the most dogshit way to do renewables and even so it doesn\u2019t put Finland\u2019s nuclear in the best light.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3t5mt","text":"If you're out north. Sammy's in Mill Park\/Mernda are damn good.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d404vh","text":"Depends if im in a push kind of mood or a pull kind of mood. Variety is the spice of life","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4z202","text":"Giles is the first Immigration Ministers in a decade who is trying to tackle the difficult issues within the portfolio, instead of weaponising it like most governments. He's just not strong in the politiking aspect of the job. \n\nAlbo is setting the standard of not letting the media and Opposition dictate Cabinet positions. We haven't had a PM with that authority since Howard.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0uxwj","text":"Fuck yes it\u2019s rude in Australia","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d63w7o","text":"German or Japanese. I chose German because we'd already been learning that since we started primary school. I think it was roughly 50\/50.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0uxwj","text":"I was taught that. But that\u2019s because kids don\u2019t understand social nuances so it\u2019s not safe. If they point it\u2019s to point out something rudely. \u201cThat man is fat\u201d for example, pointing. If I was a Bunnings and the front desk says \u201cAsk Bob, down by Aisle 6\u201d (pointing) there\u2019s no risk that anyone will feel insulted or bullied. I don\u2019t think the prohibition was intended to be permanent.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d67ahs","text":"I volunteer for other things.\n\nPlus, a lot of the activities take place when I'm unavailable.\n\nI used to do bushcare at my old place but all the shifts were early morning. I would've loved an evening 'water the community garden' type shift.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cye52b","text":"It's a bloody good answer, actually, they just needed to scope out the project for a few more years. instead they jumped in and tried to dig a tunnel through soft shitty soil without the proper equipment in place. Smart move!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cq4slp","text":"a major part of the problem is perpetuating the idea that \"mental illness\" is in the same category as physical illness\n\nit is not and the trend in mental health is to recognise that many mental health issues are in large part responses to social and environmental stressors\n\nbiomedical psychiatry has already lost in the battle of ideas but desperately clings to its fiction to preserve the power the state gives them","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0uxwj","text":"Yes I was bought up to have manners. Pointing is rude!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d31i2u","text":"> continuing the Allan Labor Government\u2019s priority to make Victoria a safer place for women and children and work to end the tragedy of deaths of Victorian women at the hands of men.\n\nHow can domestic violence be a valid priority when more women and children die on the roads, if indeed death is the primary determinant of the program?\n\nI'm assuming they mean women in Victoria rather than Victorian women (from the Victorian era) none of whom are still alive.\n\nIt's deceitful to blather on about number of deaths of women in domestic violence as justification, when more women die in other arenas, in order to support a program that aims to reduce domestic violence of a wide range of forms including raised voices.\n\nSurely the focus should be on the worst triaged objective outcomes, not subjective hurt feelings; and on men who kill, not profiling all men for the actions of a minority.\n\nDidn't we ban gay conversion therapy only to now implement a generic Men's Behaviour conversion therapy? Behaviour is in response to causative factors, it doesn't magically spring into being through immaculate conception. Perhaps we should be looking at causative factors in priority outcomes.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d54cey","text":"You got that arse about - human rights were overridden by general stupidity, masquerading as public safety. Still, human rights ought to take precedence.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qwie","text":"It's kinda funny how the quality varies from place to place. If you have Pizza Hut or Domino's in Asian countries, the quality is so much better than what we get here. \n\nIf I had to choose between the two here, I'd probably go with Domino's.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d40hsg","text":"As someone who went to a private school where union is the code we played at school most of us supported {an NRL team + the Wallabies}.\n\nProvincial union has historically never been that big in Australia and there was usually only 2 teams (NSW \/ QLD).  The Brumbies did well but there was never the depth for the Rebels. It was a bad idea and to be honest Rugby Australia\u2019s scant resources are better focused on those 3 teams and the Force for as long as they have a fairy godfather in Twiggy.\n\nI\u2019d love to see Union be better run here but NRL is our professional rugby code.  It\u2019s crazy to me that the \u201cbig money leagues\u201d for Union are France and Japan.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0xz4e","text":"If those resources were extracted by public enterprise, 100% of that profit would be available to the people of Australia as public revenue, not less than 50% and government would not need to plead to reserve enough strategic resources for Australians or pay international prices to buy back their own resources.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2tgir","text":"In the Herald reporting on this proposal, the Premier is tying infrastructure funding for schools and hospitals to meeting these housing targets.\n\nSo what we'll get is more public schools that open their doors on day 1 at 150% capacity. No wonder families are fleeing the system in droves.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d31y51","text":"There's heaps of stuff to see just in Victoria  start with some weekend trips. \n\nBack when I was a young 'un, many moons ago, my ex and I had a paper map of Vic and loads of time on our hands. One of us would close our eyes, point to a random spot, and we'd go there \n\nSometimes we saw interesting stuff, sometimes not, but the base method was sound. A few of those, then you get a feel for what you like, what you can afford and what your car can handle. Then you spread your range. \n\nFrom Melbourne, I've driven as far west as Adelaide, as far north west as Broken Hill and as far North as Brisbane. All of them had their high points. \n\nGo for it and enjoy! Definitely get RACV roadside assist though, it's reciprocal in all the states I've been to and has saved my hide more than once!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d396bj","text":"Their cult stuff is pretty crummy of the way they treat their staff and OHS record is!?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3xktx","text":">it's all about trying to convince you to eat a whole meal in the cinema, in the dark. which is weird, and not a thing I want to do. and being around other people munching away on their meals is not great. People getting food delivered is also a bit distracting.\n\nThis is the big turn off for me. Eating a meal in a cinema makes both of those things less enjoyable lol.  \nIt's a pity because this place is not far from me and seems cool, but i'd rather just watch a movie and eat elsewhere.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0ny0b","text":"It\u2019s all in the GenCost report. Their figures for large scale nuclear assume a continuous build and it\u2019s optimistically applying South Korean numbers. Even so, it\u2019s a very expensive alternative to firmed solar and wind and the build times are out the door.\n\nLikewise, when a single LSR goes down it\u2019s the equivalent of losing about three coal units at once. You need a lot of redundancy to make it work. This is also in the GenCost report.\n\nInsiders isn\u2019t on iview yet so I can\u2019t check your poll but if we\u2019re just saying a majority of Australians are in favour of nuclear, then sure. But that doesn\u2019t justify the selective omission and distortion of facts to push nuclear. If it\u2019s the better approach then it should be obvious in the numbers.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3u21h","text":"Definitely worth doing the tour there. I had no idea about some of the history and the tour guide told us some fascinating stuff.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4tlv6","text":"Which closed economy of the last few decades do you think we should emulate?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2do69","text":"While I'm always in favour a good mural, getting rid of graffiti shouldn't be halted because of it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxlqov","text":"Gas runs out. It produces ongoing waste. It's sourced from a small number of places, with a small number of providers. The price can rise incredibly sharply when policies (national, state, or corporate) change. Supply can be cut off.\n\nRenewables don't run out - that's their whole point. They don't, in general, produce ongoing waste of multiple types from their point of production to their point of use, or at least it's significantly less than fossil fuels or nuclear. The production equipment is either highly recyclable or likely to be able to become so as technology advances. And because renewable power can be produced by thousands of companies, and even in-house by businesses and individuals, it's a lot harder for prices to do anything but go down per watt-hour, even on initial equipment costs. It's not controlled by a small number of providers. It doesn't need large-scale and separate infrastructure (of a kind significantly different to the existing electrical grid) to be maintained. It doesn't need things continually physically transported in order to operate. And it's a lot harder to cut off supply when more end-consumers are producing at least some of their needs themselves and can source the rest extremely locally.\n\nThe only two reasons to go with non-renewables are (1) price per watt-hour, and (2) politics from people who want to make all the money and\/or have control over fuel supplies. And the first reason is rapidly approaching a non-issue, especially if you factor in total cleanup and waste-management costs from every aspect of the operational process.\n\nPreviously, the first reason held economic sway, and it made sense to go with non-renewables. I'm not about to point fingers at people who made that decision at the time. But it's becoming far less of one, and increasingly likely to swing over to renewables on larger scales than it already has, over time.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4lztg","text":"With food costs sadly I have no idea how the vulnerable and old are coping when they struggled when everything was cheaper.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czih0z","text":"I believe a considerable amount of theory taught as well","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d35ec2","text":"why is the title 'women voters', that really doesnt flow well  \n  \nwhy not just female voters?  \n  \nyou wouldnt say 'men voters', you'd say male voters","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cygxqf","text":"Those Palestinian deaths which Husic uses a Hamas figure to quantify , are on Hamas and by default the people of Gaza for first carrying out a despicable act and then refusing to release the remaining hostages. Husic seeks to put them on Israel. Husic lacks the courage to come out and state clearly his position.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2fqxt","text":"To everyone freaking out, as a plumber this happens often.\n\nNo rain last night, so not a roof leak. Water has been isolated so issue has stopped.\n\nCould be a bath left on, fire sprinkler, Flexi hose burst, burst pipe in wall etc. the main floor thats burst will need floors replaced, the other floors wil probably just need hallway carpet dried. Lift shaft will likely be fine.\n\nThe comments about cost and not buying in this building are ridiculous. This will almost certainly be covered by insurance - either strata, individual or builders. A few people will be put out, almost all will be fine.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwahc0","text":"Being an Assistant Minister brings with it an additional $53K.\n\nOf course, MT is assistant minister for a couple of portfolios, so removing that specific area of duty wont change that salary supplement.\n\nHaving an assistant minister with no policy of actually implementing anything opens a political line of attack with very little upside.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5wft9","text":"I find it hilarious that this is an article about emergency ambulances and they\u2019re using a NPT truck, which appears to be breaking the law by speeding ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2fira","text":"We called it wagging when I was in school from 90s to 2010","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4yemq","text":"Port stephens is beautiful","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d466dk","text":"So the teens that were committing the robberies got bail and no prison time I assume.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1cqon","text":"Well you can develop probability field that depends on a characteristic. E.g young people of X demographic are Y% likely to vote Z.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crpjgi","text":"No mention that Australia's current birthrate doesn't allow for a sustainable country without immigration?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qkqz","text":"I am always confused by people \"complaining\" about deals like this for police\/nurses\/teachers etc. The deals they have in place are reflective of societies desire and need to do that particular job. It's supply and demand of labour. Literally the most basic tenant of capitalism. \n\nThis post points out that the requirements for the job aren't high. Sure. But yet we can't get enough people to apply for the job. So you have to increase incentives.  \n\nSame applies to teachers. Want more \"better\" (not even going to delve into what better means or how you quantify that) PAY THEM MORE. \n\nIt's not about making the qualifications easier or lowering the bar to entry. It's about making the job more attractive.  \n\nWe are happy to pay CEOs million to get the best candidate. I don't see the problem with apply this logic to cops and teachers and nurses etc. \n\nThis rant made sense in my ADHD brain. Hope it makes sense to others lol","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxm0x5","text":"There does seem to be some confusion between how many additional houses need to be built (about 250,000) and the current shortfall (about 70,000 according to this, not 20,000.  ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4j6lo","text":"Very true about the misdiagnoses! I had so much therapy growing up, diagnosed with ocd tendencies and chronic anxiety. I\u2019m surprised it wasn\u2019t picked up earlier for me- although I\u2019m female and the social stuff is less obvious in women\/it presents differently to boys\nWhen I had my autism diagnosis, my doctor asked if I wanted to be tested for adhd, I was like nah I do not relate to any of those symptoms \n\nI hope your child is doing better\/well after their diagnosis :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cqmy49","text":"leftist shill i see","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwv29h","text":"Biden is working hard on shutting down the Gaza War now as unlike Ukraine , he would suffer politically if he goes to an election and it is still unresolved.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d41a1q","text":"I'm going back to cash. Or at least I'm trying to but there are no fucking ATMs","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5jc60","text":"The fun police have been here \nWe should smoke some crack cocaine and smash this shit into bits","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1cwy1","text":"Because I drive home on country roads, getting tailgated by some idiot in a vehicle 3x heavier than mine is putting everyone\u2019s life at risk unnecessarily, I think I\u2019m entitled to dislike them..","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"Yet if a Liberal did this, you'd love it. I'm pretty sure there are Sane Voice comments praising Morrison standing up to China, over Covid, for example. \n\nPlease have some integrity in the criticisms. A user's already pointed out how China folded like an accordion and saved face by not publicly admitting they'd folded, reaccepting our food and energy exports as quickly as they announced they were done with them.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qq3b","text":"Fair enough.\n\nI have written to other MPs before and always had follow-up by them or their office. Even if it was a BS response, there was a follow-up. \n\nDr. Anada-Rajah just simply brushed me off...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0bo37","text":"Launceston vs Hobart.\u00a0\n\n\nLike two turds arguing who has the best piece of corn.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qwie","text":"They're both fucking awful, try your local independent and support them.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czvemb","text":"He's not wrong though  alot of media is RW slanted, especially news Corp. \n\nImo there needs to be a pretty serious discussion on the toxicity of sky \"news\" as an organisation..\nAbc might occasionally be pro-labor, the Guardian aswell. But these organisations maintain a degree of civility in their reporting. \n\nTurn on any sky segment and you'll be met with the most vile language, laced with toxicity and venom. There is no civility in it, there is no decorum. Just pure disgusting narrativisation and crude character assassination tactics. \n\nIt is not news, it is political toxic social engineering and should be seen for what it is, and addressed accordingly. \n\nThat kind of toxicity is not good for a person's psyche and we can see its affects everywhere that Newscorp has its tendrils.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d68uab","text":"Thank you, I\u2019ll do that ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4kc9e","text":"Humpback whales migrate through the NW shelf where Woodside Chevron and Santos have offshore facilities in abundance, along with service vessels, major iron ore shipping routes and container ship traffic all the way down to Fremantle and Bunbury itself. \n\nI think the whales will be fine.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ldv0","text":"The trash is the bikes that get left there.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cum8y0","text":"Man I\u2019m pro Palestinian as it comes but can the media and politicians just stop. Whatever they say ain\u2019t gonna do shit about the situation, I\u2019ve already accepted this and I don\u2019t care for what albo feels on the matter. Address the cost of living issues and things that are affecting us here in real time. Seems like they\u2019re trying to polarise and divide everyday Australians and keep us distracted from the domestic issues we have in this country like homelessness, mental health, increasing crime and violence and cost of living!! Never felt so out of touch with a government and I thought scomo was bad","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2flpg","text":"Triage is there for them to determine the order of priority. Not you.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3j26m","text":"Thanks for the article, which at least provides enough quotes and context behind the entirely reasonable arguments being made by the IPA, despite the hyperventilating rhetoric surrounding it to try and make it seem unhinged.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cozx5z","text":"I advocate mass importation of small , portable accommodation ( aka like current  mining accom) en masse. \nBuy it from China if needs be  and use federal land to bypass council and state red tape. \n\nWe need immediate solutions to alleviate the crisis in the very short term whilst more permanent solutions for housing are found. \n\nOnce achieved,  sell these on the private market to recoup some costs. \n\nPower , water , and sanitation needs can be addressed in a timely manner with new technology available in a quick fashion also. \n\nIt can be done.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d42g4j","text":"That\u2019s so cute!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz8de0","text":"Most of the mainstream media is fairly right leaning. ABC is centre and places like the Guardian are  left leaning. Though this can vary on certain issues","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp7krx","text":"Only 10% of international students are still in the country 2 years after graduation.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5iuvf","text":"The first two words in the title are unnecessary...","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d40hsg","text":"The fans care but decades of mismanagement have led to poor fan numbers.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4ffjg","text":"I was so mad when I saw that a couple of weeks ago. We came in specifically to see the shot tower, and instead we got\u2026 that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3k5pj","text":"I think my current ones are Armani but honestly I will just try to get the same size dimensions as my current ones because they completely cover my peripheral vision. I know already that the numbers on the frame denote the size dimensions of the frame so will be going off that.\n\nThe lens additions sound good have never tried them and I think will be better to have so looks like spec savers might be the one for me so I can try them in store in person though I have bought online ones in the past I believe they were from clearly.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crheft","text":"More examples of Australian whistleblower protection laws f\nJust do fuck all to actually protect whistleblowers","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2y8wr","text":"While labour and materials are the biggest cost inputs into homes trades who work for domestic builders arent even on that much. \n\nHigh wages defenitely afflict high rise builders though especially in victoria. \n\nBut what does my head in is the liberals are all over this new car tax and yet they introdiced GST on homes, then mainly labor state governments introduced developer levies, councils more charges. \n\nSo we have liberals crying foul on a 15k impost on 4x4s but then the 150k plus in taxes from homes - 15bn odd per annum we dont say the same - what does this 150k do to the proce of all homes.\n\nTo my mind it is a bigger issue of justice and equality that homes are made more expensive by tax than 4x4s and i drive and holiday in 4x4s. \n\nWhy is this not on the radar? Why can we go; congrats labor spending 2bn on supply while we milk 15bn back out as generous to prospective first home buyers. \n\nI mean we are literally putting a tax on these 4x4s of 15k to discourage them but then dont care we have 150k odd on a new home and wonder where is the supply.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d15q3q","text":"I work hospo. People do it to \"cheap and cheerful\" whites\/rose a lot, it is considered a bit low-brow but is fairly common at low-brow establishments. Reds almost never, but occasionally an old lady wants iced red.\n\nWhen I worked a wine bar it was a lot less common, but it happened. Usually people would stick to whatever our cheapest white by the glass was if they were gonna do that. But I was asked once to put ice in a Domaine Sainte Marie rose, and another time in a De Sainte-Gall champagne. I don't think I can ever go to France now. They'll look at me and just *know*. I'm afraid of random mobs forming to seek justice for what I have done.  \n\nIn 20 years of selling drinks I have never been asked to put ice in beer. Ever. That is insane talk. Nobody would do that. What the actual fuck.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0r77q","text":"I'm in a strata as a renter and tbh I'm okay with it. \n\nDuring the really bad flooding situation we had a few years back, my apartment flooded due to there being no flashing at all in my external wall to my private courtyard (owners responsibility) and also the external wall that the driveway is on (strata responsibility). And I'm talking 2inches deep in my apartment removing access to my loungeroom and kitchen. Also inadequate drainage in my courtyard which helped make it even worse according to the guys who xame to fix it.\n\nMy landlord (owner) decided that because it was unprecedented flooding they wouldn't be fixing the wall to my courtyard, that it was fine and likely wouldn't happen again, while strata was prepping to fix the driveway side. This caused an argument between the two as technically strata would have to rip apart some of my internal walls to ensure the flashing was fixed and for of course... Mold checks. One of the other issues I had was my courtyard is 2ft below the road level and I only had the one drain, which wasn't effective to stop water pooling, so that + absolutely no flashing and the courtyard being under water so far the weep holes (I think that's what they called them) were under the water.. so the water only had one way to drain. Into my apartment. \n\nStrata ripped away ALL the walls affected to redo the flashing, including in the courtyard, had 2 more drains added to my courtyard and then took the owners to court to pay for the repairs to their part of the wall and the new drainage as my strata saw it rightly as unreasonable to not fix the other part of the issue. Took the lovely workers 3 days to do it all including repainting the inside walls they had to pull apart to fix it. \n\nWe had a very similar flooding incident this year, strata were all over me to check the flashing was working, there was nothing coming into my apartment and even sent an inspector out to just... Check via little holes they fixed the same week. \n\nAnd look, while it was unprecedented flooding, it still was absolutely not okay for my apartment to 3xs in 6mths end up 2inches under water. And there was time between each event to fix it, clearly as it was done in 3 days total. \n\nOthers can I guess be absolute shit shows, but not all are.\n\nEdit to add: ours is a corporate style strata, no owners are on their board or whatever it is. They are a management of the property style set up. Owners can bitch at them\/ask them to do repairs to common area, but owners have to accept anything really they say, unless totally unreasonable. Like the fight they had about cleaning the exterior with a pressure washing company. Owners didn't want to... Strata told them we are doing it either comply and pick a company yourself or we will and you'll be fined, there mold growing lol","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1eojd","text":"Maybe not housework related but when you buy a house in America it comes with the existing fridge but in Australia and buying a house it never comes with a fridge\u2026you bring your own fridge and take it with you when you sell","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d03qfh","text":"I have NEVER had an issue returning shit to Bunnings.\n\nAnd I've returned alot of stuff.\n\nI bought a $600 canopy cover, that ripped to pieces after two years. They didn't give a shit.  I dropped off the scraps and they refunded .","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d28erd","text":"Not understanding how deadly the heat can be. There've been many tragedies with tourists bushwalking in 40+C temperatures. I might be the same dealing with extreme cold and snow.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2z4dt","text":"\u2018Vent your spleen\u2019 should have an entire page dedicated.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d67m5c","text":"Everyone just needs to learn what the different symbols on the dash mean! \n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvgxg1","text":">Why younger voters say the budget does nothing to fix generational inequality\n\n\n\n...Because it does nothing to fix generational inequality.\n\n\nSaved you a read.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5yvdq","text":"Assume you want city restaurants, but huge shout out to Imm Oon in Lilydale, it\u2019s fantastic.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5n43e","text":"There\u2019s Afro dance at imax\/museum from\nWhat I know they all meet up there and vibe out. They\u2019ve got an Instagram page. I\u2019ve never got a chance get down there but the turn outs  are good","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2flpg","text":"Priority urgent care, kinda in between a GP and the emergency room. I had to go on Sunday night, only waited an hour and a half, google your nearest one. Again they also triage so if someone worse off comes in, they go before you. ( they support the nearest emergency hospital, quick google says the one supporting Casey emergency is located in narre Warren )","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cx2znc","text":"I would not be surprised if both major parties thought they could simply import skilled people when the need arose without considering the possibility those skilled people would not be available, or that those additional people plus natural population growth would have other repercussions.\n\nThe LNP is against research and the ALP's focus is on workers and jobs, so pure research has been declining, when many of historys serendipidous discoveries have been made during research.\n\nNeither party is really looking to the future, only firefighting and managing by crisis.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d27csq","text":"The Cookie Box has 3 locations. They are so good! but dangerous, I've only let myself have them twice. The Churros was my favourite.\n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cqqah0","text":"Oh thanks. Our net debt is higher than Qlds Gross debt and expected to rise like crazy in the next few years.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d42oma","text":"Ok if you have access to Netflix please watch [Kath and Kim]( this will give you a broad range from strine through to whine with some snooty thrown in \n\nIf you don\u2019t checkout YouTube bloopers, Magda is a giggler","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5fsq6","text":"Not uncommon and not good enough.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4y1lu","text":"We had to remove your post\/comment because it included personal attacks or did not show respect towards other users. This community is a safe space for all.\n\nConduct yourself online as you would in real life. Engaging in vitriol only highlights your inability to communicate intelligently and respectfully. Repeated instances of this behaviour will lead to a ban","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpsju3","text":"Not really, the past 30 years has brought in way more regulation than ever before, there hasn\u2019t been anything called the free market for way longer than before the 80s. \n\nIt\u2019s why the west is failing and Asia is growing at a rapid rate. It\u2019s much harder to start a business, or get a job in a new industry in the west now. We have all forgotten that people want to make money and we need less barriers, not more, to make that happen.\n\nWoke policies, nanny state policies, lots of environmental bull shit, nimby, over regulated.   And each year it\u2019s just getting worse and worse because the more laws the government introduces the harder it gets for business to swim through the swamp of shit law.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0s25i","text":"She is in a Marginal Seat outside of SEQ in an election where her party is set to lose, she will be out of a job in October","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5j84n","text":"The only thing Kew has ever had and will ever have is the Skinny Dog","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"So, they spoke harshly to him? Is that it?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d60dm6","text":"I think we're better off using our military to conquer French island. Not sure how or why they got it in the first place.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwrwmv","text":"I would be happy if the entire aid budget is used to better Australia\u2019s political goals. If it can help people at the same time, perfect. But while we\u2019re in a domestic housing crisis and with in high levels of immigration, Australia is doing more than its fair share of global philanthropy.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3bx0j","text":"Six admissions in the last twelve months baby!\n\nI was so happy with the care provided to me over the last year. Nursing staff are at their worst not bad and many are absolutely bloody amazing. The unit manager on level 1 is a legend. I have been seeing my doctor there as an outpatient for years but had a few second opinions from other psychiatrists there and all of them were respectful, thoughtful and really took me seriously which I appreciated. Please feel free to PM if you have any specific questions!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpc5wo","text":"Like many victorians?\n\nThis is why it is impossible to engage with you. You don't interpret language properly. \n\nShe is relating her experience to the (present tense) experience of \"many\" in the state. \n\nIf she meant the experience of Victorians 50 years ago, she would have stated such.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cp0296","text":"Brisbanes economy is still a lot smaller than Melbourne. Head offices don\u2019t move up there as much because there are no banks and financial markets up there.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0pw2n","text":"Enough that I forbade myself from buying any new perfume this year. I usually allow myself one high end bottle at a time, but I think I spent about $1000 last year. I have a box of sample sets and testers.\n\nCost-wise its not that bad if I count it as a hobby rather than cosmetics, but I'll be sad if any of it spoils and I have to throw it out before enjoying it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d42g4j","text":"Aussies are the scamees, not the scammers ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cpr67f","text":"I\u2019ve got more sympathy for animals that are helpless than people who have choices.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d237qo","text":"*Yo-ho blow the man down*\nExcuse me\u2026\n*Yarr, shiver me timbers*\nAhem\u2026\n*avast ye, landlubber*","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1s8rm","text":"Carbon credits - taxpayer $ -> corporations,  setup as a rort to replace the carbon 'tax' - corporate $ -> taxpayers.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5cns8","text":"Yep. Reception can be poor or non existent depending on where you go. Important to have nav and safety sorted without a need for data\/signal.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d55w77","text":"Don't support Murdoch's businesses\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cuq695","text":"Part of the issue that all the solutions are pitched to helping housing be more affordable for the upper middle, and middle of the economy.... which doesn't really grasp the issue as young people feel it. Not to mention the homeless and disabled who will probably struggle the most in their life times to ever find a path to home ownership.\n\nYou kind of have to help the poorest into home ownership to be seen as actually addressing the problem as it is felt.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3xfaw","text":"At least his honest","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d65vcq","text":"laksa king","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gu9c","text":"I bought a Gondwana coat from Anaconda a few years back and it still looks fairly new. Just make sure you go there on a sale or they are rather overpriced. Alternatively, get \"club\" membership.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5al5g","text":"It\u2019s your wedding, and if your parents have no problem with being the only ones invited in your side, I would gently push back and insist that her parents not invite anyone else. \nIt\u2019s what we did and we were happy our wishes were respected.\nEdit: your wedding should not be stressful.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3s3ut","text":"The feedback I\u2019m getting from hiring managers in my org is they get around 200 applications per advertisement and 150 of them are total shit, but then you\u2019re still in a pile of 49 competitors.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0v37a","text":"That is not an aussie humor thing, that is a red flag thing. She doesnt trust you","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d27csq","text":"Raya has great cookies (I think they're baked fresh each day).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d68uab","text":"Maybe no bad luck but a fucking shit effort on behalf of the thief, people trying to make a living and some fuckhead steals your work vehicle?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5al5g","text":"My husband and I got married at the registry office with about 30 people in attendance. We then held a lunch 'reception' of sorts at Tazio (7min wall from the Old Treasury Building) and had the whole first floor to ourselves. Room hire free, just paid for food and drinks. Best day of our lives.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":"It depends on what you mean by 'we'. It is likely in the top 100 issues wealthy people, celebrities and politicians need addressed. \n\nFake nudes of me getting out might be embarrassing, but it's not like with the elites where it could be a career ender.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5a48g","text":"Eshays have always worn nautica and polo. There are certain styles within those brands that appeal to certain types of fuckwits.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0met9","text":"I saw plenty of Aussie B listers when I used to work at the Novotel Darling Harbor Function Rooms.\n\nTripod, Russel Gilbert, Southern Sons, Short Stack.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d10jja","text":"First generation Pom. I shower morning (before work) & evening (immediately after work). My job doesn\u2019t necessitate a second shower, but I don\u2019t feel complete without it. Plus in my mind, it means pyjamas.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2awds","text":"Was run down the day it opened.\n\nThat particular state government wasn't great with builds (see also:  Footscray Rail Bridge opened with a roof that let the rain through intentionally).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3xmly","text":"My beauty therapist was under contract that she wasn\u2019t allowed to poach customers when she left as too not take away money from the business. During my last appointment with her, a piece of paper \u201cfell\u201d into my bag with her private number and new place of business and now I just happen to still see her and said new business. She was working at one of the big names business that pay staff horribly and charge customers so much more than the small places so I have no bad feelings towards ditching them to follow her","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ct1q7k","text":"Can I interest anyone in a nice warm cup of stagflation? Because that\u2019s where this appears to be heading.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0skc8","text":"Fuck a duck a day is one of my stepdad\u2019s reoccurring phrases","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ycgm","text":"In my opinion, the best way to handle it if you are a business owner is to spread the additional cost of weekend labour out over the entire permanent menu, so you don\u2019t have to charge a weekend surcharge and leave a bad taste in every customer\u2019s mouth every week, especially when a large chunk of your business comes from weekend trade. \n\nFor public holidays, these are less frequent and most people expect the surcharge on those days anyway, so no big deal.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wqfz","text":" No one is talking about the LCOE measurement utilised in the methodology of the Gencost report - it\u2019s heavily flawed and limited.  \n\nHere\u2019s a link to a great report which highlights the main issues with LCOE. \n\n\n\nAlso, value matters more than cost - a great analogy to consider: \u2018Imagine you are standing in Manhattan and need to get to London in the most cost- effective way. We would find that swimming is the cheapest! By the cost per mile of swimming, it is far cheaper than building a boat, and the infrastructure needed to use a plane would be very expensive; swimming is clearly the cheapest way to get to London.\u2019 - Mark Nelson","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3iwgi","text":"Appreciate it","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwyvpm","text":"explain why so many countries are heading down the same path .... they are being pulled by their noses.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4tu5f","text":"While this may be the case, Australia is one of the most wealthy countries in the world despite having to spread that wealth across a vast continent. It js pointless making comparisons with countries like Norway. Sure, make them pay a bit more but don\u2019t make it uncompetitive to mine here.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d64kx5","text":"Depending on the place.\n\n Council work.\n\nMining towns \n\nMechanics \n\nHair dressers \n\nLocal iga\/shopping centers \n\nLocal schools\n\nIf there is a whole housing project going or a nearby plant\/construction project then for a variety of tradies  there is usually years of work to be had. \n\nFarms obviously \n\nLocal bunnings\/car dealership. Etc\n\nThere is always a gap to be filled","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4yx58","text":"I think it would be a mistake to cull Giles from the portfolio too soon. Remember that this whole issue allegedly stems from a directive that Giles passed almost a year ago, which required tribunals to take into consideration how long a person had spent in Australia when revoking or restoring their visas etc.\n\nOne person has died - which is clearly very horrible - But the killer's visa had expired in 2019. Why was he still in the country? And why wasn't the minister informed that this person's visa had been restored? How long has that been the normal practice within the department? \n\nUltimately, we need a lot more information; the department could prove Giles wrong very easily with a few emails. But as it's a Labor government, the press will continue to blow the issue out of proportion and take up the opposition's line of attack as if it's genuine","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d47wn7","text":"Druidism died out  long ago.  People claiming to be Druids now are just cosplaying.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4u875","text":"I'm Not a Junkie, But Who Has The Best Gear? Can't Bring Any With Me. Help!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0s25i","text":"The truly poor form is filming people without their knowledge and sharing the video online. The world would be better if more politicians were so open minded.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3k6b7","text":"Add another 100km and drive up to Port Douglas, it\u2019s worth it. The town itself is nicer than Cairns (at least in my opinion) and the drive up there is beautiful.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5j6wm","text":"Yeah I get killed every day by venomous snakes and I just respawn the following morning","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwrdmn","text":"I just don't believe people care about truth as a concept any more. Being true is not an important property of claim to people anymore. Whether people can determine what is true or false is irrelevant, because they don't care anyway.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1m0lw","text":"We had a similar event ... the real estate was aware of the situation prior to us moving in and never warned us. Screams and gibberish from  5 pm to the small hours of the morning. Then this person would get up - start their car and rage at the world. Then take off and disappear for the day. Found out later it was to avoid the social workers. We contacted police to do a wealth fare check but the person would turn the lights off and refuse to answer the door. The police would just leave. We called them more than once. The Ambulance would not attend as their was reason to believe that the person was aggressive and dangerous. Long story short it took 2 years before anyone would help this person.  Our health in that time deteriorated due to a lack of sleep. We were lucky to get 2 hours sleep. What worked was to get in contact with the local public mental health services.    \nI worry that this is the same person..","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3louj","text":"Dr Chou @ Mount Waverley Orthodontics. She did my braces for my biting issue & was smooth experience.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cqsjbd","text":"> The OECD has recommended that Australia cut or reduce the largest subsidy, the Fuel Tax Credit Scheme, which alone cost the Federal Government $9.6 billion in 2023-24, more than Australia spends on the Royal Australian Air Force\u00a0\n\n\nA lot of people take issue with treating this as a fossil fuel subsidy, but I have been to corporate events in the mining industry where they are already discussing shifting on-site vehicles towards electric to save on fuel. Making them pay the same fuel prices as the rest of the country would only incentivise such shifts faster.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvi72m","text":"If you read the budget yourself and use your brain instead of parroting talking heads this article becomes impossible to finish, if you think this is worth reading you need to turn off sky, go outside and touch some grass.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d27182","text":"Good. There's [many]( studies showing Corporate tax [falling heavily on consumers and employees](","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cs31w4","text":"I thought they simply said they wouldn't have been able to get the data on people's net worth\/earnings re. Energy relief. Still a stupid point because there are other ways to help just the poor and struggling like with jobseeker payment increases. \n\n\nI think it is mostly just an election year gimmick.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d267b2","text":"Love how halfway trough the article we find out that the questions include:\n\n\nHume has asked several department and agencies \u2013 including smaller entities such as the Australian Institute of Family Studies and Cancer Australia \u2013 how much paper they have used over the past five years and who manufactured it.\n\nShe has also asked several departments how many of their staff work on public holidays.\n\nOther more common accountability questions have gone to the use of agency credit cards and the costs of overseas trips.\" \n\nAka: Shes asking some questions that make some people very uncomfortable because they know they are rorting the system. Nothing like claiming youre working on a public holiday while really youre sending yourself down to bali for the weekend and charging it on the good ol company card. Also wouldnt be suprised if the paper company is owned by someones mate and shes wondering how a block of printing paper can cost $200.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4msni","text":"My only close experience of this was when a gang attacked a couple of young blokes in our local area, they killed one and the other was badly injured. Knives, machetes, hammers, something like 12 onto the 2 unarmed guys. Everyone had a chop at them. So, in the end only 2 were charged, the two youngest involved who I believe were about 14. They got 4 years in youth detention and nobody else got anything. Standard way these shit heads operate is get the youngest to cop the charges. They do it too because they are then legends and have earned a good place in the crew. This was a good few years back so things might have changed somewhat.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d47wn7","text":"I think plane makes a lot of sense tbh. It\u2019s always cool to hear","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctzm63","text":"You're quite wrong on all fronts, which is consistent for your take on this matter but I'll explain. Again.\n\nGenocide is a *jus cogens* offence. As such, the Australian state cannot punish it; it has a solemn duty to prevent it but that's it. South Africa, in a bold move to distract ANC critics at home (when electoral woes were headed their way) sought to make a case for it in the ICJ, and that ruling has been ignorantly and wilfully interpreted since. \n\n**Our** obligation under the convention is for the prevention, though. **Not** the punishment. Some objective research would have illustrated why, and I'll have to explain it for you because of the pesky \"objective\" part.\n\nThe first jus cogens trial, for which our own Doc Evatt was not involved (but he was in UNGAR 181, fun fact), was the Nuremberg trials. Here, the new German government did not punish the old, nor did the US take the lead. A tribunal was convened with a panel of Allied judges. \n\nWhen the Rwandan genocide went to trial, it was at a UN-backed [International Tribunal]( Similarly, when the Serbian leadership went on trial for the genocide committed in the Yugoslav wars, it was via a UN international tribunal ([ICTY]( \n\nThis is not coincidence. It is a function of a jus cogens offence, because as opposed to the application of jus commune in the domestic courts, no state can permit any derogation from this norm nor validly punish it. In other words, you can *only* have an international legal trial. \n\nThe right thing has happened; the ICJ was involved. Australia's best bet is to let that play out, and make sure politically and legally ignorant senators don't say the kind of stupid shit normally reserved for horrifically unqualified redditors on the topic, lest someone take them seriously.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0onj5","text":"Search the sub; it's been asked to death!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxtves","text":"She said \"close your legs\", it's pretty obvious from the audio, the health ministers immediate response, and how quickly she withdrew it with her tail between her legs.\n \nRegardless of if she was trying to make a point about maternity wards or not, she still used a very well-worn sexist phrase to shock the minister.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d47wn7","text":"It is a new thing happening, very annoying. I am just cross checking all the land site names from a past reference book dated 1992 'Waterloo Creek'.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctvihi","text":"I whole heartedly agree nurses, police, teachers, fire fighters and the like deserve to be paid much better than they are.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1yfiq","text":"Start as a labourer. Hit up some temp hire places get a feel for the trades and what you think you'll be into. Labouring is the most physical demanding part of the job. Any potential employers will look favourably at the fact you've already done some hard work. \n\nPlenty of work going. Come join us on site.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvnyoi","text":"It's Newscorp, they always frame the results in the worst possible way for Labor.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d07lhu","text":"I don't understand the hate they get. I think everyone hated on them just to be 'cool'. But I bet they know every word to 'How you remind me'","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2y11s","text":"Yes, wherever possible. But not tools. *German* tools.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d31dkk","text":"Obviously we *should*. There's no downside to the consumer.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d42oma","text":"The reality is that only time and experience will make a difference. It was idiotic for the Manager to put you in the position you were in. There are a number of other tasks within the store more suitable","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5gc93","text":"[u\/JacintaAllanMP]( \u201cHundreds of properties in apartment towers have been identified as vacant for more than six months through a compliance investigation, making them liable for vacant residential land tax (VRLT). These investigations aim to make better use of empty homes by encouraging owners to put them on the rental market to avoid paying VRLT.\u201d","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4jj8u","text":"I\u2019ll give you a quick breakdown of dating apps in Melbourne; \n\n-Plenty of fish; more like plenty of bots\n\n-OkCupid; Crazy expensive dodgy dating app that matches you with 8-9 invisible profiles from Africa and asks you to pay $90 to see where they are from. OkCupid used to be a safe haven for people from all walks of life, match.com bought it and drove it to ground.\n\n-Tinder: most users are Instagram and TikTok influencer wannabes posing in filtered photos with their tongues out drinks in their hands, asking people to entertain them. Rest are 40+ single parents with Snapchat filtered photos and anger management issues \n\n- Feeld; Like Tinder only worse, Lot of torso pictures, short attention span, no interest for relationships, great majority are either after hookups or they have no idea what they are looking for (this is literally what people write) admittedly there are some interesting people on Feeld but there is also so much rubbish, bots and spammers and unstable folks that you lose interest combing through shit very quickly. \n\n-Bumble; you are more likely to make friends there through BFF option than anything else, less bots as app is better regulated but clientele tends to be more white collar and elitists there, would you like to choose between a real estate agent with character issues or a business owner that looks down on blue collar people? \n\nI erased all of these a while ago, it was exhausting. \n\nMy suggestion is that get out there and meet people through socializing; meetup app is amazing to build friend circles, don\u2019t use it to date, it\u2019s frowned upon but once you get out there you\u2019ll meet people anyway. \n\nThere is everything from mental health support groups to mindfulness practices, hiking groups to book clubs. \n\nI am an introvert so it\u2019s perfect app to find my crowd, dating apps were literally torturing my soul. \n\nI am not single luckily, I wouldn\u2019t want to be single in this internet age, it brought out the worst in people. \n\nThere are plenty of men in dating scene who are convinced women wants to see them naked or their private parts, and there are also women who know there are many desperate men so they treat men like trained monkeys who should roll on command, it\u2019s so toxic. \n\nGo meet people in real life, they tend to be more genuine.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0a204","text":"You can make your own really easily. Just cut up strawberries, add some orange or apple juice (just enough to cover the strawberries) and brown sugar (about a dessert spoon per cup of strawberries) and simmer slowly. Should only take 6-7 minutes.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1m0lw","text":"It can't hurt to contact the manager though there is likely little can be done on that end. If the person has a carer it might be worth talking to them about it. If the person doesn't have a carer it might be worth contacting social services or one of the charities like the salvos and they might be able to hook him up with some support. With support there might come silence. Good luck.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0oce5","text":"IMO only the strong will survive. Monique Ryan is a teal who has done things I'm aware of (speak out against HECS indexation), the rest, I don't know what they are doing. These seats won't consign themselves to having minimal political influence in the long-term, they will likely return the seats to the Liberals in the next couple of elections.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2y8wr","text":"What are you talking about?!\n\nIt\u2019s **vital** we import as many dancers and entertainers as possible.  We *need* accountants and hotel managers from overseas!  You can\u2019t just develop these crucial skills on the homeland.  \n\nNext thing you\u2019ll be telling me we aren\u2019t desperately in need of acupuncturists\u2026. Smh.\n\nWe must import these jobs.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1atru","text":"That's why we have the concept of net zero: industries that can't produce without emissions are offset by other industries that absorb the emissions. This could even work globally with a re-greening of the Amazon offsetting emissions from essential industry elsewhere for example that doesn't have an alternative.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwcri9","text":"Straight or \u201cpolitical\u201d, white or \u201cpolitical\u201d, male or \u201cpolitical\u201d, etc.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3xfaw","text":"It doesn't look that big and cheap androids can be affordable or sourced for you if it becomes one of your main means of contact with services or family \n\nAlso upgrading can become more frequent if you have a tendency to lose or break things or they're nicked from you ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d25xi7","text":"No its actual populism, like comparing a wealth fund, the kind Bandt has advocated for in Parliament himself, gambling.\n\nOr calling on the Federal government to override the RBA and lower rates (with inflation STILL sticky im very glad we didnt listen to Landlord McKim!).\n\nOr saying that supply has no impact on prices but only the tax settings do.\n\nSome of the Greens ideas are good, like a commonwealth builder, but they also have some rank populist lines being trod out very often.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4kufy","text":"Pickles Milkbar in Carlton North. They haven't been open that long, but they are slinging some of the best sandwiches and other snackos in the city AND owned and run by the biggest sweetheart legends in the business you could come by. (I worked with most of them previously at a different business).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4pzpv","text":"Way ahead of the game","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0v37a","text":"She's batshit crazy.  Dump her.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctbnbr","text":"Claims that labor did not address housing in their latest budget are abjectly false. There is a $300 energy rebate for every airbnb operator. Per property.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cw99d1","text":">However, no such limits on general project expenditures when agency temps are involved.\n\nIt's not much of a stretch to say that for a \"short term one-off\" project you don't want to add public servant FTEs that then need to be served a redundancy when the project completes.\n\n  \nIt's a lot harder to justify when you have:\n\n\\* project teams that move directly to the next project in the queue when their current one winds up\n\n\\* long term rollover contracts for ongoing service provision\n\n  \nThe argument I do see that is hard to counter (currently) is high-demand contributor skills where the PS position is not paid that well, as the higher pay grades are for managers and directors+, so the only way to get those people are to offer high-paying contracts.  \n\n  \nIf there was an individual contributor paygrade that went higher that might counter that issue.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d29tvx","text":"Ah, bugger. While you are sorting out the schooling, we\u2019ve recently found getting an in-classroom OT has been invaluable in linking the therapy goals and addressing the gap in the support needs being met.\n\nI would also put in writing your concerns to the relevant leadership for your school (principal\/head of learning), if your child has a diagnosed disability, regardless of NDIS funding, they need to be on an Individual Learning Plan, which outlines how the school will meet your child\u2019s learning and support needs. I wouldn\u2019t move your child without pursuing this avenue first.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvnyoi","text":"That 37% are probably the rusted on LNP voters, I'd imagine the swing voters are convinced otherwise","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5f2t8","text":"Staggering that this is new to anyone. Whether renting or buying in the zone, what you pay is inflated. Been that way for eons.\n\nParents expect to have to open their wallets.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cww9te","text":">An independent report **commissioned by the Clean Energy Council** and conducted by Egis\n\nSo, we have a lobby group paying for a report from Egis, a firm that is in the business of designing, building & operating renewable energy systems and calling it independent? Sure... This sort of thing does nothing but kill credibility for the renewable industry. \n\nIt's equal to the nuclear or fossil fuel lobby paying GE for a report to justify the cost of nuclear. These are never commissioned to find facts, they are commissioned to justify an existing position.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2lv0e","text":"Saw him being chased by Council Rangers about a week ago near Clayton Reserve, North Melbourne. Its a pity as I'm pretty sure he was local to that park before he got loose and was a good boy. He is a big fella and used to wear a thick gold chain I think","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4im5u","text":"They're doing it because idiots turning left come and sit right beside them and then nobody can see to turn.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1crcyya","text":"Who cares?\u00a0\n\n\nHow is any of that at all relevant to the CCP operating illegally in Australia?\u00a0\n\n\nMaybe these criminals should be extradited, but until they are China can piss off.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2fobc","text":"Combo units have two good points.  They take up less room, and they are set and forget.  You can chuck a load of washing into it in the morning, and when you get home from work, it will be clean and dry.\n\n​\n\nThey take a LOT longer though, and there's no lint filter, so you either have to run the tub clean cycle or wipe the lint out somehow.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4iyvu","text":"I'm assuming refinancing does seem excessive though","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3jqrl","text":"Is \/r\/Melbourne just a Google alternative these days?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz84qa","text":"Pretty well the opposite, have to try and speak more clearly as my country accent is a bit strong. You do see some people absolutely hyping it up and it's cringey. It's even worse when some of them try and use the local language but just murder it and make it sound nothing like the local language - Sell a mat mal lamb, tear rim a kassy mate.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3m34g","text":"So we should deport Australian criminals as well then?\n\nNot sure how the safety argument applies. If they have been sentenced they are in prison. If they've served their sentence, then we don't have an issue (unless you think the sentence is less than it should be, in which case this also applies to Australian criminals).\n\nDeportation, if you think it's a safety issue, just puts the problem on another country's hands. It's called bad behaviour if you shove your own problems onto others.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cug696","text":"Opposition leader Peter Dutton says under the Albanese government, the \u201conly thing made in Australia is inflation\u201d.\u00a0\n\n\u201cI just think the Prime Minister is trying to get this slogan up of \u2018Made in Australia\u2019,\u201d he said during a media conference on Friday.\u00a0\n\n\u201cBut under this government, the only thing made in Australia is inflation.\u201d\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wqfz","text":"My prediction is that the Liberals manage to pick up a few seats, but Labor remains in government (albeit in a minority). I honestly just can\u2019t see the Liberals winning at this stage, and especially with Dutton at the helm.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3i32i","text":"I haven\u2019t locked a door or a window in my entire adult life. I\u2019d rather they come through the front door that smash up my windows or wreck the roof. \nThat being said I live with four grown ass men and two dogs that would happily take off the nuts of intruders.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5klqx","text":"Saw their first game ever, that was the last game I went to, which was one more than most.\n\nI kind of like Rugby Union, I kind of like a lot of sports, but only willing to regularly spend money on a few of them.\n\nNot sad to see them go, Melbourne is a bit of a saturated sports market, the Rebels just didn't capture the imagination.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0vfvd","text":"What kind of interests do you have?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3t46i","text":"Pretty common I think","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4o6wp","text":"I thought they dumped stuff there in protest of terrible traffic. You'd have to be stationary to be able to throw stuff there.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d31dkk","text":"It would be a great option.\nBut the industry won't like it, so when donation time comes around, the industry will let both parties know that they don't like it, and it will disappear before it starts.\nWhy do I say that?\nRemember when there was going to be a start rating for healthiness?\nThat was over before it started.\nAll because our government caters to big business instead of ordinary Australians.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csv37q","text":"If rather they try and fail than have a self servicing, do nothing LNP government.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3y6tb","text":"What even am I looking at","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d60iqa","text":"Yeah that\u2019s part of what has alarmed me to the way and how of fish","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1vtzv","text":"The govt blocks access to popular torrenting sites and ISPs are required to report piracy. \n\nThe simple solution is a VPN so that you can access the sites and mask the activity from your ISP. \n\nI suggest avoiding free VPNs and investing in one that doesn\u2019t keep activity logs.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4ml23","text":"Heres a few words you may have trouble with. Copy and paste into Google if needed....\n\nGo to the library and have a look for an atlas or an encyclopaedia.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0te17","text":"I don't think cost is the issue for most people as to whether they use public transport or not.\n\nIt's have a frequent, reliable and pleasant service that gets them from A to B in a reasonable time. They're willing to pay for that.\n\nQuite often the A or B aren't on the network, and if they are, the service is not frequent, reliable or pleasant. People aren't willing to pay for that. The outer suburbs of Melbourne are an unfortunate example of this. Nobody's walking 1.5km to stand at a bus stop in the sun or rain for a bus that comes once every 45 minutes and is often late or cancelled so they can then walk 1.5km at the other end. They'll just drive instead, if they can possibly afford it.\n\nEven with the much better trains in Melbourne, they're often late or cancelled due to trackworks, whether building new tracks and stations or fixing up old lines. You can't plan, \"Let's visit the city this weekend and go to Vic Market,\" you might find yourself taking a 90 minute bus journey instead of a 25' train journey, and falling over every time the overcrowded bus lurches to a stop or swings around a corner.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d357ly","text":"TLDR","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4vktg","text":"I guess I have to message all of them one by one but thanks for your help","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4y1lu","text":"The multiple people who have posted, asking the same question, know.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0a204","text":"SPC used to make them many years ago. I found them problematic as they had a weird mold spore that survived the canning process and regenerated after opening the cans.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0yydp","text":"You can self exclude. In Tassie, Anglicare\u2019s gamblers help can do bulk exclusions where you are banned from locations with pokies. Once you agree to the exclusion, it can\u2019t be removed for 6 months. It\u2019s great, but it\u2019s useless if someone isn\u2019t ready to make a change due to the gambling apps available \n\nDoes your mum want to stop?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5abdi","text":"To be funny.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4qm6t","text":"Nightingale is a rare project, or rather, an architect's wet dream... and I would know, I've designed similar projects.\n\nTwo things you should know, they're extremely energy efficient, and are built to European building code, not Australian - meaning they're neither freezing nor hot. This can't be understated enough how rare this is to have in Australia. This is a massive plus!\n\nSecondly, not having a car space sucks... it just isn't practical. It wouldn't be a problem if the city was built for it, but it isn't. You will most likely feel trapped within the proximity of Melbourne's slow PT system.\n\nBut if you can make the car sacrifice, it's an easy choice. Personally, the only apartment I'd ever think of purchasing is a nightingale apartment.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4msni","text":"It's called \"acting in concert\" they all get charged as the principal offender.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3k6b7","text":"Very possible, it\u2019s a very long drive but plenty to see on the way, once you get to Rockhampton and depending on the weather can get a bit more tricky. Had a very strong wet season and some roads have been closed at times because of it, there is a website that will tell you road conditions (sorry don\u2019t know it if the top of my head) and if you stick to the m1 the whole way you should be fine and see plenty of beaches along the way and some pretty cool places. Some you would need to turn off for but it\u2019s never far away from the main road","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3t46i","text":"I often see lactose free milk selling quite quickly, so I think it's not uncommon.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czynj3","text":"Sure it could be shut down, but Australia would then find the US less co-operative on other fronts.\n\nAustralians are pragmatic about it.  We know we need allies.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4nrgb","text":"Is no one going to mention the three apostles?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d263x7","text":"If this is a legit text then Fines Vic need need a better system because it looks exactly like other scam texts.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d417qg","text":"Rock-it Barber ... they're looked after me from mohawks to mullets to quiffs. Little on the expensive side but I haven't found anywhere cheaper that does a better cut.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwtko0","text":"There is an argument that you can capitalise on that good will by securing an election win early. \n\nYou never know what might happen: if the economy falls off a cliff over Xmas, Labor will be wishing they pulled the trigger this year.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d51qif","text":"I ride every day and I\u2019m regularly cut off by cars\/trucks or nearly doored along streets like Sydney Rd. Even pedestrians just stepping out into bike lanes like on Swanston St are a massive hazard. I wouldn\u2019t be without my helmet personally. But I recognise that\u2019s my choice.\n\nI think they should be compulsory up to the age of 18. Peer pressure being what it is means kids will definitely bully their peers for wearing a helmet if it\u2019s not compulsory, and being less risk-averse naturally, we\u2019re guaranteed to end up with a lot more teenaged brains splashed on our roads if they\u2019re made optional.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3k6b7","text":"Great drive for the most part. There are some stunning beaches north of Sydney; try to stop by the one just north of Tea Gardens (a town). Byron Bay and Coff's Harbour are nice, though I hear they're swarmed with tourists these days.\n\nThere are beautiful bushwalks in Southeast Queensland. I like the Mt. Mee Lookout walk, but that can take 5 hours and requires at least moderate physical fitness. There are so many others of varying length in the area. That region also has the Glasshouse Mountains, Australia Zoo, and the Blackall ranges.\n\nSomewhere near Isis I think there's a \"Canadian\" roadside diner. Could stop there if it's open and see how it compares to the real thing. Rockhampton has a pretty good zoo with free admission. Beyond Rockhampton there's a pretty boring stretch for about 4 hours before you get to Mackay.\n\nAirlee Beach is not particularly impressive, but you'd have to pass through if you want to check out the Whitday Islands. Whitehaven Beach is consistently rated as one of the best and most beautiful in the world.\n\nTwo months gives you way more time than necessary to do that trip. If you do end up taking that journey between those cities specifically, you'll want to take it slow and explore lots of different places along the way.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d24t3a","text":"Typically yes. It sits in my wallet, in my bag, which is usually on me. \n\nIn terms of buying alcohol, I'm up in the NT, so showing ID is mandatory at bottle shops, regardless of age. \n\nIt is definitely less common in the UK though for sure.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d639g5","text":"I have no interest in Texas at all. But Aussies go everywhere around the world as generally we are fairly wealthy, so have the luxury of travel","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d25xi7","text":"Only if the Australian will back Labor for the next few elections, otherwise that\u2019s just a trap to get the Liberals back in, which is what \u2018The Australian\u2019 journalists want.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czkzax","text":"Bbq Lamb cutlets + veg, roast pork loin + veg, BBQ chicken breast + salad, beef, veg and Noodle stir fry. Simple, easy and quick. I also cook a slab of lasagne, portion it up and freeze it along with chicken curries and fried rice. It's good to have healthy meals in the freezer to pull out when you don't have time or couldn't be bothered cooking.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2d56d","text":"Why should the government be different to the rest of us. We do actually have building regulations but it suited dan to defund the regulatory agency.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cql8oq","text":"OK so a few questions, just to pick apart this fairly insipid response - why aren't any other unions doing this? The AWU don't do it, they instead also get assaulted by the CFMEU.\n\nNo other union is this militant, even the ETU. \n\nRemember when the CFMEU exhibited truly blue collar values by backing domestic violence enthusiast John Setka, in his comments against Rosie Batty? \n\nRemember how the union rallied behind Setka in reaction to the now-PM seeking his expulsion from the Labor Party?\n\nSetka's VIc branch is already extending into ACT and SA. \n\nI know for you PINOs, mindless backing of all unions is what you do to avoid being accused of being anti-worker as your politics aren't based on conviction but on status and conformity and inclusion. You can be pro-worker and conclude the CFMEU are a massive problem for Australia. If even parts of the Labor Party are worried about the CFMEU's unhinged militancy, you know there's a problem. What will it take - wives and kids of building firm employees disappearing before people realise that it's an issue? We know you CFMEU fans are ok with domestic violence so it's useless to ask about *that*.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2kf2d","text":"As is tradition with a midlife crisis, buy a sports car and bang a string of younger people, getting rid of each for a new one any time they don't suit you anymore.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cza07d","text":"In bed lol","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2awds","text":"If only it connected to the other side of Spencer St, meaning commuters didnt have to risk the traffic.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cx2i9u","text":"I guess the cynicism comes from years of Labor announcing something, followed by the Coalition saying it will do something different. It wouldn't be so bad if the \"something different\" was based on real data or experience.  However,  it's usually just marketing, and usually optional as to whether they do it at all.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyuujw","text":"I really miss those toffee apple lollies! Not the actual apples covered in toffee that you\u2019d get in the fruit section, but the lolly bars that were almost like redskins. They were so good!!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d35ec2","text":"Dutton a survivor? \n\nHe's the silly duffer left behind after Morrison and Brother Stu laid waste to the LNP.\n\nAnd he's only got the job because no one but Hastie wants it, and Hastie can't have it cos Australians aren't ready for another evangelical idiot in a position of power.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d662ph","text":"The Australian Energy Market is a speculative gambling environment where profit is key, regardless of the cost to society for an essential service: it's like putting the future of Australia in the hands of a casino.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4k6zi","text":"Did he lose access to medical cannabis?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwrwmv","text":"Our fair share is 0%. Anything above that is morally good. Comparison to other OECD nations doesn\u2019t make donating less immoral. \u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2y8wr","text":"PAY WORKERS A PROPER WAGE. HOW FUCKING HARD IS THAT?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyyfzp","text":"Just say back, 'no worries cunt'.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d60dm6","text":"WE'RE GONNA BUILD A WALL!, AND WE'RE GONNA MAKE THE TASMANIANS PAY FOR IT!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cqpxa5","text":"can't believe jacqui lambie is talking shit about asbestos  best building material ever made. Too bad it is toxic","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwahc0","text":"They\u2019ed be using it in a rhetorical sense to describe the perception of the voter they\u2019re concerned about. \n\nI think it\u2019s a smart political move. Labor does itself the biggest disservice when it is perceived as being out of touch with its core demographic of voters (ie the voice referendum). \n\nIn the age of a cost of living crisis, having a minister for the republic is done deaf not required.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3eybn","text":"Since the Wicked Witch was crushed... still much the same.\n\nAll work is controlled by the guilds, and the tall people take all the good property.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d358n6","text":"This might be way out there... But you could ask your local friendly blacksmith? Google waterside metal art in footscray.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp4p45","text":"General Assembly votes don't mean anything, it's all symbolic. The Security Council has all the power.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0bo37","text":"There are some people for whom it really does matter. The rest of us don't give a shit. \n\nWA *did* have a referendum in 1933 to exit the Federation, some 32 years after Federation, and the state voted two thirds in favor. However later legislation in English Parliament left them unable to carry out the secession. \n\nWA contributes to 46% of Australias export revenue and as such with their distance and size compared to the rest of Australia the secessionist conversation has remained relevant even up to this day, with them feeling they could do just fine on their own.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d348o3","text":"Paintball!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"What a load of absolute shite. What Marles said is consistent with Australia\u2019s position for years. The SCS is a massive global trade route and China militarising it is an issue for everyone.\n\nUnilaterally cutting all trade would of course damage Australia - but it would also do a lot of damage to the Chinese economy. China tried its economic coercion campaign and all it did was demonstrate Australia\u2019s economic resilience and ability to diversify markets.\n\nThe raw imports China gets from Australia are essential to China\u2019s economy (which is struggling) - they cannot quickly substitute the proximity and scale of iron ore, coal, gas, lithium etc that they get from Australia.\n\nAll this cheerleading for China makes me want to throw up. Australia should absolutely be making its position on these matters clear - all this does is prove how sensitive China is on these matters.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czih0z","text":"Certificate in concreting","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwhypl","text":"Ideally, they shouldn't get it because they don't need it, but the changes to stage 3 dwarf $300 for high-income households anyway. Swings and roundabouts, etc.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gipl","text":"Is there an off leash area in St Kilda Beach?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4czup","text":"I\u2019m in Sydney and there\u2019s quite a difference in the walkability and public transport of different areas here. But you\u2019d definitely find a bunch of areas that\u2019d fit all your criteria!\n\nFeel free to message me if you\u2019d like (although I\u2019m not as knowledgeable as most locals)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4ny77","text":"Are you doing the stalking then? Or some sort of criminal activity?\n\nBecause you could just pay a homeless dude $100 to set it up under there name .. then it's untraceable","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2x52g","text":"Had my plastic license for 18 months. Still hasn't glitched or run out of batteries.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2j2oj","text":"I've used [dungeonlabs.com.au]( they printed a custom miniature for me.\n\nWhat is it you are printing?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czv2em","text":"Bring lotsa cash cos our dollar rate sux and everything is OVERPRICED. Good luck.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4hwzs","text":"Too many commercial properties have been sitting empty in City of Port Phillip, with new ones being vacated all the time. Dropping the asking rents on these properties would impact their perceived value (which is probably tied to loans) and potentially drive down rents on existing properties at the end of a lease.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2zpxm","text":"Yeah, that's what I looked at and thought.  Mid-morning out of Avalon, and if there is an issue there should be enough time to sort the next flight out.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4k9fe","text":"Thanks dude, will look into them.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5kce4","text":">\u00a0\u00a0It can't be that much different from sitting in a fluorescently lit office all day though and not getting any daylight except 10 minutes during lunch.\u00a0\n\n\nAre you speaking from experience? Because if you aren't - imagine piercing light(s) you can't switch off, on camera, migraines, blurred vision, loss of equilibrium and balance. It fucks with your senses and feels invasive. An assault on your senses.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctqtgq","text":"Agree to disagree that they are aligned. It's like saying captlism and crony captlism are same thing but actually are very much the opposite in principles.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5vino","text":"Having been proven correct with respect of the actual jus cogens offences at play in this war (CAH, war crimes) and being told by very, *very* Online people how I was wrong at it was all the fashionable crime starting with G - which the ICC neglected to indict upon, suggesting jews I mean AKSHULLY zionists! do control the world - I'm really keen to see how my international law major stacks up against people who have a Bachelor's in TikTokPoliSci from Reddit University!\n\nConceptually, the idea that no state's leaders can be immune to prosecution from *jus cogens* offences is one that, even in spite of the views of some states like China and the US, holds water. We have agreed that in customary international law and through some treaty law, that no state is permitted to derogate from the peremptory norms of international law - which, in lay speak, means no state can justify one of these crimes by saying that the sovereign state made it legal. The sovereign state cannot make it legal, which is the main reason why America struggles with the concept, because of their own take on Constitutional jurisprudence. The ICC sought, in a sense, to manage this by targeting individuals (the ICJ focuses on disputes between states) because generally one or more senior figures in a group or regime are responsible for the policy that leads to these crimes. Entire semesters on international legal jurisdictional theory was devoted to how the US views, and makes use of, the different types of jurisdiction in international law.\n\nSo we're getting to the intersection of the practice and the theory. In practice, the US also raised the prospect of misuse of the court's authority on political grounds, where the politics of statecraft get in the way and the court becomes a blunt instrument of vengeance, not justice. The way the ICC handled this does give that complaint some credit. For one; in trying to give an appearance of balance, Prosecutor Khan made a false equivalence by inferring that the leaders of a radical terrorist group are equal to leaders of a democratically elected state. As flawed as those leaders are, it is a gross violation of protocol to give them false equivalence and pandered *entirely* to politics in doing so. The calculus was that the pressure would be less to defy convention and equate the two than issue warrants for the likes of Mohammed Deif and Yayha Sinwar first and incur the wrath of the useful idiocy movement.\n\nThe ICC's investigators were also due to meet with officials from the government of Israel, as part of their investigations. It was arranged and never followed through on. Under the ICC charter, if a state is investigating its own for the commission of a jus cogens offence, then the ICC will defer any acts until such a time as the investigation was over. It is of course, doubtful to the point of fantasy to believe Israel would self-investigate on these grounds - but a court like this *must* be strict in its observing of protocol, if it is to have legitimacy in any meaningful sense. The US, Russia, and China all already are in opposition to the concept, which is 60% of the Permanent members of the UN Security Council. International cooperation has died for less (see also: League of Nations, and US non-involvement).\n\nThis brings us to Australia. The opt-out clause Dutton refers to exists for the US, and this situation - though it's hard to see Bibi coming here. It should exist. Dutton, on a diplomatic front, is right to suggest we avail ourselves of it. But there's a wider argument, which Dutton is missing, and that's not the first time I've had to say this about the LOTO.\n\nIsrael is right to view this war as an existential crisis. It is right to view 7 October as unacceptable. It is right to view the legions of useful morons parroting HAMAS talking points and confidently saying they're too smart for propaganda, as an existential threat as the rhetoric only gets more and more aligned to radical Islamic views of Jewish people. \n\nIt is **not** right, however, to carry out collective punishment under international law.\n\nAustralia's correct path has been trodden by the Albanese government, despite unhelpful, performative, and stupid opposition from the Liberals and Greens alike. Reaffirm ally status with Israel. Ask Israel to observe its international obligations at law. Hold it to account as we would *any* liberal democracy that falls short of the standards, whilst also worshipping at the altar of Moynihan's Law as our left so ably does. **But also suggest that where the ICC is concerned, the legal case is valid and that Australia will only ever consider extraditing** ***after*** **Mohammed Deif, Yiyha Sinwar, and Mohammed al Masri have been locked up in den Haag.** \n\nThere is less pressure on Qatar to hand these billionaire religious racists over, these cowards who make America's Koch brothers look lovely and secular. That has to change, and if Israeli leaders are tried where HAMAS leaders are not, it makes a mockery of the whole system. Saying as such should be without controversy.\n\nSo, like many things, Dutton is a little bit right, but it's purely by accident; he doesn't know why or how, and it's grossly offset by how wrong he is too.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxlqov","text":"You get what you pay for. Renewables are not significant enough in quantity or reliable enough to power the entire country. Places like California in the States have had to learn this the hard way as they moved too aggressively to renewables causing rolling blackouts in peak periods. Let's not repeat their mistake.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4r7ks","text":"I went into this knowing the answer and left doubting the f#ck out of myself.  I give up on interpreting Sunday.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5q1gh","text":"Adelaide - Port Noarlunga is an mid-outer suburb, 40 minutes to the city by train. Has beach and reef right there. Reasonably cool in winter tho'","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d421d6","text":"To be blunt have you taken a shit? Are you constipated? Drinking Soy milk and eating no fibre or veg or protein is a sure way to wreck your gut. If you haven\u2019t seen a gp why would you assume it\u2019s for a specialist to look at. It\u2019s approx $40 after medicare. Pay it, no brainer. \n\n*note* Not sure why people are suggesting for you to go to ER it\u2019s not a solution to someone who doesn\u2019t want to pay for a gp and who is saying they don\u2019t eat for days and smoke (how can you afford to smoke then?)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d305e2","text":"Most of the kids who got 201 all hate each other tho","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4hkgy","text":"there\u2019s plenty of subs that can help you with advice. also facebook groups are shockingly helpful too. search for key words trans\/ftm\/transmasc ect","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz9h1f","text":"Oysters. And no, I don\u2019t care about how you could eat 2 dozen of them right now.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2g00p","text":"Tesla drivers are not just that, but they are also pissed off idiots because the price has dropped by another 20%.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5fwz9","text":"I drive past it every day. All I gotta do is stop for a couple of minutes lol!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2z0b3","text":"Doctors can and do accept gifts. Bottles of wine or a cake are commonplace.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4jcta","text":"If the slabs are squeaking, I\u2019d say the house was built on an old burial ground and you should consider an exorcist.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ime1","text":"Tell me you\u2019ve never been anywhere with actual bad public transport, without sayin it\u2026.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cye52b","text":">Kind of makes sense why Coal (Eraring) is being extended, we're doubling down on gas & the LNP is wanting legislation changed so that private enterprise can consider the viability of nuclear.\n\nDoes the AFR know its actually not illegal for private enterprise to consider and cost nuclear?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0n6f8","text":"The Federal Government will s doing precisely nothing about the \u2018transition\u2019 except hope and pray that private investment will solve the problem.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3t5mt","text":"Lots of charcoal chicken shops are now gas. Most of them actually- so if you\u2019re looking for OG charcoal that\u2019s where it\u2019s at or Westall charcoal chicken","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp0hp3","text":"Agreed. It also allows literally every other political party to re-use a coalition slogan from the Voice campaign:  \n\n\"If you don't know [where the nuclear power plants will be built], vote no.\"","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2fobc","text":"If you're looking to buy a big appliance I highly recommend a Choice membership. They've tested so many products and give you excellent ratings, pros and cons. The $25 you pay is worth it for what you end up saving in time spent researching! [","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyee7t","text":"Thank you very much to all the green eco warriors. Like they were told a million times; changing a grid which has been built over a century is no easy feat. Instead of incentivising the private sector the heavy hand of government has tried to tell us our power mix at a certain date in the future and failed. \n\nNow as a state we have to provide a profit guarantee to coal plant operators to make sure we don\u2019t end up in rolling black outs next summer.\n\nEntirely predicted and ignored from the start by the green energy lobby","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d36p9f","text":"Really surprised Coffs and Port Macquarie haven't taken off more. Good weather and between Brisbane and Sydney.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1ngrk","text":"If you are interested in upskilling, some TAFE courses can be free for you, judging by your age and low income.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36g27","text":"Well done Editor","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d59lcc","text":"Luckier than many others, that's for sure","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4y0co","text":"They're all the same. They don't do shit. They just resell power and skim off the top. OVO gave me $50\/momth for my business power and don't skim as much so they're the best. At the moment.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5yvdq","text":"I recommend Tom Toon Thai at 241 Victoria St Abbotsford. Its food has all the richness of Isarn","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d07lhu","text":"Better than the Beyonc\u00e9 country album.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cupgad","text":"And this week\u2019s #8 special edition of fuck around and find out.\nLet me find my violin","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d23h6l","text":"Probably because it doesn't work.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d35hu3","text":"\u201cI wanna say hi to the girl sitting upstairs near the exit on the 7.40am train to Central\u2026 I thought your eyes are really cute. I\u2019m the guy in the green shirt who couldn\u2019t stop staring\u2026 same time tomorrow?\u201d\n\nThe column was always my fav bit.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4s9l5","text":"Yes, I have been eating 65kg of grass per day.\n\nIn all seriousness, my slow cooker has been working overtime. Beef cheek, lamb ragu, vege soup, etc. \n\nI feel you. Also, I look forward to winter for this very reason. Freezing my balls off, putting on the uggs, cuppa, a movie.\n\nColour me cozy.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36j3j","text":"I will admit I have pissed in a former PMs final resting place. \n\nHarold Holt.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5klqx","text":"People don't care about rugby. Especially whatever Rugby this is","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d639bm","text":"Accept it, sell it and buy something else.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d10p0r","text":"By never telling us where she's from!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wvb9","text":"Australia needs a battery industry so we have slogans and announcements and subsidies. White coats and high viz and of course Pocock seeking relevancy where what is his business and technical background.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d639g5","text":"From my point of view, there is absolutely nothing appealing about Texas\u2026 or the rest of the USA.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qq3b","text":"She only has nine investment properties. Is something concerned for her cost of living.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d43it3","text":"Heard its a progressive city, vibrant and with a good society","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5j03x","text":"Once bins are on the curb it\u2019s legal to put stuff in them. So just wait for bin night to do it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1rxsp","text":"Wet + mold.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxv5kt","text":"This is a classic Liberals move.\n\nPull one single populist lever as if it\u2019s going to be a magic economic bullet, then when it doesn\u2019t work because it\u2019s never that simple, the stage is set to blame Labor for it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3wwhk","text":"Nothing I love more than people knowing and using their consumer rights to hold big companies accountable","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czcrzr","text":"No, I don't watch media that shows ads.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4wbf1","text":"My partner's Jetstar flight back to me just got cancelled  I knew Jetstar was prone to last minute no reasoning cancellations, but it's still disappointing. Do pilots last minute call in sick or something? They still never compensated me when I was forced to stay another night in Brissy in 2022, and I was calling monthly back then asking for at least a hotel compensation :')\n\nFUCK YOU JETSTAR WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE DONUT FESTIVAL \n\nEdit: apparently Perth Airport is having a fuel shortage. But Jetstar ain't off yet MY hook yet. I'm never forgetting about my compensation you say you'll give every time but never do. >:(","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d25d2i","text":"I don\u2019t drive during the week, but Saturday mornings are horrible","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crcyya","text":"> Honestly they're not even trying to hide it anymore\n\nWho knows? These guys don't have real jobs for a reason...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz2gy8","text":"I thought that Queensland was already doing that? A friend's son, half-Brazilian, is already being frequently searched.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ct4epu","text":"That\u2019s not what the bill actually was though.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4k42f","text":"There\u2019s one that does this in surfers paradise turning onto cavil ave. It\u2019s an absolute fuck around on Friday and Saturday night when you got 50 people crossing and cars backed all the way down the road","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3cwsb","text":"Anyone know if the bathrooms at the Sofitel are still accessible? Haven\u2019t been in years but recall they limited access during the COVID years.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gnlt","text":"Wtf 7$ muffin and 1$ to heat up haha. The owner is living life hahaha","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0n6f8","text":"Isn\u2019t this the \u201cmarket at work\u201d?\n\nHigher prices = a signal for investors to come in with supply? \n\nYou know, Adam Smith and all that. Capitalism. The Animal Spirt?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d10jja","text":"It's always been evenings for me, but I'm not a morning person generally. Feels like the best way to wind down at the tail end of the day, wash away the stress, and then get cosy and relax before bed.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3bok9","text":"Look at the job you want, go on LinkedIn and find people who do that job. Look at their work history and find the starting point.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3cwsb","text":"Might have to make a roast in the work ovens next week.\n\n[","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cv8lu9","text":"I\u2019m sure that\u2019s exactly what he had in mind.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0s25i","text":"Please attempt to stay on topic and avoid derailing threads into unrelated territory. \n\nWhile it can be productive to discuss parallels, egregious whataboutisms or other subject changes will be in breach of this rule - to be judged at the discretion of the moderators.\n\nThis has been a default message, any moderator notes on this removal will come after this:\n\nMy dude, a fairly tactless whataboutism there that's actually off-topic.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2k60e","text":"Absolutely stuffed a job interview yesterday. Not feeling great.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d60hbf","text":"Unless I\u2019m drinking hooch out of a steel toilet, I\u2019m not interested at all.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4q10g","text":"Was a bit more than a standard car crash. Stolen vehicle involved and driver of that vehicle arrested.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d66324","text":"My local Coles always packs our bags.\n\nHowever today we did click and collect which I haven\u2019t done a click and collect in ages. During Covid they made you purchase bags for every order. Today I did an order and selected no bags expecting to have to pack the items into our bags at the boot of my car and the lady who came out offered to do it for me.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3xmly","text":"Medical doctors have told me they are leaving and where they are going. I don\u2019t think there is a law against it. Some places do have policies\/ contracts that do not allow poaching of clients for a certain period.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5jmmm","text":"All good.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4j6lo","text":"Hi there. This is The Melbourne Clinic (Dr Pradeepa\u2019s Clinic) rates from last year.\n\nI note that I was diagnosed with ADHD. I saw Dr Malvenna. \n \n> Accounts are settled on the day of consultation. Payment may be made by credit card, debit card or Cash. Medicare benefits are processed through a practice computer program. A cancellation fee of $150.00 will be applied if notice is not given prior to 24 hours of the day of the appointment.\n \n \n> Our fees are:\n \n\u2022       First appointment $600 with Medicare benefit of $237.45\n \n\u2022       If subsequent appointment is 45 minutes: $320 with Medicare benefit of $167.55\n \n\u2022       If subsequent appointment is 30 minutes: $ 270 with Medicare benefit of $121.40\n \n\u2022       If subsequent appointment is 15 minutes: $ 180 with Medicare benefit of $78.85","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp0296","text":"Imagine still standing with Dan when even Adelaide is taking the piss. Next it will be Tassie ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cx2i9u","text":">Nothing in your quotes supports that staement.\n\nWhy is this an issue even mentioning in the article then if that is rye case?\n\n>Moreover, as overseas student numbers are cut back, eventually that will start to affect students studying in key skill shortage areas such as health and aged care, education, engineering and IT. Once again, that may be something Dutton is not fussed about.\n\nIf they all leave as you ssert, then the affect of students studying in key shortage areas is a moot point, they leave with that skill anyway.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d16xvt","text":"Next to none due to the 6 month per employer limitation \n\nThat's what the visa is designed for - funding your holiday with seasonal \/ temporary \/ casual work, not a permanent job that an Aussie would want","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctvihi","text":"10 bucks says this guys is over 60","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ct8xos","text":"Only a people with 'persecutorial delusions' think the freedom of someone else is a call for their own extermination.\n\nDutton is obviously the closest thing to a terrorist in parliament, not someone condemning genocide and supporting protesters.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3n0qc","text":"The idiots will have no real idea of what it represents. They're just picking up on the fact that it's some sort of flag of rebellion and they probably also like the Dukes of Hazard.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5yvdq","text":"Ranong Town, Dorset rd Ferntree Gully.\nNothing is dulled down. \nA converted old milk bar, it's basic but brilliant.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpqqgf","text":"Is it a crisis when the large majority of the population aren't affected, except for the \"problem\" of having more equity","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cql8oq","text":"I'm not sure the international labour laws intend this kind of specific cuntery, but ok. \n\nAlso, the threatening people on site, that's ok too?\n\nCan't wait for the CFMEU to feel sufficiently emboldened to return to making people disappear to get their way, so anti-intellectual PINOs can clap at the 'justice' of it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czkzax","text":"Protein and veg is always really easy, usually some boiled veggies (only long enough they're hot but still crunchy and nice lol), and sweet potato mash. If I feel like going a bit unhealthier I bake the veggies after tossing them in garlic olive oil and seasonings, this works well for me because I can't eat actual garlic due to an intolerance but I can have the oil lol. \n\nRed lentil Dahl or other curry with brown rice; stir fry (teriyaki, ssamjang etc) with either brown rice or wholemeal noodles, protein and fresh veg; spaghetti with added veg and wholemeal pasta; salmon in the air fryer served on brown rice with wilted spinach and fresh veg; nachos with turkey mince, beans and veg with a huge amount of avo lol etc\n\nI'm not a great cook so there's a lot of repeating tbh lol","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0oce5","text":"Gonna have to propose some actual policies to reduce the impacts of climate change then, which I highly doubt\u2026","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvgxg1","text":"It is a difficult one. Could they have done more? Certainly. But when they proposed do some more major reforms going into the 2019 election they lost. I think more major reforms will come if they secure a second term. If they had done anything too drastic they almost certainly would have lost the next election and then you have the LNP unwinding everything and then some. I also think us younger generations have unrealistic expectations given we live in a democracy. Everyone is pro doing things to help younger generations until it hits their own pocket. Even those in their late 30s and 40s might start to change their tune once the trillions of inheritance start to roll in.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ox26","text":"Hakata Gensuke is pretty hard to beat IMO","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwyvpm","text":"This is not unique to just Australia, it seems ever country that has an indigenous population are expected to follow the UN directive.   \nTruthfully, its a UN lead agenda that has mandates that must be implemented.  This is evident by the fact it was vote 60 \/ 40 NO and the the states are still trying to implement it. The agenda is still being pushed ahead regardless.   \nThe question is not what is on it for the government or the indigenous people of the world but what is in it for the UN.  \nWhat is the ultimate goal ? how is this going to balance the scale of justice, how is this going to make the wrongs right ? How is this going to distribute the world wealth?   \nAll you have to do is see how Palestine and Israel issues started...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctsmdx","text":">Dutton blaming immigrants for life\u2019s problems is as predictable as day becoming night\n\nWhat I find amusing with this response, correct as it is, is how many posts in r\/australia and in here do exactly that - blame immigration for our cost of living and housing issues.\n\nBut because Dutton said it, now it's wrong...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3stts","text":"Joking joking. Should have said that.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d23xgh","text":"Australians have the memories of goldfish.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctv2cf","text":"Worth noting that Liberal \/ National seats are way more likely to be chock full of nimbys with money and free time to organise against major projects.\u00a0\n\nMuch easier to build new rail in the inner west than it is in the northern beaches.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3tjx3","text":"When they're recovered and ready we will make sure to find them the best home ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d38xk0","text":"Will do ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctwdgh","text":"Interesting to note that under Menzies the top tax rate was 67%. \n\nHe was a Keynesian. Meaning he used government spending to maintain full employment. When inflation increased he raised taxes to reduce it. \nWhen inflation was low; government spending was used to lower unemployment. \n\nQuite high tariffs were used to protect Australian industry and agriculture from foreign competition and to allow domestic wages to not have to compete with foreign workers. \n\nAlso another discordant note. He boasted about building even more public housing than the Curtin government. It was a key policy in ensuring as many people owned a home as possible. \n\nHe doesn\u2019t seem to have a descendant in any recent leader of the liberal party.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d61bgb","text":"When will the internet stop being racist? Is that really your question?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6at9h","text":"Thanks","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4msni","text":"I work with people in the justice system. Sometimes if the cops cannot ascertain who dealt the lethal act (or there is more than one potentially lethal act) then everyone gets charged with murder\/manslaughter. I even saw a case where someone was charged with murder and when they weren't even present at the crime scene because they had helped plan the offence which resulted in the person getting killed. That person got convicted of manslaughter instead by the jury who had discretion to find that as an alternative to murder. \n\nScary part - sometimes the wrong person gets thrown under the bus. Saw a case where someone was charged with GBH after an affray where all his mates said it was him who kicked the victim's head in. Totally by accident someone provided footage showing that guy standing to the side looking drunk off his arse while the while scene went on around him and he didn't throw a single punch. His \"mates\" were going to send him down for like 5-10 years.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5gnp3","text":"It's unlikely you will find anyone from the Harvey Norman generation on this forum. \n\nProbably best to ask this question to facebook if you want a balanced response. \n\nIkea, Harvey Norman is trash.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d35hu3","text":"Yes! Man, I've missed it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxs4er","text":"They failed young Australians before they were born, the moment governments turned to immigration for the illusion of endless growth.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0skc8","text":"I often use,in my skyrocket,on the dog and bone,and get that down your Gregory.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2z0b3","text":"I made a reservation at a fancy restaurant for our anniversary. But I never told them it was for an anniversary, nor did I bring a cake or any other clue it was for an anniversary. At some point during the evening the staff picked up that we were there for our anniversary and we received complimentary champagne and a plate of chocolates with Happy Anniversary written in chocolate. So I gave our waiter a tip. That\u2019s the only time I\u2019ve tipped.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cptts3","text":"This grub is knee-deep in stealing from the people he is being paid to look after. Another $24M here \n\n","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csf5w3","text":"Paywall\n\nThe NSW Coalition\u2019s most senior law officer, Alister Henskens, has been accused of displaying a \u201cdereliction of duty\u201d after he tried to rush new domestic violence bail laws through the state parliament before even reading the bill.\n\nIn an extraordinary move, Henskens wanted to suspend standing orders so the Minns government\u2019s new laws, which include the removal of the presumption of bail for serious domestic violence offenders, would pass without consultation.\n\nThe changes follow a string of high-profile alleged domestic violence offences, including the death of Forbes woman Molly Ticehurst last month.\n\nShadow attorney-general Alister Henskens said the Coalition wanted new bail laws to pass parliament by Thursday.\nShadow attorney-general Alister Henskens said the Coalition wanted new bail laws to pass parliament by Thursday.Credit: Louise Kennerley\n\nThe bill had not yet been tabled to parliament when Henskens, the shadow attorney-general, argued that there was no time to waste in toughening bail laws. He later said he had seen the government\u2019s press release outlining the changes and knew the bill would not be controversial or lengthy.\n\nHenskens said the laws had been modelled on a bill proposed by the Coalition, and the shadow cabinet had agreed to support Labor\u2019s laws.\n\nHowever, Henskens\u2019 push failed when Sydney MP Alex Greenwich and Greens MP for Newtown Jenny Leong delivered a blistering attack.\n\nGreenwich said he had been in parliament for \u201cfive premiers, five leaders of the opposition and four different parliaments\u201d, and he had never seen a proposal with \u201csuch disrespect to stakeholders in this space\u201d.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a greater dereliction of duty of an opposition to not even look at a bill, or greater disrespect for stakeholders to say you don\u2019t want to consult with them,\u201d Greenwich said.\n\u201cThey want to rubber stamp something they haven\u2019t ever seen. But let me say this to the stakeholders and those concerned: if the opposition are going to abrogate their responsibility in this space, the crossbench will pick it up.\u201d\n\nLeong said the former Coalition government had 12 years to improve domestic violence rates but did little to increase vital funding for emergency measures, such as shelters for women fleeing partners.\n\nShe said Henskens\u2019 attempts to ram through the bill smacked of \u201crelevance deprivation\u201d.\n\nLeader of the House Ron Hoenig said it was completely reckless of the Coalition to push through the laws without having any idea of what they said.\n\n\u201cThe bill could be to abolish the Liberal Party,\u201d Hoenig said.\nAttorney-General Michael Daley told parliament that the NSW Police Force had requested time to ensure that \u201call their systems and officers are ready to implement these changes across the state\u201d.\nDomestic violence support groups, including Say No to Violence, had also asked that the new laws be \u201cconsidered properly\u201d before being passed.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Minns government announced a series of sweeping changes designed to make it harder for men accused of serious domestic violence offences to be released back into the community.\nAt the centre of the package is a reversal of the presumption of bail against men accused of serious domestic violence offences, which includes intimate partner violence involving elements such as sexual assault, strangulation, kidnapping or coercive control.\n\nThere will also be changes that will allow bail decisions on serious domestic violence offences to be delayed while prosecutors appeal an offender\u2019s release in the Supreme Court.\n\nA requirement for magistrates and judges to consider \u201cred flag\u201d behaviour such as animal cruelty, stalking and verbal or physical abuse when considering bail will be introduced, while courts will need to consider the views of victims and their families.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cx48pw","text":"Rupert Murdoch can SMD. By 'let them be kids', what he should be saying is that we should have all the tech giant apps. If it gets passed, I'm a British dual citizen and I'm gonna put my citizenship to good use.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2i1cj","text":"Cartel del taco near prahran train station does a good Birria taco with lots of fillings , it\u2019s hit as hell though so only go if you like spicy  and try the \u2018elote loco bowl\u2019 for something not from this world, it\u2019s like cheetos and melted cheese with corn","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4fl4d","text":"I've only really seen it from lazy journalists trying to engagement farm over coffee or university rankings \n\n\n(I'm in Melbourne)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4r1os","text":"Ringlewood always up to no good\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cv763i","text":"[National Farmers\u2019 Federation passes vote of no-confidence in Albanese government | Sky News Australia](","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d65lni","text":"You cannot appeal a ticket on the grounds of \u2018I didn\u2019t see the sign.\u2019 I wouldn\u2019t even waste time trying that approach. Ask for a payment plan.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d08rxp","text":"Maybe her pearl clutching, rich-lady, offer nothing, Karen schtick wasn't attractive to the base?\n\nSad for the LNP really because that's the only type of women they have left. Maybe she should have voted for female rep quotas in the LNP after all (leopards \/ faces).","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d51qif","text":"No - [here's a story why not]( It's a small chance, but the consequences are devastating (He came off his skateboard, hit his head on the curb, traumatic brain injury).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d25xi7","text":"It's funny because the legacy media pushed Labor right and made space for Greens to get mainstream support. Now that same legacy media are denying reality that Australians want an alternative to the housing lobby to vote for.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d504p8","text":"Not sure what you expect from Reddit on this - everyone will have different experiences. Demand for IT workers in AU FEELS (completely subjective) higher than many places in the world right now, but not as high as it used to be for sure, and the market for grads with no experience will be difficult regardless.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cveo31","text":"A private consulting firm handed almost $10 million in aged-care contracts has left providers and the federal government embarrassed after it disabled websites built with taxpayer money, delivered a 13-page final report and issued legal threats.\n\nThe saga of Miles Morgan Australia\u2019s involvement in the \u201cFuture Fit\u201d turnaround project for Meals on Wheels is emblematic of a broader crisis in aged care, where departmental officials and ministers throw money at the private sector hoping to fix a social problem.\n\nIt is also a cautionary tale in contract management that has earnt the attention of the acting auditor-general, Rona Mellor.\n\nMiles Morgan Australia (MMA) is a boutique consulting and research services firm that was owned and operated out of Western Australia from 2012 by Barbara Macnish, a signatory to the first two contracts under the Future Fit program alongside her then chief executive officer, Lakshman Gunaratnam, a former Deloitte Australia partner.\n\nMacnish sold the business to Gunaratnam just days after the second contract was signed in December 2022 and he took control as sole director four days before Christmas that year.\n\nTogether with former Labor adviser Loire Hunter, Gunaratnam owns the company through another vehicle, Leveraged Pty Ltd.\n\nMiles Morgan Australia\u2019s involvement with Meals on Wheels began in May 2021, when the Morrison government announced changes to the Commonwealth Home Support Program that would eventually combine lower-level care with more intensive care in a new category called the Support at Home Program.\n\nMeals on Wheels Australia was approached by MMA with the offer of pro bono advice and the two outfits worked together on a business transformation funding proposal for the national peak body of Meals on Wheels providers. Meals on Wheels Australia had asked the Department of Health and Aged Care for $5.5 million.\n\nThe government approved but, without the knowledge of Meals on Wheels Australia, the department recommended to then aged care services minister Richard Colbeck that it should give the money directly to MMA because it had already been working with the meals network, had \u201ca deep understanding\u201d of the needs and a \u201cstrong working relationship with the Department\u201d.\n\n\u201cThis puts MMA in a unique position to deliver on the Department\u2019s requirements,\u201d the submission prepared for Colbeck says.\n\n\u201cThis procurement was through a direct approach (one supplier) of MMA under an existing panel arrangement.\u201d\n\nDespite this plain fact in the ministerial submission, which was not public information until it was ordered to be tabled in the senate by Greens Senator Janet Rice, the contract notice for the $5.5 million first phase of MMA work still states the process was conducted as an \u201copen tender\u201d.\n\nThat contract was later revised up to more than $7 million. The Saturday Paper is not suggesting that MMA or any of its directors have acted improperly in discharging their obligations under the federal government contract.\n\nWithin months of winning the contract, MMA decided Meals on Wheels Australia did not have the \u201ccapability\u201d for the transformation work and the national body was sidelined. Instead, some state associations were chosen to participate.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0skc8","text":"So many of these are familiar, I hear them in Dad's voice too.\n\nHe used to complain about having too much shrapnel in his train smash, weighing down his sky rocket and mucking up his bag of fruit.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5cns8","text":"I always carry paper maps here in the States too, if they are available. Not sure if paper hiking maps are such a big thing in Aus give. How expansive and vast your country is. Any map brands you recommend for Australian National Parks, and other popular-ish hiking areas? Thankyou!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4s9l5","text":"I'm doing more indoor exercise.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2azzc","text":"Northcote Aquatic is great, if that's not too far. They have indoor and outdoor (heated) lap pools and you can book a lane online. And a shiny new gym.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czv2em","text":"A teeny weenie polka dot bikini and a hat.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpr67f","text":"Not even close to a \"biggest industry\".","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxm9w3","text":"**Anthony Carbines is under fire after admitting to being confused by a line of questioning, which has drawn criticism that he is \u201ceither totally incompetent or intentionally misleading parliament\u201d.**\u201c\n\nPolice minister Anthony Carbines has been forced to admit he misled parliament amid the\u00a0[worsening police pay crisis.](\n\nIn what is threatening to \u00adbecome the biggest schism \u00adbetween the force and the state in more than a decade, Victoria Police remains locked in a\u00a0[bitter stalemate with the Police Association](\u00a0over a push to \u00adintroduce nine-hour shifts for frontline officers.\n\nAppearing before a parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday, Mr Carbines emphatically denied being a signatory to a deed between the state government, Victoria Police and the Police Association of Victoria, in which they agreed to implement the new rostering model, which would also see officers work nine-day fortnights, providing it didn\u2019t incur \u00adadditional costs or require extra resources.\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019ll find my signature on pieces of paper that relate to the parties, being Victoria Police and the Police Association, they are the parties to the deed, an agreement to commit themselves to work on these matters with the assistance and the leadership of the mediator,\u201d Mr Carbines said.\n\n\u201cThat process continues and while that process is under way, it\u2019s not appropriate for the government or minister to intervene or interfere.\u201d\n\nBut the state government later confirmed Mr Carbines had indeed signed the deed on December 20 last year, a day after the Police Association \u00adannounced a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d.\n\nMr Carbines later admitted to being confused by the line of questioning by Nationals MP Danny O\u2019Brien, a veteran of the public accounts and estimates committee probing this month\u2019s state budget.\n\nMr O\u2019Brien said the police pay deal was critical to the committee\u2019s work because Chief Commissioner Shane Patton, who is vehemently opposed to the introduction of nine-hour shifts, has claimed it would add $3bn to the force\u2019s annual wages bill.\n\nHe has also warned it would force the closure of police stations and take up to 2400 police off the beat and undermine community safety \u2013 a claim vehemently denied by the police union.\n\n\u201cThe impression I was getting from the question that was being asked was that somehow signing the deed was determining the outcome, or obliging parties on the way in which they had to negotiate,\u201d Mr Carbines said.\n\n\u201cThe deed simply sets the parameters through which the parties have agreed to have a dialogue and a discussion, it was certainly not a task for me to sign a deed that directs or confirms the way in which this enterprise agreement has to be determined.\u201d Shadow police minister Brad Battin slammed Mr Carbines, who is also Minister for Racing. \u201cWhen you have a minister more focused on horse racing than police, of course he can\u2019t explain his mistakes,\u201d he said. \u201cAnthony Carbines is either totally incompetent, or intentionally misleading parliament. Either way, he is failing those he pretends to represent.\u201d","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0n6f8","text":">30+ years of under investment in replacing tired power capacity?\n\nWhy invest money when profits are at stake?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d06cd8","text":"Pubs around my area banned those all-red shoes that eshays sometimes wear now. I think it's an alright policy I've never met anyone wearing them who wasn't a fuckwit.\n\nIf you like the pubs just try some other nikes? In my experience most of them are pretty comfy. Ignore all the sad cunts, idk why everyone is so pissed off about a reformed eshay who still likes his shoes","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cx2znc","text":"Yeah it blew out to 3x what it was budgeted for. Who wouldve thought giving people free cash to reovate their house would dry up resources for new builds...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d28q90","text":"Good to know!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4fl4d","text":"I assure you Sydneysiders spend more time worrying about the cost of housing than \u2018Melbourne\u2019.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5fqvb","text":"Please look up what life insurance is","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2fira","text":"They talk about it at school. I'm guessing you skipped that class?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d29y55","text":"Comics lounge in North Melbourne is great","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cqv2nx","text":"> GRN 13.5 (+0.5)\n\nWinning","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6av4j","text":"The OP didn\u2019t want to dox themselves as a naan lover so deleted their profile ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2km3k","text":"They get about 5000 of the things for $500. \n\nI\u2019m no marketer but I would assume heaps of people end up chucking them on the fridge and then need a plumber someday. \n\nNot me though. I have a dedicated plumber and his magnet is already there holding up the menu of my local fish and chip joint.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2g5iz","text":"Anything is worth a try, but I hope they realise the Andrew Tate\u2019s of the world often fill a void that comes from the absence of good role models and positivity.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6d1u9","text":"I really just have anecdotes to add. But I've noticed there have been **a lot** of people off sick in the past few weeks at my job. People being off sick for long periods of time. There's definitely *something* going around at the moment. But I've not paid too much attention to it outside of that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d59r41","text":"I drink espresso so don\u2019t really have the issue with milk, but curious as to why Soy or Almond milk incurs a higher charge? For the most part Soy milk is non-perishable stock and could be purchased in higher quantities (perhaps at a discount) and stored because it has a longer shelf-life. \n\nI just did a quick scan and The Alternative Dairy Co. Barista Soy Milk which claims it is \u201cUniquely blended by coffee freaks and lab coat geeks for unparalleled taste and performance\u201d and has \u201cconsistent texturing and canvassing for perfect latte art\u201d costs $37.44 for 12 x 1 Litre cartons, so $3.12 per litre. \n\nA litre of full cream Dairy Farmers milk costs around $3.90 and could only be stored for a short period and may at some point need to be thrown away. Doesn\u2019t it make sense to then encourage people to choose Soy or Almond by milk by offering it at a lower price because in the long run the cafe saves money and isn\u2019t throwing away stock. \n\nPerhaps I\u2019m over simplifying it, but it seems obvious that if an inner-city cafe became known for selling soy, almond or oat milk lattes for $1-2 less than dairy milk lattes, it would attract more customers who want that kind of thing. I don\u2019t know what the balance of plant based versus dairy milk latte orders would be on any given day, perhaps the vast majority still seek dairy and non-dairy drinkers are still a minority but given the theme of these threads, it sounds like people would be willing to trek a few more blocks or even switch from dairy to plant based if they felt it was a reasonable deal and not too far beyond what a cup of coffee should cost. \n\nI will add a couple of caveats before angry cafe owners tell me I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about a) I DO NOT know what I am talking about and b) I have a machine at home, I load in the beans that I like, I push a button, it grinds them and espresso comes out, that\u2019s as complicated as my coffee existence gets, so I\u2019m definitely not a customer of yours and I don\u2019t really care what the cost of a coffee is. I\u2019m simply asking why Soy milk lattes incur an additional fee when it make sense to actually make them cheaper than dairy based lattes? I get that many moons ago Soy or Almond milk was probably a bit more exclusive but that\u2019s hardly the case now.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d63c4y","text":"> im sure most people here would agree thats how it is\n\nehhhh....\n\nSo firstly [97% of custody cases]( are settled outside of court.\n\nMothers get sole custody in 27% of cases, fathers 2%.\n\nSo even if courts were 100% in favor of mothers (they aren't) you still have 24% of separated fathers coming to an agreement to have 0% custody. \n\n3 times as many fathers (9%) give up the child and have zero visitation than take it to court.\n\nThe [courts give joint custody 45%]( and mother sole custody 40% of the time, fathers get sole custody 11% with \"other\" being the remainder.\n\nThe courts give fathers more custody than when they negotiate outside of court.... If you want to be in your kids life, fucking fight for it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"Confronted in the headline then the article says raised concerns. Now I don't have a masters in English but those two phrases are in conflict with each other. Abc do better.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czmt8g","text":"It's true that types of B12 supplements have cyanide in them, they are very low dose so pretty hard to over do it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d51qif","text":"As someone whose cousin has been in a waking coma for 20+ years, due to not wearing a helmet, riding a bike in Europe, wear the damned helmet. Less trouble than having severe traumatic brain injury.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4r9n1","text":"I think it is an ex pigeon\u2026","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cptts3","text":">\u201cHistorically, there can be a lack of stability in Aboriginal leadership. I wanted some assurance \u2026 I would have some stability for myself moving forward...\n\n\nHe's a salaried public official getting $438k and he almost got a multi million dollar ten percent stake in the indiginous mining operation. Bastard sacked the lawyer that exposed the dodgy mongrel.\n\n> \u201cWhat would my retirement situation look like?\u201d\n\nHow can the poor bugger afford to eat on only $438k?\n\n>The fact his wife, Sophy Liu, worked at one of these firms also raised a potential for conflicts of interest, \n\nYou can bet she's on a fat paypacket sitting back doing bugger-all\/nothing as a 'consultant', part of some backhanded deal he's got going.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5jc09","text":"Grew up in the tropical north. Melbourne winter really isn\u2019t that bad. Was even sat in the sun earlier today enjoying the warmth without having to think about sunburn.\n\nAlso, this absolutely is not a gendered thing. Melbourne just isn\u2019t cold enough for a lot of people to have to bundle up.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwv29h","text":"I still remember when the US was claiming it didn't want to extradite him from Sweden and people were saying he was a coward for not offering himself to the Swedish authorities.\n\n\nA decade later, after hiding out most of that time, the US are trying to extradite him. I guess he had valid reasons for not coming forward.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czmt8g","text":"Those concerned about the children, and *The Guardian* could meet in the middle and decide to ban social media entirely. *Especially* for *Guardian* writers.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cw9vcr","text":"Your post or comment was removed because it focused on the media. This is not a media watch subreddit. You are welcome to post it in the weekly thread.\n\nThis has been a default message, any moderator notes on this removal will come after this:","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3k5pj","text":"I paid just under $500 for three pairs of glasses - regular, reading, and sunnies, at Specsavers in November. That's including all the coatings, and lens thinning etc as well. I didn't think that was too bad for all of that.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0oce5","text":"Wont work while they have stupid policies and a backwards leader.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3a0uz","text":"Yes. It has to be an expensive brand so especially the young ones don't bother getting the right size because all that matters is the brand.\n\nTies are not a thing in AU. \n\nNo socks and leather shoes are a thing though so that you'll see a lot.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4nrgb","text":"Basically any beach that is famous or has a reputation,\n\nAnd I'm not trying to be a beach hipster it's just one beach is pretty much the same as the other here, there's like 8000 of them, 15% of those are probably really fucking good, and if you ever go to a famous beach and it's too crowded you can literally travel about ten minutes and there's going to be another that's not much different.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp0hp3","text":"So I wonder when they'll just start punching themselves in the face at press conferences. May as well save us all the stupidity we're going to hear over the next couple of years and get right to it","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d41rdv","text":"Office cleaning twice a week ..\nBrings in an extra $220\/week \nIt\u2019s cash in hand so I justify it by saying equivalent to a $15k pay increase to my day job (engineer)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz25nx","text":"Hi , I'm from Brisbane Queensland, I have visited Toowoomba on many occasions and it is not a good place to live in my opinion. I found the people rude and heard someone get racially abused twice in one day and many homophobic slurs also there is not much to do. Port Macquarie would be the best option if you love the beach. Bunbury would be the best option if you prefer a quieter place. :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4k6zi","text":"I\u2019m a medical patient\n\nUsually I take care not to medicate at least 12-24 hours before driving. Which means I literally cannot medicate during the week as I drive a lot for work. \n\nNo one should have to choose between their work or their health\n\nHaven\u2019t yet tested positive but it\u2019s only a matter of time, even tho I take care to drive unimpaired","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1cwy1","text":"Hilux and Rangers aren't even that big though, especially for country living. I get it might be bigger than your car but that's irrelevant. As for the tailgating, well sure, hate them for that.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d39ryx","text":"You ask \u201cIs it worth it?\u201d. That depends on what your ideal outcome is. Definitely report to Fair Work, but I\u2019ve had this happen (3-day trial, employer didn\u2019t pay) and I pursued it. I found out that was his modus operandi; he\u2019d get people in for \u2018trials\u2019 and boot them without pay, knowing most people will be shitty, but not do much about it.\n\nIf you hope to get paid, be prepared that it may not be easy. I note somebody else responded to go to the police\u2026 be prepared for the employer to lie and possibly accuse you of theft or something else. \n\nYou\u2019re best off getting proper advice from Fair Work and then deciding if it\u2019s worth it for you.\nBest of luck.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5abdi","text":"You can\u2019t just say the item is yours and was stolen, though. You have to have some kind of proof.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4hkgy","text":" Queerspace through Drummond St Services may be able to help. If you are under 25 they have a youth division too. They are based at the Victorian Pride Centre.\n\nQ+Law is a division of Fitzroy Legal Service that may be able to assist with some legal matters too, including name change and access to services. \n\nFeel free to DM me, 28 y\/o trans man who started hormones at 18, top surgery at 19, and never looked back.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3ekd7","text":"I\u2019m in Tassie. If you got an auto license you can\u2019t drive a manual until you either pass the P\u2019s test in a manual OR it\u2019s been a certain amount of time since you\u2019ve had your open license and you can get the auto condition removed (this is what I did, I got the condition removed in my early 20\u2019s).\u00a0\n\nNot sure about other states - the process will vary.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2awds","text":"Yeah, just like it used to be. Nothing more.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4qkqz","text":"Yeh fuck being a police officer.\nGet treated like shit from the public and from seniors.\n\nShit pay, shit conditions.\n\n\nPolice deserve epic money, but then that would attract the wrong people.\n\n\nI know a few officers and they are legends, the shit I hear is just mind blowing.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d44q9g","text":"Hey guys, can we have a brief heart to heart about sappy shit?\n\nHow many here have dreams and goals, whether its a dream career you've tried to chase or a goal that seems pretty damn evasive... How many of you peeps worked insanely hard to try and achieve it and fell flat?\n\nIf you have, how do you get over the feeling of failure without failing? Like, the whole \"what's the point\" kind of thing. I am having some struggles, although its not at that point yet, but its just feeling like i'm not going to achieve my goals any time soon and its been negatively affecting my mind a bit.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxpdgd","text":"Sorry yes, 2040. I think 20+ years for our first reactor would be realistic.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d31ykp","text":"I hope you've also catered for the amount that you'll need to save will only keep going up faster than our wages are as well? Your story is the same as so many others across the state and the fact that young folks and renters aren't marching on parliament and the RBA tells the powers that be that they can keep doing what they're doing. \"A generation that is disenfranchised but not yet destitute is primed for revolution,\" and sadly from what I've observed, many are already the latter.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3k6b7","text":"Make sure you check the school holiday schedule for each state you're going to be in, so you can try to avoid the crowds and higher accommodation costs","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1eojd","text":"Food disposals aka insinkerators.  We just don't have them.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czynj3","text":"What happened the last time an Australian PM made moves to decouple from the US (including Pine Gap)?\n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d66qny","text":"Right now, no.\n\nHowever, it would only be a few moments work to take associated images.\n\nAre there specific details you want to see?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4k42f","text":"That's common in all the cities I've been in , give way to pedestrians. Never seen a blinking orange arrow.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d34ad5","text":"Berry, small town big town vibes","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5wft9","text":"Everywhere i go, everyone has some sort of a cough right now. It\u2019s nasty","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cye52b","text":"No this is why, we need to divorce infrastructure from politics and let engineers make decisions rather than politicians. Every project, the big decisions are made by people with little to no-understanding of what they are deciding upon.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5j03x","text":"Call your local council and get them to do a mid week pick up. Will cost around $25","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d06cd8","text":"He's a white private school wanna be gangster. Couldn't be more cringe if he tried","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4q10g","text":"one of the people there said something about the driver jumping the lights and being intoxicated or on some drugs, looked p bad when I walked by","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyyfzp","text":"If they're older women then yeah very normal if they're dudes then absolutely not. Regardless you don't have to put up with it, I wouldn't.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3u21h","text":"I haven\u2019t been there in ages but want to check out that Joy exhibit. Is it good? \nThe immigration museum is totally underrated.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d35p9o","text":"Shorts and a t-shirt, when I was living in the UK I\u2019d only really put a long sleeve t-shirt on of it was snowing or raining and I\u2019d pair it with a waterproof running jacket.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d67m5c","text":"When I started driving in the late 90s I saw a lot more police on the roads, pulling people over for all sorts of reasons including just random breatho + roadworthy checks.\n\nI hardly ever see them around these days. But if they started pulling people over and issuing fines for driving with high beams on in inappropriate situations that might bring some serial offenders into line.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d68uab","text":"Hi there, I recommend you call both EastLink and CityLink to see if there\u2019s been any travel. If you have an eTag, check the account online and see what direction it\u2019s going in. Hopefully it\u2019s just a joyride and they dump it somewhere. Best of luck.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2d7ge","text":"It's not hard to get a plumber. What the Rea really means is they want to use their preferred\/cheapest plumber. They don't call around ..they just send it to their usual guy and the tenant is expected to wait so the landlord avoids paying for an emergency\/urgent call out. I had a situation recently ..called one plumber and they came out that day. The idea that there's not a single plumber to be found for days anywhere in Melbourne is just nonsense.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d63w7o","text":"My school, just Japanese. Did it all the way through","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d13itp","text":"There was a Bluey event in a Brisbane park yesterday. Bluey is the new Wiggles.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1j6ic","text":"I had a uni lecturer (white American-born \u201cartiste\u201d type) that would dramatise the acknowledgement of country so bad. \n\nShe\u2019d add all this extra emphasis and be like \u201cI really cannot, as an ALLY, reconcile STANDING HERE on THEIR LAND. It breaks my heart. I struggle with this every day.\u201d\n\nIt drove me crazy. I wanted to tell her to sell her house and quit her job, then promptly fly back to the US, if it was hitting her that hard.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4pzpv","text":"Omg thank you","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36ejb","text":"It's not about the game at all. This is the government's strategy to become closer culturally and politically to PNG. The aus governments worst nightmare is Chinese influence in PNG, especially if it means chinese military bases will be built right on our doorstep.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3ze8a","text":"Check these out \u2014 Farmer\u2019s Daughters, Flower Drum, The French Brasserie, The George, Marameo","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1nhyk","text":"36M and cut. I honestly see no problem with it having been done. I find the argument between cut and uncut is a very American argument personally and I see them bickering all the time about it. \n\nThat being said:\n\nPros: \n-Easier to keep clean\n-Not overly or under sensitive \n-Less chance for it to get caught on anything if I go commando\n-Phismosis is not a concern for me\n\nCons:\n-Looks dry compared to uncut\n-Being middle ground on sensitivity means you can still feel negative things \n-See above, then add in the textures of the wrong types of pants\n-More likely that if I get sweat pimples, they can form around and even at the tip at times.\n\nBoth sides of it have their ups and downs, but most women have told me they prefer cut because the idea of peeling back the skin to find something nasty beneath it due to the persons lack of hygiene is an ever present fear.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4mhl1","text":"Hectic morning, wasn\u2019t it ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"Australia is the biggest nanny state in the world.\n\nThey are more likely to make cycling licenses mandatory before removing helmet laws.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5f2t8","text":"Yes. The determiner for how good a school is is checking the ICSEA value. That is the socio-economic score of the students that attend. In general, the higher it is the better the school. \n\nIt's why the schools you see in the VCE honour roll at the end of the year are either private schools, public schools in rich areas or selective schools where parents have enough money to get their kid tutoring to pass the entrance exam.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d357ly","text":"This is a Seinfeld episode.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d39ehz","text":"NSW Liberal MP Julian Leeser has expressed alarm that a hung parliament at the next election could see the Greens making the \u201cunilateral recognition of a Palestinian state and the weakening of the Western alliance a price of government.\u201d\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Labor and the Coalition teamed up to oppose a Greens motion in the House of Representatives recognising the state of Palestine, with Mr Leeser telling The Australian after the vote that Labor needed to take key steps to distance itself from the minor party.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s time Labor stopped preferencing the Greens on their ballot paper,\u201d he said.\n\nMr Leeser expressed grave concern at the prospect of a hung parliament at the next election and the emergence of a Labor\/Greens coalition.\n\n\u201cIt is bad enough that Labor foreign policy is made on the floor of their national conference where they sell out one ally \u2013 Israel \u2013 to placate the Corbynites from attacking AUKUS,\u201d Mr Leeser told The Australian. \u201cBut how much worse would it be if Labor allowed the Greens to dictate our foreign policy as the price of government?\u201d \u201cThis is not an environmental party,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is party that is obsessed with Israel and Jews.\u201d\n\n\u2018What is Adam Bandt advocating for?\u2019: Labor MP questions Greens leader\u2019s announcement\n\nOnly five people supported the Greens motion, including the four lower house Greens MPs and Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie, while 80 MPs voted against it.\n\nSpeaking in support of his own motion in the House of Representatives, Mr Bandt said that recognition of Palestine was long overdue and was not \u201cjust a symbolic move.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt is a critical step towards peace and towards ending the slaughter we are seeing with the invasion of Gaza,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a concrete step towards peace.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs the Prime Minister of Norway said last week, there cannot be peace in the Middle East if there is no recognition.\u201d Mr Bandt said the \u201cscale of the slaughter and the genocide that we are witnessing is now topping 36,000 people.\u201d\n\n\u201cA health system has been destroyed. There are mass graves in hospitals. Aid has been blocked. Children are now dying because they do not have enough to eat or drink.\u201d\n\nHe warned that a \u201chuman engineered famine\u201d was now taking its toll on the civilian population in Gaza that \u201camounts to collective punishment of these people.\u201d\n\nMr Bandt said that Labor\u2019s credibility was also on the line, declaring that a two state solution could not be realised if you \u201crecognise just one side.\u201d\n\n\u201cLabor backs to the hilt a genocidal war that is destroying the possibility of a state of Palestine,\u201d he said. \u201cLabor has stood with the extreme Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu.\u201d Josh Frydenberg slams the Greens for promoting \u2018un-Australian values\u2019\n\nAssistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts took aim at Mr Bandt for the motion, arguing it was a stunt and an exercise in politics that would divide the community.\n\n\u201cWhy he would be deliberately setting up a vote on Palestinian recognition to fail is something that only he can answer,\u201d Mr Watts said..\n\n\u201cSimplistic wedge motions in the House do nothing to advance the cause of peace,\u201d he said.\n\n\u201cWedge politics only divides the community,\u201d he said. \u201cAnyone who is serious about peace knows that that requires a two state solution \u2026 but the Greens aren\u2019t serious. They prefer slogans to policy. A two state solution requires working together and the recognition of each other.\u201d\n\n\u201cOn the question of recognition, we have made clear that we will be guided by whether recognition will advance the cause for peace. Like many countries Australia has been frustrated by the lack of progress in this regard,\u201d he said. \u201cAustralia no longer sees recognition as only occurring at the end of the process. It could occur as part of a peace process.\u201d\n\nBut Mr Watts said there would need to be serious governance reforms, noting that Hamas was a terrorist organisation. \u201cWe see no role for them in this,\u201d he said. \u201cA Palestinian state cannot be in the position to threaten Israel\u2019s security.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe want to see a reformed Palestinian governing authority \u2026 We want to see a commitment to peace and how the Palestinian authority leads its people.\u201d\n\nMr Leeser, who spoke against the motion, told the parliament that recognition should only occur after a peace agreement with Israel had been reached and negotiations on the ground had concluded. \u2018End the occupation\u2019: Greens Leader calls for Labor to 'take action' against Israel\n\n\u201cThis motion \u2026 sends the message that Hamas\u2019 violent terrorist attacks, its murders, its abductions, its gang rapes, and its dismemberment of innocent children and its torture of people should somehow be defendable,\u201d he said. \u201cThis motion means recognising a Palestinian State when Hamas refuses to release more than 130 Israeli hostages.\u201d\n\nHe also took aim at the Greens, saying that it was a party that promoted women\u2019s rights and those of the LGBTI community but which was also advancing the \u201ccause of organisations like Hamas which are among the greatest abusers of women (and) LGBTI people in the world.\u201d\n\nMr Leeser, who describes himself as a proud and public Jewish MP, also said that anti-Semitism had \u201cbecome a central plank of Green philosophy.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Greens voted against the bipartisan motion that condemned the 7 October terrorist attacks that passed this House on 16 October \u2013 even before Israel had begun its operations in Gaza,\u201d he said. \u201cThey refused to condemn Greens MP Jenny Leong for her comments that said Jews have tentacles and that Jews should not be able to participate in the public life of this country.\u201d\n\nMr Leeser also noted that Mr Bandt, when directly asked on the ABC\u2019s Insiders program about whether he supported the idea of a Jewish homeland state, would not answer.\n\nReflecting on the Greens motion, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the minor party had exposed \u201chow hateful their ideology is and why the major parties should both pledge to preference this despicable party last.\u201d","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ime1","text":"For me it\u2019s a 5km walk back to my car which I park at my office with 2 young kids it\u2019s just not possible to walk back. Seems like we can\u2019t even get the basics right when it comes to operating good reliable PT","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz84qa","text":"No. \n\nI don't even know what means","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d61bgb","text":"Ageism has replaced Racism as the popular form of prejudice. People can no more control their birth era than their skin colour so it's a similar but more insidious and deniable form of prejudice. Better still, it's Woke-Approved so people can hate on Boomers as much as they want without any risk of being Cancelled or even disliked or downvoted","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvi72m","text":"Is that right is it? Aside from the OP also quoting a \"assistant professor of economics at George Washington University and visiting fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU\" (but we'll ignore that won't we).\n\nWhere exactly is the analysis In TG? Your mistaking analysis for opinion through a subjective lens of who says it. It's a shame.\n\nAnyway, we'll leave it there unless you want to discuss the premises of the article.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4fl4d","text":"The only irl person I met who cares is my ex mil who lives in northern rivers nsw but was raised in Sydney. And she *really* cares. To a psychotic degree. When I moved to Melbourne and my son decided to come too, she quit talking to him for months, and then every time he went back to visit she\u2019d bitch non stop about Melbourne. She\u2019s never actually been to Melbourne. ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0s25i","text":">\"Most people don\u2019t know that alcohol is the most common drug used in drink spiking,\u201d she said.\n\nHuh?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctzm63","text":"Who in the political world has been called a hero for talking shit about Palestine? Palestine is not Hamas.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d38xk0","text":"I believe you! It's beautiful.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyk40i","text":"Mate DSP is already way higher than jobseeker as it is.\n\n\nAnd in turn, jobseeker is higher than student payments and youth allowance.\n\n\nEither increase jobseeker and youth allowance and students... or just increase everything.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1j8n7","text":"Corruption.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gnlt","text":"It was an accident! \"The heat standard charge is an accident and we don't use it at all, that's why it is built into our register\"","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0vfvd","text":"Blue Mountains are very scenic. If you're wanting to actually see the Great Ocean Road you'll need a night or two travelling on it. Ballarat and Sovereign Hill and the Gold museum could be worth a day.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyvuc4","text":"I have a divergent view.\n\n1. The main reason is soil. Australia is a very old country, which means a lack of good volcanic soils over most of the country. Lack of phosphorus and sulfur.\n\n2. There's water in the outback, in the Great Artesian Basin. And a huge number of rivers and lakes. Mostly dry, but that still means subsurface water.\n\n3. Australian deserts are covered in vegetation, all of them. Australia's famous Nullarbor has no trees, but still have as much vegetation as the American west.\n\n4. When the explorer Sturt reached the most isolated point in Australia, he was met by a tribe of Aborigines who greeted him with a masonic handshake and knew how to tie boots.\n\nIn summary, it's Australia's poor soils that are the main reason. That and the lack of water which is exacerbated by inadequate steps to reduce water loss.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2d1bi","text":"Lets be clear - calling out actual racism is not divisive, it is pointing out actual division. Classic conservative playbook approach to quash movements for equality.\n\nHowever I feel like progressives labelling the whole country racists is having diminishing returns. Of course some people in Australia are racist and this may be worse in certain demographics. But for those that aren't who aren't also progressive, it is just alienating\n\nLabelling everyone as racist will often mean you are blind to the true forces underlying racism or what appears to be racism, which IMO is usually economic inequality. People in economic hardship are more easily convinced their circumstances are the result of the other tribe and race can so easily play into that (eg if you are poor, why does it make sense to vote Yes in the referendum if you perceive that someone else gets a leg up when you are doing it tough)\n\nIn this sense, this type of rhetoric is divisive to the working class who need to be in solidarity to overcome those real economic problems. You can't let either side of politics tell you ordinary people are the problem.\n\nThis is of course not the actual motivation of Price, who doesn't give a flying F about ordinary people when it actual comes down to it","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1l9fw","text":"Department of Honesty aka DoH!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d6a115","text":"Broken Hill as others have said is fascinating. Really like it. Camped at the race course, and then Lake Mungo. \n\nSomething different - Take the Castlereagh Highway to Lightning Ridge\/Grawin for Opal, visit the Brewarrina Fish Traps. Time your trip for the October Long weekend, and go to the Let's Dance Carinda David Bowie festival. I've been three times from Canberra.\nCoonabarabran has a really good optical telescope, with fun educational Solar System markers en route, where the \"Sun\" is the telescope. The Narrabri Radio Telescope is not as iconic as Parkes, but it is it enormous, with six full sized dishes on railway tracks. Also look for some Artesian baths on whatever route you take up that way.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5n16x","text":"Sounds like you're pretty sensitive to perceived rejection. Sometimes things come up and unfortunately people might need to cancel, but I think you've possible grenaded things with your response to him if I'm following correctly.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxmdye","text":"# Australian Education Union\n\n**Members**: 50,000\n\n**Status**: Ongoing\n\nVictorian TAFE teachers began\u00a0[industrial action\u00a0]( last month after the state government failed to put a \u201cfair and reasonable pay and conditions offer\u201d on the table.\n\nOn Friday, members voted to further escalate their fight by taking stop work actions in June and July, before escalating to a 24-hour work ban on August 21. They also won\u2019t attend meetings.\n\nAustralian Education Union Victorian president Meredith Peace said for too long the concerns of TAFE teachers have been \u201cneglected\u201d by the government and TAFEs.\n\n\u201cTAFE teachers are burning out due to excessive and unsustainable workloads \u2026 This is unacceptable, particularly as Victoria deals with ongoing skills shortages, that require urgent intervention from the state government,\u201d she said.\n\nOther actions to be taken by members include stopping work for the duration of any campus visit by a state Labor MP, bans on performance of Excess Teaching Duty Hours and work related to auditing and professional development and recording student engagement or attendance.\n\nStaff are also refusing to respond to management inquiries other than inquiries related to OHS matters, teacher\u2019s entitlements, or student welfare.\n\n# Community and Public Sector Union (Public servants)\n\n**Members**: 56,000\n\n**Status**: Won\n\n# The CPSU\u00a0[reached a deal\u00a0]( the state government in April, granting its 56,000 members access to reproductive leave and flexible-working trials as part of a new four-year pay deal. A three per cent annual wage increase and a 0.5 per cent bonus that would average $1400 per employee each year. The union, however, failed to secure a four-day work week trial.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2x52g","text":"Im in Brunswick and had it for a few weeks now. No issues apart from realising I had been driving round with an expired license for four months!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cu3fbw","text":"Has there ever been a liberal policy the experts supported? Business and mining council yes,anyone looking at Australians best interests? No","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2k5bf","text":"I thought thursgay shut down? I used to go all the time!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3al5t","text":"You could combine your favorite \u2019Shitcunt\u2019, with the old classic \u2018Dogcunt\u2019, for the new and improved \u2018Dogshitcunt\u2019 ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cpqqgf","text":"Rotting detached house in Detroit versus modern apartment in Europe we assume Leith would think the former is better to live in.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctvihi","text":"What is causing this problem is nothing more than government policy. \nThe problem is created by government policy and can only be solved through changing laws. \n\nWe are governed by political interests that undermine economic interests. \nIt\u2019s like asking the children to run the kindergarten. \n\nAll of these essential services and healthcare, aged, doctors, teachers, are all ultimately being paid for by taxpayers. \n\nIncreasing their salaries only increases our inability to afford it. \n\nThere is no doubt that we need to raise the minimum wage to meet the demands of the cost of living. \n$30 per hour is not unreasonable.\n\nHowever you would currently after a 38 hour week receive \n$930 a week. \n\nAt $29 per hour you would be getting $905 . \n\nIf we just paid a basic minimum wage of $550 per week and a flat tax rate of 47 percent then we could actually pay people to look after our elderly at $20 per hour. \nFar more affordable. \nThey would be receiving $907 a week nett. \n\nSomeone receiving $30 per hour would be on $1154 per week nett, hundreds more. But only $15 a week nett to the government in cost. \n\nPeople can then work 5 hours or 50 , we don\u2019t spend billions of dollars on pedantic nonsense about people asset\u2019s and everything little things they earn. \n\nYou cut off hundreds of thousands of pages of red tape. \n\nGovernment departments should be running as they are all part of the same organisation, but they don\u2019t. \nThey have no idea how to cooperate with each other and work together towards a common cause. \n\nAll fighting for their own patch of money and funding. \n\nWho yells louder and can wangle their political agenda. \n\nWe have the one percent club on the television, pity these people are not in parliament.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4jcta","text":"Always get a building inspection before buying a house, it\u2019s like 1200 bucks. Very silly you did not do that, did your REA not advise you? You could have foundation problems or termites and now you don\u2019t know if you just purchased a possible money pit.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3w71e","text":"I believe that quite a few of these cases are New Zealanders who grew up here....although I don't have data on that so it may be rumour. \n\nSending a  person to a country they don't know with no support system will likely increase the chance of them repeating the offence. So, are we saying that the wellbeing of those who live in NZ is significantly  less important that the wellbeing of Australians? People are people, wherever they live.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d237qo","text":"I like it. It's pretty chaotic and a lot happens in the short run time but the humour appeals to me. I'm glad it's doing well. \n\nAlso hearing the cute optimistic Aussie accent is a nice change as Americans usually play us as some tough no BS character with a deeper voice.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d26657","text":"In Tasmania, we can take a car seat into RACT and they check if compliant and fit the car seat for you. There may be something similar in each state. RACT is Royal Automotive Club of Tasmania. In Qld, there is RACQ so you could contact them, idk about NSW.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d60aw0","text":"J&Co ! Love their stuff.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cs31w4","text":"Sorry if this has been asked already but can someone outline the positives for these immigration levels?\n\nMaking up for the deceit during covid? Okay but surely we can re-assess given how shit things are for everyone right now.\n\nInflation and housing can both be improved quite easily by dropping these numbers.\n\nCan someone explain why we don\u2019t just do it?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csuhhz","text":"Is that you, Neville Chamerlain?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3znfx","text":"Depends on interests. On way to Grampians short detour from Ararat, up to One Tree Hill lookout. After Grampiams head  up to Murtoa Stck Shed ( very unique). Stop off at Pink Lake past Dimboola.  In South Australia Birdwood Motor Museum is a must.  Whispering Wall near Adelaide, combine with wine region tour,","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2dkfl","text":"Cool, without knowing your prospective field, this is impossible to answer","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cqsjbd","text":"Take away the subsidy and see what happens. \n\nGo on I dare you.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3yg6y","text":"ooh, does melbourne not have timtams? we don\u2019t have that many here (or so i think)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d61thq","text":"We have glow worms in Qld too.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3zccb","text":"She has lived in an America or Canada. That R at the end of McKellar and in the R or \"more than just a job\".","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1n3sv","text":"Tbf, inflation is great for those of us who are already asset owners. Renters would probably get fucked once the initial party was over. Kinda like how they are feeling right now. It's almost like there are consequences for economic stupidity.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3yyfg","text":"Tunnocks tea cakes, caramel bars, Jaffa cakes, galaxy stuff can be hard to come by, jelly babies aren't the same, wine gums, Percy pigs, obviously anything super market branded in general, malt biscuits, foxton biscuits, Swiss rolls.\u00a0\n\nEdit: hotel chocolat!\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d31y51","text":"$2 per kilometre is a decent rough guide to get you started. Cheaper if you want to throw up a tent and more if you want to stay in fancy hotels. \n\nBetween $5000 and $10000 will get you a decent reliable car depending on your exact needs\/wants.\n\nPick a list of places you want to visit and a time frame and then you can start planning from there.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d421d6","text":"You might like to read this about how Medicare works. Nothing wrong with not knowing if you're not from here and unfamiliar, not sure why people are down voting\n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5iiip","text":"Righteo.\n\nJust messaged an MEL ATC friend.  She said \"The lights are all synced via GPS\/GNSS off the clock.   The new CASA standard for obstruction lights requires it\".\n\nWe went on to say that most planes do no synchronisation, so it makes it easier to see.  Particularly when arrivals are tracking on any of the \"NINE\" series of standard arrivals, as they go south of the city.\n\nI learnt a thing today.  Way cool.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3qufm","text":"I don't really think about it? My thoughts reading this post are that you've created a false dichotomy. If someone uses the word dude they're using the word dude. They could have used mate, buddy, cobber, buggalugs, titfucker, or anything else but it would take a really really long time to think about all the words someone didn't say whenever they speak. There's a lot of words.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d367a1","text":"Wait, hold up - since when did the Swanston St Macca's close?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cquohn","text":"Yeah we just don\u2019t have the excuse over here. We don\u2019t have the high population and limited space as an excuse. Perth is the largest metro area in the whole world, with a smallish population. Yet they just fumble so hard.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crcyya","text":"I think you mean these \"dissidents\" are usually criminals who are anti china because they don't want to get in trouble for committing crimes.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d03qfh","text":"Go back again \n\nAssuming a teenager at the counter didn\u2019t know the difference between a normal return and a faulty return. Have had it happen before to me and had to point out the faulty part and they swapped it no issues once the brain cells clicked over.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csfnw5","text":"Yes, if nuclear power plants were free and everyone was happy to have one nearby, they'd threaten all coal power, even some wind and solar.\n\nBut they're not and they aren't. It's nothing to do with not being \"allowed\". Literally no energy company is asking for \"permission\", because they know that nuclear makes no business sense.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czkzax","text":"I'm probably of no help but for me a square meal for dinner consists of meat and veggies. So a steak\/lamb\/chicken\/piece of meat with mixed veggies and potato or rice is optional to really fill you up. I personally believe that's an adequate meal for anyone who isn't trying to body build and try to be the next Mr\/Mrs Olympia.\n\nMy go to for something quick and easy is a piece of meat and just microwave a handful or two of mixed frozen veggies on butter on the side. (I could be totally wrong)\n\nEdit: I have a 4 year old at the moment so they're having water for hydration and milk for bed if they ask for it, otherwise a glass of juice with the meal if they aren't fussy with just having water to wash it all down","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5q1gh","text":"5 minutes from the beach, gold coast, sunshine coast","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3iwgi","text":"Carlton is beautiful and lively with lygon st (little Italy) and the student population, and Brunswick isn\u2019t rough at all. Both have their pockets of activity but can be quiet\/residential despite close proximity to activity, transport and the CBD. \n\nFitzroy may be the most \u2018happening\u2019 but is busier & noisier, parking is a nightmare and gentrification has well and truly hit and imo it\u2019s too bougie now. All of the inner northern suburbs are alternative and queer. \n\nBrunswick is very cool but behind in the gentrification compared to fitzroy. Have you considered Footscray? It is further behind in gentrification but is diverse and bustling, it is very cool. \n\nParkville is beautiful, central and green, but quiet in itself.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6f04i","text":"Drink, mostly. Sometimes, eat and go to the beach depending on the weather","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d43uv2","text":"I met a German woman who had lived in Australia - that's where she learned most of her English. Her accent was truly unique.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ct4epu","text":"Agreed, however red tape can go too far. Gas needs to be opened up and let loose in Australia and we have so much of it it should be dirt cheap. Frustratingly we export pretty much all of it and make heaps of money and screw our own people with high prices. \n\nMore gas will probably lower all energy prices across the board tbh","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cp0296","text":"Read your own first article.  This data is how much GSP has grown expressed in percentages. And the article very early on says Victoria leading the charge is not impressive as it looks because it had the worst COVID lockdowns and therefore the greatest ability to bounce back. So in 2022, Victoria\u2019s GSP growing by 5.6%? stiff shit, we were closed for the previous 18 months.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5klqx","text":"Never watched any of their games, and probably never would have.\n\nAFL is enough to keep me entertained in the winter. I would watch the odd Victory game if it was on Kayo, and not Paramount. \n\nAnd then there's plenty of wonderful test cricket in the summer!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpqqgf","text":">\u201cThe average skilled visa holder offers a fiscal dividend of $250,000 over their lifetime in Australia.\u201d\n\n>Typically, they\u2019ve been educated before their arrival in Australia, or have paid for their own education here, he says. Then they work for 30 to 40 years, because they come through that program in their 20s.\n\nAnd yet the median age of permanent migrants is 37 years, while the median age of the whole Australian population is 38 years.\n\nAll those family reuinion and partner visas for each skilled visa holder surely dilutes that $6000 a year 'divdend'...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csw003","text":"When the defamatory allegation is that the defamed person has committed some crime, it\u2019s a difficult issue because the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt is so much higher than the civil standard of balance of probabilities. Both sides of an issue will leverage that difference, as has happened in the Lehrman case; his supporters were insistent that \u201che wasn\u2019t found guilty so you can\u2019t call him a rapist!\u201d and his detractors were insistent that the criminal case was wrongly decided and that obviously common sense, balance of probabilities, and the Reasonable Young Liberal With The Sloshed Hottie test meant that he probably did rape her. A position the defamation trial judge agreed with.\n\n\u201cTruth\u201d is always a very hard problem for the law to deal with and our adversarial system makes it even harder. We tend to substitute consensus, and\/or the side of the argument that the jury or judge like better.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4v5cb","text":"Life long weird brekkie here : Rice Bubbles with milo on top","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d29tvx","text":"Our OT is going to do a couple of school visits so we\u2019ll see how it goes - it\u2019s just such a different system and it\u2019s clear the kid is falling between the cracks already and we are relatively early in their school career.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3om48","text":"Don't open new gas wells, simple. There is plenty of gas in the market, if we need some gas for the energy transition it should reflect the cost of its pollution legacy, be expensive and if the investors can make money from it - in the market - then ok, otherwise competition policy rules ok! But what the LNP want is to lock in the gas subsidies and a period of gravy - a protected investment!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyripc","text":"No. In fact it could help hide a default","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3iphm","text":"Not for over 40 years\n\nFew times when I was growing up but SPF was only 4 back then.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wuye","text":"I just read the article and their arguments against limiting migration all seem like good reasons to limit migration. \n\n1. Companies will struggle to get cheaper skilled labourers and will be forced to increase wages to attract them here in this country or start offering solutions to upskill. Seems like a positive to me.\n\n2. Higher wages will attract more people towards those locations which will inevitably cause property to maintain their value in those locations, but free them up in other locations so end result is more available housing. Seems like a positive to me.\n\nSo, what am I missing?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d07lhu","text":"After getting some free tickets, I have a grudging respect. Their big commercial songs still suck.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czv2em","text":"We have everything from tropics to desert to alpine with snow. Depends entirely on where you are going and a bit on what you are used to.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ct44ue","text":"I\u2019m surprised they acknowledged the current rate will head toward 250,000 with existing measures (which has been the \u2018normal\u2019 rate). Has usually been massive exaggeration around it, but he would have been labeled a fraud if he promised something that was already coming. We might find out if people hate migrants more than being employed. Personally I suspect they do","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5q1gh","text":"Just gonna do the major cities in alphabetical order here:\n\nAdelaide - has suburban beaches all along its western side (other than some small areas with cliffs and others with mangrove forest), but lies in a sheltered gulf so the surf is minor at those beaches (which is mostly a good thing for swimming, obviously). Surf beaches are about an hour or two to the south. The climate is Mediterranean (hot, dry summers, mild\/cool wet winters) and the ocean temperature is a little colder. So access is good for most of the year but a bit limited in winter, unless you are a hardcore. \"5 minutes from a beach\" is very attainable in a significant proportion of metropolitan Adelaide and most beaches are very uncrowded and peaceful. It's also decent for scuba in some parts of the state where there are seagrasses and cuttlefish.\n\nBrisbane - slightly limited access to beaches in Brisbane itself - there are much better beaches slightly further afield in the Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast, which are separate cities. Brisbane itself has a kind of \"city beach\" thing on the Brisbane riverfront area, but it's not really much of a place to swim. The climate is subtropical - generally very warm and agreeable.\n\nCanberra - inland city in the \"mountains\", with no ocean coastline and no beaches. Climate is generally quite cool. Very poor option for a beach lover, but a lovely city otherwise.\n\nDarwin - has beaches, but you really can't swim at most of them because of the jellyfish and saltwater crocodiles (this applies generally in the tropical north). There is a sheltered \"waterfront\" area you can swim in that's very popular with locals and tourists alike. They also have a wavepool there. The climate is tropical - easily hot enough to entice you to swim all year long. But yeah, your options will be limited and in general you'd be better off with access to a pool.\n\nHobart - has some beaches I assume, but it is considerably cooler than the mainland cities and so you will probably need to be selective with when you go. Beachgoing is generally not seen as a theme of Hobart life.\n\nMelbourne - has beaches, but like Adelaide it is on a sheltered bay\/gulf so the surf is poor. You can venture further afield to towns along the southern coast for much better surfing beaches. The climate is marine coastal - some very warm and sunny days in summer, but more erratic weather in other months. It's probably more than fair to say that Melbourne is not as famous for its beach lifestyle as Sydney is. Although St Kilda and Brighton Beach are quite popular.\n\nPerth - like Adelaide, has suburban beaches all along its western side, and like Adelaide, has a Mediterranean climate. Unlike Adelaide many of its suburban beaches are on the open Indian ocean and therefore have a stronger surf. They also are a bit narrower and rockier than Adelaide beaches I think. Some may argue, but realistically I think Perth is probably the best answer for your question as far as larger cities go - weather, surf, ease of access. Although Adelaide is very comparable\/close (moreso than a lot of people think).\n\nSydney - has very highly rated beaches on its Eastern side towards the Pacific Ocean...but so highly rated that they are invariably very crowded, which can be a hassle for actually going to them in several ways (parking\/access, crowds, etc). The surf can be quite strong unless you go to a more sheltered beach. Most people in Sydney live a long way out to the west due to very unaffordable housing elsewhere, so \"being 5 minutes from a beach\" is much less attainable than it might seem. The weather is subtropical like Brisbane, but Sydney tends to be a bit prone to strong storm fronts which can present challenges for beachgoers. You will need to be very aware of things like rip tides and the importance of swimming between the flags. That said, it's hard to deny that Sydney is famous for its beaches and is internationally recognised for that fact - that's not without reason. They are stunning, and it almost goes without saying that beachgoing is a huge part of the culture\/lifestyle in Sydney.\n\nSo those are the capitals\/major cities. Adelaide, Perth and Sydney would be my top recs to seriously think about. You can find plenty of pics and vids online to get a feel for what the beaches look like in these places. Here are some samples which I think give you a good enough overview of what to expect in each city, but there are lots and lots of these sorts of videos floating around:\n\n[Perth (tour of general suburban coastline)](\n\n[Sydney (tour of several most popular beaches)](\n\n[Adelaide (Henley Beach)]( [Adelaide (Brighton Beach)]( [Adelaide (Grange Beach)]( [Adelaide (Glenelg Beach)]( [Adelaide (Glenelg Beach)](  [Adelaide (Semaphore Beach)]( [Adelaide (Aldinga Beach)]( [Adelaide (Christie's Beach)]( [Adelaide (Sellick's Beach)]( [Adelaide (Maslin Beach)]( - (I couldn't find a good general tour video, but as you can see there are a lot of beaches and quite a bit of variety)\n\n[Melbourne (St Kilda, Brighton)](\n\n[Gold Coast (Surfer's Paradise)]( - arguably one of the nation's best (or best known) beaches, but a lot more than 5 minutes away from Brisbane. Gold Coast is its own distinct city, but much smaller than Brisbane and very much a tourist hotspot. All those buildings you can see in the video are hotels and apartments.\n\n[Darwin (Waterfront)]( - very limited area you can actually swim, but it is literally almost always 32\u00b0C\n\n[Hobart (Nutgrove Beach)]( - realistically quite often too cold to swim AFAIK...but very beautiful.\n\nHowever, you might want to consider some smaller\/regional coastal cities as places where you are more likely to be able to get accommodation within 5 minutes of the beach. I will list a few towns that are well known for their beachgoing lifestyles by state:\n\nNSW - Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Wollongong, Newcastle\n\nQLD - Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Mackay, Airlie Beach, Bundaberg, Yeppoon\n\nSA - Ceduna, Port Lincoln, Moonta\/Wallaroo, Port Elliot\/Victor Harbor, Robe, Emu Bay \n\nTAS - Bicheno, Coles Bay\n\nVIC - Apollo Bay, Torquay, Lorne, Warrnambool, Sorrento, Bell's Beach, Geelong, Sale\n\nWA - Margaret River, Bunbury, Albany, Broome, Esperance, Shark Bay\n\nThere are many others. These are mostly quite small places - accommodation will possibly be cheaper, but work will likely be much harder to find.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctzm63","text":">He said it was ultimately up to the ICJ to make that call. \"They've said there's plausible grounds to believe that that's happening, but I'll leave that to the ICJ to make\n\nThere's no guarantee (nor should there be) that the Australian Government will agree with the ICJ\n\nParticularly not where Albo has already declared that the outcome of the case is not their focus\n\n>Albanese said the Australian government would instead focus on \u201ca political solution\u201d based on \u201ca pathway to security and peace and prosperity in the region\u201d. \u201cThat\u2019s the main game \u2013 not any court case, not anything else. That is the main game that we need to work on - that durable peace that has been absent for far too long.\u201d\n\nand\n\n>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australia was not a party to the ICJ case, which was brought by South Africa.\" The spokesperson noted the ICJ's decisions \"are binding on the parties to a case\".","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1cqon","text":"Was he? I'm pretty sure he was saying the voice was in trouble a lot throughout the campaigning period. Maybe in the beginning. But their polling data was consistently saying it wasn't going to get up.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyk225","text":"Typical VIC ALP double speak, the same as during COVID.\n\n\"We have health advice that says we should close playgrounds\"\n\n\"show us\"\n\n\"nahhhh\"\n\nThe VIC dept responsible for energy knows there is a shortage coming as electrification just is not happening quickly enough. The VIC minister continues to bury her head in the sand.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwhypl","text":"Terrible headline given some of the eyebrow raising results in this poll:\n\n* **Voters approved of all the budget\u2019s major measures:** the freeze on the cost of prescription medicine (76% in favour); the $300 rebate (66%); increasing commonwealth rent assistance (58%); capping the number of new international students (56%); and investing in renewables, hydrogen and critical minerals through the Future Made in Australia plan (53%).\n* Ahead of the budget\u00a0[Labor released its future gas strategy]( **some 44% supported the approval of new gas projects in Australia.** Just 17% opposed them, while 39% said they neither supported nor opposed them.\n* Respondents had a fuzzy view of the trajectory of the economy. Many correctly identified that interest rates had gone up in the past 12 months (65%) and almost half (47%) said the same of unemployment. **But two-thirds said inflation was on the rise (67%), despite**\u00a0[**the fact it is slowing**](\n* **Almost half (48%) of respondents wanted more government intervention,** compared with those who said the level of intervention was about right (36%) or should be less (16%).\n* **A majority of respondents supported taxing the very rich** (63% in favour), capping negatively geared properties (59%) and inheritance tax on the very rich (56%).\n\nSometimes opinion polling is a funny thing...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5vino","text":">Howard was seeking to allay concerns from a wary Coalition party room and assured Dutton and other MPs at the time that Australia\u2019s sovereignty was not under threat.\n\nThis is the key quote. Australia should never engage in any agreement that conflicts with our ability to exercise full sovereignty; no nation should. \n\nI didn't know we had a ministerial trigger provision, and as much as I generally detest delegated powers to ministers, when it relates to enabling international provisions, I am more comfortable.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3rblp","text":"I am eating well (figuratively and literally) seeing all these ideas for meals, this is fantastic","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvmtif","text":"Scott Morrison does not appear to be a person that can accept that he may have personal failings. Sadly, or not, we all do have faults. Until he comes to terms with this reality he will continue to view himself through rose coloured glasses. This in no way obliges the rest of us to do the same for him.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3jqrl","text":"I think without a pass it\u2019s like $9-$10 for each section and then there\u2019s a $10 fee for processing and sending you a letter saying how much you owe","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d61bgb","text":"IMO the referendum has given a licence to the racists to be more overt.\n\nI see a lot more of it now than what I did. Perhaps I'm in different social media places or because it was a hot topic for a while, but it's been a while and I believe there is more of it around.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6e0vf","text":"Like why did all the Nissan Micras start hating the world after 2018? Happy Micra  Vs Micra wants to hurt you ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d03qfh","text":"Has it always been vibrating, or did it start at some point after using it a few times? Sometimes, if the blade hits a rock, it can ding and fall out of balance, particularly with bar type blades, and that will cause heavy vibration. Check the blade. it could be a simple fix.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d64r0w","text":"What\u2019s the dress code? If it\u2019s not black tie you could get away with chinos, a nice button down and a sports jacket, which you\u2019re more likely to rewear.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d34ukx","text":"I've known a lot of former chefs who work as sales reps for food\/ bev suppliers. Seems to be an alright gig. \n\nAlso, this isn't what you asked, but I've also heard good things about cheffing in aged care facilities. It's still cheffing obvs but it's regular non-insane hours, you can often secure a breakfast\/lunch thing so you're not always working nights and weekends. Regular residents getting fed regular food so you don't have insane customers yelling at you about their madeup steak rules and no unexpected service rushes.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d6aucv","text":"Because the rental scooters are some company monetizing our shared public space.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2y8wr","text":"This is where I really do get angry with the ALP. This is clearly bad policy designed to appease the CFMEU. Meanwhile they're perfectly happy to allow the SDA to absolutely shaft retail workers with yet another round of dodgy EBAs in exchange for donations from the Supermarket Duopoly.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4ffjg","text":"This is tacky af. Goes with the Australian standard of selling anything and everything.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d60dm6","text":"The geographical history of Port Philip Bay is very interesting. It didn\u2019t exist until 10,000 years ago when the ending of the last ice age flooded what was once a giant river plain with lakes and wetlands. Even as recently as 3000 years ago the bay had completely dried out. Thank you, Wikipedia.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"Oh, *please*. China's glassjaw is notorious, and that makes them the epitome of a playground bully. They hate losing face, and Marles made them lose face. I don't know how many times people need to explain this to the PRC but the world doesn't give a shit about Chinese face, or the concept.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4xibc","text":"Yes, \"resignation\" should not be required - just mark the person as \"do not roster\". \n\nEven if you did have to rehire to cover them, for casuals it doesn't matter, because there is no requirement to take them back after their holiday - that would be a simple decision when they came back of \"do I need staff now, or not?\"\n\nOnly reason I can think of is that it would be paperwork to explain why the person was marked \"no longer employed\" in the payroll and\/or rostering computer system. Keeps it neat and tidy?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyhg9j","text":"I am surprised our Oligarchs don't have enough money to pay a PR firm to come up with a more believable story .\n\nThe idea that workers need our Corporate Overlords to protect us from greedy Unions is a bit out of date.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1cwy1","text":"Yes, young people drive like idiots especially on country roads regardless of what they\u2019re driving","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d263en","text":"Aussie broadband are great. Most providers offer you a modem to purchase too.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d421d6","text":"If pain is unbearable go to public emergency and get triaged, otherwise try and find a bulk billing GP tomorrow. Keeping in mind if needing scans the GP route will take much longer to get an answer \n\nEmergency will likely do blood tests, possible ultrasound if worried about inflamed gallbladder. Maybe a CT scan overnight if symptoms worsen to look for other causes. \n\nI won't comment on differential diagnosis but the emergency doctors can sort that and refer to specialists through the public service without a fee (which may require wait times) or admit you for more urgent consults","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5yvdq","text":"Fresh chilli Laverton\/Wyndham Vale","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq2am0","text":"Love the idea but the execution will certainly be a difficult one","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3rblp","text":"2 minute noodles come in 5 packs at Coles.\n\n- Curtis Stone","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ngze","text":"Have any governments not realised that selling off public assets is not good for the public-the very people they\u2019re supposed to be representing and serving?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d31ykp","text":"This year our rent went up from 480 to 600 PW  ours increased last year from 450-480 but the owner decided that cause the rental property is keeping his books in red for a long time and considering the same 4 bedroom house in our locality is ~600 we didn\u2019t have much choice, his initial proposed rate was 630.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4mhl1","text":"So they are levelling the playing field - great !, as I think that's why 5x more women were getting injured, was all the lumps and bumps they were tripping on.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d36iyr","text":"No","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d263en","text":"Check whistle out to compare","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4s8jw","text":"is there like ZERO actual answers here?\n\nIt's called a rolling cloud. It is cause by fast windspeeds at higher altitude impacting the slower moving cloud layer. Think of it like the sand at the bottom of a stream with fast running water. the same pattern appears in the sand.  Also... it's brushwood screen fencing apparently lol\n\npretty common here... we get some ffreaky high windspeeds at higher altitudes. Much higher than typcial elsewhere. Making Melbourne my base in flightsim with real weather has bee nan  eye opener","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csfnw5","text":"If the LNP forms government next election they will immediately forget Nuclear exists. Just like they have every single time they are in government. They will continue to do whatever their mining donors tell them. \n\nThis is just a distraction. Nuclear might have been a good option 30 years ago but not today. We in Australia have a very unique opportunity to harness the sun, wind and the ocean. Using them for electricity in many ways. We are very lucky to be where we are. Yet governments have squandered it for decades. \n\nIt\u2019s about time we actually make the transition to renewables instead of just talking about it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ycgm","text":"No body likes paying surcharge.  The price has gone up on every cost associated with running a Cafe.  Rent, wages, the oil guy, food. Coffee beans, dairy, the pest control company, rates, insurance, maintenance, consumables, cleaners, accountants. Delivery fees, gas, electricity, water.  \nIt's takes a lot of cups of coffee to pay those bills.  The staff are barely making a living wage.  The whole industry is struggling.  Cafes run on extremely low profit margins and most people have zero clue of the costs associated with running a hospo business.   I guarantee you that they don't want to have to charge more but have to to keep the doors open.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3dj8y","text":"Sounds like a you problem.\n\n\nNothing is stopping you from going to the pub, seeing a gig, playing some pool, catching a movie. If you wanna doom scroll instead, well...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3x6bo","text":"Also, what the driver talked about regarding fare structure is incorrect. If he wishes to charge per minute fares and km rate at the same time while the taxi is in motion, the maximum they can charge is stated in fare structure 2, $1.725 per km and $0.438 cents per minute\n\nScroll down to fare structure 2\n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3j26m","text":"This while argument never makes sense. Nuclear is more of a threat to coal than renewables ever will be.\n\nNot only does renewables require significantly more coal to manufacture and replace the assets. As with see with Eraring and SH2.0, we are as long off with renewables to replace coal (and still if) as nuclear is.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czd8d4","text":"Yes please","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d66qny","text":"This is what I thought.  \nMostly I want to know that I actually got what I paid for.  \nI don't mind paying a premium, so long as I bought was genuine.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvgxg1","text":"Albo's When I was young stories are not resonating with young people and just show how out of touch he and his party is. His only hope is the 2PP system where he thinks the Dutton is worse line will save him.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2y11s","text":"Always - as other have mentioned if it's significantly more expensive or if quality is signficantly worse.  I'm happy to pay a premium for Australian made\/produced.  \n\nI also always look for Australian seasonal produce - my kids know they will only get Aussie grapes\/lemons\/oranges.  \n\nClothes\/homewares are harder to find Australian made but will try to support Australian companies if I can.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d23xgh","text":"Why do the Liberals always get a free pass from media and Labor it\u2019s always everything is their fault.\n\nAlso, Australians have short term memory and easily forget all the corruption and BS they did.\n\nNo wonder the Coalition wins so much. \n\nA dumb voter base votes for Scomo. Turnbull. Dutton.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3dj8y","text":"God you sound like a pain","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d68iig","text":"Wow, windows!\n\n\nI don't think I'll be able to afford this place.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d25d2i","text":"It\u2019s always peaks around the time when I am getting late to work .","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2awds","text":"The metro tunnel will also be a PPP... Something to look forward to.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d01sf0","text":"Yes if you illegally park a car the council or police or home owners or someone might be bothered, regardless of it having a for sale sign or not. There's nothing illegal to my knowledge about the for sale sign unless it's defecting the car like blocking the windscreen or something. \n\nYou do see them around though. Sometimes parked. Sometimes driving around. Saw one the other day. They're almost always older cars selling for pretty low prices.\n\nIf the numbers have reduced in recent years it's probably because they're being listed on Facebook marketplace instead which doesn't cost you anything and is likely more effective. I sold my car via FBM. I paid for some advertising, I think it cost me $6. Sold it in 1 day. It's quite a painless process, so long as you understand the relevant paperwork and road worthy clearance you're going to have to do to actually transfer the ownership which varies between states, and also you're wary of scammers. About 20% of the people who contacted me about my car were obvious scams.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d24wtj","text":"Less \u201ccrashes\u201d more \u201crammed\u201d","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvnyoi","text":"This section is interesting, \n\nBudget 1 - October 2022:\n\n* Total Better Off = 12\n* Total Worse Off = 47\n* Neither = 41\n\nBudget 2 - May 2023: \n\n* Total Better Off = 20\n* Total Worse Off = 36\n* Neither = 44\n\nBudget 3 - May 2024: \n\n* Total Better Off = 27\n* Total Worse Off = 29\n* Neither = 44\n\nThe trend does emulate the lead up to the 2019 Federal Election, where Stage 1 Tax Cuts had taken effect and an Election Budget resulted in a positive response. Similarly, the re-worked S3TC will be in effect from July and there will be an Election Budget next year. \n\nThe public likely views Chalmers as a steady hand on the wheel, so if Inflation does start to fall towards the end of the year, then the Federal Government will be in a firm position.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4v2mp","text":"The average means nothing. It depends on your industry and where you live. 120k is chump change in any major city, but perfectly serviceable in a cheaper area (i.e faraway from city centre)\n\nYou can save 10k in as little as a couple of month if you are willing to live frugal and on a good income.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3r63l","text":"This thread now had a theme song!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq5co4","text":"well remember how the AFP raided Bill Shorten's office and its like... watevs bro\n\nbut its kind of Labor's own fault they werent cleaning office when they got in....","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3t3d0","text":"Coming from Cali you must like the warm weather, and have decided on Melbourne. Great choice but bloody freezing in winter. If schools were your priority then I would look in Canterbury, Balwyn, Bulleen, Kew, hawthorn, McKinnon to start off. These areas have great private and public schools and are very nice areas to live in. Melbourne is very diverse so you should love it here. Good luck!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d60zwb","text":"He's current job is chairman of Goldman Sachs Australia. That'd be a $500-750k pa package min with bonuses and RSUs\n\nHighly doubt he's joining the Dutton bandwagon.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwtko0","text":"There really needs to be a set date and not when the Prime Minister feels he has a good chance of winning.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxwbp1","text":">meaningfully engaged in this debate and we can expect a much argued and defensible policy that has had plenty of darts thrown towards it internally\n\nThe LNP want to save housing, but also they want to push Super for Homes policy aka subsidising demand via people's super (where young folks need it the most and also have the least), so I'm gonna doubt just where they sit on the \"genuinelt care\" scale.\n\n>Immigration keeps us from entering a technical recession while reducing our security of shelter by decades. I\u2019ve not lived under a government that has taken us so far back.\n\nYes, housing was famously cheap before 2022, net immigration was famously not averaging 250k under the LNP pre-covid, and the LNP had absolutely no hand in the current inflation that had been the core economic issue since late 2021 \/s. \n\nI do agree Labor has left to much heavy lifting to the RBA RE addressing inflation, and that housing is bad (but not because of immigration, but because we favour it as an investment absurdly), but the alternative had a huge role in getting us here too, lol.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d29da3","text":"And what is his plan? to go around telling men not to beat there partners? then what? this just screams optics rather than having a real plan or idea on the issue","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d37g9y","text":"Sorry to hear about your child. You should talk to the surgeon, not a bunch of random strangers on Reddit. It will depend on the structure that the surgeon has set up including hospital access and their priority for such things. Children usually get a high priority but it will come down the the medical team and hospital administration. It would be better if you can access a children's hospital in Australia.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"Lots of people whinge about Australia being a nanny state, and in some instances it's true.  However, in some instances it's a good thing, and this is one of those instances.  Helmets are like seatbelts, making them compulsory entrenches the practice in the population psyche so that it becomes the done thing over time, which increases public safety.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d011un","text":"Why do all these authors in Pacific Island countries at risk from rising sea levels point the finger at Australia for producing 1% of carbon emissions in deference to China who produces 27% of carbon emissions. What's in it for them?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d648cr","text":"This is...wildly not true. If you've been anywhere near the strip in question you'd see they're all being stored there without anyone living in them, which is unshockingly exactly what the news article says.\n\nIf you were correct about the definition of abandoned this would be a non-issue?\n\nPeople's ability to wildly speculate based on their own assumptions and opinions in the face of stated facts never ceases to amaze me.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d31ykp","text":"\"I was reading in the news about a landlord group pushing to uniformly raise all rent across Melbourne.\"   \nIs this not illegal price fixing?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2zss0","text":"You too can become a helicopter pilot if you have a spare $80,000 for the training.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctzm63","text":"He's essentially saying not sure. It's a stupid position, for anyone that's read the genocide convention, cause how is any state meant to work to prevent and punish a crime, if they can't assess if its happening, when its happening? Its a really gutless position. We probably shouldn't be signed up to genocide convention, if we don't follow its obligations when needed.\n\nA [big arse study]( on the matter just dropped today, that he could consult, if our parliamentarians wanted to do more than feign ignorance. Yet it seems Orwellian nonsense and ignorance is Labor's best friend at the moment.\n\nI find the 'river to the sea=s no two state solution' the most bs part of his comments though. Such a weird direction for gov to frame things. People not wanting to live in apartheid like conditions says nothing about whether there's one or two states. Calling for freedom is vague enough that people can mean allsorts by it, yet this gov chooses the 'freedom =s antisemitism \\[destruction of Israel\\]', in rhetoric taken straight from Tel Aviv.\n\nAnd based on this Orwellian revisionism by Labor, shouldn't they be condemning Payman, not saying she showed guts? They can't even follow their own bs properly.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qwie","text":"Both suck.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d404vh","text":"Push recycle, pull rubbish. Partly cuz 2 bins at once makes me feel like I'm absolutely nailing bin night, but also cuz rubbish bin is too short and it feels awkward to push, but recycle bin is taller.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d54cey","text":"Given the dismissal of existing Human Rights Charters during Covid, I don't see how having the same thing replicated at a federal level, that can be over-ridden at the whim of those it is supposed to constrain, is going to be of much use.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3stts","text":"no backbone.\n\nSomeone reversed into my car. It didn't do much damage like 30 dollars worth?  \n\nIf they had they had just left a note with number and that it was them i would have just thanked them for fessing up and moved on.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxmcnj","text":"Beyond the clickbait headline, the actually story is that 'building standards have been improved', and that building better homes costs more money.\n\nWe could build smaller homes, that would help.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2clz5","text":"I don\u2019t accept the excuse it was \u201cthe independent AAT\u201d. The AAT is part of the executive government (ie the minister) not the judiciary, and therefore he is ultimately responsible for it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3khm6","text":"so basically he won't deport people back who have been accused of raping children, even a disabled 14 year old girl, also a man that had sex with he's step daughter when he's wife was in hospital giving birth to their child, are these the type of people we need here?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d29da3","text":"Never been into the whole Jordan peterson Andrew Tate MRA movement but how amazingly clueless do you have to be to not realise something like this is only going to make those peanuts more popular? Literally the opposite of what they're intending. Have they thought about maybe a, violent criminals behaviour change committee? Instead of vaguely gesturing at half the population and suggesting they need to do better?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3t46i","text":"I was lactose intolerant from very early young age right up to 18-19... then one day I left Australia for my first holiday in France... and I came back lactose tolerant. Don't know how it happened , but the fresh dairy food in the French markets were next level couldn't resist no matter the thought of possible lactose repucutions... and there were none. I could consume cheese for the first time. \n\nPrior to that... I always consumed Goats milk.\n\nDecades have passed. All good.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ngze","text":"The debt-burdened Allan government is spruiking its wholly public births, deaths and marriages agency to private investors in a bid to bolster its beleaguered finances.\n\nTreasurer Tim Pallas has begun discussions with private equity firms to gauge their interest in running some of the registry\u2019s services.\n\nPallas met with one firm last week, according to a private industry source familiar with the negotiations, and pitched the idea as a \u201climited-term contract\u201d in the style of the partial privatisation of VicRoads\u2019 licensing and registration arms \u2013 a deal due to expire in the 2060s.\n\nThe industry source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardise commercial interests, said the treasurer was \u201choping to close any deal by the end of the year\u201d.\n\nA fresh offer from a private consortium could raise billions of dollars in the short term for Victoria\u2019s bottom line while providing superannuation companies or others with tens of millions of dollars in guaranteed annual income from birth, death and marriage certificates.\n\nA cabinet minister, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed there was a desire for several years at the highest levels of government to rebuild Births, Deaths and Marriages through the private market.\n\n\u201cIt can probably be done better,\u201d the minister said.\n\nThe senior MP went on to say the registry would ideally be brought back into the government fold entirely once it had proven its value to the taxpayer.\n\nBirths, Deaths and Marriages has dealt with high-profile issues in recent years, particularly during the pandemic, when its offices were closed, it took months for officials to issue certificates and urgent emails went unanswered.\n\nAsked if the agency was to be privatised, a government spokesperson instead described the preferred model as a joint venture partnership.\n\n\u201cVictoria\u2019s Births, Deaths and Marriages service will not be privatised, but we are looking at how we can continue to improve the quality of government services.\u201d\n\nThe government to this day insists the partial privatisation of some VicRoads services was not privatisation, but a joint venture partnership.\n\nJust seven months ago, the government was predicting it would be in deficit by about $1 billion by June 2025. That expected financial hole more than doubled to $2.2 billion in the May 7 state budget.\n\nThe same budget papers forecast Victoria\u2019s debt to rise to $187.8 billion by June 2028. In simple terms, the May budget leaves Victorian taxpayers with a $25 million daily interest bill.\n\nLabor\u2019s primary vote has also plummeted below 30 per cent since Jacinta Allan became premier, according to an exclusive survey published by this masthead last month. The survey found two-thirds of voters wanted the government to do more to reduce debt.\n\nBut additional partial privatisation in the name of budget repair would not come without risks. The Coalition will use any proposed agreement with industry to slam the government\u2019s management of debt and government agencies. Meanwhile, the Greens would argue such a move undermines the public service.\n\nLabor will also be in power in Victoria for a decade come December, the timeframe Pallas has told industry he wants the agency deal signed.\n\nResearcher Charlie Joyce, from the independent but progressive think tank the Australia Institute, said he suspected further privatisation was politically dangerous in Victoria.\n\n\u201cDaniel Andrews campaigned in 2022 against privatisation,\u201d Joyce said. \u201cHe promised to bring back the State Electricity Commission. A further re-embrace of privatisation would lead to a loss in trust in the Allan government which, I think, frankly, is already fraying.\u201d\n\nJoyce said while Victoria\u2019s debt levels were an important consideration, his research on privatisation showed even partial privatisation was often \u201cshort-term gain for long-term pain\u201d.\n\n\u201cFor something like Births, Deaths and Marriages, this is a government service that handles very sensitive information. A private owner that cuts costs on security \u2013 cybersecurity in particular \u2013 could quite quickly run into trouble.\n\n\u201cIt would [also] be a colossal mistake to take a step that may reduce the quality of public services and increase the cost.\u201d\n\nBirth, death, marriage or change of name certificates start from $54.40 in Victoria, but registrations and commemorative certificates are more expensive. There were 72,932 registered births in Victoria last year, 29,826 marriages and 45,345 deaths.\n\nThe total administered income from identity and worker screening transactions in Victoria for the six months to June 30 last year was $33.83 million, according to the Department of Government Services\u2019 most recent publicly available annual report.\n\nThe same report states that Births, Deaths and Marriages failed to meet its timeliness target in the 2022-23 financial year.\n\nIt took the agency, on average, 10.9 days to process compliant applications for birth, death and marriage certificates in the 12 months to June last year. Its target for the period was less than 10 days.\n\nThe price of general-issue licence plates, black motorbike plates and slimline black custom licence plates all increased by $15 on January.\n\nDriver licensing and registration aren\u2019t the only services partly privatised since Victorian Labor came to power in December 2014.\n\nThe Port of Melbourne was leased to a private consortium for 50 years under a $9.7 billion deal in 2016 and the Victorian Land Titles Office was partly privatised in 2018 for more than $2 billion.\n\nLast year\u2019s housing statement also revealed Melbourne\u2019s public high-rise towers will be handed over to private developers in the coming years as part of a mixed model.\n\nWhen VicRoads was partly privatised in 2022, Pallas refused to label the development privatisation.\n\n\u201cThis is not privatisation in anybody\u2019s language,\u201d the treasurer said at the time.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re always looking to see how we can drive better services, better performance, but we will never divest the ownership of assets.\u201d\n\nThe partial privatisation of VicRoads was also pitched as injecting $7.9 billion into Victoria\u2019s coffers.\n\nUnder the VicRoads deal, the state maintains ownership of the service, the Victorian Ombudsman preserves its oversight and there were extensive talks with the Australian Services Union to ensure workers kept their jobs.\n\nHowever, a consortium comprising Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust and Macquarie Asset Management was allowed to run the agency\u2019s licensing and registration for the next 40 years.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d10055","text":"Hey OP are you a bot?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyb6ga","text":"Unless it's for torture purposes","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5geoh","text":"Was riding the warburton trail last weekend and my partner mentioned that Launching place bakery has a reputation for good apple cakes.\n\nOn a whim we decided to visit. Can confirm very good apple cakes.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3iwgi","text":"Also- will you be doing shift work and relying on public transport at weird hours? Check what is available. Dont want to spend all your money on uber\/taxis. And like anywhere, public transport can be dodgy late at night\/overnight.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d38xk0","text":"Is there a competition you can enter that into?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crkdoo","text":"so you are for child porn, snuff videos and the like?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1crheft","text":"And yet, the perpetrators of war crimes walk free. A national day of shame.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d40yp3","text":"41. 6 jobs across 2 careers. (Not including the casual dishie job out of high school. Graphic designer and then shifted into IT.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czdtt4","text":"Oh no\n\nAnyway\n\n(Also, I feel I should put some kind of text here to explain the appropriateness of the OhNoAnyway meme to the current context, and in particular to the political situation, not because I think it's honestly needing to be explained to most readers, but because it might serve to increase the perceived quality of the post. Perhaps something about how the speaker in the original meme is themselves a landlord, albeit apparently mostly of commercial property...?)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2uevz","text":"They\u2019re all the way down in Berwick too. There was a deer farm up near Wellington road that had a mass breakout years back and that\u2019s what\u2019s driven the population boom","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d41rdv","text":"ive saved a lot of money by not shopping at colesworth and instead eating the rich.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3eybn","text":"I inherited it. through my mother. you dont need to be born in australia to qualify for its citizenship, just need a parent who was.\n\nIm baffled you don't know something as basic as australian citizenship","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4o1ya","text":"Where to study VCE:\n\n\n\nBox Hill institute (City Campus) CAE offers VCE that might be appropriate. \n\n\n\nThere\u2019s many TAFEs that offer VCE, or VCE with vocational major. \n\nAlso, there\u2019s the free Adult Migrant English Program. \n\n\n\nEdit- what was the reason why Chisholm said she couldn\u2019t do VCE there? Have you approached other TAFEs?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5kce4","text":"The biggest issue with Perth is not being able to go into a supermarket at 5pm on a Friday night to get supplies.    Made me so glad to have moved from that hell hole 20+ years ago.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cpqqgf","text":"It really shits me, I'm happy living in a apartment, yet because of how Australian are, a stone's throw from the Sydney CBD I see mainly single family town houses, then a 20+ minute drive things start being built up into huge ass apartment buildings.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d31dkk","text":"Not a bad idea in itself but it works on choice; I can see that you\u2019re ripping me off so I\u2019ll go somewhere else instead.\u00a0\n\nThe problem is that despite Aldi or IGA\u2019s often having better deals, I can\u2019t do all my shopping at those places so I tend to end up at the big 2. I already know they\u2019re ripping me off but I don\u2019t have time to drive to 3 different places to get all the stuff I need. I don\u2019t usually have time to get just to my closest Aldi. And *the big 2 know* this too. They know I\u2019m gonna grumble then pay their shitty prices.\u00a0\n\nMore evidence isn\u2019t going to help.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d24t3a","text":"Between work and other obligations I've got 4 photos of me in my wallet stuck to cards. Each meaning something different to different agencies.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5yvdq","text":"It really is the best!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5yfds","text":"Isn't it a yellow line? \"Stand behind the yellow line\" sounds more familiar to me...","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4k42f","text":"Back in my day, cars didn't need babysitting with red arrows of delayed greens to let pedestrians start.\n\nYou just made a consious choice not to run people over.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d25xi7","text":"As a niche-interest protest party, the Greens care little about the impact their hardline positions would have on ordinary Australians. The undergraduate and destructive stance taken by G[reens leader Adam Bandt](\u00a0on the October 7 terrorist attacks by[\u00a0Hamas against Israel](\u00a0is proof enough of the harm the far-left party poses to\u00a0[Australia\u2019s community cohesion](\n\nThe inflammatory detour into foreign policy is calculated to embarrass Anthony Albanese but, as outrageous as the anti-Israel stand is, it is only part of a bigger threat that the Greens represent to our national identity and good government. When allowed to get close to the levers of power \u2013 as they did in de facto coalition with the Gillard Labor government, and with a balance-of-power position in the federal Senate today \u2013 the\u00a0[Greens are exposed](\u00a0for the wreckers they are.\n\nThe Albanese government has yet to prove it has the substance to stand up to the Greens. Its record to date is one of being too eager to cut a deal or shy away from a fight. Good policy \u2013 most recently legislation to give certainty to the offshore gas industry and discourage unjustified lawfare attacks by protest groups \u2013 has been put on ice to appease the Greens. Changes to the nation\u2019s environmental laws have been delayed because it is too difficult to find a sensible way to allow development and protect the natural world, something business supports.\n\nLabor already has said it will delay introducing legislation for its $13.7bn package of production credits for hydrogen producers and critical minerals processing announced in the federal budget to allow time to negotiate with the Greens. Whatever one may think about the Albanese government\u2019s corporate subsidy agenda, the Greens will only make it worse.\n\nThe Greens have pledged to use their balance-of-power position to frustrate the government\u2019s wider agenda. This includes housing, where by focusing on renters the Greens have outflanked the federal government electorally in its inner-city seats. Voters must heed the lessons of the minor parties. For all the high ideals expressed before the last election, the teals have failed to make an impression. The Greens, once again, have shown by their actions they will only make our politics and economy poorer for their interventions.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyee7t","text":"And the fossil fuel grift continues. \n\nHere's a bold prediction, we'll get to the end of this deal, and hey presto Origin will invent another excuse requiring yet more taxpayer dollars.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4vktg","text":"I couldn't find any information either but commenting to give the post some traction. Good luck!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4ru6q","text":"smart move for Albo to stay out of it, trumps still the front runner and if you go back and look at polling, the mugshot release of trump led to a huge spike in his numbers and i remember seeing opinion polling showing about 64% of people thought the charges against him were politically motivated, im not sure if the positive effect on trumps numbers will have diminishing returns but either way the democrats really need to change up their strategy if they want to win in November","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4kn6k","text":"I'm not sure where in NSW you are, but most areas have a Facebook page for people looking for work and business looking for staff. For example, I live in Port Stephens, mine is \"Port Stephens Positions Vacant and Wanted.\" \nLots of jobs are advertised here in areas like domestic cleaning, hotel cleaning, hospitality, retail, etc. \nOthers put up a little post about themselves, saying that they're looking for work, and often, people comment on places that are hiring. It's important to sell yourself well. Put thought into what you write.\nI know my son got a job doing night fill at Coles and then at Woolworths easily. He went and registered online and completed the application, then went to the stores and gave his resume with his applicant number on it.\nTraffic control is a great option. You'll need to do the training, but once you do, you'll earn double doing that than in most other entry-level positions. \n\nMake sure you have a good, well written resume and cover letter. When a business is getting 50 for one position, they read the ones that are well formatted and straight to the point.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wqfz","text":"I don't think it would win voters over but some polls suggest that Nuclear energy has public support with a majority supporting it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ct8xos","text":"Weak move by Hughes. \n\nCall a spade a spade and don\u2019t back down.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5xw1l","text":"I swear by the Aldi 3 ply, as good as Quilting but without the price","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csg89n","text":"Not that I don't think the narrative that the Liberals are good economic managers is a complete joke of an opinion and should be laughed at but this article is kind of shit and the way it goes about its analysis is also a joke. There is always an element of luck to governance but the Liberal party are reliant on it, case and point Howard and Menzies. The former presided over economic architecture created for him but missed the boat on capitalising on it for the benefit of the nation, and the latter was an astute politician that took advantage of the Labor - DLP split with great skill.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5b0v2","text":"If you want a small bar vibe with decent priced drinks - Prudence.\n\nSeems a bit loose and lax there, but the crowd is nice and the staff are too.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4qq3b","text":"I'm a Labor voter, but the State rep for Higgins who is a Green is more responsive. Even the previous Lib Federal member would respond. Though I did get blocked from her FB for asking a basic question.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwahc0","text":"I wouldn't see the push to a Republic as woke however putting it in the title for a Minister , may be.  Some of the Ministerial titles verge on the ridiculous as Albo tries to be relevant by being modern. If the push for a Republic like the Voice would need to be bipartisan then Albo lacks the leadership necessary again.  In fact does Albo really believe in a Republic or anything ?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3y8wb","text":"And the 15% tax as well","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3stts","text":"eh, it's just a car with a dent in it. does it really need a thousand dollar fix?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwcd9r","text":"It\u2019s no surprise Albo, Allen and Andrews went to the private Katy Perry concert at Pratt\u2019s mansion. The same location that hosted illegal family gatherings during Covid and were left untouched by Vicpol. Apparently Covid can tell if you\u2019re rich, or so Andrews thinks. \n\nAnd Pratt had a $4000 a head fundraiser for Andrews last election, while they were in for a $500 million recycling contract. \n\nAt least Vic Labor is open about its\u2019  conflicts and profits handsomely from them.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d61bgb","text":"Not for a long time, people can hide online behind their comments, getting approval from those of a similar mind. \n\nThe majority of those reading will skip it, because to address it either gives the author a buzz knowing that they've riled someone, and\/or opens the person trying to call it out up to abuse. \n\nIt's not a racism thing, it's not an Australian thing. It's a social media thing. \n\nThere is def casual racism in Australia, I'd like to think that a majority would call out a comment like this irl, but it depends very much on the context of who is saying it and where. \n\nWe're not really ones for showing much introspection, the denialism of Australians being racist at all usually gets howled down by many.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"Da Guido La Pasta in Carlton","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4y1lu","text":"I mean you're kinda right..","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2isfz","text":"So was it the job of the Labor party when they were in opposition to approve of the liberals policies?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d263x7","text":"The link looks legit. Next time try to redact the bit after the very last \"\/\" in the link (AY4FH1ene...) because it's usually a unique code for you and if you don't want to dox yourself.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpc5wo","text":"Presumably, she\u2019s talking about Victorians who received their primary and secondary education before meaningful content about Aboriginal people was included in the curriculum. I wouldn\u2019t have thought it was a particularly difficult point to understand, which is why d\u2019Arbrera\u2019s attempts to twist her words is so transparent.\n\nWhat\u2019s even more amusing is that d\u2019Arbrera attempts to describe the current curriculum as something terrible when it sounds\u2026 fine. Secondary school students are told about atrocities under colonisation and invited to consider which were deliberate. Heaven forbid we teach kids about facts and foster critical thinking! Truly , we live in a dystopia","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6dmad","text":"Science works.\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3y6tb","text":"Ahaha I was focusing on the dots! Yep, that's quality.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d15q3q","text":"I mainly drink shiraz and never do but I have friends who like to ice their Pinot Noir. I have seen waiters reel in horror but I couldn't care less and if you judge people for something like that you are a bit of a tool really.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cza07d","text":"We\u2019re in a small apartment, but we eat ours at the kitchen table.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvdo59","text":"I can't take anyone who uses the word cooker seriously anymore, it's internet brainrot at it's finest","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czvemb","text":"Well he can stick to appearing on the very highbrow Kyle and Jacky O show like any good PM does. Especially appearing on the Monday they debuted in Melbourne. Nice way to pay back the wedding invite. \n\nIf you\u2019re gonna lower the PM\u2019s role to that garbage Albo, you have no right to make any comment about the media in general.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2b2ny","text":"It's not a naturally evolved suburb.  Suburbs grow to work with their inhabitants, and gain a character over the years of being lived in.\n\nDocklands is a big concrete shopping center.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"Gemma\u2019s Simply Italian is an underrated one and is quite cozy inside!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3w59e","text":"I\u2019m all for a human rights charter, however I am cynical that it would actually make any difference in many of these types of cases. Robodebt was already unjustifiable under our current legal system, or even under the most basic level of scrutiny. \n\nThis is why the state is now up for huge sums in compensation for the wholly foreseeable harms it caused. \n\nThe problem we face is that ministers are willing to breach the laws for short term electoral gains. Being able to claim a balanced budget when they know full well that it was going to swing back and hit us in the chin after the next election cycle, but they did it anyway because that was future Australia\u2019s problem. \n\nDoubling down on extrajudicial sentencing after the high court has already ruled it out, shows that the bastardry is bipartisan. \n\nIf robodebt and asylum seeker policy is anything to go by, the electorate is completely unwilling to hold these bastards accountable, because we collectively have the memory of a goldfish in low oxygen water.  \n\nIt\u2019s not just a matter of time before it happens again, as the same income averaging is being used today - they are currently using it to claim vexatious debts from my mother who died 2 and a half years ago.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3rblp","text":"Bolognese. Stroganoff. Other rice and pasta based dishes. Marinara seafood mix goes a \\*long\\* way. Obviously mince\/pasta sauces\/etc do too. You could even go the whole hog -- spend $40, and use that extra $20 to buy ingredients to make your own sauces and store them for ages.\n\nI buy cheap frozen meals because they're like fucking $3 a pop for cheap brands and can be used to stretch out your other ingredients in a very cost effective way. The meat in them is rarely the best cut, but when you've got your own chicken breast etc to stretch them out -- it's very, very cost effective.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d13itp","text":"Yes. It\u2019s a great show for 2-8 year olds. It\u2019s also more tolerable for adults than most children\u2019s programs. It\u2019s on ABC iview which means that Australian residents can stream on demand anytime for free.\n\nAs an Australian it makes me proud because the show is quintessentially Australian without drawing upon stereotypes, tropes or being condescending.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4rtv7","text":"The train is a tourist thing. More about the journey than getting from A to B. That's why it's so expensive","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz7h14","text":"Using optical division to denounce decision. This is why Albo will be losing the next election","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4pxoc","text":"Ok so you want your income to exceed your expenses..that's generally a first step","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3qufm","text":"Dude was said quite a bit when I was younger (80's teenager), so it was just normal.\n\nIf I hear it these days I always think of Crush from Finding Nemo. ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpqqgf","text":"The government has just capped eligibility for some skills visas as 35.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5hevi","text":"I got a titanium one off Etsy that cost $9 plus shipping. Given that it's one of the toughest and lighest metals around, shipping was negligible also. \n\nSpend money on good times, not a thing that will instantly drop in value once it leaves the seller.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2emnt","text":"Trans are always unreliable and the PtV app is *waaaaayyy* too optimistic. Thinking that you can get through on a 4 minute connection or something. As if they aren\u2019t continually running off scheduled times.\n\nThey get held up by traffic, the passenger load is unpredictable. The passengers are unreliable. Sometimes there\u2019s a million people every stop takes 3 minutes to load\/unload. Sometimes there are none and they fly through the stops. \n\nSometimes there are people trying to bring a shopping trolley onto the tram and then the tram driver needs to have an argument. And then the passenger eventually agrees to unload their trolley and shouts at everyone to help them. And then the passenger starts huffing and hurling abuse. And then the tram driver has to stop again to ask them to stop. And then the driver has to call the cops. And then the driver maybe feels a little bad for calling the cops maybe and warns the passenger to get off at next stop because the cops will be waiting at the one after that. And then the passenger has to wrestle 10 bags off the tram. And all that takes time. And in the meantime, I missed my train.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3stts","text":"Because they don't want to pay for the damage? Them leaving means you pay $600 instead of $0 but it also means they pay $0 instead of probably a couple grand that the repairs would cost.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1nhyk","text":"There you go.\n\nSomeone's taken a cut at the data.\n\n[","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5hevi","text":"Uniform Black over in Seddon. He hand makes everything. I bought my wedding ring there and I can't speak highly enough of him.\n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3qfcq","text":"Ghosts need to wash their clothes, too\n\n(I\u2019m not sure, maybe some kind of macrame art that\u2019s being protected by the bags?)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz2fx4","text":"We\u2019re all economic units to be managed. That\u2019s the reality.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3n0qc","text":"I mean if the reason is \u201cgive this place a wide berth\u201d sure.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0n6f8","text":"We are replacing non-intermittent assets with intermittent ones.\n\nMore frequently this causes the market operator to have to step in and cap the market which is a failure.\n\nYou can say that the market is not compatible with the transition if you like, but however you say it, the problem must be solved.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0vfvd","text":"No AI. It\u2019s 100% natural intelligence (mine)!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5mgp1","text":"The RFD museum in Darwin is amazing. It has VR headsets so you can be on a Japanese plane bombing Darwin. And heaps of Holograms","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"I\u2019ve been to Paris and (some decades ago), Shanghai. The main takeaway I have, and I\u2019d assume the same for Berlin is that we\u2019re talking densely populated cities which actually have cycling infrastructure physically seperate from vehicular lanes, and certainly in Paris, the streets are narrow so cars are not travelling at speed. It\u2019s the direct opposite of here where cars travel at speed on the same roads as bikes. \n\nI\u2019d love to cycle more places, but bike helmets aren\u2019t putting me off, it\u2019s the lack of a safe cycling route that won\u2019t leave me on a bike at the mercy of a dickhead in an unnecessary 4WD and potentially dead or brain damaged. \n\nFix the infrastructure and maybe then we look at helmets.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4m7aw","text":"Few things are as scummy as stolen valor.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36av0","text":"It's an easy drive done it a heap with my two kids.\n\nMy method wss leave at around 4am so you're clear of Newcastle and have zero traffic issues getting out of Sydney. Also so your not tired, after an early night with the car already packed and fueled so your ready to just hit the highway.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5m3af","text":"Eastern. Sometimes you see a stretch of fresh bitumen and wonder \"When the hell did they do this without lane closures, I went through here 3 days ago?!?\" unlike the months of works on the Monash for the same thing. (Current ring road works excepted.)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2yvih","text":"I can't even give away things free without scammers getting in the way. Go to a reputable shop and buy one. Then the warranty is local.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3eybn","text":"If you're working full time on that kind of wage and not trying to save money you'll be just fine.\u00a0\n\nOut of pocket healthwise you might be paying a gap at the GP (about 20-60) or at a specialist (more varied), depending on which state you are in you may want to purchase ambulance cover to avoid being charge for an ambulance ride should you need one (cover is very cheap, typically under 200p\/a but a single ride is also cheap, under 2k). Hobedtly if you are healthy there is a good chance you'll only fork out for twice yearly dental cleans and ambulance cover which amounts to about $500-700.\u00a0\n\nAlcohol and cigarettes are heavily taxed so very expensive but food isn't too expensive, eating out is pretty cheap compared to other countries.\u00a0\n\nCar are very expensive. Fuel is pretty cheap.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d28erd","text":"Taking flash photos of the little penguins when they've been explicitly and repeatedly told not to. Though we should probably have clearer signage in more languages.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4s8jw","text":"They're called clouds","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0wqfz","text":"I think we already know the answer to that. \nEspecially considering how tone deaf the LNP are to the electorate.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czih0z","text":"I'm not denying that. I just don't think that's what you're going to get from a tafe course","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d59lcc","text":"I\u2019m lucky because I\u2019m with aami","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csw003","text":"I don't think the rich and powerful would approve of you defaming them like that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5zu8b","text":"Fantastic Furniture and IKEA","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2dqiz","text":"I've currently got a quote for around $3200 for supply and install of carpet (lower end carpet choice) + good underlay for three funnily shaped rooms. I think there are probably cheaper options but it seems reasonable to me given how much labour is costing at the moment.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d58djq","text":"Thanks for the reply. \n\nYeah I have applied there for a role (and been rejected). I guess I could apply to more positions. I was hoping to move away from the retail\/selling feeling, which alot of the Youi roles are, even if it's office based instead.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4fwv1","text":"Take the sponsorship and on your days off research where you want to go live once you're free. It's too good an opportunity to refuse... the worlds kind of volatile right now and a right to residency in a second country is precious. You're giving up something irreplaceable over a few months of just doing what youve been doing.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1crpjgi","text":"Almost like what they\u2019re saying in the U.S regarding the southern border. How bizarre.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctsmdx","text":"Remember when they tried to make Albo lose the election because he couldn\u2019t remember an economic figure one day. Bet we won\u2019t hear about this ever again.. \n\nSeriously if labor had the track record of some of the liberals members and their short comings and questionable morals, they\u2019d never be voted in again.. yet when it\u2019s the Libs in plain sight no one bats an eyelid!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4wbf1","text":"Anyone have advice for sneakers as a treadmill only runner? I\u2019ve been wearing 8+ year old Nikes bc I\u2019m weird about \u201cwaste\u201d but me knees are screaming and my toes don\u2019t care much for me either","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4qkqz","text":"There is no extra leave after night shift. The traditional pattern has been to take rest days from one fortnight and put them with the usual four rest days in the next fortnight to have six consecutive days off after working 7 night shifts followed by two AM or PM shifts but those days aren't 'extra leave'. Since 2011 there has been a recovery day after night shift so that people finishing a 7am on a Sunday aren't required to come back to work at 3pm the same day but that's hardly 'extra leave' either.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctuvdq","text":"Where is the completely hapless Pesutto and Victorian Liberal opposition. Labor are in the media everywhere for all of the wrong reasons and he is doing nothing.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq5co4","text":"Fash sympathisers like them because they're class traitors.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d619sm","text":"Okay then figure out how much it costs to hire an excavator to move those rocks and there's your answer","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d68v3n","text":"It feels to me as though Australia is just kind of holding its breath. We supposedly 'have it all' but everything is just so pricey. Festivals and art shows all follow an incredibly predictable formula. There are a whole bunch of wars going on and protests each weekend. People staring at phones. We've lost our oomph.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d619sm","text":"shout out you yangs i love that place","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d41swp","text":"Why do you need to ask this? What does tip toeing on egg shells do? Just say it bro","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36ejb","text":"Right? What the absolute fuck?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3zccb","text":"Nah, it's not from TV, or even a foreign  parent.  that is someone who spent a lot of time in America or Canada.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0ltkw","text":"I generally think hate speech laws are a poor idea. \n\nI'm not sure it's a proportionate response to hate speech to jail someone nor is enough gained by curtailing freedom this way.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2lukw","text":"Yeah I got a call from the police once asking if I'd opened X, Y and Z bank accounts last year. Turns out someone stole my mail, even though I check it every day. Sadly didn't get to keep the money. (They didn't steal anything from me minus my name to open a few accounts)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5yfds","text":"Love how people think the yellow line is for safety from approaching trains.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxv5kt","text":"Labor should just pause immigration for 2 years easy landslide victory","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4kufy","text":"My kiddo works at The Waiters' Restaurant, in the CBD. She's well-looked after :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d23u2t","text":"Heard that but also heard that it\u2019s really difficult to get into the mines!!\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0p5nx","text":"He claimed that by \u201crebalancing the migration program \u2026 the Coalition would free up almost 40,000 additional homes in the first year. And well over 100,000 homes in the next five years.\u201d\n\nHow this number was calculated, he didn\u2019t say. It appeared all the more dubious given his Fordham interview suggested Dutton did not know which migration numbers applied to which year, and given the big discrepancy between him and his treasury spokesman over the size of the cuts.\n\nThere is, in any case, reason to question the extent to which migration numbers affect the cost of buying or renting a home. During the Covid lockdowns, when Australia\u2019s borders were closed and net migrant numbers fell to zero, prices continued to rise rapidly.\n\nAccording to modelling from the Grattan Institute, high migration does have some effect on housing costs. For every 100,000 above the long-term average, rents rise about 1 per cent. Thus last year, by this estimate, Australia\u2019s record number of migrants probably pushed them up about 3 per cent.\n\nBut, says Trent Wiltshire, Grattan\u2019s deputy director of migration and labour markets, \u201casking rents have been rising 10 per cent a year. So it\u2019s a factor, but certainly not the driving factor.\u201d\n\nMigrants bring economic benefits as well as costs. Based on the rather sketchy information provided by Dutton, says Wiltshire, \u201cit looks like there would be a decline in skilled migration of around 135,000 over the next four years, compared to the existing skilled migration intake.\n\n\u201cSuch a reduction would mean the lifetime fiscal cost from these skilled migrants not being here would be $34 billion.\u201d\n\nWith all due respect to Grattan, it is very hard to assess precisely what the economic consequences of Dutton\u2019s proposed cuts would be, because so little detail has been provided about exactly where they would fall.\n\nWhat is clear is that for more than a year, Dutton and other members of the Coalition have been fanning public concerns about the number of migrants coming to Australia, and blaming the Labor government for the influx.\n\nThis is simply not true, policy experts say. In fact, the explosion in NOM was substantially a consequence of decisions made by the previous Coalition government in response to the pandemic.\n\nIn the 2019 budget, the last before the pandemic, NOM was forecast to be about 270,000, a little above the long-term average. Instead, because of Covid, it plunged close to zero for two years.\n\nWhen the borders reopened, the Morrison government made a series of panicked decisions aimed at encouraging workers, and particularly overseas students, to return.\n\n\u201cIn 2021-22 the Coalition government introduced extraordinary policies to boost \u2026 numbers,\u201d says Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of the Department of Immigration. \u201cPolicies such as unlimited work rights for students, fee-free student and working holiday-maker applications and a special Covid visa.\n\n\u201cThe message to industry was to go forth and expand as rapidly as possible and hang the consequences. So it did. Not only did universities go berserk recruiting as many students as they could, but private providers also boomed as the regulators were in no position to police quality. It was like an unregulated gold rush,\u201d says Rizvi.\n\nThe changes amounted to an attempt to undo the damage caused by the Coalition government\u2019s shabby treatment of overseas students when Covid hit, says Phil Honeywood, chief executive of the International Education Association of Australia.\n\nIn contrast with countries such as Britain and Canada, which provided support for overseas students to stay, \u201cScott Morrison told students to just go home,\u201d says Honeywood.\n\n\u201cThat caused incredible damage to Australia\u2019s reputation as a safe, welcoming study destination country.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36ejb","text":">no idea how diplomacy works\n\n>getting in a jab about sports ball\n\n\n\nvery archetypical reddit comment","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d60hbf","text":"My concept bar involves me walking to the local bottle shop, becoming dismayed at the poor selection, settling on the least bad option before returning home and sitting on the lounge trying to enjoy myself, watching bad youtube content and listening to music.\n\nYou have to cook and serve your own food, which usually involves a small convection oven \/ air fryer and frozen foods - with the possibility of burning yourself on the rack after one too many.\n\nIt's super immersive and realistic, and just as social as the local bars I've been to.\n\nHaven't decided on a name yet.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3exqq","text":"the average anyone doesn't get sailing lessons.\n\naustralia is one of the top sailing countries in the world, bud","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0n6f8","text":"Yeah, that's probably why","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2gt0e","text":"Australia doesn't really have crack.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36ejb","text":"Not sure about that, the place has always been very sketchy. My dad had stories from over 50 years ago about that place.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wqfz","text":"I\u2019m down for nuclear power. It\u2019s a very sensible solution for clean energy stability with room for future increases in demand. Tack on renewable energy sources where it makes sense. Decomm coal where nuclear is available.\n\nThe real big win would be a major breakthrough in energy transport, though. I doubt anything will happen in that space, though. :(","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d267b2","text":"There's also the time spent coming up with the questions. But maybe they were done by chatgpt or similiar.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3adea","text":"You sound like a lot of work.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cql8oq","text":"That\u2019s like the bloke I bumped into a fortnight ago I used to play footy with. He\u2019s moved to Melb. I asked him what he\u2019s doing for work as he used to be self employed but went under during Covid lockdowns. \n\nGot a job on the Big Build coz he grew up in Melb back in the day and has CFMEU contacts. Zero qualifications or trade - he told me that. $140k a year. \n\nI asked him what he does and \u201cnothing, I do nothimg\u201d is the exact reply. When pressed for better details he said he technically supervises someone but he said because that person\/people do nothing he considers himself to do nothing. \n\nWelcome to Victoria. And wait for the Union clowns to tell us how dangerous it is or defend this nonsense. \n\nI dunno why the teachers, cops, nurses, aged care workers etc etc haven\u2019t twigged to where all their hard earned taxes are going. lol.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxv5kt","text":"Angus Taylor is shockingly bad, period.\n\nDo you ever see him in Question Time? He gets his arse handed to him every single time he opens his mouth. The bloke is the dumbest politician going right now behind Sussan Ley.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4tu5f","text":"Because the government insisted on royalty contracts that had very generous terms for their mates in the industry.\n\n>instead of older, inefficient, royalty regime.\n\nwhy is old bad and why is proper compensation inefficient?\n\n>Public funding was invested in discovery and operation of their gas projects and now they reap the rewards. We didn't gamble $400b of public funding on finding and operating these gas fields so why should we get a similar level of benefit?\n\nWe stole it from East Timor, we funded forged hydrographic surveys to facilitate this. And what little we left them we forced them to accept our dodgy royalty contracts too.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cptts3","text":"Why oh why am I not surprised?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3rblp","text":"Spaghetti bolognaise - $6ish for 500g of mince, $2-3 for a jar of sauce, 50c worth of pasta, serves 4 people ($2,50 per serving). If you buy more mince in bulk and more pasta in bulk and make your own sauce it can be as little as $1 per serving. \n\nBuy cheap cuts of meat, cut it up yourself, fry it up with some soy sauce, onions, garlic, a few handfuls of cooked rice,  some chopped carrots and beans, crack an egg in towards the end, you've got yourself a quick and easy fried-rice analogue with some more protein and decent flavour, should cost around $2 per person.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3t5mt","text":"charcoal chicken in sunshine is the best one","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6a115","text":"Just drive out to Broken Hill and Silverton","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d23h6l","text":"Hi, thanks for your comment. Yeah, I was once told some time ago that there\u2019s a specific part within the machine that just breaks down all the time, so they have to keep calling them back to fix it?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5qq1n","text":"Thank you","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d41669","text":"San Telmo\/Asado, La Luna (get in before it closes)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5a48g","text":"Hmm. Nautica has been the lads' clothing of choice for over thirty years and is the only brand you've mentioned that evokes themes of lads. Tommy and Ralph Lauren are too big to be influenced by teenagers trying to be hard, and if history has proved anything, the Nautica brand hasn't suffered, either.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"China could easily fuck Australia in a week.   Refuse all imports and ban all exports to Australia.\n\nI give Australia five days after that was announced for Australia to be financially ruined and the streets in chaos as most things we consume become highly expensive straight away and then unavailable.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d25rda","text":"there's cafes and bars an pubs near Burnley,  and theres heaps more bars and places to go out on swan st\/ church toward south yarra. and thats all walkable.  plus  PT is excellent from there","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2ex8s","text":"Didn't think I needed to add \/s to that commnt.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1kgz4","text":"Well, your life is over..no more strong tasting foods, smells, being near people, yelling at clouds and cats, peeing 15 times a night, 3 ups and downs before you get up, then make a groaning noise when you get up, cold when it's 35 degrees and hot when it's 10 degrees, more bumps and scrapes on your car, drive with your indicator on, always asking people \"here, what does that say, I can't read it,\"\nWalk around looking for your glasses, even though you are wearing them, take a long time to bend over and pick things up, walk side to side up the aisles at the shop, fart when you walk along and not realise you are, talk loud because you can't hear....","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36uru","text":"Hot take but even if they aren't \"Australian\" if a crime is committed here we shouldn't deport them (unless their government wants them back and we can guarantee punishment). Deportation is wrong, and the crime happened here so it is our problem.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1qksq","text":"Bizzare? How else do you funnell money into your mates pockets at the top level, ban it, force a blackmarket, regulate it, funnell money into pharmacy guild and big tabacco are best mates with Greg Hunt and he got out as soon he got rich.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2gnlt","text":"Heat-flation","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwahc0","text":"So yet another broken promise. No Republic referendum by the sounds of it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cp7krx","text":">They\u2019ve become big business, employing lots of academics \u00a0\u00a0\n\n\n\n\nUniversities are hiring academics...?\u00a0 That is like saying \"engineering companies have become big businesses employing lots of engineers\".\n\n\nYes, that is the point.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d10vog","text":"if you just want the facts then look at the AEMO website for some graphs to answer the first & third question. second and fourth would be covered by something on DFAT\/AER website I think","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4t7ip","text":"Mackay looks great, in the rear view mirror","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qkqz","text":"I know officers .. you couldn't pay me enough.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5a48g","text":"Well look what happened to Burberry in its chav era.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2tgir","text":"I\u2019d happily pay higher rates for no more development in my area.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cql8oq","text":"Right of entry breaches are mainly frivolous. My statement is a generalisation, no to any specific act.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ycgm","text":"Then go and live in America.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwv29h","text":"Biden won't make any decisions until after the election","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2h47p","text":"I learned some hard lessons, not so much financially, but with my grandfathers quality of life.  We had to move him to a better facility.\n\nSo my tips would be:\n\n- do the other residents look happy in that environment or bored, plonked in front of cartoons in the common room.\n- check out the activities board. If they don't have one, run. If the activities are all children's games... also run.\n- does the facility have in house chefs making delicious fresh food, or do they simply warm up bland pre-packaged frozen meals. \n- will the facility allow residents to have their own mini fridge in their room, access to internet and phone.\n- observe staff interactions with other residents when inspecting facilities. You can tell very quickly if it's a warm and caring relationship between them.\n- ensure any cultural\/religious needs can also be met.\n\nWhen we found a facility that could provide my grandfather all these things, he was very happy and thoroughly enjoyed his time there, right till the end.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d63c4y","text":"It is downright scary how quick Australians are to give up their rights. America may have some problems but at least they know the importance of preserving their freedom.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2b2ny","text":"Interestingly I find that Docklands and Southbank are in a similar place of being hated but have totally opposite problems. \n\nDocklands has a decent ground plane with lots of space for shops, a nice street layout, and some good parks. But there is absolutely nothing to draw people to the area. It\u2019s in a weird spot off to the side of the city so people aren\u2019t just happening upon it or travelling by. It\u2019s become a quiet residential area. \n\nSouthbank on the other hand has lots to draw people to it and lots of people pass through, but is just a terrible place to be in (except along the river front). No one considered how people would interact or move through the space. The towers provide very little ground amenities, and everything is separated by massive roads which are unpleasant to be near. \n\nThe great spots in Melbourne tend to have a great ground plane, lots to see and do, excellent walkability, and are central to something or somewhere.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cu98y1","text":"Shouldn't inner city residents be catching public transport and car sharing?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d01754","text":"If you were really lucky, you got to get a lunch order from the school canteen.\n\nHot dog day happened once a year and was a pretty big deal in 1979 for a seven year old","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3d6tk","text":"You sound a lot like me. I too thought I had insomnia. Turns out I have Delayed Phase Sleep Disorder, which is a Circadian rhythm disorder (i.e your body clock). For most people their Circadian rhythm makes them feel sleepy around 8-10pm and then rouses them awake around 5-7am. Mine thinks the hours for sleeping are between 4am and midday. So I have trouble falling asleep until near morning no matter how exhausted I am, and even if I do manage to get enough sleep I feel like crap until lunchtime.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3k5pj","text":"I think I had bifocal glasses when I was younger and absolutely hated them. Just looking for the same as what I have now which I think only correct long distance mostly.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d29da3","text":"Can we please get a viable alternatives to these morons","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czynj3","text":"Whitlam wanted to shut it down did he not?\n\n\n\nNek Minit","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0ny0b","text":"> Where is that assumption in the Gencost report?\n\nHey dude. You can find the GenCost report here: \n\nAt the topic of page 32, the first sentence on the page, it says this:\n\n> **Our approach is to include a large\u2010scale nuclear cost that represents the cost associated with a continuous building program.** Costs from new or sporadic national building programs are at risk of incurring FOAK premiums. While we recognise the likely occurrence of a FOAK premium, where possible, GenCost does not include them for other technologies not yet deployed in Australia and so does not intend to do so for large\u2010scale nuclear. South Korea was identified as the best representation of a continuous building program.\n\nThe cost is literally based on South Korea which has been building reactors since 1970. That figure is WAY undercooked and its still fucking ridiculous. \n\nNuclear is massive distraction in this country.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d41swp","text":"Perfectly ok. The word wasn't invented by indigenous people...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3p306","text":"Back when London and New York were building subways, Melbourne was busy becoming was the richest city in the world and the second-largest (after London) in the British Empire.  \nHowever Melbourne also has a history has of really poor government, a tradition that remains today.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2ieem","text":"You missed the bit from the determination  - not reported (are you surprised?) - that RCWV also accepted he DID NOT satisfy the FIRST LEG of the tripartite test?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2lukw","text":"Had this happen to me - didn't even realise my bank card was expiring and they had sent me a new one. \nNo activation required at all. \nThey went on a shopping spree in my local area buying cigarettes from every supermarket and servo, always under the \"tap and go\" limit.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4qkqz","text":"5 weeks of annual leave is standard for shift workers.\n\nThe other 4 weeks are usually ADOs from working shifts above the standard 38 hour week.\n\nIt's a pretty shit gig.\n\nThey get spat on, punched, and kicked.\n\nThey see murders, assaults and the worst of humanity.\n\nOn top of that, [they have to make split-second decisions while everyone else gets 10 months to tear it apart](\n\nYou get shat on by the community, management, and the government when something you had 2 seconds to decide in the heat of the moment.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5j6wm","text":"It's an internet meme. Same as everyone assumes every American has an assault rifle under the bed and every Chinese migrant is cashed up to the tits and is only in other countries to buy up a hundred properties","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qysf","text":"A lot of comments are thinking they're above this? If it's a super busy period and somebody passes you the note while they're holding the Chinese text side your brain would be on autopilot and already assume it's a real $50 note as you're not thinking it'd be a counterfeit due to the small chance you'd ever receive one.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0upb1","text":"Did you read the OP has a place overseas where labour is cheap, they wont two fucks about rules or regulations..","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d25xi7","text":"I'll vote for them when they end the hypocrisy. E.g, more than 50% of elected state & federal MPs own multiple investment properties when they bemoan property as an investment and when they denounce the actions of Hamas etc.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2zyb1","text":"They might give 2 months supply, but doubtful any more. It\u2019s highly addictive and loses efficacy fairly quickly.\n\nHave you tried Prazosin (Minipress)?\n\nIt\u2019s used for veterans\u2019 PTSD nightmares.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2hg8b","text":"Instead of Darwin, do the Daintree forest tour in cairns, you\u2019ll see crocodiles and the tropical mountain ranges that are pretty.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nAlso Phillip Island will be freezing! You can see fairy penguins in other places too. Might be better at during another month when you want to do Tasmania. Melbourne is also very cold in August, but it\u2019s a bit more sheltered than Phillip Island. Take a beanie that covers your ears and a big puffy jacket. Only to go into tshirts and shorts when you change to cairns  your body might become shocked.\n\n\nSeems like a very compacted trip! It does take numerous hours to fly to and from these places so I hope you have enough time for everything! Best of luck.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csg89n","text":"It\u2019s no surprise to anyone who actually knows the details.\n\nTo those who just listen to commercial media they\u2019ve been brainwashed with \u201cLNP are the best economic managers\u201d propaganda since 1996. \n\nFor instance I know someone who voted ALP last election, with the justification of \u201cI\u2019m voting ALP because I hate Scomo and want him gone but Liberals are the best economic managers so I\u2019ll probably vote for them in 2025 because I don\u2019t want Labor stuffing up the economy for too long\u201d. When i tried to show him all the actual facts he refused, it was all \u201cc\u2019mon mate Labor are just a bunch of wannabe socialists who spend all our money and get us into debt, the Libs have their bad points but EVERYONE knows the Libs are the best economic managers\u201d\n\nThe same guy who railed about \u201cLabor breaking their promise!\u201d on the stage 3 tax cut even though he himself got a larger cut than he would\u2019ve under the Liberals. There\u2019s some people you can\u2019t help","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3n0qc","text":"When I see the confederate flag I think of the Dukes of Hazzard. Oh and racism.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2tszn","text":"Thank you!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2y6sl","text":"Outside major towns like Bendigo and Ballarat, there are quite a few bus stops that are old and barely used. East of Bendigo is mainly bushland though, but you might have a bit more like north and west of town","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d64uxd","text":"Unless the person in question is subbing for you, you don't get a say when they smoke.\nYou're paying for the job, not their hourly and you're not their boss.\nHope this helps.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":"given that im betting the main demographic effected by this law is children and young adults, that seems a bit much. that's more jail time than you get for groping, for example.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36fk0","text":"An accurate, well-structured and dignified statement - that really shouldn't even need to be made.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d20ln6","text":"Australia has become a little warmer in winter since we broke off from Antarctica. Having said that, it can still leave you looking for a welder for your brass monkey. \n\nYou will be good while in the car but wind chill can be a problem along the coast. We often have fantastic winter days depending on weather systems on the day. Melbourne is well known for if you don't like our weather - wait 10 minutes.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2y3ra","text":"Gembrook is a long way from anywhere.... and this is coming from someone who grew up in Emerald.... which itself is a long way from anywhere.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d41swp","text":"Sounds silly but I cannot see a problem here.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d25d2i","text":"Morning 6:30 - 10AM\n\nAfternoon 2:30 - 6:30PM\n\nMonday seems to be the lightest, especially when there are RDOs scheduled for larger industrial projects.  Fridays coming in on the Monash were always busy at these times in the afternoon. \n\nI used to travel to Pakenham from the Inner West every day, and could see the hell of going into the city\/out of the city at these times. \n\nBTW, it was no easier going in in the afternoon.  I'd leave Pakenham at 4:30, and sometimes get home at 7:30.  Best I did was 45 minutes.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d34g2t","text":"Local one in Northcote had its windows smashed in last night too, just saw it on my way to work.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2lukw","text":"get a free credit report done and check you arent a target of identity theft, my father had 40k worth of debt racket under his name from it that he had to spend weeks fighting.\n\nits best to do it with all three of the agencies as they dont have consistent information:\n\n* [Experian]( \n* [illion](\n* [Equifax](\n\nif you do find ur identity has been stolen, suggest using idcare to getting free support: [","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2ct0t","text":"Just ask them to go for a drink. Simple.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3vthe","text":"Because it literally is Australia's fox news...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czd8d4","text":"Sure, message me, I go to lots of pub trivia.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4k6zi","text":"Can you please explain how Waze helps?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4wbf1","text":"Does anyone know if there is anywhere in Melbourne you can get a German style D\u00f6ner kebab?\n\n\nIt's essentially the same as a kebab but made with a Turkish bread style bun instead of a flat bread.\n\n\nI found one once in Bendigo and it was on the menu as a D\u00f6ner burger.\u00a0\n\n\nLooks like the photo at the top of this article:\n\n\n\n\nThanks","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d59r41","text":"That's ridiculous. \n\nBut because people are too embarrassed\/shy to say not thanks, it sells at that price and just encourages all prices to be increased. Don't be afraid to walk away if you don't like the price.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2dv3l","text":"I saw an article about a lady who was thrown by a tram slamming brakes and it shattered her kneecap and did a whole load of other injuries. Article said the tram driver was actually mad at the inconvenience and told her to get off the tram coz she was \u2018causing delays\u2019. \n\nI\u2019d say PTV has changed their health&safety policies that if they have to do an emergency brake manoeuvre they have to check on passengers","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4yemq","text":"So many great beaches, but my personal favorite is Valla beach, tiny town but spectacular views","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3xy68","text":"Oh thanks so much! Going to give Mable a try.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4hkgy","text":"I am not trans but am sending you lots of well wishes. I hope you find the right person to talk to <3","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d65u9u","text":"It's honestly not a good time to be entering the Casino industry. There has been a lot of redundancies lately with rumours of more to come. That's assuming they're even hiring much.\n\nEnterprise agreement with conditions\/pay is here: [","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":"so\n\ngovt wastes time,making it jailable for up to six years to send fake porn.\n\nBut a dude literally,burned a person to death as an NDIS career by putting then in boiling water,and no charges will be laid because the provider is too large to admonish as if they collapsed  services would suffer..\n\nNot saying deepfake porns not an issue,but it's probably not even in top 100 of the largest issues we need adressed.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz84qa","text":"The opposite, I think. I tend to try to blend in with the locals, depending on where I am.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d367a1","text":"If only rent housing and cost of living could go back to 2010.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyk40i","text":"Just bring in a proper UBI and be done with it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d51qif","text":"Man who decides to write shit like this and end it with \"Thoughts?\" only to ignore everyone except the one other user that confirms their bias. \n\nLike what's the fuckin point? You don't want peoples thoughts, you want their adherence to your view.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4k6zi","text":"I think it would only be fair if they also started using a test that would still be positive up to a week after drinking alcohol.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6aucv","text":"Plenty of businesses pay for their use of that space, and inconvenience far fewer people, and put fewer people in danger than the shitty scooter companies.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3w59e","text":"I like what germany has\n\nThey take it so serious\n\nDeutche telecom got fined,when they brought a defunct  NON connected to the net server back online and got found to have just a few hundred customers details\n\n}They dont fuck around with privacy there\n\nIt should be no more than,require ID to create a a unique hash ID for the customer,tie their account details to that ..then delete all original documents..  should be no personal details for anyone to peruse   if ur 2FA matches the hash,it's you.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2dqiz","text":"I was really happy with them","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36j3j","text":"Shitting in Howard's metamucil","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2gt0e","text":"\u201ci don\u2019t like hearing and seeing poors and crazies. why can\u2019t we send them to the lunatic asylum?\u201d","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qysf","text":"The Chinese letters are pretty large and obvious which makes it even weirder","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0w729","text":"Wrong. If it\u2019s credit it will apply a surcharge","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2k5bf","text":"Ur never too old to parrtaaay","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4hwzs","text":"Yeah I'd like to see how that works out in the long term. \n\nI am sure landlords or shop owners will have a way of charging tenants for any loss or extra charges they may incur. That is how business is. Any cost gets passed on down the line until it is the end buyer who ultimately pays more for retail goods. Which in turn will drive more retail purchases online.\n\nIt is a sad, but the retail strip & shopping centre is a dying market & has been for many years.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cww9te","text":"Ya... So does my backup generator at home. The point? I have a backup generator for a reason .","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d276je","text":"Tell him,\n\n\"Bro. Not long ago I asked you how you were doing, and you said you wanted to kill yourself. Not to get all dramatic, but if you were calling for help, then I'm not gonna be the guy that hears the call and then just rolls over and goes right back to sleep. Is there anything on your mind? I am here, mate, we can grab a drink and talk things out any time you want to, no judgement.\"","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2g5iz","text":"Disgusting move, government. Way to create a whole generation of Andrew Tate acolytes.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4iz7u","text":"Lots of people meet their partners and\/or future spouses at work. We, as a society are being squeezed so hard for productivity - what choice do some have?\n\nI don't agree when there is a power imbalance, or conflict of interest - but if Derek in IT wants to date Tiffany in the building services department, let them.\n\nI would go to their wedding and choose the veal scallopini as my main.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4vktg","text":"Probably not but if you can get out of the house pax is in October and has an a space dedicated to accessibility with a lot of come and try stuff","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4t7ip","text":"I love Mackay, it\u2019s got everything I need, beautiful beaches all within 5min drive of my house, beautiful rainforest national park an hour drive away, great fishing, mud crabbing prawn catching, not much traffic some nice restaurants and coffee shops and that country town feel. If you\u2019re coming from a major city you might think it\u2019s dull and boring but a place is what you make of it, don\u2019t compare it other places and take it for what it is.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d276je","text":">how seriously would you take the threat\n\nThat's a tough one. It's incredibly difficult to judge how strong someone is, mentally. And I'm not a psychiatrist, so there's no fucking way I'm going to trust my own judgement.\n\nMy advice is that \u2014\u00a0don't rely on your own judgement. Because this is too important to get wrong.\n\nIt's also hard to know if you should have a word with his superiors or not \u2014\u00a0your colleague would have done that themselves if they wanted to.\n\nHaving said that, as someone who is a manager, I would absolutely want to know that one of my employees is working too much. I don't really know how hard someone is working unless I'm closely supervising them... and frankly I don't have time to do that. I've got too many people under me. I rely on people telling me if they need to be given a lighter workload.\n\nThe analogy I'd use is looking at someone carrying a cardboard box. What's in the box? It could be an empty box or full of lead weights. How could I ever know? You need to tell me. I sure as heck don't want the person carrying the box to hurt themselves and need back surgery. But I'm also not likely to interrupt their work and check how heavy the box is, unless they're a new employee still being trained.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d51qif","text":"Um I think I'd rather a broken helmet than a broken skull. You can replace a helmet. you can't replace a life.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1j6ic","text":"I am really not sure what they achieve. Was the idea created by aboriginal people? Or is it just some white person sorry but no sorry thing","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cuq695","text":"Higher taxes and licences for multiple home owners.Housing shouldnt be a buisness for people who are unqualified to be responsable landlords.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyk225","text":"Post replies need to be substantial and represent good-faith participation in discussion. Comments need to demonstrate genuine effort at high quality communication of ideas. Participation is more than merely contributing. Comments that contain little or no effort, or are otherwise toxic, exist only to be insulting, cheerleading, or soapboxing will be removed. Posts that are campaign slogans will be removed. Comments that are simply repeating a single point with no attempt at discussion will be removed. This will be judged at the full discretion of the mods.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5iuvf","text":"I thought it was pretty good and I've been to Melbourne white night many times ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ow4j","text":"I am not a bartender.\n\nGewurzhaus makes a Mulled Wine spice blend, which will make your task very easy.\n\n\n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d35xyt","text":"No such thing as value for money when it comes to skiing in Australia. Borrowing gear if you don\u2019t have any is about the only way you\u2019ll save money. The real value for money is flying to New Zealand. \n\nBuller is your best option though if Hotham is too far. It\u2019s both beginner and intermediate friendly, but yeah, be prepared to open your wallet.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d08tkm","text":"I too, am also ruling a baby bonus out.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4r3ap","text":"Wow what a great time for me to have forgotten everywhere I've traveled with my family lol. I mean my family really enjoyed going to the Grampians. Just hope you don't mind driving in forests and winding roads. It's mostly for walking and hiking btw. Idk how underrated it is though.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3a0uz","text":"Yes, and wear ugly shoes, lease a BMW and be hated by your own mum","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4r7ks","text":"In Banyule around the hospital zone it means that anyone can park there during those hours, but if you have a permit for that zone, there is no time limit.\n\nIf you don\u2019t have a permit and stay longer than 1 hour (or 2 if you\u2019ve a disabled permit), then you could (and probably will) be fined.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cv8lu9","text":"He almost certainly shared information that should not be shared outside friendly sphere of influence.\n\nAustralia has an interest in maintaining the integrity of that information. \n\nHe\u2018s no \u2018hero\u2019\u2026 if anything he\u2019s a complete fucking sellout if he\u2019s more willing to go contracting than to serve his country. \n\nThat\u2019s even before you add the detail about his clients being foreign nationals from a country that is increasingly antagonistic towards both Australia and the US\u2026 \n\nDo you think any of these points might be at all related to the reason why he\u2018s been extradited?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2wtp5","text":"There\u2019s a variant I haven\u2019t heard yet! So many of us played games based on number plates!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2emnt","text":"Too many cars.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwtko0","text":"I think it would be a big mistake to call the election early as voters would see it as a cynical move on behalf of the government. IMHO a fixed-term parliament would be beneficial to the workings of government. More time doing what they\u2019re supposed to do and less time campaigning for the next election.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4gmjw","text":"Pretty big and busy pub to be struggling so much. Their food is pretty high end for pub fare so maybe that\u2019s hurting them. Wonder too whether part of this is the beer market kind of losing touch with the consumer. There\u2019s an expectation that every bar will carry a super diverse range of high end\/craft beers, but everyone\u2019s still expecting to pay Carlton Draft prices. Dunno about linking Tetsuya\u2019s closure to this though, pretty sure a big part of that was the skyrocketing value of the land under Tetsuya\u2019s.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1qksq","text":"Fortunately we adults can always fund the mafia instead.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d284x4","text":"Eh. I'm a bit too moral for my own good to be honest.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36p3n","text":"If you can, pay for a few lessons with a professional driving instructor and ask them where to book. Mine told me where to book and we did a few drives that follow the real test very closely.\n\nShe had great advice sush as \"Make sure you come to a full stop here cos it's an easy way to fail right at the start\" or \"They'll probably ask you to do X here so make sure you remember to do Y\".","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2d1bi","text":"Can we all grasp that the grim reaper of News Corp was flown into town last week to take heads? Rebekah Brooks - lady of the phone hack -  has already sacked the head of news.com\n\nEditors across the country are trying to save their hides by being the most hysterical about a single  sentence by one journalist - who happens to be employed by the Murdoch generational nemesis.\n\nMaybe everyone needs some critical understanding of our media landscape here","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"Cosi on Toorak Rd South Yarra is very good, but probably not kid friendly.\n\nAs others have said, Lygon St isn't what it once was but Tiamo is still good and welcomes kids.\n\nIf you want a Melbourne experience Pellegrini's Espresso Bar on Bourke St is an institution, although I doubt even its most ardent admirers would say it had the best pasta.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3s5wy","text":"Hands, I'm a chef; if you have soft hands, no scars and no marks you look out of place. I assume that's the case for any hard work using your hands.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4ny77","text":"Bro we all been hearing how tough it is in IT right now. You would be crazy not to have a side hustle selling illicit substances.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ldv0","text":"It's amazing the confidence meth gives people","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d23xgh","text":"Oh yeah, that's the Australia I know, short memory and a sucker for populist messaging. Labor hasn't fixed a decade or two of Liberal fuckups yet, so lets go with the corrupt Queensland cop who'll punish the foreigners and protect us from the scary renewable energy.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3w71e","text":"So Dutton was incompetent at his portfolio and isn\u2019t fit for PM?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cx48pw","text":"News Corp is a mix of stupidity and hypocrisy. Fixed the headline (by a former News Corp sub-editor).","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvi72m","text":"I got two paragraphs in and wish I stopped earlier. Reads like satire!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2z0b3","text":"Not a chance.\n\nYou provide a service and tell me the cost, I decide whether that cost is justified or if I can afford it and go from there. High end or not, same concept.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3s5wy","text":"I\u2019m sure the new hi-vis is a giveaway, but could also be the business shirt  Also if you\u2019re walking around with a notebook or computer. Maybe dirty\/rough up your vest a bit, same with the shoes - make it look like you\u2019ve done manual work at some point ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5q1gh","text":"Penrith is great if you want to take a trip to Pondi ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4po9g","text":"You got a car with your house equity? That's not a good financial decision. You are now paying off that car for the term of your loan (30 years presumably) or until you refinance again, in which case you will pay it for whatever term you refinance under, likely another 30 years...","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1vtzv","text":"For a VPN I've been using PIA for years and have had zero issues.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4hkgy","text":"Transmasc here  happy to chat if you need!!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d61kzi","text":"This is so wholesome.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3jqrl","text":"There's a website for that. They even have created a calculator for that exact purpose. This is as much information as you need because you don't need reddit for this.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d375cx","text":"How is telling people to be honest being shaddy?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpft2l","text":"Interesting. \n\nI have just accessed the Albany City Council Meeting Minutes for February, and I don't see any Agenda item discussing LGBTQ issues:\n\n[\n\nIn an earlier article, this was what was apparently said:\n\n*\u201cFollowing on from Councillor Cruse\u2019s comments, I totally agree government shouldn\u2019t be worried about what people are getting up to in their bedrooms, I certainly don\u2019t. But within the coalition of the LGBTQIA+ I just want to hone in on the plus. That includes a group of people who identify as minor attracted persons. I would encourage all citizens and councillors to look up what being a minor attracted persons means.\u201d Dr Brough said.*\n\nDr Bough then doubled down on this position in a later interview.\n\nThis was a comment made apparently in reference to the Pride Festival held in Albany and some negative community feedback received in respect of it. Once again, I don't see this as an Agenda item in the February meeting.\n\nRegardless, I have looked up what the plus means, because I don't really know. It is obvious Dr Bough's comments are inaccurate.\n\nDr Bough should not be endorsed by the Liberal Party.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ct4epu","text":"So where all this is headed is that gas is OK but any other fossil fuel is not. Biggest bait and switch since Qantas selling seats on cancelled flights.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d404vh","text":"Push out and pull in the way it should be done. Turning round is for peasants.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csg89n","text":"That would only surprise people who are dumb enough to believe the nonsense served to them by the Liberal- aligned press tv and radio.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czmt8g","text":"Pretty sure a big difference between those under the age of 18 and those over the age of 60 is that children literally have fewer rights for their own protection. We have age of consent laws, minimum ages for work, driving, refueling your car, buying alcohol and tobacco, the ability to sign contracts and probably thirty other things as well. We have ESRB ratings for children, do we have all of these in place merely because we want to \u2018control\u2019 children, or because those under the age of 18 literally have a more limited capacity to critically evaluate situations and make informed decisions? To make the argument that those over the age of 60 should be disallowed to use social media over children fundamentally misunderstands the main reason why people are arguing as to why there should be age restrictions to internet access, because any rational human being who is making the argument that children shouldn\u2019t use the internet are making that off the fact that there is content on the internet which children can freely access that would otherwise be impossible (or at least much more difficult) for them to due to the laws that we already have in place.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz84qa","text":"No","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctqtgq","text":" > Nobody can be sure how much the big miners have saved in the years since that repeal, but it would make the tax credits look like spare change.\n\nConsidering the watered down version that was passed and the meagre amount it brought in, the amount would probably be quite low","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d29y55","text":"For comedy in Melbourne there are comedy clubs that have regular stand ups on. Just search Melbourne comedy club and see what comes up. \n\nYou can also listen to Australian comedy podcasts to get a get a feel of comedians. The Little Dum Dum Club regularly has two comedians on in addition to the hosts (who\u2019re also comedians).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d417qg","text":"Flinders Lane barbers was cheap and good.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czgx88","text":"Been with my partner since 2001.\n\nDon't need a piece of paper, a waste of money wedding day (in our opinion) or whatever. \n\nWe are happy together and will be together as long as we are. Literally no reason for us to get married at all.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1ngrk","text":"I\u2019m 19 and in the same boat. \n\nI apply to so many jobs and don\u2019t even get the courtesy of a rejection email, I knew it was over for me when I done a day\u2019s work for a job trial and then got left on seen when I asked if I got the job or not 5 days later. \n\nHonestly it\u2019s made me feel so completely and utterly useless, my parents are so disappointed in me. I don\u2019t leave the house because it costs too much money, I don\u2019t even get Centrelink because my parents think it\u2019s only for dole bludgers. \n\nSorry this was a rant but still it\u2019s good to know people feel the same way <3","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3al5t","text":"The best way to say it is with a bogan accent. \"Ay wha ya doin ya farqn bogan KENT\" or somthin like that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4wbf1","text":"Anyone been to the donut festival today? Any feedback?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3dj8y","text":"Covid lockdowns stuffed up a lot of people and now the price of living is terrible as well. Hopefully looking forward it\u2019s all going to fall back in to place. Keep in touch with them mate.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cqmy49","text":"so you're a genius and a mind reader WOW.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34yf6","text":"To me it feels weird to be nude anywhere within my workplace so no.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2g0cr","text":"I used to watch Jordan shanks but he retire from journalism this year, i usually just put on Philip defranco on the morning now. He usually does a bit of everything but he\u2019s is American so not much local news.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d67ahs","text":"I already pay a lot in taxes. Id probably donate as I dont have the time if I wasnt taxed so highly.\n\nNot to mention my rates are specifically paying for the maintenance of that and I have mates who work for Council and do very little work by their own admission. So I dont really want to pick up some local Council workers slack in my off hours.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d67fsm","text":"If you don\u2019t have much disposable income now, a car will send you broke. I understand wanting to be able to drive, but owning a car can be a huge drain on your finances. I hope you find what you\u2019re looking for :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cza07d","text":"We don't even have a dinner table.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d35hu3","text":"Oops, forgot about this and I was at Flinders today too.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0r77q","text":"Strata is a broken system, but it exists due to a need to manage and repair common areas in apartment buildings and townhouse complexes. I hate it, but what's the alternative?\n\nFrom where I'm sitting, HOAs seem like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. For maintenance of roadsides and the like we've got councils, and aside from planning regulations they don't really impose too much on what you do on your own property. \n\nI think if I were subject to the whims of an HOA I'd hate it more than I hate strata.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34ad5","text":"Stanthorpe in the granite belt of Queensland. \n\nReally punches above it's weight for foodies.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cqv2nx","text":"Nope, telephone interviewers. Face to face interviewers.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d680t4","text":"Not from this state, its broke.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5hqt6","text":"Nourish'd. Youfoodz. Both offer meals that are fresh (not frozen).\n\nReasonable prices and relatively easy to order.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d60dm6","text":"I wasn't aware we had a lack of land","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":"Groping will live in the mind of the victim for the rest of their life, I understand you\u2019re defending harsh punishments on deepfake abuse but that\u2019s an awful take.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxipkg","text":"As a Victorian sure we don't like Labor but the Liberals are a mess and would be even worse","sarcasm_label":1}
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{"id":"1d61bgb","text":"I hope not, have you ever seen a politically correct comedy show that doesn't suck? In isolation it's a racist remark against Asian people, but Asians make jokes about everyone else too? Which is totally fine, people only get upset when you're racially \"punching down\" which is kinda racist to hinge an argument on to begin with.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d41rdv","text":"Mowing lawns, home maintenance, carpentry which I fucking hate. Anyone need small jobs done?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4rtv7","text":"Only time I left WA was when I went to Thailand through Singapore, where my passport was necessary, glad to learn I'm just an idiot, better than being right in this case","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5z5pc","text":"I bet if a Liberal party guy (literally any) did the same thing you'd be talking about being tough on China. Play nice with them or be tough on them, pick one.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpr67f","text":"Reddit user \u201cEspersooty\u201d incoming AKA, reddit Australia\u2019s #1 paid agriculture shill.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csg89n","text":"Sold off all the assets too.\n\n\nEasy to be in the black when you\u2019re selling the future.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4yqmo","text":"One of Australia\u2019s most frustrating failures as a nation has been a limited capacity to value-add. This country has the world\u2019s third-largest population of sheep \u2013 behind China and India \u2013 but much of the Australian wool-clothing we wear is imported, such as men's suits from Italy. There are a multitude of similar examples. Why is it so difficult to add value here, to become an exporter of finished products as well as raw materials? The excuses typically offered are that our labour costs are too high, we don\u2019t have the necessary skills, our design and managerial systems\u2019 capacities are limited or deficient, among a host of others. While there may be some elements of substance to these arguments, it is probably more relevant to blame a failure to create a deliverable national strategy for industrial development.\n\nThe Coalition\u2019s usual response has been that such development should be left to the market; however, the government has a responsibility to set the framework for where those market forces should be encouraged to operate to their best advantage. The Albanese government\u2019s Future Made in Australia (FMIA) strategy should be seen as an attempt to meet that responsibility. One important feature of the latest budget was that it provided some of the detail and commitments of such a national strategy, recognising that this country\u2019s transition to a cheaper, clean energy future, and possibly into a global energy superpower, is the most significant industrial shift to come.\n\nA key element of the FMIA package so far is the National Battery Strategy launched last week. Of course, the visionless, destructive and denialist opposition remains content to argue that the focus on renewables leaves this country without a capacity to ensure baseload power. They claim renewables don\u2019t work when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow \u2013 ignoring the potential for cost-effective energy storage from these sources. As Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen points out, this country learnt how to store water when it doesn\u2019t rain all the time, so why not sun and wind power?\n\nThe battery strategy sets out a \u201cvision\u201d over the next decade, in which Australia becomes \u201ca globally competitive producer of batteries and battery materials, providing secure and resilient battery supply chains, delivering affordable and secure energy for Australians, boosting productivity, and creating wealth and opportunity while being part of the global energy transition\u201d.\n\nWe certainly have the minerals in abundance, in a strong resources sector, as well as manufacturers\u2019 know-how, sufficient trading partners and skills capacity in our workforce. The government has now provided the necessary framework and identifies certain financial commitments. We just need to get on with it!\n\nThe global battery industry is dominated by China, whose market share is estimated to be as high as 75 per cent, although there are other significant players such as Japan\u2019s Panasonic and others that may be ripe for joint ventures. I recall an early statement by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who said he didn't want his electric vehicle company Tesla to be dependent on the Chinese for batteries. Is there potential here to become a battery supplier to Tesla? The scope for a battery industry in Australia is enormous. A particular focus domestically is achieving grid-scale and community storage, beyond the expansion of mining critical minerals. I have been struck that the usual list of these minerals often excludes graphite, as Australia is one of the few politically stable countries with significant reserves of natural graphite, which would seem to be an advantage, as natural graphite has superior heat-storing capacity. Most of the graphite used globally is synthetic, and mostly manufactured by the Chinese, using a dirty and energy-intensive heating process to convert petroleum coke, a residue of the oil refining industry, to synthetic graphite. I am also aware of an Australian-patented technology that uses a self-contained chemical process, with no wastage, to refine natural graphite, removing \u201cimpurities\u201d such as iron and silica, and further improving the storage capabilities. Miners can also market these byproducts, providing additional income streams to the straight sale of the graphite.\n\nOur graphite industry has enormous untapped potential, which should be released by the government\u2019s battery strategy. An important related point is the potential of graphite-based thermal storage has been largely ignored in Australia, as the process of concentrated solar thermal became too expensive and, in part, because of the fad-like attraction of pumped hydro. This technology has also turned out to be more difficult and expensive than anticipated \u2013 note the cost blowouts and tunnelling difficulties of Snowy 2.0, the mother of all pumped hydro projects, which, as I pointed out in an earlier column, didn\u2019t stack up on a rigorous cost-benefit analysis.\n\nThe potential advantages of graphite-based thermal storage for grid-scale and community batteries ought to be more widely recognised. Consider the possibility of a new housing development with a community battery, fed by each of the houses having solar roofs rather than just solar panels. This would enable each house to draw electricity, and hot water and hot air for heating and cooling, even for cooking, as required. These homes might never again receive a power bill.\n\nThermal storage also opens the possibility of generating steam at the desired temperatures, which would be significant for industries such as processed food, cement, and even steel making.\n\nThere is an important distinction in grid-scale storage systems between electric batteries and what is known as load-shifting batteries. The Hornsdale Power Reserve battery that Musk built in South Australia is an electric battery that really only provides short-term back-up to variations in power supply, whereas a load-shifting battery stores the sun or wind energy when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing to be drawn down in evening and morning peaks, for example, guaranteeing dispatchable or base-load electricity.\n\nThe recent budget committed a significant amount of new money to fund the government\u2019s battery strategy. Specifically, $523.2 million for a \u201cbattery breakthrough\u201d initiative to help manufacturers build capacity in crucial areas with a focus on \u201chigh-value battery products\u201d that align with our areas of advantage and support the climate energy transition. There was a further $20.3 million for building future battery capabilities to develop skills and expertise, $5.6 million to deliver an \u201cAustralian-made battery precinct\u201d in partnership with the Queensland government and $1.7 billion for a Future Made in Australia innovation fund that will support innovation, commercialisation, pilot and demonstration projects and early-stage developments in priority sectors, including development in battery technologies.\n\nThe implementation of this battery strategy will need careful coordination, both domestically and internationally. In Australia, state and local governments must collaborate, along with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and private financiers. These efforts may also need community action plans, including for First Nations communities in areas where there is potential for expanded mining developments. Internationally, it will be important to work and trade with both the United States and China. Efforts must be made to avoid being swept along with the US\u2019s anti-China strategy and possibly to demonstrate a willingness to work with China, where there are advantages in terms of both technology and money.\n\nOf course, an important issue that will inevitably arise is the need for effective taxation of those who gain approvals to mine the critical minerals. The overarching need is to recognise these are national resources, the mining of which should be to the benefit of all Australians. As easy as this is to say, the past attempts at introducing a mining tax under the Rudd\u2013Gillard governments demonstrated just how easily this basic requirement can get lost in the melee of dealing with the mining industry.\n\nWhatever happens, this engagement with the private sector needs to be dealt with effectively moving forward. In summary, the government\u2019s battery strategy is both a visionary and a realistic response to the challenge of taking up a leading role in the inevitable global energy transition.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3s9h6","text":"Honestly - most people at the gym are there to just focus on their workouts. I don't get to the gym as often as I used to, but when I was more active, I might see an overweight person or a really unfit person giving it their best, I'd just think to myself \"yeah good on 'em\" and otherwise leave them to it.\n\nReally, nobody's judging you. Everyone starts somewhere, and I guarantee even the broiest gym bro wants to see you succeed.\n\nedit: that said, Genesis Wantirna seems alright.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cu3fbw","text":"It was never intended to win over experts. It was intended to win over Australia's least intelligent voters.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0wqfz","text":"I mean, every previous Gen cost paper has stated the same thing, along with all the experts in the field. It\u2019s not like this is news to the strawberries in the LNP.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d42oma","text":"Breathe and focus on the words and just relax. Try and just enjoy some Australian TV or movies, chuck the subtitles on too. ( Im sure if you want a hand coming up with a list we could help you out )Listen to local radio the more you hear it the more it makes sense.\n\nIt will slowly start to happen over time and slowly you\u2019ll start to repeat back stuff less and less, and one day it\u2019ll just happen,","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czencr","text":"Puffer jackets are so 2018 (joke, ok)\n\nGo deck yourself out at Uniqlo","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctucxt","text":"Well it is an equivalent over-reaction as the Libs are with climate change protestors.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvdo59","text":"It's going to take about 6 months for McBride's new lawyers to put together an appeal. I can't prove his innocence in a reddit post. I just want to draw attention to the case, especially the blatant corruption of this judge and what that represents.\n\nPoliticians may not really care about their donors paying less taxes, but their bosses do. I hope judges are mostly honest as they have usually decided to make less money than they would as lawyers. However, this one has shown too many signs of corruption. The people who appoint and promote judges are corrupt and McBride had secrets they wouldn't let the public know.\n\nAlso, the judge hid that sentencing was going to take place until a last minute change of plans. I believe that being more senior, more visible and less incentivised to appease politicians should mean judges of the high court are trustworthy (certainly a hundred times more trustworthy than Mossop). I believe they will overturn the  verdict or at least give McBride a lighter sentence. Unfortunately legislators are highly against whistle blowing..\n\nI'd also trust a more junior judge. Mossop seems to have been promoted above his level of competency, which seems suspicious.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctucxt","text":"\u201cOmg the police used violence\/the threat of violence against non-violent people to make people comply with orders!\u201d\n\nYeah they\u2019re the police, literally the one group of people in society that has a licence to do that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4r3ap","text":"Blanket bay campsite in the otways just outside Apollo bay. Camping in a Forrest meters away from a secluded beach. \nAlso Longridge campground in warrandyte. It\u2019s not the cheapest but it\u2019s private, lush, has toilets and showers and close to a river. It\u2019s super close to everything but you wouldn\u2019t know it at all.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3n0qc","text":"There are idiots everywhere.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d37cax","text":"Don't - you have practically zero chances of getting PR as an accountant\n\nBut if you insist (again, I warned you against it) you might want to consider the fact that UOW is at assessment level 2, while Deakin is at 1","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1yfiq","text":"Labourer is very broad term\u2026.. civil, brickie, builders\n\nIt also depends what you enjoy doing","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5qq1n","text":"Oh thanks","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d284x4","text":"These also aren't criminals guilty of committing petty crimes. These are rapists, murderers, child sex abusers and kidnappers that we are happily accepting into our community. Those crimes aren't little one-off 'oopsies', these are crimes committed by fucked up people who don't deserve to be welcomed into one of the best countries on Earth. Again, why take the unnecessary risk?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1iuen","text":"The response from a lot of pro-palestine supporters in this whole situation has been bizarre.\n\n\nThose pro-palestine supporters we can't ignore Israeli war crimes just because Hamas committed a terrorist act are exactly the people who bent over backwards to defend Ukraine when credible reports of war crimes committed by then were released.\n\n\nNeither side has been consistent on this at all.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4k6zi","text":"I\u2019m on two medications I can\u2019t drive with one for mental health and one for chronic kidney stone pain.\n\nBoth are highly addictive and closely watched medications.\n\nI\u2019m also have been prescribed cannabis, which help mitigate the effects of my other issues so reduces my need for these meds.\n\nI could, if the law changed, be able to drive by choosing not to take the other meds, depending on my symptoms.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4pzpv","text":"It\u2019s coming back!!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4y1lu","text":"Wow I didn't realise Reddit was even around in 1606BC.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d46vgm","text":"The drive itself is interesting if you like long stretches of driving. \n\nHowever, I\u2019m not sure it\u2019d be enjoyable or interesting at a slower pace. \n\nAlso there are few to zero interesting towns between Ceduna and Norseman, so that will be a long slog. \n\nYou will also have trucks, road trains and caravaners overtaking you probably too close. Those bigger vehicles push a lot of air when they pass, and you feel it in vehicles like a dual cab, I\u2019d hate to be on something like a postie bike.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3axmw","text":"What\u2019s alienating about it?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz8de0","text":"If you think the Guardian is extreme far left then you need to read something like Green Left Weekly for comparison.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czdtt4","text":"There's a much cooler tax than a Vacant Residential Land Tax which is the much more universal [Land Value Tax]( often described as \"the perfect tax\":\n\n> As the supply of land is fixed, the burden of the tax falls entirely on the landowner. There is no change in the rental price and quantity transacted, and no deadweight loss.\n\nIt would tax all land, regardless of its vacancy status. Less loopholes, simpler to implement, bigger tax base. Great to see a VRLT, but we can do better!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwz4zo","text":"Ahhh remember the check box to a website to see if you\u2019re over 16 like on habbo hotel and then you get weirdos sexting you and you\u2019re like 11","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3yn9l","text":"Yeah my rental has a shitty little 1kw split system up in the corner in the kitchen blowing straight towards the front door, get no heat in the lounge or any of the bedrooms","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czdql8","text":"Wait till you find out about the insane exploitations of workers on salaries. Alot of people don't understand their rights over here. Rather get paid for all hours than get pressured into implied overtime for no compensation.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwtvhw","text":"There\u2019s no way Albo will go this year. They will get massacred in Queensland. He will wait until after the state election in October hoping the voters have got some anger out than. The current Labor government is about as popular as a ham sandwich in a synagogue. They are on track for a 2012 style massacre (alp lost 44 seats, keeping 7)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2ct0t","text":"Make plans to go see the T20 world cup lol. Some of the games are in the USA this year. :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2lukw","text":"PO Boxes are great investments.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctbiz7","text":"These protests have shown that the universities and police have little power, the students are technically trespassing, and the universities are just gonna sit there until the students eventually tired and hope that everyone forgets about it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36j3j","text":"He\u2019s not dead yet. I\u2019ll get back to you.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d63se4","text":"Coming from a PO. I always feel sorry for the dispatcher and call taker. They are juggling heaps, sounds crazy, and hope they get paid well for it at least. Like they are juggling all the units and they relay all messages. \n\nI can't imagine taking a 000 call and people screaming at the call taker etc.. sounds shit. But you never know, why not just give it a go?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5mgp1","text":"MONA near Hobart.\n\nThe Australian War Memorial is very very good too. Very sobering.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5dmoo","text":"Seconded. And Gocsy is MC\u2019ing tonight which will be great (but possibly not what OOP was thinking of)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4kufy","text":"Bean In The Woods in ringwood, amazing staff and owner","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxpdgd","text":"Yeah, but what if I simply don't accept the report? \/s\n\n>Ted O'Brien: \"At first glance, there\u2019s nothing that stung me in the capital costs of the large reactors that was out of the ordinary. But I don\u2019t accept the price of electricity that I see in this report.\"\n\n","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d265lz","text":"Use [ to compare who might work out cheapest for you.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0rguy","text":"I've always been partial to 'Fuck a duck', it has so many uses.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0o1xc","text":"Canberrans are optionally known as Ken Behrens.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czf300","text":"I don't think there's such thing as objectively good. Particularly since the 'right side of history' is defined by the people who win the wars.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d68iig","text":"The toilet seat looks in better condition than the one in my rental tbh","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvnyoi","text":"I have yet to see Simon Benson write one objective Newspoll analysis. This man's ability to find a diamond in the rough for the Coalition, and coal in the stocking for Labor, is quite extraordinary.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5mgp1","text":"Mona is hardly a museum except in name.. It's an art gallery in an amazing location.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2awds","text":"If only there was some sort of underground passage that linked all the platforms, with ramps that have no moving parts....","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d65lni","text":"I also just got one from Bayside and appealed it. Still waiting on a response. \n\nI parked in trailer parking at Black Rock alongside 15+ other cars. I only had just pulled in, paid for a ticket, got back to my car and the inspector printed the ticket right in front of me. $192.\n\nI was polite. Took photos, had a chat to them. 5 minutes from paid parking ticket to the car, they\u2019d best let me go. I\u2019d be happy to proceed to court otherwise. I didn\u2019t know cars couldn\u2019t park there. \n\nIf they let me go, then cool. If they don\u2019t, you can go to court but I wager if it\u2019s worth my time. Probably not. \n\nChin up, don\u2019t get sad about it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3dj8y","text":"Respectfully, it\u2019s not your friends fault you\u2019re sitting around doom scrolling. Find some hobbies that will get you out or leave you feeling more satisfied at home. Most people can\u2019t afford getting out as much anymore","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctbnbr","text":"You have high expectations for what can be achieved in a 20 min speech. Budget reply isn't a shadow budget, they don't have any treasury resources.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d61thq","text":"I had one in my backyard in suburban Brisbane a couple of years back but I do believe there is a spot where you can go see heaps.\n\n  \nI can't remember the Brisbane one, but the Forest of Tranquility in the NSW Central Coast was one I saw as a kid.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czaput","text":"So the lesson is don\u2019t vote for Labor *or* the LNP if we want whistleblowers protected?\n\nGot it!  I\u2019ll add *that* reason the pile.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyvuc4","text":"Partly geography, mainly because not many people want to live there.\n\nI can't find a good image right now but the easiest way to understand it is to look at a map of both countries with the rivers and mountain ranges.\n\nBasically, our deserts are bigger. There's no farmland in the middle of the country. Very few rivers to divert. We have less water overall (even the coastal cities rely pretty heavily on desalination and recycling). We also don't have as many people.\n\n There have been proposals to pipe water into the middle of the country but they've been laughed out of town, it would be astronomically expensive and there isn't much demand for Alice Springs to become a major city.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cu3fbw","text":"Yeah no shit.\n\nThey just running populist nonsense\n\nThey had no plan to fund tafe,which is one of the 3 key factors to the housing crisis\n\nNothing about HOW they will build more homes...even if they cut immigration to zero,it doesn't adress the zoning shit,the land releases,the lack of trades.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3cwsb","text":"Does anyone know of any places to meet new people? I have an interest in art and it\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve done anything art related. Mental health has been bad for over a year and a half. Coming out the other side now. Joined a gym and changed my diet and have already felt a lot better. Catching up with old high school friends the last week or so which have been nice. I\u2019m 30 now so haven\u2019t seen them in over 10 years. \n\nAnyone know of any art groups? I\u2019ve enjoyed life drawing in the past. Just really want to get myself out there and meet new people again. Covid was hard for me personally as it was for everyone and kinda lost touch with socialising.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d31ykp","text":"Join the Renters and Housing Union, fight back.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0sggr","text":"About $50 a month and that's not going too hard with it.\n\nPeople who do it FULL-TIME (as in rummaging bins and such) could make over $100 a day easy.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2g00p","text":"I swear 80% of the time I see one they're driving like maniacs. The quick acceleration makes them act foolish","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwrdmn","text":"relax people , I wasn't being serious","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwu0qu","text":"Translation: \"Ideological games\" = \"not kissing the feet of the gas industry every five seconds\". \n\nWhen the Federal Government starts taking the WA approach, then we can talk. Otherwise it's just an industry crying because it can't endlessly expand to sell more gas overseas","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0ltkw","text":"Another aspect of speech this might change will be around gender.\n\nNo one is going to say \"x race need to stop committing crimes\" .. \"x ethnicity need to stop abusing their children\" for fear of falling foul of racial hatred laws.\n\n>*section 18C makes it unlawful for someone to publicly \u201coffend, insult, humiliate or intimidate a person or group of people\u201d*\n\nBut every day we hear that \"men need to stop raping women\" .. \"men need to stop abusing women\" to the more extreme \"kill all men\".\n\nPersonally I'm offended every time I'm told to stop abusing women because I possess a dick, I'm offended that being masculine has been intertwined with a hateful term \"toxic masculinity\". Would be interesting seeing some \"incels\" take this to court to prevent offense and insult. \n\nWill these laws finally end the double standard we have around what is \"hate speech\" for race, but \"acceptable commentary\" when it comes to the (male) gender?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d08tkm","text":"Good! Last thing the world needs is more humans. Environments often act as sinks and sources, we are able to be a sink for countries which will not limit birth rates or we can just manage on a declining population. Pollies don't like it because it means less tax revenue but that just means the economy is unsustainable ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvi72m","text":">It's just the content is so shit, it doesn't inspire anyone to write much other than \"Wow this is shit!\"\n\nHmmm if only there were some guidelines and activity to filter out low effort comments and low effort complaining about sources they disagree with. Maybe, just maybe, space would be created for the adults. \n\nIf only we could reach the lofty ideals of people either address(ing) the post in question, or ignore(ing) it. But maybe [the observations]( of others are closer to reality than I want to admit.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1cwy1","text":"They earn big money where I am, so they can manage to get the loans.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d29hnj","text":"Standard property manager vibe here would be to find the property owner of your place, tell them the current Tennant is looking to move out and that they reckon they can get $600 a week with new Tennant\u2019s on a new lease for the owner if they switch agencies.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp3y6y","text":"> If we want to live in a high trust society where we are not afraid to be beaten, raped and robbed in our homes we must look seriously at curbing migration and degeneracy, increasing punishments.\n\nOr we could you know, teach kids how probability and statistics work. I'm not going to be raped and robbed in my home. I'm not going to win the lottery either. I'll get 90 cents back for every $1 I run through the pokies. I'll probably die at 80 to heart disease or cancer.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csg89n","text":"They're both shit.\n\nThey both deliberately keep a section of the population unemployed and pretend it's a character failing of those people rather than an intended feature of our economic system.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cqsjbd","text":"Good job fuel\/gas\/electricity is so cheap","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d10vog","text":"I'm more looking for opinions than facts but i'll check these !\nThank you :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5abdi","text":"When my local council is 40 + 20 per day, and this one is over $500 for two hours, yes...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d263x7","text":"When a user starts an application they (the user) can enter their mobile number in to receive these reminders. Somebody has accidentally entered your mobile number rather than their own.\n\nFrom what you've said you haven't started any applications, since you don't have any fines that you're aware of, so you don't have to worry about this text.\n\nSource: I worked for Fines Victoria.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d011un","text":">You're talking about net pollution, and I'm saying that's a silly way of evaluating emissions.\n\nYes I am talking about net emissions, **because those are the emissions**. Sea levels aren't based on per capita emissions, they are based on the amount of net carbon emissions.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d68v3n","text":"It's because people in my generation have no future except what basically amounts to indentured servitude.\n\nI can't afford a house, I can't afford kids, I can barely afford a new car.\n\nMost of my money goes to rent-seeking landlords and putting food on the table for myself.\n\nGoing out to do anything costs and arm and a leg, and everyone is out to nickle and dime you.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3x6bo","text":"When we landed at T4 there was a guy walking about saying \"taxi taxi\" very quietly. It was so dodgy.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq4slp","text":"You can blame them for letting a known person wander around the communities when we have mental health beds.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d35ec2","text":"I think he nuked himself with female voters a looooong time ago.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4uh64","text":"Bit off topic, but it will be really interesting to see the proposed boundaries for NSW;  the eastern half of metro Sydney is set to lose one or maybe two seats, and I'm curious as to which side of the harbour this will take place. \n\nI don't think it's feasible for a cross-harbour seat to be created, so I think North Sydney (especially as it's one of the federation seats) and Sydney aren't going anywhere.\n\nI think if one of the northern seats will disappear, the one which makes most geographical sense will be Warringah. Mackellar can't move north of the Hawkesbury as it will be non-contiguous, so I think it will become a thinner, beach-oriented seat. Bradfield, Bennelong, and North Sydney could be pushed east; the latter could feasibly cross Middle Harbour in a similar manner as the state seat of Manly.\n\nThen again, the AEC wants to retain Aboriginal place names when possible, which complicates things yet again. \n\nAs a side note, I dislike the practice of non-geographical names for electoral divisions (even though in this case, Warringah is a geographical name). I'm no advocate for the American numerical system, and I do recognise that geographical names can sometimes [be]( [unneccesarily]( [specific]( however using the geographical centre of the seat (as the NSWEC does) leads to fewer absurdities; Lake George, for instance, existed within the seat of Werriwa for only a decade, and Warringah possibly moving north to replace Mackellar while no longer covering Middle Harbour just creates another pointless quirk.\n\nIf it's on the south side of the harbour, then I think it will be messier. Wentworth is another 1901 seat, so I could see its boundaries moving south. Alternatively, Sydney could theoretically be split between Wentworth and Grayndler (it is oddly enough the newest of the three), but I don't think that would please anyone. I can't imagine the AEC removing Albanese's seat either. Possibly Barton could be partitioned?\n\nAlso interested to see what will happen in the Hunter. Labor seems intent on shoring up Hunter at the expense of Paterson (demographics trending away from the party in both) by drawing in Maitland and cutting out the Upper Hunter, but the geographical constraints of Port Stephens and Lake Macquarie could well lead to an arragement that would make an Illinois mapmaker blush.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":"Dont be dumb. Making and distributing porn of someone without consent is SA. We should probably not let people do that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34695","text":"Yep, we can just leave it for the galactic federation to fix for us. We just need to get that warp drive going.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cr5hxr","text":"He can't get qld LNP on board either, they said they won't do it unless it's bipartisan","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5n16x","text":"He gave you the courtesy of telling you he had to cancel (because sometimes shit comes up at the last minute) instead of just ghosting you, and you went off at him?\n\n&#x200B;\n\nYeah, he ain't contacting you again, he's cut you off for being a psycho.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czaput","text":"No.\n\nThe war crimes occurred during the period 2006-14. The ALP was in charge federally from 2007-13. One of the members of Cabinet during the latter part was.... Anthony Albanese.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d28qfe","text":"The FOI on how this Ministerial Direction was anticipated to operate is very informative\n\n[","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4qwie","text":"I don't know why everyone shits on pizza hut it's fucking amazing. Dominos is trash.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d35xyt","text":"Baw Baw is good for beginners. Last year the snow wasn't good but it has had a few good years recently. We can leave at 6.30 drive to the top and be skiing by 9. Did that for a total cost of $200 fuel, ski hire, entry, tickets me and 2 kids mid-week. Leave at 4 home for dinner. Good for getting a few learning days cheap for the kids.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czcbpf","text":"Australia is a nation of NIMBYs. No way nuclear would ever be built no matter what anyone wants because the FUD surrounding the technology is too profuse.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ime1","text":"Outer east. Yes I know you are going to say just catch the train but our nearest line is getting upgraded so it\u2019s train, bus, train 2hr trip each way","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz7h14","text":"Albanese might be projecting here. The biggest thing that Albanese has tried - the Voice referendum - was shallow and symbolic, while simultaneously fuelling division.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2ztl3","text":"You missed a couple of important steps.\n\n1- have 000 on speed dial\n\n2- make sure you have a fire extinguisher nearby\n\n3- just in case, message your loved ones and let them know where you keep your will","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2emnt","text":"Get cars off the tracks.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq2am0","text":"So basically something they never intend to actually do, just to throw out there to generate surface-level controversy and distract people.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2z4dt","text":"Best news I\u2019ve heard in a while","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czbjox","text":"Yeah, I avoid licenced venues here in large part because of the shit closing times. They're not where the parties are at anyway so nbd.\n\nI do think part of it is a lot of Aussies don\u2019t seem to able to handle their drink, at least compared to Europeans. I really don\u2019t know why it is. Maybe even genetic or something? Or they KNOW the club is gonna shut at 3 so they go too hard too early. If you\u2019re in say Berlin and you know you\u2019re not leaving that club for 2 more days, then ofc you\u2019ll be pacing yourself. They don\u2019t pace here.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3cs8k","text":":D\n\nall said in humour, i understand","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4ifrq","text":"This store could be the one, in the Eastern suburbs:\n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d22asn","text":"yep i did that","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2b2ny","text":"It\u2019s great, barely any customers and the cinemas are always empty.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34ukx","text":"not the OP but the winery stuff is more a specialised field that you often gtg do a whole sommeliers course that is not subsidized and is expensive.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d37g9y","text":"How Amazing is our Medicare system! ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6aucv","text":"They are here to stay but if they are left in the middle of a footpath or obstruct an entrance then I will report them, it takes a minute to do especially as they are block wheelchair access. If everyone reported those situations then maybe some change might come from providers and the users will be more considerate where they leave them.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2do69","text":"Good idea, issue being three mural can take a long time to paint.\n\nTaggers are quickly dissuaded when their graffiti is quickly covered up and they don't get credit for their \"work.\"","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctxcbq","text":"Great to see the law working here where it\u2019s ok to assault young women but not ok to whistle blow on corruption, just goes to show you how much the justice system cares about the truth and women.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csuhhz","text":"Armed servicemen were put at risk twice and Albo sweeps it under the diplomatic carpet. Sending any representative is not a coup and is standard. Albo sends a low level Senator. Morrison called out China over Covid , admittedly we paid a price but the alternative is the weak Albo way. Albo needed to raise it directly with his new bestie.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3cwsb","text":"Headed to work now and it's really fucking dark outside. I'm listening to The Cure and Joy Division on the train in and the mood is matching the weather in a kind of awesome way though. Forgot that [A Night Like This]( had a saxophone.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq5co4","text":"They\u2019re all bad but instead of protecting and overpaying bludgers (looking at you CFMEU) the unions for the cops and feds protect the glorified street thugs in their ranks instead","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cszxwq","text":"As much as I agree with Samaras, I think ultimately that Perrett saying that *\"grand narratives belonged in election campaigns rather than budgets\"* is probably the more practical truth.\n\nThis puts Labor in a position they're very comfortable in - lip service about the change they want, but only carrying out the changes they need (or believe they can afford) to make.\n\nThis is a fundamental issue with democracy under neoliberal and capitalist assumptions. It keeps the leftwing establishment from the proper work of nation building, keeps them \"tinkering around the edges\" as the article puts it - and allows for a ratcheting to the right of politics.\n\nIt's easy to cut taxes on wealth and big business donors. It's easy to take some money from here, put it there, to let Capitalism usurp your party's values over time. Much easier than standing up for your country, your values, or people who actually vote you in\/out.\n\nYou need an economic radical to actually make substantial changes, someone willing to test things like Modern Monetary Theory, or to challenge mining giants. The exact kind of people who would never be allowed to make it that far in politics.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5dmoo","text":"Go to the Gem in Collingwood that place is fun","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d348o3","text":"Ask your local SES Unit if they want to do some practice with it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cveo31","text":"\u201cBy July 2022 it was clear that MOWA did not have the required operational capability to engage directly with \\[Meals on Wheels\\] services, to implement Future Fit initiatives, nor manage operational software,\u201d the Miles Morgan final report says. \u201cNSW and QLD state associations agreed. Attempts were then made to work with the state associations directly, which enabled increased, direct contact with services.\n\n\u201cHowever, by 29 March 2023, South Australia, Tasmania and the NSW state association had opted out of Future Fit. Noting as at 8 September 2023 Tasmania has to \\[sic\\] re-joined following changes to their board and management team.\u201d\n\nBy many accounts, MMA went to war with those who did not support the transformation initiative.\n\nIn a September 2023 submission to the parliamentary inquiry into the integrity of consulting services, Meals on Wheels Victoria state manager Alina Tooley said the mission to bring services together in a \u201cunified\u201d national network was being undercut by MMA.\n\n\u201cRather than stabilising and modernising the network, MMA are creating more work for an already overworked sector, and causing confusion, disharmony and angst,\u201d the submission says. \u201cThe national meals network is now less stable than prior to the commencement of Future Fit.\u201d\n\nIn its own final report, MMA singled out Meals on Wheels Victoria for its \u201cmulti-year campaign \u2026 to prosecute the problem, raise community fears and failure to offer a solution\u201d.\n\nAs local councils increasingly look to get out of running Meals on Wheels services themselves, enormous gaps have emerged in a crucial but poorly funded segment of the aged-care sector.\n\nIn March last year, Aged Care Minister Anika Wells announced a $2.2 million pilot program through Meals on Wheels Newcastle and the Queensland body to take over the services vacated by Whitehorse and Ballarat local councils in Victoria. The funding was made through Future Fit, she announced.\n\nMeals on Wheels Victoria was not approached to run the service.\n\nCorrespondence between Gunaratnam and health department secretary Russell Herald, who is the departmental signatory on the MMA contracts, confirms the consulting firm was deeply involved in the Whitehorse transition from July last year, right down to the details of the menu cycle, although MMA is not an accredited provider of home support services.\n\n\u201cHow are we going with PDF\u2019s of the fortnightly menus?\u201d Herald asked MMA in October. \u201cAny chance by tomorrow.\u201d\n\nHerald, in his capacity as the contract owner and with aged-care policy responsibility for home support, has worked closely with MMA. In turn the consultancy has worked with an existing aged-care company, Polixen, which has long offered a desktop customer resource management (CRM) tool designed specifically for Meals on Wheels providers.\n\nThe vast majority of Meals on Wheels services in MMA\u2019s own surveys said they used Polixen software to manage clients\u2019 resources, delivery routes and rosters.\n\nIn the second official work order signed by Gunaratnam and Herald, MMA is required to \u201cbuild a replacement CRM\u201d for Meals on Wheels providers between 2021 and 2023.\n\nTo do this, MMA first subcontracted a Canberra firm named Agile Digital but relations broke down and MMA stopped paying for its services. Some work on the CRM had been done and MMA allegedly took this to a new company named GoSource. A contract between the two was developed in November last year. A CRM has still not been delivered.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d34ukx","text":"Consider which skills you have that may be transferrable. \n\nI would say that the ability to work under pressure, and the ability to clearly and succinctly communicate are two skills that are transferrable into almost any other career.\n\nYou already have in-depth insight into hospitality and customer service as well. Perhaps you can aim for positions in food, venues, and events promotion?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3p81k","text":"Lol no I think I'm too young for that but I definitely heard about them. Sounds like it was a mad Max world of trains","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5kr64","text":"cranbourne and frankston line buses where still normal time for at least the first 6 months","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1m0lw","text":"This happened in Perth and after some legal shenanigans the sale was actually able to be reversed.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3jk38","text":"Having studied engineering, I must say that I disagree with some of the GenCost report\u2019s underlying assumptions, but even when you compare the Coalition\u2019s costings for nuclear with the price of renewables, the economics still don\u2019t stack up. If we were ever going to build nuclear power stations, the time to do that was twenty or thirty years ago, when costs were lower and renewables were still relatively expensive.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gnlt","text":"Weird rather than a backlash.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5fsq6","text":"Not uncommon, mine\u2019s the same. \u201cI\u2019ll tell you how school went after I run to the toilet, Mum!\u201d","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d40yp3","text":"20, and two jobs (I didn\u2019t last very long at the first one. Management were arseholes).","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5n16x","text":"yeah i am","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3yxnw","text":"It already is on tickets that most shows are 18+ but people like this just ignore it then complain","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d40pfl","text":"Up to you, but I would be thinking that if she takes from her pension pot now, she won't have much left as an emergency fund when she actually retires.   If she can go on jobseeker, then she will get a small income from the state.   I would say that at her age she may not be expected to work, she could probably fulfil the requirements by doing a bit of volunteering maybe at an op shop or something like that","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ct1q7k","text":"There has been almost universal optimism re rate cuts and it continually disappoints. The sooner people stop talking about and predicting rate cuts the better.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d265lz","text":"Leave them! See if Globird operate in your area, should give you a better deal","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0w729","text":"Wow so crazy.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cql8oq","text":"i guess you can act as a 1960s NY mafia gangster controlling all of the construction sites in Sydney if you just say you're a 'union' instead of a 'gang'","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3tcou","text":"Someone's been dumping river in the oil again.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3wwhk","text":"this is rlly disasterous. it happened for taylor swift, but i kinda ignored it knowing the demand issues leading to web crashing (considering in the span of like an hr 900000 ppl got tickets, not including the ppl who went on but didnt get it)\n\n  \nTickettek should rlly get their shit together rather than telling artists they can \"handle the load\" and ultimately failing to do so","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwtko0","text":"I maintain that Dutt isn't a particularly savvy political operator. He's been given a few free kicks but hasn't been able to use them to drive the perception he's more competent than Albo, which is what needs to happen if he wants to win an election.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5j03x","text":"If you can\u2019t get council pickup, you can arrange a charity pickup for the decent stuff. \u00a0For the rest, just run out at bin time and ask the guys to take some extra garbage bags, or place beside bin if you\u2019re still there and willing to risk it not happening. They\u2019re usually fine with it.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5gtq3","text":"I saw someone do a CBD one and it looked stunning. Better for CBD","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"Marios!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2j49l","text":"Thank you","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3m34g","text":"> \u201cThe new, revised Direction, will make it abundantly clear community safety is a consideration that outweighs all other considerations. And beyond that [\u2026] we will introduce further mechanisms to enable the perspective of victims and their families to be more clearly brought to bear.\u201d","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cww9te","text":">The safe operation of nuclear power requires strong nuclear safety regulations and enforcement agencies, none of which exist in Australia. Establishing these frameworks and new bodies would take a long time and require significant government funding which would ultimately be borne by taxpayers.\n\nThis is the thing the \"just remove the ban, it won't cost anything\" crowd don't understand.  You can't remove the ban without also implementing the framework in which nuclear can operate in this country, this will take years and tax payer dollars to carry out.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2dqiz","text":"We did 3 bedrooms and a 3 walk in robes for $7k installed with old carpet thrown out, with the best underlay but probably not at as carpet as that, still...","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5geoh","text":"Superette in Brunswick - all their breads and their veg sandwiches are excellent","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4fl4d","text":"I came from Sydney to Melbourne and it was much more prominent in Melbourne. In Sydney no one cares, mostly people just recognise Melbourne as a cool place to be","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4mhl1","text":"Absolutely stupid sign. Can also be interpreted as a backwards \"Women shouldn't play sports\" message if you don't read it properly.\n\nWho writes this garbage?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4im5u","text":"I use to move over until someone knocked off my mirror and drove off","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5zu8b","text":"Marketplace is great if you have access to a truck\/trailer and someone to help you move stuff.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":">How is someone sharing images going to know they are deepfake or genuine, consensual or not?\n\nThat's a case by case basis though. Whether the person is knowingly doing it would change how the law is applied.\n\nAnd the rest of your conspiracy-adjacent diatribe is just word salad.\n\n>It concerns me that society is progressing to one where subjective hurt feelings are considered more important than objective harms.\n\nHaving your likeness used to create pornography without your consent is an objective harm dude.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d07lhu","text":"Indifference. I don't listen to their music, but I think the hatred is overblown by mere social contagion. \"Everyone hates them, so I have to hate them. And if I say they're cool, I'm uncool.\"\n\nEnd of the day, people's music taste should be individualised and not held to a status quo.\n\nThey're a band, they exist, and if people wanna be their fans - have at it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4msj1","text":"We are in the Yarra valley, we have a pair of butcher birds, who grace us with their presence. They call in for a cuppa and a tim tam, a little bit of cat food. We just love them.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d428ch","text":"Paper supported the cuts with all their heart","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czd6oy","text":"Well as much as I think I\u2019m the obvious choice, I just can\u2019t. I think mods should lower their frequency of commentary and I\u2019m way too active. So sorry to all my loyal fans. \/s","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5i4bz","text":"Bought solar lights simply because they were named after my wife. Came home and told her I picked up her bunnings order. She was very confused.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1yfiq","text":"Get into concrete construction. This will involve concreting, civil works, steel fixing and formwork carpentry. If you are a quick learner who is willing to work hard, you will get noticed. Move up to higher pay rates quicker.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2flpg","text":"Urgent care clinics might be your next best option: \nIt emergency but for non life threatening issues, anything life threatening I\u2019d be calling an ambulance.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq4slp","text":"Countries like Germany provide social housing as well as in home care for the most vulnerable, Canada is reintroducing care based psychologists into hospitals. \n\nThen there is the Scandanavian bloc where mental health is seen as a treatable condition at hospitals, free ambulance services are provided and there has been a massive reduction in stigma overall. But this has been affected by COVID and loneliness around the world.\n\nWhile things do move forward, progressive movements move at a snails pace, while one regressive incident, where the police were already aware, may set the whole movement forward back again introducing new fear by the acts of one person, who may later be misrepresented by the fears of others... It's seen easier to jerk a knee then to provide a humane and dignified response to this issue.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4rhnw","text":"Go try sell your other model to the Australian public. It was the main issue in the 99 referendum that caused it to lose. People didn\u2019t like that the public wouldn\u2019t have been electing the president.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d46vgm","text":"Done this ride, and done iron butt Brisbane to Perth.\n\nI would HIGHLY recommend against doing this on a ct110. You have sections where extended highway speeds are required and you will be under that. Lots of heavy vehicle traffic and angry drivers.\n\nEdit:  I wanted to add to this now I'm not on my phone.  The section from Ceduna to Norseman is approximately 1200km during which you have basically no option other than traveling along the highway.  The highway itself has long sections where there is no paved \"breakdown\" lane to the side.  The edge of the lane is the edge of the paved surface.  In addition that highway carries a very large amount of heavy traffic, and loaded with supplies you're going to absolutely max out at 80kph and likely spend a lot of time under it.\n\nYou're going to be constantly overtaken by a mixture of very large trucks and grey nomads with caravans and you will have nowhere to go.  You will be stuck with no paved surface to ride on and either have to run onto the dirt, the surface of which is very inconsistent, or hope to hell you don't get smooshed as they overtake.\n\nThe only way I would consider this run on a CT is if I resigned myself to do 40kph the whole way on the dirt edge.  And frankly, as someone who LOVES insane distance riding, fuck that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qm6t","text":"I work with a few developers, and the stuff Nightingale produce is right up with the best.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ifnp","text":"Might be worth hitting up a nice Japanese uni tbh.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"Tiamo probably the best family friendly on Lygon, but DOC is also good and the pasta at Brunetti is actually suprisingly good and they have great cakes and gelato so a good place to go with kids.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwz4zo","text":"Should ban parents that can't seem to be bothered teaching their kids basic restraint.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1qksq","text":"I feel as all things, somewhere the answer to this is in the middle ground. \n\n- Restrict sales as much as cigarettes and booze.\n\n- Heavy fines for businesses caught selling to minors. \n\n- Fuck off those single use vapes. The waste of those is incredible.  Happy for those cuntz to be illegal. When I see friends use them I go wild on them. \n\n- Legitimise the sales as much as possible and push out the dodgy pop up \u201cconvenience stores\u201d that sell. Work with the distributors.  \n\nBut the government needs to learn it\u2019s in a new age. You can buy and import basically anything these days regardless of prohibition and the kids will work around whatever controls are put in place. The kids know what\u2019s up and will run rings around whatever policies are put in place.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4r3ap","text":"For me it's the [National Rhododendron\/Dandenong Garden](\n\nEvery season changes it up completely!\nHave been there with my partner so many times and it keeps on getting better","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d41a1q","text":"Things get worse over time as a general rule. Once one business starts it and doesn't suffer a massive backlash, others will follow","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czaput","text":"Marles is a Washington controlled sock puppet.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctbiz7","text":">Across the generations, student movements get the big calls right all the damn time. \n\n- College Protests Against Desegregation in the United States (1950s-1960s)\n- Cultural Revolution Student Protests in the PRC (1966-1976)\n- Anti-Semitic Protests by Student Groups in Nazi Germany (1930s)\n- New Left Protests and Riots at Japanese Universities (1968\u20131969)\n- Takeover of Vanha (1968)\n- Student Protests in Kabul (1980)\n- May 68 Protests in France (1968)\n- Ethiopian Student Movement (1960-1974)\n- Muslim Student Followers Occupation of the U.S. Embassy\/Iran Hostage Crisis (1979)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cur4sx","text":"Except I genuinely doubt the majority of Australians share the Greens\/Redditor desire for a future of Kruschevkas for one. And beyond that, like most Greens policies, the \"how\" is never meant to be meaningfully answered. We already have a labour shortage, so how would they build those houses if we're struggling on more modest targets under Labor's plan?\n\nTo answer this, you have to concede they can't. Unless, however, you're a Greens supporter in which case you'll reach into a bag of populist platitudes and offer up some meaningless sentence as a solution.\n\n\"To fill the labour shortage necessary to build houses, The Greens will \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\"\n\n- Introduce rent control!\n\n- Abolish negative gearing!\n\n- Increase company tax!\n\n- Tax billionaires!\n\n- Raise income tax rates on the highest brackets!\n\n- Prevent any new coal or gas projects!\n\nIf one is to persist in asking how this will create labour supply out of thin air, then the tried and true retreat tactics here are to call them a Liberal or a Fascist, and block them.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d46hfd","text":"Legend. Thanks","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1j8n7","text":"Apathy. People should give a shit about issues that don\u2019t just affect them directly.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3kikl","text":"We only need to because we're being conned into believing more is better when it comes to humans.\u00a0\n\n\nThere's next to zero benefit for the vast majority of Australians to be moving into high density living.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4wbf1","text":"Hi Hospo workers (afternoon when you wake up from your shift last night) what are your favourite bars to go to for cocktails and spirits.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cw9vcr","text":"Why would nuclear be any different from the cluster fuck that is the Snowy II.  Same people would be driving it, looks like same amount of planning and thought has been put in to it.  The Snowy tells us don't let the Liberal party any where near our energy policy.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3a0uz","text":"You missed the heavily financed Mercedes Benz or BMW","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d605km","text":"So already pre-selected 31-year-old Amelia Hamer will be given the boot to make way for Frydenberg? \n\nThe Liberal Party went through a performative pre-selection process to look like they are addressing their Women problem, only to possibly backflip and gift these pre-selections to male Liberal candidates. No wonder Fiona Martin declared she will not renew her Liberal membership and basically endorsed the Teals yesterday.\n\nMonique Ryan's campaign will have a field day if this comes to fruition.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3xmly","text":"There\u2019s an active push to ban the practice in Australia at the moment\u2026 ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d680x4","text":"It\u2019s an installation as part of Rising Festival called Pay the Rent. ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4v5cb","text":"Yeah nah mate. I drink too much I am sure of it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1eojd","text":"I mean they shoot their dishes instead of cleaning them. (Source: I saw it on an episode of the Simpson it must be true) \/S","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4lk1b","text":"You answered your own (vague) question","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3y8wb","text":"okay thanks!!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz7h14","text":"Can someone tell me what \"division\" even means?\n\n\nI have heard so many times that something is \"divisive\". The referendum, nuclear power, immigration, now this.\n\n\nAs far as I can tell, it just means \"people disagree\". Why is that bad?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4u875","text":"Very true haha.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2h47p","text":"- Use all the respite days\n- Be prepared to advocate for everything \n- I think most staff have good intentions, but there are bad eggs everywhere \n- Things progressed very quickly for me when I had to find my loved one a home. \n- The worst part - Unfortunately the date he went permanent, he had a substantial amount in the bank. This meant he pays an eyewatering amount each f\/n. Over 2.5 years, there is not much left. I am concerned about the future. \n- oh, make sure you have a will and EPOA. \n\nAll the best","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxtves","text":"Ros Bates's statement adds important context to this story. \n\n>Labor is now resorting to baseless misrepresentation in a desperate attempt to distract from their shocking maternity failures. \n\n>Today, the Health Minister was caught covering- up the frequent bypass-closures of maternity services at multiple Queensland hospitals, including major service downgrades at one of the State's biggest hospitals on the Gold Coast.\n\n>In Question Time the Opposition asked across the Chamber, surely the Government isn't asking nothers to delay having their babies, while they're transferred to other hospitals due to maternity closures? \n\n>With Labor suggesting women could just bypass their local hospital to go to another hospital to give birth, I could not believe Labor was telling mothers to \"cross your legs\" while in labour.\n\n>This is the comment I made. \n\n>We have had women give birth on the side of the road in Queensland due to maternity services being closed in regional areas and this is what we were demanding the Health Minister answer for today.\n\n>The comment was clearly not about the Health Minister, it was about the alarming Queensland Maternity Crisis, which continues to worsen on her watch and is putting women and children at risk. \n\n>Shannon Fentiman is aware I am a victim of domestic violence. She is also aware I am a mother. For her to mischaracterise my words for her own political gain and attempt to portray me as a misogynist is deeply offensive. \n\n>Labor has become so desperate due to their health failures that they will do and say anything to cling to power. \n\n>When Labor is backed into a corner, their true colours shine through. As the Health Minister and Minister for Women, Shannon Fentiman should be ashamed of herself.\n\n>I am demanding the Health Minister apologise and admit she deliberately misrepresented Parliament.\n\nWhatever views you may hold on the story now, at least it will be more informed.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwtko0","text":"Better to start the transition to direct democracy via a national distributed government aided by an uncensored online public forum and get beyond the need for representation and terms.\n\nAre we not in the 21st Century, yet still behaving like we were in the 20th, desperately clinging to the status quo and resisting change?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d379xp","text":"Hoo Haa on Chapel St does bottomless food and drinks on Thursdays to Saturdays, not sure how late they offer it though","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5e2gg","text":"I'm assuming OP wants a restaurant where they have to beat the other would be diners in some test of skill or athleticism to be allowed to eat there","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cpr67f","text":"How would you like it if the government said one day. We are banning the job you are doing and we won't compensate you. Horrific? More like unpleasant but humans are at the top of the food chain not sheep.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2ztl3","text":"Squeeze lever.\n\nPut the threaded section of the fuel cap into the nice big gap you now have in the handle.\n\nRelease lever.\n\nFuel cap holds lever open.\n\nStill clicks off. As intended. There is no difference with the cap in there compared to your hand holding the lever.\n\nHands free fuelling! Just stay there next to it, don\u2019t walk away leaving it unattended.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5i4bz","text":"I nabbed a set of mesh routers discounted to $50. Definitely wasn't a must have purchase but RRP was $300 at the time.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1nhyk","text":"My son was born in QLD just over a decade ago and he was circumcised against my wishes by my now ex husband and his family. \nThere was no medical reason for him to be circumcised but they did it without my knowledge (i was suffering from birth complications and the in laws were looking after him for me).","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4gmjw","text":"To be fair, if a place was charging $20 a beer, they'd probably close soon anyway.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4lk1b","text":"You do have to do any work related task required of you, yes. If you want to keep the job.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ycgm","text":"I would rather support a system that provides a wage over tipping culture.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0o1xc","text":"People from Noosa are Noosances.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czwypv","text":"Perhaps if I was not hearing impaired I would. Google was unable to help me, hence why I resorted to this. ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d265lz","text":"Anyone sick of the constant running around getting a better deal that is life nowadays? If you're not on top of it you end up losing hundreds a year. Lazy tax it seems.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2z4dt","text":"The thing most of this place forget Mx was at its peak before the advent of the first iPhone. It was something to read on the way home. \nAnd if you were coming into the city a handy little find to kill some time.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5iuvf","text":"You posted this at like 7:30pm. I guess it must be near your bedtime.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d35ec2","text":"*\"about* to nuke himself with women voters? Honey, that bomb was dropped decades ago.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyyfzp","text":"Dollface. \nI\u2019d get \u201ccheers dollface\u201d when I worked in hospo. Not flirty. \n\nI\u2019d say \u201cthanks cunt\u201d","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4y0co","text":"Similarly swapped from AGL to OVO last year when I moved house and it\u2019s been much cheaper.\n\nWebsite is easy to understand, can live track usage, have links to affiliated\/unaffiliated offers like greener home upgrades, etc.\n\nHaven\u2019t had to contact them yet but happy so far. Here\u2019s a [referral discount]( for $120 off over 12 months.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ycgm","text":"I'm not a fan, but still prefer it to tipping.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cqqah0","text":"I dunno, just a day or two before caretaker mode before the last Queensland election.   Labor handed Virgin $200 million of borrowed taxpayers money to keep them going.\n\nAnd we know Qld Labor are the champions at pissing money up against the wall given the state debt is headed to soon be $188 billion yet the infrastructure is all falling apart.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cx2i9u","text":">Moreover, as overseas student numbers are cut back, eventually that will start to affect students studying in key skill shortage areas such as health and aged care, education, engineering and IT. Once again, that may be something Dutton is not fussed about.\n\nI'm glad the article acknowledges tacitly the quiet bit out loud that these aren't temporary migrants.\n\nFirst step would be to remove the work allowance and pathways to permanent migration for those visa types. The market will do the job for him quickly after that.\n\nThe Unis are flush with cash and the influx of foreign students who can't speak English reduce the quality of education for the domestic students Unis should be catering for.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4kc9e","text":"It\u2019s good to be open-minded, but not so open that your brains fall out.\n-Jacob Needleman","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5j6wm","text":"No real truth to it, we have dangerous animals, but no more than the USA really, and those animals tend to live away from humans.\n\nIt's a total circlejerk really.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3s3ut","text":"Cooked","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwhypl","text":"How about he just reduces the price of power by $275 like he promised dozens and dozens of times. Then this wouldn't be an issue.\n\n\nPeople can downvote reality all they want but if they kept their promise to reduce power prices by $275 below pre-election prices Australians would have an additional ~$750 per year in their pockets and this wouldn't be necessary.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ct4epu","text":"See what voting for the minors leads to?\n\n>a contentious power that could allow gas projects to bypass environment laws will be abandoned\n\nThe horror!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csf15u","text":"Cadbury could do what Mr Cadbury did back in the 19th Century, provide subsidised housing in their own company villages.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"The challenge is that it's not just about a helmet in isolation, those cities have a much different culture and infrastructure around bikes and riders.\n\nYes, we have some bike lanes, but for the most part we just throw the bikes on the road with cars.  For many drivers they see people on bikes as secondary (annoying) users of the road.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ngze","text":"Privatising the department that holds very sensitive private information, what could go wrong?\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d08rxp","text":"Hollie Hughes was pretty fixated on culture war bullshit and conspiracy theories. I don\u2019t think Jess Collins is as far right. \n\nLook at who endorsed Hughes:\n\n- Dutton\n- Jacinta Price\n- Michaelia Cash\n- Sky News\u2019 Paul Murray\n\nCollins had Taylor yes but also Joe Hockey and Michael McCormack.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czkzax","text":"I be sure to have salmon at least twice a week with a pile of vegies.  Yes... I know there are issues with salmon farming, but many others are worse and it has the lowest mercury content, with other positives.\n\nMy wife and I split a fillet, so the cost isn't an issue. they also freeze well.    Sliced lemon, basil, pepper wrapped in foil and thrown in the oven for 30min.   By far the easiest and fastest meal I have.   I add pesto and other various sauces to mix things up a bit. A nice chutney maybe","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5fsq6","text":"How did they behave? I'm curious now","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gwqz","text":"Can get Horlicks in Australian supermarkets, check online sticks but they have it at my local Woolies. Better, very very similar,  is nestle malted milk. Coles malted milk is glass and mud badly blended, do not buy it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2dv3l","text":"Tram way back in the 90s, hit a car.\n\nAfter school and packed.\n\nI was holding on, my friend was not.\n\nI saw him yeet, down the aisle as if he were falling off a cliff, taking the whole aisle with him.\n\nHe maintained eye contact the whole way, wide eyed with an outstretched hand.\n\nOne of those slow motion moments.\n\nA++ would experience again.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d67ahs","text":"Normally got jump through heaps of hoops. \n\nI just do that shit anyway. Dragged some shit out the the creek last week and piled it up for the council to (never) collect. \n\nWas Gunna hook up the bit of washed out road to the ute and drag it back in (2m section of road got lifted and washed into the creak beside the road. Council repaired the road but left the old road just folded up in the water). But then thought \"the council was here, with blokes and equipment when they patched the road - they EASILY could had removed the old washed away road at the same time AND get paid for it'.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2y8wr","text":"Thank you LNP for cutting TAFE and slashing apprenticeships for the decade you were in power.  \nWe literally couldn't be in this position without you!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3bq1f","text":"I feel like we've also been overexposed to the trend of social media\/reddit posts from the USA where they glorify being willing to show off\/use their guns on anyone that approaches their house.\n\n\"They better make good with their God if someone shows up here uninvited\" was a phrase I saw tossed around a lot.  At some point it became very cool in the USA to act like their house was the Alamo and anyone walking up the driveway was an invader.  \n\nHard to imagine that this prevailing and over-shared perspective hasn't had some level of impact on the rest of us in the western world.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpft2l","text":"As an Albany local - fuck this homo\/transphobic piece of trash. \n\nUnfortunately there are very conservative attitudes prevalent in the region - Rick Wilson being a hard-right federal member. In my personal experience, the liberal vote here is driven strictly by the scare campaign againt Labor in printed and Murdoch media. Liberal members are simply coasting.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4k42f","text":"Woah, woah, hold on. You aren\u2019t seriously expecting us to practice common sense are you?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0p5nx","text":"It is convenient for the Labor government to have the universities and businesses of all sizes and shapes hankering for more student immigration. The easy GDP growth we get from students hides the fact that they have been absolutely ineffective in getting growth in more complex industries or any efficiency in our other export industries. Most growth is from education providers that rely on the lure of permanent residency and domestic work rights and unskilled low wage businesses with low barriers to entry that rely on foreign students.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5qq1n","text":"Too much words.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cq2am0","text":"or hear me out..\n\nparent's could do their jobs..","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d404vh","text":"I prefer push, easier to maneuver.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2do69","text":"The shitty paint scribbles just look messy to me give me battleship grey anyday","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d10055","text":">Not mentally ill\n\nLook, you're probably right, but I encourage you not to dismiss the possibility. \n\n>burned out from work yet when I look into other industries\/courses\/jobs nothing really appeals to me. \n\nOther industries probably don't appeal to you because of the burn out. Burn out is, in my experience, very similar to depression, but short term and more situational. But it might help to look at it in a similar way, IE, there's not likely going to be a quick fix, a psychologist might be able to help, see if you can get support from loved ones, try to find time for rest\/self care.\n\nHonestly, it's a societal issue that we aren't going to be much help with","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1kgz4","text":"I never drain the water. I put the flavour on the dry noodles and then the boiling water in. Even when i put less of a satchel in, I still find that I just don't enjoy the taste any more. Was hoping for just a more plain subtle taste. Without it being just PLAIN dry noodles, because that's not nice either ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3kikl","text":"Why should only parts of Sydney take on the brunt of density? It\u2019s utter stupidity to waste the space. \n\nAnd I\u2019m sorry but we aren\u2019t \u201cfull\u201d, we just have shitty zoning and not enough infrastructure but that doesn\u2019t have to always remain the case.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvdo59","text":"I\u2019m sick of arguing with every opinionated ignoramus who hasn\u2019t made an effort to understand this case.\n\nFirstly, if you are going to accuse me of wildly engaging in misinformation, it would be nice if you did me the courtesy of reading what I write until you comprehend it.\u00a0\n\nBoth the judge and I distinguished between the cases deemed most comparable and those that were simply mentioned. One of the cases that was merely mentioned was about a lawyer stealing $220 000 from a disabled client (which is a lot worse than blowing the whistle), another that was merely mentioned was about stealing work tools. You\u2019ve skimmed the conclusion of the judgment and cherry picked the least relevant and in one case most evil cases you could find.\n\nI can't take you seriously if you pretend it\u2019s a coincidence the sentencing was held on budget day. That and the harshness of the sentence despite all the considerations I\u2019ve listed are evidence of the judge\u2019s bias.\n\nThe Nazis obeyed orders and Stanislav Petrov disobeyed them, those are my points.\n\nAs his new lawyer will argue in court, he had duties that prevailed to the extent of any other duty. He could not have held his position as a military lawyer without having this duty. The proceedings in the High Court will shed light on this and most likely result in McBride being exonerated or at least given a better sentence for a whistle blower.\n\nIt\u2019s a lot easier to prove illegal procedures in investigating cases before you, than to prove cases of war crimes your superiors don\u2019t want you to see. If you look at the extracts of McBride\u2019s statements to police in the sentencing transcript, they will shed light on his motivations.\n\nHis previous lawyers took a very limited approach in defending David. Perhaps Mark Davis saw this case too much like a journalist (which he was) and that is why he didn't devote his time to making contingency plans in case his main argument was dismissed.\n\nYou are referencing the defense department investigating itself\u00a0when McBride concerns were with the leadership of the defense department.\n\nI heard about the contents of the documents from people who have read them.\n\nI heard the judge admit the contents of the leaked documents were of public interest.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2gwqz","text":"Hell yeah warm horlicks before bedtime ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2h47p","text":"We used an agent to find a home, explain the system to us, and do the paperwork. Was about $6k. Since we lived interstate that was very useful. \n\nRe the home, you get what you pay for.\n\nWe did not bother with financial advice as my parents were reasonably well off, with no govt pension but pubkix device service  benefit lension.\n\nEssentially on death their estate was pretty close to it's value when they went on roughly 5 years prior. We sold the family home and used most of that to pay RAD.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyee7t","text":"It's what happens when you don't have domestic gas reservation. The yanks do, and they are doing much better in the green transition because of it. Oh, manufacturing, too. The stone age would be a major technological advance for this country.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3tcou","text":"It's that special time of year, when the conditions are just right for us to see Oilus Australis.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ngze","text":"The only saving here is an increase in fees, and a lowering of wages. The new operator will use the same technology, the same software, and the new shareholders\/proprietors will skim from the margin.\n\nVery anti-labour policy from a 'Labor' government.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d31bfw","text":"\nI have no doubt that libs will chart housing starts and show their time in office where they grew to levels never seen during covid then showing under labor that they have reduced. Ie building volumes are reducing under labor. At the same time as massive population growth.\n\nThe reasons for the collapse are higher costs of construction and liberals new home grant at the tail end of their time in office but labor have done nothing material to change this. \n\nIe we are starting less homes when we have a government that tells us they are addressing supply. \n\nSo labor talk about supply more than liberals but the results are shit. Maybe not their fault but they certainly could do things that address this. Things they are not doing. \n\nSure they can promise after their first term they will eventually reach their 1.2million homes but this will fall flat when for the entirity of their term demand has exceeded supply and rents have spiked. Ie 3 years should be long enough to have some influence on building volumes rather than a negative result...\n\nI dont think its a sure thing all renters will swing labor \/ greens way.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4m7aw","text":"He claims that he has epilepsy. Would this not preclude him from enlisting in the Army Reserves?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1hwkr","text":"Bring extra Vegemite, when I brought Vegemite to Germany they loved it, so she's gonna want extr\u00e0 to share around.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4tu5f","text":"> how we sensibly tax resources that belong to all Australians\n\nAfter we swindled it away from East Timor and then gave it to Woodside and Conoco.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyee7t","text":"Julia implemented the carbon tax to encourage green investment- libs created sovereign risk by rolling it back. Labor created the clean energy finance corporation. Tony gutted it. Labor have been doing what the can federally for 6 of the last 30 years. The other the other 24? Liberal just deny and delay.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvae4i","text":"Yeah, \u201cend\u201d overstated it. But if we got our local birth\u00a0rate up, ending it isn\u2019t not outlandish. I reckon a net migration rate of about 50k a year is appropriate now. That\u2019ll give Aussies a chance to buy a home and get a job\u2014utopia.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1rxsp","text":"Hey Legends. Thanks for the advice and the pointers. The landlords and the real estate agent came over yesterday to have a look and yes, it is a mess up there, full of rat and possum shit and piss. The joy.\n\nThey are getting a pest man and a possum man to clean up and treat the area over the next week. Thankful for such a quick response from them. They seem to be taking it seriously and it's not an uncommon thing i.e they have dealt with it before.\n\nThey are also taking liberties to board up \/ put mesh on the roof where the possums and the rodents might be getting in.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctbnbr","text":"I watched 10 minutes of it to listen to the non-stop LNP yelling of shame but it hasn\u2019t started yet. \n\nConsidering it goes for the entire time how far in do I have to skip before it starts?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cx2i9u","text":">It wouldn't be so bad if the \"something different\" was based on real data\n\n\nThis coming from the guy who refused to engage with literally minute by minute generation data when discussing generator reliability. You don't care about data in the slightest.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1vtzv","text":"You have to enter Thunderdome if you get caught","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0vfvd","text":"So the tentative plan is for 8 nights at Melbourne. I need to budget 2 nights on GOR and 2 nights for Grampians, so 4 nights for GOR + Grampians and the remaining 4 nights local sightseeing + Philip Island etc. And then onto Sydney for another 6 nights. Will fly between Melbourne- Sydney since would have already done the road trips to GOR \/ Grampians etc. How does this sound?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d35hu3","text":"Ah.. the hard copy version of Reddit is back.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5al5g","text":"Registry Office and then find a nice restaurant in the CBD for a small function.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3rdud","text":"Shit. Christ isn't back is he?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0s25i","text":">Lauga confirmed\u00a0Queensland parliamentary services had closed her electorate office in Yeppoon\u00a0after \u201cseveral offensive and threatening safety concerns\u201d from members of the public\n\nC'mon Qld. Can we be better than that please? \n\nIt's troubling when shit like this interferes with her ability to represent her constituents.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2hkr8","text":"That's what I do, $50 top up when it goes below $20 and haven't been charged transaction fees.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crcyya","text":"Dunno how sourcing = astroturfing. It's not difficult to google people.\n\nThe first person interviewed was a literal financial scammer. Seriously don't know how that isn't cause for questioning the narrative.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cqmy49","text":"my apologies i didnt know this was a private sub reddit","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d05ofu","text":"I would encourage everyone to read the AAT decisions in question before they leap to any conclusions. In [the XRGY decision]( for example, the human-trafficking allegations were given serious consideration. But the allegation came from ASIO and the AFP declined to prosecute him for the crime. From 53:\n\n>In the absence of a criminal conviction the decision-maker should rarely find that the conduct which would constitute an offence has occurred\u00a0. . . The task of ASIO is a different task to that of adducing criminal guilt. It is the AFP that is best placed to investigate, charge and refer to the Director of Public Prosecutions cases of people smuggling. In the Applicant\u2019s case, it has not done so. . . . If the Tribunal were to prefer or put more weight on the ASIO material than the AFP material, such an approach would raise Constitutional separation of power issues.\n\nGiven the above, it wasn't really possible for the AAT to treat the allegations any other way. This is trial by media, essentially.\n\nI haven't looked for the Saki decision, but the minister's comments may well be accurate: that the AAT didn't properly consider the likelihood of reoffending. Easy to say in retrospect, of course, but even so, it's not evidence that the direction is a problem, just its application.\n\nI know Dutton (and possibly others here) think we should be able to apply extra-judicial punishment to non-citizens. Serve your time and then piss off home. Untested allegation? Too bad, get out. But not only is this a textbook authoritarian approach, and not only does it compromise our international obligations including those against non-refoulement ([discussion here]( there's also the fact that the international community could start doing it to us. Deporting all their hardened criminals to our shores for us to deal with. It's a trick that ultimately goes against the interests of the Australian community even if it's emotionally satisfying.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3yzbw","text":"I just went through this with my tenant who wants to break the lease on 10 days notice.\n\nThe tenant was good and I was hoping he would stay long term. I wasn\u2019t going to increase the rent on his 1st renewal.\n\nAnyway he\u2019s leaving a few months before his 12 month contract.\n\nI had to option to charge him the leasing and advertising fee. I choose not to charge this but I will hold him to paying the rent until I find someone else.\n\nI won\u2019t be picky about the new tenant as long as they have a job and reasonable rental history just like I would for any tenant. Single mothers no problems.\n\nEven in a rental crisis It does take time to find a tenant. Just most people who want to rent a place will want to move in after 2 to 4 weeks (gives them time to exit their current living arrangement).\n\nI\u2019ve always found the winter months are harder to find a tenant as most people start their lease at the end of or start of the year.\n\nIf an employer who gave you a 12 month contract, suddenly cut it short, would you not want to be compensated for the time you don\u2019t have a job. \n\nSure you could find another job quickly but you wouldn\u2019t accept just any job would you?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0p5nx","text":"The exchange of goods and services for currency is a scam now?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4r7ks","text":":)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"Going to mention Johnny, Vince and Sam\u2019s Ristorante which is the new darling on Lygon Street. Step back in time here to Noona's house with the decor. \n\nApparently old Italians like eating here for their home style authenticity. I have only tried the pizza here, it's different to your normal style, yet I really liked it. I'd go back to try the pasta for sure. They don't take bookings, you queue outside if they are full, with kids in tow you'd want to hit the place at opening so you don't have to wait.\n\nIf they're full try Ms Frankie Carlton around the corner. The pasta is good. Yet it's always easy to get a table because they're expensive, pasta is $24-39.\n\nAlso highly rate Donnini's. The pasta here is great. They will look after you and no one I've ever been with has walked out unhappy. Just be aware it is expensive, pasta is $34-37. There is a pasta trio which is good for the undecided especially those with an appetite - you could split one order with the kids. Get the focaccia as a starter which is delicious - just don't over order as it'll fill you up too much.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0met9","text":"We had one of the guys from the band Redgum (the late Hugh McDonald RIP) play at our wedding. My brother knew him a bit and asked him. He was lovely and played a selection of folk songs, we had a bush wedding so it was perfect.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d00sm5","text":"The World Record effort was Chaz n the Chaser boys crashing APEC security. Still unbeaten in 2024 ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctwdgh","text":"**Rules of engagement:**\n\n  \n**1. Effortposting is king** - Really try to analyse the history and not treat parties like football teams. \n\n**2. Tribalism is bad -** Try and discuss the events without barracking\n\n**3. Don't be afraid to ask questions** - there are no dumb questions! History is a wonderful thing and there are going to be varying views on the topic - you will learn more asking than you will assuming.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crcyya","text":"Multiple reposts of the same link across multiple subs. Basic promotional account behaviour","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4rhnw","text":">It is probable now that Australia, for at least this century, will live under the reigns of Charles III, William V and George VII with a second referendum most unlikely.\n\nCringe and not based. I can understand the monarchist position in principle, but this simping for born to rule British aristocrats, is beyond me. \n\nTo save others time, the reason why it doesn't matter, according to the article, is that the monarchist movement is lead by political geniuses who will outwit republicans at every turn.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d24wtj","text":"Well I guess they worked out the parking issue.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2do69","text":"Taggers should be caught and made to paint over their own ugly scrawl.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwtko0","text":"I think in late 2022 there was a chance of an early election.  Other political parties were certainly preparing for it.  The result of the Voice referendum and polling made it zero change of a significantly early election (being that the regular one is due a yearish from now).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyk225","text":"So because federal Liberal governments have been too gutless to secure gas supply for Australians, or have any meaningful policy or projects for Australia\u2019s energy future, it\u2019s Dan\u2019s fault the majority of Victorian gas is exported? \n\nHow gullible do you have to be to fall for the fossil fuel lobby\u2019s propaganda that the world\u2019s 7th largest gas producer is running out of gas?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ngze","text":"Ffs can they stop doing shit like this please?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cw99d1","text":">Yet even in light of this, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton complained last week that the number of public servants has swelled under the Albanese government, declaring the Coalition sees defence spending as \u201cmuch more of a priority than office staff in Canberra\u201d.\n\nGonna skip the usual Morrison circlejerk (oh Scott Morrison exercised political savvy to do no actual work? Shocker \/s) and just highlight this point - the LNP will whinge Labor does nothing, but when Labor actually hires real staff to do work (more on \"real\" in a sec) now it is \"hiring for the wrong sectors\/wasting money on 'too good' public servants\" and other bullshit.\n\nI say \"real\", because the alternative is pure contractors, which often cost more than regular staff (since the worker and the company has to make a profit or else cut corners to make money) and yet are seen as \"good\" because hey you create private sector jobs (which are magically worth more than public sector jobs because ???).\n\nAnyway, nice to see Dutton falling back to classics \/s.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d348o3","text":"There's someone called Purple Pingaz who has a list of empty houses for people who don't have a home","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d01754","text":"Well, most kids bought sandwiches from home. And we never got money for the canteen, so hotdog day was pretty la de dah.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0ag93","text":"That\u2019s a very good suggestion. Thanks. I should\u2019ve mentioned this in my post but It\u2019s been 1.5 years since I started working there but these issues started only 3 months ago when I was promoted to the same level as her. I already requested with my manager to change position internally or flexible working arrangements but there was nothing.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5g849","text":"Nice one!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36ejb","text":" your own are struggling with the cost of living and you\u2019re spending $600m on sports in another country?!?!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4iz7u","text":"Nah that was just creepy, immoral as he was married and there was a power imbalance.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czynj3","text":"Pine gap is one of the most important, if not the most important spy facilities in this region.\n\nThan secondly there's exmouth which is still used to this day to communicate with submarines, some of which are nuclear armed.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36ejb","text":"Absolutely not a good use of $600 million of taxpayer money","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2bvm2","text":"Tits","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czdql8","text":"You are mistaking apathy for tolerance.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyhh7e","text":"These attacks on the ICC are pure hypocrisy. International law is not just a tool to be selectively applied when it suits the US and its allies. The US and EU was insistent on the former Yugoslav countries co-operating with and handing over suspected war criminals. The US did not object when it issued an arrest warrant for Putin.\n\nThe ICC charging and trying war criminals is of the international rules based order, whose protection is supposedly the cornerstone of Western diplomacy, especially when it comes to convincing countries to sanction and condemn Russia. But now the Americans are not just attacking the court but considering sanctioning the court for literally doing it's job.\n\nAs for Dutton he overestimates how many people outside of the conservative (and some non-conservative) media and political elite care about Israel, and outraged by this. For most Australians it is a far away war that has being going on for as long as they can remember, that has little to do with us. Attacking Albo on this is not good politics.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3eybn","text":"How do you think citizenship works?\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctbnbr","text":"the pbo exists to model and extrapolite policycost and  ideas for all partys,not to mention now likely a year out or so 2  election the opposition should already have key policy platforms focus tested and and idea of costings and economic modelling done.\n\nif labor had of gotten up as opposition last night and gave that little information they would be getting lambasted as being dysfunctional","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0v37a","text":"oooh that's creepy. You might make a joke like that with someone you knew very well, but not in these circumstances. However the worst bit is the mistrust and jealousy.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4t7ip","text":"Great for two years","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1l9fw","text":"Government departments need to have suitable oversight and accountability. Otherwise you end up with these little fiefdoms.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d367a1","text":"Let\u2019s hope so because I saw an add for bitcoin on this post","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d276je","text":"This is good advice. Even if they have a general chat and they seem OK etc, I always follow up with something in the vein of, 'I know this is an uncomfortable question, but are you considering harming yourself in any way? I would hate to not ask and you really need help'.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2zss0","text":"Ah, I didn't know that's what it was referring to. Thanks for the info!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3rdud","text":"That's a funny response to dark mofo's Inverted cross theming. Good moral though","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctvihi","text":"I don\u2019t see how australia will ever have wage growth \/ living standards growth being inflation ever again.\n\nJust look at aged care and NDIS. All of these are net consumptive which have to be paid for.\n\nI\u2019d suspect if you took into account welfare per capita it would show compared to 2010 that it is higher in real terms.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctbnbr","text":"it's more muttered constantly,around the bowen energy section..yelling was a touch strong of a word to use.\n\nLooks like lara tingles already brought the issue up to taylor as well as to why they couldn't just get their message out,and had to resort to personnel jabs","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2fira","text":"Not in Sydney unless you were really uncool","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d29hnj","text":"I'd respond with, \"As long as your house is next\".\n\nThe agent is flying red flags, you're better off with a different agent in a different property.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cuptcb","text":"Was it a \"core\" or \"non-core\" commitment?\n\nThe point is that the Coalition's record on keeping promises is so bad that you simply can't believe it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cx2i9u","text":"Why do you keep lying? I have sent you document after document explaining exactly what is meant by a dispatch interval and you just keep pushing the same lie. Who are you trying to fool?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5gc93","text":"Charge the owners of vacant houses rent after a certain amount of time of being vacant.\n\nIf it falls into disrepair, force it to be condemned until they fix it or sell it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq2am0","text":"It\u2019s worth noting that the reason that the Terms of Service of most social media specifies an age limit of 13+ is in order to comply with a US law (COPPA) that says they can\u2019t collect or store data for kids under 13. It\u2019s about company liability and compliance, not safeguarding children.\n\nI do think we at least need to consider our own law around the collection, use and storage of data related to children instead of relying on US laws. \n\nThere\u2019s strong evidence that social media is harmful to kids, and it would be good to investigate some common sense laws ways to reduce the normalisation of children on social media and social media apps targeting young people. I\u2019m not sure how it works in practice, and I don\u2019t think they will stamp out social media use in children entirely, but I think there\u2019s plenty of room for improvement when we\u2019ve done very little legislatively to try and combat this issue.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2fobc","text":"I had one for a couple of months and absolutely hated it. They\u2019re a brilliant idea in theory, but they just don\u2019t work efficiently. It takes 3+ hours and the clothes never fully dried so I\u2019d have to hang them out to finish drying anyway. And our clothes ALWAYS dried with that musty smell (like when you\u2019ve left them in the washing machine too long) because the dryer process just takes too long.\nI also hated not being able to do back to back loads. I have kids and work full time and my washing gets backed up sometimes, especially when we have a sickness like gastro run through the household. Having the one machine do it all wasted a lot of time when I could have been running a load in the washing machine and another load in a dryer simultaneously, then when the washing is finished it goes in the dryer, and another load goes straight in the washing machine. \n\n10\/10 don\u2019t recommend.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cw9vcr","text":"Of course, had we taken Finland's approach, it may have turned out like it did in Georgia USA where their new reactor cost US$35 billion to build (AU$52 billion), was 7 years late, and is going to cost consumers an extra US$170+ per year on their electricity bills (AU$250+). \n\n","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxvd1m","text":"Don't worry , Albo feels your pain and help is on the way.  Tax cuts for everyone and $300 off your power bill should make all the difference. Unless bracket creep still gets you like Albo has designed it too.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cszxwq","text":"As a great man once said, \"Suffer in yer jocks.\"","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2wtp5","text":"Spotto extended edition\nYellow car = normal family spotto rules\nSpotto police car = put someone in spotto jail\nSpotto ambulance car = gets of spotto jail\nSpotto fire truck = hoses competition points away\nSpotto pink car \u2018 pinko\u2019 = winner winner dinner chicken dinner","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvi72m","text":"As I said if only we could reach the lofty ideals of people either address(ing) the post in question, or ignore(ing) it.\n\nI'd say ask questions also, but I'd be accused of sealioning or some stupid pop culture term similar.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crheft","text":"The ALP are economic liberals posing as Social Democrats. Stuff like this just sits on a pile of other proof for this fact.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2emnt","text":"One thing I learnt in Europe is holy fuck our system is shit house, trams in time, they wait if the connection train is delayed we need to invest heavily","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csv37q","text":"Math is hard for some people, far better to employ superior \"logic\" and \"critical thinking\".","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d35p9o","text":"I ran a few times in minus 7 temps. Gloves and Tracky daks and T shirt worked for me","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyvuc4","text":"and why not.. we like to leave some wild life alone","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0wvb9","text":"Nonsense yourself, I've seen how manufacturing businesses with high automation can survive in Australia. I've literally worked for businesses where the competition is suspected slave labour in China but the fact the Australian business has a fraction of the staff and ongoing contracts here is enough to keep it viable.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4r3ap","text":"Melba gully rainforest. Great ocean road. \nBeen logged to the shit house. But, Has or had glow worm's, and the stump of the biggest logged tree to its date of 1985. The rainforest had a warm climate under its canopy, and could sustain the glow worm's. I haven't been to Melba since the 2000s but I know logging may have deleted what I knew. It's still a fantastic walk, and leaches are around in winter.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d40yp3","text":"These are far lower numbers than I expected. I've had 20 jobs and I'm in my late twenties. That isn't counting short term contract jobs.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4r3ap","text":"Power's Lookout in the North East. I'm sorry, I missed the other post so I don't know if this was mentioned. But it's a truly glorious view. It's actually in Bill Bryson's book about Australia, though he doesn't mention it by name.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3r2v5","text":"Balkan Grill Bar and Restaurant - St Albans . Absolutely Delicious food.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d65lni","text":"Harrowing stuff, glad you're ok","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1kgz4","text":"I've never heard of those brands?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d276je","text":"I'v spent the last 5 years thinking this was normal, don't we all spend most of our days trying to find reasons to not do it?\n\nI hate when people ask, \"are you thinking of ending it?\" because yeh I am nearly all the time I just don't have the stomach to do it so I'm left sitting here wondering what to do.\n\nGrinds my gears when people with NO injuries and an ability to work most job talk like this though I would give anything I have a healthy body and options for work. People that say this just because of stress I feel like need to do more researching on just how good this period of time is to be alive, it's certainly got me through some dark times.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czcbpf","text":"I'm 100% for it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5fv0x","text":"Thank you!! ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d30cgv","text":"Ex ALDI worker here: we had to ask everyone if they want a catalogue. Store management often checked your service at the register and if you wouldn\u2019t offer catalogue they\u2019d let you know afterwards. In worst case they give you a Bad Performance review as offering a catalogue is part of the register procedure","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0xz4e","text":"Paywall\n\n Miners have poured a record $74bn into the coffers of federal, state and territory governments, with the Albanese government pocketing $42.5bn in company tax revenue, and Queensland and NSW cashing in on booming coal royalties.\n\nAfter Jim Chalmers announced a second budget surplus anchored by strong mining exports and commodity prices, an EY royalty and company tax payments report, released on Monday, reveals miners have paid governments almost $360bn in taxes and royalties over a decade.\n\nWith Peter Dutton promising a Coalition government will adopt a \u201cpro-mining mindset\u201d and the Greens demanding an end to coal and gas, Anthony Albanese is under pressure to balance Labor\u2019s emissions reduction ambitions with support for traditional mining.\n\nCommissioned by the Minerals Council of Australia, whose members include BHP, Rio Tinto, Lynas Rare Earths, Glencore and Peabody, the annual report shows a $9.3bn increase in payments to governments. The $74bn payday for governments in 2022-23 included a decade-high $31.5bn in royalties. As well as traditional mining revenue associated with iron ore and coal, The Australian this month revealed oil and gas companies are on track to pay a record $17.1bn in taxes and royalties across 2023-24.\n\nWith the mining industry paying the highest average wages, contributing the most company taxes and delivering the bulk of export revenue, MCA chief executive Tania Constable warned against holding back miners with \u201cdraconian 1970s industrial relations agendas, high energy, environmental, planning and taxation costs\u201d. The MCA will launch a national advertising blitz on Monday.\n\u201cThe recent federal budget revealed that government spending is on the rise and it is our country\u2019s mining sector that foots the bill, paying more than half of the company tax paid by large corporations and international businesses,\u201d Ms Constable told The Australian.\n\n\u201cDespite underwriting our nation\u2019s prosperity, living standards and security, the path forward for the mining industry remains uncertain. Our tax system is increasingly uncompetitive, and our regulatory environment is becoming more cumbersome.\n\n\u201cApprovals are taking too long, tied up in endless red tape, well-funded lawfare and multi-layered government bureaucracy, wasting taxpayers\u2019 money and holding back Australia\u2019s economy from realising its full potential.\u201d\n\nQueensland\u2019s share of national royalty payments increased from 32.5 to 47.2 per cent off the back of higher coal royalty rates, with NSW claiming a $4.7bn royalties windfall. In the battleground election state of Western Australia, iron ore remained the biggest earner despite lower revenue and prices in 2022-23.\n\n\u201cTotal mineral sector royalties reached approximately $31.5bn in 2022-23, increasing by $7.6bn from the previous year. The yearly growth in royalties was primarily due to an increase of $7.1bn in royalty taxes paid in Queensland due to the introduction of progressive coal royalty rates,\u201d the EY report said.\n\n\u201cWestern Australia\u2019s royalty income is largely attributed to iron ore. In 2022-23, iron ore production volumes were similar to 2021-22, so changes in WA\u2019s royalties were largely driven by changes in iron ore prices.\n\n\u201cIron ore prices declined in the second quarter of 2022-23 and remained lower in early 2023 due to production restrictions in China.\u201d\n\nWith mining companies and associated supply chains supporting 1.1 million jobs, Ms Constable said the sector was helping keep \u201cAustralia solvent\u201d.\n\n\u201cA robust mining sector is critical if we want to sustain public spending, advance Australia\u2019s broader economic agenda, and keep the budget in the black,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is revenue that supports families, builds communities, and funds essential services like the NDIS, childcare subsidies and aged care.\u201d.\n\nThe mining industry has warned the Prime Minister that at a time of \u201cdecaying productivity and looming long-term structural fiscal deficits, the government is imposing regressive policies on the sector that dampen the investment growth critical to achieving economic potential\u201d.\n\nLess than a year out from the election, Mr Albanese and Mr Dutton will ramp up campaigning in the resources-rich jurisdictions of WA and Queensland and the Northern Territory.\n\nWhile Mr Albanese has used his Future Made in Australia policy to support critical minerals, Mr Dutton promised in his budget reply to cut red tape and rollback Labor\u2019s sweeping IR reforms.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz7h14","text":"ideas such as non means tested cash hand outs which apparently aren't inflationary? ideas such as bringing in the highest per capita immigration on record when we are in a decade long housing shortage?\n\nah yes","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czo1ys","text":"I have a support worker and I found her on this Australian support worker app called \u201cMable\u201d. The interface can be annoying at times but it was helpful for me to have a place to find a regular support worker. In Australia, support workers can be covered under the NDIS, so I would definitely look into that if you haven\u2019t already!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36g27","text":"Man I remember going to a Cold Chisel farewell tour like 30 years ago","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3znfx","text":"I highly recommend checking out Imoova.com.au for motorhome relocations.\nThey\u2019re usually $1 day and sometimes include fuel.\n\nI\u2019ve completed 3 trips with them, it\u2019s an easy process, as simple as a rental car.\nI\u2019ve had a 6person motorhome every time.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5j03x","text":"If you are doing the hard rubbish pick up that should solve your problem!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5qq1n","text":"Yes","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d64uxd","text":"Digging? So outside? Fuck me mate. I'd take every dart butt I'd been dropping in my tool belt over the day and stuff them in your letterbox on the way out.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5n16x","text":"Yeah. \u201cGuy hasn\u2019t responded, it\u2019s been 8 hours!\u201d Tells us all we need to know, unfortunately.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2cfsd","text":"I don\u2019t play this game. \n\nThem: \u201cWhat are your salary expectations?\u201d\n\nMe: \u201cIn order to post this vacancy, factors such as the salary budget for the position were pre-approved by the relevant people\/departments. I would rather know what your company\u2019s expectations are and negotiate from there.\u201d\n\nThey are hoping you undercut yourself. If you\u2019re female, statistically this is even more likely.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2ztl3","text":"As another comment said it\u2019s illegal here.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwv29h","text":"It's way more politically charged in the US.\u00a0\n\n\nAs far as I can tell, most Australians whether they reckon he did the right thing or not (and I suspect most think he did not) think he should be granted a degree of clemency.\n\n\nIn the US the Democrat establishment thinks he helped Trump at the behest of Putin and hates him with a passion. Along with that right wing hawks also hate him for undermining America.\u00a0A lot of Americans chime in on any thread about him on top level subs to repeat how they only see him as a Russian agent. I think most Americans would be happy for him to be executed or die in prison.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5fqvb","text":"But that's not clickbait!\n\nIt also makes him look good, can't have that either","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34yf6","text":"Very normal to do so. Most office buildings have End Of Trip Facilities \n\nIt means I can ride to work or train at a gym near my office while having access to fresh towels, secure storage, hair dryer and straighteners, bike storage and a very clean environment.\n\nIn the past I have worked in smaller offices (non CBD) they even had showers for workers that wanted to use them.\n\nIt's all part of making office life better for staff.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5a48g","text":"There's different levels of luxury clothing too don't forget. The simple way to determine the level is the size of the logo, the bigger the logo the cheaper the item.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4hwzs","text":"Some of the shops in my small country town want 60-80k pa . I don't know what would make that money plus a profit for yourself to be put in the shop. The pop of the town and surrounds is only about 15k","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cquohn","text":"Yes. I'm not sure about the satellite hubs but it seems everyone in Australia - bar the major parties - is keen on fossil fuel and other mineral \\[but particularly gas and coal\\] tax imposts. According to QandA's speakers, and audience, last night; we get close to diddly from our exports.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0v37a","text":"That's not normal, and it's incredibly disruptive to your wish to get some serious work done. It sounds like she's realised she was out of line and trying to cover her tracks.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2gnlt","text":"This is pretty fucked. I remember my first job at a cafe, we charged 50c for a glass of tap water. Yes, as in table water. We charged for it. I have literally never encountered this again since. When I hear about dumb shit like this, the tap water fiasco is what I think of.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d341am","text":"yeah OP youll wanna call your retailer and tell them what's happened and give a self read so you know how much actually leaked. get stat decs from family who can back you up that it wasnt already happening. if they try to charge you, go to the ombudsman. also make sure you have that safety inspector's name and license no.\n\nsource: work for retailer","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ox26","text":"Thinking about queuing up for mensho? Go to hakata instead","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cufk6t","text":"So apparently in Victoria, international students are our top or top 3rd or something economy. I worded that horribly but you get what I mean... I feel like that's a really bad economy to be relying on international students to prop a whole state up..","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3iwgi","text":"Brunswick hasn't been run down or crime ridden in many years, has pretty much followed the same trajectory as Fitzroy. Both fit the criteria you're looking for, I would recommend Brunswick over Fitzroy as it's a bit more residential and less dense, plus better proximity and accessibility to Parkville and Footscray. Brunswick East is good too, a bit quieter and closer to Merri Creek parkland. Pretty much anywhere between Brunswick and Footscray would be a good choice, places like Ascot Vale, Moonee Ponds, Kensington, North Melbourne etc.   \n\nKeep in mind that all of these places are dense and right next to each other so I wouldn't say there are any real major differences. Brunswick and Fitzroy have more nightlife if you're looking for that, but all of these places are relatively close so you wouldn't need to be traveling far if you wanted to go out anyway.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0xz4e","text":"Makes a mockery of Adam Bandts claim as recently as today when he claims these miners are exporting thier products tax free.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctzm63","text":"*They've said there's plausible grounds to believe that that's happening, but I'll leave that to the ICJ to make.\"*\n\nIt sounds like Ed Husic has made those false statements which you posted and not you. Ed Husic is making the same false narrative that the ICJ said it was plausible Israel was committing Genocide. My Video debunks this claim that they said anything of a sort.\n\nShame on Ed Husic!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3u3k5","text":"not my point and you could have chosen many points which were more critical to the discussion. Did Anika Wells use police resources to defeat an opponent? Does Charlton moving to an electorate to represent them meet the pub test when he has no ties to the community?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpqqgf","text":"If only we had politicians that acted on the public's concerns. \n\nInstead ours line their own pockets and offer no forward thinking.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d57a71","text":"I\u2019m a big fan of [The Dick Liquor]( myself.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d605km","text":"Coalition looking to prove their commitment to renewables by recycling old material.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2d56d","text":"Wait, the builders went back to fix the issues within a few months? Lucky bastards. It's a whole level of suck with builds right now, and not just in Victoria. The whole industry needs a kick in the arse.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctuvdq","text":"The article makes it seem like this was a judge\u2019s ruling about the protests in general but if you read far enough it\u2019s just about a couple of protesters who beat some charges against them when they were arrested after being told to nick off.\n\n> Mr Roob and Mr Patterson were in court for charges such as common law assault and assaulting an emergency worker on duty.\n\n> But the judge ruled that the police evidence was inadmissible because 'by their unlawful violence police instigated the response by the accused which underlies the charges they now face'.\n\n> Judge Gaynor said the police had several options to deal with the pair, such as  issuing infringement notices or telling them they breaching restrictions and were to be placed under arrest.\n\nI\u2019m dead against police brutality but the \u201canti-lockdown\u201d set would be singing a very different tune if the police cracked down on Extinction Rebellion or pro-Palestinian demonstrators.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3znfx","text":"Thanks, Ararat sounds beautiful!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cx2y1f","text":"World's been upsidedown a while now, maybe some just took a minute longer to notice?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3rdud","text":"The colours of the Palestinian flag would have been more appropriate.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d69esk","text":"Murdering protesters? I guess China really has begun influencing Australia","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2h47p","text":"Stick to the public system. The rooms might not look as nice but the staff qualifications and ratio are so much better.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"I knew someone who died when they crashed, and another with some pretty serious injuries. Both head knocks\n\nI vote for helmets","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4i6bj","text":"Can\u2019t remember the last time I saw anything of him.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2j2oj","text":"Oh! Can I piggyback on this question - where can I get something 3d printed where cost isn\u2019t any option  I have a broken brittle piece of plastic that my vintage lamp requires about 20l X  by 15w and 4h- need a great person to scan the 2 pieces, reconstruct them in the 3d app and then print me a replacement piece! Whom do I seek wise people!!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3n0qc","text":"Some would be fellow travelers, others think its cool to be a rebel without knowledge of what it really stood or stands for. \n\nNever underestimate the broad and strong influence American culture has had here.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3xp27","text":"Yes you are being petty.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5vino","text":"None of them are travelling to Australia lol so who cares?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3ze8a","text":"Embla, Marameo, George on Collins all lovely options\n\nLiminal if you want something a bit more casual\/cheaper but still professional\n\nHazel or Supernormal if you want to spend a bit more, No 100 Flinders Lane does a great set lunch menu too","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d242kh","text":"Dave at [Victorian hot water]( He just replaced my hot water tank in my apartment. Fair pricing, fast and did a good job.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvae4i","text":"Means you can have more than 57,000 partner visas.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ycgm","text":">I doubt they are paying their weekend crew more than the weekday crew.\n\nIf they aren't then many would be breaking the law. We accept it because we know legally the business often do (yes I'm sure some businesses aren't but still do) have a higher wage bill on weekends due to having to pay time and a half or double time to staff. And double time is that, double your base wage. Make $23 a hour on Friday it can be $46 an hour on Sunday.\n\nAnd why shouldn't staff be paid for having to work unsocialable hours. Unlike the US our culture is work to live not live to work. So yes in Australia in some industries (It used to be nearly all industries but Jackboot Johnny killed that off) do have higher costs in wages fir weekends\/public holidays etc.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d36qs2","text":"Already looked extensively. I was hoping someone knew of something word of mouth wise","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36ejb","text":"As far as military spending goes it's nothing over a 10yr period\n\nTheyre our northern neighbor with increasing Chinese influence and funnily enough a lot of critical metals","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d68uab","text":"let's come together and support each other in finding it","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4s9l5","text":"Yes, I always do. I think my body just decides it needs more fat. Then I always lose it over summer.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2gt0e","text":"We don\u2019t have asylums where we just endlessly lock people up anymore, so there isn\u2019t a whole lot to do with folks if they\u2019re not actually physically assaulting people (which gets treated as a criminal issue rather than mental health support.) Arresting people struggling with mental health or addiction is a temporary fix, as is chucking them in hospital where beds are severely limited. \n\nThere\u2019s sort of a weird grey space now where it\u2019s like, sure \u2014 people have rights and those places were often inhumane, but what\u2019s the solution to keep them and others safe? We need a hell of a lot more funding and thinking outside the box research towards what to do in regards to this issue. It seems to be small band aid fixes like \u201chey, let\u2019s restrict opiate pain meds for everyone, that\u2019ll solve some shit\u201d without looking at a lot of core issues. So many factors. Health care. Income. Stress. Housing factors. Familial issues. Education. It\u2019s so multifaceted.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cufk6t","text":"I hate how much media attention Dutton gets considering how little substance he actually has to add to any given debate...","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d35efe","text":"That interchange in the second photo is an abomination\n\nWhat an unwalkable hellscape","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":"Why would it be a career ender or even embarassing when it's a fake? The ability to create fakes makes it even more likely that what you see is a fake since it is easier to produce.\n\nSince the only connection with a person is generally the face and people aren't usually embarassed or career ending because of an image of their face being distributed, then the known presence of fakes means the rest of the image, which is the part that ties it to being porn, is questionable. It's like an allegation that has no supporting evidence or a joke that has multiple interpretations.\n\nReally, I don't understand this paranoia over unsupported allegations unless society is now accepting unsupported allegations as truth and punishing on the basis of guilty until proven innocent.\n\nThe prevalence of fakes and misinformation simply means you can't trust what you are superficially presented with and thus your own response to that material is questionable: you have to work harder to find the truth in order to react reasonably, or just dismiss it all as propaganda and not react, unless you like the sound of your own subjective emotions dribbling out of your mouth without any objective basis.\n\nThe purpose of porn is to sexually excite and usually it exaggerates the characteristics that facilitate that. Even if deepfake porn is produced, it's likely to accentuate a persons sexual characteristics, so once again, I'm unsure how that is such an objectively harmful thing to go all prohibition era on if you do accept the authenticity of deep fakes or if you reject them as fakes.\n\nIt's easier for someone to ignore criticism and judgement than it is to force everyone not to criticise or judge.\n\nThe issue with deepfake porn is one of subjective emotional responses that needs to be moderated with reason, rather than objective harms that usually involve physical action against someone: subjective hurt feelings are not necessarily objective harms and everything tends to impact on our subjective emotions, so should we attempt to address everything in the world that results in hurt feelings or reduce the complexity down to addressing objective harms that might even be practical? Objective harms themself must be triaged because we don't have enough resources to manage them completely, let alone adding subjective hurt feelings to the burden creating an even longer list.\n\nSubjective emotions are at the heart of many of the laws being crafted today, particularly fear and paranoia, yet government is using fear as a deterrent in an attempt to suppress the distribution of material that it says leads to fear. How can the use of fear be wrong in the distribution of deep fake porn but right in the methods used to suppress it? The ends don't justify the means.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3d6tk","text":"If you actually have narcolepsy then Modafinil would be on the PBS. You don't need any shoddy Reddit sources. Your doctor would simply prescribe it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cp7krx","text":"Sadly that argument was made and lost decades ago. I've heard some horror stories of overseas (Mainland Chinese usually) students with a very poor grasp of English tackling quite difficult courses in Group of Eight uni's. Unpalatable stuff all around.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3jk38","text":"Remember \"sooner, faster, cheaper NBN\"? Tony Abbott remembers. \n\nSerious question, what national scale infrastructure  implementation has the LNP delivered in the past 40 years? Bonus points if it was for the benefit of people and not donors.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5yvdq","text":"If you want really authentic Thai go to Soi 38 or Nana. Just keep in mind that they\u2019re very authentic and not westernised Thai so you won\u2019t find 80% of items you\u2019d find in a westernised Thai restaurant.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0xz4e","text":"TLDR:\n\n* Australians own tons of raw minerals and rocks.\n* Mining companies make profits from mining our raw minerals and rocks.\n* Governments procure revenue from mining royalties.\n* Australians benefit from increased funding for hospitals, schools, frontline services, infrastructure etc.\n\nHappy days.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cv8lu9","text":"I have a few fake islands and a bunch of dashes made up randomly in the 1940s that disagree.\n\nDon't get me wrong, the US (and us, their Client state) are also causing trouble. But they are not alone in it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d68v3n","text":"39, Sydney.\n\nGenerally most of us are earning for the banks to pay off our home loans.\n\nWe stopped manufacturing, We stopped innovating, We are increasing our immigrant intake with little consideration for Australians or the immigrants to Australia.\n\nImmigrants keep working , to make ends meet in this super expensive country.\n\nAussies keep working to pay off their Sydney - Melb properties or to make sure they have enough investment properties .\n\nI agree no one enjoys anymore. Little scope left apart from a small percentage of population.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czmnnn","text":"It\u2019s all the time I have. Should I just spend the morning in the west macs and hit the mereenie loop late afternoon on the 4th? Then I would have an additional day to spend either in kings canyon or uluru?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d66rc1","text":"Cafe e Cucina in South Yarra.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5xw1l","text":"Cheap bog roll is a great way to get in touch with your inner self","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5q1gh","text":"I'm from Adelaide and am about 15 minutes away from the nearest beach.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d52gio","text":"Adelaide. We just had 17-21c clear days all of May,  and the endless beautiful beaches almost all have walk\/run paths along them.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3znbk","text":"It looks like two rotten lemons in a small silk like material bag","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4ru6q","text":"Oh shut up!  You don't bite the hand that feeds you. And Australia is being fed by the American government. If Trump wins (I'm giving him a 30% shot of winning) than things are going to look really bad soon for the Labor party.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5xw1l","text":"Hard to go wrong with the 20 pack of Quilton for 10 dollarydoos from Coles. Always a consistent price. Might be $11 now though.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3s9h6","text":"All gyms are inclusive if you realise no one cares. They just want to get their workout done without anyone hassling or distracting them.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxtves","text":"The Labor internal polling results must be really atrocious.\n\nThey really know their goose is cooked and had we still have optional preferential voting, even a Tarago would have spare seats for labor MP's next election.\n\nThis is why we are seeing them now in full panic mode and they have now moved to personal attacks on the opposition as they not know what else to do.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctucxt","text":"Did you read the article or the headline? He\u2019s been demoted because of his accusations against the NSW police, not because he supports Palestine. \n\nCan tell what sort of conspiracies are on *your* mind.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cxm217","text":"This is a case of weighing up the danger to the community versus the danger to the individual who has lived here since a child.  In this case the community paid the price.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0onj5","text":"Both are vast countries with many different communities. A rural Utah resident probably doesn't have the same social life as someone in NYC. Same thing here. Sydney's night-life ends notoriously early.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5rzal","text":"It's possibly because of the ease of doing it. Other sexual abuse require actual contact. This one can be done remotely and easily anonymously. Maybe that is what is being counterbalanced that it is easy to do and can do a lot of very public damage that has long term repercussions. What goes out on the internet tends to stay there. So something that is more of a deterrent is needed?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2zpxm","text":"Do you think flying in on the same day is risky?  Or the chances of a cancellation are pretty low?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d265lz","text":"Who is your retailer?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d639bm","text":"Accidentally \"lose\" it .. which could be problematic depending on what the gift is.. it's not like a rare White rhino is it...?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1cwy1","text":"I mean, just yesterday I drove a $120,000 medium rigid truck - 20 tons, 10 wheels, WITH L PLATES ON!!!\n\nI didn't own the truck obviously. I'm just a guy working towards my truck license. I'm also not a youngster - just decided I'd like to have a truck license since occasionally I've wished I had one.\n\nHonestly, I'd expect someone young to be the most likely to actually have a use for a big truck. They almost certainly don't have enough disposable income have a vehicle like that just because it looks cool. Some people do put cargo in the back of their truck regularly. And those big RAMS can carry a lot more weight than a 2WD Hilux.\n\nI've driven a 2WD hilux fully loaded with a trailer... it was not fun. I had the accelerator pedal on the floor for about an hour and even down hill it only reached 90km\/h - the wind resistance alone was more than the tiny motor could handle, let alone the weight \u2014\u00a0which would've been about half a ton in the tray and another ton on the trailer. It was safe, the suspension and brakes could totally handle the weight. But the motor? Fuck me that thing wasn't good enough. Also that one hour drive used half a tank of petrol \u2014 motors are only efficient when they're not working too hard. If you do move heavy \/ large things regularly, you want a large motor.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csf5w3","text":"But this is a national emergency and demands immediate and extreme measures to address this issue. Or so we are told. Could this all just be another media made beat up which politicians fearing being shamed , have rushed to stand on this hill.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d30cgv","text":"Its a point on the mystery shopper's list. Cashieres get unofficially reprimanded if they serve the mystery shopper and dont offer them a catalogue. They take their mystery shopper reports really seriously lol","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34g2t","text":"How do they keep getting buildings to even have these shops? I would of though these type of buildings would be \"High Risk\" in terms of insurance\/leasing\/renting, but yet they just get burned down n pop back up again. Thought it would be similar to vape shops, it's hard to even get a building to open up a shop with that stuff due to the high risk.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4yx58","text":"A long article that merely states the obvious. Giles will be removed in a reshuffle so Albo can falsely claim he hasn't been sacked. No doubt Albo will \" wish him well . \"","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4s9l5","text":"Yes I've been eating like I have a 100km tape worm inside of me....","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d27182","text":"Love it when political parties attempt to set the political agenda. First nuclear power stations (that nobody was really asking for), and now this. \n\nMeanwhile wages still haven\u2019t caught up to inflation post pandemic.\n\nThe tax base is only as big as it is. Tax revenue has to come from somewhere and we\u2019re already forecasting a deficit in coming years. So where\u2019s the revenue going to come from?\n\nIf you can better collect tax from multinationals operating in Australia to offset the drop from Australian owned and operated businesses I would support this. Otherwise go jump in a lake.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4v2mp","text":"Average salary is not a great metric, we have *huge* issues with wealth inequality. Earning an \"average\" wage will have you reasonably well off. Median wage is a better place to pin expectations against. Earning median you'll probably be OK if you have multiple people working full time in a household. You won't be able to save up 10k unless you are incredibly diciplined or live regionally. Where you live is also pretty important, if you need to live in a city, then most of your income will get given to a landlord. Regional you'll have more wiggleroom but some goods and services can be more expensive out there.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2lo7p","text":"You'd hope so, wouldn't you?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cqmy49","text":"Isn't he the guy that said \"from the river to the sea\" also has a meaning to some that is contrary to the common held understanding of it? That idiot?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5f2t8","text":"Reminds me of Max Gawn talking about he\u2019s not your regular AFL private school kid and took a while to acclimatise to the AFL.    The man went to one of the best schools in the state","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3stts","text":"Unless you are 5, you cant be serious.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czd8d4","text":"DM I like to think I\u2019m fairly clever","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctqtgq","text":"*hear you, sorry but had to say something the 2nd time.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qysf","text":"Would have been funnier if it was a.chinese shop ripped off by the note.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ldv0","text":"are pushys even worth much these days? alot of potential consequences for something fairly cheap","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34g2t","text":"How come this isn't happening in other states? Surely the same protection rackets are running all over the country?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3om48","text":"I mean it was simple decades ago. Use the raw materials to make shit. High tech shit. Instead of exporting it for nothing.\n\nRenewable industry? Green steel. Steel is massively energy intensive to produce. Build absolutely massive solar farms, use the raw materials here to build Green steel, export it.\n\nHeck, if the government hasn't fucked everyone decades ago by selling off energy generation to the private industry, we could tempt manufacturing here by offering hugely discounted power pricing.\n\nNever happened because of party politics. Decades of liberal scare campaign, ads showing the poor miners losing their jobs.\n\nBasically, the tech exists to make the switch, thermal storage works great for overnight power. But the rich and powerful have easy access to politicians, so much so that the opposition leader took a flight across the country to spend 3 hours at a party with the human parasite known as Gina.\nSo we never got any traction in making these changes.\n\nI was saying 15 years ago that if we don't start moving away from coal at a reasonable rate now, we will be forced to do it later at a much more painful rate. I was not alone in this. Instead, voters decided to keep voting in the guys who were beholden to those making money off coal. So, here we are. Reap what you sew I guess? \n\nThat or we just double down and hasten the planet becoming unable to sustain human life. Actually with how fucking dumb we are as a species, maybe that's not such a bad idea.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0wu3m","text":"Defund the NDIS, make them apply for pensions","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3yg6y","text":"i declared them as chips, melbourne customs let them through","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d396bj","text":"Is it still cheap to eat there? I remember paying think $3 or something like that years ago","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cq4slp","text":"sure there is plenty of evidence that lifestyle including physical health bears strongly on one's mental health, that is not in dispute\n\nwhat is in dispute is the purely medicalist way psychiatrists will often diagnose and medicate for mental health conditions without any regard for the psychosocial factors present, often on the basis of a 15 minute consultation, and then dig in despite evidence that contradicts their god-like opinion\n\nshow the biomarkers for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, OCD and psychiatry might regain some credibility","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ldv0","text":"The person who posted this like 6 hours ago, said their friend took the video while they went to that police kiosk, and there was nobody there.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d41a1q","text":"Businesses can and do put their bank fees as tax deductible\u2026 they write off their income with the fees. So why charge a surcharge when bank charges are tax deductible? I\u2019m in business and I get charged bank fees but don\u2019t pass on any to the customer. In my MYOB account I just put those fees down as expenses to lower my income\u2026 it\u2019s all part of doing business and the customer shouldn\u2019t have to pay\/deal with these fees.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d65u9u","text":"There were recently massive layoffs and of course lots of experienced, motivated staff were part of that. Lots of young adults who have little to no work experience or ethic work there and management is struggling","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvgxg1","text":"Well they are completely right. \n\n  \nThe budget was a little bit here and there for everyone, instead of any kind of structural change. The reality is Labor is a status quo party. Not really interested in any real significant change, just fiddle around the edges and hope those whose lives will be worse off than their parents don't notice.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d27182","text":"I am surprised to see this from Ed Husic. It isn't the transformational tax changes that many have been calling for of late, but it's good to see this get raised by the ALP as it'll probably be the first properly bipartisan policy in a while if they are serious about it. \n\nOur Company Income Tax rate is higher than the average rate in all regions (with the average in our region being 19.8%) and if we are truly concerned with productivity, this is where we start. \n\nBut, whilst the highest marginal tax rate is 45%, a reduction in the corporate rate encourages further tax rate arbitrage, particularly in personal services income fields. \n\nHad we proceeded with S3TC as we should have, lowering the top rates and pushing 30% out to 2x average would have removed this incentive totally and would have allowed us to lower company tax rates to attract investment and unlock productivity. \n\nShame.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctbnbr","text":"I think you missed their sarcasm","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qysf","text":"If the note was handed over during a busy time, especially if it was with other money (like it was $16 and they handed over this $50, a $5 and coins) it would have been so easy to put in the till without noticing. \n\nDog act by whoever used it to rob a small business.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csv37q","text":"True, but I think OP was getting at the fact that they've made the $300 line a core line, and also previously made the Stage 3 a core line too, so at some point they will have to explain the contradiction (well, maybe, you know for shit Labor would get crushed by the press for betting both ways).\n\nThat all being said, the fucking Greens agree with the LNP of the rebate, so there is clearly something wrong with the rebate for that union to occur, lol.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2flpg","text":"The wait is long because people go to emergency for headaches and shit","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxpdgd","text":"You can't just connect a warship\/submarine reactor. They have completely different builds and are designed for completely different use cases.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d10vog","text":"Currently to my knowledge now where in Australia uses Nuclear Power.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1coty7r","text":"The key question here is \u2018how\u2019?\n\nI can only think there are three possible policy avenues.\n\nFirstly is bribes for state governments to loosen zoning restrictions. Unlike many here, I question how effective this will be to solve the crisis. No doubt it will impact some local markets heavily, and have a moderate downwards pressure on rentals over the long term. But solve the crisis? I doubt it. \n\nSecondly would be the classic housing subsidy program. The sort of thing we\u2019ve seen fail again and again. \n\nThirdly would be social housing spending. Which would \u2018merely\u2019 move to slowly and slightly solve the housing crisis of rental costs of the bottom 10% of households. \n\nThe thing about this crisis is that it\u2019s a structural issue. It\u2019s going to require radical reform to address in any significant way. There will have to be losers (land owners). But neither major party is politically capable of delivering this.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4hjjp","text":"Go to a podiatrist and get a \u2018medical pedicure\u2019. They might even do a deep moisture treatment if you need it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2dkfl","text":"I dropped out of my science degree, so I'm personally a bad example LOL. But because I was part of a Science cohort, and now work at the uni I dropped out of, I happen to have a lot of Science uni friends. \n\nI will say no one is making the big bucks. Don't know anyone doing astrophysics though, only know of a handful of PhD students in that field, all were from relatively prestigious universities in their undergraduate, or participated in some institutional research projects prior to their PhD. \n\nSome anecdotal stories about my friends who are science grads.\n\nMy best friend did a double degree in Chemistry and Commerce, has always been smart and hardworking, now works for Sydney Water with a salary of $109K. \n\nMy partner is a Forensic Science major, with skills leaning towards chemistry. I told him on our first year of dating (when we were 19 years old) that he wasn't going to find a job in that field - it's an impossible field of science to get into unless you want to get into the mess of joining the police and getting transferred. He's had science roles since then, one at the university, and now at a pathology lab. Pay is pretty bad though - just under $70K for working night shifts. But the job is not that stressful, and he's not career ambitious. \n\nA handful of friends work as lab and research assistants for a full time equivelent salary of about $80K, but most of them have not been able to get full time or ongoing employment. Some are ok with this, because they are doing their research masters (and thinking about PhD).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d357ly","text":"You can't give someone space to pull out if you're in front of them. Sounds like a dickhead but you're right, it's not worth it.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d68xe5","text":"It's probably to deter the undesirable people. druggies, homeless. Supermarkets use it all the time","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4yemq","text":"Maclean is a great spot. There\u2019s over a hundred telegraph poles with various tartans painted on them, along with the Scottish Cairn on the way up to the lookout. You\u2019ve also got the option of exiting the highway at Grafton (especially if during jacaranda season), heading north along Lawrence Road, taking the Bluff Point Ferry and getting to Maclean that way. \n\nI also like the Clog Barn at Coffs Harbour. Dutch model village is amazing, cafe is excellent and they have clog making demos regularly as well.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1cqon","text":"I hate it, should be minimum a 4 year term. Albo hasn\u2019t had the proper chance to demonstrate meaningful change after 10 years of Coalition rot. He\u2019s barely been elected","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cupgad","text":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has shelved indefinitely plans to repatriate about 40 Australian women and children currently stranded in detention camps managed by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.\n\nTwo senior government sources with direct knowledge of the issue told\u00a0*The Saturday Paper*\u00a0that while the government had not formally decided against repatriating the so-called ISIS brides and their children, the prime minister had made it \u201cvery clear\u201d that unless there was a dramatic deterioration in the security situation in and around the camps, the issue \u201cwould not be revisited before the election\u201d.\n\n\u201cNot bringing these women and children who are Australian citizens home is nothing other than a complete failure of political will,\u201d says Save the Children Australia chief executive Mat Tinkler. \u201cThat and nothing else.\u201d\n\nMost of the 40 people are detained in Al Roj camp near the Turkish border and have been interviewed in person by Australian security officials. Four people detained in Al Hol detention camp further south have not been interviewed due to its inaccessibility to Australian officials.\n\nSave the Children Australia is currently attempting to compel the Australian government to repatriate a group of the detainees in Syria via a writ of habeas corpus.\n\nIn November last year, Federal Court Justice Mark Moshinsky dismissed Save the Children\u2019s application on the grounds the detention of the women and children was not under the control of the Commonwealth. Last week the full bench of the Federal Court heard an appeal from Save the Children to overturn Justice Moshinsky\u2019s ruling.\n\n\u201cAustralian citizenship has to mean something,\u201d says Tinkler. \u201cBeing a child has to mean something too. And if our government cannot move to help a group of Australian women and their children from one of the worst places on Earth, then what does it actually mean to be an Australian citizen?\u201d\n\nIn a supporting affidavit to the Federal Court, Greg Barton, professor of global Islamic politics at Deakin University, said the Australian government faced no practical barrier from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), or from current circumstances on the ground, to repatriate Australian women and children.\n\n\u201cAANES, together with the United States, desperately wants the current very slow pace of repatriation to be substantially accelerated. There are no recorded incidents of repatriation being refused,\u201d Barton said.\n\nIn 2019, then Liberal prime minister Scott Morrison authorised the repatriation of eight Australian children from a Syrian detention camp. Many of those who lobbied on behalf of detainees in the country believe that, had it not been for the Covid-19 pandemic, Morrison would have repatriated all the Australian women and children.\n\nIn October 2022, Labor\u2019s Home Affairs minister, Clare O\u2019Neil, announced a group of four Australian women and their 13 Australian children had been repatriated from Al Roj camp to their families in New South Wales, mostly in Western Sydney.\n\nLast week one of those women, Mariam Raad, 32, pleaded guilty to willingly entering a Syrian region controlled by Islamic State, a\u00a0terrorist organisation.\n\nRaad, who is on bail, will be sentenced next month and faces a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison. She is the only person among the 17 people repatriated in October 2022 to face court.\n\nKamalle Dabboussy, chief executive of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC), says the 17 who were repatriated in October 2022 have comfortably settled back into their home communities in Sydney. He led a public campaign for his daughter Mariam Dabboussy\u2019s return to Australia and remains a strong advocate for the repatriation of those who remain in north-east Syria.\n\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a headache, I can take a Panadol for that. It was a fucking migraine, a big ugly stain on the blue carpet that spread all the way around to the prime minister\u2019s office, and the pain of it hasn\u2019t gone away.\u201d\n\n\u201cThey are getting on with their lives, getting engaged with their communities, playing sports, and as far as national security goes, they\u2019re doing exactly what they said they would do, which is cooperate with Australian authorities,\u201d says Dabboussy.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d41a1q","text":"Cash is King.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5m3af","text":"Eastern fwy.\n\nTo be fair, I live in the South East, so I use the Monash more, but on average I have less problems with the Eastern.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5j6wm","text":"Even as someone who spends a lot of time working in the bush and sees snakes and other wildlife on a regular basis, there is very little truth to the belief. Australian wildlife, like most wildlife, just wants to get out of your way when they hear you coming. You have to be doing something seriously stupid or get incredibly unlucky to be killed by a wild animal in Australia.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1csfnw5","text":"It\u2019s the other way around.\n\nThe Liberal\/National Parties and Australia\u2019s corporate media repeat and amplify whatever lies and propaganda their donors\/advertisers pay them to.\n\nLet\u2019s call it what it is - blatant corruption.\n\nThe mining and fossil fuel industries paid the coalition and News Corp to push nuclear propaganda for the last few years despite all of the scientists and engineers in the energy field stating unequivocally that nuclear power is not economically viable in Australia.\n\nWe need media reforms to sever the control of corrupt billionaires on the public discourse, and to restore the independence of news and journalism.\n\nAn independent media will then report on and expose corruption in our political system, which is the news media\u2019s role in keeping democracy healthy.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d39ryx","text":"As far as I know, they are required by law to tell you why they didn't hire you (if you ask). And they need to have a proper reason such as complaints about the quality of the food you cooked. You can challenge their reason, such as point out those meals were actually cooked by someone else.\n\nYou're also a trainee, so letting you go for poor performance would require \\*really\\* poor performance. So bad that you can't be trained.\n\nObviously they have to pay you, including super\/tax\/etc. Failing to pay you is wage theft.\n\nWether or not it's worth fighting is entirely up to you. Keep in mind the tax portion, if they didn't pay it, then you will have to pay it. It's \\*your\\* income tax, not theirs. Personally I would absolutely fight it, and not so much to protect myself. I'd do it to protect all the other people the boss will do it to in the future, especially young people.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1m0lw","text":"Oh man, that's shitty. I've got a feeling you got the place because someone else moved out!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d60iqa","text":"Fresh ocean fish can be caught day of and then flash frozen for transport to keep it fresh so it doesn't build up ammonia. I reckon it'd be more cruel to keep them alive in a dingy tank on a fishing boat.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5jc60","text":"Downvoted for skating slalom\u00a0","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0ltkw","text":"Just say you want us to stop criticising Israel, Anthony.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d23xgh","text":"The general public do not hold the coalition to the same standards they expect of Labor.  You can't look at 9 years of the dysfunction that included 3 PM's over that period, then have Peter Dutton as alternative PM and say Labor don't deserve a 2nd term.  Really makes you wonder the influence the right wing media have in this country.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3m34g","text":"Bit late for the kids that got attacked. Albo bumbling around and letting kids get assaulted to please the PC crowd, nothing new in that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d07pjk","text":"It's not immigration. It's multiple property owners.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6c4qm","text":"Only if they ever plan on going back. Seems pretty common that Americans that have no intention of going back just don't bother.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d59r41","text":"1 dollar at 7\/11","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36ejb","text":"It is funding for diplomacy in PNG and bringing PNG culturally closer to Australia.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz2fx4","text":"They are also likely to be homophobic and sexist, compared to the general population.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d639bm","text":"This was me!  My boyfriend bought me a necklace that I knew I would never wear.  \n\nI told him while I liked the necklace (white lie), I knew I\u2019d never wear it because if I was going to wear this particular type of necklace, I\u2019d wear the one I already owned as it held great sentimental value.  \n\nI said I\u2019d love it if he could return it and get a simple (far cheaper) necklace that I didn\u2019t have in my collection, but that I would cherish as more likely to wear it. \n\nGiven the emotional connection he knew I had to the sentimental necklace, he was very gracious and was happy to exchange it.  \n\nI didn\u2019t end up with my simple necklace, it was about 10x more expensive because he felt so bad (my tears helped lol). But i do love it.\n\nHumility and graciousness, while being honest, goes a long way.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3w71e","text":"I wonder if you actually heard the crimes that these people did would you still want them here","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2x52g","text":"When it was trialled in Ballarat, everyone who pre-registered got sent emails to the wrong name.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czdql8","text":"Because unfortunately we\u2019ve had conservative governments for most of the last 30 years.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvae4i","text":"My point is migration has *always* been unpopular. 10 years ago it was Syrian refugees constantly in the news, today its something else.\n\nSouth Parks \"der terk er jerbs\" was like 20 years ago.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3zpuy","text":"Found them in woolies. They aren't the same.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ime1","text":"Tokyo, Singapore, Munich, London should I keep saying it?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d58r9b","text":"Get ready for a monster fight. \n\nLabor created this absolute abomination and now tens of thousands are suckling on the tax payer tit. You will hear all sorts of horror stories from ken and Barbie on how this will make getting iPads, luxury cars and holidays from the tax payer much harder.\n\nThe NDIS is the worst scheme any government has made the past 50 years. Absolutely lovely on the surface, but has created an absolute money black hole for tax payers money. \n\nProjected to cost over 124 billion a year (way more than medicare) in just 10 years.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3y5ip","text":"Sports bar @ Crown pretty sure","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d64kx5","text":"You just need to look around in the major centres to see that Australians. An affordable to live there and migrants are the main players in the property market now.  Policy has outcomes.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4iz7u","text":"A scandal barely known the public yet one of the more odious parts of Parliament in the last 50 years from what allegations have be raised.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csf15u","text":"Where can you buy Whitaker? Colesworth don\u2019t carry it","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d348o3","text":"Illuminati satanic human sacrifice rituals","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d66324","text":"I wish the guy at woolies hadn\u2019t packed my bags today. Manhandled my bread and had no concept of what should go in bags first or last. I had to repack a bag after I left.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qysf","text":"Ha! I know this place. They're open till like 5am","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2x52g","text":"Is it able to be linked to the ServiceVIC App?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0rguy","text":"Living abroad atm and all my non-aussie mates are genuinely amazed that the word shitcunt is a thing","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyk40i","text":"\u201cnot fiscally sustainable in the long term\u201d.\n\nOf course it\u2019s not.\n\nThe author praises the Covid stimulus and then ignores the follow up inflation from that and the interest rate rises to deal with it, - which just squeezed the middle class.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5wft9","text":"Are all these people with just runny nose & a cough calling an ambulance instead of seeing a GP (and paying lots of money, instead of being bulk billed) to be told to up their fluids and rest?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1hwkr","text":"They actually sell salt and vinegar chips in Germany in Turkish markets. It's popular in Turkiye and they import a lot to Germany.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1yfiq","text":"that\u2019s scary with taking the labouring pathway as it doesn\u2019t sound as you\u2019ll be doing work that\u2019s as satisfying. from what you\u2019re saying the apprentice route is a lot more appealing. thanks!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d08tkm","text":"Not that I have a choice in being childless but having the freedom that comes with being single and childless is something that is priceless and I wouldn't give up unless offered absurd fantasy level payments in the millions that is never going to happen. \n\nOnce you get a taste of freedom and doing what you want whenever you want it's nearly impossible to give that up and all this nonsense about \"the white race is being bred out\" and \"Australian culture is being bred out\" is peak who cares for me, I don't care about the state of white people and Australian culture long after I'm dead I've got a maximum of 40 years left to live I'm going to enjoy it playing golf and painting.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3wwhk","text":"What was the actual issue you had? I recently had a problem with ticketek where the website glitched and processed my order twice and I was charged twice, they said it was my mistake and refuse to refund me for the extra tickets lmao. There\u2019s no evidence though because I was too confused to screenshot in moment, so don\u2019t think I could go to the ACCC","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1j6ic","text":"Aboriginal person here - can\u2019t stand acknowledgement of country, particularly for every goddamn meeting. I sometimes will sit through 5 a day. I especially detest when I am \u201cinvited\u201d by one of my non-Indigenous colleagues to do the acknowledgement. No thanks, this is for your benefit, not mine. It\u2019s become extremely tokenistic and lost all meaning.\n\nTraditional custodians performing welcomes at significant events however is entirely different story.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czmnnn","text":"Check the dates mate. 6 month trip.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cr5hxr","text":"Why does the government have to choose which energy generation technologies we use?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5i4bz","text":"I bought 3 furniture skate board things like 10 years ago, they were only $15 each. They are so handy when moving anything, have lent them to family and friends","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4y0co","text":"For us it was more the enticing offer of free electricity between 11am-2pm. Sure the rates outside are higher, but its a quality of life improvement because we can use the electricity and turn our house into a thermal battery (blasting reverse-cycle AC, and resistive heating) during the free hours","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4pmlp","text":"Just block and\/or add to a \u2018Scammers\u2019 contact.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d02u3e","text":"Those that don't heed history are condemned to repeat it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2g00p","text":"What's crazy is they think they can punt them on second hand.\n\nWhat do you think is going to happen when the battery carks it in 8 years time?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvmtif","text":"Bruhhhh he's trying to grift \n\nThis is the man who forced handshakes on firies hoping it would heal them","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4y0co","text":"OVO has the best rates.\nFree 3 hours between 11-14:00 \nUse you washing machine,Drier,Dishwasher,heater,pool pump,oven\nYou will save a bundle\n\nNobody gives you this deal.\nTake advantage of it\nIf you have issues they will fix it","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2z0b3","text":"Few do. Majority don\u2019t. The only \u201ctipping\u201d people do is donate coins to charity boxes at the cash register. We all know tipping is a useless American practice that gives business excuse to not pay workers their wage. Hence why they don\u2019t tip to not support shitty American practice.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d40ulz","text":"you cant work out why the real estate industry is a rort?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3ekd7","text":"Sure you can. You can even drive a semi trailer. But not legally.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctv2cf","text":"Two in three dollars allocated to new road and rail projects in Tuesday\u2019s budget went to Labor held electorates, sparking hypocrisy claims from the Coalition. Labor allocated $4.1 billion for 64 new priority infrastructure projects, $2.7 billion of which went to Labor seats, according to analysis of Infrastructure Department data by The Australian Financial Review.\n\nLabor stashes away billions for road and rail projects in its own seats. Sydney Morning Herald The money for new projects was in addition to $10.1 billion over 10 years towards dozens of projects already being jointly funded with the states. The bulk of the new money, about $1.9 billion, went to 14 new projects in western Sydney. Among the cash splash was $115 million for upgrades to Mulgoa Road in the Liberal held marginal seat of Lindsay. A version of the same project was axed by Infrastructure Minister Catherine King six months ago in response to the review of the $120 billion 10-year Infrastructure Investment Pipeline.\n\nAdvertisement Overall, NSW got $2.5 billion for 23 new road and rail projects with $1.85 billion allocated to Labor seats. About $340 million was given to Coalition seats and $215 million for projects that run over multiple, mixed electorates. Queensland was allocated three new projects worth $192 million. The bulk of that went to the Labor seat of Blair for two highway upgrades worth $177 million. A further $15 million was allocated to the Liberal seat of Petrie.\n\nInfrastructure Minister Catherine King said the government had worked closely with the states and territories to invest in the projects that needed money the most, and were guided by them to assess priority. \u201cThe majority of our investments in this budget went to ensure existing projects can be delivered, as well as in fast-growing areas like western Sydney and south-east Queensland,\u201d Ms King told the Financial Review. \u201cThe Commonwealth cannot deliver projects that the states and territories are not supportive of. We saw the outcome of this with the Liberals and Nationals announcing project after project that were never delivered.\u201d Just over half new projects were in Labor seats, though almost half of those \u2013 14 small projects worth about $444 million \u2013 were in the Northern Territory where the party holds both federal lower house seats. The Territory\u2019s election is scheduled for August this year. In Tasmania, three out of six new projects were in Labor seats and received the bulk of new money \u2013 about $120 million of the $171 million, which was largely for upgrades to the Lyell and Huon highways. Big winner A further $47 million went to transport projects in the seat of Clark around Hobart where independent Andrew Wilkie is the local MP. Victoria received just over $17.6 million for three new projects, all of which were in Coalition seats, but was ultimately the big infrastructure winner in the budget, receiving $5 billion for 27 existing projects. That commitment means Victoria received the largest share of new money allocated to the 10-year $120 billion Infrastructure Investment Program in Treasurer Jim Chalmers\u2019 third budget, almost $2 billion more than NSW. There is also $1.8 billion still unallocated in NSW, with many new projects currently in the planning phase, and anticipated to move to construction phase in the near future. Across new and existing projects, Queensland was allocated $2.5 billion, while Western Australia received $2.3 billion, about 75 per cent of which was for WA Labor\u2019s signature Metronet train network. South Australia got $160 million for seven new projects, just $5 million of which went to Labor seats. The bulk of the money \u2013 about $136 million \u2013 went to two road projects in the independent seat of Mayo. Shadow Infrastructure Minister Bridget McKenzie accused Labor of using the budget to \u201cbail out\u201d Labor premiers and satiate local Labor MPs. \u201cIt should have focussed on giving the Reserve Bank of Australia confidence in their fiscal approach, so interest rates can be reduced and cost of living pressures relieved,\u201d Senator McKenzie said. \u201cThis government spreadsheet has only one colour, and it\u2019s a sea of red.\u201d stashes away billions for road and rail project announcements ahead of federal election.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5fsq6","text":"All I know is that eshays make my son's life miserable. This mum is happy to shove a vape up an eshays nose, or another orifice - if required, next time they stop my son from having a wee!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3k6b7","text":"That's a waste of your time, I would break it up and do say four two week road trips in different climates. One in the outback, one around FNQ, one from Melbourne to Adelaide and one in maybe Tassie? Or a short trip around the riverland.\n\nOur landscapes are way way more varied than Canada's are because we cover more climate zones. Imagine there there was BC and Nunavut, but then also several more, and a visitor was going to spend two months just on PEI.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d395tb","text":"Really :))) and i just wanna ask about the package. It is have a box and the mini one inside of it like the commercial ? Or its only have the computer","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3r2v5","text":"Google was too hard obviously","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0oce5","text":"I heard a podcast breakdown on the demographic voting Teal. They weren't disgruntled conservatives looking for an alternative. They were progressives voting strategically. \n\nThe electorates themselves are shifting and the Teals will only last as long as it takes to put in a Greens or Labor candidate.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4rhnw","text":"I don't think the Spectator has a good read on the issue. While it's technically true once we become a republic there is probably no going back, it's also unlikely we will become a republic any time soon.\u00a0\n\n\nThe failed republic referendum shut down the issue for decades. There was a question around when it would come up again, but the voice referendum made it clear the answer was probably no time soon. It echoed the results of the republic ref despite positive early polling.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d42g4j","text":"Yeah it was  although some days it probably annoyed him I chatted a lot, I was very good at my job. Plus he didn't mind a bit of a cheat himself, unless he was hungover ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d6asdo","text":"I smoked a fat one just before and I seriously thought it must have been too strong","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cza07d","text":"I prefer sitting at the dinner table.  I will eat breakfast standing at the kitchen bench, lunch and dinner at the table.  Lunch, I will watch a show or a movie on my tablet.\n\nMany years ago, I used to eat lunch in front of the tv, but started to find it too uncomfortable.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2oook","text":"I suggest you ask an engineering or Swinburne subreddit about this rather than asking the balance population of Australia about this, we have no clue","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3d6tk","text":"In Australia it's $100 for 200 tablets. You don't need to take a full tablet, half is plenty so they last forever.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp0hp3","text":">\u00a0there is no credible pathway to reaching net zero by 2050 while keeping the lights on and prices down without zero-emissions nuclear energy\n\n\nThere will always be an emotional component to Nuclear powder electricity generation especially site selection. But at the moment this simply doesn't pass the back of the napkin economic test.\n\n\n>\u00a0CSIRO\u2019s\u00a0GenCost report showed\u00a0that once up and running, a theoretical small modular reactor built in 2030 \u2013 which\u00a0is unlikely to exist\u00a0\u2013 is estimated to cost $382 to $636 per MWh while solar and wind would cost between $91 and $130 per MWh once integration costs are included.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d63h9z","text":">The senior MP went on to say the registry would ideally be brought back into the government fold entirely once it had proven its value to the taxpayer.\n\n\nI feel like *registering births\u00a0deaths and marrriages* is a pretty valuable service my dude.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d348o3","text":"A house removal company might be interested. The move them all over the state.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4r3ap","text":"If you're willing to travel... I would recommend going to Sydney","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2uevz","text":"Oh dear","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d65vcq","text":"Bun Bun Bakery's Roasted Pork in BBQ Sauce Banh My in Springvale. And yes I am originally from Vietnam but dayumm that banh my is tasty!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36fk0","text":"r\/australian had a complete sooky meltdown over her one innocent sentence the other day, it was hilarious.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cuq695","text":"The solutions are all there plain as day but the government won\u2019t do it as they are political suicide.\n\n1. Spam public housing everywhere, like, literally everywhere, enough to cut wait list down to a minimal amount of time. And\/or\n\n2. Protect renters, right now we treat them like dirt, if we protect them there will be a bunch of long term renters which reduces demand to buy, and therefore lower prices\n\nProblem is, either or both of these will be viciously attacked by the media, the right wing pollies, and the ones who currently own assets (just look at poor bill who tried a gentle touch removal of negative gearing). Opinions will need to sway a lot more for any of this to happen.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qq3b","text":"A Tory is a member of the British Conservative Party, and by extension Australian 'Liberals'\/right-wingers.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2v7da","text":"We call them MOTH MAGGOTS in our house. The worst part is when they (no joke) crawl around along the ceiling. Ewww\u2026\n\nClean out your pantry. There is probably something like crackers or flour that is infested. (NGL, I keep flour and rice in the refrigerator for this reason.)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d63h9z","text":"How about instead of the stupidest austerity measures imaginable they just get the state making some money? Or are they the most inept form of \"socialist\" unconcerned with making the state self sufficient, and only concerned with culture war issues.\n\n(I like the ALP, but this is ridiculous)","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3ze8a","text":"I like Movida for lunch meetings - impressive food, nice and quiet and they do a set menu so no need to think","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d07lhu","text":"They suck.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d63c4y","text":"It is, the police minister is deflection away from failures within his department.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3s5wy","text":"A woman wearing Instagram makeup in the office.  It just screams \u201cI\u2019ve never had a senior role in corporate Australia\u201d","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ctqtgq","text":"Progressive voters are lambs to the slaughter, seriously. You guys have no idea how the world works, if you seriously believe Forrest is pure of heart with his \"green schemes\". Forrest is just engaging in shameless rent-seeking, if he really believes in his green schemes he should use his own money and leave taxpayer money for schools and hospitals.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5wft9","text":"Too many people for the services available doesn't help.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3r2v5","text":"Not Serbian but I recommend Zegov in Thomastown. Others such as Balkan grill are good but their portions are much smaller in my opinion. Zegov has generous portions pricing is decent and has always had excellent food in my experience. I haven\u2019t been for a while but I\u2019ve never been disappointed and been going there for years. \n\nYou\u2019ll struggle to find Serbian restaurants in Melbourne these days there used to be a few years ago but few nowadays.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36av0","text":"What\u2019s your time frame? How fast or slow do you plan to go?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cp3y6y","text":"Notice he said he's Bi and not gay. Complete fraud. Deport immediately.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34ad5","text":"I would say Hobart, it's quite large for a city of only 250,000.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctv148","text":"AFAIK councils are funded by states, no idea what they are on about.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3vthe","text":"Stems from the same source - Murdochs\u2019\u2019. They\u2019re such cunts!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4y1lu","text":"How many days until GTA 6 is released.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d605km","text":"Dutton would be looking over his shoulder lol","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cye52b","text":">Does the AFR know its actually not illegal for private enterprise to consider and cost nuclear?\n\nA proper feasibility study costs seven or eight figures, and that is difficult to justify when the biggest risk - or issue - is that the technology is illegal.\n\nCorporates price risk in their economic models, and the premium required to justify investigating a technology that is currently not legal is just too high.\n\nPlus most suppliers won't quote on equipment to be used in nuclear programs that are not explicitly sanctioned.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4z0uy","text":"Western Australian beaches, especially Esperance beaches. Lucky Bay in Esperance has white sand, clear turquoise water and the odd kangaroo. If you don't want to travel down there, Cottesloe near Perth is great and well known. Scarborough is good too. Rottnest Island is also known for its beaches and quokkas.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cz2fx4","text":"This author is using \"migrant\" to mean not citizen which is really dumb. We live in a country ~50% of Australians have a parent born overseas.\n\nSorry Bang, you're not representative of the migrant experience. Albo as a first generation Australian on his Dad's side is a better example and well involved in setting policy.\n\nInternational students are not a particularly important cohort for consideration, please continue to give money to our uni's for we will not. ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2do69","text":"What happens after you pay artists to paint murals and they get graffitied?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5al5g","text":"Alphington Social has a beautiful function room upstairs. We\u2019re having our wedding there with 25-30 guests.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csg89n","text":"Not a surprise to anyone that actually pays attention and ignores the Liberal spin.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"I'm constantly amazed at how many people I see riding and scooting around my town without helmets and at night without helmets and reflective gear.  Cops don't seem to do anything.\n\nWhy wouldn't you wear at least a helmet?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3iwgi","text":"So this might be a bit controversial but if you have any interest in living somewhere quiet but nearby lively suburbs  - then can I suggest East Melbourne?  \n\nThere's nothing in East Melbourne - no pubs, a handful of cafes and no supermarkets except a strange overpriced IGA - but it is beautiful, next to lots of beautiful green parkland and is adjacent to every desirable northern suburb worth living in and the CBD.  It's also cheaper to rent than the interesting 'burbs","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d29tvx","text":"We already had a teacher change mid term . New teacher is lovely but yeah it\u2019s amazing how decentralized everything is and it very much luck of the draw.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4q10g","text":"four car pileup when i went past it in the service lane, all lanes closed, looks like everyone was okay but a few shaken\n\nlooked like a van was almost flipped and one or two cars totaled","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d680x4","text":"Victoria\u2019s debt?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyvuc4","text":"Las Vegas is not a fair comparison, you as an American should know of the great journey west that your country had in its early days trying to reach the west coast by rail. You wouldn\u2019t be living in half the inhospitable states you live in if it wasn\u2019t for the infrastructure of the rail system, and once you\u2019ve got that spread happening the movement supplies lends to pockets of towns in hospitable locations, places like Las Vegas. Secondly Las Vegas didn\u2019t just appear it came from the distinct need for gambling and prostitution and filled its niche run by gangsters willing to reap its benefits, same as your unions of yesteryear. You got a strange government that doesn\u2019t protect its citizens and the criminal underworld rose up and provided protection or availability until it became the snake that eats itself exploding with collateral deaths. Thirdly Las Vegas is built in a fairly flat spot and pretty tiny compared to our cities and in a thoroughfare, where as our uninhabited country is very hilly and very tropical and without thoroughfare, a real shit to develop.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3om48","text":"But if the gas industry is 'made sustainable ' then civilized life' won't survive. Ask science. So you are a human survivor of a long line of humans so far, either we innovate and adapt or die out as another also ran. This year the average has broken 1.5 deg and accelerating. Forget about party politics and consider what can be done quickly - with or without the support of the freemarket practioners - because they have done us so well so far - the desperate circumstance of no new gas will stimulate the directed research that will develop substitute feed stocks and the chemistry to go with it. We are human and able to adapt if we follow the science , not the personal interests of todays gas investors.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5fsq6","text":"Chapris are also known for anti social behaviours like rash driving and general nuisance like making too much noise. They don't commit any crimes though, areas where they are in majority are not unsafe.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2emnt","text":"Should have ditched trams on all but a few routes decades ago and replaced with better buses and bus services. Instead millions of dollars invested in new ones and stops. We've come too far now and there's this silly 'biggest tram network in the world' pride some people have. Buses can go round things, they can pick people up from the kerb, they can be replaced when one breaks down. Trams aren't fast or frequent enough on roads with cars to replace car ownership, unless you plan on living in a 5km Melbourne bubble. \n\nLondon moves millions of people around Dickensian, two lane streets - they made hard decisions and put trains underground in London and run buses. \n\nAll these sky rails are wasted spaces where houses could be to cope with the millions of new arrivals governments are bringing in to prop up our economy. \n\nIt's cooked basically. Rant over.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1vtzv","text":"We are beyond downloading cars, I am downloading houses now. \n\nGovernment hate this trick.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34yf6","text":"There are showers at mine, for staff who cycle in. I\u2019ve never seen anyone use them.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d44q9g","text":"Tested positive for COVID today - first time ever. A tiny part of me was honestly believing I could dodge that bullet forever...","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d07lhu","text":"Nickelback was the very first concert I attended. Loved them back then (2005-2006). I also don\u2019t understand the hate against them?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d42oma","text":"I think, even as an Australian, working the drive through would be traumatic. Ask to work in the kitchen. Explain to the manager that you need time to adjust to understanding the Australian accent.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyee7t","text":"Hence why we need new generation, the infrastructure to support it and policies that investors can rely on.\n\nWhat we don't need is lack of clear energy policy, nor political parties that oppose for the sake of opposing, routinely denying information based on facts and science, which businesses, engineers, and the like must do.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0p5nx","text":"I feel like the government shouldn\u2019t be underwriting an unsustainable business practice. If the Uni\u2019s are too addicted to international dollars to survive without them perhaps they\u2019ve failed as a business","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2g5iz","text":"What a terrible approach to this issue. The messaging here is that even this results in addressing men's mental health, it isn't because society cares, it is because of men's violent and aggressive behavior. Which 1. Confirms their idea that society doesn't care about them, increasing negative sentiments toward the outside world. And 2, They get attention and help by being monsters. \n\nNothing women beaters will love more than a Parliamentary Secretary for Men\u2019s Behaviour Change.  \n  \nPeople with aggressive and less than healthy relationship with masculinity are going to love the messaging of \"We are going to allocate a significant portion of our time and resources dedicated to changing who and what you are.\"\n\nWay to stifle any chances of them entertaining anything you produce to help combat the issue with the first announcement.\n\nTotally won't make all these volatile individuals even more aggressive and resistant to change. With this poorly thought out title, you have created an enemy the hyper aggressive masculinity types and women beaters can rally against together.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cuq695","text":"Aren't all the politicians part of the landlord class?\n\nMy expectations that they genuinely want to do something about this is not high.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d65nah","text":"Im visiting Melbourne for the first time this weekend, what streets can i find beautiful autumn trees?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czcbpf","text":"we missed the boat and paid for it with incredibly high energy prices every step of the way cause we're fucking stupid.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4ny77","text":"Good point!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cpft2l","text":"Yeah well out of this doctor and what he actually said once by the way and say an afl player. I don't think you have any clue about people and you throw extreme slurs around not because it is true but because they don't share your world view.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4r3ap","text":"Cathedral Ranges. Take the Black Spur from Melbourne and stop in Marysville.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4jj8u","text":"30F, same set of men on all dating apps. If I get a match, I have to squeeze them to have that conversation. I'm an introvert but at least I try. Most of them will try to trick you they're in for a long term but just really want to hookup lol it's hopeless. Good guys might just not be swiping me then I guess. I might just get myself a cat okay","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0wuye","text":"Labor isnt cutting permanent places - big difference","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d237qo","text":"The few episodes that I've managed to see when AS have them running on YouTube are great. Bit of a shame that its not available on any streaming services in Australia tho...","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d29hnj","text":"> can I come see you place?\u00a0\n\n\nYou said yes\u00a0\n\n\n\u00a0> How should I be feeling about this?\u00a0\n\n\nFeel the way you want to, not how someone tells you.\u00a0 Time to move on and find yourself a rental","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5jc09","text":"I heard you have to dress for the weather you want, not the weather you have?\n\n\nBut seriously, indoor places (e.g. where I work, shops, pubs, cafes etc) feel hotter in winter than they do in summer. Most places are 22-24 degrees inside, shorts are essential for me!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cvmtif","text":" To be fair he did ensure the lnp was voted out which is a HUGE win for women","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czgx88","text":"I\u2019m not sure i see the point.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0skc8","text":"Always call my dog a tea leaf when she steals tissues! Tealeaf\/thief.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4qm6t","text":"Go for it! I have a friend in one and he loves it. The apartment is lovely and the neighbours are great.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyhh7e","text":"Pure propaganda. There is clear evidence of war crimes on both sides and the icc is pursuing both sides. Most of the world didn't vote with the US at that UN vote... because they're wrong. No one is claiming moral equivalence. They're prosecuting war crimes. The only people talking about moral equivalence is rags like this.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1igrd","text":"Why does the AFI care? They are a Pro-Liberal rag, who twist the facts to paint Labor as the devil.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2gt0e","text":"It\u2019s incredibly difficult to access adequate mental health care even as a compliant patient who wants to get help. For people who have conditions such as psychosis or schizophrenia and may be non-compliant with their meds, the one avenue of assistance they can access easily (meds via a GP) is not going to work and you can\u2019t get into inpatient unless you are a danger to yourself or others. Yelling doesn\u2019t qualify you as a danger.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvczli","text":"You must have forgotten about a little tiny thing called democracy.\n\nJust because you don't agree with the Greens, doesn't mean they weren't voted in by the people and hold real power in the Senate.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d03qfh","text":"Another punter learns the Bunnings lesson. They're every bit as undeserving of your money as Harvey Norman. Fuck em.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d37g9y","text":"I had a clef palate so I grew up going to PMC then PCH had several surergies and appointments my whole life (2002 - 2023. \n\nWe only paid for parking\n\nThe team was great my whole life","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctsmdx","text":"Dutton blaming immigrants for life\u2019s problems is as predictable as day becoming night. He has no policy nous, no vision for Australia and this Budget reply shows this: populist nonsense that STILL doesn\u2019t address the structural problems with our housing market.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2y8wr","text":"**PAYWALL:**\n\nPlumbers, bricklayers, cabinetmakers and other tradespeople needed to tackle Australia\u2019s housing crisis have not yet made the cut on the federal government\u2019s list of core occupations for its new skills-in-demand visa, despite pleas from the construction industry to make it easier to recruit from overseas.\n\nAs part of the government\u2019s December 2023 migration strategy, which aims to halve net migration from 510,000 within two years, Jobs and Skills Australia has been asked to categorise occupations that will be eligible for the \u201ccore skills occupations list\u201d.\n\nUnder the current draft, tradespeople including bricklayers, painters, roof tilers, stonemasons and cabinetmakers are listed as \u201ctargeted for consultation\u201d, rather than guaranteed a spot on the core skills list.\n\nA case will have to be made for these occupations to be included, which Master Builders Australia chief executive Denita Wawn said was \u201cbizarre\u201d given the industry\u2019s \u201cmammoth task\u201d of building 1.2 million homes by 2029.\n\nIn a submission to Jobs and Skills Australia, Master Builders argues that to exclude any trade or trade-related profession in building and construction at a time of critical workforce shortages \u201cwould be a failure\u201d.\n\n\u201cGiven the industry is facing chronic labour shortages across all occupation groups and has a mammoth task of building 1.2 million homes with supporting infrastructure, all building and construction trades and related occupations must be included on the list,\u201d Wawn said on Tuesday.\n\n\u201cBricklayers, cabinetmakers, stonemasons, painters, plasterers and roof tilers are all in shortage but have all been put on the \u2018maybe\u2019 list. If we are going to have any chance of addressing the housing crisis, this needs to change.\u201d\n\nA spokesperson for Skills and Training Minister Brendan O\u2019Connor said Jobs and Skills Australia was an independent agency and was still in the consultation process to determine which occupations would be on the final \u201ccore skills occupations list\u201d.\n\n\u201cJobs and Skills Australia will provide advice to the government on the core skills occupations list later this year,\u201d the spokesperson said.\n\nHome Affairs Minister Clare O\u2019Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles retain decision-making power on the final list of trades eligible for the new visa, which will allow migrants to fill areas of skills shortage, as long as they have guaranteed annual earnings of at least $70,000, indexed annually. Successful applicants could have their visas approved in 21 days, and have their length of stay doubled to four years, with potential for permanent residency.\n\nCoalition skills and training spokeswoman Sussan Ley accused the government of contributing to the construction shortfall.\n\n\u201c\\[Prime Minister Anthony Albanese\u2019s\\] failed energy and industrial relations policies were already making it harder than ever for the construction industry to build the homes Australians need, and now we see him making it even worse,\u201d she said.\n\n\u201cThere is a clear contrast between the Coalition, who as \\[Opposition Leader\\] Peter Dutton said in the budget reply, will place tradies who can build homes at the front of the queue, versus Anthony Albanese who is busy kicking them out of the queue.\u201d\n\nEarlier this month, the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council\u2019s State of the Housing System 2024 report found the government\u2019s target of building 1.2 million homes by 2029 would fall short by more than 250,000 due to building industry constraints, complex planning processes and lack of land.\n\nIn December, O\u2019Neil said migrant tradies would be considered under the core skills program, but \u201cwe need to make sure it is not a free-for-all with unintended consequences for Aussies doing apprenticeships\u201d.\n\nHowever, the federal government is also under pressure to cut immigration, with the May budget forecasting a fall in net overseas migration to 395,000 this financial year and 260,000 next year and 255,000 in the subsequent year.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d36fk0","text":"Mods I have somewhat altered the title to provide context as it was originally posted in the ABC media centre as \"Laura Tingle Statement.\"\n\nHer statement is below to save you a click:\n\n**Statement by Laura Tingle, 7.30 Chief Political Correspondent**\n\nFor much of the past two weeks, the political debate has focused not on the federal Budget but on the Leader of the Opposition's budget reply in which he pledged to cut migration to deal with the housing crisis.\n\nI have written and broadcast on this decision and its implications on ABC platforms numerous times since then. I was also a panellist at the Sydney Writers' Festival on the weekend when migration and housing were also discussed in a panel on the year in politics.\n\nIn my writing and broadcasts over the past two weeks I have observed on several occasions that there were considerable dangers for the way our political discourse would unfold \u2013 and for social harmony \u2013 in linking migration to the housing crisis.\n\nAt the Writers' Festival I was asked to comment on the Opposition leader's policy on migration and the economy, including housing. Mr Dutton has been vocal on this topic, particularly over the past fortnight.\n\n\"It's not just housing,\" he said. \"People know that if you move suburbs it's hard to get your kids into school or into childcare. It's hard to get into a GP because the doctors have closed their books. It's hard to get elective surgery. These factors have all contributed to capacity constraints because of the lack of planning in the migration program.\"\n\nHe has also said migrants are the cause of \"congestion on our roads\".\n\nAs the alternative Prime Minister, with an election approaching within a year, Mr Dutton's comments deserve rigorous scrutiny and examination.\n\nI have also pointed out that there were flaws in the Opposition's position as a piece of viable policy. That is, while on the face of it an obvious answer to a shortage of housing might be to immediately try to cut the number of people seeking it \u2013 and the obvious answer there is migrants \u2013 things are actually a lot more complicated when you try to do that.\n\nThe Morrison government announced an almost identical cut in permanent migration numbers in the 2019 Budget, saying the \"planning level of the Migration Program will be reduced from 190,000 to 160,000 places for four years from 2019-20\". The pandemic rather disrupted that plan.\n\nBut the very same 2019 budget papers were forecasting that net overseas migration would be 271,700 in 2019 before dropping to just 263,800 three years later in 2022, despite the cut of 30,000 permanent places a year.\n\nA big reason for the fact that net overseas migration was not forecast to fall, despite the cut in the permanent number, is that more than half the people who are accepted as permanent migrants are already here when they apply. So cutting permanent migration doesn't necessarily mean fewer people in, or coming to, the country. Some of the migration pool just changes \"class\". Others are still able to come here on temporary visas.\n\nThere has also been confusion about whether the Coalition planned to cut the (relatively small) permanent migration number, or to cut back the much larger, demand-driven net overseas migration number, which includes programs that have no formal caps and includes overseas students.\n\nShadow Treasurer Angus Taylor added to that confusion last week when he said the plan was to cut net overseas migration by 25 per cent, not just permanent migration. Mr Taylor also accused Labor of using migration to prop up the economy \u2013 and it is true that the post-pandemic surge in returning temporary visa holders has indeed played a crucial role in keeping a barely simmering economy from dropping into recession. But that raises the question of what happens if you cut migration as dramatically as the Coalition appears to want to do.\n\nDiscussions at writers' festivals are much less formal and more free-flowing than a piece of analysis on an ABC platform and this was a format where adding detailed context to the discussion wasn't really possible.\n\nPanellist Niki Savva had quoted those points Mr Dutton had made about too many migrants meaning things like it was too hard to buy a house, get in to see your GP, or get into childcare, and noted that the Opposition Leader seemed to bring everything back to immigration.\n\nIn agreeing with that observation, based on Mr Dutton's own quotes, I once again raised the risks for the political debate of a major political leader doing this, which I truncated as \"everything that's going wrong in this country is because of migrants\".\n\nThat was simply a result of trying to summarise a point in a much less structured forum and was not intended to imply he had said that verbatim. If I had been speaking on an ABC platform, or not in a five-way discussion, I would have provided all that context, as I do in my stories for the ABC.\n\nI did indeed make the observation on Sunday that we are a racist country, in the context of a discussion about the political prospects ahead. I wasn't saying every Australian is a racist. But we clearly have an issue with racism. For some months now, for example, The Australian newspaper has been devoting considerable space to its alarm about a rise in anti-Semitism in Australia.\n\nWithout even going into the historic record, there is also ample evidence that racism remains a particular problem in our legal and policing systems. A coronial inquest underway in the Northern Territory has become mired in an expose of racism in the NT's elite policing unit. Racism and racial profiling repeatedly show up as an issue of concern in our policing and justice systems.\n\nThe morning radio news bulletins on the ABC on Monday featured several stories that were related to racism, including one about racial profiling of young South Sudanese men in a police presentation to legal practitioners in Melbourne.\n\nSurveys, including by the ABC, have repeatedly found the majority of Australians of non-European backgrounds reporting experiences of discrimination and racism in their lives, sometimes starting as early as primary school.\n\nIs it relevant to raise this record of Australian racism in political analysis? Absolutely, if it becomes an issue of controversy in our political contest \u2013 as it clearly did when Pauline Hanson appeared on the national stage in 1996 and declared the country was being \"swamped with Asians\". John Howard had similarly flirted with the issue of Asian immigration in the 1980s and Julia Gillard did too in 2013 when she used a speech on a visit to western Sydney to announce a clampdown on the issue of temporary skilled worker visas.\n\nIn my commentary at the ABC, and at the Sydney Writers' Festival, I expressed my concern at the risks involved in Peter Dutton pressing the hot button of housing and linking it to migration for these reasons.\n\nPolitical leaders, by their comments, give licence to others to express opinions they may not otherwise express.\n\nThat does not make them racist.\n\nBut it has real world implications for many Australians.\n\nFinally, panellists were asked to nominate a positive change that had come from the change of government, on the basis of the famous quote that \"when you change the government, you change the country\".\n\nNot having the time in that setting to attempt a detailed and serious assessment of what has changed with the change of government, I made an off-hand observation that simply observed we now had fewer stunts like the \"needles in strawberries\" affair and that, whatever its failings, the current government seemed serious about policy.\n\nI regret that when I was making these observations at the Writers' Festival the nature of the free-flowing panel discussion means they were not surrounded by every quote substantiating them which would have \u2013 and had \u2013 been included in what I had said earlier on the ABC.\n\nThis has created the opportunity for yet another anti-ABC pile-on.\n\nThis is not helpful to me or to the ABC. Or to the national debate\n\nI am proud of my work as a journalist at the ABC, on all its platforms, and I let that work speak for itself.\n\nIt is based, always, on solid research and a lifetime of experience reporting on Australian politics.\n\nThat work is built on, and delivered in, the framework of the ABC's very high editorial standards.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0met9","text":"We had guy Sebastian at a private Telstra function 10 years ago. Most of the 200 odd people just treated him like background music and were just conversing over canapes etc.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czmt8g","text":"Social media and it's affects on children are part of the evidence base now. It's clear they're incredibly bad.\n\nIt can't be down to parents because without unified approaches you just have one kid being left out compared to their peers and social pariahs.\n\nThe idea of parents being educated enough around tech compared to teenagers to \"block\" or whatever their kids phones? Are you kidding? It must be less than 1:1000 parents who are technologically as savy as a 13yo.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1czaput","text":"Surely with this report out he can appeal the decision if the report has information that would vindicate him?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3yn9l","text":"Says who? It's 18.5 right now in here and it's perfect","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5gnp3","text":"Not Harvey Norman. Never Harvey Norman.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d36av0","text":"Probably Port Macquarie or Coffs Harbour would be best. Coffs has the Big Banana too.\n\nThe Breakwall at Nambucca is worth a look too. It\u2019s been painted by tourists and the community.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5gc93","text":"It's ok.\n\nKnocking down the community housing in some of the most desired suburbs in Melbourne to build ones that are partially private\/developer owned will definitely be better.\n\nWho ever gets the contracts for the Prahran, Collingwood, Carlton, Sth Melbourne flats will be making millions in profits.\n\nVictorian government is the worst in the country.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d37iys","text":"Country Road is one of my faves","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d10055","text":"It sounds like you're chasing the life we're told we're supposed to want and appreciate every single day of our lives. It doesn't get better because most of us still miss the thing we need most- community, real community. Here's another perspective and a blunt one: I have it 'all', a 3mil house with no debt, I run a business that I only work 5 hrs on per week, I have a great husband and two beautiful sons. We just built a new house, our dream house. It's still the same feeling I had when I was 18 and had nothing. I have dreams, but they're never as good as I think they are when I reach them, because they're all surface; buy a house, run a business. The dream for me is not to sit in a house, without community. And it took me 10 years and money to realise that I'm deeply bored and unhappy. Nothing really excites me, except my kids milestones and smiles. How is that doing anything for the world? Just sitting here unhappy making money for the government in my secure safe little box. The more I think about it the worse it gets. I think most people hit this realisation ar a certain age and you only have a choice to keep at it or fuck it all off.\n\nSo we are selling our home and business this year, travelling to poorer countries, helping how we can, and experiencing life outside of the box. I feel SO MUCH better, SO relieved that there's 'more'. I'm actually elated, I rarely had that feeling anymore for years.\n\nWhat I'm getting at is, it's unlikely a job and house and family will make you feel better. Assuming you're not depressed, just stuck in the cycle. Deep dive into who YOU are - not what you're told to be, and there's always an answer. Then just say yes.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1culs44","text":"Well on a scale between civil Norway enough said and say the private oil&gas and west African nations, Australia is closer to west African style extraction, than closer to Norwegian style political confidence.\n\nOh for it to have been that govt 'incompetence' had ruled the oil&gas development over the last 40 years and not the private interests that have driven us past 'sustainability' and into survival.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2awds","text":"You mean like there used to be at the old Spencer Street and the 120 year old ones at Flinders Street with heritage listed tiles? What a novel idea!","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d265lz","text":"Yup, welcome to the massive increases in electricity prices each and every year. They went up 20% last year","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4ffjg","text":"If someone could please destroy the televisions which play audio ads on the train platforms below that, I think we'd all call them a national hero","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0p5nx","text":"But if we slash student visa immigration to the fly by night providers that cater primarily to foreign students, why should the government cover the 'additional billions of dollars' the providers will lose? We don't need that money. That money is anyway going straight to the pockets of these providers that sell cheap qualifications to students who are primarily here to work in excess of their visa entitlements.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4s5ks","text":"people love capitalism until capitalism does capitalism.\n\nsupply and demand, less demand due to cost of living, some supply will have to go.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cp0296","text":"Victoria strongest gdp growth in the nation\n\n2022 - \n\n2023 - \n\nIn the most recent cba report, SA and Vic have swapped places so now SA is 1st and Vic 2nd\n\n\n\nBut hey, never miss a chance to bash the commie state","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4ib7m","text":"What levels are they prosecuting? Are they offering up lower classifcation tokens ala Paths of Glory or the people who actually decided on these processes and knowingly breached the code of conduct? Does the code of conduct even apply to senior executives?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1atru","text":"How about Australian Govt prioritising Energy stability before they committ us to unrealistic emission targets.\n\nHow about domestic gas reservation for power generation and without profiteering by Energy companies?\n\nOnce these are stabilised, maybe then, people will get behind emission reduction because at the moment, its the furthest priority amongst this massive corporate profiteering.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d40hsg","text":"The issues with rugby in Australia go far deeper than juat the rebels being shut down. A lot of it stems from the fact that rugby is very NSW centric. The minute anyone proposes any decent change, the Shute shield clubs throw a fit. \n\nIt also doesn't help that basic tickets to a test match are $100 minimum for decent seats. Myself and a mate of mine went to the England midyear test here in Sydney a few years back, and the tickets were 160ish a person. \n\nIt's also the fact that rugby is not on free to air. There is almost no advertising for it. If you were to be asked who the wallabies are playing coming up, would you be able to answer. \n\nThere is also almost no support for grassroots rugby. The number of smaller clubs that either fold or are forced to amalgamate just to be able to play is also a sad indication of where rugby is at.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ef9q","text":"Immigration is just the latest flashy issue by the Murdoch empire to distract from the housing crisis.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxvd1m","text":"And Chalmers wants you to have *more* children. Utterly deranged.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2fira","text":"Because you are going to catch a wagon?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2lukw","text":"Probably an attempted identity theft; I would get a credit score check ASAP to see if there were any accounts opened in your name.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3w59e","text":"Privacy seems to be the primary right we need in the digitized world in order to regain the agency lost over our human rights.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4v5cb","text":"I was brought up with Milo\u2026 I was addicted to it. My mother was anti sugary treats but didn\u2019t consider Milo a treat. Therefore everyday after school I used to grab a spoon and smash almost half a tin in one sitting. Love it!!\n\nHaving said that - nothing worse than accidentally inhaling milo choking on it.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d26657","text":"I\u2019ll take a look thanks!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2ieem","text":">because it is \"racist\" to get someone to prove if they are indigenous.\n\nExcept it isn't, people have to prove it every day. This man obviously couldn't prove it, and was not found to be Indigenous.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvgxg1","text":"i doubt many Australians would agree to an increase of GST unless they see the government is doing the job and spending money responsibly and for the people of Australia","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d27csq","text":"Yep I was going to recommend this when I saw the post at first but figured CBD criteria was probably strict. I was there on the weekend and had their white-choc macadamia cookie. OMG it was amazing","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cqv2nx","text":"The 'uninterested in politics' are their strongest block.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5ycgm","text":"Cafes have to pay penalty rates under their award.\n\n\nEither they spread the increase costs over all their products and on all days, or they charge a weekend surcharge.\n\n\nIf you don't like it, go somewhere else.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4msj1","text":"Yeah bud, it's right there on the little house. It's a similar colour so it kinda blends in. Zooming in helps","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxwbp1","text":"My take out from this described shambles is that the coalition are meaningfully engaged in this debate and we can expect a much argued and defensible policy that has had plenty of darts thrown towards it internally. The ALP haven\u2019t noticed how much people are feeling the economy. Immigration keeps us from entering a technical recession while reducing our security of shelter by decades. I\u2019ve not lived under a government that has taken us so far back. I\u2019m almost 50 and voted for Albo but never again","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d06707","text":"Any court will determine a accident in a car park is 50\/50 at fault 100% of the time. Doesn\u2019t really matter the terms when the out come is pre-dispositioned.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5gnp3","text":"Rather have milk crate furniture than give a cent to Harvey Norman.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d13itp","text":"Grand nephew loves it. But... We are a Wiggles house, primarily. The OG stuff, not the latest.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5f2t8","text":"I would say if you\u2019re a public school that someone in a private school is likely to have heard about then you are a quasi private school","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0p5nx","text":"How so? Are the degrees fake, too? Or is this just elitism?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4pmlp","text":"Do what I do and press 2 to get Chinese then launch into a lecture on the Tiananmen Square massacre or the ongoing human rights violations in Hong Kong or Xinjiang. \n\nFor some reason they seem to quickly hang up and remove me from their lists and with luck they will loose social credit.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2bxho","text":"Kaprica in Carlton is my go to. Good quality, reasonably priced and the restaurant itself is really homely and cosy","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyvuc4","text":"Vegas only exists because it rapes the Colorado river of all of its water. Australia cant & probably wouldnt want to do that.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0p5nx","text":"Universities aren\u2019t \u201ccaught\u201d in a war on migration, they\u2019re active participants in it, advocating on behalf of near-unrestricted mass migration.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5zu8b","text":"Absolutely not from Harvey Norman. Despicable business and vile man.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3dj8y","text":">2 of my friends have also recently gotten on medication and it has made them very anti social and withdrawn from everything and everyone\n\nSo you want them to overcome whatever is troubling them via sheer willpower and the marvels of modern medicine to come hangout with you on their lowest days?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csfnw5","text":">Nuclear might have been a good option 30 years ago but not today.\n\nNuclear might have been a viable option 50-60 years ago but the events of the past 30 years have shown that it would have not been a good idea to become dependent on a technology that requires gigalitres of cool fresh water to run.  We just don't have the water to spare for them.\n\nIn my opinion we really should be building out concentrated solar thermal plants and solar panel arrays in the more arid regions where very few people live.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1crheft","text":"This is actually a really interesting situation. There's an argument to be made that had he leaked the info with the intention of whistleblowing war crimes he would\/might have been given leniency.\n\nHowever, he leaked the information because he wanted the ADF to stop investigating special forces soldiers for what he saw as bullshit.\n\nWhoopsy, I guess.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5gnp3","text":"Gerry Harvey is a scumbag and I'd rather have no furniture than buy from him.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2hkr8","text":"Are you driving a car or motorbike? There's no 55 cent video matching fee on motorbikes.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5cxnt","text":"Yes definitely worth a look at, thank you","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czih0z","text":"When I did my cert, we covered wuite a lot.\n\nMix designs add mixes etc, types of reo and how to do reo correctly. Form works, safety (remember concrete has a ph of 13). How to sample and test.\n\nThe push to cert concrete staff is to make them understand your not just moving mud but how to do the job correctly.\n\nThere were to many people doing substandard work.\n\nI think it is great some doing the design is wanting to learn the processes. Lead to better design and reduced costs","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3x6bo","text":"Absolutely always go to the proper taxi rank.  This is advice for every airport in the world.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2fira","text":"Came to post same URL. It's also said that wagging is also 'disapproval'. There is the phrase, 'wagging your finger' at something. You're oscillating your index finger side to side in a motion that infer something you're disapproving off. \n\nNot attending school is the ultimate disapproval.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4r9n1","text":"Yep I though same thing. No yellow beak","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d23h6l","text":"There are people out there who inexplicably find ways to break even the most idiot-proof technology.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34vnu","text":"So, the holiday apartments are also available to staff? Wondering what St George Bank can offer for the holiday apartment lease especially for the snow season. Heard that  St G Bank has a place in the Snowy Mountains for the winter time. Is that true?","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5e2gg","text":"The only thing I can think of is greasy Zoes. Strange name but has two hats.\nHurstbridge location","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d28erd","text":"Drive on the left side of the road.\n\nI live near the great ocean road. Nearly been wiped out twice by people driving on the wrong side.\n\nOh, and don't complain the we drive on the left, your the visiter","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d60dm6","text":"What could have been if the Dutch colonized when they had the chance instead of leaving it for the Brits","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0ltkw","text":"This is the same government whose universities have banned the word intifada. \n\nWhy do they hate free speech?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwcri9","text":"Anyone proposing to run as a candidate for election should have to show that they have completed a civics course. This course should be free of charge, taught at accessible times, as adult community education. The course should cover the history of democracy, the Australian system, comparison to other systems in the past and in other nations, the expectations of an elected official, basic ethical philosophy etc, all up around twenty two-hour classes with assignments in between. \n\nNo intelligent, honest, decent adult should have any difficulty with this type of course, however it would at least put those who are not, on notice.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1yfiq","text":"that\u2019s cool to hear how you got into civil engineering. if you dont mind me asking, how satisfied are you with your job and what about your job makes you satisfied about it? personally i think i was born for labour haha but warehousing wasn\u2019t as fulfilling for me which made me looking into trades\/labour.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3dj8y","text":"You sound young with minimal responsibilities. \n\nPeople's idea of fun changes over time, as people age. It sounds like some of your friends are also going through a hard time... shaming them for not wanting to play laser tag with you is really sad. \n\nThere's a cost of living crisis and people are struggling. Unless you're offering to pay for each fun and exciting thing you want to do, maybe find a hobby for yourself or something.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4vktg","text":"I'll ask a friend who works at IGEA for the best contact\/resource for you. If it's ok with you, I'll message you with their reply next week.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0rguy","text":"Knob jockey","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"It already isn\u2019t up here in the NT. Proper cycling infrastructure around the greater Darwin area allows cyclists of all levels to to get 25kms out of Darwin with road crossings at a few points being the only interaction with  vehicles, as they repurposed the old railway lines.\n\n17yo or under are required to wear a helmet all the time. $25 fine if caught, assuming anyone can be bothered issuing an infringement.\n\nEveryone else only has to wear one when cycling on the road.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cza07d","text":"We recently spent a fair bit of money on a very nice dining table and sturdy comfortable dining chairs... So to answer your question we eat on the lounge watching our stories.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5clhl","text":"[It originally was real]( if you trust news.com.au as a source.\n\nI would imagine at this point though either the guy is still running the ads for the online attention, or he's an incel-type that's never going to meet anyone that meets his \"standards\". From that article I'd lean towards the second option.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3x6bo","text":"Please contact safe transport Victoria. This is a very big issue in Melbourne and they will promptly take your issue very seriously. You have excellent proof.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5iiip","text":"Man I've been meaning to pose this question here for *so* but always forget to. \n\nI always notice the synced lights in the morning driving west into the city from the M3 and wonder to myself 'are they in unison on purpose or is it coincidence?'","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2d56d","text":"No its more about risk management, why accept a small % more to run the risk that an inspection might find something unforeseen and your sale falls through when u can accept a little less for an unconditional sale. Plus there is the fact that when the market is hot properties normally go to auction where the seller cant set conditions to their bids.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4lztg","text":"And if you can\u2019t do that just don\u2019t be a cunt","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d30cgv","text":"Catalogues are very effective at getting people to buy stuff they otherwise wouldn't.\n\nPeople are open to it because, \"I only get it for the specials\",  but they are very effective at exposing people to products they werent even considered, and weaving those products into peoples long term buying habits.\n\nThis is why Aldi repeat products on a regular cycle.\n\nTheir catalogue may not sell this time around, but each time around it becomes more and more likely.\n\nEventually they train people to keep an eye out for that special. And this is despite the fact they would never have considered that product 12 months ago.\n\nBut people only get the catalogue for the specials  .. . . .","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4lk1b","text":"Not about \"obey\"ing, it's just work! \nUnless it's something you're not qualified to do or illegal, why wouldn't you? Having a \"not my job\" attitude is terrible mind set in a work place.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d4u875","text":"Thank you  Added to my list ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5geoh","text":"Cedars bakery in Preston. Basically any baked goods like the halloumi pides\/lamb mince flat bread etc\u2026 Even the curry chicken pides are legit. Highly recommend as you can see the baked goods on display and they put them in the big oven on demand.\n\nThat\u2019s just the bakery part. The cafe has great coffee and loads of great meals.\n\nPretty sure it\u2019s not big on influencers as it\u2019s in Preston (about 1 minute from Thornbury but suburbs matter) and not wanky white people food for instagram photos.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2y6sl","text":"Would this one do? It\u2019s in Safety Beach.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\nEdit: Or this one near Melbourne Zoo (and there may be some other options along this bus route through Royal Park\/Parkville). ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ef9q","text":"Go back to where ya came from lmao.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"The helmets aren\u2019t stopping ppl from cycling, it\u2019s the car centric culture and terrible bike paths\/lanes.\n\nI\u2019ve seen a friend\u2019s helmet after a bad fall, completely crushed. Maybe it can be up to the individual if they pay for their own insurance and health costs\/disability in the event of an accident (like in Florida where they can motorbike without helmets).","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d38xk0","text":"Nice pic","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1ctbiz7","text":"As a Jewish Israeli Australian (relevant for this topic) I have no issue with anyone protesting, it\u2019s our right as a democracy.\nThe polarisation of this issue which is a pattern of the extreme left is that you either adopt our language, narrative and facts or you are against us.\n\nThe different between Israel and other conflicts is that there is nuance and multiple truths can exist at the same time. Israel can be committing war crimes but Israel also has a right to defend itself. I don\u2019t recall in previous wars people asking for countries to be dissolved, I don\u2019t recall in previous protests individuals getting targeted and harassed with affiliation to the country regardless of their politic view point. \nThere is something far more divisive and violent in these style of protests which seems different to others and one needs to ask the question especially since we are dealing with students and education is what is the impact of social media, foreign influence and other factors to drive polarisation.\nThis isn\u2019t tin foil hat land, we have clear evidence of this taking place in the US.\nI am centre left in my political views, I advocate for a Palestinian state but similarly I defend falsehoods with regards to Palestinians and the Arab nations taking no agency on how this conflict unfolded considering post ww 2 we had many countries and borders redrawn and fair unfair or indifferent most borders have settled yet when I speak to a pro Palestinian it\u2019s just hate and anger with random incoherent points that this cohort keeps repeating with absolutely no ability to take even a drop of responsibility. There is no room for dialogue or robust debate, there is no appetite to learn, there is no appetite for reconciliation, it\u2019s pure anger and hatred. I am at a loss as to how one gets to this point and am personally hurt and disappointed at the level of demonisation of my people whom I believe for the most part align strongly with western values, contribute positively to society and by enlarge as a group probably lean more left than not, engage in humanitarian causes, strong culture of philanthropy\/charity and loyal to the countries they reside in","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4qwie","text":"If shrinkflation were an Olympic sport, Domino's would be stacking gold medals","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d43uv2","text":"Most Australians I\u2019ve encountered do.\n\nI live overseas and encounter Aussie\u2019s during July and cringe every time I overhear them.\n\nWas in Germany last year for work and heard some dude from Melbourne give a full Steve Irwin accent talking about how he goes bull shark hunting every weekend. \n\nLad looked like he sips lattes in Brunswick.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwhypl","text":"i mean fair\n\ni don't get a power bill per se\n\nBut  75 bucks a bill,for ppl who have seen their bills go up 200 or more is pretty  pointless\n\n\n\n\nThe small business one is even more stupid\n\nCafe's with gas stoves,and gas heaters and all the power bills,are probably blowing through that 325 in a week  lol,why even bother\n\nIssue is the energy company's have no way to know a customers wealth bracket so it would be impossible to roll it out based on ur income\n\n\nI know there is a fine line to tread due to inflation,but  both parties  budget and budget replys,just seemed shit\n\nThe rental allowance one might as well not even been announced,the increase is  way less than most renters have seen in an increase in teh last year","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5f2t8","text":"Definitely, it\u2019s bizarre. I live near McKinnon but am in the Glen Eira College zone and the socioeconomic demographics between the two areas are pretty much identical but McKinnon is seen as something to aspire to while Glen Eira is (generally) seen as \u201cgood enough\u201d. I don\u2019t get it. \n\nAustralia\u2019s education system is so messed up in so many ways but the most appalling aspect of our education system is this class divide that only seems to be worsening. Private schools receiving government funding is sickening, then even within the public system there are gross inequities. The whole thing needs a massive shake up but of course that won\u2019t happen because people are terrified of acknowledging the issues within the education system, let alone actually doing something about said issues.\n\nRant over, I\u2019ve been pissed about all of this since I finished high school nearly ten years ago lol","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3gcjq","text":"Sounds like you have more money and time than you need.\u00a0 Get back to us in three months about that. ","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cz9h1f","text":"Okra I don't like eating snotty food","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5e2gg","text":"McDonald's. It's dining and I think the price is fine. They seem to always have loads of punters in so it's competitive in the dining market.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3yg6y","text":"ooh alright ill def be bringing those then!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cza07d","text":"When my kids are here: Dinner table. We eat as a family. Rarely unless it\u2019s a special night on the couch. \n\nWhen they aren\u2019t, mostly on the couch with my feet up watching tv. It makes me feel like a grownup making my own damn decisions","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d0ag93","text":"Will most likely not affect your chance of finding a new job, however, I would do your best to find another job before you resign.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6ac89","text":"One ball, one bounce. Thems are the rules.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4lztg","text":"Last one I said hi to got aggro and began swearing at me. I know they're not all like that but it's safer to just walk on by as usual and avoid eye contact.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3j26m","text":"This is some of the most brain dead, ill-informed content I\u2019ve seen for a while. Australia makes next to no money selling coal domestically, it\u2019s pretty much all exported. Why would domestic nuclear policy have any bearing on our coal exports, or the amount of money made by our domestic coal industry?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d6ac89","text":"Oh man, I moved interstate, and I have no idea what the rules are anymore, my kids got told we don't play like that here ","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cszxwq","text":"Kos is one of the few prominent voices in the media today who has a lived experience of poverty. To say that all he cares about is Labor winning the election is nonsense and fundamentally misunderstands the man. He\u2019s a good person and I wish we had more people in Labor and the media like him.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3rdud","text":"Keen af for day tripper!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyj589","text":"Typical for these debates. You're handed all the information on a plate and you can only come up with a snarky quip. Do you have anything to contribute beyond regurgitating conservative nonsense?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5yvdq","text":"I've said it before - Thai town. Always full of Thai people and broad menu to suit most tastes!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3bq1f","text":"No, it's not rude. But it's hard if you're not used to confrontation. \n\nI think given enough time you eventually live next to dickheads. I think the best method to deal with them is to start a fight between them and another dickhead in the street, so that they take it out on each other.\n\nI had an idea on how to do that. What you do is wait until their bin is emptied, and then fill it up with trash (the stinkier the better). Then you add some identifying piece of information, like a magazine subscription header or a letter, that points to the other dickhead neighbour. Then those two battle it out","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d10055","text":"Travel\u2026\u2026going overseas really puts things into perspective is an amazing experience","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d06ulj","text":"I work in finance and our bare minimum for entry level is pr. Other companies even set it to citizens only \n\nYou can joke but even that is an expensive and long process given how many people treated it as a backdoor visa. Prepare to have your life and relationship probed to find any disingenuous actions to deny the visa","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4g94s","text":"Some of us can care about issues beyond ourselves- both are possible.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cyj589","text":"I want cheap and reliable energy that is the least worst option.\u00a0\n\nRight now, the most affordable option to keep the lights on that is better than coal, is gas.\u00a0","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d00sm5","text":"The please get off my lawn moment was gold","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5ddnc","text":"It doesn't have a pool table, but The Gem in Collingwood definitely has the visual aesthetic you're going for. It doesn't have a country theme per se, but Labour in Vain in Fitzroy has a pool table and an old bar\/pub type look and vibe. Lulie Tavern in Abbotsford is definitely going for the American\/western flavoured thing and has a pool table, but is a bit more done up and not really divey but it might work.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cwz4zo","text":"\"old man talks about impossibility while country struggles to make ends meet\"","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1cwcri9","text":">removing a book inappropriately put in the two year old section\n\nThis has nothing to do with where the book was located.  They wanted it removed from the libraries.\n\n\"Cr Christou, who moved the amendment to **ban children's books on same-sex parenting and families** in its eight public libraries, said it was inappropriate\"\n\nOne of the core features of libraries and, in my experience a point of pride to librarians, is that books be provided free of charge and free of censorship.\n\n\"The International Federation of Library Associations states that censorship \"**runs counter to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights**\". Libraries are expected to: Provide collections and services that are free of intentional censorship.\"\n\nPro-censorship activism was bad enough when businesses were being targeted by sad, hand-wringing, Saturday morning protesters.  It has no place in our libraries.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cyyfzp","text":"Cunt is a really derogatory term, no matter what anyone tries to tell you. It\u2019s rude and that person should be shut down.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5bkeu","text":"\n\nThis is my go to for anytime this comes up.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d67ahs","text":"'If you\u2019re not a member of one of these groups, what is preventing you? What barriers to joining have you encountered?'\n\nIt would mean interacting with humans, and honestly, most of you are pretty terrible. :P","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d2emnt","text":"Rough day buddy?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d58djq","text":"Hey. Thanks for the reply. It's nice to know you can get out. Hopefully I can find something as well.\n\nI'm not sure that there are many extra responsibilities I can take on. I've worked for my current company for over half my working life and I've worked in every department, including a stint as a supervisor that lasted for just over a year. \n\nI love to learn new things, and I think that's part of the reason I'm so desperate to get out, I feel like I've hit a brick wall of all that I can learn. That and the managers are kinda impossible to deal with currently. This is also combined with how shitty people are post COVID. Which is why I don't want to just get a similar job in another company. I want to get out of retail all together.\n\nWorking in the companies head office would be ideal as it's a part of the company I haven't worked in yet, but unfortunately it's located in Melbourne. \n\nI've got a mortgage that I share with someone and am responsible for helping take care of an elderly family member. So relocating is not possible with my current circumstances.\n\nMy brother says my issue is that I don't talk up the skills I have enough, and your reply kinda reinforced that that is something that is definitely needed. So I might pass my resume around to different family members before I do my next bulk apply.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d4hwzs","text":"From reading many of the comments it seems that the system is fucked.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2y11s","text":"With furniture and home items, my style is mid century\/vintage and definitely Australian made. Obviously second-hand too, which is better for the environment. \n\nMost of my clothes are also preloved, but I would never purchase any fast fashion brands and I do like to know where they were made. As another person mentioned Ugg boots, I do buy the original Australian ones. \n\nWith food, it can get trickier beyond the local greengrocer & in-season fruit & veg. (I\u2019m vegetarian, so that cuts the butcher out). I will read labels, but also consider the company that made it. Nestl\u00e9 and the brands they own won\u2019t get my money.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d5wft9","text":"N95, folks. Please.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d266qj","text":"Not a shill mate. Just someone that's pissed off his rent has increased by 50% since 2020.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d6f04i","text":"Walk around and do things. Sometimes drive. Sometimes stay at home.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d55w77","text":"Yes it\u2019s similar. It\u2019s a streaming device that has all different apps available for your smart tv to connect to. There is no monthly fee for using Hubble.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2v7da","text":"We had pantry mites spread through our pantry while we were on holiday. Came back and had to clean out the entire pantry, throw out $120 worth of food\/spices\/ingredients, and wipe everything down. We also sprayed insect killer in the pantry and left the doors closed for 10 mins. Found a bunch of little mites that had been hiding where the shelves attached to the walls. Repeated the cleaning process again two weeks later to get the next round of eggs that had hatched. Haven\u2019t had any problems since.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2do69","text":"Clean it up asap. Graffiti shouldn\u2019t be the norm\n\nCome down heavy on those people doing it as well.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d40hsg","text":"I think once a sport goes behind the paywall of a random streaming service hardly anyone has, it quickly slips out of the public mind\n\nIt's crazy how hard rugby in Australia fell over the last 20yrs","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1czd8d4","text":"Add me if needed.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d30cgv","text":"It's kind of annoying.  I gather it's just part of their marketing.  I can't remember the last time I actually looked a bit of junk mail like catalogues.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d2tgir","text":"Developers are easy to understand.\n\n1. Getting planning approvals doesn't nessecaily mean they are in the position to build. They often do this to increase the value of their equality to borrow again to to upsell. Both of which maximise their profit.\n2. If competition is low and prices are rising, this will encourage a lot to hold back developments to maximise their profit\n3. If material costs are high but appear to be dropping they will hold back their development to maximise their profit.\n\n\nCouncils approving more planning and building permits isn't the only thing they can do to increase supply. \n\nThey have the power to produce proposals to rezone land in their municipality to get approved by the planning minister. \n\nThis will introduce much needed upzoned land competition. The type of competition that sends a shiver up the spines of the developers who think holding will result in higher returns. \n\nThis is what is lacking in the majority of councils across this country. They simply don't rezone enough land to result in the supply we need.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d3x6bo","text":"A taxi drivers told me never use GM Taxj, they have very non transparent pricing, if you see them on the taxi rank especially at the airport, avoid them","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxwbp1","text":"You would get a better performance from any 2 bit middle manager in any organization in the entire country. Usual standard from LNP.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3yxnw","text":"This person is insufferable.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1ct44ue","text":"Will this be before or after that second referendum he said we were going to have?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d619sm","text":"Well the money saved from the stolen wealth games will be going towards something of use","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d5gq37","text":"The Children\u2019s Gallery at Melbourne Museum is fantastic. The rest of the museum is great too including the dinosaurs exhibits if you have the time and stamina. \n\n\n\nEnjoy your visit.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvczli","text":"They're not a single issue party. Haven't been since Brandt took over. \n\nIdeologically, allowing politicians with close ties to defense contractors (Hastie) a seat at the table is worse than anything you're suggesting.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d0n6f8","text":"NSW hasn\u2019t lifted a finger to finish the SA-NSW interconnector yet","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cvgxg1","text":"The fact that albo has grown up with the experiences he had (single parent growing up poor in public housing etc) and is refusing to do more than tinker around the edges of any of issues we experience today is even more despicable than the liberals. At least with the liberals they despise poor people and are honest about it to the public. Albos done nothing to deserve a second term and I think the country will be better off once we get a minority government who can drag labour kicking and screaming into doing something","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d68uab","text":"why did you go to reddit for this?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d3dj8y","text":"Friendship = shared values and personalities, not just shared activities.  Sounds like your friends have worked that out.  That is why 'just going out to dinner' is just as fulfilling as another activity.  Welcome to adulthood!","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d605km","text":"Isn\u2019t this all a bit irrelevant?\n\nHamer has already won preselection?\n\nIf you want to override the process to bring back a divisive candidate who already lost to the incumbent, then they really do want to lose. Not to mention the optics of taking out a young female candidate for a washed up male.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d34ukx","text":"I'm in NSW. But I'll check out my local tafe. Thanks :)","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d31bfw","text":"How did a budget announced in **May**, which hasn't passed the house yet, cause inflation in **April**?","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d52gio","text":"They'll be quiet in Melbourne because it will probably be 15 degrees and not many go to the beach in that weather. The water will be around 12 degrees in the bay and around 14 in the ocean, so very few swim.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d59lcc","text":"We used to be. We are not any more.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cuq695","text":"I wonder what questions they asked. If they just asked \"is housing affordability and issue\" then of course they are going to get results that suggest that it is. Not saying it isn't an issue, but, conveniently, it isn't an issue that can be easily fixed without alienating some part of the voting public, although it would be easy for an opposition to promise to fix it and then deliver nothing - much like the previous mob did.\n\nThis is a slow drip feed of unresolvable issues e.g. immigration, university funding, NDIS, etc which the libs will take to the next election and try to BS their way back in again to shift the rorts back in their favour. \n\nAlso margin of error was 3.4% which means not much has changed since the last poll when you look at the previous results.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1d1ngrk","text":"It is always better to go for a job when you are working, now here is the catch 22 I realize. I used to manage an op-shop and there are a number of times I have given a reference for a volunteer, they always got the job. My suggestion is to volunteer at an op-shop, work hard when you are on shift and then ask the manager after you have been there for a while for a reference when you apply for retail positions. Added benefit, it can be fun volunteering especially at op-shops and they are always needing volunteers.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1csf15u","text":"Australia is basically like Saudi Arabia, but we ban videos our politicians don't like instead of chopping journos to bits.\n\nYes, we have lots of resources, but that's just dumb luck.\n\nYes, we have very \"productive\" workers, because we're selling to Australians (who have lots of money - see the resources) and competing with other Australians, and we are protected by Australian regulations.\n\nThe only PMs to really have an issue with this were Paul Keating.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1d1s7yi","text":"The Space Shuttle was dealing with ordinary physical problems like two pipes making a good seal with each-other, and the fact that hydrogen atoms are so small they will actually leak out through a crystalline metal structure. That's physics.\n\nNo, we cannot make electrolysis more efficient than 1.6 units of electricity producing 1 unit of stored hydrogen energy.\n\n* It requires 237kJ\/mol to disassociate H2O into H2 and O2. \\[ That's the absolute theoretical minimum. \n* Burning hydrogen with oxygen releases 286kj\/mol of heat energy \\[ \n* Thus, the theoretical maximum is requiring 1.2 units of electricity to produce 1 unit of stored hydrogen energy\n* In practice, as the water electrolysis article will demonstrate, and the simple fact that heat engines are never 100% efficient (or we'd have 250% more energy from coal and gas-fired power stations than we do now), if we get 1.6:1 we're doing well.\n* This ratio inevitably becomes worse because it requires energy to pressurise and refrigerate the hydrogen, since this requires 50kj\/mol \\[\n* and liquid hydrogen boils off during storage at a rate of 1-5%\/day \\[ibid\\]\n\nAgain, it only makes energy sense if we have a massive surplus of renewable energy. But then if we have a massive surplus of renewable energy we don't need to store it, and don't have to store it in hydrogen or batteries, we can just waste it - unplug the solar PV, let the wind turbines spin without turning the turbines, and so on. \n\nIt's simply a money-grab by mining companies from government, and a way to delay action on reducing fossil fuel consumption. Even nuclear is more sensible than hydrogen, and nuclear is a total subsidy suck which in around half the countries it's been instituted was a cover for a nuclear weapons programme.","sarcasm_label":0}
{"id":"1cxtves","text":"This is the government the Courier Mail wants us to have.","sarcasm_label":1}
{"id":"1crheft","text":"You can add this to the list of things people kept saying would happen if the LNP got in that are happening under Labor.","sarcasm_label":0}