[–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

please don’t make statements about other groups (like they are over-represented) if you can’t provide evidence

Your own quote in the body of this post states that First Nations women are more likely than any other woman to experience traumatic injury or death as a result of intimate partner violence, and neither you or the article linked to evidence for this.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    On link aggregator sites like this you would normally put the article URL as the main link so people can click on your title and be taken to the article. Having a picture as the main link like you've done would normally be done if the picture was what you wanted to discuss. It's not a real problem how it is currently but it is different to how someone would normally post article links.

    Luckily you can edit posts on Lemmy, so what they're suggesting is to go to edit the post and put the article URL in the field labelled URL so your post follows expected behaviour, and if you really wanted a link to the picture you could put that in the description like you currently have the article link.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Seems a sensible use for electric - last mile short range stuff with lots of stop/start, predictable max mileage, and return to base each night. Much better use case than linehaul or other long range stuff - I can't see that being sensible without a lot of infrastructure investment. As long as they have chargers sorted at the bases it should work (barring people forgetting to plug the thing in which will happen but hopefully not too often).

    The range on these is still a bit low for a full days work even in short range urban delivery (claims up to 200km, so maybe 150 you can rely on) so I wonder if they're planning on spruiking for fast chargers at the bases - could fit in a morning and afternoon/evening run that way.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    I'd guess it's because fuel prices became something people were paying a lot more attention to, from both the general public and the government. When people go back to just going to the nearest station instead of checking online for prices and the government stops feeling pressured by fuel prices being in the news regularly I suspect the old games will start reappearing.

    I will note that the local price differential that usually exists around me has markedly decreased - typically fuel gets noticeably more expensive when you drive the couple of km from Queanbeyan into the ACT (can be up around 20c/L difference) but it's currently pretty comparable.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    I'd have a chance if the people who were supposed to change my meter for a smart meter the other day had actually done so, but they were thwarted by the lock on the meter boxes despite it being one that utility companies are supposed to have a master for (seems to work for the meter readers at least).

    Does remind me though that I need to ask the strata manager exactly which master key they bought padlocks for and then get back to the electricity company to tell them to come back again equipped with said master. Could do with a few hours of free electricity to heat the place a little over winter.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The brick probably would be enough to stop it being opened (unless a particularly inquisitive cockatoo pushed it off) but the problem is that you have to remove the brick just before the garbage truck comes - if you don't then either the lifting mechanism flings the brick over the truck or you lose your brick into it.

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    Residents of Lorne, on Victoria's scenic Great Ocean Road, have been locked in a battle of wits for years now.

    They've been fighting skirmishes with a large flock of increasingly intelligent sulphur-crested cockatoos that love lifting the lids of the town's wheelie bins and spreading rubbish on the ground.

    "What began as a simple idea became a complex and demanding project," Mr Walls, a retired caravan park broker, explains.

    Made from recycled plastic at Horsham in Victoria's Wimmera region, the frames are screwed or pop-riveted to the wheelie bin lid to thwart entry.

    "The theory is you can't lift what you're standing on … and in the five years we've had them out testing them there hasn't been a failure that I'm aware of," Mr Walls says.

    The design has been so successful that Surf Coast Shire has spent $50,000 to buy and install 500 of the aprons on Lorne residents' bins for free.

    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The Victorians apparently had almost 25000 machetes between those put into their 45 bins and handed back from retailers, that's a lot for a tool you reckon nobody uses or buys. I seriously doubt that any major percentage of that came from the criminals - it was already illegal to carry machetes in shopping centres and have fights with them and they obviously didn't care about that so why would they hand any in just because that was also now illegal.

    For the small chance you're not doing some sealioning bullshit with your questioning I've used mine to clear a considerable amount of lantana and crofton weed every time I head up to Grandad's property, as well as controlling a bunch of invasive running bamboo and clearing blackberry from single track runs. It's an effective and useful tool - I just don't make youtube videos of me using it so I guess it's not real in your world.

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    Residents are being urged to check the Revenue NSW unclaimed money register, with about $300 million waiting to be returned.

    There are more than 800,000 individual payments being held by the state government in the form of unclaimed business refunds, dividends or cheques.

    Some items are of low value, while others range in the millions of dollars.

     

    A large-scale soft plastics recycling facility at Taree is processing most of Australia's recycled soft plastics and stockpiled waste from the failed REDcycle scheme.

    Processed soft plastic is sent to a range of Australian manufacturers for reuse in a range of products.

    Efforts are underway to boost demand for products made with recycled plastic.

     

    Archive link: https://archive.md/2025.10.26-023636/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/glamping-proposal-for-national-parks-slammed-as-privatising-public-assets-20251025-p5n57y.html

    Commercial operators could reserve sections of public campgrounds in national parks to offer services such as glamping under a proposal being explored by the NSW government which has been slammed as “privatising public assets”.

    NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has called for expressions of interest from businesses to provide “supported camping” in 16 national parks and reserves across NSW.

    Selected commercial providers would be given early access to book out parts of campgrounds up to 365 days in advance, more than double the 180 days allowed for families.

    Greens environment spokeswoman Sue Higginson said the proposal was “regrettable” and inequitable, expressing concerns that the scheme was a “beachhead” for the further privatisation of public campgrounds.

    submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/australia@aussie.zone
     

    I don't like it, it's another exercise in taking a functional website and 'modernising' it by making it look like a mobile app (i.e. the make it look attractive to kindergarten kids school of design).

    For my own use cases it's made it more annoying to get to the 7 day Canberra forecast, made the local radar harder to see, and I'm not noticing a link to the written ACT region forecast which I will want to look at in winter.

     

    More than 100 venomous snakes have been captured in a backyard in Sydney's west in what snake catchers said was their biggest find ever.

    The home owners at Horsley Park noticed snakes disappearing into a mulch pile on their property over the past two weeks.

    Reptile Relocation Sydney owner Cory Kerewaro said his snake catchers were called to the property last Friday after the owner's dog was bitten.

     

    cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/8969234

    For the first time in five years, northern corroboree frogs have been spotted in Namadgi National Park by ACT government ecologists.

    The species is listed as critically endangered and the government has been attempting to restore their population in the park for more than a decade.

     

    cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/6545941

    There are two large closures coming up in Kosciuszko to allow for shooting to occur (animal control). If anyone's planning on a trip down there in the next few months this might affect you.

    The first big one is the area south of Alpine Way, all the way down to the edge of the park at the Victorian border. This is planned to be closed for basically all of March (4th-28th). This map shows the area in question.

    The second and even larger closure is the majority of the area north of the Snowy Mountains Hwy, and this is planned to be closed for literally half the year - 4th April to 4th of October. If you want to do the run through Long Plain and Broken Cart trail (makes nice day trip from Canberra) better think about doing it soon or you'll be waiting a while. This map shows the area for this closure.

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