Its a pretty long standing policy now, hard to have assurance of continuity of business for sure.

Its been a long time coming. The sentiment of the rest of Australia has only grown in this direction as the terrible animal treatment in other countries and the arguments for deepening of our own economic value adding processes have strengthened.

Farmers had over a decade since the last serious push for them to set up a different business model themselves and they haven’t as an industry done it.

Its time government stepped in to provide the new direction for the industry and finally take heed of the wider Australian moral sentiment about the treatment of our animals in these circumstances.

I didn’t read it that way. Sounds like for whatever reason the RMIT partnership is ending but ABC is going to carry on with it on their own.

This is probably a bad development. RMIT gave the work an extra sense of rigour and independence. It meant liberals and nationals, and conservatives in general couldn’t dismiss their work as just more ABC lefty commie wokeratti greenie stuff, as so many of those people reflexively do now.

The ABC should immediately start looking for a new partner of similar calibre in this ongoing endeavour.

Labors maybe attempting to placate the baroney baron so she doesn’t do her plutocrat thing and pump more money into the “Nuclear in a decade or two” campaign she has her lackey Dutton running around the country bleeting about.

It won’t work… plutocrats gona plutocrat until their power is broken.

• Ah Plastics is such a devil of an issue isnt it. It was so dissapointing when the red cycle scheme went tits up.

Though, i can’t believe there wasn’t a massive backlash against woolworths and coles for allowing red cycle to fail, it was their wild card out of the plastic waste negative publicity they suffer.

• But there are thousands of types of plastics used by all kinds of companies with such little transparency/rationalisation that the plastic types can really only be boiled down to 7 broad buckets.

• There are no market or government incentives i know about to choose recycled plastic over virgin for all categories but to charge an ecological premium for a companies product.

• And thats only to consider some of the problems with so much plastic use. To even consider, a reasonable reducing, reusing, recycling plan for plastics we have to consider the costs this will entail to all the medical gear, electrical gear, cars, and everything else we successfully use plastic for.

• The one great thing though, is plastic is supposedly a byproduct of the oil industry. So if the economies of scale start shifting away from oil production, we might finally begin to see a true reflection of the cost of plastic, not one artificially low because oil as a fuel is the flagship product.

I’m not a proponent of nuclear energy, especially not for Australia, but we need a better whole of system waste management design, inclusive of radioactive waste materials.

Be it from the boats we’re deciding to build, the unresolved temporary on site waste storage at Lucas Heights, or a possible future refining rare earth elements.

Right now all the different levels of government seem to do is farm their waste problems out to contractors when the waste disposal becomes complicated. And these conpanies like Visy don’t seem to invest in much apart from the odd MIRV here and there and stick it in the ground.

Australia has got to be among the most wasteful societies on our planet, (per capita), but we also must have among the best abilities to deal with this problem.

First problem is, its not even on our radar as an issue that holds back our development as a country that does anything else but digging stuff out the ground.

Just listened to this,

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3g7UIqi616HUNle9zkeiof?si=V1FJSJ0lTz2071FTDnFWvA

Its inspired me to see the impact our half hearted attempts at waste management are possibly having on the strength and diveraity of the nation’s industry.

Been a bit partial to vanilla icecream with one of those mini nonnas apple pies lately. If i’m feeling adventurous, a bit a custard to.

True. I’s thinking of the branding

Now, now, you shouldn’t let the print media off so lightly.

Whats the link?

I’ve thought a fun promotional tag would be,

Aussie_zone, the socials alternative

Possibly recognisable from a certain media outlet ;)

Its probably better to focus on aussie_zone and any future sister servers rather than lemmy or fediverse as a whole.

Its a broad church out there. Last night i’s reading about the Maven AI controversy. People here on Aussie_zone might be cool with promotion, (also might not be), but others on Lemmy might not be, its not practical to check with everyone on every Lemmy server, and it’d not be nice to garner a perception of speaking for them.

Challenge that moderator to ‘Street Countdown’, i bet they won’t even show.

It won’t halt all monied influences, lobbyists won’t be hit by this it seems, (its complicated to hit the bad lobbyists without hurting the good), corruption will crop up, but its a great reform nonetheless.

What i think it will do best is reset the tone from monied interests walking honourably through the front door, to sneaking guiltily in the metaphorical back. The reputational risk increases the costs for business people being seen to be influencing politics too much.

Bonus the lack of funding might reduce the amount of scare campaigns and political slinging matches due to the campaigns needing to attend to their own platform messages in a campaign rather than their opponents. Of course there’ll always be the outlying elections where the opposition can get away with virtually no platform.

Exciting news!

Sister instances would be my preferred option, it could mean we build the communities, but never have to sacrifice this instances culture by getting too large on a single instance.

Adding another view would be the way to go for sister instances to connect in a deeper way than the rest of the fediverse but still maintain some semblance of separateness.

It puts me in mind of the EU bloc, a supranational organisation, where the culture and way of life of the participating States is maintained, but many benefits of the closer connectedness are granted.

I’d be keen for a more descriptive view label than ‘curated’. Maybe it could become an extra field that admins launching sister instances are able to fill in themselves. I guess this is something we’d have to approach lemmy developers about.

Giving them the ability to have a uniquely descriptive name could be fun though. In our case it could be Australasian Allied Instances (AAI), or Australasian Union of Federating Servers (AFUS), or my personal favourite “Warboss Gorgritch’s Waargh on the Fediverse”.

and, my mind is mush, i’m going to bed…

I think your right about a need for critical mass.

Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign is probably a topic that should be discussed at some point. Be it of this instance specifically, or Lemmy in general, or even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.

You don’t fucking know shit about it

Nor do you.

Its a largely uninvestigated report at the moment. Maybe people who believe her will turn out to have misplaced their trust, maybe theres a more compliacted series of events, maybe she is lying.

Point is none of us know more than whats been said so far; theres no reason to outright disbelieve someone when they make a serious complaint about discrimination. Otherwise, if we do, we’ve learned nothing from historic discriminatory abuses in all manner of circumstances.

Tl:dr

1. An xmas hols fill in, made some unrelated post referencing the atrocities happening against palestinians.

2.Whatsapp (i think) group in Aus decided to launch a targetted campaign to remove lettouf from broadcasting.

3. Other people from the same group took screenshots and went public

4. ABC management screwed up, and probably deserve all the punishment they get for having such a wrong headed and knee-jerk response.

Yeah, this is important. In such a small traditional media environment they probably feel like they don’t have much choice. They should look for talent in new and independent media if they don’t already, theres still plenty of people out there, they just have tiny loudspeakers.

Haha, different interpretations of State i guess.

I’d interpret your example as policies of the Government of the day, which represents the State, (like the managers represent the ABC), for a short tenure of the life of the respective entities.

My interpretation in line with what might come to mind when you talk about a Statesman. Good current examples would be John Kerry, Angela Merkel, or closer to home, Julie Bishop. These people have their political aims, but they also realise the continuation of the State as a living entity has a use in its dependency and therefore importance. Noticeably, they’re more internationally focused where its enormously important to take a wider breadth of view in regards your own State and its continuing existence.

Look random people on the street might find it a fun interlude to their day :) I know you weren’t completely though due to the personal example you referred to a couple comments back.

However, you didn’t specify a method, said brother-in-law enters into the political discussions. From an outsider’s perspective, (me), there was no indication.

Also,

will also

I used these words in my first reply, not to deny your experience, but to add to it. The general nature of the word,

people,

in that part of your comment followed by an absolute statement spurred my entry. I think it’s important to highlight varied reasons people have for doing the same things.

You spoke in one part of the comment generally, the other part specifically. My reply attempted to accept your specific experience, while engaging in the general discussion indicated about ‘general people’ happening alongside it.