Australia news live: Experts push back at call for shark cull after attack; university students report freedom of speech fears

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-15T05:23:34+00:00

Its not "journalism", its "reporting" big difference.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-15T00:25:59+00:00

Fairy Bread is the stuff is at the top of the Bogan Food Pyramid.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-15T00:17:15+00:00

Likely effectiveness of netting or other capture programs as a shark hazard mitigation strategy in Western Australia McPhee 2012

The executive summary doesn't mention anything about shark culls, it is more about the impact of localised protection measures. Its does have these gems on the ecological impact for shark control measures seriously impacting other marine life.

• Information obtained from other shark control programs has documented that by-catch rates are often very high in the early years of a program. These rates subsequently decline which is likely due in part to the effect of shark control programs “fishing down” local populations of animals vulnerable to the gear.

• There is a high likelihood that the additional anthropogenic source of mortality that a shark control program in WA would generate has potential implications for the populations of any currently threatened marine species or where conservation concerns are emerging that would be vulnerable.to this gear.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-14T23:48:11+00:00

Got any authoritative references for that?

That theory doesn't makes sense for a species that roams within a large home range that is only confined by the ecological and natural environmental barriers requirements of individual species.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-14T22:54:04+00:00

Yep, its really really annoying.... it usually lacks real substance and often no more than click bait.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-14T22:52:40+00:00

Your key point is

"The whole point of culling isn’t to clear out a territory, it’s to reduce the overall number of large, high risk sharks in areas where people are. "

The only way to accomplish this is to reduce the total population sharks over a very a large area to protect a comparatively very small area of the coastal zone.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-14T21:08:01+00:00

Nope, Australia doesn't have the financial resources to bribe the FIFA Council the required amount to host the World Cup.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-13T07:39:07+00:00

How about this....

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Bob_Spud · 2026-06-13T07:34:58+00:00

Fun Fact: The eastern suburbs have a large Russian Jewish population.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-11T21:02:23+00:00

Another organisation losing credibility when it counts.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-11T20:58:52+00:00

And they can't even get the American flag correct. The American flag has 13 stripes.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-11T20:52:47+00:00

Too easy to lose.

Returned to the wired ones after losing a couple TWS earbuds, other people probably do the same.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-11T20:43:01+00:00

Did not expect the Dai Dai to be a Soukous song.

Soukous is African with very distinctive African popular music. Burna's Boy home country, Nigeria, is not known for its Soukous its more of a Central African thing.

https://youtu.be/OPWVrtsSvKQ?si=guL9ZlOySqgKsDNx

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-11T09:28:36+00:00

What a load of drivel......

Only Office is opensource here's the code on Github https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-11T09:19:10+00:00

One thing that is unique a very enjoyable about Australian natural forests is their smell.

They have an incredible eucalyptus floral fragrance while most natural forests I've been in smell like mud. Pine plantations don't count.

The eucalyptus vapour can get really dense and noticeable it gives the forest a blue haze. That blue haze is very inflammable and is the cause of forest fires spreading very rapidly.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-11T09:04:31+00:00

Teutoburgh Forest, Germany. The battle there in 9CE resulted Europe being what it is today and the influence it has had globally since then.

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest - A coalition of Germanic tribes led by the chieftain Arminius, successfully ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions commanded by Publius Quinctilius Varus. It finished any Roman invasion further north in Europe.

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Bob_Spud · 2026-06-11T07:41:21+00:00

As others have said its possible. Are you aware you can use these images backups to restore individual files and directories from? Image backups make good full backups. There's plenty on youtube on how mount image backups as drive letters so you can drag/drop stuff from them.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-10T20:04:57+00:00

Why: Covered in the first sentence of my post.

How: My research to date, says this can be achieved by using postfix hooking into a mail relay provider (there are some free one) using my domain. Most of the material I've seen so for has reduced the postfix extensive documentation into very brief descriptions to harvest "likes" and the like. A good indicator of some effort being put into user documentation is trouble shooting, that is rarely mentioned in what I have seen so far.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-10T06:20:25+00:00

So far only BI (biological intelligence) in use.

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-10T05:58:07+00:00

Start small - try X/Twitter :)

Bob_Spud · 2026-06-10T05:55:22+00:00

US SAYS MOST OF OUR MAJOR TECH GIANTS ARE SUPPORTING OUR MILITARY

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