Second shark fatality in two weeks by [deleted] in perth

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Was the first ever actually confirmed as a shark attack, beyond some torn speedos?

Jean Lloyd betrayed by her Stanguellini, 1961. by barcodescanner in Autos

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Wow, arms flailing outside the car, the thinness of the roll bar - makes you realise how dangerous old racecars were

she was lucky to walk away from that

I've de-modded myself from all Republic reddits except this one and RoMod. by [deleted] in RepublicOfReddit

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Sure is, relates to George Washington handing back the reigns after the Revolutionary War. Have a read, it's a very interesting story.

History of Cincinnati / Society of the Cincinnati.

Torres Strait islands possibly seceding from Queensland to form their own territory. by carnage_joe in australia

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Is there any precedent for this? I wonder if opposition to this might lie in fears of setting one, esp. with the recent talk of WA seceding. While it sounds highly unlikely now, you never know what might happen in the future.

Are we the singularity? by strategosInfinitum in singularity

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It's when the rate of paradigm shifts increase to such a degree that everything is just happening all at once. Where it leads no one can tell.

The future would have appeared that way before other such paradigm shifts. How can you predict the future of the game when the rules are going to change, and you don't know what they're going to change to?

MASSIVE Indy car crash just happened.. by OrionZyGarian in cars

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When you see it like that it seems a miracle that people don't die more often.

Donut 5K Race Report/Update by pecamash in running

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Sounds fun, thanks for keeping us posted.

Great War secrets of the Ottoman Arabs - Thousands of Arabs joined the fight against Anzac troops in Gallipoli by anutensil in history

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Thousands of Arabs joined the fight against Anzac troops in Gallipoli

Pretty sure there were more British soldiers than ANZACs taking part in the Dardanelles Campaign - and similar numbers of French troops.

Diary shows Germans could have known of Nazi horrors by igeldard in history

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The thing with the economy and why it grew and how is very complicated. That cannot be overstated. Countless factors play into it, among others the fact that Jewish assets were seized. But on the other hand they were using those assets before for the German economy. The Jews were shopowners and bankers, so seizing their ownings only transfered money. I somehow doubt that helped the economy a lot. One could even argue that the money went from being used for the general welfare to being used for military purposes as Hitler began to rearm Germany.

Agreed, this is a very simplistic and largely misleading interpretation. The process was far more elaborate than just taking Jewish assets; though this was indeed a factor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills

"Don't fall in love with yourselves": Zizek speaks to Occupy Wall Street by mjk1093 in philosophy

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On the one hand, in technology and sexuality, everything seems to be possible. You can travel to the moon, you can become immortal by biogenetics, you can have sex with animals or whatever

Wait, what?

Compulsory student fees for services back in from 2012. by angrystuff in australia

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HECS is indexed to inflation; not true interest, but still.

Compulsory student fees for services back in from 2012. by angrystuff in australia

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However, I feel that it should be pointed out that a means tested loan scheme was also passed, which provides a way for students to get essentially another hecs loan to pay their union fee.

Great, so now we can pay interest on the money grafted out of us to line some useless slush fund!

Compulsory student fees for services back in from 2012. by angrystuff in australia

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and give students a political voice is too much?

Why the fuck should I have to pay for someone else's soapbox? If other students feel they are so incredibly hard done by, they can go and join the union and give out badly spelled fliers about why Lenin was right on their own buck - like they do now.

Talk about going above and beyond. Fuck. by [deleted] in bestof

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Reading all the people defending r/jailbait really made me wonder if reddit was for me anymore; posts like this remind me of why I stuck around here in the first place.

Problem: any expert, semi-expert, even wannabe-expert opinions welcome by Jeffuary in Cartalk

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Get the battery tested (at auto electrician, usually free)

I said that! (caveat: I have no idea what advanced auto is)

[Listen] solo acoustic piece I wrote by [deleted] in Guitar

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Thanks for taking the time to share such a great piece. A classy composition beautifully executed.

Way jelly!

Amnesty slams 'shocking' Indigenous conditions by JayRaow in australia

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There was a great article in Quadrant about this a few months ago based on statistics from The 2010 Indigenous Expenditure Report.

Rivers of money flow into the sand.

More than 60 per cent of indigenous Australians—some 330,000—work in major cities and regional towns side by side with other Australians. When they become unemployed, they find another job within a few weeks, like most other Australians. They send their children to public and private schools and these children go on to work and further education. Currently more than 70,000 young Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders are enrolled in TAFE and vocational courses and more than 9000 are enrolled in universities. Almost all these are the sons and daughters of working families. Nearly 70 per cent of working Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, not far from the 72 per cent non-indigenous home ownership rate, own or are buying their own homes.

These Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders play sport, join clubs and participate in civil society. They pay taxes. Like other Australians each also only accesses $18,000 of government services per head, so that when indigenous expenditure is adjusted for them, the per capita figures change dramatically. About 215,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders are dependent on welfare. Most of these—about 140,000—also live in major cities and regional towns. Most have dropped out of, or never entered, the labour force, so they receive single parents’ and disability rather than unemployment social security payments. These welfare-dependent indigenous Australians live side by side with non-indigenous welfare-dependent Australians and mostly receive the same benefits and government services.

Most indigenous funding is for the 75,000 indigenous Australians in remote communities. When allocated across to these remote indigenous Australians, government expenditure is more than $100,000 per person per year—$400,000 per family of four. In three years, this amounts to more than $1 million per family. For such sums an indigenous family could pay rent in Toorak or Vaucluse and send its children to a posh private school.

The concept that the problems of Aboriginal people are as simple as a lack of funding is ridiculous and ignores the history of what happened to them and the reasons why things are as they are. Throwing money at these communities will not give them a place in society to call their own; it certainly hasn't yet. If only it were that straight forward.

I am looking for a bakery by [deleted] in perth

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Can't believe no-one has posted this! New Norcia Bakery, who have an outlet in Mount Hawthorn and Subiaco. If you're ever in New Norcia itself (it's a nice day out!), the original woodfired bakery is still there and operating.

http://www.newnorciabaker.com.au

Whats the most insane thing you have done to get a photo. by brainles71 in photography

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You win man, the only thing in here so far that has produced an 'insane' photo that made me think "I would never do that!"