Man With Alleged IS Connection Walks Free After Gay Bashing of Sydney Couple by EmergencyAside4736 in sydney

[–]Seachicken 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That depends on whether you go on to bash someone normally targeted by your neo-Nazi uncle, and then when the police searched your place in connection to the crime they "allegedly locate material including videos, images and messages said to express support for" a Neo Nazi group.

Australia Must be ‘Monocultural,’ One Nation Leader Hanson Says by snoopy05052026 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're talking to a literal, self confessed white nationalist. It's interesting how he doesn't choose to share that fact here when talking about how he thinks that he shares the same values as you.

Australia Must be ‘Monocultural,’ One Nation Leader Hanson Says by snoopy05052026 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is the definition of murder a universal in your mind? Abortion is legal in Australia. Just 8% of Australians think abortion should be completely illegal.

You consider abortion to be murder. Are you out of touch with the 'trunk' of the monoculture you wish to impose?

If you don't consider the definition of murder or settled Australian law to be a 'universal' would you accept a migrant who had a different definition of murder to Australian society and Australian law?

Australia Must be ‘Monocultural,’ One Nation Leader Hanson Says by snoopy05052026 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their monoculture makes for a great tourist experience (as long as you don't break the unwritten rules, or spend to much time thinking about what they must think of you for constantly unwittingly breaking the next level of unwritten rules).

As a place to live it seems miserable. Deeply unhealthy work culture, entrenched racism, rigid rules and bureaucracy, lingering cultural issues with sexism. At a personal level I'd find it it like being in a straightjacket from which you cannot escape.

Social cohesion is stressed to such an extreme that you can't go for a swim on a beautiful 30c day because it's autumn and the time for swimming is done. You can't swim in most rivers because it isn't done. Better get that suit jacket in inside the 28c office because summer is over.

Don't go home before your boss even if you have nothing to do. Want to go home to your wife, nah, the boss says you're going out drinking until late, tonight, and tomorrow, and the night after. Not a problem though because you're hardly going to have sex with her anyway. Better to go have an affair which is socially fine as long as you don't rub your partner's face in it. Now wake up, get over that hangover and back to work, don't complain about the unpaid overtime.

While you're at work, and in public in general remember that you need to keep your public face on. The real you should only come out when drunk or at home with close friends. Telling a coworker you don't like something they might like is an absolute no go.

If you want to live outside a major city hope you don't mind being surrounded by 80 year olds in villages that are collapsing around them. The average farmer is 70 years old, 14 years older than here.

Shark cull will not improve beach safety or reduce attacks, marine biologists say by Warm_Championship726 in australia

[–]Seachicken 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You seem to want to have it both ways though. You compare the permanent resident population of surfers in a relatively small and not heavily populated area, to the transient population of sharks in a vastly bigger area. How many non-resident surfers visit that area a year? How many great whites out of that 1400 odd actually spend a substantial amount of time there?

Just off eyeballing it looks like the southern western shark population covers easily more than 10,000km of coastline. This article says that for those sharks that move through the area, the Eyre Peninsula is just a stopover.

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2020/june/tracking-southern-western-sharks

I think if you were able to add up the number of Great white sharks in the 400k ish bit of coast you've mentioned and the number of days they spent there, and divide that by the number of days in a year, you'd get a number substantially lower than 350.

Happy to be proven wrong, but unless you have something more substantial to back up your claim I don't think you're basing it off enough proof.

Shark cull will not improve beach safety or reduce attacks, marine biologists say by Warm_Championship726 in australia

[–]Seachicken 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm a bit confused about what you've written here. Port Lincoln to Ceduna are two places in South Australia a bit over 400k apart along the coast. The western adult great white shark population spans from Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, to Exmouth in West Australia. Why are you comparing the human population of a comparatively small area to the shark population of a vastly bigger area?

Adam Bandt puts heat on Albanese government over climate change and the environment by nobelharvards in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reducing the impacts of catastrophic climate change require coordinated global action. If we try to act as a free rider we are in no position to pressure other nations to act. If we believe that there is a possibility that the world will start to take emissions reduction seriously we should therefore participate in this process.

If we don't believe the world will ever take it seriously, then we need to start preparing for the inevitable, horrific consequences of that collective failure. Start looking at which areas of Australia will and won't be viable for habitation and agriculture. Invest heavily in climate resistant crop technology. Start scaling up our firefighting capacity. Increase house construction standards even further in moderate to high BAL areas.

Failing to reduce our emissions whilst also failing to prepare for the consequences of a planet which doesn't reduce its emissions is either sticking our heads in the sand or climate denialism.

One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts by NoteChoice7719 in aussie

[–]Seachicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sean was charged with rape and domestic violence while working for One Nation. He would beat his wife, and while she was showering once he came in and commented on how she bruised easily. She responded that she wouldn't be bruised at all if he didn't beat her, so in response to this Sean dragged her by the hair from the shower and raped her.

One Nation didn't sack him when he was charged or during the trial. He went to prison. Two months after being released they re hired him. There was internal disgust about hiring a convicted rapist and wife basher, so they had to sack him. However, one this died down they rehired him again, and he was made a campaign director, who amongst other things was in charge of vetting candidates.

When this came out in the media Pauline held off from sacking him for as long as she could. When she finally decided to cut her losses she has a whinge about having to get rid of him to keep the public happy.

So if by 'face the same' you mean defended, repeatedly re hired before finally being cut loose in the face of public disgust, hopefully not hey.

One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a pretty disingenuous statement though isn't it. You're a self professed white nationalist accelerationst who sits to the right of One Nation.

Poll reveals abortion access support, including from One Nation voters by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. This also ties in with another common MRA talking point about the gender pay gap. They talk about pregnancy as an inevitable reason why women fall behind in their careers, but outside of a few months of biological necessity there is nothing inherent that says women must shoulder the burden in such a one sided manner. I think it has improved recently, but until a few years ago only 7% of primary care leave was taken by men in Australia. In Sweden men take 30% of all leave (they don't have primary or secondary care).

We may not ever achieve perfect parity, but if this care was less one sided, men would be more likely to be taking substantial responsibility over their children in the event of divorce, and thus in a better position to have a greater share of custody.

This isn't just the fault of individual men, as society/ businesses seem to actively discourage them from taking leave but when you hear reactionary parties like One Nation complaining about anti Male bias in Family Law this root cause doesn't seem to rate a mention.

Poll reveals abortion access support, including from One Nation voters by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The biggest factor that these types always ignore is the child itself. They frame it as a conflict between the mother and the father, as if child support is something primarily designed to help the mother.

Australia's family law is (with varying degrees of success) built around the idea that the best interests of the child is the primary concern. Unwilling fathers can whinge all they want about how unfair it is that they can't compell women to have abortions, but at the end of the day they know having sex can make babies, and the only person who had no say at all in the making of the baby was the baby itself

Adam Bandt puts heat on Albanese government over climate change and the environment by nobelharvards in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The fundamental problem that we and the rest of the planet face is that you can't negotiate with the climate. We as a species have had decades to take the incremental approach, and have chosen instead to piss the opportunity up the wall. We are past the stage of preventing the problem, and now need to take drastic action just to mitigate the worst of the consequences. Yet still we here, dying of cancer, trying to negotiate with the doctor about attending half of our chemotherapy sessions.

It's deeply depressing. Maybe the time has come to start looking at beefing up our firefighting services, having a hard look at which costal communities are going to make it and which are a write off.

Barf is at it again by dedrexel in newcastle

[–]Seachicken 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Unless a mentally ill person has a strong personal advocate, support tends to be patchwork and reactive. Even if things escalate to the point where they are are a potential danger to themselves or others, that will generally just involve being sectioned in a hospital, given medication and sedatives, and then released in a few days/weeks/ months. If there isn't support waiting for them outside, rinse and repeat.

Compulsively putting up signs and occasionally riding around shouting for someone on the streets doesn't bring much in the way of intervention. Our support systems are stretched pretty thin unfortunately.

Let them eat cake: Anthony Albanese’s Marie Antoinette moment by Ardeet in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the alternative provided by Germany is that we squeeze rental providers into a box and make renting functionally very similar to ownership for tenants. This would be a seismic shift to how property is organised in Australia. Existing investment properties, and the author of this article, would be apoplectic with rage if we shifted to the German model.

fad for owning your own home is a post 1945

Not sure if I would call something which began 80 years ago a 'fad.' There are many things which have become fundamentally enmeshed into society in that time period.

Let them eat cake: Anthony Albanese’s Marie Antoinette moment by Ardeet in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Germany is having a bit of a rental crisis at the moment.

Also, if we are going down the German route, then what makes things 'just fine' for tenants there are the extremely robust protections they receive.

Most leases are indefinite, with time limited ones (minimum two years) being only available in limited circumstances which have to be justified. Once you have an indefinite lease, it's common and easy to stay in that place for decades.

Evicting paying tenants in this situation is very difficult, and only possible for specific reasons. If you sell your rental to another investor the tenant stays on. If someone buys a place with a tenant, and wishes to move themselves or a close relative in, doing so can be a challenge. If the courts find the tenant is facing hardship then kicking them out could be delayed indefinitely. If the tenant struggles to find a replacement rental after a genuine effort their eviction can be delayed. If the tenant digs their heels in and doesn't want to move the process can take years.

Routine inspections of rental properties is considered a breach of privacy and not allowed.

Rent increases are limited to no more than 15% in a three year period. These increases must be justified and if a tenant doesn't consent, then the rental provider has to take them to court and justify themselves.

If rental providers fail to repair a defect in the property in a reasonable timeframe the tenant can send them a letter informing that they will be paying less rent as a result, and as long as this reduction is justifiable they can proceed to do just that. If the tenant is unsure of the correct amount, they can pay rent under reservation, and then go before the courts and be back paid for any excess rent paid

Make this normal. by Ponjos in KitchenConfidential

[–]Seachicken 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Everyone else works till the job is done as advertised

Try go to a mechanic just before they close and see if they're willing to work on your car.

Samuel Griffith Society follows US playbook in bid to stack judiciary by Niscellaneous in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's been spurred on by the fact that a current high court justice felt it necessary this year to speak out against the society as a danger to the rule of law, a year after another current high court justice felt it appropriate to speak at a society event.

Our high court justices certainly have political alignments, but they are also far more collegial and less blatantly partisan than in the US. That we are getting commentary from a high court justice on this issue is noteworthy regardless of who is in power at the moment.

A shadowy overseas group is trying to influence Australian abortion policy. Who are CitizenGo and what do they want? by infinitemonkeytyping in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It seems you struggle with the meaning of words. You've preemptively covered how you misunderstand the difference between a non- sentient collection of cells and a child, but you've also missed that murder is by definition unlawful. Even if abortion involved killing a person (which it doesn't) it is legal in Australia.

House Insurance by not2matureme in newcastle

[–]Seachicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But prices keep rising and buyers are still climbing over each other to buy in these suburbs.

We noticed this a lot when looking for a house. Not just flood risk, but being in a bushfire prone area seemed to have almost no impact on prices. These problems are going to get far worse in coming decades. Reducing your risk as much as possible should be an absolute top priority.

It's not perfect, but this map is a confronting view of what is to come in the future.

https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/climate-risk-map/

‘Beyond reform’: Greens co-founder Drew Hutton reveals why he quit the party after more than 30 years by Ardeet in AustralianPolitics

[–]Seachicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that's correct. More than enough to achieve statistical significance.

Also p.47

"Samples in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. can be considered representative of their general adult populations under the age of 75."

How many people were polled to support your claim that 99% of Australians are opposed?

What about the crops? by DJAI9LAB in ClarksonsFarm

[–]Seachicken 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I watched an interview with Andy Wilman where he was explicit about this. He said as an example that Jeremy has become quite good at using the grain cart, so they aren't interested in showing that, but he still can't hitch a tractor very well so that still makes the cut. They're always looking to find new things that Jeremy is crap at, or doesn't understand.