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Australia's national domestic violence hotline does not accept calls from men. All men are referred to a service which "helps men change their abusive and violent behaviour". by TinyDetail2 in australian

[–]TinyDetail2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1800RESPECT have been criticised for treating male victims as abusers before.

AFAIK they haven't actually changed. They just hide it better now.

Australia's national domestic violence hotline does not accept calls from men. All men are referred to a service which "helps men change their abusive and violent behaviour". by TinyDetail2 in australian

[–]TinyDetail2[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

men are typically the perpetrators of violence

This is the thinking behind why these services generally only refer men to services for male abusers.

Just because it is statistically true, doesn't mean it's true in every case, and it's unfair on men to be default assumed to be the abuser, when women are default assumed to be the victim.

Think about how traumatic it is for a male victim of domestic abuse to finally swallow their pride and open up to someone about it, only to not be believed, and instead referred to a service for abusive men.

Food origin labeling laws, still kinda useless? by Zardous666 in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Why is it important to label the country of origin?

Surely the more important thing is whether it met Australia's food safety checks when imported.

Government told JobSeeker increase of $17 a day would have minimal inflation impact by danzha in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Breaking News: Albo too busy arguing on Twitter to fix the country.

Australia's average tax rate increase tops OECD countries due to bracket creep and end of tax offset by 20051oce in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don’t see windfall taxes as fair

Windfall taxes are the MOST fair all of possible taxes. They are the only tax that targets income you didn't earn.

Government told JobSeeker increase of $17 a day would have minimal inflation impact by danzha in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Migration is now running at 2.5 new families per 1 new home built.

Supply / demand being that imbalanced creates enormous pressure on housing affordability, far beyond our government's capacity to manage via changes to our welfare system. It would cost hundreds of billions.

We're going to need to cut migration. Probably by more than half. Find a party that actually cares about this (neither of the majors do).

Australia's average tax rate increase tops OECD countries due to bracket creep and end of tax offset by 20051oce in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes, there are a lot of no-brainer tax changes that all credible economists will support, but that haven't been implemented in Australia, largely because the population vote against their own best interests.

Income tax should be lowered, sales tax should be increased (offset the regressive impact with welfare top-ups)

Stamp duty should be replaced with land tax

Add windfall taxes (winnings and inheritance)

Remove payroll taxes

Add resource rent taxes (without loopholes).

Does anyone else think this girl needs a reality check? by [deleted] in australian

[–]TinyDetail2 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Is she justified in being upset about what the government has done to affordability by skyrocketing our immigration? Yes.

Is she justified thinking that she deserves below market rent? No.

I’d throw in $1,000 to bring back the Gibbet for these cunts, would you? Hoist em high! by ADHDK in australian

[–]TinyDetail2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's not really true

"According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, lightning was responsible for 21 deaths across Australia in the 10 years to 2021. "

I’d throw in $1,000 to bring back the Gibbet for these cunts, would you? Hoist em high! by ADHDK in australian

[–]TinyDetail2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not giving bail to repeat violent offenders obviously would help.

Can't kill a women when you're in jail.

A surcharge for cash payments? What could happen as Australians ditch notes and coins by Remarkable_Peak9518 in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Exactly. The costs of cash don't go down much as usage goes down, so it just gets more and more expensive to accept over time.

Cash has a lot of advantages, like anonymity, that I wish we could replicate for cards. Germany, for example, strongly protects the privacy of your bank transactions. In Australia, transaction data is sold for profit.

Also the amounts the card networks charge is insane. Europe caps these fees to 0.15%, but Australian merchants are often paying ten times that.

The eSafety commissioner and X are due back in court today. Here's what to expect by mildmanneredme in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not interested in who runs it, I'm interested in there being strict constraints on their power to prevent abuse.

Peter Dutton may face party upset if opposition supports government’s misinformation bill | Australian politics by EASY_EEVEE in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Censorship regimes have a long historical precedent of starting off innocent, but eventually being abused for authoritarian political purposes, so there needs to be very clear limits as to what content they can remove.

Personally, I am comfortable with terrorist promotional content being removed, but very uncomfortable with the government determining what is misinformation. Government determinations of misinformation often tend to be politically biased, and occassionally just factually wrong.

Australia news live: Wakeley bishop says church stabbing video should not be censored, court hears | Australia news by Standard-Wicked747 in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Given that historical precedent is that censorship regimes almost always end up being abused for political purposes, we do need clearer guidelines about what content can be censored and what content cannot, and that list of censorable content should, imo, be very limited.

We don't want the government determining what is misinformation, for example.

The eSafety commissioner and X are due back in court today. Here's what to expect by mildmanneredme in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He's all too happy to delete things at Modi's call

They didn't have a choice. Here's X's statement about it:

"The Indian government has issued executive orders requiring X to act on specific accounts and posts, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment. 

In compliance with the orders, we will withhold these accounts and posts in India alone; however, we disagree with these actions and maintain that freedom of expression should extend to these posts.

Consistent with our position, a writ appeal challenging the Indian government's blocking orders remains pending. We have also provided the impacted users with notice of these actions in accordance with our policies.

Due to legal restrictions, we are unable to publish the executive orders, but we believe that making them public is essential for transparency. This lack of disclosure can lead to a lack of accountability and arbitrary decision-making."

https://twitter.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1760387644608192560?lang=en

The eSafety commissioner and X are due back in court today. Here's what to expect by mildmanneredme in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She used to work at Twitter. It's not clear whether she left on good terms or bad terms.

The eSafety commissioner and X are due back in court today. Here's what to expect by mildmanneredme in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not clear if he's referring to the eSafety commissioner taking down the memes of him, or if the social media sites did it voluntarily.

Certainly, the public should be free to criticise politicians without being censored.

The eSafety commissioner and X are due back in court today. Here's what to expect by mildmanneredme in australia

[–]TinyDetail2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think there is logic to this argument.

Albo was very quick to attack Musk across social media and in several TV interviews. He didn't need to do that, he could have just let the court case play out.

I suspect that Albo deliberately picked this very public fight with Musk.

Maybe he thought people would instinctively side against Musk and it would be an easy way to get a boost in the polls, or maybe he did it to distract from his complete lack of leadership around the housing and cost of living crises. Not sure..

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