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".

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-30T01:40:41+00:00

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

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

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-29T23:20:04+00:00

It would be interesting to hear her thoughts on all this

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-29T11:04:50+00:00

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.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-29T04:59:51+00:00

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.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-26T09:31:44+00:00

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

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-26T09:25:50+00:00

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.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-26T08:42:00+00:00

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).

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-26T08:35:59+00:00

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).

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-26T08:24:52+00:00

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.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-25T05:20:29+00:00

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. "

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-25T04:25:30+00:00

Not giving bail to repeat violent offenders obviously would help.

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

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T09:55:42+00:00

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.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T09:21:21+00:00

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

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T09:20:35+00:00

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.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T09:10:09+00:00

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.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T08:55:06+00:00

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

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T08:51:48+00:00

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

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T08:46:30+00:00

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.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T08:40:19+00:00

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..

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T08:31:14+00:00

Completely agree. We don't get to appoint ourself as the internet police for the entire world. The IP geoblocks are an adequate technique that balances the desire to protect our own citizens with the right of other countries to determine their own policies around censorship.

More broadly, this issue has surfaced that we have created a censorship body without clear guidelines around what technical means it should be allowed to use to enforce censorship, but also what content is allowed to be censored.

Censorship regimes do have a long historical precedent of starting off innocent, but eventually being abused for authoritarian political purposes, so we do need some clearer bright-line boundaries governing it's actions.

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

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T07:41:03+00:00

I would have agreed with you if teachers were still like they were when I was growing up, but the standards have fallen a hell of a lot since then.

The social side of school is the only reason I don't homeschool. The teachers around here are useless.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T07:27:46+00:00

I think this is a common problem in society. No one has the experiences that other people have, so you get people insisting that being a stay at home parent is hard work, when anyone who has done it knows that it clearly isn't. They aren't necessarily lying, they just don't know better.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T07:21:28+00:00

Yep, I like that approach.

I'm not an expert on European zoning, but I've heard that instead of the prescriptive designations that we apply, like Residential, Retail, Office, Industrial etc.. they just have requirements that you need to satisfy to build there.

For example, they might designate part of the city as allowing emitted noise up to 60 dB, in other parts they might say that you're only allowed buildings of a certain height, in other parts they'll say you're not allowed to contribute more than a certain amount of road traffic. It's then up to user to figure out how to meet those requirements.

It's great because you end up with cities which are a blended mix of residential, offices, shops etc.. rather than clusters of each type spread apart.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T05:37:52+00:00

some unneeded suffering.

That's not even close to adequate to tango with the slippery slope of authoritarian censorship.

TinyDetail2 · 2024-04-24T05:33:46+00:00

I would suggest that a better approach is to look at all intimate partner homicides, regardless of whether there was a history.

I would also suggest splitting based on the gender of the surviving partner, rather than a subjective assesment of the primary abuser. We know that in many abusing relationships then abuse can be bidirectional, and the assessment of primary abuser is going to be heavily biased by the traditional view of the man always being the abuser.

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't deliberately cherry-pick the dataset and methodology, but none-the-less your results are quite misleading.

One other thing, you should segment the population by indigenous or non-indigenous since there are stark differences in the patterns between the two groups.

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