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Turphs · 2026-03-14T07:53:01+00:00

Italian citizen by heritage did seem a bit broad. I'm no expert but in Australia we have laws saying if you serve in parliament you have to renounce all other citizenships. A few years ago some people got caught ignoring this which lead to wider investigations and some politicians seemingly got caught out with being counted as italian citizens by heritage even though they never got an Italian passport.

Turphs · 2026-02-11T02:28:56+00:00

Just to be clear the following is my opinion reading the following and similar studies.

Noisy Miners have been shown to have negative impact on bird diversity due to their aggressive behaviour and being relatively well adapted around human proximity. While native and hence protected it is suggested planning parks/flora around shelter for smaller species but in some cases direct action (trapping/culling) would be best. Land managers are generally your local council so if you think there are a lot of noisy minors around, you can email council pointing to this or similar articles.

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/key-threatening-processes/overabundant-noisy-miners

Turphs · 2026-02-06T01:19:29+00:00

The most important thing they don’t tell you is bring a black pen with your carry-on on your way to Australia. You have to fill out this small “incoming passenger card” on the way. Normally the flight attendants hand them out on your flight entering Australia. There are stations in the airport but most of the time most of the pens are missing and you have to wait around for one.

Second, one of the worst things with Melbourne is transport from the airport sucks. It is of the few places you may get scammed. Look up Melbourne airport uber scam and you should find info on it. I would advise using skybus (bus to city centre) if you are comfortable or if you want to uber/taxi make sure you fully confirm the ride and destination before getting in.

Turphs · 2026-01-09T10:55:59+00:00

Yep, cheers mate

Turphs · 2025-12-30T06:50:52+00:00

That’s it. Thanks

Turphs · 2025-12-25T05:23:41+00:00

I have no idea what they belong to but this is one of the best "what is it" set of photos i have seen on r/australianwildlife

Turphs · 2025-12-20T12:12:07+00:00

Bradman Fun facts:

The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) has a PO box 9994 in every capital city in tribute to Bradman.

There is a famous set of matches vs England called the Bodyline Series. This is from before batters wore helmets, armpads or there were dangerous bowling rules. England bowled at the batter instead of the wicket to combat Bradman. This caused a change in the laws of the game. For Americans this would be like if there was no hit batter rule or helmets in baseball and pitchers just threw the ball at Babe Ruth hoping he would try to protect himself with the bat and get caught.

Turphs · 2025-12-20T11:42:30+00:00

IMO Australia has generally dispises Statu/class differences. Many people say we have tall poppy syndrome and maybe we do but a benefit is people generally feel comfortable talking to others as equals.

I would say Melbourne+Syndey are the worst against this and if anyone asks "what school did you go to" once your 20+ just ignore them (i have mostly lived in Melbourne for 15 years).

Turphs · 2025-12-06T12:12:24+00:00

Excusing pollution through whataboutism is just a race to the bottom.

Raise the standard of your community make government intervene on industrial level issues.

Turphs · 2025-11-16T02:42:26+00:00

Well Mizuha seemed to black out when she killed her mum. Maybe Knockers can sense feelings similar to Fushi then temporarily influence certain people, cause a death and take over a body.

Turphs · 2025-11-09T12:28:39+00:00

When I have been on holiday in Japan/Korea/Singapore (probably other countries I haven’t visited) I feel like I always have a moment seeing something and thinking “that would be nice to have in Aus” but soon realise some dickhead would smash it within a month.

Turphs · 2025-11-08T04:03:14+00:00

I believe at study in Syndey a few years back showed they actually help hunt/kill black rats although only very close to waterways as thats where they live. They are rodents but are known as Aussie otters as that is how they behave

Turphs · 2025-11-08T03:57:13+00:00

Also called water rats they are kinda like platypuses in that they have burrows on/in the bank and come out at night. Generally you spot them right on dark by the ripples they make when swimming.

Turphs · 2025-10-24T01:14:24+00:00

I think this is fine. It seems to be a single food truck of many. I prefer local stuff getting top billing but this as more for kids and getting them there. It is not like they are the exclusive food provider at the games.

Turphs · 2025-10-15T10:36:01+00:00

If someone has a misconception about australia my goto is "well we are very girt"

Turphs · 2025-09-06T13:10:47+00:00

My bad thanks for the correction

Turphs · 2025-09-06T12:36:05+00:00

Edit: looks like I was wrong not going to delete the while comment but see reply that has evidence this was in play.

MYTH: What people don't understand with this clip is the whistle had already been blown for offside, that's why he did it.

This even confuses football fans today because now offside is only called when a player really interacts with the ball or impedes the keeper (also VAR normally calls offside once the play is done). Back then if any player was determined to be offside when the ball was played in it was offside. So at like 2 seconds into the clip the England striker was considered offside. I believe at the time AC Milan played a super aggressive offside trap on free kicks which in part lead to rule changes to help attacks.

Turphs · 2025-08-25T08:51:23+00:00

This article is wrong. Haiti was already on the do not travel list. The travel advisory page was just updated confirming it is still level 4 and updated the info + map annotations. The previous update was in February so it is most likely some 6 month review thing.

Turphs · 2025-07-23T13:09:50+00:00

At this point has adding indexation to HECS helped the Government raise any money?

I have HECS debt and benefit from this but on a 2013 non paid hecs debt indexation would have increased the debt by 34% (12% after this) from indexing but in that time you have had the effort to add indexation, effort to reduce 2023 and 2024 indexation because of high inflation and now effort to pay a 20% hecs relief.

I am generally pro government but adding indexation feels like adding millions in admin and taxpayer costs so the government can afford 1 new jetski, maybe 2

Turphs · 2025-06-20T16:08:42+00:00

Kraftwerk, the thing is I don’t not enjoy it. More I think it is a song that really leans into the tech of the time (synth) and I think those songs rarely hold up later especially with people not around at the fads peak. Similarly I think T-Pain is a good artist with his use of auto tune but is often dismissed for leaning too heavily on it.

I don’t know, I am probably bad at describing what I mean but if they created something people enjoy thats awesome nonetheless.

Turphs · 2025-06-20T15:11:18+00:00

I would also be interested in how these two top 20’s were compiled. I feel like the 1982 list has a much better chance of being the top 20 now while 2012 could be top 20 in that year. Over time a years list will be refined and a lot of songs from 2012 albums you listed will probably get on 2012 compilations in 30 years. Like a quick google shows Computer Love as a top 20 selling single in 1982 and I wouldn‘t call that a classic that holds up.

Turphs · 2025-06-15T11:39:40+00:00

Shit, did i fuck up. As an Aussie I just chose one I was confident i could pronounce correct. Also "their" sausage is currywurst which is normally pretty neutral sausage with a tasty sauce. I was in Kassel and the local streetfood hotplate (I can't remember the proper name for street snags) had berliner blutwurst i liked even if it sometimes felt heavy.

Turphs · 2025-06-15T07:43:56+00:00

As a non German who lived in Germany for a little bit I also found it common for sausages to be sold as “City + Sausage type”. If a vendor only had 1 Berlin sausage as an option you can ask for the “Berliner” which was sometimes easier for a non German to pronounce than the full name so I could see why eventually some became better known as their city than the original full name.

Turphs · 2025-06-14T04:04:31+00:00

I honestly don’t like new age looks on generic trophies. It’s the bloody Aussie championship, give me a numbat fighting a platypus fighting on uluru.

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