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Well, Everyone Is 12 Now…
3·5 days agoI think calling out a Jewish organisation under the assumption all are Zionists is wrong.
That is not what happened.
Are they protesting the labor marchers? No, they are not.
They’re not protesting any marchers. They criticised this group on their social media, where they also criticise the Labor party.
specifically calling out other parade attendees is not right.
Calling out racism is always correct.
Mardi gras is a time for our community to come together, not divide.
Oh, the old “social cohesion”. Which somehow always means anti-genocide activists just shutting up.
So instead of having a hissy fit
I don’t see how PiP had a “hissy fit”. The Mardi Gras CEO sprung this on them the day before the march, and in fact expelled PiP less than 12 after the email was sent. PiP didn’t take any action at all before they were expelled. The CEO is the one that chucked a fit.
Do you think they would let any Zionist organisation march if they had posts calling for the subjugation of Palestinians? It’s the same rules.
So you think calling out racism and standing against genocide is equivalent to calling for racism and being in favour of genocide?
take action and follow the rules. … Be civil and call for change from the top, not the bottom.
If the 78ers had followed this advice, there would be no Mardi Gras. Truly, wherever you look, you will always find the “moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice”.
2·5 days agoDe-paywalled link: https://archive.is/Emaug
10·5 days agoSnap protest called for 3:30pm today, at Sydney Town Hall, btw: https://aussie.zone/post/30114917
Not sure, but I think they’d have more luck with a civil suit, which they should absolutely do, just so there’s some kind of pushback.
This is a national disgrace, just leaving children to rot in a camp indefinitely. Force of habit, I guess.
This is a significant escalation from existing arrangements, at least officially:
Biometric sharing programmes already exist between Five Eyes countries (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom) as part of Migration Five arrangements but typically operated on a ‘hit/no-hit’ basis where initial biometric checks provided minimal information, and further data requests were considered on a case by case basis.
But EBSPs could provide full automated access to other countries’ national databases, according to critics and minutes from European Union member state negotiations.
You have to demonstrate an understanding of road rules and signage to get a driver’s licence, which is pretty relevant.
I agree it would be better if there was a separate licensing system - one that would allow younger people to access some categories of e-bike - and I imagine we will in the long-run, but using existing systems as a stop-gap doesn’t seem unreasonable.
It’s a good platform, but it’s not European, right?
Wrong continent for ostriches, we only measure things in emu eggs here
rankings were determined by a combination of 350,000 public votes (accounting for 30 per cent)
So at best it’s probably only meaningful to compare rankings of cafes in the same city, and even then the results of voting are going to be influenced by the resources a cafe spent to promote voting and the size of their customer base.
4·12 days agoThey’re rebranding because their licensing deal to use the name hasn’t been renewed by the UK Sky News, because the stuff you mention damages the brand:
https://tvtonight.com.au/2025/08/sky-news-facing-name-change.html
7·14 days agoI think currently there’s more than enough room here for all the kinds of content you’ve mentioned. There’s only been 11 posts in this community in the last week. If you split things further you just end up with dead communities.
See some of the comments in this recent discussion: https://aussie.zone/post/29720933
2·15 days agoDid you mean to make the post title the URL?
If you had a unified scale of 1-100 instead, you would have the granularity to make comparisons between both similar and dissimilar products.
The Health Star Rating system is corrupted and unhelpful.
The Health Star Rating’s own consumer research found 74% of consumers do not understand that the rating cannot be used to compare dissimilar products.
There’s no reason it shouldn’t be comparable across categories, either. I think originally it was designed so to be, and then the lobbyists got to it. People’s intake of each category isn’t some fixed ratio, and how are they supposed to get a signal to cut down on one category if they can’t compare products across categories?
Even if people are aware that products can only be compared within categories, do we expect everyone to know what those categories are and which one any particular product fits into? The HSR panel doesn’t contain any category information!
So, is there an alternative?
Yes – warning labels.
Using simple statements or symbols, warning labels are designed to inform consumers if a food product is high in fat, sugar or salt. In future, they may also indicate whether a product is an ultra-processed food.
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A global study published in late 2025 suggests warning labels are the most effective way to reduce the consumption of ultra-processed foods. This is compared to other ranking-style labelling schemes such as Health Star Ratings.
Seems like a pretty simple and reasonable approach to me. Also, it seems like it can be applied comparably across all categories of packaged food.
I can see people arguing that an incremental scale like the HSR allows for companies to compete on small differences (unlike a simple binary ‘high in sugar’ warning label) and that little differences would help over time. I’m pretty sceptical of that, though, and I think encouraging people to eat fewer chocolate biscuits is likely more important than slightly reducing the amount of sugar in the biscuits. (If anyone’s seen good research on the topic, let me know!)
It’s not like the ‘warning label’ approach stops people from making a comparison on the details anyway. If you see a ‘high in sugar’ label on something it might prompt you to check the nutrition panel to see just how much sugar is in that biscuit, and its competitors.
Pathetic.