Southbank had residential high-rise buildings that were at least 60% empty ten years ago - and that’s being generous. It seemed like they were nearly empty. From the outside at 8 pm, there were barely any lights on to indicate the presence of people in there.

They were owned by people overseas and kept in pristine condition to maintain a higher value. Is that still going on?

Insert “That’s bait” meme here.

It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this. Whoever sent this has clearly never been to a WOMAD festival, because that crowd is not likely to appreciate someone trying to influence the lineup.

I can’t think of anything the better the writers of this letter could have done to Streisand Effect that crowd into seeking out some DJ that might otherwise have been one act among several.

I absolutely recommend seeing a burlesque show. But once you have, then yeah, they get pretty same-y. I’ve been to a few, the first one was absolutely the most fun.

That drum & bass show looks like loads of fun! I’d much prefer kicking on to that over yet another burlesque show.

I’m a tightarse, I get the RushTix emails and on the odd occasion we’re free I look at what’s on that day that looks good.

That said, a quick squiz at the program, the following shows look good: Boomers vs Zoomers, Tonight’s Guest with Rove McManus, Embarrassed Naked Female, Sammy J - Hero Complex, Hot 6 Brass Band, Greatest Magic Show

I only got to page 13 of 43. The moral is there are loads of acts that will probably be great. I’m unlikely to get to more than about 3-4 shows the whole festival. Not helped that I’ll be out of town for half of it.

‘Hi. I’m an influencer who wants to come to Australia, eat at lots of your restaurants and then tell my followers what I think of them. I want you to pay for the flights, accommodation and meals. I also want to be paid for my time to do all this. It should come to about $10 Million. In return, you’ll gets lots of exposure!’

I somehow missed this and thought that Lord of the Rings was coming out of copyright about now. It seems not.

I could probably be swayed by that, for examples like Pine Gap, Exmouth and any permanent US bases on Australian soil.

That’s not really what HMAS Stirling is, though. It’s an Australian naval base. Remove the US, the base would still be there.

I don’t know why but this comes across as such a bitch complaint to me, like living next to a live music venue and complaining about the noise

That’s an apt comparison. The naval base has been there since the 70s. And before that, HMAS Leeuwin was 20km north at Fremantle from 1940.

HMAS Stirling has been there for 50 years. I lived/went to school down that way. I remember in the Cold War days saying that we’d never know about World War 3, as a nuke would take out the Naval Base on day 1.

So it’s a bit rich for anyone to be saying that the base is making them feel less safe today. It’s been a legitimate military target my whole life.

New York has a huge Jewish population. This is totally geared toward selling papers to them.

I have no idea who they polled, but I have grave doubts that it was a fair sample of the population.

I’d also love to hear how the questions were phased. For example, I do think the Holocaust should be taught in schools. But the infographic words this like it should be a subject or something.

I think the Holodomor should also be taught in schools, and if it was, I must have been chatting to a mate that one moment or something. While the Holocaust had loads of attention by comparison.

Hrm, yours is a tricky one because I had read it and moved past it. I recognised you came from a place of hyperbole and didn’t think much of it. I didn’t remove it.

But looking at the comment again after it was removed, it does pretty much break all three of the rules I posted. So I’ll not override the mod and restore it.

It’s not that criticising actions of religious people is the issue, it’s grouping them all members of a religion into your criticism that is the problem.

‘Those two guys are bad’ is fine. ‘115,000 Aussies are terrible people because those two guys are bad’ is not fine.

Noooo!
I used my icq all the time! In 1997.

This is a great idea, but keep in mind I’m likely to test it.

We see you trying to manipulate the vote.

Please address this, @[email protected].

Excuse me, that’s a load of horse shit. The modlog is right there at the bottom of the page. From this discussion, it’ll default to filtering mod actions for /c/Australia.

Point me to any comment you think should be restored and I’ll re-evaluate. But don’t sit there and pretend we censor you from behind secret doors like this is Reddit. I see stuff I disagree with on the regular, but I very rarely step in. I let the community votes do that.

The main rules of the site are and have always been:
Golden rule - don’t be a dick. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your grandmother, don’t post it.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.

In case this isn’t clear:
Criticism of a government’s actions (Ours, USA, Israel etc) is fine. Start bashing Muslims because of the actions of two jerks or start lumping all Jewish people in with the actions of the Israeli government, and we’ll step in. If/when we do though: it’s visible. You can see what was removed and what justification we used when we did it. Whatever impression left you with the attitude that we censor users is mistaken.

They look boney and loads more work/less meat than chicken. I wouldn’t be against st trying it, but I can’t see them becoming a mainstay.

“Ultimately, running in Sydney is what it is because of the people who do it here.”

This says it all. You have a world major event because of decades of local participation lifting the marathon’s status and visibility.

I hope this was an accident and unintended. I expect that the organisers will fix this so the local runners (NSW at a minimum, but preferably an Australian pool) who literally built up the event aren’t excluded.