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There’s absolutely no media coverage of nurses killing themselves in hospitals.
> In 2020, the Manly Daily published images of a French bulldog harassing an Australian fur seal at Long Reef Aquatic Reserve while the owner looked on.
Have people always been that stupid or is it a relatively new phenomenon?
Nah, you find some proportion of dickheads in all walks of life and dog owners are no different. They seem to be attracted to certain breeds. Frenchies, pugs and small fluffy white things are, unfortunately, often found in the company of dickheads.
\#notallfrenchies
Researcher 'burst into tears' to see endangered greater gliders using their high-tech nest boxes
it sure is needed
I hate cats. More so the owners who let them roam at night but still I hate seeing cats in my garden and walking along my colorbond fence at 3am.
I wish I could do something about it but there's nothing I can do that's legal.
Good. I'm hoping for the day we can use autonomous drones to cull them and other pests and weeds. I work a fair bit in the Top End and frequently come across feral cats around dusk. In fact I probably see more feral cats are probably the most common mammal I come across.
I worked at a veterinarian clinic about 20 years ago and they would catch the feral cats in the area, spay or neuter them and rerelease them. It helped. But it was completely on a voluntary basis. Also, keep pet cats INSIDE! In my neighborhood (I live in a large city) cats go missing all the time. Coyotes and bobcats are making a comeback.
20 years ago!
Trapping them and turning them in to a shelter should be legal if they are trespassing on your property. Call your council and see what your options are. It's their responsibility to keep stray and feral animals under control.
At least 30 i reckon, around the time when the abc did the first big report i saw on the out of control feral cat situation.
Ive called my council, they've specifically said they won't do anything about it.
They said "speak to my neighbours and let them know their cats are coming into my property".
Like that's going to make a difference to anything.
I can think right back to the early 90’s having a bad cat problem on our chook farm. From them to rabbits and foxes
Read the title and thought, “who is making parmigiana out of wallabies.”
Then I read the article and the old bloke is just keeping the species from extinction. Nothing as delicious as a parmi
Well it's in NSW, so I don't see this government getting in its way whatsoever.
Wherever there's a short term cash gain to be made at the expense of the environment you'll find the LNP circling like vultures.
Imagine not giving a shit and approving this project anyway.
Does the government never f**king learn.
Project has to stopped.
Gas ain't the future
Many regional councils are struggling with zombie developments often involving very large parcels of land. For decades, developers purchased land along the Eastern seaboard hoping one day to make their fortune by sub dividing the acreages into housing lots.
After purchase, they submit a development application and in doing so enter a contract with the council that both parties agree that subdivision could occur under the rules of the day. They then sit on that land until it gains value and the market needs land.
In my own LGA, several of these developers are now resurrecting their plans to develop the land. The problem is that many of these were approved 30 or more years ago when rules were very different. Because they have approval in principle, they are then able to move forward without input from local planning authorities or the need to meet a Biodiversity Development Assessment report. They are able to evade legislative enacted to ensure that biodiversity targets and threatened species are protected.
You have to look at the bigger picture to see the impact of this. It’s not about isolated patches of land but about habitat destruction up and down the coast from 10 - 100 acres.
Add in the destruction of the recent bushfires and floods and rampant land clearing for agriculture, and it’s a planning disaster. Some communities are seeing the only remaining patches of bushland left in their towns after the fires being razed so that zombie developments can occur.
The final insult is that the land is priced beyond the reach of those who live in these often small communities where wages are lower than the ACT, Melbourne or Sydney, so it’s not even like it’s providing housing for local people. They end up as empty holiday homes or short term rentals.
Sooner or later Australians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that much of Australia is inhabitable, and that the land along the coast is in short supply and often constrained by terrain, ( floodplain & mountain ranges) and National parks. There’s only one major inland river system which is significantly degraded by water theft.
We have to decide whether ‘big Australia’ is good for Australia or Australians and start acting accordingly.
Not a single one of those regional councils will allow high density in their backyards though so it's incredibly hypocritical. It's their zoning practices.
You want to stop landclearing? Allow 30 storey apartments to be built in the middle of town.
Earlier, I had posted an image (in another subreddit) but received negative commentary.
One person even suggested that I'd actually searched for 'New South Wales' and then changed the search bar.
Why would I fabricate something? I'm bluntly honest, not a liar. I hate liars.
Hence, I've deleted the original post and reposted here with a video instead, to dispel that stupid theory.
I know that it's a combination of both the browser AND search engine, as I tested using other search engines and browsers and only in certain scenarios could I replicate the results.
I'm not naming which browser or search engines to avoid giving them free publicity.
Here's the original details from my original post:
I did a quick search for 'South American landmarks', using a popular search engine that doesn't start with 'G' (in conjuction with a less popular browser).
The immediate search results are in Sydney and surrounding areas of NSW.
Given that almost all contemporary school students use the Internet as a learning resource and millions of others seem to now rely on it for information, getting such a simple search result wrong shows how even technology can provide serious misinformation.
Imagine some 11 year old student doing the same search for a Geography project and getting no marks because of the information being incorrect.
Most people would take top search results as gospel.
If it was someone overseas, the error could be a sneaky way to boost our tourism and economy, though it is still technically very misleading.
(To be fair, I wouldn't necessarily blame the search engine totally but rather the browser, which I won't name but was once highly-rated and I was able to reproduce the result after various adjustments.)
I also note that I capitalised the words 'South American' as a proper noun but the search engine/browser combined kept removing the capital 'A' from 'American'.
How did technology get it wrong?
The closest point of South America is over 9000km away from Sydney CBD and the furtherest point is over 15,000km away.
Could it be that the technology confused '*South American' with 'Sydney, A*ustralia'? Who knows?
I guess it's still a bit of a laugh how technology got it wrong and humans are still necessary.
Not since Gondwanaland broke up, to my understanding. That was the closest we’ve ever been to South America.
Probably a mix up with results from New Australia, which is indeed in South America (Paraguay).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Australia
I've got one everyone can try, search for plumber Western NSW. tell me how many plumbers come up west of the newel.
Happens to me all the time. Results from Australia is always favoured. So sometimes I have used the respective country google link to get accurate results. eg google.co.uk
You didn't get the memo?
Definitely wasn't any technology back then.
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Yep, only shows results the east side of the Blue Mountains, primarily in South West and North West Sydney.
Definitely not showing anything remotely near Broken Hill, Wilcannia or Cobar.
Forget about even the Newell. By the time I got to the fifth page of results, the furtherest plumber it showed me was in Springwood.
Results seemed to focus on Western Sydney, like the AI disregarded NSW and used the capital city as the starting point.
In those five pages, I got results for plumbing jobs with NSW Government, TAFE NSW plumbing courses, plumbing awards at Fair Work and NSW Fair Trading information for plumbers.
So to answer the original question: zilch.
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Ban everything, much easier
I wish Labor could stand up to the gambling lobby like this guy is.
He's doing this on purpose because it's a well known fact that the lions share of donations from clubs with pokies go to the Labor party.
Whilst I agree with this. Where do you stop. People pay to have their agenda pushed. Perhaps politicians and media need to be more forthright, and accountable for their conflicts of interest
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Bring it.
From venues that host
I feel deeply suspicious of this wording.... but I guess it is something.
That’s quite an ignorant statement
I wish the current government had enacted some of this legislation during the last decade or so when they’ve been in power instead of waiting until an election they’re predicted to lose to talk about it at all.
They failed at tackling the greyhound issue ( of which gambling is an associated issue) and when their own minister for gambling/alcohol etc , Vi Dominello floated a cashless gambling card not so long ago, they took the portfolio off him!
It’s a cynical and desperate ploy from a desperate government and while I’d be happy to see the death of all forms of gambling in NSW, it’s an absolute fail for me in terms of the morality and sincerity of the current government who’ve gleefully stuffed their coffers with money from gambling over the course of the last decade without regret or shame.
Perrottet is lying he’s just desperate. I mean let’s be honest, the LNP are desperate not too lose another state. Then they’ll only have one fucking state.
Why are Labor so in the pocket with pokies and associated organisations?
Interestingly the Nazi photo showed up a few days after he said he was introducing cashless gambling only on pokie machines to reduce problem gambling.
lol wut? His anti-pokie stance existed WELL before the Nazi costume photo. In fact it is possible that the photo is retaliation for his stance. There are high horses to stay on, get off this one, you look silly.
So lame calling people Nazis...
Sorry I didn’t put a /s for your ignorance
I'm not 100% but I guess its something to do with when they were introduced into the state in large numbers by the Bob Carr Labor government, and the Labor factions fought over ownership, sometimes with deadly consequences
Nope. Perrotet was responsible for stripping the then Minister for Gambling, Vic Dominello of the portfolio because he was trying to reform the gaming industry. If he was so anti gambling, anti pokies, why on earth did he stymie the opportunity to do something about it and ‘sack’ the minister who was actually trying to do something about it?
“As the minister responsible for the gaming portfolio, Dominello did more than most to try to address the problem. But six months after he publicly backed him, Perrottet, now the premier, stripped Dominello of the job.”
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/14/victor-dominello-set-out-to-reform-gambling-in-nsw-but-the-odds-were-always-against-him
https://www.afr.com/companies/games-and-wagering/did-the-pokie-industry-just-demote-the-nsw-gaming-minister-20211220-p59ix0
https://amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/targeted-clubs-named-in-axed-money-laundering-probe-20221019-p5br1g.html
Are you living in the same reality as me? Perrottet already came out in favour of a precommitment cashless card for pokies before the Nazi uniform news.
[NSW Crime Commissions report was in October 2022.](https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/key-findings-from-the-nsw-crime-commission-investigation-into-money-laundering-in-pokies-20221026-p5bt0s.html)
Anyone saying "he's just being anti pokie because he got caught joking around as a Nazi like nearly every actor on TV did in the 1990s/2000s" is just delusional. His latest pokie stance pre-dates the photo allegations.
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There’s absolutely no media coverage of nurses killing themselves in hospitals.

> In 2020, the Manly Daily published images of a French bulldog harassing an Australian fur seal at Long Reef Aquatic Reserve while the owner looked on.

Have people always been that stupid or is it a relatively new phenomenon?

Nah, you find some proportion of dickheads in all walks of life and dog owners are no different. They seem to be attracted to certain breeds. Frenchies, pugs and small fluffy white things are, unfortunately, often found in the company of dickheads.

\#notallfrenchies

Researcher 'burst into tears' to see endangered greater gliders using their high-tech nest boxes

it sure is needed

I hate cats. More so the owners who let them roam at night but still I hate seeing cats in my garden and walking along my colorbond fence at 3am.

I wish I could do something about it but there's nothing I can do that's legal.

Good. I'm hoping for the day we can use autonomous drones to cull them and other pests and weeds. I work a fair bit in the Top End and frequently come across feral cats around dusk. In fact I probably see more feral cats are probably the most common mammal I come across.

I worked at a veterinarian clinic about 20 years ago and they would catch the feral cats in the area, spay or neuter them and rerelease them. It helped. But it was completely on a voluntary basis. Also, keep pet cats INSIDE! In my neighborhood (I live in a large city) cats go missing all the time. Coyotes and bobcats are making a comeback.

20 years ago!

Trapping them and turning them in to a shelter should be legal if they are trespassing on your property. Call your council and see what your options are. It's their responsibility to keep stray and feral animals under control.

At least 30 i reckon, around the time when the abc did the first big report i saw on the out of control feral cat situation.

Ive called my council, they've specifically said they won't do anything about it.

They said "speak to my neighbours and let them know their cats are coming into my property".

Like that's going to make a difference to anything.

I can think right back to the early 90’s having a bad cat problem on our chook farm. From them to rabbits and foxes

Read the title and thought, “who is making parmigiana out of wallabies.”

Then I read the article and the old bloke is just keeping the species from extinction. Nothing as delicious as a parmi

Well it's in NSW, so I don't see this government getting in its way whatsoever.

Wherever there's a short term cash gain to be made at the expense of the environment you'll find the LNP circling like vultures.

Imagine not giving a shit and approving this project anyway.

Does the government never f**king learn.

Project has to stopped.

Gas ain't the future

Many regional councils are struggling with zombie developments often involving very large parcels of land. For decades, developers purchased land along the Eastern seaboard hoping one day to make their fortune by sub dividing the acreages into housing lots.

After purchase, they submit a development application and in doing so enter a contract with the council that both parties agree that subdivision could occur under the rules of the day. They then sit on that land until it gains value and the market needs land.

In my own LGA, several of these developers are now resurrecting their plans to develop the land. The problem is that many of these were approved 30 or more years ago when rules were very different. Because they have approval in principle, they are then able to move forward without input from local planning authorities or the need to meet a Biodiversity Development Assessment report. They are able to evade legislative enacted to ensure that biodiversity targets and threatened species are protected.

You have to look at the bigger picture to see the impact of this. It’s not about isolated patches of land but about habitat destruction up and down the coast from 10 - 100 acres.

Add in the destruction of the recent bushfires and floods and rampant land clearing for agriculture, and it’s a planning disaster. Some communities are seeing the only remaining patches of bushland left in their towns after the fires being razed so that zombie developments can occur.

The final insult is that the land is priced beyond the reach of those who live in these often small communities where wages are lower than the ACT, Melbourne or Sydney, so it’s not even like it’s providing housing for local people. They end up as empty holiday homes or short term rentals.

Sooner or later Australians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that much of Australia is inhabitable, and that the land along the coast is in short supply and often constrained by terrain, ( floodplain & mountain ranges) and National parks. There’s only one major inland river system which is significantly degraded by water theft.

We have to decide whether ‘big Australia’ is good for Australia or Australians and start acting accordingly.

Not a single one of those regional councils will allow high density in their backyards though so it's incredibly hypocritical. It's their zoning practices.

You want to stop landclearing? Allow 30 storey apartments to be built in the middle of town.

Earlier, I had posted an image (in another subreddit) but received negative commentary.

One person even suggested that I'd actually searched for 'New South Wales' and then changed the search bar.

Why would I fabricate something? I'm bluntly honest, not a liar. I hate liars.

Hence, I've deleted the original post and reposted here with a video instead, to dispel that stupid theory.

I know that it's a combination of both the browser AND search engine, as I tested using other search engines and browsers and only in certain scenarios could I replicate the results.

I'm not naming which browser or search engines to avoid giving them free publicity.

Here's the original details from my original post:

I did a quick search for 'South American landmarks', using a popular search engine that doesn't start with 'G' (in conjuction with a less popular browser).

The immediate search results are in Sydney and surrounding areas of NSW.

Given that almost all contemporary school students use the Internet as a learning resource and millions of others seem to now rely on it for information, getting such a simple search result wrong shows how even technology can provide serious misinformation.

Imagine some 11 year old student doing the same search for a Geography project and getting no marks because of the information being incorrect.

Most people would take top search results as gospel.

If it was someone overseas, the error could be a sneaky way to boost our tourism and economy, though it is still technically very misleading.

(To be fair, I wouldn't necessarily blame the search engine totally but rather the browser, which I won't name but was once highly-rated and I was able to reproduce the result after various adjustments.)

I also note that I capitalised the words 'South American' as a proper noun but the search engine/browser combined kept removing the capital 'A' from 'American'.

How did technology get it wrong?

The closest point of South America is over 9000km away from Sydney CBD and the furtherest point is over 15,000km away.

Could it be that the technology confused '***S***outh ***A***merican' with '***S***ydney, ***A***ustralia'? Who knows?

I guess it's still a bit of a laugh how technology got it wrong and humans are still necessary.

Not since Gondwanaland broke up, to my understanding. That was the closest we’ve ever been to South America.

Probably a mix up with results from New Australia, which is indeed in South America (Paraguay).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Australia

I've got one everyone can try, search for plumber Western NSW. tell me how many plumbers come up west of the newel.

Happens to me all the time. Results from Australia is always favoured. So sometimes I have used the respective country google link to get accurate results. eg google.co.uk

You didn't get the memo?

Definitely wasn't any technology back then.

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Yep, only shows results the east side of the Blue Mountains, primarily in South West and North West Sydney.

Definitely not showing anything remotely near Broken Hill, Wilcannia or Cobar.

Forget about even the Newell. By the time I got to the fifth page of results, the furtherest plumber it showed me was in Springwood.

Results seemed to focus on Western Sydney, like the AI disregarded NSW and used the capital city as the starting point.

In those five pages, I got results for plumbing jobs with NSW Government, TAFE NSW plumbing courses, plumbing awards at Fair Work and NSW Fair Trading information for plumbers.

So to answer the original question: zilch.

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Ban everything, much easier

I wish Labor could stand up to the gambling lobby like this guy is.

He's doing this on purpose because it's a well known fact that the lions share of donations from clubs with pokies go to the Labor party.

Whilst I agree with this. Where do you stop. People pay to have their agenda pushed. Perhaps politicians and media need to be more forthright, and accountable for their conflicts of interest

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Bring it.

*From venues that host*

I feel deeply suspicious of this wording.... but I guess it is something.

That’s quite an ignorant statement

I wish the current government had enacted some of this legislation during the last decade or so when they’ve been in power instead of waiting until an election they’re predicted to lose to talk about it at all.

They failed at tackling the greyhound issue ( of which gambling is an associated issue) and when their own minister for gambling/alcohol etc , Vi Dominello floated a cashless gambling card not so long ago, they took the portfolio off him!

It’s a cynical and desperate ploy from a desperate government and while I’d be happy to see the death of all forms of gambling in NSW, it’s an absolute fail for me in terms of the morality and sincerity of the current government who’ve gleefully stuffed their coffers with money from gambling over the course of the last decade without regret or shame.

Perrottet is lying he’s just desperate. I mean let’s be honest, the LNP are desperate not too lose another state. Then they’ll only have one fucking state.

Why are Labor so in the pocket with pokies and associated organisations?

Interestingly the Nazi photo showed up a few days after he said he was introducing cashless gambling only on pokie machines to reduce problem gambling.

lol wut? His anti-pokie stance existed WELL before the Nazi costume photo. In fact it is possible that the photo is retaliation for his stance. There are high horses to stay on, get off this one, you look silly.

So lame calling people Nazis...

Sorry I didn’t put a /s for your ignorance

I'm not 100% but I guess its something to do with when they were introduced into the state in large numbers by the Bob Carr Labor government, and the Labor factions fought over ownership, sometimes with deadly consequences

Nope. Perrotet was responsible for stripping the then Minister for Gambling, Vic Dominello of the portfolio because he was trying to reform the gaming industry. If he was so anti gambling, anti pokies, why on earth did he stymie the opportunity to do something about it and ‘sack’ the minister who was actually trying to do something about it?

“As the minister responsible for the gaming portfolio, Dominello did more than most to try to address the problem. But six months after he publicly backed him, Perrottet, now the premier, stripped Dominello of the job.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/14/victor-dominello-set-out-to-reform-gambling-in-nsw-but-the-odds-were-always-against-him

https://www.afr.com/companies/games-and-wagering/did-the-pokie-industry-just-demote-the-nsw-gaming-minister-20211220-p59ix0

https://amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/targeted-clubs-named-in-axed-money-laundering-probe-20221019-p5br1g.html

Are you living in the same reality as me? Perrottet already came out in favour of a precommitment cashless card for pokies before the Nazi uniform news.

[NSW Crime Commissions report was in October 2022.](https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/key-findings-from-the-nsw-crime-commission-investigation-into-money-laundering-in-pokies-20221026-p5bt0s.html)

Anyone saying "he's just being anti pokie because he got caught joking around as a Nazi like nearly every actor on TV did in the 1990s/2000s" is just delusional. His latest pokie stance pre-dates the photo allegations.

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