I'm not against regulation, without regulation is how we've ended up with Facebook Analytica and everyone and their dog collecting mountains of personal information to sell.
Just that they went and decided on this nebulous age verification instead of actual privacy protection we're sorely lacking in this country (online)
It's honestly a travesty we got this before an Australian version of the GDPR...
Luckily for us, most of society (in Australia, at least) disagrees with you.
The death penalty is barbaric, and has had many, many, many cases of being committed on innocent people in the US.
The justice system isn't omnipotent, it's just humans, afterall. Why yes, let's make the consequence for getting it wrong death, that seems logical /s
This guy is a piece of shit, and in my opinion deserves more than 6 years of prison and a lifetime ban on operating any motor vehicle (or any heavy machinery full stop), but killing him?
This isn't Gilead, and eye for an eye is not most Australians values.
Part of living in a society is paying taxes, and some of those taxes will go to things you don't personally like, but society does (corruption, lobbying and inefficient notwithstanding).
And society has decided we're living in 2025, not the middle ages. We don't kill people. We aspire to giving people a second chance. In the grand scheme of things, prisons represent a tiny fraction of Australia's budget.
I'd say it's totally worth it if it means people's family members aren't being killed for doing something illegal.
There are some cases where the person is question is irredeemable, but I see this as the "cost of doing business" so to speak.
It's the same reason we have innocent until proven guilty, better to let some guilty people walk free than lock up innocent people. And better to let some awful people live, rather than accidentally kill someone who doesn't deserve it.
There's a reason most civilised countries don't have the death penalty anymore.
Based !fuckcars@lemmy.world enjoyer?
May I also interest you in: https://www.standards.org.au/news/revised-standard-recommends-larger-parking-bays-across-the-country
Luckily, they got massive backlash, and haven't yet actually updated the standard after almost 2 years since.
I'm gonna be really angry if they do increase parking bay sizes.
Gotta love urban sprawl
This travesty is that he's not been prosecuted for murdering people/war crimes (allegedly)
The lower house single-member electorate voting system does still favour larger parties, it's just way, way, better than FPTP.
https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politics-policy/chapter/electoral-systems/
Relevant part starts at "Majoritarian (or ‘winner takes all’) systems" about a third of the way down.
Next thing you're gonna be telling us is to bring back public servant building surveyors as the only building surveyors, to stop the conflict of interest that the builder paying the inspector directly causes.
Bloody madness, clearly the private market is more efficient /s
Our housing regs are a joke since they're not even well supervised
The exception here being teal independents who vote with the Libs, as the colour name suggests, they're not for workers. The only difference is that they believe in climate change and are not as socially conservative.
Handy tool: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/
While a large part of the population is mislead about capitalism or benefitting from the system themselves, I think you'll find your sentiments are shared by many. Especially here on Lemmy.
This system sucks.
But yeah, our media is so fully captured by corporate interests that any proposal tooooo socialist is promptly demonised.
Oh those profits from our minerals? Nahhhh the foreign companies deserve that. Can't have a mining tax.
Breaking up monopolies? Nahhhh that's practically communism (despite competition being part of capitalism's rhetoric)
Big sad :(
At least Trump will likely secure us another term without an LNP majority government hehe
We at least need to right the stupid mistake of shipping off our resources and getting barely any of the profit.
We should have nationalised our mines decades ago.
This ban is garbage because hate speech is already illegal.
If you're a Nazi "protesting" outside a synagogue, yeah off to jail you go, no new laws required.
This is anti-protest, pure and simple.
Yes, but also this would be a huge scandal which would no doubt come out.
As much as this is a pretty big fuck up, I have decent trust in the integrity of the vast majority of public servants. (Not to say that information isn't ever massaged or suppressed in the public service, just that a conspiracy of this magnitude would not stay quiet).
Give it a couple of months. If it really is a conspiracy, I bet we'll find out.