Can you tell us how, so that we can spot and avoid dodgy studies in the future?

Confidential, cross-sectional online surveys were conducted with 4702 Australians aged 18–35 years. [...] A total of 57% reported ever being sexually strangled (61% women, 43% men, 79% trans or gender diverse) and 51% reported ever strangling a partner (40% women, 59% men, 74% trans or gender diverse).

There's no way I could guess the number would be that high. It's very unintuitive.

If I'm reading that chart correctly (disclaimer: im tired) then of the 57% who reported being strangled, the last time it happened, 25% of them didn't consent, and of the 51% reporting they strangled a partner, 16% report their partner didn't consent.

I just can't empathise with that. How are that many people convinced it's ok to just spontaneously strangle a person. I'm always shocked by how common SA is because it's just not talked about as much as it happens.

A couple of months ago (on the anniversary) I listened to one of the Freedom Riders talk about their trip, and they made a point that the eager reception they received was really encouraging, and also allowed them to talk with enough locals to better understand all the different places segregation and oppression existed in towns and how horrific it could be. Understanding their situation was a big piece that enabled labour organisations (incl. unions) of all stripes to unite and fight segregation and end the "Aboriginal Welfare Board". So good on her for showing up, it meant a lot to them to be welcomed and invited in.

I can't find much of it on sites like Wikipedia or ABC news, but I found this interview with Ray Peckham talking about the same events here:

Ray talked with us about a campaign at Port Kembla in this period to illustrate the crucial role of unions. Residents of the Coomaditchie Aboriginal reserve were demanding new houses, but some of the only remaining land in the area was being taken over by the adjacent University.

“Bobby Davis [a local Aboriginal leader] was a wharfie at Port Kembla and he worked with Joe Howe, a delegate from the Waterside Workers Federation.

“They set up a campaign, naturally it was through the Trades and Labour Council and backed by the union. They won that strip of land and had eight houses built on it from that fight.”

In Sydney and Wollongong too, union power was used to fight segregation. Pubs that refused to serve Aboriginal people would be confronted by crowds of trade unionists. Ray explained, “We would get the Liquor Trades Union to put a ban on the pub. Force them to change that way, with a black ban.”

https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/indigenous-activist-ray-peckham-how-unions-helped-stop-segregation-in-the-1960s/

It's important to recognise and remember how united worker movements have historically built movements that forced governments into listening to us - both major parties were resistant to removing the White Australia Policy in the early 60s. That's why Labor's renewed attacks on militant unions like the MUA and the CFMEU are particularly disturbing. Both these unions have been at the forefront, sticking up for protester's rights and social justice, and it will be devastating to all of us if they are successfully squashed.

I didn't know until pretty recently that plenty of segregation existed in Australia within living memory. I didn't learn a word of it in school despite us learning about the Civil War and Jim Crow in the USA, in fact I only knew about the US Freedom Riders.

Whoops, I was going from memory based on last election. You're right.

(only addressing this part, as the other comments have the important part covered)

I feel like this should be a legal obligation, that we are all given this kind of information in a flowchart. But I can’t find it. Can anybody help?

I'd say the Australian Electoral Commission is the most authentic resource for getting facts about our election (seeing as they run it). I wish some of this information was shoved in our faces more.

The information sheets PDFs linked on this page summarise how the vote count works: https://www.aec.gov.au/learn/preferential-voting.htm

Further reading: The preferential voting system we use in Australia is Single Transferable Vote (with the House of Reps using Instant-Runoff Voting ~~with optional preferences~~. IRV is just a single-winner version of STV), but you'll often hear it just called 'preferential voting' here (other preferential voting systems exist, e.g. Borda count).

From giant sea spiders to "sea pigs" and "sea butterflies"

Visiting a whole new world and they just call these things "sea land animal". I'm sick enough from when they did this with all the flora and fauna in other continents! I demand more strange words!

I highly recommend reading Manufacturing Consent^[wiki]^. It's easy to find free online. It explains how mass media is systematically filtered by five major factors, the first being ownership, which is more and more relevant every year as media outlets consolidate under the ownership of billionaires like Murdoch, Bezos, Musk and Bloomberg, who have very different material class interests to the other 99.99999[...]% of the population.

It's as if the Liberal Party studied at the US election and forgot to look at how their citizens, and the world for that matter, are reacting afterwards. We know what an efficiency department looks like now.

Hoarding a scarce, essential resource to make money is villain shit, yes. Get a real job, Margaret.

That said, the real villains are politicians for not outlawing housing investment. Privileged opportunists will do it until it's illegal.

The majority of the world has always been in a bad mood because 90% of planet has always been poor, struggling, doesn’t have enough, live in poverty, are hungry and are generally not happy.

On one hand, there is absolutely harsh struggle around the world for the vast majority of the world.

On the other hand, it's not as if most people are never in a good mood. Australia's state broadcaster (ABC) had a show where people in small or disadvantaged groups answer anonymous questions, and when it came to Sudanese Australian refugees, a few were saying that life in Sudan was often happier despite their material struggles. IIRC a main part was that they had a collective culture, in some places outside of the cities even a communal village culture, and where good fortune was cause for celebration. Some contrasted that with our largely individualist, money-centric culture here.

All that to say, money doesn't buy happiness, poverty doesn't guarantee sadness. Money and other resources really really help, but it's far from the whole picture.

The FBI was aware of the suspect.