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Yeah part 2 is about a different subsection specific to niche indigenous groups trying to play the same kind of "well technically" game with fake laws instead of actual effective resistance strategies, so while I think it's interesting too, it's less relevant to these news stories we see so it's alright to hold off on.

Which brings us full-circle

Yeah, interesting to see that the legal system (at least that judge) has finally stopped with the initial toleration of these SovCit-style claims. When the system ignores or shows the restraint to tolerate this flavour of SovCit pseudolaw, it can validate them and (as you pointed out) some have lost homes or ended up in prison over their idiot ideas. That really puts context into the judge's quote below; it's not just the harassment or gun-holding compounds to worry about, but the danger this delusional arrogance can do to themselves.

Mr and Ms Martin have told me more than once they are not dangerous people," he wrote. "The ideas they express, however, can be extremely dangerous"

"These guys are honestly fairly chill as long as you’re not close to their nest (like inside 1m), and they’re important pollinators and great pest removal experts."

Save the flamethrower for the real scary bugs.

I'm late to the thread but shout out to Tom Tanuki's deepdive into the surprisingly unique world of the Aus SovShit movement.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ea_7jUU489g

If this question was sincere surprise, there was an Australia documentary episode two years back ("War on Waste") with a section about "up to a third of" carrots being dismissed by the dominant supermarkets because they were "misshapen", sometimes really petty stuff, not even bruises or discolouration or anything that a picky person might question but being too long or short, skinny, not straight enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNEW8ydOm4 (clip from the docco)

In reaction (or by recommendation), some supermarkets have added small sections marketing various fruit/veg as 'odd' funny-looking ones at discount prices. An improvement, but a long way to go.

You know that saying, two is better than one.

You passed stingy bois ocular patdown.

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Yeah I think so too, I got the joke, I'm just emphasizing that this isn't some spooky "socialism for the rich", it's literally just capitalists doing capitalism in a very capital way.

Bowel cancer is now the leading cause of death in people aged 25 to 44 in Australia.

This is surprising. It wasn't even in the top 5 a couple of years ago, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (gov).

[edit: another article the day after says it's "the deadliest cancer for Australians aged 25 to 44", which I suspect may have been mistakenly transformed into "leading cause of death"]

https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/life-expectancy-deaths/deaths-in-australia/contents/leading-causes-of-death

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.