[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

This was a defamation case, i.e. a civil case. Ten's defence was that their imputation that Lehrmann raped Higgins was substantially true, so the judge had to rule on whether or not the rape happened. It is not a criminal conviction and there won't be one in this case because the criminal trial was abandoned due to juror misconduct.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The chamber of commerce and other employer groups never want minimum or award wages to rise by more than inflation.

I recall more than one year (every year?) where they asked for minimum wage increases that were less than inflation. They don't just want wages to stagnate, they want wages to decrease.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

OH SO YOU THINK PEOPLE SHOULDN'T HAVE PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION? You want to keep people imprisoned in their 15 minute cities? ^heavy ^/s

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Specialist fees (and nowadays a lot of GP fees for that matter) are not fully covered by the Medicare rebate. Typically you'll pay about $300 for an standard consultation appointment and get not quite half of that back.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Just announce that you're running for office, then the charges become election interference.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

If Rupert Murdoch was still in Australia, he'd be supporting the Liberal Party.

Rupert Murdoch (through his media companies) still very much does support the Liberal party.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

My first was a Galaxy S1 back in 2010 which I rooted and flashed with custom ROMs almost immediately. I remember applying the various generations of Voodoo lag fixes because Samsung used cheap shitty flash storage and a slow proprietary file system. Once the Nexus S came out the dev scene took off because they had almost the same hardware. I had it running up to Android 4.2 or so before it was relegated to sitting in a drawer for good. Unfortunately I don't know where it is now, if I still had it I'd try to boot it up and see if it still works.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Not to mention that the bar for a referendum to pass is very high. For the non-Australians, you need not only a majority of voters nationally to vote yes, but also a majority of states to vote yes (the so-called "double majority"). Only 8 of the last 44 referendums before now have passed and partisan referendums have never passed, so this one was doomed the minute Dutton decided to play politics with it.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Then he just needs to appoint himself as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and become the President of the Senate to fulfill his dream of running the entire government.

Our former prime minister actually did something like this. He secretly appointed himself as health minister, finance minister, industry minister, home affairs minister and treasurer. It was quite a big scandal that only came out after the election that kicked out his government and threw a lot of ministerial decisions made during that time into legal doubt, though nothing ended up coming from it.

Morrison was a lazy shit and only used his secret ministerial powers a few times, he just wanted to have the power for himself. His stated reason was "in case the existing ministers became incapacitated by COVID", but we already have assistant ministers that could fill in if that happened.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

If a target could be found along New Horizons' trajectory then it could be diverted to do a flyby and get pictures, but there currently aren't any known KBOs that NH could reach. That doesn't mean there aren't any, we just haven't discovered any that are close enough yet.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Cricket. The episode might not have the same impact for those outside Australia but the ending never fails to bring tears to my eyes. It helps that my daughter loves it too.

[-] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Like a baby. Just like a baby.

Waking up crying every 2 hours? I guarantee that whoever came up with that saying to mean sleeping well never had kids.

I struggled to sleep on planes even before I had an energetic little kid to keep under control. I don't like sleeping while sitting up so I only ever manage to sleep lightly for a couple of hours at most.

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