Teens launch High Court challenge to Australia's social media ban

The Much Needed Backlash Against Bad Laws Begins

#OurModernTimes #Internet #Australia #AgeDiscrimination

Australia social media ban: Teens challenge law before High Court

They argue the law - which will block users under 16 from having social media accounts - is unconstitutional.

^{Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)}

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

I have posted a few fogbows previously featuring the Cradle Mountain too. This one is more minimalist with only a tree and some layers.

#mountains #Australia #landscape #LandscapePhotography #nature #naturephotography #fog #sunrise #dawn #AntonGorlinPhotos #foto #fotografie #photo #photography #minimal

Shark Bay from above by Michael Aluwana

@photography
#SeasOfMastodon
#Australia

i've been noticing more websites not including GST in listed prices, which, to my understanding, is illegal unless you're advertising exclusively to other businesses:

Businesses must display the total price of a product or service as a single figure. This price must be the minimum total cost – the lowest amount a customer could pay, including any taxes, duties and unavoidable or pre-selected extra fees.

here are two websites i've seen doing this in the past week alone - red hat and patreon. patreon in particular is in no way aimed at business-to-business transactions.

#australia

I just realized I haven't shared sandstone #photos. Sandstone is fascinating and #beautiful and forms various crazy shapes. Endless possibilities for both large and small scale #photography. Photo is titled 'Among the Waves'.

#thursday #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #rock #pink #shape #nature #naturephotography #color #australia #photographie

Happy New Year!!!
This is my last shot of 2023: rainbow bee-eater in Myall Lakes NP in Eastern #Australia enjoying a cicada

#biodiversity #birdphotography #wildlife #birds #birdsofmastodon #bird #ecology #rainbow

If you live in present-day 🌏 Australia, New Zealand, 🌎 the North or South Americas, this is a good resource for finding out whose land you occupy. native-land.ca/

#LandBack #LandAcknowledgement #TurtleIsland #USA #Canada #Mexico #Australia #NewZealand #Aotearoa #SouthAmerica #CentralAmerica

"Gorgeous milky way shot with a grass tree which is unique to Australia."

Stan Feldman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#australia #photography

Can somebody help me understand this please: why would we ever give out carbon credits for not chopping down a forest? “Here’s a forest we shouldn’t cut down anyway. Because we’re not cutting it down, now you can burn more fossil fuels!”

theguardian.com/australia-news…

#Australia #ClimateChange

NSW Liberal plan to generate carbon credits by ending logging in state forests snubbed by federal Labor

Exclusive: State ministers touted ‘significant carbon abatement’ plus benefits for threatened species and regional economies

^{Peter Hannam (The Guardian)}

I took this photo last year at Curtain Fig National Park in #Australia.

This spectacular strangler fig is nearly 165 ft (50m) tall, with a trunk circumference of 128ft (39m) & estimated to be >500 years old! #nature

I just spotted my first wombats in the wild on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.

These stocky little marsupials sort of look like a cross between a baby brown bear, koala & pig. They have a pouch like other marsupials, but it’s backwards which prevents dirt from entering as they burrow.

At just over 3 ft long, they’re absolutely charming. But millions of years ago, herds of giant wombats as large as rhinoceros roamed southern #Australia. #wildlife #photography #SharedPlanet

I refuse to believe this place is even real.

#Australia

Steam Deck:
Can't work out the logistics to ship to #Australia.

Nintendo Switch:
Ships new models to Australia almost immediately.

And don't give me the 'money' argument - a quick search shows that #ValveSoftware is worth about US$10 billion, whilst #Nintendo is worth about US$13 billion, so it's not *that* much of a difference... Our #gaming market is also larger than many of the countries the #SteamDeck is currently available in now.

"Our newly published research found backyard hens’ eggs contain, on average, more than 40 times the lead levels of commercially produced eggs. Almost one in two hens in our Sydney study had significant lead levels in their blood. Similarly, about half the eggs analysed contained lead at levels that may pose a health concern for consumers."

theconversation.com/backyard-h…

#Chickens #Australia #Food #Lead

May be of interest to @dadegroot

Backyard hens' eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs, research finds

Lead levels in backyard hen eggs are often much higher than in eggs bought in the shops. A new study of soil lead, chickens and eggs locates the high-risk areas in our biggest cities.

^{The Conversation}

Peeps in #Australia, you might be interested in signing this petition to make access to Australian standards easier and more affordable - a bit of a no-brainer, really.

aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petitio…

Shared by @dadegroot , thanks to him for spotting it!

#interoperability

e-petitions

^{www.aph.gov.au}

Any idea what this spiky plant is?
Fruit has thin tough skin, spongey/crisp flesh (like a lillypilly), lots of seeds, no distinctive smell (just vegetative).

No idea of taste, since I’m not eating random red fruit found on a bush that given the spikes, is clearly designed not to be eaten.

#plant #Australia