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Australia Moves To Ban Maple Syrup Because Fuck You Too Canada
Purplepingers is an anti-landlord activist currently running for the Australian Senate with the Victorian Socialists party: https://pingers4parliament.com/
He’s previously done a lot of ‘naming and shaming’ of landlords (https://www.shitrentals.org/) and compiled lists of unused properties that people could squat in.
Reading between the lines, this video is encouraging people to fuck with properties rented out through Airbnb, or at least trying to mess with the heads of the ‘hosts’.
In fairness to the original poster (
@inlandempire@jlai.lu), English is not their native language, and there’s plenty of native speakers who would make the same error.Also, you can find an explanation of the Lemmyvision song contest here: https://aussie.zone/post/18098646
Where did their 2 phones and drug selling claims come from?
I don’t think it’s unfair to assume they’re just making shit up. Either for fishing/intimidation, or just trying to meet some kind of quota for deportations. They’re just deporting people arbitrarily.
As another example, ICE is rounding up Venezuelan men with tattoos and sending them to prison in El Salvador, because tattoos must mean you have a gang affiliation:
- https://apnews.com/article/gang-deportation-trump-tattoos-c0bd5c4b76ac01d2c75b043caea14da0
- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/man-deported-el-salvador-alien-enemies-act-soccer-logo-tattoo-attorney/story?id=119983892
- https://www.ketr.org/2025-03-31/dallas-man-may-have-been-deported-to-notorious-el-savadoran-prison-over-autism-awareness-tattoo
Did he have clearance/permission to have the ashes in his bag?
According to the article he didn’t have ashes, he just had the empty urn, as he’d scattered the ashes in Australia.
2·7 days agoThat (approximate) date wasn’t mentioned in the article linked in this post, so it was no fault of yours! I’d just happened to have seen the follow-up article. It’s certainly important additional info for understanding the situation.
The child involved in an IVF mix-up at a Brisbane clinic was conceived in early 2023 and would now be a toddler, sources say.
Monash IVF, which operates nationally, discovered the mistake in February, after the birth parents asked to transfer their remaining frozen embryos to another provider.
source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-11/monash-ivf-brisbane-mix-up-child-now-toddler/105165302
So by the sound of it, the child was around one year old when they found out.
I can’t imagine anyone would want to separate this child from the birth parents who’ve raised them for a year.
This happened in Australia, so it should really be posted in !news@aussie.zone or !australianpolitics@aussie.zone
7·8 days agoAt the other end of the spectrum, the wealthiest households on average will be nearly $800 worse off, the modelling shows, as the rejigged stage-three tax cuts leave them worse off than they would have been without the change.
I think it should be stressed: they still got a tax cut, though, just not as big as the cut that was originally legislated.
5·9 days agoLegionnaire’s disease is only really a thing with air-conditioning systems because a) warm water promotes growth of the bacteria, and b) you need to breathe it in, and air-con systems create mist/droplets and blow them around.
The 1998 water contamination in Sydney was cryptosporidium and giardia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Sydney_water_crisis) which infect you when you drink the water.
Poll is open / reopened, possibly?
See comment in this thread: https://aussie.zone/post/19036621/15872686 / https://jlai.lu/post/17384631/13699547
The linked page says several times “for each account holder”. But that doesn’t mean a joint account gets double the guarantee, does it?
That is what it means, yes. Or, stated differently, an equal split of a joint account’s balance is counted towards each of the joint holders’ deposit guarantee limit.
See here: https://www.apra.gov.au/frequently-asked-questions-about-banking-and-financial-claims-scheme
Case study
Alex and Peter have a number of accounts with their credit union:
- $300,000 in a joint account
- $50,000 in a separate account in only Alex’s name.
The FCS protects a total amount of deposits up to $250,000 for each account holder for each bank, building society and credit union. Therefore, Peter is covered under the FCS for $150,000 (half the joint account) while Alex is covered for $200,000 (being the sum of $150,000 from the joint account in addition to the $50,000 from his individual account).
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Yeah, absolutely fair enough, and for all I know there could be some helpful region-specific information around banking (particularly when it comes to physical branch offices).
We also have !ausfinance@aussie.zone and !ama@aussie.zone, just FYI :) (not saying you shouldn’t have posted this in !brisbane or anything)
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