Thanks to ATCO Australia for fiddling with my gas meter, causing the gas HWS to need to be relit, then not leaving a note in my letter box to say they'd been (where I might see it) but in the meter box. Love to get out in the garden with a torch at 9.20pm. Great work everyone.

Personally I think it’s fine to alter or cut up anything you find in op shops. It’s been given away after all. I donate my handmade stuff regularly and I’m fine with it having a new life.

Residents in the Perth Hills have raised concerns about thousands of litres of water extracted from a bore on a private property by Coca-Cola Europacific Partners for its bottled water products.
abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

It’s a year on from this VCAT decision and I can report that the pub has not magically reopened.

she’s right n she should say it louder

I sometimes wonder if people that design bike racks have ever tried to lock a bike.

When my mum left my dad- 'I knew if I stayed he'd kill me'- she moved to a small place with nominal rent. We've talked about how impossible this would be now, and what that might have meant. Housing justice can't be left out of discussions about DV - women need somewhere to go.

Govt has made a rod for its own back, now going to be asked to intervene for every individual bird issue

Aware Super LGIM Allianz CalPERS AustralianSuper Woodside is now being asked if they will stop making contributions to political parties. The chair responds that they only pay to access politicians for meetings, and that each payment is capped at $100,000.

LOL

'We didn't ask the whale to land on our section of the beach....It's not our whale ... we don't own the whale, obviously.'

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

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This is America, but it sounds familiar - aging in place or stuck in place? nytimes.com/2024/04/20/hea…

A map of all countries that use the MMDDYYYY date format

If the French government tried this there would be riots, cars burned in the streets

I went to the Sargent exhibition at the Tate yesterday. No wonder women loved being painted by him; he made them look like people with active inner lives.

surprised I have to post this in Australia but maybe people shouldn’t be shouldered with a constantly growing HECS debt that they can’t pay off even while working because they didn’t automatically make the most economically rational decision at 18 👍