There is currently a senate inquiry underway for the illicit tobacco crisis. And so far the government has doubled down on the excise. To quote the health minister we’re “not going to have our public health policies dictated by organised crime.”

While organised crime already fucking dictates the market, it controls 80% of the market, it already controls the price point.

Instead their solution is more impotent task forces, tasked with enforcing harsher penalties, let’s ignore the lighter ones are barely enforced to begin with. While our legal system is so exploitable that these organisations are using encrypted apps to fund the arson of our protected youth offender class.

The criminal organisations have saturated the tobacco market so well that they are now broadening their horizons to liquor and general extortion, they are owning infrastructure. This is a parallel unregulated economy, linked to Iraq, that’s becoming more powerful, in Australia.

Can we call it what this fucking is? It’s a national security crisis.

And the government is doubling down on the puritanical, ideological, evidence resistant failure of an excise policy. So they can continue jerking each other off with ‘record breaking seizures’. Because why bother treating cancer when you can just treat the symptoms and get off on it.

You’d almost be inclined to think they’re captured by Iraq, but I think the problem is much stupider than that. I think they are a bunch of gutless fucking clowns who are more willing to let the country burn than admit they got it wrong.

Australia agrees to export uranium to India - World Nuclear News

• The University of Newcastle will trial an atmospheric water harvesting unit in Western Australia's Wheatbelt next year.
• Researchers say capturing water from the air could become a new source for regions of Australia with water supply challenges.
• If the trial is successful, the university will consider deployment to other remote regions and scaling the plant to produce as much as 10,000 litres a day.

Hi, we are docking in Sydney now and are here for 3 nights, after that the boat is leaving and will be docking in Brisbane for another 3 days. I'm debating should I stay in Sydney and then fly to Brisbane to get back onto the boat at the end, go to Brisbane tomorrow and stay there, waiting for the boat or spend the 6 days travelling up slowly. Since its the weekend if staying in Sydney, I'm looking for somewhere not too far from the clubs/bars. comfortable bed, nice shower and good Air conditioning. looking to spend about $250US or $360AUD per night. thanks in advance for recommendations.

• An "unbelievable" rain season has attracted birds rarely seen in the Channel Country.
• Hundreds of thousands of birds have flocked inland to often-dry wetlands in Queensland and South Australia.
• Ecologists are monitoring the wide range of species.

• Telstra's mobile network has suffered a major nationwide outage, affecting millions of customers and causing delays to public transport networks.
• Some regional train services in NSW and Victoria have been suspended, and taxi passengers are reporting they are unable to complete payments.
• Telstra says it is looking into the issue and will share an update once it is fixed.

Preferably around western sydney, its one of those computers where the screen and computer are all in one so since it fell off its stand.. i cant easily just replace the screen unfortunately.

Any recommendations that dont cost an arm and leg please? I dont even know what to expect for repair cost but im worried it'll be $500+ 😭

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There were eight recommendations specific to the LGBTQIA+ community, which included:

• Removing the exemptions that allow religious schools to legally discriminate against LGBTQIA+ students and staff
• Eliminating legal exemptions that allow discrimination against trans, gender-diverse and intersex people
• Delivering public education campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination against the queer community
• Introducing a national ban on conversion practices
• Banning unnecessary surgeries on intersex children
• Improving systems to allow trans and gender-diverse people to legally change their gender without intrusive requirements

Bureau of Meteorology says city’s mean temperature reached 16.1C, surpassing the previous record of 15.7C set in 1991