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10 votes
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Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus on the Gold Coast
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Toorak doctor with coronavirus saw seventy patients before testing positive
13 votes -
Coronavirus COVID-19 models are starting to give us an idea of what a pandemic would look like, but there's still so much we don't know
11 votes -
Australian supermarkets can’t get loo rolls on shelves fast enough - and yet even toilet paper hoarders can’t fully explain why they are doing it
8 votes -
Winston Peters invokes Christchurch massacre as NZ's deportations row with Australia escalates
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This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant
10 votes -
National news agency, Australian Associated Press, will be shut down at the end of June after its owners decided it was no longer sustainable
12 votes -
Australia records first cases of human-to-human transmission of coronavirus
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Summers are now twice as long as winters in all Australian capital cities, report finds
8 votes -
Tash Sultana — Blackbird (2016)
6 votes -
BP worker sacked over Hitler parody video gets his job back
6 votes -
Men At Work - Overkill (1983)
6 votes -
Glitter and be gay – or don't, and still be gay
12 votes -
Fundraiser soars past $200,000 for bullying victim Quaden Bayles
News article: Fundraiser soars past $200,000 for bullying victim Quaden Bayles And, he is not 18 years old, despite people claiming he is.
8 votes -
Gotye - Easy Way Out (2012)
6 votes -
Australian coronavirus vaccine goes into test production
14 votes -
Friendly with Kevin Rudd
5 votes -
A nation mourns innocents lost in suburban street
9 votes -
Train driver and rail worker dead after passenger train derails near Wallan, north of Melbourne
5 votes -
Inside Australia's climate emergency: For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. The long-term impact could be devastating.
9 votes -
More than fifty people died under Victoria's euthanasia scheme during its first six months
5 votes -
Angry PM Scott Morrison accuses General Motors of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies
Angry Scott Morrison accuses GM of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies For context: Holden is an Australian home-grown brand. It became a subsidiary of General Motors in...
Angry Scott Morrison accuses GM of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies
For context: Holden is an Australian home-grown brand. It became a subsidiary of General Motors in 1931, but it started manufacturing cars in Australia from 1948. The 1950s FJ Holden is an Australian icon. The Holden Commodore was the family sedan for Aussies all through the 1980s & 1990s. Aussie car lovers fell into two tribes: Holden or Ford. If you ask any Aussie to name a few famous Australian brands, Holden will get a mention.
General Motors stopped manufacturing Holdens in Australia a few years ago, but they assured us that Holdens would continue to be made (albeit overseas) and sold here.
Now the brand itself is being axed, at the end of next year.
14 votes -
Should AFL be rebranded AFLM to reflect equal status with AFLW?
4 votes -
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush (2020)
8 votes -
Celeste Barber’s $52 million bushfire fund has been held up thanks to legal wrangling
3 votes -
Mad Max at forty: How the low-budget original remains a film-making feat
7 votes -
Australian Federal Court orders Google to turn over identifying information of user who left negative review for Melbourne dentist
8 votes -
The British government has suspended its funding of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the body that runs the international organisation from London
6 votes -
High Court rules Aboriginal people cannot be deported for criminal convictions, cannot be 'alien' to Australia
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Independent Zali Steggall eyes end of ‘climate wars’ with zero carbon bill
News article: Independent Zali Steggall eyes end of ‘climate wars’ with zero carbon bill Zali Steggall's website: Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020
7 votes -
'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas
ABC's media release: 'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. (Ignore the references to...
ABC's media release: 'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. (Ignore the references to 'Doctor Who'; the only connection they have is that they were both science fiction shows made in the mid-1960s. I suspect that show is name-dropped just to get people's interest.)
I've been watching this show. I'm 5 episodes in, which means I'm up to the last episode of the 1st season, with another 6 episodes in the 2nd season (only 12 eps in total).
It's bad but also good (not in the "so bad it's good" way). The production isn't great: the special effects are low-grade, the sets are ordinary, the acting ranges from hammy to wooden, and the writing is clunky. However, despite all that, I find myself hooked. I want to know what's going to happen next. It's an interesting premise: the remnants of an alien species eking out an existence inside a rocket-equipped moon, having left their home planet after an unspecified ecological disaster, to seek out a new home. The plot is good enough to drag me along with it. It also has historical curiosity value.
I doubt it's available outside of Australia, but here's the streaming link. Be warned: it's very slow-paced to start with. The first episode doesn't even mention aliens, and the second episode only has hints.
7 votes -
Australian government lawyers warned the tax commissioner the controversial "robodebt" program could be illegal on the same day the Federal Government suspended the scheme
5 votes -
Australians evacuated from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in China will no longer be charged $1,000, with the Treasurer blaming "incorrect advice" from bureaucrats for the mix-up.
8 votes -
Australians wanting to take part in the government’s evacuation plan out of Wuhan may have to pay $1000 in order to get to Christmas Island
9 votes -
Victoria's Attorney-General Jill Hennessy has written to Australia's governor-general, asking him to overturn men’s rights activist Bettina Arndt's Order of Australia
4 votes -
Gay asylum seekers seeking protection in Australia were asked by government officials if they could pretend to be straight to avoid persecution in their home countries
10 votes -
Australian scientists first to grow Wuhan coronavirus outside China
13 votes -
An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council]
4 votes -
Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound
Here's an article about one of the recent Grammy winners: "Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound" The story about how Eilish and her brother sampled a pedestrian...
Here's an article about one of the recent Grammy winners: "Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound"
The story about how Eilish and her brother sampled a pedestrian crossing signal is interesting enough - but you have to watch the embedded video, where the SMH people use the same signal to make their own backing track to an Aussie classic!
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"I Am Australian" - The Seekers
In honour of Australia Day, here's my favourite Australia-themed song. About 40 years ago, the Australian government ran competitions and surveys to decide what our national anthem should be. It...
In honour of Australia Day, here's my favourite Australia-themed song.
About 40 years ago, the Australian government ran competitions and surveys to decide what our national anthem should be. It was a 10-year process, in fits and starts, but in 1984 they finally announced "Advance Australia Fair" as the new anthem to replace "God Save The Queen" (which is now used only as the royal anthem).
"I Am Australian" hadn't been written back then. It was written in 1987, just prior to our Bicentennial celebrations in 1988. If a similar competition/survey was run now, "I Am Australian" would be one of the top contenders for our new national anthem. It's a very popular song.
I don't relate to "Advance Australia Fair" at all. But "I Am Australian" makes me emotional every time I hear it. It might not be our official national anthem, but it's my anthem for this country.
Here's:
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A studio recorded version, complete with lyrics.
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A live performance, performed in 2000.
I am, you are, we are Australian.
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Australia confirms first case of coronavirus as protective masks sell out
12 votes -
Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in East Africa
4 votes -
Why we should change Australia Day ... to the fourth Friday in January
5 votes -
Gender neutral toilets in use for first time at Australian Open
10 votes -
New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs
4 votes -
Gay man who protested against Drag Queen Story Time dies by suicide
Wilson Gavin was the President of the University of Queensland’s Liberal National Club. He was also gay. Earlier this week, he led a protest against a Drag Queen Story Time event. The following...
Wilson Gavin was the President of the University of Queensland’s Liberal National Club. He was also gay.
Earlier this week, he led a protest against a Drag Queen Story Time event.
The following day, he was found dead at a local railway station, having committed suicide.
He has formerly campaigned against same-sex marriage.
His family have released a statement.
10 votes -
Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle - $25 for 29 games including Hollow Knight, Void Bastards, and Hand of Fate 2, with all proceeds going to help the wildlife affected by the Australian bushfires
13 votes -
Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous Australian 'dinosaur trees'
5 votes -
The Australian government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach
11 votes