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    1. 2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 25th)

      A thread you can easily ignore A new week a new thread As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or...

      A thread you can easily ignore

      A new week a new thread

      As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things because it is a smaller item, please feel free to post here.
      Feel free to break out any information posted here into its own thread if the discussion warrants it.

      Major news can/should be broken out into its own topic. (use your own discretion)

      Thank goodness this is almost over

      16 votes
    2. 2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 18th)

      A thread you can easily ignore As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things...

      A thread you can easily ignore

      As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things because it is a smaller item, please feel free to post here.
      Feel free to break out any information posted here into its own thread if the discussion warrants it.

      Major news can/should be broken out into its own topic. (use your own discretion)

      20 votes
    3. "Robodebt" class action to continue, despite the Australian government waiving outstanding debts and promising to repay anybody who paid an unsound debt

      Yesterday, the Australian government announced it will pay back $721m as it scraps Robodebt for Centrelink welfare recipients. But the class action lodged against the robodebt scheme will...

      Yesterday, the Australian government announced it will pay back $721m as it scraps Robodebt for Centrelink welfare recipients.

      But the class action lodged against the robodebt scheme will continue, because "the Government still needs to answer to claims of compensation and claims of damages and inconvenience and distress that this system has caused".

      7 votes