AnAustralianPhotographer

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[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The law specifically mentions government IDs in the legislation . If(edit:i'd) have to check, but Im confident they're specifically excluded.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Ive had a look at the legislation, its an ammendment to an existing set of laws. It underwent some changes as it passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate, so i had a look at the 'As passed by both houses' version at https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7284

So it looks like what is 'Social media' can be defined by a Minister / Commissioner, it looks like there needs to be something documented by the entity to prevent underage users(again not calling on lemmy.world to do something for this as part of this post) by the Social media company, and it looks like the recording of government id's for the purpose of confirming ages is expressly prohibited.

A penalty Unit is around $300.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Rookie Numbers. It only uses electrical power generated. Why not cook turkeys in heat destined for cooling towers ? Gotta push those numbers way up.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not exactly a story, but an ad from Australia post showing their evolution of delivery over the decades. https://youtu.be/T-ItHe5WxE4

I remember ads shown about how dogs run up to posites etc, so checked out their website.

Here are some other videos from them you might like.

https://youtu.be/bAzEeu8PV-k

Michael works at star track, a courier arm of Australia Post.. https://youtu.be/V1AAj0qvyGc

And a postal worker. https://youtu.be/teLmg_2vF0w

I'm not associated with Auspost , but did watch the videos and OP, hope it helps. Posted on mobile so missed some details.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In English we write left to right and lefties smudge their writing (or adapt their grip I guess) so, for right to left languages it's a plus.

After typing there para above, I guess they could also be better drawers if they have done more practice or use a different grip or draw instead of write if they're part of a class doing pencil and paper time.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 30 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Have a look at https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities . I just know it exists and have got looking at it's rules and checking it out more on my to-do list.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Australia is its own country, however we still have ties and the King/Queen can cause a ruckus if they want, however recently we've been left to our own devices. I see people over in the UK as 'Royal Watchers' and monarchists, and dont see any similar level of affection for the royalty here. Sure when we get a visit, crowds will turn up, but im confident the size relative to the population over time has declined.

Not exactly a historian, so could be a wrong with this. In WW1, When Britain went to war, a lot of the people had the intent to follow and saw it as a duty to 'defend the empire' . In WW2 i think we had a bit more independence and remember a story about a troop ship being redirected to fight the Japanese rather than fight the Germans. That was was seen as a lot closer to home with the bombing of Darwin and fighting on the Kokoda track.

Now, i think the population would be totally indifferent.

We have the King and Queen on our coins, and the Queen is on the $5 note, but notable australians are also printed on other notes.

To pass new laws in our Federal Parliament (i think state parliaments are similar but there might be exceptions), it needs to be voted on by the House of Representatives (151 elected politicians from 151 geographically organised electorates with roughly an equal number of voters. e.g. NT has two electorates which is effectively Darwin and the rest of the NT. An electorate in Sydney might only be several suburbs while a country electorate in WA could be a third of the state). it also needs to be voted on in the Senate which consists of 76 Senators ( Each state elects 12 Senators (QLD,NSW,VIC,TAS,SA & WA) while territories each get 2 (ACT & NT).

Once its past both the house and the Senate, it also needs Royal Assent by the Governor General. The Governor General can refuse to give assent but i cannot point to a time when this has happened. The Governor General can also reserve legislation for the Queens Pleasure which defers approval to the Queen.

The Governor General is not elected, and appointed by the Queen/King. I understand that convention recently has been that the Queen meets with the Prime Minister and appoints whoever the Prime Minster recommends. I think the Queen can change who is appointed as Governor General at will, so theoretically could call them to direct them to not give royal assent to particularly controversial legislation.

Right now, the Queen or King could take a seat in the Senate if he or she wished, but not in the House as it was seen as to be for the people. He or She wouldn't get a vote, but I guess it would only be to give royal assent as soon as a bill has passed. If it happened, it would make national news.

Was there an Australian Revolution ? We floated the idea somewhat recently, and there was a referendum (a vote to change the countries constitution) on whether to become a republic. For it to pass it needed a majority of votes and a majority in the majority of states/territories. I think the wording was that we replace the governor general with a president elected by the people. It didnt get up, and the idea has been left alone since.

I think if you ask most Aussies, the like being in the commonwealth as we get more medals at the commonwealth games than the Olympics and they enjoy thrashing the Poms at Cricket/Rugby / Othersports.

As for our relationship with other commonwealth countries, I wouldnt say theres anything really special there except for New Zealand and this probably dates back to the ANZAC Corps and Gallipoli which is seen as our emergence of a country (i dont want to speak for NZ on this one). We might make fun of our 'cousins' across the ditch but i'd like to think that if something seriously went wrong, we'd be ready to lend them a hand in a heartbeat.

Edit: Im not aware of Royalty having any power like the United States presidents Executive Orders, however the Queen can dissolve parliament which ends the term of everyone in the House of Representatives. The parliament still exists, but Australians need to go have an election, and the same people might get re-elected. There was an issue in 1975 where parliament wouldnt pass legislation to fund the government so the Governor General stepped in to cause an election. it has been called 'The Dismissal'

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Theoretically, will a collision cause a breach of the radioactive material that's in the box with my cat? Asking for a friend.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Did you try the one near the Leftorium? What about the one in the Hammock district?

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

How about 'Be the reason someone smiles today '? . It's a magnet I bought and recently shifted someone more prominent.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 2 points 3 weeks ago

OpenTTD, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by AnAustralianPhotographer to c/birding
 

One of the birds by the trail on a walk i did recently near Shelly Beach, Manly, Australia.

Apologies for the lower quality, it was taken with my phone.

 
 

All of the images should be approx 1920x1080 pxels.

Im pretty sure it's blinking in the photo above.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by AnAustralianPhotographer to c/pics
 
 

One of the Martian moons travels between the rover and the sun. It's a bit different to my usual posts, and not my OC :).

I believe it's Phobos, so there might be doom music kicking in any second now...

Source: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZL7_1056_0760664099_781EBY_N0501254ZCAM01538_1100LMJ

 

Commonly found around the suburbs and in parks.

 

Sydney has many ferries travelling on its harbour to help move people around, some are smaller and have a shallow draft like the Rivercats that travel between Circular Quay and Paramatta and there are several other ferry classes painted in Green and Gold.

Note: Image uploaded at 1921x1080 pixels. In some of my other posts in other communities, some people said the images were small, and it looks like Lemmy creates thumbnails as .webp files and some of these may be shown. I'm using the default theme and have to click on the image to get it to show the full resolution image.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by AnAustralianPhotographer to c/pics
 

Canberra is known at the Bush Capital and it's common to see kangaroos in the parks of the suburbs.

 

Sydney has several different types of ferries, the larger ones travel to Manly (highly recommended) and the smaller ones travel around the harbours various wharves. There's also the rivercats which travel up the river to Paramatta.

 
 
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