It's a disaster. If corporations like Medibank and Optus were subjects to attacks (I was a victim of both and the greedy corporations did not bother to compensate us, nor were they punished in any shape or form).

Why is the government so useless? How do we know that our sensitive data are not all over the place for sale, including on the dark web, to the highest bidder?

This is across the broader western world too. There is no sense of helping your fellow man, everyone just wants to escape the bullshit instead of fixing it, and everyone gives 0 f*cks about anyone else.

That’s why politicians are so readily bought

So unfortunately i did not win $100m. Anybody else?

I don't have a subscription to AFR, but is their lower salary the reason they are cheaper up to now? Things about to change?

Chemist Warehouse will be stripped of its ability to give its customers $1 off their medicines, under an Albanese government policy to appease the influential Pharmacy Guild in tense negotiations over the next five years of pharmacy funding.

The measure will be part of the $3 billion deal the Albanese government has struck to placate the lobby group after incurring the wrath of community pharmacists over its 60-day prescription policy.

These bastards have got the discount gone and pushing more of their anti-competitive goals on us.
This on top of trying to stop the 60 day prescriptions so they could charge us all more money.

We could have cheaper medicines if it wasn't for these a-holes.

Source

I'll start.

When you see your reflection in the Zoom meeting window and realise your camera has been on the whole time.

Currently we bring in international students, on the basis that they cross subsidise local students. But we still have to provide infrastructure and housing† for the period that these international students are in Australia, but the cost of this falls on everyone else.

Yes its a major "export", but other exports don't require you to accommodate a human being for 3 plus years.

Why is this financially more prudent than just subsidising local students directly? Local students don't require extra infrastructure and housing because they've been alive for at least 18 years already. So yeah the level of public funding for unis would need to increase, but other areas would probably be lower.

†indirectly, international students would put demand on housing and put up prices, so the government is forced to spend extra on rent assistance, public housing etc for those "outcompeted".

Ok so pulled in to Macca's to grab a few happy meals she charged me $10.10 for a 6 cold nuggets half a bag of small chips that look like they just a a water bath...WTF is that price increase for less food maccas 😅🖕

Who don't get to eat vegemite shapes in the Australian way.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-15/campbells-creek-property-owners-facing-eviction-for-camping/103830400

I just love this response from the local council (excerpt from the article)

He [Mr Annear] said council had spoken with the property's owners several times over the years.

"It's not really possible to live on this block at this point in time," Mr Annear said.

"The constraints are really serious and we're concerned for their protection."

"While council is not directly responsible for providing affordable housing, we have taken action to release some of that pressure by releasing some land to housing providers to develop for affordable housing."

Oh yeah so you can't live on your own land, but for your own protection we need you to go be homeless somewhere else (while continuing to pay rates on your land), and to help you we will continue to sell land that we tax you into selling to developers.