The bill has been passed, but doesn’t come into effect until next year.

Adobe Haven’t these dickheads been charging Australians more for their products than anyone else for decades?

If you’re going to urge the US to target Australia it should be within the rights of every Australian to just torrent your shit if they want.

Well she has full confidence of the Chancellor that I’m sure has nothing to do with the contracts for mates or the free travel.

I’ve been enjoying the AFR articles on the VC. I got out just in time I think.

Hey we’re sorry about the referendum, here’s a picture on a fiver instead.

Why would he want to be informed? Then he has to lie rather than just make shit up.

Why not both?

I remember reading that the government was hoping that because we run a trade deficit with the yanks they wouldn’t do this. Look forward to that just being the assumption and the government having done 0 planning.

They really aren’t buzzwords, it’s a short way of describing what the Uluru statement proposed. The issue is that the failure of the voice both encouraged the right wing to shit on indigenous issues and tell labor that it’s not worth the political capital to touch you indigenous issues.

If you want concrete policy goals then you could look at the royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody and email your MP to act on the recommendations. Or see if you get anything out of the reports from the yoorrook commission if you’re in vic.

“here’s 3 simple things we should be working on”.

Three things to work on would be truth, treaty and voice? Those aren’t simple though.

I think the nation accepting the voice would have been a step towards reconciliation, since it would have been a sign showing the nation accepts wrongs that exist in its history.

The fact that two artists have half their albums in the hottest 100 is also a pretty good indication that JJJ needs to play a wider variety of music imo.

It hasn’t been on the 26th for ages,

In August 2017, Triple J launched a survey asking for public opinion on whether the date should be changed.[29] 60% of participants voted in support of moving the date; 39% responded to not change it.[30]

In 2017, Triple J announced that they would no longer hold the Hottest 100 on 26 January. Instead, the Hottest 100 would be held on the fourth weekend of January each year, beginning with the 2017 countdown on 27 January 2018.[30]

sauce

Is it just me or is a lot of the music in there slow/boring or lacking “energy”?

Don’t forget the money he’s given.

“deliberate” seems like a pretty high bar. Of course it doesn’t stop employer groups crying that literally stealing is being made illegal.

Nevermind then. I wasn’t giving them much credit but it was still too much it seems.

Thanks Bill! Really saving the taxpayer there.

The legislation does note that some services are “excluded”, but does not name specific platforms. For example, while services providing “online social interaction” would be included in the ban, this would not include “online business interaction”.

Looking forward to watching Facebook claim it’s all a business interaction because they’re selling the user data or something. Also surely this includes any and all online forums.

If they were rushing through the bill then any amendments in the senate would require the bill to go back to the house. Partially explains the reluctance to consider amendments (though why bother with debate then).

Depressingly

The ban is, however, backed by 77% of Australians, according to a new poll.

Most of whom probably don’t care how it was passed or details on the amendments.