Did you know that in Australia 44% of adults (roughly 7.3 to 9 million people aged 15-74) do not possess the literacy skills necessary for everyday life and work.

Since the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) began in 2000, Australian 15-year-olds have shown a steady, significant decline in reading literacy.

Why is this? Do we blame larger class sizes, changes to the curriculum, teacher burnout or something else?

Because that many people not being able to read and write properly is an absolute fucking disgrace and makes me wonder what the point of school is these days. Was it shitified intentionally because the public were asking too many questions about the way this world operates?

Anyway if people can’t read you can hardly expect them to educate themselves about climate science. Instead they will just trust the opinions aired on the main-stream media. It’s easier.

Saryazdi has a master of mathematical sciences from the University of Sydney, according to his online profiles.

Math - not even once!

I wonder if there will be a riot/strike anyway?

I mean how long before people refuse to work just to pay someone else’s mortgage?

So increased land taxes and unoccupied home taxes do work to stop prices rising quickly. Now take away negative gearing and CGT discounts and do all of this across the country!

I am glad someone finally had the courage to stand up and say this.

Maybe it murdered its sibling.

So it could eat more KFC from the local bins itself !

LOL sounds like Delivery Unlimited certainly has its limits!

Time to stock up on Zooper Doopers !

Guardian article here: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/31/jewish-community-security-group-csg-right-carry-guns-after-bondi-attack-ntwnfb

The NSW CSG, which describes itself as a mixture of security professionals and trained volunteers, records antisemitic incidents and assesses the level of threat to the community, which its website says is currently at the highest level – critical.

It is run through the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and funded by Jewish community organisations. It has received grants from federal and state governments.

Under NSW’s Security Industry Act, CSG also holds a “master licence”, meaning it can provide licensed security staff in the state. Its ME class licence allows it to provide the maximum number of more personnel, 50 or more.

Peter Dutton was advocating nuclear about a year ago but I haven’t heard much since then.

Why we haven’t pivoted more towards solar, I don’t know.

I guess because it threatens the profits of coal, oil and gas?

Who to believe?

"Wood-lover’s Paralysis (WLP) is an extremely rare, but potentially fatal, toxidrome causing unpredictable muscle weakness.

Dr Simon Beck, an MD in his final year of psychiatry training, and Mr Caine Barlow MSc, a mycologist and education officer for Ethnogenesis Australis, along with Dr Monica Barratt and Dr Liam Engel, have been the first to describe Wood-lover’s Paralysis in a study published in Toxicon.

According to the Victorian Coroner’s report, released this month, WLP was potentially associated with the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year."

https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/37/australian-experts-first-to-describe-potentially-fatal-magic-mushroom-toxidrome/

LOL sharing is exactly why I am on Lemmy !

Ban Ford Rangers at least. The drivers tend to be inconsiderate psychos.

They can ride eBikes instead.

Discounted CGT and negative gearing come to mind…

Of course it is.

Corporations offshore profits to tax havens to avoid paying too much tax.

Wealthy individuals mostly make money from investments rather than salary and pay discounted CGT instead of income tax on most of their money

The middle class and poor get to pay more to make up for this nonsense.

Very true

Yes gambling gets a pass every time in this country. The only state where Greyhound racing is banned is ACT. Tas plans to phase it out by 2029

I assume the ACCC but nothing is really spelled out in this article. Whether that is the article’s fault or the loose way the regulations seem to be written I do not know.

Excessive really does need to be quantified or else terms like price gouging are still undefined and it’s more of a vibe.

That once again politicians just don’t know what they are doing but need to at least pretend they are doing something good. This is probably fairly close to the truth.

Turdburglar has the right idea too, that it’s about selling age verification as another service. Sounds about right. Corporations would charge us to breathe if they could.