Isn’t this a clear demonstration of corruption by the ALP?

Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.

It’s not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:

“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.

This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.

Definitely not something a corrupt person would say.

Even with a 10% pay cut the VC will be remunerated over $1,000,000 per year, even despite the university’s poor financial performance.

Afaik the ANU VC earns about $650k (here). Not that this isn’t probably 6-8x what most others in the university earn.

Pretty much agree with everything you say though. I’m about to graduate from ANU and I’m glad to be leaving tbh.

I would just add that, while the unis are managed poorly, the cuts to the sector by successive governments can’t be excused.

Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.

That’s not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.

It really can’t be that hard to be better than Dutton. Truly astounding.

Guess we need the NACC to investigate the NACC

There’s an android app called URLCheck that can strip unwanted bits off the end of urls and then open them as well.

It’s okay, they can use AI to teach it to save money

Fines that were actually enforced properly might work. In general though I think the feds probably need to run an education campaign about AI.

The house might look good in a sort of greeny-teal shade

It’s funny because I can’t even see the LNP coming up with something this bad.

This has already cost what, $430B? We should just throw in another few billion and build our own diesel subs for safety.

I haven’t quite finished it yet, my feeling is that it slightly overstays it’s welcome.

I’ve also noticed that most of the time I do a thing or two in the game then realise there’s not quite enough time in the loop to do another thing, but just enough time to make me want to not waste the loop, since I find starting a new loop a bit tedious.

From memory it respawns the low level enemies constantly, since they’re just ammo/health/armour pinatas. You needed to kill the big enemies to complete an arena.

Not really a fan of the design choice, but I had a decent amount of fun when I clicked with how the Devs wanted you to play.

I convinced my partner to play it recently and the way I knew she’d finished it was that I could hear sniffling from the desk behind me.

American politics infects Australian politics in many ways sadly.

This changes the effect of negative campaigning (people still show up in Aus vs the US), but the idea is to dissuade people from voting for someone, rather than encourage them to vote for you. This might have a positive effect on votes for the party doing the negative campaigning, but I think it’s a poor definition of convincing someone to vote for you.

I don’t think this is a useful definition of voting for

which implicitly gets them to vote for you.

Seems to only be true if you think of there being only 2 parties, which is why I don’t think the definition is good.