links.mimuki.net

Aimed at international students.

Has that weird "immersive article experience" thing if you view in a featureful web browser. Also a few of the usual mainstream coverage of technical topics, eye-twitch-inducing traits.

Nation Public Toilet Map

From October 1, free COVID-19 vaccines will still be available for:

• Adults 75 and over (two doses per year, about six months apart)
• Adults 65–74 years (one dose per year)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50–74 years (one dose per year)
• Adults aged 18–64 years with severely immunocompromising conditions (one dose per year). This includes people with chronic kidney disease on dialysis and people with leukaemia.

Results from the 2025 Consumer Payments Survey show that cash use in Australia has stabilised in recent years.

Cash plays an important role in the community as a means of payment, store of value and a backup to electronic payment methods.

ABC acknowledging covid in the present tense! Release the confetti!

No, you cannot call English speech-to-text "Auslan services", STFU. Despite the headline, what's happening is that agencies are refusing to pay for in-person interpreting, and substituting it with virtual interpreters (essentially a video call with someone) and STT (which is inherently flawed and not even interpreting in the first place).

something something, "AI will fail to do your job, but that's still good enough to convince your boss to fire you"

No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.

Unless a margarine sold in aus (not NZ) is explicitly vegan, it likely isn't (as supplemental vitD that's vegan is more expensive).

...Good to know.

So, mandatory questioning with a gag clause, very lightly used but "needed" amendment, of course.

Started out as being a terrorism only thing, got expanded to foreign interference/espionage... now it's "politically motivated violence, sabotage, and promotion of communal violence".

"The youths are hooning around in their cars, copying what they see in action movies and getting killed. This is bad."

"We could work on educating vulnerable demographics so that they understand what's being shown is extremely high-risk and not a good representation of reality... or we could ban action movies for everyone."

"I do quite like the sound of that last one, Minister."

Housing advocacy group Everybody's Home says renting a unit now costs more than half the median take-home pay of a single worker in every Australian capital city. 

The controversial film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, was banned for decades in Australia but is getting a rare festival screening. Why are some films banned and what does the public lose when media is censored?