Océanie

A 2020 survey put the average rider rate at just over $10 per hour after costs. In my time as a rider, I’ve typically made about $20 per hour – well below the minimum wage of $26.44 – which tells you just how significant the new rate of $31.30 per hour is. Yet entitlements like superannuation and sick leave still remain out of reach, and platforms continue to reward riders who put themselves at risk.

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Cassuto [Zionist Federation of Australia’s CEO] says he got what he wanted because Mary had already issued a qualified apology. He leaves out the timing. She made that apology before he went to the Federal Court. He called it insincere and sued anyway. Two years on, he points to the same apology as his reason for stopping. That is a man looking for the exit.

Alexander Csgero will be eligible for parole as early as next month after being sentenced to three-and-a-half years behind bars for reckless foreign interference.

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New research from the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) released on Wednesday shows that intergenerational financial support — flowing from older, wealthy family members to younger ones — is increasingly driving inequality.

Given Australia lacks a complete and nationally consistent framework, this paper is the first to offer a comprehensive regional analysis across Australia that links projected Sea Level Rise/Surge effects with the economic losses on land use and property by sub-region and sector. Projections of SLR/S -related damages at the sub-regional level, driven by local geomorphology, coastal risk, asset exposure, and socioeconomic vulnerability, vary sharply across Australia. Location and values of property and land-use sectors also vary sharply between sub-regions, which generates large differences in economic damages across the country. In addition, the more fine-scaled and subnational modeling contained in this study captures local geomorphology, property values, and infrastructure density, helping councils and states to plan targeted adaptation. In this paper, specifically, a GIS-based framework is developed to project SLR inundation hazards in Australia, utilizing SLR height projections from Kirezci et al.,7. The methodology converts projected SLR heights into Australia’s digital elevation model (DEM) data and applies a ‘bathtub approach’ to delineate inundated areas. By integrating these inundation maps with digital economic datasets, this paper estimates future physical and economic damages at a consistent sub-regional scale under two key climate change scenarios.

We are calling for an urgent moratorium on AI data centre construction in Australia until safeguards for communities, energy supply and the environment are legislated.

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Allegations of fraud and misconduct have been revealed in tip-offs sent to the federal watchdog overseeing the Cheaper Home Batteries Program.

Australians are cutting their fresh produce spending by more than a quarter as the cost of living crunch changes how they shop — with some admitting to removing broccoli stalks and others selecting cheaper varieties at self-serve checkouts.

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Your morning scroll could look very different under new draft laws from the federal government, which plan to give social media users the chance to switch off the algorithm shaping their feed.

Something positive. We could use this idea all over Australia imo.

Climate Council director and academic Lesley Hughes says the changing climate is reshaping Australians’ notion of summer: instead of looking forward to it, people increasingly feel apprehensive.

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On Palantir and Cellebrite involvement with AusGov.

“The following text was submitted to the AUKUS Public Inquiry with the intention of highlighting the issue of the lack of free, prior and informed consent for the massive build-out of military installations on Indigenous lands associated with the AUKUS agreement and the United States Force Posture Initiatives.

De-paywalled archive snapshot: https://archive.is/AKpSH

Chinese police have allegedly intervened in a planned strike by Chinese food delivery workers in Sydney, with several workers saying they received warning calls from police in China telling them: “Don’t organise a strike overseas.”

The article summarises an interview with Gil Duran about his new book which describes how tech billionaires and venture capitalists in the US have cultivated a virulently anti-democratic ideology for decades and how they’re using technology to remake today’s world.

Sydney, I’m so proud of you! I nearly cried when I read this article.