Australian News

Over the weekend, Brisbane’s Church of Scientology became the latest target of a viral trend that began in the United States just a few months ago — the Scientology speed run.

Nfi why? It is literally blasted out into space for anyone with a receiver to hear but now unless I want to spend 2 gigs of ram and a CPU core I can’t listen on a computer.

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He told the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion he was embraced by the LGBTQIA+ community when he came out as gay as a teenager, but the experience was markedly different when he told loved ones of his religious conversion.

A car belonging to Western Sydney mayor Ola Hamed was destroyed in a suspected firebombing, as police investigate a string of shootings and arson attacks across Sydney’s south-west.

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A fire has broken out at one of Australia's two currently operational oil refineries, with residents in parts of Geelong told to stay indoors due to smoke.

A 70-year-old man accused of using the banned phrase "from the river to the sea" at a Gaza conflict protest will claim the charge was "insane", a magistrate has heard.

Convicted gang rapist Michael Angok has been arrested in Sydney's west five days after escaping custody from Bankstown Hospital.

Images won't load on the archived anti-paywall site, so here they are: https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/71fbf800422a6fa55e293daa66298f8b?width=1024 https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/5beaf4eb29664242d738e6fc537d4be4?width=1024 https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/594cf91b2290529c73af853d7bebcd24?width=1024 https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/523576811a416f7e4a807c57e81f5ac4?width=1024 https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/9927fd5e749428a1e0e9a050659976b0?width=1024

I swapped to the headline that is presented on the page as opposed to the shorter summary headline.

NSW Police have been criticised for heavy-handed arrest of a protester who attended the anti-Isaac Herzog protest in February, with eight heavily armoured officers breaking down the woman’s door at 5am on Thursday morning.

A powerful tropical cyclone in Western Australia has disrupted production at the ‌country's two biggest liquefied natural gas plants run by Chevron and Woodside, exacerbating a global supply crunch caused by the conflict in the Middle East.

More than 650 venues in NSW will need to close their gaming machines, or pokies, between 4am and 10am each day in reforms announced by the NSW Government.

Meanwhile, Australians are starting to vote with their wallets. February saw record EV sales, with battery-electric vehicles taking an 11.8% share of new car sales — up from about 8.4% in January.

He blames panic buying for the fuel crunch we have seen in Australia in recent weeks.

Most of the oil South Korea refines for sale to Australia comes from the Middle East.

Most of the oil South Korea refines for sale to Australia comes from the Middle East.

Bowen said he had cut fuel companies’ minimum stock obligations to about 700m litres of petrol and 2.2bn litres of diesel respectively, freeing up about 300m and 500m respectively to be directed towards regional Australia.

I can only wish them safety, the evil iranian regime will not be pleased by this

(Reported on Friday, didn't see it here.)

This is slightly older news from early February that I just caught wind of. There's a couple longer paywalled posts on Mamamia and SMH.

Archive/non-paywall link.

Link is to one post of live blog.

De-paywalled archive link: https://archive.is/yPLmT

SBS News: NT hit-and-run driver avoids jail again after prosecutors appeal 'inadequate' sentence

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The rebrand coincides with the opening of a new broadcast centre at News Corp Australia’s Sydney headquarters, officially launched by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns.

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wonder what he said to get such a heavy response

NSW police responding to reports of shooting at Sydney’s Bondi beach – follow latest

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... and twenty percent of the web.

WA Labor senator Glenn Sterle has criticised a proposal to reduce speed limits on unsigned roads.

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Archive link: https://archive.md/Wqvei

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One man was arrested in Melbourne, with police deploying crowd control measures including OC (or pepper) spray, flash-bangs and rubber bullets during a tense stand-off with counter protesters.

How are those privacy laws going for ya now?

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This shit has been going on for many decades in the horticulture industry here, and already came to a head years ago: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/australias-farm-industry-seasonal-workers-exploited-labour-short/100687182

This is a wise step for Australia in terms of deterrence as much as I don't trust Boeing or my government, it is has been pretty strange seeing some countries look at the Apache like it is outdated when it is probably one of the most successfully forward thinking weapon systems from the Cold War especially with the longbow radars and it has only become more relevant as an integrated central node to coordinate air defense against things such as mass drone waves.

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I'm really interested to know whether this crime was racially motivated. I really think we need a reckoning in Melbourne over this growing tide of alt-right fascism and racism. We've also had the attack on Camp Sovereignty within the last month.