Australia News on April 17, 2019

One if the first answers was 'Idaho, a potata for every outta stater' which got me wondering, what places in Australia offer? What would you say your area (ie Central Coast, Far North QLD) would be best known for/offer to visitors? I'm at the top end of southern QLD. I reckon we'd give tourists Dingos, old Queenslanders and the Welfare Card.

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South Australian senator Tim Storer to quit politics, citing family reasons

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Discussion Thread: Do you find yourself blocking outside political voices?

I have to keep reminding myself not to block users on Twitter and reddit who voice political opinions I disagree with. Particularly as the election gets closer and people start discussing the issues they’re passionate about a bit more.

I found myself doing it firstly with users who were clearly expressing violent, racist or sexist views but then I blocked one or two people who I just couldn’t be bothered arguing with. It’s just so easy to be defeatist on social media, where everyone argues but nobody ever changes their mind.

Then there’s the spectre that I could just be arguing with someone paid to blurt out talking point ad infinitum or even a bot.

But I realised it’s a really bad practice. If I’m just blocking out views I disagree with I might miss a detail I hadn’t heard of or worse I might not realise there are some issues that people in other parties and I might actually agree on.

Sometimes I think it’s easy to forget that there are things we can all agree need fixing, debating the things we disagree on is important of course, but it’s sometimes surprising how much we can agree as well.

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u/kun_tee_chops

3 hours ago

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Those FKN postal vote forms coming from pollies can be used to cost their campaign. So, the delivery address is specific to the candidates office.

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First time going to Melbourne.

So I'm from Perth, im going to Melbourne in January. Ive never been before. What would you recommend for a 28year old guy into pop culture and good food!?

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Permissible Influences: Israel and the Australian Elections

countercurrents.org/2019/0...

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This sign at Uluru clearly states "Please don't Climb" in many language's and yet....

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Quintessentially Australian

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How fucked is Ticketek?

Just bought txt for sister of mercy - literally more than double the cost if I went direct to Ticketek, compared to Bandsintown. I don’t get it - bandsintown uses Ticketek anyway...

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Need a little help with the NAB banking app

Does anybody know to delete saved payees from the NAB app? My payee list is spammed with people and old house rentals that I won't be sending money to anymore.

Any help is greatly appreciated

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