Sigh, first we had some religious whacko's wrecking indigenous art, now these whackos from the Cult of the Self.

Can't we just leave other people's shit alone, and all just get along ?

It can work until they capture the regulator, and then become as one.

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

"And the child shall be born on the winter solstice.

They shall be named landsharkkidd"

I smell an epic trilogy coming on....

if need be

Yeah. After thinking some more, that might be the best approach for now.

I'm not totally against gambling, and in general I'm against banning things that are legal, within society norms etc.

Maybe it won't turn out to be a big deal. So wait and see is probably the way to go.

Well spotted. I was trying to work out what to add for SA, and then I wondered "What's more ignored than saying somebody is forgotten?". So I left SA out XD

No offence to SAers -or the various other states above- it's just a jab at how the various governments treat us.

NSW will give their share straight to property developers.

Vic will give their share as a negative gearing special rebate.

Qld will give their share as a first home buyers deposit. It will instantly raise the prices of all real estate by that same amount, ensuring that you can never be a first home buyer.

Tassie will probably spend theirs on a footy stadium, with a granny flat in the carpark to make sure it qualifies

ACT gets 1.5 billion of this to go to housing on submarines.

For some reason, WA won't get anything.

And NT is forgotten altogether.

Lodion, thanks for your efforts. Must have been a long week for you.

Hope you get to have some down time (but not the aussie.zone servers)

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I hang around on various sports sites, communities, discussion boards etc.

One thing that bugs the hell out of me is the insidious insertion of betting into sports discussions. These range from "Put $500 on X to score", "Need this team to lose for my multi", to the more subtle "Who is your favourite this season for MVP/Brownlow/DallyM?" Which of course sends a bunch of people to gambling sites to quote the odds, tell you which gambling site gives you the best odds and tell you how much they put on.

Half the time I can't tell if they are astroturfing for betting companies.

Irrespective of the laws, could we take a more proactive stance on discouraging gambling, eg on a community based lemmy server?

Ohhhh. It's at a former coal site.

I couldn't work out the reason behind adding a battery to a coal power station, when the coalies claim that coal was needed for when renewables+battery wouldn't work.

Copying a post I did earlier in the week:

That 4 corners report was a bit of an eye opener.

I hadn't realised that eg, Football Australia had signed contracts with sports betting related companies, and that they actually get a cut of each bet. And "The NRL earnt 50 million dollars last year from this agreement. It takes a 1-point-2 per cent commission from every bet in Australia on its games, more for riskier bets and gambling on big games like the State of Origin and finals. On some bets … the NRL can take 17.5 per cent of a bookmaker's profit."

They won't want to do anything to reduce gambling. They are incentivised to increase gambling !!