SituationCake

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Australian houses are getting larger. For a more sustainable future, our houses can’t be the space for everything in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t understand the 2 bed 2 bath appartments, with a tiny nonfunctional kitchen and barely space for a sofa. Drop 1 bathroom and instead use space for a better kitchen and lounge, and you suddenly have a far more livable space.

The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

There seems to be a global plague of political interference and stirring up divisions. I would like to know who it is, but we may never be told. I think it’s the wrong tactic from the Aus government, it would greatly diminish the actors power if it were made public.

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Rat control (aussie.zone)
 

This year I grew tomatoes, and found rats are stealing them. I am certain it’s rats because I have seen them. Have tried netting the tomato plants, but rats found ways in. Called an exterminator to bait in the roof and under house. Feel ambivalent about it, because if a predator bird takes an affected rat it may get ill. But I’m located deep in suburbia and have never seen an owl or eagle so I think it’s unlikely. Didn’t work though, still have rats. Have given up on the tomatoes, plants are destroyed. What are your strategies for ridding yourself of ratty pestilences?

Why did there need to be a vote? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The constitution has special legal status in Australia. Parliament cannot alter it the way they can normal laws. The constitution can only be changed by a referendum - which is vote by the whole nation. What parliament is allowed to do (not Albo individually, but by majority vote in parliament), is make laws under the constitution. So yes, parliament could pass a law that creates a voice. But the next government could then pass a law that cancels the voice. And so on. The idea of putting in the constitution was so that it would have more staying power. If it was in the constitution it could still be removed, but only by another referendum, because as per point A, constitution can only be changed by a referendum.