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  • Restaurants Now Have To Disclose the Origin of Their Seafood (or Be Caught Out)

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  • Only, it turns out the supplier lied - is the restaurant in some sort of trouble?

    ABC coverage somewhat addresses this:

    Businesses must keep records of all seafood bought for three months, and suppliers face stiff penalties if they fail to provide correct information to food service providers.

    From: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/seafood-country-of-origin-hospitality-imported-australian/106854232

    So it sounds like suppliers would be the ones subject to penalties in that case.

    As Ilandar mentions in their comment, the ACCC sound like they're going to be pretty lenient for restaurants who've made a good-faith effort:

    We're unlikely to take enforcement action where a business has attempted to follow the requirements, is responsive to our concerns and agrees to timely remediation.

    From: https://www.accc.gov.au/business/advertising-and-promotions/country-of-origin-food-labelling

  • The new teal party is here. Who is Community Strong Australia — and who will join?

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  • Climate 200's ability to donate to independents across the country stands to be significantly curtailed by new electoral funding laws passed in the last parliament which Ms Steggall and Ms Spender have both suggested are biased towards political parties.

    A political party would have greater flexibility to prioritise resources and support multiple candidates than a collection of like-minded independents working together without a party structure.

    From the ABC coverage: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-25/allegra-spender-and-zali-steggall-form-centrist-party/106839026

    I think this is the main reason, even if they deny it. This move doesn't make sense without it. Bit of an oversight from SBS to not mention it, honestly. It's also mentioned in the Guardian's coverage (linked in arbilp3's comment).

  • Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

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  • AUKUS Public Inquiry

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  • Ok, if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the site.

    In fairness, at the very top of the page they have "AN INDEPENDENT PUBLIC INQUIRY ..." and then the first text below the navigation bar is "INDEPENDENT CIVIL SOCIETY REVIEW".

  • Australian billionaire proposes giving free land for ‘Israeli’ military companies

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  • Hanson casts One Nation as rising anti-establishment force in protest-hit Press Club speech

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  • Pauline Hanson says Australia ‘must be monocultural’ in National Press Club speech

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  • Pauline still sings 'young and free' in protest I reckon 😆

  • Kenyan student Sheila Chebii fell 15 floors to her death while working at a Sydney hotel. Her family want answers

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  • From the Guardian article that this post links to:

    Weeks after Chebii’s death, members of the Kenyan diaspora staged a protest outside the hotel where she died, calling for answers and transparency about what had occurred.

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    “The circumstances surrounding her death, together with the time it has taken to receive substantive updates from the relevant authorities, have left many community members with questions and concerns.”

    From an article linked in the body of the previous post:

    The march, which proceeded to Meriton, was described by organizers as peaceful, respectful, and well coordinated. Community members turned out in solidarity with Chebii's family, calling for transparency and answers regarding the circumstances surrounding her death.

  • AI company Firmus to become Tasmania's biggest power user if three planned sites come to fruition

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  • It's surreal how seemingly everyone in this article - including the journalist - has adopted the rebranding effort.

    It's not my area of expertise, but this bit also seems like a nonsensical attempt at selling the 'factory' rebrand spin:

    Firmus has said the factory will contain data centre infrastructure and specialised computers that use graphics processing units to produce "AI tokens" needed for tools such as generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.

    Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but in the context of GenAI, 'tokens' are either 'credits' used as the billing unit of a GenAI tool (and they aren't 'produced'), or they are the (transformed) semantic units of a query/response (e.g. words). They aren't some kind of fungible resource produced like a good output from a factory to then be used by some other tool as this would imply. Am I misinterpreting the implications of that paragraph? Maybe it's not deliberate and the journo is just out of their depth?

  • Hanson at the Press Club

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  • Kenyan student Sheila Chebii fell 15 floors to her death while working at a Sydney hotel. Her family want answers

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  • But I don’t actually know what coverage I would demand in this situation.

    I think what the Guardian has now published is about what I'd expect, but, as was covered in the video in the previous post I linked to, no Australian outlet had published anything at all about it. This is the first mention in the Australian press, a month later.

    That's despite the suspiciousness, questions from the family, coverage in Kenyan and diaspora media, the matter being raised in the Kenyan Parliament, and a community protest march in Sydney (more than two weeks ago now).

  • Kenyan student Sheila Chebii fell 15 floors to her death while working at a Sydney hotel. Her family want answers

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  • Australian World Cup referee Shaun Evans responds to accusations he used a hate symbol at World Cup

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  • I think it looks very much like he was doing the 'circle game' thing, though he denies it was intentional at all.

  • Grill’d burger chain sued by ACCC over alleged greenwashing

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  • Grill'd are scumbags. As mentioned in the linked article, they exploited supposed traineeships to underpay staff (among other labour violations). From what I can tell, they continued to do that for about a decade after it was called out.

    Article from The Age in 2015: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/grilld-contracts-under-scrutiny-as-sacked-exworker-takes-burger-chain-to-court-20150722-gii2hl.html

    Union article indicating a resolution after industrial action in 2025: https://www.weareunion.org.au/after_paying_its_staff_less_than_minimum_rate_for_years_grill_d_buckles_under_union_pressure

  • Hidden cosmic web revealed by Australia's SKA radio telescope with biggest-ever magnetic map

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  • The Financial Review’s Inaccurate Preference Analysis

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  • How embarrassing for the AFR. Imagined party names, rubbish analysis, and "assisted by Gemini".

  • How To Create A Custom News Feed Free From Algorithm Manipulation

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  • So, we need to grow Lemmy, right?

    Probably Mastodon in this case, since it's more of a Twitter alternative, but it's all fediverse!

  • 'Keyboard warriors': Northern Ireland leader hits out at Musk and Robinson

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  • Ah, I getcha, but why not make that the title and post body then?

  • 'Keyboard warriors': Northern Ireland leader hits out at Musk and Robinson

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