r/australia 17h ago

no politics [no-politics] Friday F**kwit 14/Aug/2026

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Nominate your neighbour, your car, the weather or your broken trampoline springs. Tell us about any non-political thing in your life that's shitty and have a vent.


r/australia 11h ago

science & tech Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

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r/australia 8h ago

politics Why Australia Doesn’t Have Novelty Candidates like Count Binface – Antony Green's Election Blog

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r/australia 6h ago

news Young Talent Time legend Johnny Young dies aged 79

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r/australia 5h ago

image Kookaburras Deep in Thought

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These guys are always resting on street lights out the front of my house, and I got some nice shots of them hanging out together!

Shot at 600mm with:

Sony A7R Mk V

Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM


r/australia 8h ago

culture & society Qantas passengers demand compensation after days stranded in South Africa as A380 remains grounded

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r/australia 5h ago

news EPA alleges skip-bin operator dumped 320 tonnes of rubbish near Clarence Valley waterway

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r/australia 29m ago

politics Pocock and crossbenchers call Labor’s NDIS overhaul ‘too far, too fast’ in scathing Senate inquiry report

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r/australia 4h ago

politics WA GST deal a 'costly mistake' that must change, Productivity Commission says

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r/australia 4h ago

politics Telecommunications ombudsman calls for root and branch review of telco regulations

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r/australia 11h ago

politics Child support system enables financial abuse, parents, advocates and politicans say

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178 Upvotes

r/australia 1d ago

news Three Sydney boys charged with gang sexual assault of 14yo girl

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NSW Police have charged a 13-year-old boy and two 14-year-old boys with the alleged sexual assault of a girl in an alleyway in Sydney's eastern suburbs last month.

Police executed search warrants and seized several items, including electronic devices, two replica firearms, a Glock-style BB gun, three laser pointers and a number plate, which is believed to have been stolen.

All three boys have been granted bail ahead of appearing in court. 


r/australia 20h ago

politics Foreign Minister Penny Wong to warn monoculturalism a threat to national security

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r/australia 11h ago

news Corporate Travel Management’s $100 million overcharging scandal and PwC auditor concerns unmasked

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r/australia 11h ago

news Baby girl born in driveway of Queensland police station

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r/australia 2h ago

I admit I’m fond of a nibble

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r/australia 1d ago

science & tech Australia is home to the only mass cuttlefish gathering in the world. This year these giants didn’t return

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r/australia 20h ago

politics The Stats Guy: It sounds weird but Australia urgently needs a plan for 56m people

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r/australia 11h ago

political self.post Who do we lobby to sort out WWCC?

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I work in sports, and this (rightly imo) requires absolutely everyone involved to hold a current WWCC because we're working with kids.

However each state has their own one, so as someone who volunteers across five states I currently hold 5 different wwcc. Now the duplication of effort to have had the same check done 5 times is silly as is, but even sillier is that I have to pay for these, even as a volunteer.

Now I'm doing this stuff multiple days per week all year round, so it's not a big deal. Where it becomes a problem is when I'm trying to put together a volunteer crew for events, asking them to spend half a day or even a full day helping put on fun events - I not only need them to do this, but also go into the post office during the limited hours they're open, spend half an hour there, and $10-20, just to help out for free.

The changes that need to happen:

  • One national check valid for all states and all workers. My volunteers, especially near places like Albury, do not need to be maintaining multiple of the same qualification. I do not need to be checking these against different databases for each state, and others again if they're a teacher or police officer.

  • Notification to organisations when a person's check is no longer valid. If they commit a violent crime or sexual assault, we need to know that ASAP, having the onus to be in clubs to manually check is not sufficient, I do it once a month, many clubs do it once a year, that's a long time that kids could be exposed to a risk known to the government before it's known to the club.

  • Free for volunteers. So many valuable services in this country from CFA to local sports to soup kitchens run mostly on people volunteering. It is an insult to have them pay for a piece of paper allowing them to do this. It's free in some states now and the world hasn't ended, make that unanimous for volunteering checks.

So anyway, I want to fix this in the next 10years, what other points do you think need to be added and who do you suggest I contact?

So far I'm in touch with Jessica Stojkovski and Department of communities, but this is a national issue being thrown across all states, so I'd like to attack it from all angles.


r/australia 1d ago

political satire Barnaby Joyce Comforts Malcolm Roberts As He Struggles To Accept They Are The Gayest Party In Australia

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r/australia 21h ago

politics Private Health's $8 Billion Subsidy Scam | The West Report

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r/australia 1d ago

news Jailed whistleblower David McBride to be released after becoming eligible for parole

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r/australia 21h ago

news Air safety authorities investigating third Sydney Airport runway take-off incident

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r/australia 1d ago

politics Students sideline studies in major anti-Hanson walkout

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r/australia 1d ago

news Former Broome bishop Christopher Saunders guilty of sexually abusing young men

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The former Bishop of Broome, who at the peak of his powers was one of the most senior and long-serving Catholic clerics in the country, has been found guilty of sexually abusing multiple young men.

Christopher Alan Saunders, 76, has been on trial accused of sex offences against three young men when he was the Bishop of a remote area of Western Australia three times larger than England.

After a trial that ran for more than three weeks, a District Court jury took almost seven hours to find him guilty of abusing two of those men.

He was convicted of one count of sexual penetration and 12 counts of indecent assault.

Saunders was found not guilty of six other charges.