#meanwhile in Australia

[workersforanotsafeparadise]

Ben knows that eventually they will realize he is useless and devour him. But in the meantime, life is for the living...

Which for him means until the next Eclipse of the Hidden Moon of Agnoch in 2026 according to the secret texts, so, live it up until then.

[victusinveritas]

[flarefoxxx]

So like, anyone had any juicy takes on the states relationship with México's states, Canada's provinces or maybe even Australia's states?

Cause honestly, it would be refreshing to see the states talk to other personifications OUTSIDE their country but probably never gonna happen, but doesn't mean we can't make hcs or theories of it.

[firsttraintovictoriaville]

Mr. Jimmy Rees needs to come back to MIA...deadass I had a dream Western Australia and New Zealand got ship bait. I am 👌 this close to making a ficlet about them if we don't get new content

[phynali]

I was in a research talk this week with a researcher who is doing some stuff related to grocery retailers, and he mentioned -- off the record and anecdotally so of course I'm telling all of you here -- that the major grocery chains (Coles and Woolies, as above) have shareholders who saw ridiculous record profits during the lockdowns here, and now they won't let profits fall back down. They need that little bar on the graph to continue to increase, if not as dramatically, rather than allowing the more realistic regression to the mean, the decrease in profits and return to a steady state.

The farmers are on record saying "we're not charging the retailers more than we were a few years ago". The cost of food hasn't increased. The cost of groceries have because the shareholders' greed is endless.

Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.

[biscuitfeatures]

Meanwhile in Australia…

[firsttraintovictoriaville]

MEANWHILE IN AUSTRALIA FAM WE GOT A NEW EPISODE ON JIMMY'S *BYRON BAY VOICE* INSTA

[nando161mando]

Meanwhile the CEOs in the "land of the free" be like: What Are You Looking For, A Raise? Get Out!

[phynali]

I actually did it!

I saw a superb fairywren for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHH they're so small and cute and they make the cutest noises!!!!

hi. did you know australia has a fairywren species called the superb fairywren

and another species called the splendid fairywren

...and one called the lovely fairywren

[oddly-casual]

Fiona and Cake spoilers seriously

(Something I noticed abt Betty and Simons relationship)

I love Betty and Simon’s relationship, I think their back story is so cute and romantic and all that lovely stuff don’t get me wrong.

But there’s this under tone of Betty constantly giving things up for Simon and we don’t really talk about it a lot???

Like, Betty let Simon have his moment with the artifact and the pubic, she also doesn’t go to her trip in favor of going on an expedition with Simon. Then when she goes to leave again she stays for Simon.

Even Fiona is like “you went with her on the bus?” And Simon just looks all confused like “what? No, why would I do that?” Like- hello???

Then after that she gave up her entire life and mind to get Simon back to the point where she literally says “I don’t know who I am without him anymore.” And that just sucks! Since the beginning Betty has been the one giving up the most, her mind, her own possible career, and it’s a story of love of course and it’s very sweet but it’s also a story of sacrifice.

Their love wasn’t a perfect solution, it was already sort of imbalanced when it started and I lowkey love how we see those cracks even before they’re together.

Again, I love their relationship and I think it’s sweet. I just think we should talk about Betty’s side more, especially when she tells a story of what most women do in relationships, sacrifice.

[buildoblivion]

very much enjoying the post tmagp cultural exchange as every british listener unloads their intense and assorted blobby-related trauma for the international audience to enjoy

[notonlymice]

Gold x Gina moodboard

[miss-bubles]

#hear me out: we should send more people west to balance it out#so it doesn't tip over#sure its mostly desert north of Perth#but it's nice and could stay nice if they don't spread to close to the coast

Half of Australia lives here.

[bluebaggas]

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[dead-generations]

The original post was talking about other issues so I didn't want to clog the ops feed. so I typed it here

different countries handle history in markedly different ways; the US has its "the through line of the development of liberal democracy" curriculum and in most districts you must take history throughout your schooling.

in Australia history is extremely optional, you can and most people do stop around year ten, and really only focuses on the world wars, a bit of mediaeval europe and some Australian history (though this is not very good). in addition in your last bit of history it is usually either classical or modern. It's the only area where our schools are significantly worse than the states

I tend to prefer the method of history teaching I am familiar with in the US with its focus (in the last years of school) on teaching historiography and a critical reading of history. which is easily the most important part of history at that age - the ability to independently grasp history later in life.

I also think teaching classical history at the tail end of highschool is very stupid and reflects Australia's heritage in British education. I find the average Australian has a really poor grasp of European history before WWI and no grasp of the history of their own region, and the history taught about Australia is also generally quite poor. way too much emphasis on civic history. Although Australians have a high level of civic literacy especially compared to Americans so I won't be too hasty.

Absolutely madness that they do not teach at least basic 20th century East Asian history. bright side is our physical education is excellent, our maths are decent, our civics are great and our sciences are solid. I think we have a realistic view towards vocational training though I think we should return to the earlier off ramp. But Australians are really so ignorant of the world around them and I think improving our history curriculum would be a good place to start.

[yossarianirl]

im not sure the american tariffs on australia will rly hurt us. like its america who pays the tax, but the thing is all we import to them is steel n aluminium, which they cant dig up in their own country. they're going to be forced to keep buying off us and we wont lose moeny from it, esp bc our pm rightfully decided not to put in a "revenge tariff" thatd hurt our own economy. like the only other option is america finding someone else to buy metal from but which other allies do they have w a bunch of mines