Cmon guys this one’s easy, it’s from the free-range broccoli farm

The linked report goes into more detail about what they consider violence and how the answers were collected https://aifs.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-05/Insights-Report-IPV-Chapter-1.pdf

Here’s one (of many) relevant sections (emphasis added):

To understand the use of intimate partner violence, respondents were presented with a series of questions following the prompt, ‘As an adult, how have you behaved towards a past or present partner?’, and asked to respond either ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Respondents were also able to skip answering these questions. The questions included:

• Have you ever behaved in a manner that has made a partner feel frightened or anxious? (emotional- type abuse) 1
• Have you ever hit, slapped, kicked or otherwise physically hurt a partner when you were angry? (physical violence)
• Have you ever forced a partner to have sex or made them engage in any sexual activity they did not want? (sexual abuse) 2

Similarly, to measure men’s experience of intimate partner violence, respondents were presented with a series of questions following the prompt, ‘As an adult, have you ever experienced any of the following?’, and asked to respond either ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Respondents were also able to skip answering these questions. The questions included:

• Have you ever felt frightened or anxious because of the behaviour of a partner? (emotional-type abuse).
• Have you ever been hit, slapped, kicked or otherwise physically hurt by a partner when they were angry? (physical violence).
• Has a partner ever forced you to have sex or made you engage in any sexual activity you did not want? (sexual abuse).

Hm, it’s not usually what I think of either when I read/hear the word “violence”, but I guess it’s using a broader definition. Apparently verbal/emotional abuse also qualifies under the legal definition for domestic violence

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Why’s this getting nuked?

Honestly I didn’t know that the UK and Canada were first-past-the-post for the lower houses lol

I really like how this series has discussed / explored some diametrically opposed ideas.

Personally I’ve found the arguments here about the need to defend trade routes and undersea cables compelling, but that also doesn’t seem to necessarily conflict with one the previous author’s suggestions for a larger number of smaller and less expensive, less vulnerable vessels (and they specifically advocated for uncrewed ones) instead of 3 nuclear subs.

If you had read the article before commenting, you would see that it’s not about a blanket no-war-ever-at-all sentiment (though of course per the quote there is some pure pacifism). As examples:

However, Throssell’s anti-war views, derived from his firsthand knowledge of war and its consequences, were largely ignored.

This pattern repeats across Australian history, from the first world war to the War on Terror. In every war, there have been a number of soldiers and veterans who turned against it, Some became pacifists, while others acknowledged the necessity of war in rare instances. They drew on their war experience to caution restraint, urging war-makers to reflect on Australian values and interests before committing Australian lives overseas. (emphasis added)

Several International Brigade veterans went on to serve in the second world war, to continue their anti-fascist effort. Jim McNeil enlisted at the outbreak of war, just nine months after returning wounded from Spain. He and others like him “just hated fascism and wanted to fight it”, he explained.

These stories show not all radical veterans became pacifists. Some recognised the necessity of countering the extreme threat fascism posed to Australia, at home and abroad. (emphasis added)

In each of these cases, the protesting veterans were explicit that their opposition to war was about protecting Australian interests and values. Mansie, for instance, argued the Iraq War would “incite terrorism” and endanger Australians, something security experts agree was a lasting consequence of the War on Terror.

He also argued involvement in an illegal war was not in “the fighting spirit of our nation and its defence force personnel”. Like those volunteers on the International Brigades in the 1930s, Mansie invoked the Anzac legend to support his position, framing Australian warfare as defending fairness and righteous causes. (emphasis added)

Haha, yeah that’s what I was getting at - maybe need to leave a stronger clue next time 😅

While specific populations — including men who have sex with men (MSM)

I see the mainstream media are doing some… rebranding

Not 100% sure, though I’m leaning towards it actually being fortified (with perhaps a lower level being naturally occurring) given that the person on the verge of losing all their vegemite isn’t saying “wtf it’s naturally occurring” in response to “it’s not allowed to have added vitamin B”

https://www.aldi.com.au/product/vegemite-vegemite-370g-000000000000370431

Ingredients: yeast extract (wheat, barley), salt, mineral salt (508), malt extract (barley), colour (150c), flavours, niacin [aka B3], thiamine [aka B1], riboflavin [aka B2], folate [aka B9].

Sure sounds like there’s some extra added in there to me

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There may yet be time to rename the sea pig to the glorbo

Hey if you do it first you’ll probably make the news!

Thanks for the updates!

The Chaser and the NotTheChaser timestreams have gotten mixed up again

Related, but not so great that I wanted to submit it: The Betoota Advocate: King sends nice portrait to the Mint in case they change their mind about the $5 Note

For better or worse, I doubt converting all the volunteer force to paid positions is in the cards - at least for the foreseeable future. But if people are financially secure (which is not exactly the case right now, generally speaking), encouraging volunteer work is fine imo. The “if” is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there though @_@

I didn’t see any examples of inspection failures for Fair Trade.

From the article (with emphasis added)

On one estate, listed as a supplier for Lipton and Twinings, we met estate worker Darshini.

The estate had Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade certification. While Lipton only sources tea from Rainforest Alliance-certified estates, Twinings has its own set of ethical standards.

Darshini has been a tea plucker for nearly three decades, since she was a teenager, and knows the meaning of a hard day’s work. A map showing Sri Lanka’s tea growing regions.

She was one of dozens of women plucking tea in a remote field on the day the ABC visited.

The work is arduous. To receive the minimum wage she needs to pluck 18kg of tea before the daily weigh-in to meet her quota.

“I have only plucked 6kg so far. I have to pick another 12 kilos,” she said. “If it’s 15 kilos or less I’ll get half pay.”

When the workers finish plucking for the day they must march several kilometres to the weigh-in, with heavy sacks of tea leaves on their backs.

Tea plucker Darshini has to pick 18kg of tea a day or risk being paid less than the minimum wage.

Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade certification is intended to ease some of the harsh conditions inherent in this kind of work.

For workers on this estate, it should guarantee they “always have access to safe and sufficient drinking water” and “sufficient, clean and functioning toilets” either in the fields or close by.

But the workers here told the ABC the plantation had provided neither.

“We do not have these facilities while we are in the field,” said tea plucker Maheswarie. “There is no toilet in the field.”

They also said that they regularly lost access to drinking water in their houses on the estate.

Breaches of Rainforest Alliance standards should be uncovered through routine audits, but according to Maheswarie, the auditors come but managers “don’t allow us to talk to them”.

“Maybe the auditors don’t get to talk to us because we might tell them the truth,” she said.