Today is Nelson Mandela International Day, a day to celebrate the South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Here are the top suburbs for people born in South Africa in each state and territory.
I love multiculturalism. My Polish, Irish, Portuguese and Peruvian neighbours and I all banded together to make a property manager evict the noisy Indian family out of the apartment across the street.
What do you make of Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year for 2023?
'Cozzie Livs', a colloquial phrase for cost of living, has taken out the crown.
All our "Cozzie Livs" coverage here:
Today, New Zealand science is (Jerry Coyne’s words) circling the drain. And all because of juvenile politics & the racist canard that science is “Western” & needs “decolonising”. Science is not “Western”. It belongs to all humanity. Delved into it further (link to my blog in bio)
People like you told us it was ok to protest in the street for the just death of career criminal George Floyd (rest in piss). You don’t get to have it both ways.
we in the western sydney suburbs were met with extra police to "enforce lockdown rules" and you fuckers protesting masks in sydney cbd are the exact entitled pieces of shit the police are supposed to have been policing from the get go
hope you fuckers get whats coming
This case is wild:
She stole $10.7% ($44bn) of Vietnam’s yearly GDP in total.
According to prosecutors, over a period of three years, she ordered her driver to withdraw 108 trillion Vietnamese dong, more than $4bn in cash from the bank, and store it in her basement.
That much
NEW: Buzzfeed will no longer run a dedicated UK or Australian news operation, resulting in staff being furloughed and stood down. Some UK staff will be retained to cover global news for the US. The decision has been made "both for economic and strategic reasons", a spox said.
@TweetingOnIpad
“Hello Null, my name is Priya and I’m new co-worker. It’s nice to meet you and I look forward to working with you”
[aggressively slides that thing down]
Labor’s Powering Australia plan has been modelled independently by the country’s top energy economists, RepuTex
The Coalition’s attack today has been modelled by … the Coalition. It’s just the latest in more than a decade of desperate scare campaigns.
#AusVotes2022
A thread.🧵
Quaden Bayles, an indigenous Australian boy who won the support of celebrities and well-wishers around the globe after being bullied because of his disability, has landed a role in the new "Mad Max" movie.
Christmas Day was a spectacular success. Seeing my gf get along with my family, playing with my little nephew and bants at the dinner table makes me appreciate just how lucky I am.