General Discussions

[ElwoodBlues1]

My kids never paid board, like GTC we put them through Uni and supported them. I paid board for a couple of years when I first started working but it was different then and my father was old school who put himself through Accounting at Uni at night school and worked several jobs through the day when he was young and never got a cent from his old man and had the value set that you paid your way in life so I had to pay board etc. Funny though when we had kids he spoiled them rotten and mellowed in his later years and became very generous, but I think he was over tough on me to make me harden up.

[capcom]

Weird isn't it ... my first fornightly pay was $53.  My mother insisted I contribute to the household to the tune of $25 for the same period.  I was not happy about that. 

[ElwoodBlues1]

Weird isn't it ... my first fornightly pay was $53.  My mother insisted I contribute to the household to the tune of $25 for the same period.  I was not happy about that. 

That is tough, think I was on $80 a week and $20 - 25 went on board.

[PaulP]

https://theconversation.com/the-less-equ...lem-151691

[LP]

https://theconversation.com/the-less-equ...lem-151691

I've got a problem with this, it seems like a correlation rather than a causation.

I'd say the truth lives within the following irony.

The more every unqualified opinion is treated equally in the wider media, without investigation or assessment, the less equal we become! Murdoch's News Ltd will examine every published scientific opinion, often using fake/false claims and cherrypicked facts, and barely question the Dunning Kruger effect driven fools commentating wrongly on deeply technical issues.

It's the widely broadcast unquestioned voice of nutters and conspiracy theorists, whose fake claims go largely unquestioned by the broader media, that drives the opinion of poll driven career politicians.

[DJC]

What a farken disgrace this is. This piece of subhuman filth wants to play the racial disadvantage card, it makes me sick to the core. They should just put a bullet between his eyes. Piece of garbage I hope you rot in hell.

From the HS:
The “Indigenous disadvantage” of killer Codey Herrmann will form the centre of defence submissions as they fight the state’s top prosecutor’s bid to lock him up for longer.

Director of Public Prosecutions Kerri Judd QC argues the 36-year sentence handed down to Aiia Maasarwe’s murderer was “manifestly inadequate”.

A five-judge bench will hear the appeal in March.

Court of Appeal president Chris Maxwell said the court would need more information regarding mitigating factors and moral culpability to understand Herrmann’s “appalling” crime.

That hasn’t gone down well with Aboriginal communities.  A lot of Aboriginal folk are saying that they have had similar life experiences and don’t feel at all inclined to rape and murder helpless young women.

[Gointocarlton]

That hasn’t gone down well with Aboriginal communities.  A lot of Aboriginal folk are saying that they have had similar life experiences and don’t feel at all inclined to rape and murder helpless young women.

Perhaps we should hand him over to his elders to deal with him.

[LP]

I fear politics is getting in the way of science yet again, in this case the origins of humanity in Australia, research about which is suffering from underfunding and neglect because of it being unfashionable in political circles.

For some time it's been hypothesised from evidence uncovered that the people we refer to as 1st Nations were not actually the countries original inhabitants. There is significant evidence in both rock art as well as recent DNA analysis that shows modern 1st Nations people were not related to those who were already here beyond a more recent period of population expansion. Yet mentioning this, discussing it in official circles, is career suicide at the moment due to the political environment.

I know some right-wing types picked up on those reports for their own motives and leverage, but the pursuit of truth should not be tailored to suit human politics, does it really make any difference if the research continues unhindered?

[PaulP]

I fear politics is getting in the way of science yet again, in this case the origins of humanity in Australia, research about which is suffering from underfunding and neglect because of it being unfashionable in political circles.

For some time it's been hypothesised from evidence uncovered that the people we refer to as 1st Nations were not actually the countries original inhabitants. There is significant evidence in both rock art as well as recent DNA analysis that shows modern 1st Nations people were not related to those who were already here beyond a more recent period of population expansion. Yet mentioning this, discussing it in official circles, is career suicide at the moment due to the political environment.

I know some right-wing types picked up on those reports for their own motives and leverage, but the pursuit of truth should not be tailored to suit human politics, does it really make any difference if the research continues unhindered?

This is from 2015, so perhaps not quite cutting edge :

https://theconversation.com/factcheck-mi...ople-43911

We can only go based on what we know, and for now, any suggestions regarding pre Aboriginal people are speculative and awaiting further evidence. The arguments raised by that dingbat Leyonhjelm are dodgy, but that comes as little surprise.

[PaulP]

From 2016 :

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016...ns/7481360

From 2018, not quite on topic, but close :

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/scienc...-australia