Well, I generally don’t consider satire to be a solid argument, it usuallp consisting of a joke and all. But if it makes people think, I’d consider it a win.

This bill is clearly not an effective solution for the stated problem. If you think it is, you’d probably make a good liberal senator.

Cool. I was referring to last night’s Senate vote that passed 34-19.

Most of the Coalition. All of Labor. None of the cross-bench.

34 yes 19 no

Govt service, or privatised age-assurance face-scanning service wrought with error?

All good

Satire, I thought it was obvious.

I’ll take that as a no

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We should ban u16s from public transport. Too many have had fatal accidents due to dangerous behaviour around railways and bus stops. Compulsory learning from home, now!

Is lemmy exempt I wonder?

Debate’s kicked off.

Why are we allowing biased newspaper editors to frame our thinking? They’re anti-genocide marches.

Except when it can’t make any calls because antenna firmware not having the right updates or some bs like that. This industry is a hot mess and I’m about to tap out.

Yea. That’s part of it. Keep reading.

Honestly, I’m sick of this industry and wasting my money on them. I’ll make do with a new $100 phone from the post office in case I need to make an emergency call. 000 will still work even without a sim.

Over many years the providers & industry have been allowed to manufacture the problem and they now get the opportunity to sell customers the solution with new handsets, all whilst harming competition, increasing profits and cutting costs by shutting down the 3G network.

How is this legal?! So the likes of Telstra are blocking otherwise functional phones?

It’s really not appropriate for a politician, the police minister to boot, to be calling anyone an ‘idiot’ in the same breath as demanding respect for the police. It’s the sort of language I’d accept from a truck driver, not from a top politician.

He is setting the tone of the discussion in an extremely problematic way by dehumanising/othering those desparately trying to stop lethal weapons sales used in crimes against humanity, while he normalises the gathering of war profiteers.

I’m extremely disappainted by this government’s policing policy.

“There’s nothing but disrespect being shown from some protesters who want to behave like idiots and police will deal with you,” he said.

our police minister, everyone.

PSA: respect has to be earned. An industry that arms crimes against humanity and genocide does not deserve respect.

The vic govt is funding this arms expo.

A lot of anti-protest rhetoric from the goverment here. Protesting is a fundamental democratic right.

Good to here Max Chandler Mather out there again showing some solidarity.

agreed. Is Ferguson always like this? Max did well not getting pushed around.