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One of our cats displaying almost all of his mixed toe beans. It looks inviting, yes, but don’t go in there because it’s a deathtrap…

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1368561/left-wing-rage-right-wing-rage

For years, carers have been raising the alarm about the yawning gap between the care allowance and the actual costs of looking after children.

That gap has now been quantified, with a report from the Australian Institute of Family Studies (Aifs) finding that carer allowances around the country fall “significantly short of a meaningful contribution” to children’s care and urging they be increased as soon as possible.

Aifs estimated the direct costs of supporting children in out-of-home care, for different family structures, to achieve the same standard of living as other children. Those budgets were compared to the 2024 minimum weekly care allowance rates, which ranged from $231 in Victoria (the lowest) to $359 in the ACT (the highest). The national average was $292.

The foster and kinship care system in Australia needs a real overhaul. Let's hope this report makes the govt(s) take some meaningful action. In the back of my mind I'm thinking NDIS, NDIS.

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The countries are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Norway and Ireland.

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The hybrid activities to which our countries are exposed point to a further escalation,” [Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander] Dobrindt said during a press conference, while standing next to his Irish counterpart Jim O’Callaghan.

According to Dobrindt, the number of hybrid threats is growing and becoming more sophisticated. The majority of the threats appear to come from Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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At the beginning of August, one of Germany’s main military logistics hubs – the Leipzig airport – was targeted by a drone equipped with explosives. The drone was located near a Ukrainian Antonov transport plane. The Baltic Sea itself has also been the site of multiple incidents, leaving sub-sea communication cables destroyed.

To better defend against such hybrid attacks, the countries are now calling for the issue to be considered in the EU’s future financial planning.

Ireland, which holds the rotating Council Presidency, is currently leading the negotiations between the European Parliament and EU capitals to determine the EU’s next seven-year budget. On Thursday, six countries met in Berlin to call for a cut of several hundred billion from the proposed €2 billion budget, while also pointing to the need for adequate defence spending.

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The Baltic Sea states have also decided to improve coordination through a task force focused on hybrid threats. Together, the group agreed to improve protection of critical infrastructure and drone defence through joint exercises.

Their next meeting will likely focus on the Russian shadow fleet, while O’Callaghan will raise hybrid threats at the EU interior ministers’ meeting in October.

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You can see them getting many sucker punches into protestors, even once they're on the ground. Prior to this they also used OC spray and pepper balls.

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The Australian government is considering allowing users to opt in or opt out of social media algorithms, and is looking at a recent UK ban on depictions of strangulation and suffocation in pornography.

The social services minister, Tanya Plibersek, said social media was “playing a huge role” in the increase in sexual violence among teenagers and choking, and confirmed the options were being considered as the government develops its second action plan to end family and domestic violence against women and children.

It follows the death of a 16-year-old girl in Sydney after a suspected sexual strangulation act. Guardian Australia reported on Thursday that a source informed about the case said the teenager was believed to have become unconscious as a result of asphyxiation during sexual intercourse, often referred to as “choking”. No arrests have been made...

Labor will also soon begin consultation on a digital duty of care bill that will put the onus on tech companies, including AI companies, to make online spaces safer for all users.

Plibersek said the digital duty of care legislation, as well as a second round of privacy reforms, could also help tackle camera-equipped smartglasses, which she said she had serious concerns about.

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