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This one's a little more nuanced. The government owned (and sold off) the old copper phone lines. And yes, that sale hurt the people for two decades.
The government did not have 5G data towers. Hell, they didn't have 3G data towers. There were some 2G towers, but most of the mobile network at the time of the Telecom sale was analogue.

They have had government assistance/incentives while deploying mobile towers in rural areas, but they have pretty-much always privately owned their mobile telephony infrastructure.

Have we learned nothing? This is literally what happened a few years ago with the big Optus outage. They were doing a change overnight, and broke everything. But all the on-call technicians were asleep because nobody could call their Optus phones to wake them up. Couldn't even try to raise them with email pings because their home Internet was also Optus. Management were clueless, because nobody could call them either.

Everyone found out in the morning from the news or when they rocked up to work per usual and the place was an ants' nest.

Issue some people phones on a different carrier, for pity's sake.

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Now let's see how well you handle it.

I'm ambivalent. The friendship between Australia and USA surpasses the present government. The friendship has been stretched, and I think support for the current US presidency in Australia would struggle to get into double-digits. But it isn't gone, yet.

I am not against this support of the nation of USA. I still hold hope that their people will begin the process of repairing the damage their government has wrought - starting with their mid-term elections later this year. I hope further that they will seriously set about mending fences with the inauguration of a new president. Because I hold that hope, I am not against this show of support to the nation.

That hope will be extinguished however if they double-down and keep the crazies in power.

There's a lot of domestic solar in WA, same as most of Australia, I guess. There isn't a lot of sun at night, though. There are a few places like Albany on the south coast that are almost 100% renewable (wind farms).

We still have some coal in the mix, but I'm not an expert/couldn't tell you how much.

We don't have peak/off-peak prices. That's the rate. I remember being pleasantly surprised because our bill halved coming to Perth from Melbourne.

Around 20 years ago, the WA state government introduced a gas reserve. It has been reinforced multiple times since then by premiers on both sides of government. Short version: 15% of offshore gas and 20% onshore is reserved for WA before whoever is extracting it is permitted to sell it outside the state.

I think WA is doing alright, here's an extract from our energy bill (family of four) to compare:

Your average daily usage 15.7778 units Your average daily cost $6.27 per day

So after doing it last year, I'm being asked to stay overnight at the kids' band camp again this year. Only I was wrong a year ago: it was Sunday Night > Monday morning. As I predicted, I got insufficient sleep that night and went from the band camp straight to work the next day. It sucked.

I don't especially want to do it, but I'm being guilted by the whole "Sadly, we won't be able to proceed with the overnight stay if this spot remains empty" bit of the email. I'll hold back a little and hope another dad steps up this year. And if I do end up caving, I'll be taking that Monday off.

It depends on the position of the person who accessed the prime minister's account. The way this would work with most computer systems (including several places I've worked), you'd be given access because there could very-well be a reason why you'd need to access the customer's details. But the access would be flagged and reviewed as a routine process.

"Why did you access this celebrity's details?"
"They came into the branch and were in front of me."

Very well, carry on.
Obviously if you can't answer this question correctly, ~~bad things~~ appropriate consequences happen.

We trust these companies with our private details. They need to have systems in place to ensure they are worthy of their trust. At one job, it was my role to drill the Australian Privacy Principles into every single new hire. Reputable companies take this stuff very seriously, and CBA will be no different.

I can imagine that a contractor seconded to CBA, and not a direct hire might have skipped their equivalent induction session. If so, I expect that would be remedied for future secondments.

As a matter of fact, there is such a force.
Perhaps you should instead pop into some vegan community and tell them how you aren't affected by their issues because you consume meat?
Or maybe a women-focussed community and tell them you aren't affected by their issues since you have a penis?

So, the seafood restaurant purchases some seafood from a supplier. The supplier says "it came from my farm", and the restaurant happily labels their food as such.

Only, it turns out the supplier lied - is the restaurant in some sort of trouble? There is one link in this article - and it is literally to itself. I'm too busy/don't care enough to go looking for any potential changes to the law. I'm unsatisfied with the content of this article however. It uses a lot of words to not really say anything more than what is in the headline.

Had this been posted to an international community, you could potentially have a point.

My Achilles heel: Spam posted on the site before about 7-7:30 Perth time.