• Biggest cost of living relief is the stage 3 tax cuts
• $300 for energy bill relief for all Australian households, beginning July 1 (eligible small businesses will receive $325)
• 10% increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance ($1.9 billion)
• Cheaper medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
• Waiving $3 billion of student HECS-HELP debt (and adjusting the indexation rate)
• Aim to build 1.2 million homes ($6.2 billion)
• Superannuation to be paid on all government-funded paid parental leave ($1.1 billion)
• Limit university students based on how much student housing they build
• Sunshine Coast rail link

No it’s a well-studied woman thing.

“… women tend to be underestimated more. They tend to be interrupted, more talked over more. They have to prove their competence more and we often feel uncomfortable when they're in positions of authority.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelleking/2021/10/26/the-authority-gap-why-women-are-still-taken-less-seriously-than-men/?sh=3ed8223e634d

TIL Australian Sushi is a thing! It never occurred to me that they don’t have the easy to hold rolls in other parts of the world. I think they make up like 10% of my diet haha.

Looks like it’s time to introvert again!

“Before going into beta” is HIGHLY optimistic lol

Microwave Watt?? Converts cooking instructions to whatever your actual microwave is (mine’s a shitty 700w beast so I have to add about 50% cooking time to most things). http://www.microwavewatt.com/

Mass produced Knick knacks. Those useless ornaments that just seem to accumulate on bookshelves, fireplaces and cabinets.

I was wondering who else counted the words lol

Still a drop in the bucket of what’s needed and still not immediate enough. Lots of people gonna be doing a tough xmas this year.

110F = 43.33C if anyone else was wondering.

Hopefully good sausage sizzle weather!

Would the Australian (NSW) laws apply here because that’s where it happened? They updated their sexual consent laws not long ago and their easy reader is pretty clear that a kiss is considered part of that. Not sure how it would be charged under the criminal code: https://dcj.nsw.gov.au/documents/children-and-families/family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/domestic-and-sexual-violence-hotlines/dcj_easy_read_sexual_consent_digital_accessible.pdf