Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

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Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

It's not surprising that with so many more Australians to choose compared to Irish players that Australia is winning comfortably, but I think Ireland could do quite respectably in some kind of State of Origin competition against the big 3 AFL states.

We have 2 adult tickets and 1 child’s ticket for the AFLW Australia-Ireland game and we can’t go, if anyone wants them.

Book returned to NSW library 150 years after being borrowed

Library book returned after 150 years, $28k fine waived

A NSW library has a book returned rather late, but the policy of fining people for the offence was dropped at some point during the century-and-a-half years since it was borrowed.

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Today's blog post grapples with understanding how many seats we'd expect One Nation to win in Victoria for a given share of the vote. www.tallyroom.com.au/65163

How might votes turn into seats in Victoria?

It is always a challenge to understand how a given share of the vote for a political party translates into a certain number of seats under the single-member electorate system used in most Australia…

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I have watched this team roll over Brisbane and Geelong at home, what is wrong with them...

I oppose changing Franklin to Tongerlongeter only because it would mean the fun fact that I think @benraue.com pointed out a few years ago that Tasmania's electorates, despite several renaming, had never changed alphabetical order, would become false! ... #politas

The final Tasmanian redistribution has been published. The boundaries in southern Tasmania have been confirmed, although they have changed the boundary between Bass and Lyons - Bass will not gain two suburbs near Launceston, but instead gain Break O Day LGA. www.tallyroom.com.au/65134

Tasmanian redistribution finalised – live

10:24 – The Australian Electoral Commission has just announced the final Tasmanian federal boundaries, although there will be further consultation on a new name. The draft version of this red…

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It's a great point, and of course the same can be said of today's game. If Spain wins, it'll put real fire behind the demand for Roussillon, Artois and the northern Cerdanya in the unwinding of the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees. If France wins, that should put the lid on it - for now!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3w ago

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On @thepointau.bsky.social , @benraue.com warns "democracy isn't an optional extra" as local council tries to leave a position vacant for more than two years. Rule change to use countbacks more often could resolve future vacancies. thepoint.com.au/opinions/dem...

Democracy isn’t an optional extra

My attention has been drawn to a story from Kiama Council in southern New South Wales, where the council has attempted to avoid filling a vacancy on the council with more than two years left on the co...

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If Argentina win you can all learn about a little known missed call from Argentina and England’s history. At the time it was called “the hand of god” but nobody really remembers it anymore because in the pre-VAR era the beauty of a fluid game without stoppages meant fans didn’t dwell on blown calls.

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

The Age reports that the Vic govt is planning to abolish group voting tickets, at essentially the last minute before the election. Vic is the last place in the country still using this system in its upper house.

Election overhaul to hurt crossbenchers and aid One Nation

Victoria’s upper house is likely to be different after November, as the government moves to abolish “preference-whispering”.

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"Kiama Council’s solution to the problems of by-elections is much worse, and shows a shocking disregard for democracy and representation” writes @benraue.com, electoral analyst. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/dem...

The final redistribution was announced today for the three federal electorates in the ACT. Unfortunately the AEC does not publish the maps and data at the time of the announcement (that will wait for October) but I've been able to piece together a map and identify which areas were moved.

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There will be a by-election for the WA state seat of Secret Harbour - one of One Nation's best seats in the state - after the retirement today of Labor minister Paul Papalia. You can now read my by-election guide. #wapol www.tallyroom.com.au/65066

Secret Harbour by-election incoming

A retirement announcement today has triggered a state by-election which could be the next chapter in the advancement of One Nation in Australia. Labor state minister Paul Papalia today announced hi…

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I don’t think it’s even possible to identify that you’re under 18 on Kayo or another sport platform. Other streaming services have kids profiles but when my sports-mad 7yo watches Kayo the govt figures “it’s fine, he must be 18?”

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last mo.

Liberal MP Simon Kennedy says anti-gambling changes contain streaming 'loophole'

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

A new piece of info from this week's tour is Westmead probably won't get the promised underground interchange. It might not get any interchange at all. The below story from last year wasn't just about art, it seems to be about significant downgrades www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

'Don't cheapen Western Sydney': Advocacy groups slam Metro stations budget

Western Sydney advocates express concern over budgeting for Metro West after the government signalled it would like to spend $300 million less per station than in the CBD.

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"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

My god, that's Arthur Moses' music #icac

I’m sure I saw a thing about there being a tour of the Westmead end of the Sydney Metro tunnel at the end of June but now I can’t find it anywhere, can anyone help me?

It's a quiet time at the moment on the Tally Room website so I've resumed writing my newsletter for my patrons on Patreon. Check it out!

Tally Room mail - how might Victoria play out? | The Tally Room

It's been a while since I wrote my Patreon newsletter, but we are now in a quiet period for Australian elections and I won't necessarily hav

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The witness before ICAC's City of Parramatta hearing just invented the term "reverse bullying" which seems to be when you say mean stuff about the person who is bullying you (the originally bullying being absolutely fine, of course)

#ICYMI, psephologist @benraue.com & political scientist @jillesheppard.bsky.social joined #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ LIVE at ANU w/ @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to unpack the Farrer by-election result & its implications for #auspol & beyond. 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

Anyone who has ridden a bike in a city knows something else about speeding cars: it doesn't even help! We all end up together at the next red light anyway, but not all of us needed to travel at killing speeds to do it

It's Jamie@sjamieit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.