I suspect that any attempts to discount for cash will be quashed, if it’s not already buried in there.

The no-surcharge rule in itself won’t prevent discounts for cash:

Can businesses offer discounts on other payment methods?

Yes. Businesses can continue to offer discounts for particular payment methods. Businesses should consult their payment service provider and the ACCC guidance on appropriate pricing displays.

Removing the RBA’s prohibition on ‘no-surcharge’ rules is not intended to prevent discounts being offered to consumers for using certain payment methods.

From: https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/review-of-retail-payments-regulation/2026-03/conclusions-paper/faqs/#can-businesses-offer-discounts-on-other-payment-methods

Good article here on trends that answers some of your questions: https://theconversation.com/why-cash-has-made-an-unexpected-comeback-in-australia-new-study-281029

After two decades of declining cash use, Australians are handing over more banknotes and coins for regular purchases again, a new survey by the Reserve Bank has found.

The decline in the use of physical money had accelerated during the COVID pandemic, but bottomed out between 2022 and 2025.

One decision that may stabilise the use of cash is that since January 2026 the federal government has mandated that most grocery stores and petrol stations must continue to accept cash.

the field with “just a moment” … no idea if that is a source site issue, or just my ignorance again.

It’s not just you, that’s how all previews for that site load for me, too.

I suspect their DDOS protection software/service gets in the way for small platforms, like fediverse instances, while letting major social media platforms straight through.

Oh, I only just saw this!

Yeah, it’s not very intuitive at the moment. I like the suggestion that user made. Unfortunate the developers closed it, but they’ve got a lot on their plate, I guess.

They took two years to close it, so they’re probably somewhat sympathetic. A lot of people use third-party apps, though, some of which presumably address the issue in their UI.

every time I ‘add photo’ it uploads it (from file) but then also changes the url, it’s a little weird

Yeah, you’re not the first to be tripped up by it!

Basically, the ‘URL’ and the ‘Image’ fields are mutually exclusive. Either one of them can be the ‘primary content’ of a post, and you can only have one ‘primary content’. So if you use one, it wipes the other.

There is an alternative though!

If the content preview won’t load for a link, or you otherwise want to set a picture manually, you need to use the ‘Thumbnail URL’ field instead.

A handy way I use is to upload an image in the body field, then cut the URL from there and paste it in the ‘Thumbnail URL’. That way the image is re-hosted on the Lemmy instance, which is probably better than putting in a ‘Thumbnail URL’ pointing to another site.

Link is just an image, FYI

EDIT: I believe this is the article OP meant to link to: https://michaelwest.com.au/segal-ihra-antisemitism-justice-fagan-decision/

Coverage by the Australian Financial Review previously posted here: https://aussie.zone/post/35623140

Also, Australia has Mardi Gras, too?

It’s the big annual gay pride march in Sydney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Gay_and_Lesbian_Mardi_Gras

They use the name ‘Mardi Gras’ because at the time of the first one it was just synonymous with a street festival of any kind.

But Mardi Gras originated as a Christian celebration (also known as Shrove Tuesday) before Lent, so a lot of places have a Mardi Gras celebration connected to that tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras

I’m guessing they don’t have much of a marketing budget, and it was only released yesterday so word-of-mouth hasn’t spread yet

The father of two also confirmed he was battling lung cancer and was due to undergo an operation in a couple of weeks.

So not great, but the ABC article described it as “early stage”.

I have no idea why Kmart is being singled out.

I think the answer to this would be A) because Kmart is more easily targeted, and B) Kmart pulling the product would have an outsized impact.

Kmart is more easily targetable because they’re a well-recognised brand that operates only in Australia and New Zealand, and it’s a small proportion of their shops in NZ. So a public opinion campaign by an Australian organisation like GetUp has a chance of creating real pressure on the company. This wouldn’t be the case for companies like Amazon or Temu that sell to many countries.

As for Kmart’s impact, as a large retailer they presumably have capacity to sell quite a lot of these glasses in Australia, but I think probably more important is that a prominent retail chain in Australia selling a product has an impact in normalising that product. You can buy all sorts of stuff on the internet, for example the ‘peptides’ that people have been ordering lately (though who knows what they actually receive). If you see a product ‘in real life’ in a retail setting, though, I’d expect that to have some effect in legitimising the product in the public mind, compared to only seeing it online. That Kmart is selling a particularly cheap version of the product - under their own Anko brand - and thereby making the product more accessible could be an aggravating factor.

Strange that AB- is good.

I’d guess that’s related to the fact that AB- blood can only go to patients with an AB+/- blood type (and AB+ only to AB+ recipients). Also, AB+ is 4% of the population and AB- is 1%. So probably for those reasons there’s a lower demand for whole blood of the AB+/- types.

By that logic, though, you’d expect AB- would be in shorter supply than AB+. So I don’t know!

I also have no idea why supply of B+ is ‘Good’ either, since it’s compatible with the same number of recipient types as A+, and you’d think percentage of the population for any type would balance supply with demand (that might be an incorrect assumption, though).

This is a good reference for percentage of each blood type in the Australian population, and donor-recipient compatibilities: https://www.lifeblood.com.au/donors/blood-plasma-platelets/learn/blood/blood-types

Blood supply levels by type today:

Source: https://www.lifeblood.com.au/donors/blood-plasma-platelets/blood-supply-levels

Probably an honest mistake - I’d guess the ‘Was’ price is entered manually on the sticker printer. I might’ve tried asking at the checkout for the $5.50 discount to be applied to the real ‘was’ price, though 😆

I think you should try to look on the bright side! As @tau mentioned, if the money remains in your accounts all year, it can be earning you interest in a HISA, or reducing your mortgage interest if you keep it in an offset account. It might not be much interest, but the idea of getting one up on the ATO makes it feel more fun, anyway!

Obviously being surprised with a tax bill isn’t ideal, though, so you might want to set up a separate, untouchable HISA (assuming you don’t have a mortgage offset account) and have a regular automated transfer (scheduled as close after payday as will be reliable). That way you effectively have ‘forced savings’, with the bonus that you get interest instead of the ATO. A lot of banks have crappy HISA rates, or require you to remember to meet some account activity requirement to get a ‘bonus rate’, so it’s worth considering finding the best one that you can set and forget.

It might sound like more hassle than it’s worth to set up an account with a new bank, but I found it pretty easy to do online when it was just a savings account (i.e. not credit), and for the purpose of ‘forced savings’ having the account with a different bank to your usual one helps keep the account out of sight and out of mind.

Finder has a sortable list of high interest savings accounts in Australia (link is sorted by base interest rate, not the maximum/bonus rate): https://www.finder.com.au/savings-accounts/high-interest-savings-accounts?sort=AUFSA.RECORD.VARIANT.DATAPOINT_STANDARD_VARIABLE_RATE_COMPV2_L+DESCENDING

What do you think of the violence in America?

Is this in relation to something specific, or just generally?

Also I am missing something what outlets or channels do you use to keep track of your countries.

You mean keeping track of Australian news, or keeping track of other countries?

If you mean for Australian news, you can take a look at the posts over on !news@aussie.zone or !australianpolitics@aussie.zone to see which outlets people link to. The majority of links posted there are for:

• abc.net.au
  • the national public broadcaster (i.e. government funded, but notionally editorially independent, unlike a ‘state broadcaster’)
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsAustralia
• sbs.net.au/news
  • partially government funded, with a mission of providing programming for minority linguistic and cultural communities
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SBSNews
• theguardian.com/au
  • privately owned, but with a generally ‘progressive’ readership and editorial line
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GuardianAustralia

You often can read articles on Substack without needing to sign up or anything. I did get hit with an age-verification wall a few weeks back but it seems to have stopped doing that for me.

But if there are problems for you, you can often access it through archive.org (Wayback Machine) or archive.today.

Here’s a Wayback Machine snapshot of the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20260730214427/https://ozhistoryandpolitics.substack.com/p/40-interesting-facts-about-australian

It’s more the mining communities, like the people in Muswellbrook they quote in the article.

It’s not surprising to see the persistent denialism of residents when they, or their families, draw a wage from the mines. But we have to continue making the case to them that the transition is inevitable, and their only real options are a) to organise to demand a ‘just transition’ while they still have influence, or b) to continue to live in denial and take whatever they’re given once the industry is gone.

These renewable and storage projects, and the associated interest from other industries, are a great help in making the case for demanding a just transition and showing what it might look like.

We need more, though. Hopefully the ALP’S fear of PHON gaining a foothold in these areas will drive them to put more money into supporting new industries.

Rinehart, who spoke after being introduced by Pauline Hanson, also said the land could be provided to skilled Israelis and their families to build “advanced war drones, and or other advances in defence, and or improve upon their Israeli style domes, and manufacture them here to sell to our country to help make our people and critical infrastructure safe”.

I guess she love genocide as much as her father.