I feel like the way the question is phrased is going to select for people who were banned. Personally I wasn’t but saw the upcoming IPO and wanted to dip before the platform was totally enshittified.

Clinton ignored the War Powers Resolution during the 1999 NATO bombing campaign. He ignored the Resolution’s 60-day limit without formal congressional authorisation and ignored the fact congress voted against the declaration of war. The subsequent Campbell v. Clinton case had the federal appeals court ultimately dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that members of Congress lacked the legal standing to sue the President over his war-making actions, neutering the War Powers Resolution.

So yeah prepare for this to mean nothing.

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From an Guardian article in Oct 2025, roughly 5 years into the first statewide phone ban in Australia:

One year after the ban was implemented, a survey of almost 1,000 public school principals led by the NSW Department of Education’s Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation found that 95% of principals still supported the ban. Eighty-one per cent said the ban has improved students’ learning, 86% said it has improved socialisation among students and 87% believed students were less distracted in the classroom.

Research from South Australia – released in March this year – revealed 70% of teachers reported increased focus and engagement during learning time and 64% of teachers reported “a lower frequency of critical incidents” at school as a result of device use.

Ruqayah, who graduated from a western Sydney high school in 2024, thinks the bans were an “overreaction”. After going through high school with access to phones, she finished her final year with the phone ban in place and says fellow students were still finding ways to use them in secret. “Teenagers find their phones very important,” she says. “It makes them feel secure and safe, so taking away something that is important to them just causes more stress and more worry which makes situations worse at school and harder for teachers, supervisors [and] support workers to deal with.”

Prof Neil Selwyn from the School of Education, Culture and Society at Monash University. “Some politicians were promising improvements in student learning and mental health. But one of the main drivers of these bans was undoubtedly that they were popular.”

Selwyn says phone bans in Australia were not set up “with the intention of properly testing their effectiveness” and says concrete research in this area is “inconclusive, and … not particularly rigorous”.

He also believes the latest government data from NSW and South Australia is “not particularly insightful”.

“The key question is how these bans play out over time,” he says. “Claiming that these bans are suddenly leading to dramatic improvements makes for a neat political soundbite, but we need a lot more in-depth and sustained investigation of what effects these bans are actually having.

Neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives is exclusively “more powerful” overall. But you’re right that the House holding power over revenue and taxation is a closer analogue to the lower house in a parliamentary system so yeah in that way Hakeem Jefferies would be the closest thing to an opposition leader.

Everyone should check out Need for Speed: Underground 2 Last Breath. This is a completely modded version including high resolution texture replacement while keeping the vanilla look of the game but increases the quality along with an upscaled HUD.

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The US doesn’t have a parliamentary system so there really isn’t a singular opposition leader outside of election seasons. The senate minority leader is the closest thing to an opposition figurehead, which would make Chuck Schumer the opposition leader.

You’re on .ml it’s literally Marxist Leninist. You’re like an American standing in Mexico complaining about everyone speaking Spanish.

What a weirdly specific type of racism for that part of the world.

Australia?

Why? I guess just because they can charge that much.

He just requested an additional trillion dollars in military spending. What a fucking fraud.

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Australia will be left with no submarines if it abandons Aukus, senior defence official warns

Yes. The upper house is supposed to be proportional and yet it suffers from the same unbalanced outcomes. Each state currently has the same number of senators despite population differences. This results in smaller states being overrepresented while larger states are underrepresented. Both Tassie and Victoria have 12 senators, yet a Tasmanian senator represents ~34,000 voters, while a Vic senator represents ~380,000, once again making a lightly populated state’s vote ten times more valuable than a heavily populated one.

I would love to see proportional representation in the lower house. The answer on how to solve issues with democracy usually are solved by adding more democracy.

Last election, the Nationals received only 3.6% of the popular vote. Despite this low vote, it won 10 seats, and that’s because Nationals voters are highly concentrated in a few low population rural seats, where there are fewer people controlling larger portions of land.

The Greens, by contrast, won 12% of the popular vote but only won 4 lower house seats. That’s because Greens voters, although most heavily concentrated in inner-urban seats, and are much more uniformly spread across the country.

To put it another way, Nationals won 52,000 votes per seat as compared to 448,000 votes per seat for the Greens.

Is that reflective of strong democratic values? I don’t think it is. Our current system is treating country voters as 10 times more valuable than inner urban voters.

Yeah it’s one of the shows I look forward to showing my kid one day. That and Avatar the Last Airbender. I don’t know if they’ll appreciate it the way I did but who knows, they might show me something contemporary that they feels same sort of connection to.

I loved that show as a kid. No idea why I connected with it so strongly but I always appreciated that it wouldn’t shy away from darker themes.