Even though I figure they're not sending blood from WA to Queensland, I saw that local supplies in my blood type were low. So I dusted off my old donor profile and made a booking.
I fell out of the habit when kids and life stuff happened. I really should have gone back years ago. The process of donating blood is smooth and streamlined. I was in and out in under 30 minutes and back to my day.
What do you mean by "can be used by ausie.zone"? Has someone defederated from us?
The grafana image suggests you are talking about federation delays we suffered from last year. To my knowledge, that was corrected about two versions of Lemmy ago. Are there still problems?
I spend 90% of my time on local content, so while I haven't noticed any delays, I'm also a bad litmus test.
I'm really loving this on: A super safe Labor seat with a 27% margin, and they look like losing it. I hope they lose it.
Kate Hulett is running on a platform of Climate action, Equality and anti corruption (especially regarding politicians moving between politics and industry roles). I think the Liberal party may have stuffed this up a bit. I don't think this particular independent would be preferred for them than the sitting Labor member. They just followed their modus operandi and put Labor behind the independents.
I have a script that generates passwords for the help desk kids to give to people. The passwords come out super easy to remember and easy to relay over the phone.
They're all like "Blue 3 Waters" and "Climb 18 Trees". The formula is "[verb/adjective] [random number] [Noun]". Surprisingly easy to remember and passes the policy as space counts as a symbol.
Steve is not reading the room. True, not many districts voted for the Liberal party, but they weren't voting farther right than the Libs.
Ken has the right of it. I've always thought he was an odd fit for the Liberals. He's too progressive. He resigned from the party last year so he could vote Yes in the referendum. He is actually well regarded in Midland, he'd probably do well running as an independent.
I think this is like admitting defeat. It's saying 'there is no way we can make the public system as good as the private system so we're just going to take over the private schools'. Private education is stupidly expensive. I had a client who used to pay more than my annual salary to send her kids to a private school. Parents are selecting private education because they see value in the calibre of education there.
If you can improve the public education quality to the point where it is on-par with private, parents will cease to see the value in paying up to half a Million dollars sending their kids to private school. Our family has done the equivalent of this. We moved to the catchment of a top-tier public school to give our kids the best public education options available. There is as much disparity between public schools as there is between public/private. I believe there's a good middle-ground to be had where more academic-focused public schools are created. The few that exist now are so difficult to get into that loads of parents who want their kids to get a great education (we applied but our kid didn't make the grade) aren't qualifying.
There will always be a percentage who want some of the things private education offers (like religion), but enough will start sending their kids public that the remaining private students become a rounding error.
I'm also not comfortable with the idea of the government effectively saying either of the following:
[To parents] If you decide to send your child to private school, they stop being entitled to the education funding you are paying taxes for.
[To schools] You no longer own this school, we are taking over your private property.
If wealthy parents want to pay for an education that’s fine but when more taxpayer money goes to private schools than public it feels a bit off.
This is a really frequently misunderstood topic and there are plenty of people who intentionally cherry-pick the numbers to make the government look bad over it. So, I genuinely understand where you are coming from.
The first bit of confusion is that public schools get most of their funding from their state government. A comparatively small percentage comes from the federal government, usually for major works. Private school government funding comes from the federal government.
The second bit that confuses people is that funding isn't just that 'every school gets $x'. The. Amount of funding is mostly dictated by the student cohort. Rather than thinking of it as every school gets $x, think of it as the default amount per student is $x.
So yes, you get situations where a big private school with 2,500 students seems to get more money than any public school. But average it per student and account for what the state government is providing to the public school and the numbers come out far more evenly.
I sure agree that this should be far more apparent and easy to follow. Maybe the federal government should give the funds to the state education departments and have the states fund the private schools? I'd be on board with that.
I get why private exists and wouldn’t want it to go away overnight but why not properly fund public instead.
Ignoring my personal distaste for private schools for a sec, I find irony in the fact that we're discussing this topic on a post about early child care - where it is almost all private. We managed to get into the local government childcare centre, but it was not easy. And not much different in price.
we stop subsidising private schools and only give public money to public schools?
I've always disliked this idea. I'm the product of public education and my kids are in public schools as well. I believe every kid has a right to government funding toward their education. If a rich family wants to spend fees above and beyond the government allotment so their kid goes to school with a swimming pool or rowing team, I am ok with it. Those kids shouldn't lose their government education funds because they come from wealth. They are still citizens and have the same entitlement.
Besides, if the million kids currently in private education suddenly turned up at their local schools tomorrow to enroll in the public system, they would totally break it.
Keeping in mind that we are nowhere near reliable results counted so far - but If those numbers play out it's a massive bonfire for the likely Federal result.
People assumed Libs would get back to close to 2017 levels, which is still a very solid Labor victory. But they are nowhere those figures.
If not for calls yesterday to help the school P&C democracy sausage stand today, I might have forgotten it was voting day. I knew it was coming up of course, just not that the big day was today.
I'd have remembered this afternoon when ABC news sent me a notification about it, but my experience has been that the election is an utter fizzle.
Sure. I promise not to buy anything from the USA today. 😆
Looking around me, about the only things in my vicinity that came from the USA are my phone and iPad. And they were both purchased 2+ years ago. I don't think there is that much in my bubble that comes from the USA. Maybe some oranges or avocados at the shops sometimes? Whatever is on offer from the USA is going to be such a teeny portion of their export market that they aren't going to notice any action we might take.
Kid is 17. I fully expect the motive to be something stupid like 'inspired by movie character'. Even better headlines if its inspired by either a hard rock band or a video game character.
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A friend in Queensland sent through this link: https://www.lifeblood.com.au/blood/blood-supply-levels
Even though I figure they're not sending blood from WA to Queensland, I saw that local supplies in my blood type were low. So I dusted off my old donor profile and made a booking.
I fell out of the habit when kids and life stuff happened. I really should have gone back years ago. The process of donating blood is smooth and streamlined. I was in and out in under 30 minutes and back to my day.