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The original was posted on /r/australia by /u/cojoco on 2025-06-12 21:25:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/australia by /u/imnotreallyapeach on 2025-06-12 10:33:02+00:00.


The option to change the Happy Meal drink to a coffee or large drink for a small fee has been removed, it's small drinks and hot chocolate only.

Come on McDs it was one of your actually good deals. Sad 😔

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The original was posted on /r/australia by /u/AllSugarAndSalt on 2025-06-12 09:22:52+00:00.


I live in a small and very remote town. There is a local property owner here that hires young female backpackers on a regular basis, and then subjects them to sexual harassment, general verbal abuse, terrible working conditions, and takes 2/3 of the pay they are entitled to for the 'accommodation' he supplies, which takes 'shithole' to whole new levels of shitness. He withholds their pay in order to try and get them to stay as long as possible (eg, "we only do payroll every three weeks, you'll have to stay until then"). Fairwork is beyond useless, and the cops can't do anything because being an awful person isn't actually illegal.

The locals such as myself do what we can to warn them, help them get to the bigger towns if they don't have a car, give them advice, etc, but I'm deeply worried eventually some poor girl is going to be outright sexually assaulted - he seems to be getting worse with each new lass. I've been doing some research to try and help the latest victim, she's distressed but also angry - is there any department that would oversee this?? I must be very naive, because I honestly just always thought if you hired a backpacker for their 88 days, you'd have to register and meet some requirements, but I can't find anything online, it seems that the backpacker just has to get payslips from you and they submit those as proof for the 88 days, the business owner doesn't need to be approved or submit anything???

If anyone knows of anything that might help on how to extract pay from this guy or ideally get him banned somehow from hiring backpackers (which I don't think is possible), I'd really appreciate it. As soon as this backpacker can get out in the next few days, she'll post up on the platform where she got the job to warn people off, but that's a temporary stoppage at best.

The working holiday visa system seems absolutely designed to be exploited by employers, I am staggered this isn't given more oversight by the government.

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The original was posted on /r/australia by /u/decaying_dots on 2025-06-12 11:11:19+00:00.


Ok I'm having the most intense craving for fantails and I'm after suggestions for other lollies that are similar.

Words to get to 120 characters bla bla blah cat dog

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The original was posted on /r/australia by /u/NorseNoble on 2025-06-12 01:13:53+00:00.


i haven’t had oporto in like ten years but on the public holiday we went to the local one and ordered just a salad and a burger meal it was 32 or 33 dollars on the menu when added together, i pull up to the window and am told it’s 49 dollars because it’s a public holiday.

i said “im alright thanks” and drove off - is it normal for them to charge 50% for a public holiday ? i mean i understand when companies charge 10-15% but 50%? is this the norm with this company?

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The original was posted on /r/australia by /u/SimpleEmu198 on 2025-06-11 23:16:22+00:00.


By Hayley Taylor

The woman also had her three-year-old child with her during the horrific attack.

A mother and her 10-year-old son have been stabbed in Wollongong.

A mother and her 10-year-old son have been stabbed on a suburban street.

The woman was driving her two boys when their car was ”allegedly made to stop by another vehicle” on West Dapto Rd at Wongawilli, in Wollongong’s southern suburbs, about 6pm on Wednesday, NSW Police said.

An older woman known to the young family allegedly got out of the other vehicle and approached the family’s car, before an altercation began, police said.

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“During the altercation, the older woman allegedly stabbed a 27-year-old woman and the 10-year-old boy,” police said.

The seriously injured victims were treated by Police and NSW Ambulance paramedics before being airlifted to hospital.

A three-year-old boy also in the car was not physically injured and has been taken into the care of another family member.

Within 30 minutes police had arrested a 59-year-old woman at nearby Horsley.

She was charged with two counts of wound person intend to cause grievous bodily harm.

She was refused bail to appear at Wollongong Local Court on Thursday.

Investigations are ongoing and anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.

The intent to cause grievous bodily harm upgrades the sentence to 25 years, or basically "life.."

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"...

Residents of NSW, the country’s most-populous state, face power price rises of between 7.8 percent and 8.9 percent, costing an extra $159 to $249 annually for households with average energy consumption.

Households in south-east Queensland will pay an extra 2.5 percent to 5.8 percent, or $61 to $119 on average. In South Australia, prices will rise by 4.4 percent to 5.2 percent, or around $120 per year.

Energy costs are also set to rise in other parts of the country, where the DMO does not apply, but maximum price increases are set by state and territory authorities.

In the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), household bills will rise by an average of 10.11 percent, or $214 per year. In the rest of Queensland, electricity prices will increase by 3.2 percent, $73 on average.

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