'Idiots carrying flick knives': Final results of Tasmania's wanding trial
By Meg Whitfield
Searches of people since December have yielded a weapon in one in four instances, Tasmania Police say — adding that some people, upon seeing officers equipped with metal detection wands, will "produce the weapon in advance".
Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
"Over the past decade, more than 550 Australian species have been either newly recognised as at risk of extinction or moved a step closer to being erased from the planet."
"Analysis shows 1,964,200 hectares of koala habitat was cleared between 2012 and 2021 – 81% of that in Queensland."
"Australia tops global rankings for mammal extinction – at least 33 species have died out since European invasion and colonisation – and is number two behind Indonesia for loss of biodiversity. The challenge is not only to stop the loss of habitat but to restore the environment in places it has been lost in 250 years of European-driven clearing."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/07/australia-is-in-an-extinction-crisis-why-isnt-it-an-issue-at-this-election
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Queensland to give police 'wanding powers' in all public places
By Kate McKenna
Currently police are only allowed to use handheld metal detectors to search people for weapons without a warrant in some places, like shopping centres and train stations.
Queensland to add sexual assault, stealing under 'adult crime, adult time' laws
By Alex Brewster
Further sweeping changes will be made to Queensland's youth justice laws as the state government looks to expand its flagship "adult crime, adult time" policy.
Phased ban on menthol cigarettes kicks in today
By Dannielle Maguire
We have a "relatively low" smoking rate, but the Cancer Council says 66 Australians are still dying from smoking-related illness every day.
@HarriettMB I do expect @antidiskriminierung and @AuswaertigesAmt to affirm #AntiDiscrimination #laws and either force the #US embassy & consulates to comply with #Germany's laws or close and cease operations.
If the #USA refuses to acknowledge that, they there is no basis for #diplomacy and I urge #contractors to press charges for #blackmail and #coercion if they get approached to fulfill for such #racist, #sexist, #ableist and otherwise #discriminatory demands because doing so violates national and #EU #laws!
Fahy, Romero Introduce Legislation to Renew EV Direct Sales Location Certificates, Expand EV Ownership
LOL this won't make it to Reddit.
Someone has proposed a new law called "Health & Safety Code Section 15300, to be known as the Luigi Mangioni Access to Health Care Act. "
https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/25-0002%20%28Health%20Care%29.pdf
https://www.europesays.com/1950589/ Trump pardons three co-founders of BitMEX crypto exchange #BreakingNews:Politics #business #BusinessNews #Collusion #Crime #DonaldJTrump #DonaldTrump #Laws #Politics #SecuritiesFraud #trump
https://www.europesays.com/1950426/ Trump says Skadden, Arps to provide free legal services #america #BreakingNews:Politics #business #BusinessNews #DonaldJTrump #DonaldTrump #GovernmentAndPolitics #Laws #Lawsuits #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews
NSW dog ownership laws under review following fatal attacks
By Hamish Cole
There are five times as many dog attacks in NSW as there were two decades ago and victims are backing an overhaul of legislation after a series of inquiries laid bare potentially life-threatening failures within the system.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/nsw-dog-ownership-review-after-fatal-attacks/105021692
Ah, the Friend Compound #laws in California: because everyone wants to play #SimCity with their social life. 
Now you too can legally gather your chosen tribe and live out the commune fantasy in the Golden State. 
Because nothing says “modern Californian dream” like a legally sanctioned hippie hub. 
https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/the-long-awaited-friend-compound #FriendCompound #CommuneFantasy #California #Dream #HackerNews #ngated
The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California
https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/the-long-awaited-friend-compound
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#Trump's *#NationalSecurity* team accidentally included The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg in a #Signal conversation about strikes on #Houthis, & they used the non-governmental platform to coordinate staffing among departments & the White House.
They absolutely broke several #laws in communicating classified detailed warplans over a nongovernmental app on their private phones.
I mean… talk about an #idiocracy & #kakistocracy.
…it was a mistake to think that even the #Nazis would entirely dispense w/normal #laws.…They had a complex, broadly #capitalist economy to maintain. “A nation of 80M people,”…needs stable rules. The trick was to find a way to keep the #law going for #Christian Germans who supported or…tolerated the Nazis, while ruthlessly executing the #führer’s directives against the state’s enemies, real & perceived. #Capitalism could jog nicely alongside the brutal suppression of #democracy, & even #genocide.
The man…was a Jewish labor lawyer named Ernst Fraenkel.He completed his manuscript…at UC, publishing it as The #DualState, w/the modest subtitle A Contribution to the Theory of #Dictatorship.The book explains how the #Nazi regime managed to keep on track a #capitalist economy governed by stable #laws—& maintain a day-to-day normalcy for many of its citizens—while at the same time establishing a domain of #lawlessness & state #violence in order to realize its terrible vision of #EthnoNationalism.
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