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Australian politician fined for supplying cocaine in c/world@quokk.au
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Former South Australian Liberal party leader David Speirs was fined A$9,000 (£4311; $5,720) and ordered to complete 37.5 hours of community service by an Adelaide court on Thursday.

For context on that sentence:

It is illegal to make, keep, use, sell or give away cocaine. The maximum penalty for possession, supplying or administering a controlled drug that is not a commercial or trafficable quantity (unless in a prescribed area) is $50,000 or imprisonment for 10 years or both. For larger quantities, these constitute major indictable offences and attract a maximum penalty that varies (depending on the quantity involved) between $50,000 to $1,000,000 or imprisonment for 15 years to life or both.

https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/public+content/sa+health+internet/conditions/legal+matters/illicit+drug+laws

Seems low compared to the maximum, but I have no idea how similar cases are sentenced. I just hope he didn't get off lightly for being a notable person.

Suffering from minor party confusion? Some links I found helpful in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

That's extremely disappointing. I was thrilled to see a Fusion candidate on my lower house list, as that sheet is usually effectively Lib/Lab/Green, and Fusion theoretically contains several parties I'd love to have the chance to give my vote to.

I'm dismayed to discover the candidate is actually a "Democracy First" member.

Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It might help if the media didn't continuously frame this like a two horse race

The Coalition's and Labor’s faux postal vote forms are a blatant scam in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Harvesting personal information while impersonating official electoral comms.

While they technically have the right authorisations on them, the envelope and postal vote form I received could easily be mistaken as official from anyone not paying 100% attention.

According to the article the websites both take all your information then redirect you to the actual postal voting registration, potentially leading voters to think they've already submitted for a postal vote when they haven't.

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The Coalition's and Labor’s faux postal vote forms are a blatant scam (www.crikey.com.au)
Italy slams door on people hoping to claim citizenship through great-grandparents in c/world@quokk.au
Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

We import all sorts of fringe political positions from the US.

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'Public schools do the really heavy lifting' and will finally be 'fairly' funded (www.abc.net.au)
 

Yesterday Queensland became the last state in Australia to sign on to the decade-long Better and Fairer Schools Agreement (BFSA) with the Commonwealth.

It means every state is on track to hit the minimum funding levels recommended all those years ago.

But exactly when those levels will be reached, what was agreed to in order to land the deal and the other basic terms have not been released, leading to calls for greater transparency (more on that later).

Americans and socialism in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every character there is working class, so I'm imagining in this case "regardless of class" is implicitly "regardless of perceived class"