I wonder if the types affect the chance of a reaction for some people or in general

Yeah, it does affect the type of severe reaction. AstraZenica had TTS, and with Moderna/Pfizer it’s pericarditis/myocarditis.

Chances of it happening are very low for both vaccine types, but when you administer millions of doses, some minority are going to be affected.

None of the major vaccines for COVID are an attenuated virus to be clear, although some vaccines are made like that (usually older ones).

Good on them, I assume it was years of LNP attrition that it had gotten this bad ? But happy to be corrected if my assumption was incorrect ?

From the article:

The government said its “landmark investment” in 3,000 extra staff was delivering major improvements for all Aussies.

But also I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the senior public servants appointed by the Coalition pushed them to slow down processing. Because, as we saw with Robodebt, the Coalition want to punish poor people as much as possible.

There are also concerns about the relationship between the consultancy firm hired to oversee the restructure, KordaMentha, and the interim UOW boss.

KordaMentha was contracted to review UOW operations and people and culture in May.

In June the university appointed KordaMentha partner John Dewar as interim VC on a 12-month contract.

“We have essentially got a temporary fly-in, fly-out vice chancellor who is a partner in the firm that the university he runs has contracted to review the operations of the university,” said Dr Cahill.

Quite sus. Also, John Dewar is this guy if you want a laugh.

It doesn’t say in the article, but this article claims that you can qualify to the Olympics by placing top 5 in a World Athletics rated Platinum Label event. Since Sydney Marathon became a Platinum Label event in 2022 , you could already qualify to the Olympics through that race.

They gave minimal warning about the emergency calling issue, and only a few weeks warning on the fact that “non-compliant” devices would be outright blocked (and each network has their own method on deciding on what is or isn’t compliant).

And even the requirement for VoLTE support wasn’t communicated early on.

Nevertheless, I agree that 3g needs to go just that it’s been characterised by poor communication and heavy handedness.

One of the rare cases where that is a good thing. On the other hand, we also seem to be reigniting the abortion fight based on the US.

This is true, but the way the telcos have been implementing it is different (even if the specifics of that remain unclear).

I expect some blacklisted devices will become whitelisted in the future on the various networks (and vice-versa). The whole thing has been poorly communicated and rather opaque.

All if the examples of blocking appear to be from Optus in the article. And anecdotally they seem to have been the most heavy handed with this. So while there might be further blocking over time on the other networks, I’d start by switching to the Vodafone or Telstra networks if you end up blocked by Optus.

I would expect it to be the same as now with pricing dependent on the ISP. You’ll likely still have to do the 6 months / 12 months churn to get the best deal.

eureka explained it well, but my slighter broader definition is:

• Anti-vaxxer and other single-issue conspiracy parties
• Religious right parties with sometimes innocuous names (like “Family first”)
• Nazis

Just make sure you put Labor ahead of the LNP and cooker parties since they will be objectively worse. But otherwise, agreed.