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[Duuvian]

Australia says Tehran behind two antisemitic arson attacks, expels Iranian ambassador
https://www.timesofisrael.com/australia-says-tehran-behind-two-antisemitic-arson-attacks-expels-iranian-ambassador/

When I searched for "Aussie news" to find this article in another source, I found news.com.au is actually that same newscorp. When I clicked on the headline that had informed me that thousands of Australians are being exposed to a new and incurable STD it did not load the page properly because it thought I was a crawler bot, so I don't know what that's about. Now I can't even help warn Australia because I don't know if my fleeting glance at this article title on the mainpage was at a clickbait about those... uh... koala health issues...
Crawlerbot or not, I think when your little bear is droopy and oozing it's better to have avenues to solutions.

I had a chatbot query here but removed it in an EDIT since it was one line of query and a short answer that wasn't very useful. Instead, here is this!

Chlamydia could kill off koalas. Can a vaccine save them in time?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdnkdg1l8do

Yesss! Make them wear little masks too! Or put some pants on! I was also told that!

[wobbly]

Here's another source on the Iran issue.

The STD thing, I haven't heard anything about, but newscorp is part of Murdoch's empire, so I'd take anything they are pumping out with a grain of salt.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/iran-behind-antisemitic-attacks-asio-says/105697762

[Starver]

when your little bear is droopy and oozing

I can't be the only person who thought that was just a (barely[1]) Unusual Euphemism, having already forgotten the actual reference to koalas immediately before...


(Hi, Australia, and its Oceanic environs[2]! I've been lurking here, since the thread's creation, without anything useful to add. Shame about the content of this first post, I do wish I'd had a better effective-PTW than this.)

[1] NPI!

[2] Still puzzled as to why it's titled as "SE Pacific", and not "SW Pacific". Unless... relevant? Or else is Chile free game?

[wobbly]

[2] Still puzzled as to why it's titled as "SE Pacific", and not "SW Pacific". Unless... relevant? Or else is Chile free game?

Maybe this is a bias from where I live. I'm used to thinking of countries like Papua New Guinea as being part of Australia's region. Maybe I should say SE Asia? Indonesia and Malaysia are part of the region, but they are also regions in their own right. (No offence to the pacific islands around me, which are also their own countries.)

It's basically Australia/New Zealand, a bunch of pacific islands around that territory. What some people call Oceania.

Edit: I also don't care, if you believe it is relevant post here, unless you find a more relevalant spot to post.

[Mech#4]

Oceania is the common phrase used for the area.

[wobbly]

I've had some conversation and I suspect a bunch of confusion is happening because I'm using the "pacific" to refer to the "pacific islands" (of asia) and other people are looking at the "pacific" as a very large mass of water.

(Note I thought the SE part clarified that)

[ctsun]

Just to make sure I'm not super confused too by that, "pacific islands of asia" refers to....Indonesia? the Philippines?

[wobbly]

Yeah Indonesia, Malaysia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands. As I said I don't really mind that much if the poster draws the line somewhere different to what's in my head.

[ctsun]

Okay, the rest I can kinda see if I squint (though, I question if you've got a concept for Oceania if Asia stretches out to Fiji and Solomon islands) but Malaysia's not really an island. Half of it's connected to the Asia mainland.

[wobbly]

Yeah its not an island but its part of the region, the original post was never "pacific islands", just a failed attempt to clarify, as another poster thought I meant the other end of the pacific.

But yeah, mostly the PIF members, buts also Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines.

[Duuvian]

Australian companies import millions of tonnes of Russian oil products through sanctions loophole – The Guardian
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/11/10/8006590/

National Security as-a-business: Primary Objective achieved.  From the article:

The terminal in question supplied oil to major traders such as Trafigura and Vitol. Vitol then sold it, among others, to Shell petrol stations and Viva Energy, a contractor for Australia's armed forces.

Vitol, Viva Energy and Trafigura representatives stated that their companies fully comply with all current laws and regulations, including sanctions measures. However, they did not confirm whether they had refrained from buying or selling oil products of Russian origin.

[Great Order]

Perth's getting quarantined to defend against the shot-hole borer.

https://www.perthnow.com.au/wa/shot-hole-borer-invasion-perth-homeowners-soon-to-be-responsible-for-paying-for-tree-management-c-20657392