From an Guardian article in Oct 2025, roughly 5 years into the first statewide phone ban in Australia:

One year after the ban was implemented, a survey of almost 1,000 public school principals led by the NSW Department of Education’s Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation found that 95% of principals still supported the ban. Eighty-one per cent said the ban has improved students’ learning, 86% said it has improved socialisation among students and 87% believed students were less distracted in the classroom.

Research from South Australia – released in March this year – revealed 70% of teachers reported increased focus and engagement during learning time and 64% of teachers reported “a lower frequency of critical incidents” at school as a result of device use.

Ruqayah, who graduated from a western Sydney high school in 2024, thinks the bans were an “overreaction”. After going through high school with access to phones, she finished her final year with the phone ban in place and says fellow students were still finding ways to use them in secret. “Teenagers find their phones very important,” she says. “It makes them feel secure and safe, so taking away something that is important to them just causes more stress and more worry which makes situations worse at school and harder for teachers, supervisors [and] support workers to deal with.”

Prof Neil Selwyn from the School of Education, Culture and Society at Monash University. “Some politicians were promising improvements in student learning and mental health. But one of the main drivers of these bans was undoubtedly that they were popular.”

Selwyn says phone bans in Australia were not set up “with the intention of properly testing their effectiveness” and says concrete research in this area is “inconclusive, and … not particularly rigorous”.

He also believes the latest government data from NSW and South Australia is “not particularly insightful”.

“The key question is how these bans play out over time,” he says. “Claiming that these bans are suddenly leading to dramatic improvements makes for a neat political soundbite, but we need a lot more in-depth and sustained investigation of what effects these bans are actually having.

Neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives is exclusively “more powerful” overall. But you’re right that the House holding power over revenue and taxation is a closer analogue to the lower house in a parliamentary system so yeah in that way Hakeem Jefferies would be the closest thing to an opposition leader.

Fair

The US doesn’t have a parliamentary system so there really isn’t. Singular opposition leader outside of election seasons. The senate minority leader is the closest thing to an opposition figurehead, which would make Chuck Schumer the opposition leader.

You’re on .ml it’s literally Marxist Leninist. You’re like an American standing in Mexico complaining about everyone speaking Spanish.

What a weirdly specific type of racism for that part of the world.

Australia?

He just requested an additional trillion dollars in military spending. What a fucking fraud.

Thanks Trump

Yeah it’s one of the shows I look forward to showing my kid one day. That and Avatar the Last Airbender. I don’t know if they’ll appreciate it the way I did but who knows, they might show me something contemporary that they feels same sort of connection to.

I loved that show as a kid. No idea why I connected with it so strongly but I always appreciated that it wouldn’t shy away from darker themes.

When being against fascism gets you charged as a terrorist, you live in a fascist regime.

How’s the PDF formatted, is it optimised for print? Because Canva has pretty fucking sloppy output normally.

Cumin can cumin my mouth

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Well 196 is a shit posting community but there’s lots on blabaj.zone

We all know the homeschool kids are the weird ones. But being honest, I totally get that some kids might benefit from a year of homeschooling if they’re struggling socially. Everybody’s different yeah, not everyone fits into the same box.

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I’m enjoying No Comment by Kneecap recently

Well there you go… I guess I am in the minority on this. I don’t want these things anywhere near me or my family.

But yes I can imagine cops loving the idea of these things crushing protestors throats in the street.