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Andrew Donnellan

@andrew.donnellan.id.au

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Fan of Jesus, Linux, PowerPC, Canberra, social democracy, efficient land use, trains. Enemy of RZ1 zoning. Fighting for a better city @greatercanberra.org.au. https://andrew.donnellan.id.au / @ajdlinux / @[email protected]

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 14h

ah, right, I see your point - so yes, NSW not having a class action system is driving work towards the FCA

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 14h

state supreme courts all have federal jurisdiction too, and plenty of the Vic class actions (based on my quick perusal of the current matters) are obviously federal matters

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 16h

I get the impression that the FCA has become more and more prominent over the last couple of decades. Is my impression right and is their class action procedure a part of that?

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 16h

This post brought to you by baseboard management controllers

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 16h

An annoying amount of my time at work, by which I mean a non-zero amount of my time, is occupied by manual certificate management

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 3d

need to train a classifier to filter cringe boomer memes from my feed

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 3d

And the Planning Act requires the proprietor of the land to be notified - it says nothing about occupants, so the letter is legally correct in that regard

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 3d

If I recall correctly, the wording was specifically placed to be visible through the envelope window, and the addressee was "the owner" or "the crown lessee" or something, strongly suggestive that you're meant to cross out the address, write your landlord's, and put it in a post box without opening

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 3d

Lovely message in our inbox this morning 😊

One of the foundational NIMBY beliefs is that renters aren't worthy of having a say about their communities.

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 3d

I remember the first time I got a DA notification letter from the ACT Planning Authority in my letterbox - above the address, it said "if you are a tenant, please forward this letter to your landlord"

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

(and in a federation there's no reason for any non-constitutional level of government to run its own elections)

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

In a highly centralised unitary state there's no good reason why any subnational body should run their own elections vs the economies of scale, shared infra and shared expertise through using a national body

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

ah, right, forgot NZ actually still has online voting (which I do not regard as a solved problem, but I digress)

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

I feel like I should cook something but also I have many things to do and effort

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

if local elections were not just government run but centrally administered some economies of scale would probably open up though

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

obviously the bad private election providers should be replaced and they should send ballots on time, but once you get to the point of paying for international express couriers local councils gonna have questions about budget

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

they could, at least, provide an International Reply Paid envelope - these do exist, my American employer's share registry uses them for investor votes - but that won't provide express post speeds

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

I suspect this is a non-trivial problem to address within the funding envelope that a local council will have for running an election, unless you have online voting which poses the usual online voting issues

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 4d

hmm long weekend what to do (other than sleep, already doing that)

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 5d

the theological mindset of whoever signed off on this is so far from that of any part of the church I've ever known

Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 7d

very disappointing to see that Varghese’s installation at St John the Divine NYC included readings from non-Xian scriptures. This is not allowed in the Episcopal Church. However much the cathedral wants to be a community center, it is NOT a catch-all religious house. ⚓️

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 5d

came up with a great (in my not so humble opinion) solution for my colleague's (very minor) technical issue while we were waiting for the bus at 5:30pm going into a long weekend, feeling very satisfied

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 7d

I once again wonder what it must feel like to be a Canadian Forces integree in the US DoD (/uh, DoW...) right now

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

Hey Canada, Trump brought up his whole “Canada should be the 51st State” again today, for the first time in a while, to a room full of all the top-ranked military leaders in the United States.

I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Right?

Photo of the U.S. military leaders listening to Trump in silence.

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 12d

A precondition to that industrial policy is getting rid of policy that explicitly bans that growth

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 12d

Absolutely

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 12d

Seriously thinking about the future of our towns, and actually doing the work of long-term social, cultural and political change embedded within a specific geographic and community context, is much less fun than pontificating about a Big Project.