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Published March 15, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Today’s Women’s March 4 Justice protests kicked off across the country at midday, with scores of women and male and non-binary allies calling for widespread change in federal parliament. The protests follow the emergence of high-profile allegations of rape, one against a senior parliamentary staffer by n...

Published February 23, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. In addition to slightly increasing the JobSeeker amount in a press conference on Tuesday, the government has announced a fucked new addition to mutual obligation requirements that is basically a big “fuck you” to anyone who is reliant on welfare payments. Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Fam...

Here’s why ‘delete Facebook’ is trending Bethany Dawson #DeleteFacebook is one of the top trending topics on Twitter today, and it’s all because Australian users will no longer be able to share news stories on the site. A landmark bill put forward by Josh Frydenberg, the Treasurer of Australia – which is said to have enough votes to get through the senate – sets a code of conduct for Facebook and Google, forcing them to pay Australian media companies for their content. Facebook has chosen not to pay, prompting a major backlash. Lot of people are saying they’ll no...

Good morning, this is Imogen Dewey bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 25 January – a year since Australia confirmed its first case of Covid-19 and things are far from back to normal. Australia is signing up to two international agreements to price in climate risk, environment minister Sussan Ley will tell a virtual summit today. This could inflame tensions between Liberals and Nationals, who have criticised banks for asking...

So we have a wilfully low-key NYE. It involves just the two of us. We drive up to the servo early, and get a bucket of KFC. We come back to our house and – under Christmas lights that we keep up specifically for this purpose – we hose our balcony. All the detritus of the year is washed away. Then we put garlands on our heads, light sparklers, listen to the countdown and take a couple of seconds to hear the cheer go up in the air above our little country town. We do indulge an annual bacchanal but that’s come to be Burn’s Night (25 January) where haggis, swords, kilts, Buck...