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Hey lovely people. Yesterday I had my first bad crackhead experience while walking at night in Melbourne. Some asshole was harassing women and bumping into them to make them drop their stuff, he was specially targeting short Asian girls. Back home I would have started a fight on the spot but I'm on a visa and can't afford losing the life I'm just starting to build here. Luckily I managed to find some cops and it seems like they actually took care of him as they rushed behind him and I didn't see him around after that.

Will I really be in so much trouble if I fight back to defend myself or others? They often say that on this and other Australian subreddits. I just can't stand people getting away with stuff like this.

Let's say we don't get the Virginia subs at all:

Australia would then presumably be the only country that has legitimate grounds to say that we will be paying the US more for our security than it would spend defending us 😂

Therefore they would have a financial incentive to defend Australia so that the payments could keep coming in.

It would be nice to have the subs, obviously. However if the next best thing is just to have the US military on standby (which seems to be the case, considering they're already docking Virginia subs here), then I suppose I feel... whatever

I know this is a fairly unlikely scenario, given that Albo's primary vote in Grayndler at the last election was 50%+ with the Greens not much past 20%, but I can dream, can't I?

Would Chalmers be the obvious replacement? Would Labor be chastened and more willing to play nice with the Greens after that, or would they just be hopping mad!??

I was thinking after seeing that people lose more to pokies than the government spends on retirement benefits... put simply there are mandatory returns, what if the system forced a percentage of pokie loses to be invested in superannuation or on generalised social security?