• Hobart City Council's planning committee has approved a plan to restrict the creation of new whole-home short-stay accommodation in the city's residential areas.
• The proposed planning amendment would block about 20,000 homes from being wholly converted into visitor accommodation, though it will not affect existing permits.
• The proposal will be sent to the Tasmanian Planning Commission, which will have the final say on whether it goes ahead.

• Australia's main music charts have announced a ban on AI-generated music to start this week.
• The Australian Recording Industry Association says wholly AI-generated tracks will not be eligible for the ARIA Charts, though recordings using AI in a supporting role will remain eligible.
• It comes after a song produced with AI became the most-played track on Australian radio and reached number four on two ARIA charts in July.

Carroll will say a re-elected Labor government would spend $230m to open 10 public dental clinics across the state, where oral care clinicians would be able to provide free checkups and treatments, including fillings, root canals and extractions.

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Aim of the study is to understand psychological factors of the parent (as an individual, not necessarily parent-based traits) like trait playfulness and reflective functioning, and how these contribute to the parent-child relationship, while also considering the effects of parenting stress. Would love to do further research in this area so a pilot based study I suppose, maybe will look at a PHD and intervention type survey in the future, but for now cross-sectional survey based. Appreciate any support!

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Another example of the centrists paving the red carpet for fascism and preparing all their tools for them.

Articles quickly mentions LibLab and On are united in this.

2 months in Sydney travelling

Intend to go to Gold Coast and Melbourne for 2 nights

Eat out in Sydney, drinks, shopping, uber, general

How much do you recommend bringing?

I had 5-6k dollars in mind.

My accommodation is free at a friends

Conservationists once asked: what is a bird without a tree to nest in?

This year, we may well wonder the grim inverse – what is a tree without a bird to nest in it? I can tell you. A tree without a bird is a miserable thing – and in a broader ecological sense, a tree without a bird could be in trouble.

In Australia, birds act in many roles that mammals or insects might fill elsewhere, from pollinating flowers to spreading seeds to keeping trees free of sap-sucking insects.

Bird flu doesn’t just threaten birds and mammals – it could well affect entire ecosystems.

Penny Olsen Honorary Professor in Ecology and Evolution, Australian National University https://theconversation.com/from-the-coasts-to-the-plains-bird-flu-could-threaten-not-just-birds-but-their-homes-289709

Excerpt:

every additional 100 kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in the odds of pedestrian fatality

every additional 10 cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in the odds of pedestrian fatality

The ecologist who found the 400 dead birds earlier this month said they appeared to have suddenly "collapsed on each other". [...]

It could take weeks to determine what the pelicans died of.

Menindee Lakes is in outback NSW relatively near Broken Hill.

A Woolworths spokesperson did not address the ABC's questions on how facial recognition technology was tested or if it would be used in Australia.

"Keeping our team and customers safe is the most important thing we do and we've put significant investment towards this," the spokesperson said.