Lemmy Today
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
dwazou@lemm.ee to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish ·
edit-2
4 days ago

Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier. Road fatalities recently reached a 12-year high.

www.theguardian.com

external-link
message-square
32
link
fedilink
110
external-link

Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier. Road fatalities recently reached a 12-year high.

www.theguardian.com

dwazou@lemm.ee to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish ·
edit-2
4 days ago
message-square
32
link
fedilink
Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier
www.theguardian.com
external-link
About 60% of the 1.2m cars that drove out of the showroom last year were SUVs, but road fatalities reached a 12-year high too
  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    4 days ago

    Make them exempt from tradie tax breaks

    Problem fucking solved

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      3 days ago

      yup, this is the whole problem here

Australia@aussie.zone

australia@aussie.zone

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !australia@aussie.zone

A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

Before you post:

If you’re posting anything related to:

  • The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
  • Politics, post it to Australian Politics
  • World News/Events, post it to World News
  • A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian

If you’re posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:

  • When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment
Banner Photo

Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

  • Australian News
  • World News (from an Australian Perspective)
  • Australian Politics
  • Aussie Environment
  • Ask an Australian
  • AusFinance
  • Pictures
  • AusLegal
  • Aussie Frugal Living
  • Cars (Australia)
  • Coffee
  • Chat
  • Aussie Zone Meta
  • bapcsalesaustralia
  • Food Australia
  • Aussie Memes
Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Moderation

Since Kbin doesn’t show Lemmy Moderators, I’ll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

  • @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone
  • @Fluid@aussie.zone
  • @bestusername@aussie.zone
  • @eatham@aussie.zone

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 26 users / day
  • 270 users / week
  • 1.1K users / month
  • 3.73K users / 6 months
  • 12 local subscribers
  • 4.18K subscribers
  • 1.34K Posts
  • 11.5K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
  • Fluid@aussie.zone
  • bestusername@aussie.zone
  • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zone
  • Nath@aussie.zone
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org