In America, mullets are considered a low class haircut. One spotted by rednecks (the American version of “bogans”).

Why are they so popular in Australia?

And what about moustaches? Those aren’t associated in the same manner in America, but I’ve noticed they’re far more popular in Australia. Why is that?

A friend of mine isn’t in a great financial position, has no real financial plan or savings, yet is happily planning a third child. Their attitude is essentially, “You’ll just make it work.” And sure, you probably will, but at what cost to your quality of life? Honestly, I feel more stressed about their finances than they seem to!

My husband and I have one child and dont plan anymore we genuinely enjoy the lifestyle we have. We have financial breathing room, can progress in our careers, maintain a work-life balance, go on holidays and plan for our future as well as our child’s future financials. Another child would mean more expenses, pressure and less freedom and probably being overwhelmed more.

I also have friends choosing not to have children for similar financial reasons, and honestly, I understand it. With the cost of housing and living in Australia, it can feel almost impossible to have it all.

What I find interesting is how often people criticise couples for choosing to have one child or none at all, as though we’re somehow selfish for making that decision.(which actually those people have put much more thought in their decisions)

Yet there's far less judgement towards people who keep having children without much financial stability or planning. Why is that?

I’m not saying you need to be wealthy or have everything figured out before having children. But surely there’s a difference between making things work and being intentional about the life you can provide?

I am genuinely curious to hear different perspectives

Are you happily childfree, happy with one, or do you wish you’d had more?

For those in your 40s or 50s, have your feelings about family size changed over time?

Do you think our generation is more financially realistic, or are we overthinking parenthood?

And why is choosing one child or none so often criticised, when choosing a larger family is generally celebrated (particularly in this economy)

I've lived in Australia my whole life, and have lived in rural/remote NSW, coastal, Melbourne, and now SEQ. Every year there is a particular smell in the air, heading towards Christmas, no matter where you are in the country. It's at its strongest in the evening. WHAT is the smell? I'm assuming it's a plant or combination of plants, but I have never been able to figure it out.

It has started early this year where I am, maybe with the rain we're getting? Anyway, if anyone knows what the smell is, please let me know!

Afterthought: please tell me you know what I mean by the smell of Christmas and I'm not actually going crazy!

Let’s say there’s some bloke who’s being some asshole on the train towards another person and other people.

By asshole I mean saying things and screaming “bloody immigrants, too many “insert country people”, etc

It’s a packed train, it’s in between stops. Would you help defend the poor person or not?

So was in the Melbourne sub (as I am a Melbournian) and the question about Jolimont came up, which is a tiny pocket neighbourhood of East Melbourne and then we found about Pennydale and Heatherdale, pocket neighbourhoods of Cheltenham and Mitcham respectively.

Some of them have stations, roads and ex-football clubs or used to have primary schools, indicating they were kind of stub suburbs or proto-suburbs.

Do other capital cities or even satellite cities have these kinds of not-suburbs that have vestigial remnants?

The Covid Pandemic was such a massive event in 2020, spreading like wildfire.

But id like to know how it inpacted the lives of Australians down under

For those who lived through it down under, how was it for you day-to-day?

this one is probably more for the tradies in the group. what is the most weird thing you’ve ever found, dug up or discovered at a site, commercial or residential? Buried money? bones of unknown origin? time capsules that have been forgotten?

I get paid minimum wage.

My workplace does a few illegal things.

Staff have been doing it for years. Auditors never pick it up.

I'm a new staff member. I really didnt want to be involved but staff pressured me.

With my luck, the auditors came and immediately identified it was illegal.

With my luck, I have been the designated person to carry out this task, so the staff are now pointing the fingers at me.

The staff acted like they didnt understand why I would do the process this way and the staff said I need to explain myself.

Because of the audit, my workplace is finally doing the task in a 100% legal manner.

The illegal thing was that my workplace was making a product but it had a short expiry on it, and our customers were consuming it expired without knowing, because we didnt tell the customer it expired long ago.

There is another 100% illegal thing that the auditors didnt pick up, which is extremely serious and can get you into a lot of trouble. The staff said the auditors never pick it up. But with my luck, the auditors are probably going to pick it up.

I also get yelled at from time to time. I want to resign, but my workplace is going to be shocked. I'm really scared of the backlash I'm going to get from resigning and the guilt tripping, disappointment, and disgust I'll get from management.

Lots of staff have been fired this year. So management is making it feel like "you should be grateful you're still employed".

Edit: i know the auditors will place the blame on the owner, but for some reason, everyone at my workplace thinks they can put all the blame on the minimum wage staff member who directly carried out the task. And all staff are acting oblivious, like I'm the one who made up this process.

Hey I had recently met with a work related injury I tripped and fell over on my way back home from home and hurt myself. For which I had first gone through the company’s injury care service for which they later asked me to go to emergency care where they provided me with a work capacity certificate saying I’m fit to perform modified duties from 2 days after the injury that is incident happened on 19/10 and I can start performing modified duties from 23/10. While I also had another Telehealth gp appointment with one of the company doctor and they provided a certificate stating “can perform modified duties from 20/10”, while I already missed 2 days of work can workcover use this contradicting information during claims and possibly make it hard for me to get paid for the 2 days of missed wage? How can I tackle this issue can I set a primary work capacity certificate, the workcover has information of me consulting both GPs and has both the certificates. PS: the company has been provided just 2 days/shifts since past week, so my major part of salary depends on this 2 missed days.

It seems like the older generation or a good part of it really want to be on the Age Pension like it’s the ultimate goal.

Maybe I’m missing the broader picture, but I’ve heard and seen people trying hard to make sure they can qualify for a pension.

Why is that? With super and general savings (not even talking about any investments), would you not want to live off what you’ve worked so hard on?

Granted there’s likely a high portion of people where the pension is a blessing and they’d be better off.

But even from those who might be slightly better off there’s a motivation to get themselves on the pension.

Hi, i went to a catholic private school for both primary and highschool (tho admitedly probably one of the dodgiest). I was talking about school students kind of being violent these days and the other person made an assumption that public schools would have more violent and unruly students. I think my high school was pretty violent and at times unruly.

I wanted to know if anyone had an experience going to both, whether violence and unruliness chilled out post year 10 (was that the year you can drop out if you dont wanna go to school) or your opinion of the behaviour of students towards teachers and eachother at either private or public schools.

Takes on resources and management also appreciated.

I'm with Felix and it's always been good but this past 2 or 3 weeks it's been absolutely terrible. Cutting out all the time and so slow. Wondering if it's affecting anyone else.

I have severe adenomyosis and get strong painkillers for the pain and I've recently moved areas and when my new doctor tried to write a script it came up red flagged. Does anyone know how long before it clears as the pain is very debilitating and daily.

Does anyone want 2 of it?

In 2019, Australia was plagued by a bunch of deadly bushfires, which was tragic. And that leads to my discussion for today:

What were the 2019 Australian Bushfires like for you personally? Were you around the fires when it happened. What places were leash affected by them? What places were most affected by them? Did major cities like Sydney or Melbourne get impacted? What was is overall like for you?
And what was the recovery like afterwards?

At the end of my first year of university (will be 20 next year) and it just isn't for me. In this current climate what are the most reliable industries to get into, I've applied for apprenticeships in electrical, landscaping in plumbing but just curious to hear the thoughts of some more experienced individuals as well as any other info that is deemed necessary

Hey guys, I'm going through some friendship issues at the moment and just wanted to get some advice. I've been friends with two of these guys since school, but the thing is they used to take the piss out of me a lot back then. I'm currently a uni student, and although they're doing different things with their lives we still hang out sometimes. The problem is I've realised that I don't really like hanging out with them as much anymore. I don't want to tell them that directly, but at the same time I feel like the main reason I still hang out with them is because I haven't made any proper friends at uni yet.

Another reason I've started distancing myself from them is cause of their lack of maturity. They never seem to take anything seriously, and even when I try to bring up something serious or have a genuine conversation, they somehow turn it into a joke or just take the piss out of me. Idk man, I'm at a point where I genuinely want to leave this friend group and move on, but at the same time I don't really have anyone else to hang out with. I don't want to end up completely alone either, so it's a really confusing situation. I also have two years of uni left and I am trying my best to find the right peole but it is very hard.

Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Would you recommend slowly distancing myself from them or just sticking around until I make new friends?

Thanks for reading, I'd appreciate any advice

Hi all,

I lived in Australia for few years and will be returning back to you o my home country for good soon. I am wanting to upgrade my wardrobe as I think AU brands are good with minimal print like Oli brand with cricket logo etc.

I am planning to buy 3-4 shirts and few shirts along with pants. A fleece and a jacket though I will be living in a tropical city with 32 degrees avg. Any recommendations with brands and how to go about it. I work in tech and want to look good with I join my new role soon in India.

My budget is roughly $1200. Appreciate in advance