He has a neurological condition, spasmodic dysphonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia)
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Brilliant, thanks!
I'm thinking it's probably just that the Privacy Commission is under-resourced, so they figured they may as well let regulators in other countries do some of the work for now.
Not that I'm inclined to defend the Coalition, but I suspected that the ratio was due to them being in opposition, and the historical record would seem to indicate that's a large factor: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1617/DisorderlyConduct#_Toc468869261
Non-government members, including crossbenchers, account for 92.8 per cent of all instances of disciplinary actions from 1901 to the end of the 44th Parliament in 2016—irrespective of whether Labor or the Coalition has been in Opposition (see Table 11).
That's great news!
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🤮 What a fucking embarrassment that we still officially have a monarchy.
Yeah, fair enough. I don't have any first-hand experience, but advice I've heard is that if you can get just one other committed person on board, you're halfway there.
If you've got a local Food Not Bombs group, that's a good place to find people that are into cooperation. There's other community groups around that might have people who are interested or that are willing to provide infrastructure of some kind - men's sheds come to mind. Otherwise, it's worth a try posting on local Facebook groups.
There's probably a guide or blog written around getting something like this set up. I should have a dig around.
Without knowing about how things are set up in your local co-op, maybe you could investigate setting up a two-stream system of 'budget' and 'organic'. Or you could just set up an entirely separate co-op.
Death, incapacitation, and unforced resignation don't count 😆
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