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2023.08.26 14:30 Cyber-Kettle The Media’s use of this sub

There is no doubt that local media’s like Perthnow scroll this sub and use its posts for their stories. Sometimes without even crediting the original source, let alone paying them.
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2023.07.03 01:19 BPBAttacks9 July 2023 -- LIST OF PIT BULL ATTACKS/FATALITIES (ongoing)

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This is a list of pit bull attacks and fatalities documented by the media and on social media for the month of July 2023. This list will be edited throughout the month and after as new incidents are reported.
CHILD FATALITIES: 1
ADULT FATALITIES: 8
ANIMAL FATALITIES: 117
TOTAL FATALITIES: 126
TOTAL ATTACKS LOGGED: 207
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2023.05.13 08:07 DHPerth PerthNow ChatGPT

Is it just me or has PerthNow only just found out about ChatGPT and are like giggling children with a new toy, using it for their "news" stories.
Is this something we should be reporting to Media Watch so we can all get famous talking about it again?
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2023.05.07 11:25 The_Twit WAFL rant

Rant post but I'm sick of our team being handicapped by the competition since our inception in 2019.
Our WAFL team yesterday lost to Perth yesterday by 97 points, a team who had a ladder % of 50.5 before they played us. Our last 5 games, have been complete uncompetitive rollovers with our closest loss being in round 1 by 43 points.
This has not been covered enough in the media, with the West Australian perfectly happy to wax lyrical about our AFL side being uncompetitive while turning a blind eye to the farce going on in the WAFL.
History recap: long before we had a team, both Freo and WCE were in alignment with a range of WAFL listed clubs like East Perth. This allowed the AFL clubs to develop their talent, and sometimes pick overlooked WAFL players for their first team, while the WAFL clubs were paid half a million each year as rent from the AFL teams.
Now both Freo and WCE wanted a standalone side, but the WAFL clubs always pushed back on this, as there was a fear both clubs would dominate with their AFL-listed players. Which was ironic, in that the aligned teams were all too happy to play as many AFL players in their teams when it stood to benefit their chances in finals. I remember Peel Thunder were running around Subiaco with 17 Fremantle players in the finals several years back, as there was no restriction then. Soon the clubs complained and the WAFL imposed a 15 player cap (which Peel maxxed out on some games as Freo were rebuilding), which was then limited again to 12 players.
However, when West Coast was able to get a WAFL team licence, it was portrayed as a watershed moment for the competition, as WCE could finally have direct say how player development was managed and how we could try new things with expanded freedoms a WAFL side gave us.
Except, the restrictions that were baked into the initial agreement (based on WAFL teams worried about AFL player stacking) meant that our team is not able to develop any of our youth, nor are we able to effectively try new strategies etc.
Right now (link):
Before, we would have had new draftees (at the time) like Josh Rotham, Jack Nelson, Oscar Allen etc. playing in colts, then reserves before trying at the state league to get considered on to our first team. But now, our development is fucked, as we are forced to chuck undeveloped 18 y/o's at mature bodies in our state league team because in the current ruleset, little Timmy who got picked up on the Cat B rookie draft is considered the equivalent of Gary Ablett to the WAFL competition. It's insane.
This is also fucked when you consider that Freo, another AFL team that the WAFL clubs don't want ruining the competitiveness of their league, are able to run as many players across their colts, reserves and league teams, as long as it doesn't go over 12 AFL players on one side. Freo could have say, 18-20 players running across all competitions, while we are forced to be capped at 7 AFL + rookie players total.
Combine this with our shit run of injuries in the past 2 seasons, we are literally forced to fill the AFL team with WAFL level players, while our WAFL team can't develop anything. It would be like having Gold Coast in the AFL without a reserves team.
So what's the point? Why do we even have a WAFL team when our legs are cut from beneath by WAFL clubs with fragile egos too scared to play against a normal team? If they don't want AFL players in the comp, they should ban every delisted or retired AFL player, remove the Peel Thunder alignment, and ban both WA clubs from participating. But if they are going to place the WAFL on a pedestal against other leagues and the AFL, why be so hypocritical in restrictions applied to Freo and WCE?
Anyway, looking forward to geriatrics and self congratulating coming from the West and the WAFL at the season's end. 😃
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2023.03.28 11:44 RoyalChihuahua Media Watch tearing PerthNow a new one for ripping off stories from Reddit (and doing it badly). Are you listening Brisbane Times???

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2022.11.09 04:43 Bigwood69 34 Years Ago Julie Cutler Left a Work Function at a 5 Star Hotel and Was Never Seen Again. Two Days Later Her Car was Found Underwater at Perth's Most Iconic Beach. This is the Story of Western Australia's Most Haunting Missing Person's Case (PART 1).

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JULIE CUTLER
Julie Leanne Cutler was just one month shy of her 23rd birthday when she disappeared from the Perth CBD on a stormy night in June 1988. At 12:30am on the 20th of June she would leave a work function and never be seen again. Days later, her car would be found in the Indian Ocean 50 metres into the surf at Perth’s most popular beach. Her vanishing has baffled Perth for decades and was sadly destined to become one of our city’s most haunting cold cases. More importantly, it left her family devastated, traumatised, and utterly bereft of closure. WA Police announced a new inquest into Julie’s disappearance in 2018, along with a tidy $250,000 reward, hoping to glean new information from the public – that inquest finally took place across the 3rd and 4th of November this year. At the outset of the inquest in 2018 Julie’s father Roger made a familiar plea for information where he begged for public assistance and told of the unimaginable devastation that the ‘pain, anguish and uncertainty’ has caused his family. For Roger and the rest of Julie’s loved ones this inquest is not about justice, but resolution. ‘I don’t see any justice here,’ he said. This is their story.
JULIE
Roger has made the statement in recent years that it’s hard to even remember what his daughter was like in life. Thankfully we have plenty with which to paint a picture. Julie’s cousin, Jane Marwick, calls Julie strong, outgoing, confident, eloquent. She recalls her ‘city cousins’ visiting them in the small town of York when the girls were quite young, and their mother was unwell. In fact, the Cutler’s lost Julie’s mother Robyn in 1976 at the age of 29 to Hodgkin’s Disease. Julie was just a small girl. While Robyn was sick, Julie and her sister spent a lot of time with their grandmother, aunt and cousins. Marwick remembers that period with the usual sweet childhood memories of making daisy chains while laying in the cool grass, getting in harmless trouble with their parents, and swinging around on the Hills Hoist – a venture which ended with the clothesline tilted over like it had been tossed in a storm. Though she persevered with the resilient playfulness of childhood, Julie was not undaunted. Her family and friends recall that losing her mother had a strong effect on her even into adulthood, though the culture of 1980s Perth may not have bestowed the language with which to describe it.
Julie’s sister Nicole was a year younger than her. By all accounts Julie and Nicole were the dearest of sisters, particularly with Roger self-admittedly being a somewhat absent father. When Roger remarried two years after their mother’s death the girls clung to each other. Roger’s second marriage would produce four half-siblings for the girls and while they loved the ‘little ones’ they did not love their stepmother. Speaking at the inquest, Roger said ‘They thought they had the evil stepmother, and she thought she had the evil stepchildren’. Initially based in the suburbs of Floreat and Wembley, Julie and Nicole attended Iona Presentation College where they apparently boarded while their father was away. Their connection to the school was deep and when it became apparent that Julie had been lost, it was Iona who hosted the memorial ceremony for the community. Marwick recalls that when she was most homesick at Iona herself, she would go to Julie and Nicole’s where Julie would tease her and tell her stories to get her feeling better. Julie absolutely loved telling stories.
It was probably at Iona that Julie developed into the independent and self-assured young woman that, by all accounts, she was. Another friend, Jennifer Marr, met Julie at the Hole In The Wall Theatre in the suburb of Subiaco and grew to consider Julie part of her own family. In fact, Julie was sharing a two-bedroom flat with Jennifer’s sister Fiona Marr in Fremantle at the time of her disappearance. Jennifer went travelling in March, 1988, and called Julie and Fiona from Tokyo on June 13th – Fiona’s birthday. Julie was gone a week later. ‘She one of those lovely, funny, vivacious friends you have in your 20s… She was very creative and loved her acting’. Julie wasn’t just popular with the girls either. An attractive, petite girl with dark hair and sea blue-green eyes, she seemed to have had much romance in her young life. One ex-boyfriend, John, was so devastated to hear of her disappearance that he left Melbourne and travelled to Perth by train – a journey of around 3,400km – to assist investigators. That was the kind of impression she left.
Julie in blue and Jennifer in red
She loved her acting and she loved telling stories. It was no surprise that after graduating from Iona Julie would go on to study English Literature and Theatre at the West Australian Institute of Technology, aka, WAIT (now known as Curtin University). She was ‘full of potential for a creative life ahead,’ according to Jennifer, ‘the sky was the limit’. More than young and creative, she was responsible and independent. Having lived away from home in her teen years, Julie mostly took good care of herself and her interests. After finishing her bachelor’s degree, she went on an extensive holiday through Europe, including stays in Greece and England where she and John lived together for some months. Arriving home in late 1987, she took a job at the Parmelia-Hilton in the Perth CBD – then one of just two five-star hotels in the city – where she cleaned rooms and was a general floor staffer. Thanks to this she was able to buy her own car: a stylish ‘60s two-tone Fiat sedan that was by all accounts her baby. A few weeks after getting home she moved out of a share home in Victoria Park and into the flat in Fremantle that she shared with Fiona. Seeing that Julie and Nicole had grown independent Roger made the decision to move the rest of the family to Kalgoorlie, a small Goldfields town 595km from Perth. He took the family out to dinner before they left – this was the last time he saw Julie alive.
Sadly, not all was perfect in the life of Julie Cutler. When I come to the theories of her case we’ll explore some of the troubles she experienced. First, let’s discuss the events of the night of June 19th and the early morning hours of June 20th. Most of this is sourced, but I will also be referring to the inquest itself from last week which I attended. This case has naturally elicited much rumour and innuendo and I will do my best to be clear when I mention details whose origins are unclear.
DISAPPEARANCE
On the afternoon of the 19th a male friend rang Julie to see if she wanted to see him before work that night. She declined, telling him she was going to watch a film instead. She was probably saving her energy since there was a staff awards function at the Parmelia that night. Julie worked from 6pm to 10pm before she and a co-worker, Connie Harper, got changed together and went to the staff party. According to Connie, Julie changed out of her uniform and into a stylish black dress with a gold clasp on the shoulder, putting her work clothes into a plastic bag.
Julie apparently came to party hard. She had been drinking champagne and trying to get Connie in on the act, but Connie nursed one drink all night. Julie, on the other hand, at one point ordered three champagnes and downed them back-to-back. As the party wore on she danced with two young men that Connie knew to be Polish immigrants named Maciejewski and Swiatek (named in the inquest), both fellow employees at the hotel. The pair invited Julie and Connie to come home with them, drink more champagne, and watch a film at their Glendalough flat not far from the party. Julie was keen but her friend was not. She rejected the offer and suggested Julie should do the same; she was drunk and ought to go sleep it off. Julie appeared to respond to reason and chose not to go without Connie.
The function wrapped up and Julie was seen leaving the building with a man and woman not far behind. Police have made efforts to locate and speak to this couple over the years, but their exact significance is unclear. They were not mentioned at the inquest. Before getting in her car Julie told Connie she had plans to go and meet someone but didn’t say who. When asked, Julie only said that it was ‘a secret’. Connie said it was a bad idea and that she should just go home. She watched Julie get in her car and leave. Meanwhile, one of the hotel’s kitchen staff was stood outside the carpark, taking shelter from the rain under a tree. He was waiting for a ride from his girlfriend who was finishing a shift elsewhere in the city. He wasn’t well acquainted with Julie but had seen her often enough around the hotel to recognise her when she pulled up beside him. She rolled her window down and asked if he was okay, presumably willing to offer him a lift now that a storm was blowing in. He thanked her and said he was fine, they said goodbye, and she took the next left turn before driving away. This encounter, at approximately 12:30am of June 20th, was the last confirmed sighting of Julie Cutler.
The next morning, Fiona Marr arrived home in Fremantle to an empty house. With no sign of Julie and no indication that she’d come home after work, she was concerned enough to call Julie’s father. She asked whether it was worth getting the police involved and Roger gave her the go ahead. At the inquest, Roger said that at this point he wasn’t really concerned. After all, Julie was an independent adult and it was normal from him to go weeks without hearing from her. However, he thought that having the police show up might teach Julie a lesson about taking off without telling anyone. It was when Julie failed to show up for her next work shift that the tone of her absence changed; friends and family began to search in earnest. Over the next 48 hours they made appeals for Julie or anyone who had seen her to come forward, all the while calling anyone and everyone they could think of in hopes of finding a lead. They hoped this was just a youthful misadventure, that she’d realise people were looking for her and come home. Or maybe she was in a hospital somewhere, hurt but safe. Those hopes were cruelly dashed two days later when a swimmer at Perth’s most popular beach, Cottesloe, kicked something metal beneath the surf: Julie’s 1963 Fiat sedan, fully submerged about 50m from the shore, upside down on a patch of reef. This was not a youthful mistake – this was a fully-fledged disappearance. While he would not dare to say it out loud for years to come, the moment Roger Cutler learned that the car had been found he knew he would never see his daughter again.
Discoveries
Investigating Officer Ron Carey arranged personnel to detach the car from the reef and haul it ashore for examination. The car was absolutely wrecked, looking like someone had rolled it on the freeway or crushed it with machinery. Neither was the case, though you’d be forgiven for thinking so given the state of the thing. The roof was caved in and various parts had come loose. The bonnet was missing and the battery washed up along the beach some days later. Even the car’s back seat had come loose and been found further down the beach, bobbing around as beachgoers kicked their way into the deeper water for a soak. The car had been dragged, tossed, and turned by powerful underwater turbulence and a raging surf caused by winter storms the night of Julie’s disappearance. Upon finally getting the thing out, they began examining the vehicle.
Julie's Car Picture 1
Julie's Car Picture 2
Julie's Car Picture 3
The two back doors and passenger’s side door were locked. The driver’s side window was down and the door slightly ajar. While it’s been reported at times that one of the back doors had an issue where it couldn’t lock, this is erroneous reporting designed to suggest that someone may have lain in wait in the back seat – we’ll come to that later. The ignition had been on, as had the lights, and the car was in neutral. None of Julie’s belongings were found in the vehicle. All that was recovered were a few hairs attached to one of the seats, and the contents of the glove compartment: Julie’s registration/insurance information and, tantalisingly, two champagne flutes wrapped in a tea towel. The flutes were near identical to those used at the Parmelia. The documents bore a scribbled-down name and address which I’ve chosen to omit since they were followed up and found to be insignificant. It has been frequently reported that the ashtray contained cigarette butts from a brand Julie did not smoke, however this point was not raised at the inquest. In fact, Roger’s testimony stated that Julie was a social smoker at most and typically smoked herbal or clove cigarettes. Some other sleuths have told me that the butts found in the car were menthol cigarettes, however I can find no source for this and considering Roger’s statements it seems immaterial. There was no sign of Julie’s handbag, purse, or the plastic bag containing her work uniform. Their absence was nearly as conspicuous as Julie’s. But while the condition of the car raised more questions than answers, the fact of it being in the ocean to begin with presented some crucial information.
Aerial Image of the Surf Club and Retaining Wall
The Groyne - Located just out of frame on the right of the aerial shot
A 5-metre swell and gale force winds meant that the usually white, sandy beach was entirely immersed. The tide was lashing the retaining wall in front of the historic Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club building with fury in those early morning hours. We can therefore say with certainty that the car was not driven onto the sand before being submerged and dragged out – it had to have gone directly into the water because there was no beach to drive onto. So, where and how did it enter? There were two possible entry points: Off the groyne, an artificial rock wall perpendicular to the shore, or over the retaining wall of the Surf Club via the service road/boat ramp adjacent to it. It has been erroneously reported that investigators believe the car had been driven off the groyne due to how far out the car was found. However, it was made clear at the inquest and in credible reports that investigators determined the car must have gone over the retaining wall and been dragged out that far by the tide. This was based on the lack of characteristic marks that would be left on the vehicle if it scraped upon the jagged, rocky groyne, and the fact that the car itself was in neutral. Further, it was demonstrated that the car could have picked up enough momentum to vault the retaining wall simply by rolling down the hill; it didn’t necessarily need to be driven.
It’s often been said in this case that Cottesloe is such a popular beach that there’s always someone there at any time of day. This is not an objective standard, and if ever there were conditions too severe for even the most devoted beachgoer, then these were those conditions. However, we do know for certain that there were swimmers at the beach by 5:30am thanks to some very dedicated (read: old) morning swimmers who always met at this time. The fact none of them saw the car, and that nobody else has ever come forward claiming to see the car that morning, gives us one conclusion: Julie’s fiat went into the water some time between her last sighting at 12:30am and the arrival of those swimmers at 5:30am. And despite some fleeting suggestions otherwise, all those concerned have arrived at the simple, sad conclusion that Julie Cutler died that night, between those hours.
Later Events
Despite the major concerns for the young woman’s safety and massive public outreach regarding the case, very little of value was brought forward by the public. Perth was still reeling from the disgusting actions of the Birnies, a killer couple who abducted and murdered hitchhiking girls in the mid ‘80s and were imprisoned by 1986. Unlike their victims, Julie was an upper-middle class woman of means whose disappearance was felt much sooner and drew great media interest. However, you will always here that Perth in the 20th century was less a city and more a big country town. This was very true in 1988, so rumour travelled quickly while information didn’t flow so readily. While many tips and sightings came in – including a baffling call to a journalist ‘The West’ claiming to be Julie and asking to be left alone – none drew the case closer to a breakthrough. The first real breakthrough didn’t come until the first anniversary of the case when the owners of a late-night kebab shop in the city saw renewed pleas for information on the news. They had completely missed it the first time around but this time they caught it, and boy did they have something for police: Julie’s work uniform.
Around the time of Julie’s disappearance, the owner of the kebab shop had found a plastic bag that had been left by a customer. It contained a pair of black stockings and a white blouse of the same type worn by staff at the Parmelia-Hilton. In fact, they were manufactured specially for the hotel making them totally distinctive. They had tossed the bag and the tights, but kept the blouse in their lost and found because they recognised it as the type worn by Parmelia staff and presumed somebody would come looking for it quick smart. Nobody did, and they forgot all about it until they saw the renewed push for tips on the news. They had no recollection of seeing the black bow tie that went with the uniform. The blouse has never been forensically tested but it is in Julie’s size, matches the timeframe of Julie’s disappearance, and the hotel had an organised system where staff would swap out dirty uniforms for freshly cleaned and pressed ones which would flag any other missing items. For these reasons, it seems almost certain that this was in fact Julie’s work blouse from the night of her disappearance. This is the last concrete, reliable trace of Julie that has ever been found.
The last major find in the case was in 1996 when a beachgoer discovered some items in the sand dunes a few kilometres from where Julie’s car was found: a tan purse/handbag similar to one Julie owned, a chequebook from Julie’s bank, a 1988 annual diary, and a “Hawaiian” branded pen (referring to the “Hawaiian Group” who own several bars, clubs, and restaurants in the city). The man initially held onto the items, posting an ad in the local paper asking the owner of the items to come and claim them. It wasn’t until the next year that he turned them into police as he began to suspect they were connected to Julie. They were showed to Julie’s family who said they weren’t sure that they belonged to her. Julie journaled basically every day and typically used regular notepads, but the 1988 calendar-diary was apparently empty aside from some squiggles in the front ‘like someone was testing a pen’. One would expect Julie to have written more in the diary than that given she made it to June of that year and that she was a prolific journal writer.
The rest of the items were generic enough that nobody could say for certain they were Julie’s and, agonisingly, they have since been destroyed due to archaic evidence practices in place at the time. Police retained photos of the items, but they were discarded and not available for any testing. In fact, during the inquest WA police admitted that most of the physical evidence in the case is lost. Absolutely bafflingly, the investigators spearheading the review since 2018 discovered that almost all of the original witness statements taken in 1988 and 89 are missing as well. New searches were undertaken around the sand dunes in 2018 which did not produce any meaningful discoveries, and you may rightly describe this is as closing the barn door after the horse has well and truly bolted. If I can sum up my feelings about the investigation in this case, I’d say this: the investigators in this case went to the ends of the earth for Julie. They were extremely dogged and thorough, and felt personal responsibility to Julie and her family which endures today. Lead investigator Ron Carey said that in his decades-long career this was one of only a handful of cases he could not solve and that the biggest thing he could change in his life would be to have this case solved. I absolutely believe him, and I feel the current investigators have the same sentiments. They have been shot in the foot by shoddy, backwards-thinking practices around the storing and maintenance of evidence. Indeed if Perth was a big country town until the 21st century, then this was one of the most indictable, negligent manners in which that stereotype played out. This was not the only significant homicide investigation of its time to be bungled in the state for these reasons, and God I hope they get lucky or somebody finds a spine and ponies up about what they know. Until then they, and Julie’s family and friends, will have to live with these mistakes.
That’s all for Part 1 of this case. In Part 2 I’ll try to give a detailed breakdown of the leading theories in this case, particularly those that were addressed during the coroner’s inquest last week. If you’ve made it this far then thank you so much for taking interest in Julie’s story and my work. I’ve been chipping away at this for about a month in between exams and I almost gave up on the thing until I attended the inquest and saw Julie’s loved ones giving testimony. It lit a little fire, and I hope that this helps to keep her story alive and that she’d have enjoyed my telling of it. I’ve got to give a massive shoutout to the users over at bigfooty who clued me into so much info and for generally sharing my interest in this difficult mystery. I’ll try to have part 2 out ASAP since I’m done with exams, especially if this post gets good engagement. It will cover Julie’s questionable connection to the Claremont Serial Killings, new revelations from the inquest about Julie’s mental health, and some of the suspicious actions of men Julie was close to at the time. It may also include a bit on an elaborate “Owl Theory” in this case if that gets any of you excited. That’s all, thank you for your time, and RIP Julie Cutler.
SOURCES:
The Doe Network
Australian Missing Person's Register
Crime Stoppers WA
Roger Cutler Talks About Julie's Disappearance
Jane Marwick Recalls Julie
Jennifer Marr Pleas for Answers
2018 Inquest 1
2018 Inquest 2
Ron Carey Recalls The Investigation
Purse and Diary Prompt New Search, 2018
2022 Inquest
Police Admit Evidence Bungle, 2022
News Clipping, Caller Claims to be Julie
News Clipping, Police Seek Couple
News Clipping, Julie's Ex Assists Investigation
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2022.11.08 10:24 Expay-24 ‘Do not delay’ — ASIC warns Aussies to look for 10 signs of a crypto scam

Australia’s market regulator has released a list of the “top-10 ways to spot a crypto scam,” amid a detected rise in crypto-related investment scams this year.
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) public advisory statement was published as part of Scams Awareness Week 2022, an initiative that teaches Australians how to identify all forms of scams. The campaign takes place between Nov. 7 to 11.
ASIC said that Australians had already lost more through “investment scams” in 2022 than the total $701 million figure in 2021, while ASIC Deputy Chair Sarah Court attributed cryptocurrencies to the steep incline in investment scams over the last two to three years:
“The main driver of the increase was cryptocurrency investment scams, where losses increased by 270%. The ACCC have advised that losses to crypto scams have increased further in 2022.”
“Given this concerning trend, we want to arm Australians with the information they need to protect themselves from scammers,” she added.
As part of the advisory, ASIC stated that cryptocurrency scams fall into three categories. The first relates to scams where the victim believes to be investing in a legitimate asset. However, the crypto app, exchange, or website turns out to be fake.
The second scam involves fake crypto tokens used to facilitate money laundering activities, while the third type of scam involves the use of cryptocurrency to make fraudulent payments.
ASIC says top signs of a crypto scam include “receiving an offer out of the blue,” “fake celebrity advertisements” and being asked by a “romantic partner you only know on-line” to send money in crypto.
Other red flags include being asked to pay for financial services in crypto, being asked to pay more money to access funds, withholding investment earnings “for tax purposes” or being offered “free money” or “guaranteed” investment returns.
The markets regulator also said it was common for scammers to pressure victims into transferring crypto to their website. To prevent this issue, ASIC also advised crypto investors not to use web apps that aren’t listed on Apple Store or Google Play.
Other things to look out for is if “strange tokens appear in your digital wallet,” said ASIC.
If scammed, Court strongly advised victims not “to send any more money” to the scammer and to “block all contact” from them if their identity is known:
“Do not delay. Contact your bank or financial institution immediately to report the scam. Ask them to stop any transactions. Also, warn your family and friends so they can watch out for potential follow-up scams.”
Related:Aussies already lost $242M to investment and crypto scams in 2022
A Nov. 7 report from the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) predicted Australian-targeted scam losses will reach $4 billion Australian dollars by the end of 2022.
The ACCC has received $10 million in seed funding as part of its budget to build a National Anti-Scam Center to support the community in its fight against cybercriminals, which was confirmed by Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones on Nov. 7.
David Koch, the host of the Australian breakfast show Sunrise, has called for the ACCC to demand more accountability on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn over the scam-like content that can be found on its platforms.
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2022.10.13 09:27 l3ntil Warning re: Dokotela

I'm posting this warning about Dokotela as a separate post so that it's searchable, and because I've seen a couple of references to their service today.Dokatela is a telehealth service, which was founded by Zelko Mustac.
Mustac was banned from psychiatry in 2004: archived article here:https://accforum.org/forums/index.php?/topic/1213-the-sunday-times-expose-perth/
if that link doesn't work, the waybackarchives should.
Mustac attempted to gain work via the RSL system, and RSL veterans took him to the media:https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/rsl-chief-under-fire-amid-veteran-doctor-outrage-ng-02bc9289399be923d2b4af0cb1f248e0
Many of the reviews on google for dokotela are fake - how can you tell?If you check the 5 star reviews, they're often in batches. If you check the person who did the review, there's often something suspect about them - eg they only post generic 5 star reviews and nothing else. An urban plumbing business posting about the wonders of a regional telehealth service is dubious at best.I've tried using the "report to google" tool, but nothing happens.
I've seen Mustac, and that was how I found out - I've seen a lot of mental health people, but no one this dismissive and cold hearted. I've tried reporting, but it's fallen on deaf ears.Please avoid.
Mods have previously checked out my claims and approved here on this thread.
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2022.10.09 17:27 MtMihara [Live Music/Music Festivals] A History of Soundwave and AJ Maddah: The Concert Promoter Who Once Left Slipknot $1.5 Million in Debt

Hi, I've lurked for a while and I haven't written in even longer, so I though I'd try write up something new and write about my teenage years hobby of going to see bands play and getting tinnitus.
Intro
In 2004, Perth would see inaugural edition of Australia's Soundwave festival, an alternative music festival organised by promoter AJ Maddah. A decade later Maddah would be declared the most influential person in Australian music. Two years after that he’d be completely bankrupt. This is the story of the end of the Australian live festival craze and also why you should never use Twitter.
Live Music and Music Festivals: an Intro
Live music is the act of going to a venue to see an artist perform live. It's fairly self explanatory, and while music festivals are similarly simple it's worth talking about the differences between two of the largest types: one day festivals and camping festivals. A one day festival is typically located somewhere accessible like a city and has a bunch of musicians play throughout the day on multiple stages with competing time slots. They're kind of expensive but you can feasibly save up if you're devoted or splurge if you suddenly come into money. There's a subset of these festivals called "boutique festivals", they're generally much smaller with a limited ticketing size and feature a line-up of bands that fit into a specific niche or have a cult following. Camping festivals are multiple day affairs where artists play on one or two stages generally in the middle of "nature". They're much more expensive and require on top of a ticket: travel funds and planning, accommodation, food (or rather money for three days of venue food), and a lot of foresight. Typically you're looking at a 4 digit number for expenses, way out of sight for anyone without a steady stream of disposable income. The festival we're talking about today, Soundwave, was one of the last of the the big one day festivals to collapse in Australia.
The GFC Ruined a lot of lives but it let me see Nine Inch Nails so it’s impossible to say whether it’s Bad or Not
Australia found itself in a unique situation during the late 2000s: it looked a lot like it did during the early 2000s. This is of note because economically the rest of the world was broken over the knee of the Global Financial Crisis (or GFC). As currencies across Europe, Asia, and North America saw severe devaluation, the Australian dollar did what Australian hero Steven Bradbury did: win by virtue of not blowing it when everyone else has. As such, the Aus dollar saw an initial plummet for a few months before a return to trading at the previously quite strong levels.
While it may seem strange to have begun this write-up with a rant about exchange rates, this had a huge effect on Australian festivals being able to get international acts. These rates meant that the usually high costs had been cut sizably, making costs to get international superstars achievable more than ever. One person to take advantage of this fact was festival promoter and organiser AJ Maddah. For his Soundwave Punk and Skate 2008 festival, 38 out of 39 acts were North American. This meant coordinating visas, flights, accommodation, gear rentals, transport, and cross-continental travel for over 200 Americans in another hemisphere opposite the largest ocean and hoping to make a profit. The most shocking part is it did.
Maddah had located that demographic that along with being an underserved niche was also feverish in their interest: punk and metal dweebs. On top of this, he had capitalised on a particular Australian pathology: the cultural cringe. In short, Australians have a habit due to our history and relation to other geopolitical world powers (and honestly probably geographical location too) toconsider any cultural outputs of our own as ordinary, but to rush the stage the moment someone from outside the country appears. By instead focusing on overseas acts, Maddah had reduced the icky “Australianness” of the event and made a festival that felt international, which was a massive draw.
Following the GFC, Soundwave massively grew, expanding to 80 acts in 2009 with no Australians playing. Within two years the festival was outpacing the struggling Big Day Out, which had been running consistently and successfully since their first show in 1992 (Nirvana was coheadliner and released Nevermind between the lineup announcement and the actual fest). In what could be taken as a dig after this, the next year Maddah booked nu metal heels Limp Bizkit to play the main stage, who had been in exile by the country’s music organisers since 2001 after a 15-year-old girl was crushed to death during their set at the Big Day Out, with Durst using a moment of memorium onstage to attack the festival.
It's Time to Stop Posting
Maddah had an abrasive personality. He was also an early adopter of Twitter. As a result he gained a reputation that the industry described as irreverent, but really amounted to using it to abuse people at random. While many are now lost to time, preserved are the moments where he randomly attacked previous headliners of the festival Good Charlotte as “money grubbing cunts” (which to be fair, a broken clock), or when he accused Travis Barker of stealing $1.5 million from his bandmates. This abuse when not just saved for bands, as when he declared a woman asking why one of the festival acts wasn’t visiting Perth that “yours is a future of sadness and loneliness save for the odd mercy fuck”.
This temper extended not just to patrons or former festival alums, but those currently booked to play. In 2010, Australian emo band (1 of 2 that year) Closure in Moscow were unceremoniously kicked off the line-up, with Maddah alleging on twitter that they’d only been booked as a favour to management and were trying to bleed him dry. The band rebuked this through their Myspace (rest in peace old friend) stating that they had only requested to be picked up from their homes during the hometown festival show. After being given the go-ahead, Maddah called them up, declared them “a pack of cunts” and told them they were off the festival.
Maddah would lose several acts due to his habit of abuse over the lifetime of the festival. Metal band Avenged Sevenfold requested a later time onstage, which Maddah then characterised on twitter as trying to usurp headliners Iron Maiden. When they withdrew, he posted about how awful they were to work with on twitter, then offered a festival spot to post-hardcore band Thrice. Two years later, Thrice would be the object of his ire as they revealed that despite being on the initial line-up poster for Soundwave’s one off spring festival “Revolution”, no confirmation had ever been sent. Hole was booted off through twitter to preserve the honour of Fred Durst. Garbage were thrown to the social media wolves after being hit by a massive flood and unable to reschedule their set. Nu metal band Sevendust was accused of extortion for asking for travel costs. It’s little wonder that the festival gained a reputation for bands deciding to flee the moment something else came up.
Don't Get Ahead of Yourself
The spring edition of the festival, Soundwave Revolution, was teased during the 2011 festival before being announced in April. The line-up was headlined by Van Halen and Alice Cooper, was again entirely international acts, and only one band featured any women (Hole, which really justifies their entire discography). Maddah added that was only part of the lineup, that there would be 4 headliners (Van Halen as #1, Alice Cooper as #4) and that #2 and #3 were on the way, but you might want to book tickets now. Which people did, they organised flights and accommodation and of course purchased tickets. The second announcement was booked for 1st August, before Maddah announced through Twitter that he was still getting paperwork together. After a week of radio silence, the band Steel Panther stated through twitter “Soundwave Revolution is cancelled. I am bummed.”
Later in the day, Maddah confirmed the festival had to be cancelled, stating one of the unknown headliners had pulled out and thus the festival could not go ahead. However, there would be a smaller festival touring headlined by Panic! at the Disco for $106 AUD (vs the $163 AUD price for the actual show), and tickets would be refunded. The actual reason for the cancellation was revealed later: Maddah had initially developed the entire festival just for Rage Against the Machine to play and had gotten everyone but Zach Del La Rocha to sign on (it is important to not Del La Rocha had played the festival earlier in the year and thus had experience with Maddah). Maddah had effectively announced and sold tickets despite not having his co-headliner booked (that 4-headliner thing dissipated real quick). On top of that, Van Halen fell through due to issues with paperwork, and thus they had to pull out. It’s unknown how much of a financial blow this caused the company but seeing that papers at the time began write-ups on the death of the Australian festival, it’s safe to say there was a shudder through the industry. By 2012 numerous single day large festivals would have either shut down or massively downscaled, but Soundwave kept going even larger than before.
Don’t Spread Yourself Too Thin
Despite the hit to the hip, Maddah after this would make an increasing number of poor business decisions. He attempted to start a record label based only on CD distribution. He announced another festival immediately after Revolution collapsed based on the same model of a loaded international line-up but with the added bonus of extremely limited tickets, all marketed an audience of “guys who post on /mu/”. He purchased musical equipment supplier Billy Hyde Music.
The label distributed ~42 albums on CD for small international bands to Australia before going totally radio silent in 2015. The festival, Harvest, collapsed due to lack of interest despite the lower ticket numbers. Billy Hyde acted as a continuously growing loss as festivals refused to pay their biggest competitor for gear they could get elsewhere. As a last-ditch effort, in 2014 Maddah took partial control of the previously mentioned Big Day Out along with the organisers for Lollapalooza, only to lose headliners Blur 8 weeks before the event due to disagreements between the two. Maddah would sell his share in the festival shortly afterwards for $1, a step down from his buying price of $400,000 and the $5 million he financed from his own coffers. The next year Big Day Out would be cancelled indefinitely, leaving Soundwave the largest one-day festival in Australia.
Closing Song
Perhaps as an attempt to recuperate the sheer number of losses, Soundwave 2015 was announced with a 79 bands (4 Australian acts) across two days. Rent fees had doubled, the line-up featured 4 headliners (Faith No More, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, and Slipknot). The smallest overseas act, Monuments, cost $19.8k alone to appear (we'll get to how that number is known in a minute). The festival sold out Sydney and Melbourne, did decently in Brisbane, and accrued a massive loss of $1.4 million the Adelaide leg. Still, they’d gotten through the year! Maddah announced the festival had been a success, patrons cheered the new event setup because there were far less clashes between band times, and all-in-all it seemed like Soundwave's decision to go bigger had saved it from death like the other festivals.
In 2016, Maddah trumpeted the biggest line-up for the festival yet. The results were…not that. The festival had substantially trimmed line-up down from 79 to 26 acts and had returned to being a one day only. Maddah claimed this would allow bands to have more time to play which, while true, is almost certainly not why this was done. Headliners Disturbed generated a tangible indifference even from those employed by Soundwave, and while a few cult classics were on the bill (L7! reformed Refused before anyone realised that was a bad idea!) people felt let down. As this occurred, it was revealed that the festival was in administration. Still, Maddah promised nothing would interfere with the festival, and tickets went up for purchase.
Later, bands began speaking of having trouble getting in in contact with the organiser. L7 saw the writing on the wall and just bailed which lol good call. Bring Me the Horizon, a large metalcore band, posted that they weren't 100% locked in. Australian punk band Frenzal Rhomb meanwhile were more direct, saying that until Maddah paid them they weren't playing. Finally, Maddah then took to Twitter to reveal that the festival had been taken hostage. Namely, ticketing company Eventopia was not allowing for the pre-release of ticketing funds, and without those funds he could not pay for land and equipment rentals along with band deposits for Soundwave 2016.
Maddah announced over Twitter that the festival would not go ahead, claiming lack of sales. Not helped was the fact this was now 2016: the Australian dollar had been battered following the soft austerity of the Gillard-Rudd era and the economic butchering of the then Abbott-Turnbull government. Ticket prices had been increasing astronomically (2009 saw a cost of $110, while 2014 was $189) A tug of war erupted between himself and ticketing agency Eventopia over who the onus of refunds fell to, with Maddah claiming they had used the money to refund a different failed venture. Eventopia eventually conceded following fan backlash (tw: 2000s era homophobia). Shortly afterwards, culture journalists began to investigate the filling with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and found that behind the scenes, things had been far, far worse than thought.
A Very Convoluted form of (ALLEGEDLY, PARODY) Robbery
Firstly, the company had been insolvent since their 2014 festival, which saw a $5 million loss compared to the $7 million gain the year previous. This ran up against the bizarre way big Australian festivals used to operate on credit: the organiser gets everything together and maybe makes a deposit, and everyone else (staff, bands, leases) wait until after the show is finished to get their money back. In 2014, equipment companies just didn’t receive this money. However, at this point in time Maddah was being paraded around as the most powerful figure in Australian music, so the belief was that it was impossible to avoid working with the guy. So they worked the 2015 festival, though a few smart companies demanded cash upfront (including a stand off before the gates opened on the day). Maddah still faced a massive loss, and thus on top of refusing to pay for his workers instituted against some of the most influential bands of the 90s a policy some will know as “work for exposure”.
The full list of how much the bands were owed after the festival can be found here, but in case you dare not open risky links because a random Redditor suggested you do here are a few of those of note:
Slipknot — $1,645,299.29
Soundgarden — $2,132,075.00
Smashing Pumpkins — $1,267,446.43
Judas Priest — $349,560.55
Faith No More — $751,076.20
Falling In Reverse — $54,064.98
Escape the Fate — $21,985.68
Gerard Way — $89,510.75
The Aquabats — $32,787.26
In not paying the bands (or largely, not paying their agents), Maddah had ruined his reputation with a group of people who could survive perfectly fine if they blacklisted him. This the reduction in line-up for 2016: bands had received a warning to not work with the guy lest they get left footing the bill.
All up, ~$10.9 million was owed to the bands. A further $9.8 million was owed to sound and labour companies, and $6 million was owed to the tax office. A total of 186 parties were creditors in the end. With the news Soundwave had entered liquidation and Maddah had declared bankruptcy, they learned they would be seeing almost none of it in many months’ time. Ministry, who were owed $209k AUD, turned to crowdfunding to get their money back. Vocalist Al Jourgensen went to plead the band’s case and bring attention to this through Twitter, declaring that the festival was a “Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme” and alleging Maddah had been “living the “high life” of a jet setting playboy on the backs of thousands of musicians”, along with claiming that he had paid $30K out of pocket for the tour to begin with. Maddah then got in a mudslinging match online with a man he’d effectively mugged, alleging that this was fine because Ministry had dropped out of a show he had arranged in 2006 last minute.
Ministry weren’t the only ones to turn to crowdfunding, as deathcore band Monuments were forced to crowdfund the $19k they were owed. The band stated that Maddah had effectively left them on read, and they had realised they’d likely never see the money again. They finished by stating that,
“We aren’t the biggest or best band in the world — but we are a very dedicated band that has given 200% of our time and dedication to get our music out there — … For a small band like us this is like losing a million dollars.”
In they end they were only able to recoup £6,600 from their aim of £14,000. Despite that the band has continued to this day.
Post-Show Comedown
Documents following the festival’s collapse revealed Maddah had taken 80% of the ticketing fees for the non-existent 2016 festival, pocketing $2.66 million. This comes despite Maddah’s previous claims that the ticketing company refused to release funds. No one really knows where this money went, though theories point to band deposits. This is of note as it is the only time in history someone has been so self-serving that they managed to make a ticketing company look good.
Following liquidation, creditors were paid 0.987% of what they were owed in 2018 ($600,000 of Maddah’s liquid assets split across 187 creditors, so $3,208.56AUD each). This was far below the expected deed signed at the beginning of liquidation ($25 cents per $1), a deal which many had already signed due to fears that they’d receive nothing if they refused. Administrators Mckinsey would take an administrative fee of $200,000. This meant the over $9 million owed to the Australian sound industry had vanished into the ether.
As of 2022, Maddah still works as an events organiser. He frequently speaks of the issues with the industry post-boom such as arts funding and legislation. He does this through his twitter feed.
Impacts on the Scene as a Whole
The end of Soundwave had a larger effect in Australia far beyond metalheads being pushed back into the underground once more. Instead, this killed the sole remaining large-scale touring festival in Australia, destroyed any possibility of the other large-scale touring festival from coming back, and permanently scorned a huge selection of alternative bands from considering another Australian tour. Since then, the live music scene has been populated by small-scale boutique festivals and multi-day camping festivals.
This had a rather strange effect on the class character of live music as a hobby. Single day festival tickets were relatively inexpensive (~$120-$160), and all you really needed was a ticket and maybe $5 for a calippo. By comparison, camping fests are ~$500 for just a ticket and require double that for accommodation, travel, and getting fleeced by $35 per meal food truck. The boutique festivals meanwhile charge more by virtue of not being able to hold as many people and focus on much smaller acts. The result has been a change in festival-goers in image, going from the bogan wearing an Australian flag cape with a cup of cheap beer to the wealthy hipster looking for something to play in the background while they do ket. In addition you had a weird mix of up-and-comers, cult kind of weird artists, and mainstream acts which would be on the line-up, exposing people to an array if genres and styles they’d never seek out. Now there’s a key demographic being sort out, these events are much more oriented towards a single key audience, which has lead to a much more monotonous sound from local acts looking to get booked.
Thank you for reading, I hope this is ok! This is a rather odd thing to consider a hobby, and when events at tens of thousands of people it's difficult to look at anything but a macro scale. If you're here, thank you for getting this far, this is my first write-up and somehow it is longer than anything I've ever written
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2022.09.08 05:35 WillowOfTheWisp Daily Covid Roundup 8 September

Welcome to our second last Daily Covid Roundup for the foreseeable future. It feels like the end of an era. My question is if they will bring back daily reporting if a new wave comes (a new wave which will likely bowl us over unprepared), or is this just how the institutions we rely on to keep us safe are going to treat covid in the future now?
Personally, I have to wait until next Friday to see what this will look like. Will they just give us a weekly lump number of the metrics that span the 7 day period, or will we still get the data broken down into days and just released daily (as shown in McGowan’s weekly Covid updates)? If the second option is what they go with, we can still see the daily trends, just with 7 days difference between them, and most of my spreadsheet is still usable. If the first option is chosen, I’m going to have to do some serious spring cleaning on my spreadsheet to remove a lot of blank cells.
Whatever they choose to do, this week will be a little strange, as my weeks go Sun-Sun, and the weekly Covid reports will go Fri-Fri, so this week will be the first 5 day week since our records began. This will be annotated in my statistics, but after this week’s hiccup, it should all flow smoothly the week after as we go back to 7 day weeks. So just bear in mind, tomorrow’s weekly roundup will be from Monday-Friday, but after that it’ll be Friday-Friday, so this week will be a little lean in terms of weekly totals, but the averages should bear out well enough.
Additionally, The WA state of Emergency declaration, brought into effect March 2020, which has been in force for 902 days, will be superseded by new legislation which will allow police and health authorities to enforce current COVID rules - such as mask wearing in hospitals and five-day isolation, but the new legislation, expected to be introduced into the WA Parliament later this month, will not include powers to close borders. Mark McGowan has been quoted as saying:
“The State of Emergency declaration has been used effectively to combat this once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic
“Never before, did I ever think we would need to use emergency powers to deal with a global pandemic and shut WA’s borders.
“It has served its purpose. Now is the right time to move away from the State of Emergency declaration.
“The new legislation which gives temporary powers is a more appropriate pandemic legislative setting which reflects our current environment.
“We all hope that we’ve passed the worst of COVID-19 and I want to acknowledge Western Australians for their efforts throughout the pandemic as together we achieved some of the best health and economic outcomes despite the incredible challenges the pandemic served up.
“If they need to be reintroduced in future should the situation evolve, then that’s what we’ll do on health advice.”
WA recorded its first COVID death at the start of March, 2020, signalling the start of the pandemic here, and on March 15 that year, following the first online National Cabinet meeting, Mr McGowan convened a meeting of the State Disaster Council where it was decided that the best way to manage the pandemic was for the WA Government to declare a State of Emergency under the Emergency Act. That State of Emergency declaration gave police and health authorities the ability to enforce COVID rules, and also gave Mr McGowan the power to shut WA’s borders. WA’s hard border was lifted in March this year.
Ex-President of the AMA, Andrew Miller, author of the article “Putting up white flag against COVID is fatalistic nonsense”, wrote an opinion piece in the West Australian on Father’s Day thanking “State Daddy” McGowan for his leadership during the state of emergency, and summing up my frankly, complicated feelings on the entire situation.
April 2020 was a very different time, before vaccination and effective antivirals; before rapid antigen tests and the widespread understanding of airborne spread of COVID-19 that necessitates N95 masks and clean air.
Senior doctors, including myself, called on the Government to slow the arrival of SARS-Cov-2 so the State could have time to prepare, given we had intimate knowledge of the pre-existing frailty of our hospitals and remote populations.
Though it could have been much better managed, discretionary travel control and quarantine were the most effective public health measures we had at the time.
Border closures and short, sharp lockdowns were so successful in fact that even the most belligerent States used them unashamedly when it suited them, while bagging WA at will.
After the proposed royal commission we will have a much better estimate of how much exponential death and disability was prevented over the last two years by our State Dad’s prompt actions.
There is no modern precedent to compare it to, and it is likely what he will be remembered for. We now seem to be at a political point in the pandemic where our governments have decided as a group to continue dismantling all COVID-19 public health controls, come what may.
The disease and deaths that follow will be part of “the reaping”, the unfortunate term used by the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly at the AMA National Conference in July.
The time for border closure and lockdowns is long gone, absolutely, but let’s not throw the clean-air baby out with the travel-control bathwater and pretend the threat is over.
If we simply let the virus rip in the general community, it will spread into groups of vulnerable people who can never just be excised, because they are us.
We have clear warning of waning vaccine effectiveness, significant ongoing death rates and the possible emergence of new variants. We still have more than 200 people in hospital because of COVID-19 in WA and no kids under five years old vaccinated yet.
Reinfection rates in Europe remind us that there is no herd immunity.
The toll of chronic COVID on workforces is front-page news now in countries that are a couple of years ahead of us in high case-load experience.
There remain token recommendations about wearing masks “when you need to”, and calls for “personal responsibility”, which works about as well for infectious pandemics as it does for drink driving.
Why should anyone be grateful? Aren’t parents and premiers just doing their jobs while being annoying?
Being thankful is not transactional — it is not payment for services provided.
We can criticise frankly, argue and be grateful at the same time, that’s how humans work in family and society.
We should recognise that we have had things pretty good compared to anywhere else and that while those looking after us are imperfect, at least they care enough to turn up and try. At least one day a year, we can all be grateful for that.
Now for the news. If We Don’t Look At It, We Can Pretend It Isn't There: The other states and territories have joined WA and ACT in announcing that they will transition to weekly Covid reporting; Wet ‘n’ Wild: A massive rain band moving across the country towards the east coast is threatening to bring severe thunderstorms, flash flooding and gusty winds in the coming days; Bullseye: An ancient circular reef has been discovered on the Nullarbor Plain using 3D satellite data; No Needles, No Problems: India and China have cleared a new approach in COVID-19 vaccination — two needle-free options, one a squirt in the nose and the other inhaled through the mouth; Visiting Grandma Two By Two: The WA state government will lift restrictions on the number of visits to aged care facilities per day, but the limit of two people per visit will remain; I Told You Last Year, No: RUOK Day is today, and the ABC asks “What good is simply asking a family member, friend, or colleague if they are OK, and what if they say no?”; and today’s News In Focus is about a study finding a link between poor mental health and long Covid.
People who are highly stressed, anxious, lonely or depressed before catching coronavirus are more prone to long Covid than those in good mental health, according to a major study.
A Harvard analysis of health data from nearly 55,000 US volunteers, most of whom were women, found that high levels of psychological distress before Covid infection raised the risk of long-term illness by 32%-46%.
The results highlight the urgent need to support people with mental health conditions and the importance of building mental health resilience more widely in the population to reduce the impact of long Covid.
“Depression, stress and loneliness are very, very common, and the fact that they increase the risk of long Covid a fair amount is notable,” said Andrea Roberts, a senior research scientist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. “The associations were stronger with these risk factors than with other things we know to be associated with long Covid, such as obesity, hypertension and asthma.”
A sizeable minority of people who catch Covid develop long-term, often debilitating ailments such as fatigue, breathlessness, brain fog and heart problems. About one in six middle-aged people and one in 13 younger adults in the UK have symptoms that persist for more than three months. There are thought to be multiple causes, ranging from abnormal immune responses to damaged tissue and residual virus lurking in the body.
While the relationship between mental wellbeing and long Covid is unclear, psychological distress can drive chronic inflammation and disrupt the immune system, potentially making people more vulnerable to long Covid, the researchers note in JAMA Psychiatry.
The Harvard team used questionnaires to rank the mental wellbeing of 54,960 US volunteers drawn from the Nurses’ Health Studies and the Growing Up Today study. Most of the volunteers were white female nurses aged 40 to 70. In April 2020, none had tested positive for Covid, but over the following year more than 3,000 caught the virus and recorded their symptoms.
Those who scored higher on depression, stress, anxiety, loneliness and worry before catching Covid were more likely to report symptoms lasting more than one month. Such ongoing symptoms were 49% more likely in people with two or more forms of psychological distress compared with those who reported none. A similar finding was seen in people whose symptoms lasted at least two months.
All Covid symptoms apart from a cough and problems with smell or taste were more common in those who were distressed before they caught the virus. Depending on the type of distress, volunteers were 15% to 51% more likely to say long Covid impaired their daily lives compared with those with no mental health issues before testing positive.
The findings do not mean that mental health issues cause long Covid: more than 40% of those who developed long Covid in the study had no signs of distress before infection.
Mental health is known to affect some diseases. Stress has been linked to a greater susceptibility to common colds and other respiratory tract infections. Last year, researchers in London reported that poor pre-pandemic mental health raised the risk of long Covid, as did being older, female, overweight, in poor general health, and having asthma. A separate study of people with multiple sclerosis found that those with anxiety or depression took longer to recover from Covid.
Siwen Wang, an epidemiologist at Harvard and first author on the study, said it was important for people in poor mental health to have good access to high-quality care. “Future research should investigate whether better management of psychological distress can prevent people from getting long Covid or improve their symptoms,” she said.
Claire Steves, a professor in ageing and health at King’s College London, who was part of a team that found a link between mental health and long Covid last year, said the Harvard study emphasised the need to build support for vulnerable people and to improve mental resilience in the population at large. “It’s important to state that this association does not mean that prior mental health issues cause long Covid, rather that mental health issues increase the vulnerability of individuals, due to decreased reserve so that physiological changes manifest in daily life.”
Adrian James, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: “People with severe mental illness are at higher risk of developing a range of physical health problems, including long Covid. We are still learning about the impact of the virus on people’s physical and mental health but we know that long Covid can cause debilitating symptoms. People with long Covid must be able to access the healthcare they need, including appropriate specialist mental health provision.
“It’s also vital that research on the impacts of long Covid in people with pre-existing mental illness continues, if we are to ensure the best standard of care for patients down the line.”
Tests (2,631 v 3,123), active cases and cases (1,088 v 1,211) are lower than this time last week, while RAT confirmed cases (769 v 853) and PCR positivity rate (12.125% v 11.463%) are higher. In terms of averages, hospitalisations, active cases and daily cases are all decreasing, while PCR positivity is increasing. ICU is steady at 6.
My thoughts are with the families of the 12 deaths, dating back to 22 July, which were reported to WA Health yesterday – a man in his 70s, a man and a woman in their 80s, three men and five women in their 90s and one woman who was over 100.
70.68% of cases were RAT confirmed. Hospitalisations have increased by 2 to 201. ICU numbers are steady at 7. 1,131,579 people have recovered from the virus, vs 5,855 active cases, with 1,138,070 cases overall since the pandemic began. The cumulative case count today is 18 less than it should be, making it a total of 20,382 cases missing since February, the highest it has ever been. We are headed for an average weekly PCR positivity of 10.871%.

Records Broken Today:

  • Highest number of cumulative cases missing from the cumulative total (20,382)
Charts for Daily Percentages, Daily Cases (not cumulative), Active Cases, Active Cases Vs Recoveries, Twin Peaks, Daily and Total Amount of Cases Precluded From The Cumulative Case Count, Hospitalisations and ICU

DISCLAIMER PLEASE READ

My numbers are based off the numbers released by WA Health in their media releases. These include PCR tests only, and include private clinics, unless otherwise noted. RATs are not included in the testing numbers shown, and, where the information is available, reported positive RAT cases are removed from the total number of cases before the positivity percent is calculated. These will be noted when they appear.
The weeks are grouped by the date the WA Health media releases are released and always include tests for the previous day (eg. Week 1 includes cases from 18/01 - 23/01 but include testing numbers from 17/01 - 22/01). This is because case numbers are drawn from tests taken the previous day.
These numbers are ballpark only and do not represent a 100% correct positivity rate They are a guide only. I am just a private civilian using the data I am given. They do not represent the kind of data or modelling an epidemiologist can create. My data will be updated as clarifications are made, so there will be some inconsistencies each day. I will note these when they occur, but i also encourage yall to ask if you notice anything is off. Please tell me if I've made an error in my reporting or math. All percentages rounded to 3 decimal places.

Weekly Positive Percentages

  • Week 1 (18/01 - 23/01) = 34,044 tests, 76 cases (47 local, 29 travel) = Average positivity rate of 0.223%
  • Week 2 (24/01 - 30/01) = 48,767 tests, 122 cases (112 local, 10 travel) = Average positivity rate of 0.250%
  • Week 3 (31/01 - 06/01) = 47,340 tests, 208 cases (135 local, 73 travel) = Average positivity rate of 0.439%
  • Week 4 (07/02 - 13/02) = 57,289 tests, 550 cases (205 local, 339 travel, 6 under investigation, 40 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 0.890%
  • Week 5 (14/02 - 20/02) = 50,073 tests, 1147 cases (1,075 local, 72 travel, 94 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 2.103%
  • Week 6 (21/02 - 27/02) = 69,103 tests, 5,039 cases (4,997 local, 42 travel, 1,110 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 5.687%
  • Week 7 (28/02 - 06/03) = 84,876 tests, 13,208 cases (13,193 local, 15 travel, 5,165 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 9.476%
  • Week 8 (07/03 - 13/03) = 90,979 tests, 26,239 cases (12,541 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 15.056%
  • Week 9 (14/03 - 20/03) = 97,390 tests, 40,267 cases (21,632 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 19.134%
  • Week 10 (21/03 - 27/03) = 110,094 tests, 52,551 cases (30,650 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 19.893%
  • Week 11 (28/03 - 03/04) = 108,755 tests, 58,671 cases (35,655 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 21.163%
  • Week 12 (04/04 - 10/04) = 95,064 tests, 49,533 cases (30,786 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 19.720%
  • Week 13 (11/04 - 17/04) = 72,805 tests, 46,328 cases (28,888 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 23.954%
  • Week 14 (18/04 - 24/04) = 72,799 tests, 51,726 cases (32,141 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 26.903%
  • Week 15 (25/04 - 01/05) = 73,462 tests, 50,128 cases (30,221 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 27.098%
  • Week 16 (02/04 - 08/05) = 83,560 tests, 61,058 cases (39,220 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 26.135%
  • Week 17 (09/04 - 15/05) = 105,868 tests, 97,613 cases (65,940 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 29.917%
  • Week 18 (16/05 - 22/05) = 105,112 tests, 102,305 cases (69,898 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 30.831%
  • Week 19 (23/05 - 29/05) = 85,302 tests, 68,641 cases (47,856 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 24.366%
  • Week 20 (30/05 - 05/06) = 64,843 tests, 50,296 cases (32,726 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 28.516%
  • Week 21 (06/06 - 12/06) = 58,730 tests, 44,459 cases (29,887 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 24.812%
  • Week 22 (13/06 - 19/06) = 48,764 tests, 36,977 cases (24,687 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 25.203%
  • Week 23 (20/06 - 26/06) = 48,450 tests, 32,790 cases (21,653 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 22.987%
  • Week 24 (27/06 - 03/07) = 43,400 tests, 34,053 cases (22,533 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 26.544%
  • Week 25 (04/07 - 10/07) = 45,825 tests, 38,998 cases (25,847 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 28.698%
  • Week 26 (11/07 - 17/07) = 48,893 tests, 43,161 cases (28,111 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 30.782%
  • Week 27 (18/07 - 24/07) = 48,352 tests, 42,653 cases (28,264 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 29.759%
  • Week 28 (25/07 - 31/07) = 42,700 tests, 30,357 cases (20,365 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 23.400%
  • Week 29 (01/08 - 07/08) = 39,101 tests, 23,062 cases (15,417 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 19.552%
  • Week 30 (08/08 - 14/08) = 34,280 tests, 16,618 cases (11,302 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 15.508%
  • Week 31 (15/08 - 21/08) = 29,188 tests, 12,896 cases (8,649 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 14.551%
  • Week 32 (22/08 - 28/08) = 23,792 tests, 9,591 cases (5,627 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 16.661%
  • Week 33 (29/08 - 04/09) = 19,850 tests, 7,942 cases (5,495 RAT results excluded) = Average positivity rate of 12.327%

This Week

  • 1,369 tests 04/09 = 758 positives (565 RAT results excluded) 05/09 (14.098% positive rate)
  • 3,506 tests 05/09 = 1,161 positives (957 RAT results excluded) 06/09 (5.819% positive rate)
  • 2,741 tests 06/09 = 1,335 positives (937 RAT results excluded) 07/09 (14.520% positive rate)
  • 2,631 tests 07/09 = 1,088 positives (769 RAT results excluded) 08/09 (12.125% positive rate)
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2022.08.08 07:05 legend434 Why are foxtel and the AFL pushing for the new broadcast deal to remove the free to air access to local team games in SA and WA when it will be such a deeply unpopular move?

https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/1181609/rucci
https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/media/mark-mcgowan-calls-for-afl-to-stay-with-free-to-air-tv-amid-talks-over-foxtel-plan-for-eagles-and-dockers-c-7561918
I think the AFL and foxtel/whoever the new broadcaster is will absolutely shoot themselves in the foot if they make this move.
I really don't think they will see that much of an increase in revenues by making this move.
Many casual fans will just not bother with the AFL as a whole if this goes through. It's a sure fire way to reduce the number of people and kids being interested in the footy.
If fox really wants more subscribers then they should focus on improving on their service (for example, offering every game in 4k) and getting a broad range of sports rather than forcefully making people pay for their service.
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2022.06.18 11:29 coffebl19 What happened to Lisa Govan? Lisa disappeared and suspected murdered in 1999 in Kalgoorie, WA. Police have released photos of totoya landcruiser and CCTV. $1 million reward for information

Detectives believe a woman who suspiciously vanished near a bikie gang clubhouse more than 20 years ago was murdered - as they offer a $1million reward to help solve the case.

Lisa Govan was last seen on 8 October 1999 in the vicinity of the Foundry Hotel in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. She was seen by two independent witnesses standing outside the Hotel on Boulder Road. This is the last corroborated sighting of Lisa.
According to reports, Lisa dropped her boyfriend at the time at the Superpit for an evening shift on 7 October 1999 and then she headed to the Safari Nightclub until the early hours. At one point she left in a Taxi with a bald man only to return a short time later. Early on the morning of the 8th of October 1999, Lisa visited the Deroes Outlaw Motorcycle Gang headquarters on Boulder Road next to the Foundry Hotel by invitation.
She stayed there socialising and playing Billiards until later that morning on 8 October 1999 when she was seen outside between 7:15 and 7:30 hours talking on her mobile phone.According to reports, She left the Headquarters of her own accord and was not in a distressed or upset state.
Lisa was of slim build and 155 centimetres tall, with brown hair, blue eyes and a fair complexion. The morning she disappeared she was wearing a short black skirt, a black long-sleeved top, black sandals and a leather choker with a dolphin pendant. She was carrying a black handbag.
A witness provided information to a mobile Police station set up across the road at Bunnings, indicating they had observed Lisa walking in a southerly direction down Boulder Road. A second witness provided information that they had seen Lisa in the carpark of the MacDonald’s restaurant on Boulder Street with two males on motorcycles. Neither witness account has been corroborated to date.
Lisa did not answer her phone, withdraw any monies or contact any family members after this date despite being close to her parents and siblings.
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$1 million reward, vehicle description and CCTV

Lisa Govan was 28 years old when she disappeared from 'wild west' Kalgoorie, Western Australia, in October 1999.
She was last seen on Boulder Road near the Foundry Hotel - close to the then Deroes bikie gang clubhouse in the town 600km to the east of Perth - in the early hours of October 8 that year.
Ms Govan never returned home.
As part of their investigation, WA cops have released photographs of a white 1985 Toyota Landcruiser ute in the hopes they will find its current owner to obtain DNA from the car.
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Police allege a similar vehicle arrived at the Deroes clubhouse on the morning of Lisa's disappearance, departed and later returned.

They have also released CCTV of Ms Govan at the Safari nightclub, just hours before she was last seen.
Her disappearance has haunted her parents, Ian and Pat, who have three other children.
The parents faced the media at a press conference as the new $1million reward was announced.
They hope the new reward will help solve the case.
'This is something we're pondered over for 21 years,' Mr Govan said.
'Finding out where Lisa is would be a big stepping stone for us.
'The Police Force today is far more dedicated than the one from 21 years ago. Back then Kalgoorlie was a cowboy town.'
In 1999 when Ms Govan went missing, Kalgoorie was referred to as the 'wild west'.
Detectives believe people in Kalgoorlie know what happened to Ms Govan, but so far they have not spoken up.
Ms Roberts said police are prepared to provide protection for anyone who can help them crack the case.
Contact crimestopper if you have information.
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Dailymail 2021: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9204231/Kalgoorie-cold-case-Police-offer-1million-reward-solve-disappearance-Lisa-Govan.html
Perthnow 2021: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/lisa-govan-mystery-wa-government-considers-offering-multiple-million-dollar-rewards-to-catch-killer-ng-b881783252z
The West Australian: https://thewest.com.au/news/lisa-govan
Lisa Govan missing website: https://lisagovanmissing.com.au/
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2022.02.11 19:00 anoxiousweed MEGATHREAD: NSW Votes - Bega, Monaro, Strathfield, and Willoughby by-elections

Saturday 12th February 2022 - NSW By-Elections - Bega / Monaro / Strathfield / Willoughby
NSW by-elections 2022 - Live Results
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Super Saturday starts in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as punters head to the polls in 4 electorates around NSW. Premier Dominic Perrottet's ministry currently has a 10 seat majority in the lower house, giving the Liberal/National coalition the power to form government.
Please use this thread for your discussion about the by-elections. We're experimenting with the predictions features, so give them a try. We'll update links to media coverage of this event at the bottom of this post.
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Bega
A by-election for the seat of Bega was triggered by the resignation of Liberal MP and frontbencher Andrew Constance, stepping down to run for the federal seat of Gilmore at the 2022 Australian federal election.
Bega is famous for its dairy. But also for being a safe Liberal seat, being held consistently since it's current inception in 1988.
Candidate Party
HAWKINS Jeffrey INDEPENDENT
GEISELHART Karin SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY
BENNETT Ursula INDEPENDENT
HOLLAND Michael LABOR
HAGGAR Peter THE GREENS
HAZIR Victor SHOOTERS FISHERS AND FARMERS
KOTVOJS Fiona LIBERAL
Fun fact: 3 of the candidates in Bega are doctors.
Antony Green on Bega
NSW Electoral Commission - Bega By-Election
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Monaro
After a tumultuous year under the microscope, Leader of the NSW Nationals and Deputy Premier, Giovanni Domenic "John" Barilaro announced their resignation in October 2021. Barilaro cited ongoing defamation cases he himself brought about against political commentatoyoutube channel friendlyjordies as a main reason for stepping aside.
The party that wins Monaro has been the party that controls government 27 out of a possible 30 times.
Candidate Party
THALER Andrew INDEPENDENT
OVERALL, Nichole THE NATIONALS
HOLGATE James SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY
SEYMOUR Frankie ANIMAL JUSTICE PARTY
MOORE Catherine THE GREENS
WILSON, Bryce LABOR
Fun fact: nicknames like Bruz and it's variants are not allowed. Please follow the sub rules.
Antony Green on Monaro
NSW Electoral Commission - Monaro By-Election
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Strathfield
A by-election for the seat of Strathfield was triggered by the resignation of former leader of the Labor Party) Jodi McKay MP. The electorate in the inner suburban west of Sydney has changed hands over the years.
Candidate Party
ROBERTSON Ellie SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY
LI Jason Yat-sen LABOR
FARRELLY Elizabeth INDEPENDENT
LAXMANALAL Rohan ANIMAL JUSTICE PARTY
BUCKLEY Courtney THE GREENS
SAKR Bridget LIBERAL
Fun fact: only the draftiest dive headfirst into the filtrated waters of Strathfield.
Antony Green on Strathfield
NSW Electoral Commission - Strathfield By-Election
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Willoughby
After a tumultuous year under the microscope, Leader of the NSW Liberal Party and Premier, Gladys Berejiklian announced their resignation in October 2021. Faced with ongoing ICAC investigation, the Premier was replaced by Treasurer Dominic Perrottet. Willoughby is a safe LNP seat on the north shore of Sydney.
Candidate Party
BOURKE William SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY
PENN Larissa INDEPENDENT
GUNNING Samuel LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY
SAVILLE Lynne THE GREENS
JAMES Tim LIBERAL
HACKETT Penny REASON NSW
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Antony Green on Willoughby
NSW Electoral Commission - Willoughby By-Election
MEDIA COVERAGE:
2022 NSW By-elections – Tracking the Early Vote
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is putting on a brave face — he might need it later today - ABC
Super Saturday by-elections across New South Wales this week - Sky News
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet faces litmus test during Super Saturday by-elections - NINE NEWS
NSW byelections to be first big test for Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns. Here’s what to look for - The Guardian
Super Saturday by-elections arrive - The Gloucester Advocate
NSW by-elections party leaders' first test - Seven News
All eyes on Bega as Liberal and Labor make last ditch attempt to swing voters in NSW by-election - ABC
Voting begins in NSW by-elections - Perth News
Live: NSW by-elections put seats of Monaro, Bega, Strathfield and Willoughby up for grabs - ABC
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2021.10.26 16:02 brentminehan 🚀 MoonPaw Tweeted by Dogecoin Creator Presented at Crypto World Summit TechRate Audit Passed Doxxed Devs Media Presence 4 Animal Charity Partnerships Comics NFTs Games 🚀

MoonPaw is an established, low risk, high reward charity project to be invested in right now!
Achievements
🚀 Keynote speakers at the Crypto World Summit 2021:
https://twitter.com/moonpaw_cc/status/1429072755534696455?s=20
🚀 Recognition by Dogecoin Creator BillyM2k:
https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1394098230292475907?s=20
🚀 Media recognition:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/wanneroo-times/moonpaw-animal-charities-set-to-cash-in-perth-duos-cryptocurrency-success-c-2832514
🚀 4 Animal welfare charity partnerships already established:
https://moonpaw.cc/partners/
Key points:
🚀 Doxxed Devs - Liam Peeters and Prem Aghera
🚀 Locked liquidity till March 2022:
https://dxsale.app/app/pages/dxlockview?id=0&add=0xb96712cE0794253409Ba8D5140d917a3Cd601897&type=lplock&chain=BSC
🚀 TechRate security audit:
https://github.com/TechRate/Smart-Contract-Audits/blob/main/MoonPaw.pdf
Tokenomics
🚀 Initial Supply - 1 Billion.
🚀 Total Burnt to date - 543 Million (59%)
🚀 6% buy/sell tax
- 2% to charity wallet
- 2% redestributed to holders
- 2% burnt
Roadmap
🚀 Ongoing partnerships and charity donations
🚀 MoonPaw Comics - Episode 2 coming soon
🚀 Mini Game release Q2 2022
🚀 Alpha Game release Q4 2022
🚀 Android/iOS Game release 2023
The project shot to a $6M market cap within a few days after launch in May 2021.
Since then, the Dev team have been busy establishing partnerships with animal welfare organisations, preparing for and presenting at the Crypto World Summit as well as forming relationships with investors to help fund their project.
The project is currently at <100k market cap making this an absolute ideal time to invest!
Website - https://moonpaw.cc/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/moonpaw_cc
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MoonPawToken/
Telegram - t.me/MoonPawChat
Pancakeswap - https://exchange.pancakeswap.finance/#/swap?outputCurrency=0x139b2c2c6dd8ee165d41788877df5b2ef74b1ff1&inputCurrency=BNB
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2021.10.14 17:16 heinaga1989 🚀 MoonPaw Tweeted by Dogecoin Creator Presented at Crypto World Summit TechRate Audit Passed Doxxed Devs Media Presence 4 Animal Charity Partnerships Comics NFTs Games 🚀

MoonPaw is an established, low risk, high reward charity project to be invested in right now!
Achievements
🚀 Keynote speakers at the Crypto World Summit 2021:
https://twitter.com/moonpaw_cc/status/1429072755534696455?s=20
🚀 Recognition by Dogecoin Creator BillyM2k:
https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1394098230292475907?s=20
🚀 Media recognition:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/wanneroo-times/moonpaw-animal-charities-set-to-cash-in-perth-duos-cryptocurrency-success-c-2832514
🚀 4 Animal welfare charity partnerships already established:
https://moonpaw.cc/partners/
Key points:
🚀 Doxxed Devs - Liam Peeters and Prem Aghera
🚀 Locked liquidity till March 2022:
https://dxsale.app/app/pages/dxlockview?id=0&add=0xb96712cE0794253409Ba8D5140d917a3Cd601897&type=lplock&chain=BSC
🚀 TechRate security audit:
https://github.com/TechRate/Smart-Contract-Audits/blob/main/MoonPaw.pdf
Tokenomics
🚀 Initial Supply - 1 Billion.
🚀 Total Burnt to date - 543 Million (59%)
🚀 6% buy/sell tax
- 2% to charity wallet
- 2% redestributed to holders
- 2% burnt
Roadmap
🚀 Ongoing partnerships and charity donations
🚀 MoonPaw Comics - Episode 2 coming soon
🚀 Mini Game release Q2 2022
🚀 Alpha Game release Q4 2022
🚀 Android/iOS Game release 2023
The project shot to a $6M market cap within a few days after launch in May 2021.
Since then, the Dev team have been busy establishing partnerships with animal welfare organisations, preparing for and presenting at the Crypto World Summit as well as forming relationships with investors to help fund their project.
The project is currently at <100k market cap making this an absolute ideal time to invest!
Website - https://moonpaw.cc/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/moonpaw_cc
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MoonPawToken/
Telegram - t.me/MoonPawChat
Pancakeswap - https://exchange.pancakeswap.finance/#/swap?outputCurrency=0x139b2c2c6dd8ee165d41788877df5b2ef74b1ff1&inputCurrency=BNB
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2021.10.14 17:16 heinaga1989 🚀 MoonPaw Tweeted by Dogecoin Creator Presented at Crypto World Summit TechRate Audit Passed Doxxed Devs Media Presence 4 Animal Charity Partnerships Comics NFTs Games 🚀

MoonPaw is an established, low risk, high reward charity project to be invested in right now!
Achievements
🚀 Keynote speakers at the Crypto World Summit 2021:
https://twitter.com/moonpaw_cc/status/1429072755534696455?s=20
🚀 Recognition by Dogecoin Creator BillyM2k:
https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1394098230292475907?s=20
🚀 Media recognition:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/wanneroo-times/moonpaw-animal-charities-set-to-cash-in-perth-duos-cryptocurrency-success-c-2832514
🚀 4 Animal welfare charity partnerships already established:
https://moonpaw.cc/partners/
Key points:
🚀 Doxxed Devs - Liam Peeters and Prem Aghera
🚀 Locked liquidity till March 2022:
https://dxsale.app/app/pages/dxlockview?id=0&add=0xb96712cE0794253409Ba8D5140d917a3Cd601897&type=lplock&chain=BSC
🚀 TechRate security audit:
https://github.com/TechRate/Smart-Contract-Audits/blob/main/MoonPaw.pdf
Tokenomics
🚀 Initial Supply - 1 Billion.
🚀 Total Burnt to date - 543 Million (59%)
🚀 6% buy/sell tax
- 2% to charity wallet
- 2% redestributed to holders
- 2% burnt
Roadmap
🚀 Ongoing partnerships and charity donations
🚀 MoonPaw Comics - Episode 2 coming soon
🚀 Mini Game release Q2 2022
🚀 Alpha Game release Q4 2022
🚀 Android/iOS Game release 2023
The project shot to a $6M market cap within a few days after launch in May 2021.
Since then, the Dev team have been busy establishing partnerships with animal welfare organisations, preparing for and presenting at the Crypto World Summit as well as forming relationships with investors to help fund their project.
The project is currently at <100k market cap making this an absolute ideal time to invest!
Website - https://moonpaw.cc/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/moonpaw_cc
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MoonPawToken/
Telegram - t.me/MoonPawChat
Pancakeswap - https://exchange.pancakeswap.finance/#/swap?outputCurrency=0x139b2c2c6dd8ee165d41788877df5b2ef74b1ff1&inputCurrency=BNB
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2021.10.14 17:16 heinaga1989 🚀 MoonPaw Tweeted by Dogecoin Creator Presented at Crypto World Summit TechRate Audit Passed Doxxed Devs Media Presence 4 Animal Charity Partnerships Comics NFTs Games 🚀

MoonPaw is an established, low risk, high reward charity project to be invested in right now!
Achievements
🚀 Keynote speakers at the Crypto World Summit 2021:
https://twitter.com/moonpaw_cc/status/1429072755534696455?s=20
🚀 Recognition by Dogecoin Creator BillyM2k:
https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1394098230292475907?s=20
🚀 Media recognition:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/wanneroo-times/moonpaw-animal-charities-set-to-cash-in-perth-duos-cryptocurrency-success-c-2832514
🚀 4 Animal welfare charity partnerships already established:
https://moonpaw.cc/partners/
Key points:
🚀 Doxxed Devs - Liam Peeters and Prem Aghera
🚀 Locked liquidity till March 2022:
https://dxsale.app/app/pages/dxlockview?id=0&add=0xb96712cE0794253409Ba8D5140d917a3Cd601897&type=lplock&chain=BSC
🚀 TechRate security audit:
https://github.com/TechRate/Smart-Contract-Audits/blob/main/MoonPaw.pdf
Tokenomics
🚀 Initial Supply - 1 Billion.
🚀 Total Burnt to date - 543 Million (59%)
🚀 6% buy/sell tax
- 2% to charity wallet
- 2% redestributed to holders
- 2% burnt
Roadmap
🚀 Ongoing partnerships and charity donations
🚀 MoonPaw Comics - Episode 2 coming soon
🚀 Mini Game release Q2 2022
🚀 Alpha Game release Q4 2022
🚀 Android/iOS Game release 2023
The project shot to a $6M market cap within a few days after launch in May 2021.
Since then, the Dev team have been busy establishing partnerships with animal welfare organisations, preparing for and presenting at the Crypto World Summit as well as forming relationships with investors to help fund their project.
The project is currently at <100k market cap making this an absolute ideal time to invest!
Website - https://moonpaw.cc/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/moonpaw_cc
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MoonPawToken/
Telegram - t.me/MoonPawChat
Pancakeswap - https://exchange.pancakeswap.finance/#/swap?outputCurrency=0x139b2c2c6dd8ee165d41788877df5b2ef74b1ff1&inputCurrency=BNB
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