THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

How's the "uptake" of the C19 boosters going there?

If all these people were doing their jobs properly and actually working for, and listening to the people they're supposed to be there for, then none of this would be necessary. That's where the change needs to happen.

All these details were going to be decided after the referendum was won.

A referendum is even closer to actual democracy than our usual "two party preferred" crapola. One vote equals one value.

A referendum is even closer to actual democracy than our usual "two party preferred" crapola.

The decisions on a referendum are done with relatively little information, forcing voters to rely on political messaging - and that puts power in the hands of political mindsetters rather than those of voters.

It's the kind of story a mystery novelist might conjure. But for months, a real murder case has been playing out in a small Australian town where three people died after eating a family meal that was suspected to contain poisonous death cap mushrooms.

The prime suspect in Leongatha, a country town some 84 miles southeast of Melbourne in Victoria, has long been seen as Erin Patterson, who hosted the lunch in late July whose four guests quickly fell gravely ill. The menu included a beef Wellington dish that Patterson said included mushrooms.

Police arrested Patterson on Thursday; she is now charged with three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. The authorities did not name Patterson directly, but the details and circumstances align closely with her case, and national media quickly reported her arrest.

"I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones," she said in August, in a statement to police obtained by Australian broadcaster ABC. "I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people whom I loved."

And referenda for purely political reasons are excluded by the Swiss constitution. (Any amendment to the federal constitution must be approved by the people, and the cantons.

referendums are only held for constitutional change - and are legally binding.

Australian states have vowed to press ahead with their own work to implement the Uluru statement from the heart’s three requests – voice, treaty and truth – despite the results of Saturday’s federal referendum.

Victoria, Queensland and South Australia have already begun implementing different parts of the statement, with the former the most advanced, having actioned all three elements.

The state already has a voice to parliament, via the democratically elected First People’s Assembly, as well as the Yoorrook Justice Commission overseeing the state’s truth-telling process.

Rueben Berg, the co-chair of Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly, said the state was on track to begin treaty negotiations at the start of 2024 after years of preparation.

“The Assembly has been around since 2019. We’ve had really significant substantial conversations about formal treaty processes for about seven years,” the Gunditjmara man told Guardian Australia.

“It’s a long journey and absolutely it’s going to take time, but the way we’ve set it up, people won’t have to wait until they’ve got everything organised to get treaty outcomes.”