With all the footage of the town hall protest attacks on protestors coming to light - new and old!

I can’t walk past cops or town hall and not imagine what went down that day

as well as the blatant revenue raising, illegal strip searching, internal corruption (see friendlyjordies counter terrorism unit assaults and harrasments + botched firebombing investigation) plus all the other piles of historic failures of NSWPOL

It’s really becoming quite obvious to the average Joe that NSW Police are NOT here to serve the common man.

They are the unchecked arm of violence of the rich and connected to keep us broken, down and controlled.

When’s the last time a cop genuinely and actually helped you when you experienced assault, domestic violence, theft or stalking? They just make a note of it and you never hear from them again. They take years to arrest murderers and let off violent criminals on bail like it’s going out of style.

But don’t you worry - they’ll immediately come to the rescue of the cunce of society - they give a free pass to protests involving cookers, anti vax, one nation, anti migration and nazi’s and cover up the crimes of their mates in power, be it pedo’s, organised crime and the oligarchs. You won’t see any beat downs or riot charges at children or old people there!

but god forbid you protest against Zionists, Israeli war criminals and genocide? Think of the social cohesion!

Honestly if you’re a nsw cop with a conscious you should just resign and find an alternative source of income. Good on you for trying but If you really want to help people become a social worker, lawyer, nurse or doctor. There’s too many bad apples and I think as a society we need to rethink what law endorsement looks like and how it functions in Australia.

If you ask me the whole law enforcement system needs to be torn down and rebuilt with community protection first and foremost, not protection of oligarchs, genociders and fringe right wing political movements using unchecked violence and aggression.

Id start a petition but I don’t quite know how

Is anybody else with me on this?

Commenters are saying the solution is to vote green, can’t help but agree, the two party system needs to go

I can’t figure out what the queueing etiquette is at Sydney bus stops. Where is the first person supposed to stand? Do people just stand randomly? I try and queue but then people go and push in or start a new queue on the other side of the bus stop and start standing in random places and then when the bus comes they all storm to the door.
Is my bus stop a bad example is this the norm in Sydney?

Where do you stand if you’re first to the stop?

Red Person - by the bus stop sign

Orange Person - behind the ad

Yellow Person - in front of the ad

Pink Person - sitting on the bench (but leaving a big gap)

Green Person - in the ‘doorway’ blocking the path

Blue Person - closest to the direction of the bus

Keen to sense check I'm not the one being unreasonable here

A local cafe in my area charges a 10% weekend surcharge.

Partner went in to buy a 1kg of coffee beans... And they applied the surcharge to that purchase.

Is that fair?

I didn't think so. I think the surcharge should be there for prepared coffees and food only - not jamming customers and extra $5-6 because they bought a bag of beans on Saturday instead of Friday.

To make matters worse - when my partner asked them how much - they quoted the price without surcharge and she only realised she paid more when the notification popped up on her phone.

They then stared her down and said "well of course there's a weekend surcharge"

I don't think it's up for debate that second part is totally wrong.

https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2026/illawarra-shoalhaven-sritp-20260813.pdf

Currently having FOMO on missing out on the Messina drop of Bertha cakes, and was wondering if anyone had suggestions on where else to find a similarly textured cake. (Supermarket reccs most welcome)

Photo added for context: it’s a firmer type of chocolate cake.

For those who’ve tried the Bertha, would love to know if it was worth the hype!

I was wondering if somebody could point me in the direction of quality adult swimming lessons? I learnt as a kid but haven’t swam for decades and feel myself sinking when I swim laps and don’t feel safe swimming in the beach.

I tried some lessons at an inner west pool but was unimpressed by young instructors who either did not show up or were not attentive.

I know that the Mean Fiddler at Rouse Hill had this long long ago, and also the West Ryde Hotel.

I have been away from Sydney for 7 years and want to go to one while I'm there next month.

Any suggestions, can be anywhere in the greater Sydney area.

Thanks

I assume this is just the flaws of living in an apartment, but I was wondering what should be happening when neighbours are doing renovations?

It’s a vacant apartment which recently went up for sale.

I went to speak to the labourers and they said they’ll be in there the next month or so renovating the kitchen, frames, built in cupboards and more.

Any advice? Should communication have been made by the new owners or strata regarding the noise we could expect during this period?