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Slocombe

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  1. I've just been reading about this (in fact, it's my reason for checking SAB today). In both cases it is clear the organisers decided not to bring in medical assistance when they clearly should have (and were probably hoping these people would just pull through so they could avoid outside scrutiny and some difficult conversations).

     

    This Guardian report on Jarrad Antonovich is saying that after his death, one of the people involved told his partner that he died "beautifully" and that “the koalas were making a special sound known to the Elders when the land accepts a spirit”.

     

    Dickheads.

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  2. Hey, here's a picture HEKA_ACT_04_Student-led_activity__making

     

    Suggest you caption it "Portobello Mafia".

     

    If you get sick of people asking what it means, set up a QR code pointed at this link 

     


    and have it tattooed somewhere else on your body.


  3. It seems like an interesting decision by the FSANZ to describe foods with thousands of years of use as a ''novel" food that "doesn't have a significant history of consumption".

     

    Surely they could employ some Chinese speaking scientists to trawl through the relevant literature, rather than blanket banning things and waiting until someone is motivated and cashed up enough to ask for an assessment.


  4. On 21/11/2021 at 10:23 AM, Glaukus said:

    Edit: just read the statement and I'm disappointed. By the sounds of it, they are talking about pre-processed kava products for drinking, not powdered kava roots?

    The Fiji Kava website has powdered root powder for pre-order. My guess it's similar to the 'instant kava' stuff that was going around just before (and immediately after) the Kava ban.

     

    No personal importation by individuals allowed, but I consider this a win. If it starts getting popular in Australia, that's certainly a win for Fiji provided there isn't another moral panic.

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  5. Just on the whole voting via an app thing... The closest I can see to that is Jacqui Lambie, who has been using polls to guide (not decide) how she votes in Parliament.

     

    Seems like a reasonable approach given whatever people say won't ever be completely representative.

     

    I don't think people are engaged or informed enough that I'd support Timothy Leary's approach for day-to-day decision making.


  6. A deadly frog mucous used in shamanic rituals in Australia has been banned by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

    In “Kambo” ceremonies, a participant’s skin is burned and scraped and the secretions of the South American giant leaf frog (or giant monkey frog) is rubbed into the wound. There is no medicinal benefit to Kambo and it can be lethal.

    The TGA has listed it as a schedule 10 poison, in the category for “substances of such danger to health as to warrant prohibition of sale, supply and use”.

    It noted that Australians have adopted Kambo rituals from traditional indigenous ceremonies in South America.

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/06/kambo-a-lethal-frog-mucous-used-in-shamanic-rituals-banned-by-tga-after-reports-of-deaths

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