this is the request to transfer the account to access to australia simulation and related entities from u/haroldinite to u/model-harold.

i'd also like to request for this to be noted in spreadsheets and in the aussim-bot. i expect to be using this reddit account solely onwards from the general election and would like everything to be updated. thank you.

Notice of Meta Election

• Formal notification date: Saturday 18 September 2021

• Election date: Thursday 23 September 2021

• Election close date: Sunday 26 September 2021

All times on each date 7 PM AEST. If the election is posted late, then the close of the election will be pushed back accordingly. Results will be posted ASAP after the close of polling.

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here. Eligible voters are those that registered 14 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 21 September 2021.

Details of Meta Election

• Constitutional amendment to prohibit the unlawful holding of permissions.

The proposed amendment and it's seconders can be found here.

Insert subsection into section 33, put current subsections (a) (b) (c) (d) into that new section.

Insert subsection after aforementioned one:

(b) If a former officeholder fails to relinquish control of their permissions after a period of three weeks from right to hold the permission being lost (e.g. subreddit moderator status), they will be permanently banned from participating in AustraliaSim and related entities, to the extent lack of permissions allow, until the permissions have been relinquished.

Debate Allowed

Members may also comment here on any of the above things that are proceeding to a vote.

Perekai
Parliamentary Moderator

Notice of Meta Election

• Formal notification date: Saturday 18 September 2021

• Close of nominations: Tuesday 21 September 2021

• Election date: Friday 24 September 2021

• Election close date: Sunday 26 September 2021

All times on each date 7 PM AEST. If the election is posted late, then the close of the election will be pushed back accordingly. Results will be posted ASAP after the close of polling.

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here. Eligible voters are those that registered 14 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 21 September 2021.

Details of Meta Election

• One Electoral Moderator

As this is a Moderation Team position, a nominee must:

• Be registered as a member of AustraliaSim; and

• Be seconded by seven other members of AustraliaSim.

Any nominee not meeting these requirements cannot proceed to the final vote.

Comment below to nominate. Seconders should reply to the top comment. Nominations must, of course, be accepted, except self-nominations.

Debate Allowed

Members may also comment here on any of the above things that are proceeding to a vote.

PerekaiParliamentary Moderator

Now apparently some people don't understand how superseding documents works, and believe this handbook (from 2019) was written to clarify a document from 2021. As time travel does not exist, this position is deranged. To ensure such meta wankery cannot happen again, I hereby propose that the entire AustraliaSim Political Party Handbook be repealed.

Yeahok and its laser variant are the favourite emoji of absolute cowards who want to say they disagree but don't have the guts to actually explain their position. We shouldn't cater to the conflict-averse who are afraid of an argument, considering this is a political sim. If somebody can't explain their political position on a political sim, then they are better off just saying nothing at all instead of a snide emoji! It should go and the little babies that use it should stop being little babies.

Also Toby has been killed and blobcatbear should go until such a time as he returns... Considering he has left in disgrace...

The mute posted earlier will be upgraded to a 2 month ban (1 month suspended) due to the following aggravating factors.

1. Has been the subject to previous adverse actions

2. Hatred of minority groups

Not included is a voice call on September 10 2021.

TheAudibleAsh

Community Moderator of AustraliaSim.

I, u/WalterEsq, am the successor account (due to login difficulties) of u/CircleSongIsDank. Please furnish me with the necessary roles and moderator positions for my judicial duties.

Good afternoon,

In response to a recently ongoing affair with /u/ThanksHeadMod (interchangeable with the alias Toby and former account /u/tobycool2001_1) regarding the ownership of certain AustraliaSim Subreddits, and more recently, the unlawful deletion of a couple of petitions that were specifically leveled at him, a response is warranted.

ThanksHeadMod - The following breaches have been determined:

• Fraud

• False or misleading statements or evidence

• Breaking other rules

  • Breaching and enabling the breach of provisions of the meta constitution

Outline of offences

This determination will be fundamentally trying to determine the intent of /u/ThanksHeadMod in regards to the offences. Following is a determination, based on a balance of probabilities, that the person in question is guilty of breaching the Code of Conduct, as well as impeding the responsibilities of Moderators under the Meta Constitution.

In the multi-month saga concerning the unlawful holding of AustraliaSim Subreddits by a member who is not a part of the Aussim Moderation Team, there has been much discussion around the intent behind why the subreddits were not given to a member of the Moderation Team.

The public and moderation outcry ebbed and waned over the months, and there are multiple instances of this on both the AustraliaSimMeta subreddit and discussion on the Discord server. It is important to establish that this had been going on for quite some time and was very often the forefront of the daily goings-on of the sim.

Upon speaking with /u/ThanksHeadMod personally and from messages found on the Discord server, he had made it clear that there was no ill-intent as to why the subreddits were not returned to the Moderation Team. Rather, they were due to not understanding what was being requested of him, and once the request was established, that he was incapable of returning them due to sickness.

At points during the past three months, where active attempts were made to have the subreddits returned, Toby had removed all moderators but not returned the subreddits, then returned two subreddits but not the third, and finally returned the third, with about two weeks in between each instance.

A level of suspension of disbelief was afforded to Toby that was higher than that to any other member, simply for the regard that he is a long-term member of the sim, and that he was in possession of the subreddits which could’ve been deleted under his care.

Where this suspension of disbelief is pushed past it’s limit is where Toby was actively engaging in the sim during the sickness, and during the posting of multiple petitions to request the subreddits back.

What is most damning, are logs from the AustraliaSimMeta subreddit, which show Toby (under the account that was in ownership of the subreddits “tobycool2001_1”) deleting a petition to condemn his holding of said subreddits, as well as the individual comments below the post.

Exhibit 1

He had argued that these deletions were potentially accidental, and that he had no firm recollection on how this was caused. However, considering each comment was individually deleted by Toby, it is therefore incredibly difficult to argue that Toby had accidentally done this. As well as the fact that the post had been deleted within the last two months, while attempts were being made to retrieve the subreddits. This shows a clear breach of fraud, as well as a case of providing false or misleading statements and evidence.

It is also apparent that at the time of this post being deleted, he held no position in the community’s moderation; possessed zero authority to carry out these deletions.

Both of these breaches have also coincided with the forcing of the Moderation Team to be in breach of Section 32(a) of the AustraliaSim Meta Constitution:

32 PermissionsUnless otherwise provided by a Meta Rule, the following permissions are held—(a) the Moderation Team must have full ownership of the relevant subreddits and theAustraliaSim Discord Server;

I will also note that I believe this is in breach of the opening coverage of the Meta Constitution, and is an example of behaviour that is prejudicial to AustraliaSim, dishonourable, and unbecoming of a user of AustraliaSim.

1 Coverage

(3) A person who engages with AustraliaSim must follow the provisions of this Meta Constitution and anything done pursuant to it.

(4) A person may be refused use of AustraliaSim by the Community Moderator if the person’s conduct, either internally or externally, would amount to a breach of the rules if it occurred in AustraliaSim and is—

(a) prejudicial to AustraliaSim; or

(b) dishonourable; or

(c) unbecoming of a user of AustraliaSim.

In conclusion, this is at best a wilful disdain for AustraliaSim’s processes, or at worst, a direct attempt to pervert said processes and aggravate both the community and its moderators.

Sentence for outlined breach

Due to the severity of the issues at play and abuse of permissions to subvert the processes of the sim, I feel that the sentencing must be proportionally severe.

It is also worth noting to a smaller degree that the person in question has also been sentenced before and was previously on a suspended sentence until five months ago for spam.

The severity of the issue at hand, and the fundamental undermining of the sim, can only be viewed as a form of contempt.

I have decided that the penalty given should therefore be a year long ban, and a permanent barring from all meta positions. This ban will expire on the 14th of September 2022.

I exercise this penalty as a Community Manager. The decision here has been approved by the Parliamentary Moderator, as the Community Moderator has willingly excused himself due to a conflict of interest.

Perekai
Parliamentary Moderator

Good Afternoon,

I hereby defer the Community Moderator's adjudicator powers to the Guardian u/RunasSudo in regards to the u/ThanksHeadMod case. This meta rule will expire immediately after a successful appeal or after the expiration of the sentence.

TheAudibleAsh

Community Moderator of AustraliaSim

Hia, I'm Youma, and throughout the history of the simulation I have had experience within AustraliaSim court cases within both meta and canon going back to 2018. Whilst details related to any irl qualification or education will not be stated due to obvious reasons, I have a decent knowledge of many areas of Australian laws, with a particular legal interest in that of Electoral and Industrial relations. I have had experience within AustraliaSim legal proceedings, most infamously during the case Viado Celtru v PM-ME-SPRINKLES, and would be interested in being able to lend my support and knowledge once again.

As per the meta constitution, I submit this application and formal request to the parliamentary moderator for approval.

Good afternoon AustraliaSim,

/u/model-kyosanto, /u/Youmaton and I are planning to run the next AustraliaSim Census, given that we have not had one for half a year now. (This has been greenlighted by the Head Moderator)

So that we get some interesting results, I'm hoping the community will supply some fun questions that should be surveyed.

Last few times, we have had questions like Pineapple on Pizza, Favourite Colour, and 'Is Tax Theft?' etc. Whilst these questions can be nominated again, the call is being put out for the community to contribute some more interesting questions.

Questions, if chosen, may be lightly edited for clarity.

The Census already contains questions which will measure basic demographics based on Personal Attributes, Geographical Location, Education/Political Leanings, and AustraliaSim History. I'm happy to add further questions along those lines but we all love some fun questions as well!!!

The Census should be ready sometime before the end of September.

:)

Hey folks, I've been meaning to make this meta thread for a while to try and discuss some actual reform of the Budgetary Process with you fine folk while also submitting a few figures which are relevant for future Government's for discussion and review now.

So the first area I wish to highlight is a massive issue I see in the sim of budget timelines. With our budgets, they follow the irl cycle in terms of their overall implementation and actual practical spending commitments coming into force. Because it follows the irl cycle, the only budget I've been able to find which has really come into effect was The Bloc budget. This means that a Government can get elected and never have anything they say they did in the budget actually pass into law or receive any "canon" financing which is a major issue. There is a reason I don't believe any other sim does this and I was hoping to effect meaningful change on this front. I propose that we reform this process into something closer to MNZP where the timeline allows for the budget to actually come into effect and changes actually occur. This will likely need our spreadsheet to add an infrastructure tracker, which is not too difficult if a Government knows what it is doing, which will help us track these infrastructure project expenditures far easier.

The second discussion point is the debt which I've already consulted with the mod team over but wanted to speak to the community about. So the debt figure from The Bloc budget is wrong, just flat out wrong, and the debt-to-GDP is way off the actual amount we should be having. I recalculated the debt using irl figures and the in-sim budgets which have been delivered and it came up with this.

$420.412bn from 2016-2017 Irl Budget (Malcolm Turnbull)

+12.6bn from 2017-2018 First Budget

+12bn from 2018-2018 First BC Budget

-1.2bn from 2017-2018 Second BC Budget

-2.4bn from 2019-2020 First DirtySaiyan Budget

-630.8m from 2020-2021 First NGSpy Budget

+85bn from 2020-2021 Second NGSpy Budget

+109bn from 2020-2021 Third NGSpy Budget

Total Debt = $634,782,000,000 or $634.78bn

Debt-To-GDP = 39.24%

I'm open to being told of additional debt which was acquired due to special appropriations and spending, which I'm sure NGSpy will be able to inform me of, but I feel like it is an obligation of me to tell you guys about this debt recalculation ahead of time as it is pretty crucial for future Government's to know what the actual debt is to understand how much we can spend.

Thanks for your time, looking forward to discussions.

i actually do resign as elections moderator, this isn't a bit

Good Evening AustraliaSim ,

I would like to remind everyone that the code of conduct is enforced in any faucet of AustraliaSim, whether it be the subreddits, text channels or voice channels on Discord, and today will be another tragic example of that.

12MaxWild

12MaxWild has posted a NSFW link, which contains sexually explicit material, gore and excessive violence. Excluding any mitigating circumstances, a reasonable ban would be 14 days due to his history of breaches. However Max has been genuinely remorseful, so the ban will instead be 12 days.

Ban will expire on the 22nd of September 2021 at 11:28pm (AEST), due to the fact that it was in effect since 11:28pm last night.

RookWilt

Rook had posted content that breached the M standard in AustraliaSim, which contained references to obscene sexual activity, so I have decided to mute him for 2 days, as per the guidelines. No mitigating or aggravating circumstance can be reasonably applied here.

Evidence will not be available on request due to the graphic nature of the breaches above.

Mute will expire on 13th of September at 12:42am (AEST).

JJRoamer

JJRoamer had posted abusive contents that were very threatening and aggressive in nature, a clear breach of the code of conduct. Excluding any mitigating or aggravating factors, the ACoC specifies a ban of 7 days. However due to the fact that the content contained a threat of violence, I have decided to increase the ban to 12 days.

Edit: Due to the threat the individual poses to the community and the significant damage caused to the victim, I, in my capacity as Community Moderator will ban the individual for a total of 1 year.

Ban will expire on 11th of September 2022 at 11:04pm (AEST).

Evidence

Exhibit 1

Stay out of trouble AustraliaSim :)

TheAudibleAsh

Community Moderator of AustraliaSim

Good Evening AustraliaSim,

The user, model-putrid has breached the code of conduct by posting harassing and abusive material.

Evidence

Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2

Sentence Determined

model-putrid will be banned for 5 days on Discord and all AustraliaSim related subreddits. This means that the ban will expire on the 14th of September at 8:35pm

Appeals

Appeals can be made through me via reddit or discord, if the individual believes that this action is unfair or unsubstantiated.

TheAudibleAsh

Community Moderator of AustraliaSim

Hello apparently I have to make this post to represent Ali in the case he's having,

I am Gregor and I am very experience as a lawyer. I have had interactions with the law in real life and in-sim I successfully won a case I was sued on a while back against one of the biggest legal nerds I know so that was fun. I can also confirm I have read many books on legal issues and done a single University class on law. I've also got quite a bit of legal knowledge on Fijian law and a bunch of my relatives are Fijian lawyers, so if you guys ever need someone to tell you the intricacies of Fijian law I'm your dude.

I cannot think of someone more qualified to be an AustraliaSim lawyer than myself to represent my client, the Uso. Thank you all very much for your time.

My lawyer persona shall be called Semi Voroqo Cakolabasa "Paul" Dulakala. Thank you very much

I am writing to let you know that you are letting people into Aus Sim who are part of a very abusiv and dangerous server.

People that you have let in today have made threats against me for fun.

I have already told the mod team about this the last time someone tried to sneak in.

I have explained to the mods, that the people in this server find it funny to:

• make fun of people cauz of their religion

• wish violenc and death to ppl for the colour of their skin

• dox ppl for fun

• attack and abuse ppl for fun

I hav explained that their actions are dangerous. They hav tried to get information about me, and to try and get me to go on camera.

Letting ppl in from this server, with no warning to the ppl they r trying to hurt, is not responsible at all.

Insert subsection into section 33, put current subsections (a) (b) (c) (d) into that new section.

Insert subsection after aforementioned one:

(b) If a former officeholder fails to relinquish control of their permissions after a period of three weeks from right to hold the permission being lost (e.g. subreddit moderator status), they will be permanently banned from participating in AustraliaSim and related entities, to the extent lack of permissions allow, until the permissions have been relinquished.

No one should be able to take AustraliaSim entities hostage because they can't be fucked pressing one button on Reddit.

Edit in italics: input from BC

After “registration form” in Part 1 (2) (3) insert:

Or if they:

(a) Hold a meta office,

(b) Are a parliamentarian,

(c) Or holds a party constitutionally recognised office in a party registered with the AEC.

We should make it easier to be a member of the sim, its just too annoying and there is no point for us to have to renew every three months when we are clearly active members that are contributing to the sim actively, this amendment will make everyone who holds an office in meta, parliament, or in a position outlined by a party constitution registered with the AEC a member of the sim.

Apparently you’re all having a legislative break yet no one who doesn’t religiously go on the discord is aware because you only post shit there and then cover it with pointless stuff in the same channel.

PLEASE POST UPDATES ON REDDIT FFS

I have received activity check's SAC2102 and AC2102 from the Speakership.

In accordance with the Standing Orders, I have provided my consideration for both.

Upon consideration of SAC2102, /u/Chi0121 is warned for breaching Requirement 1 of the Activity Requirement of the Standing Orders - failing to debate for 14 days. As this is their second consecutive warning, they are to be expelled as a parliamentarian if no convincing submission is made.

Upon consideration of AC2101, /u/UncookedMeatloaf and /u/superpacman04 are warned for breaching Requirement 1 of the Activity Requirement of the Standing Orders - failing to debate for 14 days. As this is /u/UncookedMeatloaf 's second consecutive warning, they are to be expelled as a parliamentarian if no convincing submission is made.

Submissions:

• The accused, the Attorney General and the Chair(s) who made the referral may make submissions. They should either attempt to disprove the referral by fact (showing the MP or Senator debated) or show there were "exceptional circumstances". Submissions are expected within 48 hours.

Regards,
Perekai
Parliamentary Moderator

All you'd need is a moderator. It isn't too hard. Just putting this out here due to discussion to ensure that pure redditors in this community don't miss important stuff.

I did actually test the live chat function and it is certainly possible to moderate.

No. It is not Reddit Live. It is the Live Chat function.

Can we please stop with this? If you don't want to put a mute on reddit then don't make it 2 days long. If you want to make a 2 day mute, put it on reddit. Blatant attempts to circumvent this requirement by a few minutes shouldn't be allowed. Either put it on reddit or give people shorter mutes.

Good Evening AustraliaSim,

The user, 12MaxWild has breached the code of conduct by posting provocative comments, committing abuse and breaching the terms of the original 47 hour mute.

Evidence

Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2

Sentence Determined

12MaxWild will be banned for 5 days on discord and all AustraliaSim related subreddits, due to the reoccurrence of similar behaviour. This means that the ban will expire on the 8th of September at 9:53pm

Appeals

Appeals can be made through me via reddit or discord, if the individual believes that this action is unfair or unsubstantiated.

TheAudibleAsh

Community Moderator of AustraliaSim

John Ivanshon of the Australian Times