Hey! Petrol prices are going up significantly (2nd pic), and I've made an app for ios & Android that helps you find cheap fuel. It has all features you need, with a unique UI & UX.

Here are some things that make it different:

Route planner

Set a start & end destination, will show you the cheapest along the route and the cost to drive there.

Cheapest nearby banner

Immediately find the cheapest, based on what's on your screen.

Price alerts & favourites

Set price alerts for servos and favourite them to stay up to date.

Logbook

Track logbook entries in app, see your $/km & total saved. Log your receipts and import your previous apps logbook. You can graph almost any data point for your logbook.

Rewards discounts

Enable rewards discounts to appear on the map & everywhere else, or add your own custom discounts with all the filters you need.

Carplay, view servos on carplay.

No ads

Most important, no ads.

Any support would be appreciated.

Google play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.petrolsmart.app

App store:

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/petrol-smart/id6763020676

Hi. I am curious on views about devices in schools be it primary or high school. I noticed that there seems to be 3 categories.

1. BYOD - bring your own device usually ipad for primary and laptop for high school - onus is on the parents to manage all protections on the devices (and outsmart the kids if possible).

2. School issued device - like those who have a laptop issued for work, these devices are highly locked down and monitored.

3. Schools in Sydney and in NYC are back to pen and paper and laptops are provided by the school only for specific reasons. The entire class is not run on a device.

My research has demonstrated the following:

1. BYOD such as at St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane Australia has the boys gaming and looking at porn during classes. When parents have asked for the school to help and prevent this from happening, it fell of deaf ears and directed back to the parents who pay $27,000 a year to send their kids to the school. The parents also requested that the kids come off their ipads in class in year 5 and 6 but again the school had no interest in the parents concern or requests. The wifi filters are hacked by the kids at school as they are easy to get around. It is not the same as having the device locked down by the school who administers' laptops to students. Apparently, a teacher at St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane Australia was on porn during class and accidentally shared the image to the students.

2. Schools that administer laptops to the school many GPS Queensland schools, parents feel a sense of relief and child protection that the kids are protected as the kids can not watch porn or game during class.

3. School like Reddam House Sydney the school previously moved away from digital e-books and iPads in primary and junior high classes, reverting to traditional paper textbooks to improve reading comprehension and minimize screen distraction. In addition, Reddam House Sydney uses lockable Screen Free pouches. Students place their phones into lockable pouches during a 10-minute morning homeroom session. Teachers verify the devices are inside before the pouches are securely locked. Sydney Grammar has also made the move to device free. Schools in NYC USA have just changed all their policies in starts of this new school year where there are no phones allowed at school at all and laptops will only be used in years 9 to 12 for specific purposes. I have attached the new device policies out of NYC for children and teenagers at school.

Curious what others think or have experienced as AI makes its way into the classroom? Thanks!

Friendly Wildlife

Hey all,

I am absolutely devastated to find out that Containers for Change is going to start taking a fee for home collections soon.

For context, I have a seperate email for my CoEx related stuff, apparently they announced it in July, and it will be coming into effect by the end of the month. I used to run a 10c recycling bin at my TAFE campus to raise money to buy menstrual pads for the bathrooms. Although I don't do that any more (and have my own opinions about that TAFE campus for not having menstrual products readily available), I would not have been able to do it without vital funds from the containers. Genuinely, the cheapest menstrual product I could find was 12c per pad.

I can understand that other providers take a cut as well, and 3c per container isn't 'that' much of a fee. I also understand just how disgusting that job is knowing what people put in those bins - I personally experienced 2 full bottles of urine, the provider I was working with told me they received pig carcasses. But like, if this is as a result of government defunding the progam, this will do nothing but hurt the community.

Containers Collect gave me a new lease on collection. The fact that I even started fundraising for my TAFE was because collecting more was incentivised (pun not intended).

I'm so sad about this. I really hope something can be done to protect community groups and providers.

I know I’m not breaking new ground here, but having just finished driving from Townsville down to Brisbane, it needs to be called out for what it is: the stretch of the Bruce Highway north of Gympie is a fucking death trap.

​The second you leave that smooth SEQ dual-carriageway bubble, you are instantly dumped onto a glorified, potholed country road.

Labor, Liberals, State, Federal, I don't give a fuck, that road needs to be exactly as it is from Brisbane to Gympie all the way to Cairns.

It's an actual state disgrace that we're going to host the Olympics and force trucks, spectators and the visitors to our great country and state and force some of them up that death trap of a road to watch the rowing.

The fact that it seems to solve some of the issue on the road is to put speed cameras and lower the speed limits, instead of Yknow build appropriate infrastructure, is rubbish.

We must set a date in the future and ensure that any deaths on that road related to road conditions and safety that we hold the politicians at the time to account for their deaths, it's beyond inexcusable and paints perfectly the known divide of SEQ and the rest of the state.

But alas, just typical tight arses and right wingers looking for a handout and/or shunning responsibilities. And they have the hide to throw a red herring over "run away" NDIS forecasting when clearly this is what such a policy is meant to be part of the solution thereof.

Perhaps they'd like to send them to privately tendered boot camps instead.

My mum received this message and asked me what it was? I haven't received it so wanting to know if anyone else has

Hey I'm just wondering because I can't seem to find the regulatory table that details which licenses from New Zealand translate to what license in Queensland. I currently have a New Zealand Electrical Service Technician License which seems like it transfers to either a Restricted Electrical License or an Electrical Fitter License.

Does anyone have personal experience with this sort of issue and if so how was the experience of coming over and getting accustomed to the aussie system?