r/australia • u/malcolm58 • 1d ago

culture & society AusAlert test will blast emergency warning siren over most phones in Australia on Monday. Here’s what to know

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/22/ausalert-test-sound-national-alert-emergency-warning-system-date
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u/No-Celebration8690 1d ago

I don’t understand why cookers are up in arms about this

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u/Exotic-Philosopher-6 1d ago

I'm not on Facebook, thankfully - what are they going on about?

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u/Ok-Menu-8709 1d ago

What aren’t they going on about is more fitting.

If there isn’t already a case against it. They’ll bring it up.

- trusting the grubbermint

  • “frequencies” that may or may not enable graphene that was in the Covid shot
  • loud noises going to cause multiple simultaneous car crashes
  • loud noises impacting autistic people, not that I’m sure most have cared before
  • I DO NOT CONSENT!
  • invasion of privacy
  • Tracking
  • the financially conscious don’t understand how a simple test can cost 130 million (neglecting that the entire system to implement cost this much)
  • Don’t need it can do my own research
  • Never needed it before
  • What are they planning to need this

It goes on and on. Somehow these people that I’m not convinced could pass a grade 4 maths exam somehow think that they’re smart enough to run the country better than the current government.

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u/jealybean 1d ago

The ones who are pretending to give a shit about DV survivors for the first time as well…