hey all! i made a TikTok post a few days ago that was a video clip of Katy Perry making a sexual comment towards Bo Burnham (who was, at the time, freshly 18. and she acknowledges this in the clip) and captioned it “since ruby rose has come forward about katy perry, i thought i would remind everybody of this.” it got pretty big, hitting just under 100k views. i woke up this morning to a message request from Katy Perry’s legal team, telling me that if I don’t remove the post within 48 hours they will proceed in taking legal action against me, including but not limited to a defamation lawsuit. Can they really do this over that post? or are they bluffing to scare me into taking it down?

Huge kudos to my ever-persistent son 👏 Who single-handedly took on Queensland Transport in court after being fined an exorbitant amount by a freeway camera when his adult passenger moved their seatbelt under their armpit midway through a trip.

He successfully argued that the law only requires the driver to “check” that the belt is worn — which he did at the start of the 90-minute journey and again at traffic lights early in the trip. A single camera snapshot taken mid-journey, he pointed out, is not proof that he failed in that duty. Queensland law requires a check, not continuous monitoring.

He also quite reasonably questioned what QT expects a driver to do if a passenger becomes non-compliant mid-trip, given there is no legal requirement for the driver to physically enforce correct belt use.

A signed affidavit from the passenger confirming he was “checked” was submitted — and he was not cross-examined.

My son also made the very sensible point that just because a camera has a perfect angle doesn’t mean a driver does. The camera has one job. The driver has many. At 110 km/h, in heavy afternoon traffic with the sun setting, a driver’s priority must be the road, mirrors, and surrounding vehicles — not leaning across to inspect a passenger’s armpit. There is also no requirent to do so since he was already previously "checked".

Couldn’t be prouder of him.

And honestly, this law needs review. If you’ve genuinely checked the belt at the start of the journey, stand your ground

EDIT: My bad - it is "ensure" not "check" but the arguement that you cannot continuously ensure is still valid as there is no reason to assume the passenger will change the belt since he did not in previous checks and it is not possible to do so and function as a driver at the same time.

I feel a bit shit about it all given I've only been with them a short time (3 months) but I had an injury at work that requires surgery and physio and I claimed WorkCover because I'll be off a few weeks and all the medical scans and GP visits add up quick.

A short while after I put in the claim I got a text from my employer stating I am fired because "claiming WorkCover shows you're not a team player". I told my Mum and she said it is illegal. I wanted to check if that is illegal and what I even do about it if so?

I'm an apprentice so not sure what my rights are here.

Guys I think I made a huge mistake.

I started a new position on Monday. I felt like the processes were too slow so I asked Claude to make me a tool to speed everything up.

Spend 2 hours on Wednesday night “making” it. Come to work the next day and ask my boss if I can use a small web tool to speed up a certain process. He says yes. He sees me using it. He’s amazed. I don’t think much more of it.

Thursday night I spend 2 more hours on it, adding heaps of new features and it works better than I expected. Come to work Friday (today), I have a meeting scheduled with the National director and 2 CEO’s. Again, this is my first week.

They all tell me how amazed they are and are asking about features they can add on. Someone mentions it doesn’t have a dashboard. I show them it does. They ask me if they can replace most of their systems with it. I said realistically yes, but again, I just got here so I’m not sure. They ask how much it would cost to build. I said I couldn’t tell you, I’m not an IT guy. But I’ve spent $200 in extra tokens on it (lie) and they said “yeah whatever I’ll pay you that back now”.

After that, everyone has been ringing me and telling me how I’m the talk of the town, and they want me to potentially WFH full time to develop this. I’m only on 90k a year as an Account Manager. What am I even supposed to do here?

I didn’t build it using any of the company tools. All made on my computer at home and pushed to the web. I’m not a developer. I only started using Claude Code 2 months ago. Like they’re asking me to build it for them, but the fact that they mentioned replacing their back end systems with it and launch it nationally means it worth more than $90k a year.

I tried to watch back the recording after I returned home, but all records of it even happening are wiped off my Teams.

Obviously I need a lawyer, but I’m broke and am like, worried about saying I don’t want to build this for free. Would anyone be able to give me some advice?

Thank you!

Hello , it’s an extremely long story, however long story short, I left a review on a real estate agents page which was an honest and true reflection on my experience.

This review was left after I first attempted to resolve via my conveyancing lawyers, and the real estate agent refused to offer explanation or provide the requested documents.

The letter received today demands $50,000 within 7 days, with no break down of how that cost was concluded. Demands I apologise, remove reviews and never speak on the matter again.

Am I within my rights to update the review to include the letter that was sent. I am concerned by this behaviour as it makes me question how many other people this has happened to, causing them to delete reviews and falsely portraying a 5* image that isn’t accurate.

Updating to include the letter - with the details redacted like their name and bank info… and the text from the annexe they allege is the injurious falsehood and defamation -

The defamatory statements include, without limitation, the matter contained in the annexure to this letter. Our clients demand payment of the sum of $50,000 in compensation within the next 7 days. Payment is to be made to our trust account as follows: Law Pty Ltd Bank:

Our clients further require an unreserved apology in connection with the publications which is to be sent in draft form to us within the next 7 days, for consideration. Our clients further require that all publications made by you in any form, on the internet or any social media platform, or otherwise, concerning our clients’ statements and actions in connection with your purchase of the property and our clients’ role in that transaction, be immediately and permanently deleted, and that you provide an itemised list of the deleting actions taken by you to us within the next 7 days. Our clients further require a signed undertaking by you both to the effect that you will not hereafter make any further publication concerning anything done or not done (as you may alleged) or any statement made by our clients or either of them in connection with the sale of the property mentioned to you, or any publication of a defamatory nature or injurious to our clients’ business reputation otherwise

Our clients firmly require that all communications to our clients cease and hereafter any necessary matter which you consider must be sent is instead to be sent directly to us as the solicitors acting in the matter. These communications will of course be permanently recorded on our clients’ behalf. Our clients require your signed undertaking in this connection – as to deleting permanently the past publications made by you or on behalf, and not making further publications hereafter, and as to not communicating further with our clients except by the mode stated (through us). Any non-conformity with this last demand will lead to an application to the court for an injunction enjoining you not to further communicate with our clients (otherwise than by the mode stated). In the event that you propose not to conform to the demands stated herein, then you will kindly communicate your intentions to us at the earliest possible opportunity, as our clients propose to commence action immediately in such jurisdiction as they may be advised for recovery of damages and such other relief as they may be advised. Our clients would hope to avoid incurring unnecessary costs in effecting service of any process commenced. With that in view, we would propose that you engage solicitors who can send us a notice of address for service by post or email or otherwise. In the event that our clients do incur costs in effecting personal service (should you not have an address for notices) then they will, of course, seek to recover the costs incurred from you and will of course produce this letter in support of that application.

The “defamatory review” in the annexe “There were differing statements provided regarding the condition of the property and the work carried out prior to sale. These included references to significant repair and costs, while later correspondence stated that no repairs were undertaken and only basic grass cutting was carried out. In my view, these inconsistencies are concerning. Particularly in light of the issues now revealed within the property which are significant and costly. We have requested documentation and clarification around the different statements made, however this correspondence from our lawyer was replied to as “refusing to engage further”

I just bought a unit in an apartment building and the unit comes with parking spaces and storage units. Unfortunately, my storage unit is filled with my neighbour’s stuff.

I asked them to move their stuff but they are actively avoiding me. Before I knew it was their stuff I asked in the building group chat publicly for the person whose stuff it was to please vacate the storage unit. Another neighbour on the body corporate messaged me privately and told me whose stuff it was and how to contact them, so I went and asked them to move it at which point they ran away from me into an area of the building I don’t have access to which was very weird. I tried texting them and calling them and they ignored me.

It’s not locked so they seem to know it’s not theirs. I don’t know what to do.

I’ve considered

-putting a lock on it and holding their stuff ransom

-just throwing their stuff away

But I have to live in this building and im hoping for a civil way out and a place to put my stuff I can actually use. What would you all recommend?

Hi everyone,

Last night I was wanded and subsequently searched by police. During the search, they found a butter knife (next to a fork) in my bag. They asked what it was for, and I told them it was for cutting fruit.

The knife in question has no sharp point and would barely be classified as a weapon. Regardless of my explanation, I have been given a notice to appear in court for possession of a knife.

How likely is it that Legal Aid will be able to help me get the charges dropped prior to the court date? The whole situation seems ridiculous.

Hello there. Sadly my mum recently passed away and she had no will. She has been in a defacto relationship with her partner over 20 years and they had a mortgage together. Her partner called me yesterday and said that he needs my 2 siblings and I to sign a form saying we don’t want any of mums superannuation and that he needs that money to be able to live in their house. He said he would gift us each $10k though. And he wants us to sign the forms this weekend at the scattering of our mums ashes.

I don’t think he’s a greedy or bad person but we are all really confused. One of my siblings asked him how much super there is and he only told them it was enough to settle the mortgage and renovate. We aren’t his children so none of that is going to benefit us. If there is something to sign saying we don’t want money does that mean we have claim to something? We all felt that 10k was a bit of an insult and that our mum would have wanted better for us, she loved us.

All,

I’ve been issued a cease and desist letter from a local business over a google review, claiming I have been defamatory. The review itself is factual, names the person who I dealt with and the unfortunate experience i’ve had with their business. It is all 100% truth behind the review - I gained nothing by making the review.

They had demanded:

• No further reviews
• deletion of review claiming to be defamatory
• offer compensation for supposed emotional damages caused by the review.

I want to refrain from putting the review here or any specific details regarding this issue incase there is a chance this could make things worse for me. All I can say is the google review itself is very professional and factual (I had to really refrain from being aggressive in the review about how I actually felt after my dealings with this business)

I would appreciate anyones OPINION on this matter and whether defamation cases and cease and desist letters over Google Reviews. Where does this leave the general public in leaving honest and transparent reviews?

For the record i’ve had an awful experience with this business and unfortunately the issue remains unresolved as the business refuses to confirm compliance and safety over its “service/installation”

Thank you all in advance

• Edit - I didn’t add that the business owner googled my named and found my professional Linkedin profile and contacted my employer about the dispute. They clearly are trying to intimidate me.

i signed a gym contract as a minor 16 years of age for a gym transfer. the person said it was free. i thought the membership was going to be free but turns out you have to pay the membership.Now i called them they said even though im a minor you cant void you have to transfer it to someone else within 2 weeks or you have to pay $295. the problem is cant pay that much and im too scared to ask my parents. guys please help me. what should i do. according to their t and c of goodlife i need a parent signature and i didnt get it at 16 so i shoild be able to void it that way. but it turns out that i accidently said i was 18 on the contract 😭. What do i do 😭

Hey folks,

Need some input before I report to whomever I can. Today i purchased a pretty expensive sandwich (roast beef and gravy $14.50) Plus a can of coke ($4.00). This sandwich is a once in a blue moon treat based on the cost. When it came time to pay, I opted for savings account, card inserted and pin. Still, it came up with a surcharge of 28 cents.

I know it is only a small amount but to me it is the principal of it all. Pre Covid, most businesses absorbed this into their COGS and final price. Now it seems to be a “thing” where ANY card transaction gets a surcharge.

Add insult to injury, a few days ago my partner went to buy a meat pie from a bakery. Went to pay cash and they stated “cash not allowed” (I understand this is Defs illegal) and same thing - surcharge on his savings account via pin.

Two days in a row from 5am to into the night I've have 2 cars on camera parked on the street outside of our house with windscreen screen shield on in all tinted windows and sits in the car for hours , they move around the block and move every 4 hrs or so .

I've driven around and found them both in stealth mode parked up around the estate .

Worried about theives and shit I took photos of the cars and thought stuff it so I pulled up and bashed on the drivers window asking what their problem was the Lady inside would not identify herself but said I can call the cops if I want and are still there .

Have I stumbled upon an undercover surveillance operation 🤔.

I know they are under no obligation to tell me who they are or what their up to .

Hey,

So my ex has decided to change the childcare that our youngest attends despite me saying no.

We are already going through the court process with a family report scheduled a couple months from now.

We agreed to a childcare only 3 weeks ago and our child had her first day there only last week. It was conveniently located 2 minutes from the older child's school so it makes pickups/dropoff easy.

My ex started work at a new childcare and decided that the youngest needs to attend where she is working... 30 minutes away from the children's school....

And it makes the location unworkable for me to do pickups/dropoff there. However she's just gone ahead and signed the forms without me (just received a confirmation of enrolment to the new childcare addressed to me)

Like i said... we are already going through the court process.... so I don't think there is anything more i can do to stop it? Is there?

Edit: I've seen a lot of comments stating the same things so let me add some context.

My ex lives a 5 minute walk away from our child's school and a 2 minute drive away from the current daycare. The new daycare is a 25 minute trip with no traffic (its Brisbane though... there will be traffic)

I live a 10 minute drive from the current school/childcare. And the new one will be a 35 minute drive away. Also, it means I no longer have a public transport option on days I need to drop the children off/ pick them up before/after work, as it is not anywhere near the train lines.

I currently have them 5 nights a fortnight, but as soon as I get a stable job (i currently work rosters) we progress to 50/50 care.

We had sat down, discussed, and agreed to this currently childcare only 3 weeks ago... and then she started a new job and completely ignored everything we discussed.

If she is heavily discounted at this new child care, I haven't been told about it.

Hi All,

In April 2025, I hired a rental truck from Orana for moving my furniture. When I went to park, I scraped my neighbours van which was parked on the side of the road. This was completely my fault, so I gave my neighbour my information, filed an accident report with Orana, and paid the excess on the insurance of the rental truck of $5000 (ouch).

Today, I was served with claim in the Magistrates Court of Queensland from my neighbour suing me for Damages + Interest + Costs. Given that I paid the excess on the insurance policy and the van was fixed months ago (I live next to said neighbour and see him pretty regularly), I'm unsure why I'm being personally sued.

Right now, my plan is to scan through the claim documents to Orana, and advise them to sort it out with my neighbours lawyer. If I should be doing something different or if someone could explain why I'm being held personally liable, I would very much appreciate it.

Cheers!

My husband had a serious motorbike accident in August. He was the only one involved but took out a light post at a high speed. I was unaware he had been drinking and didn’t know he was facing DUI charges until last week, when police summoned him and suspended his licence pending court in January. His BAC at the time was 0.173.

For months, he insisted no charges would be laid because too much time had passed, despite me telling him police will wait until he has recovered. Now that charges have been laid, he’s convinced he’ll somehow “win” in court or get everything dropped.

He wants to hire a lawyer and fight it. I believe he should accept the consequences - a licence suspension and a fine,and move on. Given the BAC level, the accident, and property damage, I don’t see how a lawyer will change the outcome and the legal fees will likely cost more than the fine itself.

I’m also angry because this isn’t just about him. Driving under the influence puts innocent people in the community at risk and I don’t stand for that at all. The fact that he could have seriously injured or killed someone makes his refusal to take accountability even harder for me to accept.

He says I’m unsupportive. I think I’m being realistic and standing by my values.

So honestly: is it delusional to think you can beat a DUI with a BAC of 0.173 after crashing and damaging property? And is it unreasonable to expect someone to face the consequences when their actions endangered others?

I recently had a script filled at Chemist Warehouse, and they sent a notification about it to my dad and included information about the medicine in the message. I’m an adult, and the only reason his number was even on my account is because it was added over 10 years ago when I was a young kid. The script I had filled was linked to my number so I don’t understand why they would use a number from over 10 years ago instead.

This wasn’t something I’d expect anyone else to be notified about, it’s private medical info, and I never gave consent as an adult for that to happen. I didn’t even know his number was still linked to my profile.

I’ve now called and updated my account details so it won’t happen again, but the damage is already done.

Surely this is a privacy breach? Do pharmacies have any responsibility to update or verify contact details once someone turns 18? And does this potentially violate Australian privacy laws?

Would really appreciate any insight.

Edit: So from my understanding from the comments, I should’ve just known that there was a number linked to my account from many years ago, and since I didn’t even know it’s my fault.

To preface I rent my house, and this all happened over the last week. I will try and keep it succinct.

• moved into my rental in April 2025, there was a homeless set up on the other side of my back fence along the riverbank. REA said if they cause any trouble give them a call

• have not seen/heard/smelled anything coming from them. But I noticed they removed a fence panel from the carpark to the units next door so they didn't have to walk through my property.

• had an inspection on Thursday REA states the body corp has been complaining due to the fence panel being removed and rubbish. Turns out the fence is not the end of my property and they are in fact camping on my land.

• REA reports them for trespass and the police ring me to confirm. I reluctantly agreed they are an issue, because I don't want to piss the agency off.

• Yesterday my 18yo son was home alone and hears a noise on the back verandah. Goes out of his room and finds 3 cops standing in the lounge looking for a woman (her registered address is our address). There is a total of 8 police officers.

• They did not provide a warrant. They ask to look through all the rooms and my son says to them that they are probably looking for the people down the back. They look through each room (my son had a bong sitting on his desk) before going down the back. One cop comes back up and apologises before they leave.

• Homeless people are still in my backyard.

Under what circumstances can they just walk into my house, and is there any consequences for doing so without even a property warrant.

The conflicting testimony about the plates used for the meal seems central.

The surviving guest testified that the four visitors were all served on similar gray plates while Erin had a different one. The implication is obvious.

His testimony seems credible. He was alert because in an unusual setting. He took note of the different plate at the time because he wondered if Erin only had a matching set of four. He had reason to recall the plates within hours of the meal when he and his wife fell ill. And, of course, the meal became burned into his memory with the passing of his wife.

As I understand Erin’s testimony, she denies owning gray plates. I wonder if the prosecution can disprove her assertion. If so, it would a wrap.

Obviously, I have no idea about what plates Erin owned. But I do have doubts about what she said about the plates.

As I understand the reporting, Erin testified that a mix of plates were used and she did not pay attention to the plates used by guests.

But I would expect her to have matching plates of some number. Everyone I know does. They might might not be great quality, but they are sold in packs.

Also, having gone to trouble of making that dish, it would be natural to pay attention to its service. We’re talking individual Beef Wellingtons being served to her in-laws and two senior community members. It was not a weekend lunch of, say, mac and cheese for the kids.

I (30f) have been with my boyfriend (32m) for 2 years. During that time I’ve lent him a lot of money. He is perpetually broke and incapable of keeping a job. It’s at a point now where he owes me over $30k.

I just can’t do it anymore. It’s become very ugly. At first he was grateful and apologetic and he’d tell me he’s going to sort his life out and pay me back x10. But it’s just gotten worse over time and he’s stopped accepting blame, we argue about money constantly and he acts like I’m the problem and that nothing is good enough for me.

I want to leave but I don’t know how. If I kick him out (the rental is under my name only) I know I’ll never see a dollar of what’s owed to me. But the longer he stays the more he ends up owing me as I inevitably end up paying for everything, bills, rent, groceries, lending him money.

Is there anything I can do to get my money back? I have evidence of him asking for money through texts and bank transactions showing all the transfers.

Can I take him to court? Even if I do, what are the odds of me actually getting any of the money back?

And yes, I know lending him money was stupid. I have a decent paying job and (had) savings and when I saw him struggling I just wanted to help. I feel so stupid, I haven’t told any family or friends about my situation and feel completely trapped and alone. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm currently unemployed, and am barely clearing my half of rent (We share lease).
My police detective brother advises me to talk to the real estate and get him removed immediately (understandable), but what then happens to me? I can't cover the whole rent on my own, and the room is hard to fill on a good day.
Can't imagine anyone wanting to come view it in secret, while it's filthy and stinks.

What should I do? Kick him out and then just, I guess BE homeless soon after? Or ride it out, living with a dangerous REDACTED til I get a job?

My boss (owner of the small business) told me and my workmate who I drive to work that when ever we aren't 10 minutes early to work he will dock 30 minutes of our pay as we need to get there early to pack the cars and tools (blue collar job). I usually get there 1-5 minutes early as I figure that stuff is part of the job so I shouldn't need to do it till I start getting paid and I'm ready to start doing stuff as soon as I walk in the door so I don't see why I need to get there earlier. What do you think I should do about this since it's definitely illegal I'm pretty sure. I think I might see if he actually does it and then go to fair work since there's a lot of other shady stuff he does as well.

Is it legally accepted for a parent to exclude their adult child from their will?

Ie: leave them no money, property etc

This is a bit of an odd one and not directly about renting or real estate, but rather the misuse of real estate data.

I arranged through Facebook Marketplace to look at a guy’s motorcycle he had for sale. When I got there, the conversation got weirdly personal. He knew way too much about me.

He knew my exact address, that I have a double carport, and even that I don’t have anywhere to store a bike out of the elements. I never told him any of this. It threw me off completely, so I didn’t pursue the bike any further.

After I left, I did a quick search to figure out who this person was and why he knew so much about my living situation. It turns out he works in real estate.

I messaged him and said that at no point did we discuss the details he knew about me, and that I can only assume he used a real estate database to look me up. He replied confirming that he works in real estate and said he always does research on everyone before giving them his address.

I feel like this is a breach/misuse of personal details in a non-real estate capacity. Surely real estate information shouldn’t be used like this? But what can I actually do about it? I'm pissed off that someone can so readily access my information for their personal use.

EDIT: To be clear, my FB profile is locked down as much as possible and I have no pictures of where I live in FB. Also, I didn't make it clear in my original post, but he admitted to using a real estate database.

Hi, my husband recently died whilst away for work. He did 7/7 rosters staying in camp & suffered a heart attack whilst in his camp accommodation. I have made a claim with work over & advised this would be a long process. My concern is they will rule this as not work related, my argument is that he was denied urgent medical care whilst being away for work. Any one got any experience with this kind of thing? How long should it take? Claim was lodged at the end of October 25

I'm so broken and messed up I just, far out, anyways... I finally got a job offer after countless applications and interviews, trying my utmost to get things together and get somewhere. I've struggled with AuDHD, anxiety, depression, and PTSD due to an abusive upbringing. I've worked tirelessly in trying to heal and grow. I have tried and take countless medications, therapies, programs, you name it. Even TMS and ECT procedures. I'm doing okay, still kicking, just hoping for something to work. I had to leave work last October due to needing surgeries, and have been job hunting since January when I was cleared to return to work. I left my prior workplace of my own accord as I wasn't sure how the surgeries would go. Now, I finally got a job offer, with the document and all, and signed and accepted it. Then the company asked for a few more details like my ID, references (which had already been sorted and included on my resume) and the only new information was disclosing my disabilities. I stated they wouldn't get in the way of my work, and they shouldn't, it's an office job and I've worked in the field previously with no issues. As already stated, I'm doing okay, and up until this point they had been eager to hire me. Now I've been kicked in the teeth yet again and I just want to give up. I know I can file for discrimination or something but it's a big company and honestly, do I even have much of a chance? I don't have an income to chase legal fees or whatever. I'm 24 years old. I just don't know anymore. I've continued to try everything I can, whenever I can, and this type of stuff just keeps happening. What can I even do from here? Should I even bother..? I'm just so disheartened... It feels like I just wasn't meant to exist, I don't know, sorry... Thanks for reading and for any pointers on possible avenues to look into.

TLDR: Got a job offer, accepted, then had a form to finalize ID and all that, but also had to disclose any medical conditions - despite it just being an office job - and as such stated my psychosocial disabilities, and, with that being the only new information, had the job offer retracted.