• The Government and iPhones don't recognise it, but this stretch of desert has its own time zone - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): Sergeant Chamberlain said when it comes to life on the Nullarbor, the custom made time zone was at the lower end of quirky.
• Australian poverty in graphs: it's a desperate state of affairs | Greg Jericho | Australia news | The Guardian: The political debate also frequently sets the position of poverty as one of blame – that it is people's own fault for being poor. Much like casual racism there is a casual prejudice against poverty.
• 'Hump day' killed off, app maker Versa's staff repay the boss with higher productivity - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• Ben Elton on Blackadder, The Young Ones and political correctness - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• There's only one type of voter who prefers Morrison over Turnbull, Vote Compass data shows - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): The vast majority of respondents — 78 per cent — think that the decision to remove Malcolm Turnbull in August last year was the wrong call. That conclusion is drawn from 153,354 responses to Vote Compass between April 10 and April 16. This is an unusually high degree of consensus among a population which can agree — it seems — on little else.
• Warringah voters complain about free copies of Daily Telegraph as election rancour boils | Australia news | The Guardian
• Unmasked: An Analysis of 10 Million Passwords
• Scott Morrison invites media into Pentecostal church amid election campaign %u2018truce' | Australia news | The Guardian: Scott Morrison has invited the media into his his Pentecostal church in Sydney for the first time, as both party leaders paused their official campaigns on Easter Sunday. Invited the media... during his paused campaign...

• Australia's gun laws are not as strict as they should be: The number of guns now exceeds the 3.2 million firearms in Australia before the introduction of the 1996 National Firearms Agreement [...] Licence holders now own about 3.9 guns each compared with 2.1 guns in 1997.
• Kangaroo rat escapes rattlesnake attack with 'ninja-style' kicks in new research video - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• Song Exploder | DJ Shadow breaks down 'Mutual Slump'
• For decades, Garfield telephones kept washing ashore in France. Now the mystery has been solved. - The Washington Post
• Science Fiction and the Philosophical “Ship of Theseus” Problem | Tor.com: How would an uploaded digital consciousness fare against the Ship of Theseus problem? If my mind was recreated perfectly in a digital format, would it in fact be me? What if my fleshy meatsack self was still alive? Would that change your answer?
• 'Like the Eye of Sauron': western Europe's tallest building planned for tiny Danish town | Cities | The Guardian
• 'Vandals': NSW environment staff fear for jobs as office dissolves: Premier Gladys Berejiklian defended the dissolution of OEH, noting heritage would be shifted to the Arts portfolio headed by Don Harwin as minister. Environment would have "a prominent place within Planning". Translation: heritage shoved in with other stuff they don't give a crap about, environment shifted over so their developer mates can get dodgy approvals in a one-stop-shop.
• Cats can recognise their own name, Japanese study finds - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): Atsuko Saito of Sophia University in Tokyo says there is no evidence cats actually attach meaning to our words, not even their own names. Instead, they have learned that when they hear their names they often get rewards like food or play, or something bad like a trip to the vet
• Five damaging myths about video games – let's shoot 'em up | Games | The Guardian: somehow, we are able simultaneously to worry that games are the root cause of many of society's problems, yet also consider them to be a pointless or vacuous thing to do.