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1d07lhu | Nickelback was the very first concert I attended. Loved them back then (2005-2006). I also don’t understand the hate against them? | 1 |
1d5iuvf | Beige night | 0 |
1czd8d4 | Sure, message me, I go to lots of pub trivia. | 1 |
1d4vdqr | Yes!!!!!
In the winter with a bath
It tastes even better when it's raining like on Thursday | 1 |
1d2gbvv | cars like that can't be registered to drive on the road. | 0 |
1d0ny0b | Paywall
The Clean Energy Council describes itself as the peak body for the clean energy sector. It is not. It is a powerful, cashed-up lobby group promoting the interests of wind, water and hydro generators with a mission to kill nuclear energy stone dead in Australia.
Last month, the council launched a multimillion advertising campaign on animated digital billboards, airport lounges and lifts in prime Sydney and Melbourne locations with the message that the discussion about nuclear power was risking Australia’s future. It is merely a foretaste of a much larger campaign as the Coalition prepares to seek a mandate for removing the nuclear moratorium at the next federal election.
Opposition climate change and energy spokesman Ted O’Brien has been at pains to frame any discussion about nuclear around its place in the energy mix. Intermittent, disbursed generation technology such as wind and solar would continue to contribute to the grid. Gas also would be a crucial part of the mix, principally because of its agility to ramp up or down, compensating for the vagaries of renewable energy sources.
Yet the renewables sector has bought none of it. It regards the election of a Coalition government as an existential threat that would devalue its portfolios overnight. Implicit and explicit subsidies would be phased out. It would hasten the realisation that there was a threshold beyond which the saturation of renewables in the grid became more of a nuisance than a help and that we might already be in that territory.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the nuclear push is designed to bring the rollout of renewables to a halt – not just temporarily, but for good,” wrote Giles Parkinson, the editor of Renew Economy, the sector’s equivalent of the China Daily.
Giles says there are fears the nuclear push will create more uncertainty for a sector already battling with bottlenecks and roadblocks in planning decisions, network capacity, connection delays, social licence and market regulations that are struggling to keep up with the transition.
At the end of the week, the announcement that the NSW government would pay Origin up to $225m to keep the Eraring Power Station operating for two years beyond its planned 2025 retirement confirmed that renewable energy had failed to deliver on its promise to provide the capacity required to survive without coal. The Victorian government has been negotiating similar extensions with EnergyAustralia, the owner of Yallourn, and AGL, which operates Loy Yong A. Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen belatedly has recognised the need for more gas in the system. The theory that the grid can operate on renewables alone in the medium term is now unambiguously discredited.
The Australian Energy Market Operator presented a dismal picture of the pace of the transition in its forecast for energy supply in the next 10 years, named somewhat optimistically as the Statement of Opportunities. AEMO said it had been advised of “numerous delays to the development and commissioning of committed and anticipated wind and solar projects”, meaning the amount of energy in the system would be lower than predicted between 2025 and 2028.
This would increase the likelihood of unserved energy events, or blackouts as most people would call them. It gets worse. The new turbines and solar panels are rolling out at a fraction of the rate Bowen anticipated 18 months ago, and they need to get connected to the grid. Building 10,000km of new transmission lines has not been quite the walk in the park the minister seemed to have expected. Planning and construction delays and community resistance are putting transmission projects way behind schedule and over budget.
There is no good news for Bowen or the sector in the AEMO report. Project EnergyConnect, the interconnection between NSW and South Australia, was regarded as the most straightforward high-voltage transmission link since it passed through sparsely populated territory. Yet construction delays mean it will not operate at full capacity until July 2027 at the earliest. That will be too late to compensate for expected shortfalls once the Torrens Island B and Osborne power stations shut. In NSW, delays to battery projects mean supply will be even tighter than expected, and Victoria will feel the pinch from constraints on interstate transmission.
Even if we accept AEMO’s optimistic claim that there are plenty of projects in the pipeline, this is hardly the fast-track transition the government promised. In October 2022, Bowen told a gathering of business leaders that meeting the government’s 82 per cent clean electricity target by 2030 would require the installation of 22,000 solar panels a day, 62 million in total, by the end of the decade. It would require a 7-megawatt wind turbine to be commissioned every 18 hours, each as high as Crown’s One Barangaroo tower in Sydney. About 10,000km of new high-voltage transmission lines would be needed to link up the vastly expanded network. | 0 |
1d2lo7p | You'd hope so, wouldn't you? | 0 |
1czdql8 | Because unfortunately we’ve had conservative governments for most of the last 30 years. | 0 |
1d3r2v5 | Balkan Grill Bar and Restaurant - St Albans . Absolutely Delicious food. | 1 |
1d605km | Isn’t this all a bit irrelevant?
Hamer has already won preselection?
If you want to override the process to bring back a divisive candidate who already lost to the incumbent, then they really do want to lose. Not to mention the optics of taking out a young female candidate for a washed up male. | 0 |
1d2awds | If only there was some sort of underground passage that linked all the platforms, with ramps that have no moving parts.... | 0 |
1d379xp | Hoo Haa on Chapel St does bottomless food and drinks on Thursdays to Saturdays, not sure how late they offer it though | 1 |
1czencr | Puffer jackets are so 2018 (joke, ok)
Go deck yourself out at Uniqlo | 1 |
1cozx5z | I would also say raise the bar for entry as well. So many dead beats I’ve seen go through my trade with the pay to pass system we have now. We shed on average three a year from our class due to not being able to complete the tasks in a satisfactory manner | 0 |
1d5m3af | Eastern. Sometimes you see a stretch of fresh bitumen and wonder "When the hell did they do this without lane closures, I went through here 3 days ago?!?" unlike the months of works on the Monash for the same thing. (Current ring road works excepted.) | 0 |
1d3dj8y | Plot twist, the friends probably are doing all those things without the OP | 0 |
1d23u2t | Would love that!! Thank you and good luck! | 1 |
1cvae4i | It kinda is. While it has “always been a topic”, it’s been pretty popular discourse since the referendum. | 0 |
1d2km3k | They get about 5000 of the things for $500.
I’m no marketer but I would assume heaps of people end up chucking them on the fridge and then need a plumber someday.
Not me though. I have a dedicated plumber and his magnet is already there holding up the menu of my local fish and chip joint. | 0 |
1d0w729 | Some machines automatically out payments through as the cheapest option so debit cards tapped work like eftpos. It's not reliable enough so I've been sticking it in. | 1 |
1d267b2 | THE_HUME cast WITHER!! It's Super Effective! | 1 |
1d4hkgy | I am not trans but am sending you lots of well wishes. I hope you find the right person to talk to <3 | 1 |
1cye52b | Slower than drill and blast tunnelling. | 0 |
1cv763i | [National Farmers’ Federation passes vote of no-confidence in Albanese government | Sky News Australia]( | 0 |
1d2y6sl | Western Vic past ballarat, corner beaufort-carmgham rd/linton- carngham Rd, might be what you're looking for | 1 |
1d10vog | if you just want the facts then look at the AEMO website for some graphs to answer the first & third question. second and fourth would be covered by something on DFAT/AER website I think | 1 |
1cz2gy8 | I am genuinely perplexed at why anyone, especially young people, have developed a "culture" of carrying knives / weapons with them when they go out? They appear to be looking for violence and aggro....why? Cause we aren't necessarily talking about violent gang member types. Just pretty ordinary kids / young people.
Where has this come from? Seriously? It does seem to be something that's just crept into ordinary life over the last 10 to 15 years. Why? How?
This is such an American culture thing. This idea that we all have to "protect ourselves" from our fellow citizens. It's awful that this mindset has crept into our Australian society. This paranoia that everyone is out to get you.
It has to be stopped. This disordered thinking. How do we stop it? | 0 |
1d2tgir | In the Herald reporting on this proposal, the Premier is tying infrastructure funding for schools and hospitals to meeting these housing targets.
So what we'll get is more public schools that open their doors on day 1 at 150% capacity. No wonder families are fleeing the system in droves. | 0 |
1d23h6l | There are people out there who inexplicably find ways to break even the most idiot-proof technology. | 0 |
1d68v3n | 39, Sydney.
Generally most of us are earning for the banks to pay off our home loans.
We stopped manufacturing, We stopped innovating, We are increasing our immigrant intake with little consideration for Australians or the immigrants to Australia.
Immigrants keep working , to make ends meet in this super expensive country.
Aussies keep working to pay off their Sydney - Melb properties or to make sure they have enough investment properties .
I agree no one enjoys anymore. Little scope left apart from a small percentage of population. | 0 |
1d4s9l5 | Yes I've been eating like I have a 100km tape worm inside of me.... | 0 |
1d0n6f8 | We are replacing non-intermittent assets with intermittent ones.
More frequently this causes the market operator to have to step in and cap the market which is a failure.
You can say that the market is not compatible with the transition if you like, but however you say it, the problem must be solved. | 0 |
1d2gnlt | It was an accident! "The heat standard charge is an accident and we don't use it at all, that's why it is built into our register" | 0 |
1czkzax | I be sure to have salmon at least twice a week with a pile of vegies. Yes... I know there are issues with salmon farming, but many others are worse and it has the lowest mercury content, with other positives.
My wife and I split a fillet, so the cost isn't an issue. they also freeze well. Sliced lemon, basil, pepper wrapped in foil and thrown in the oven for 30min. By far the easiest and fastest meal I have. I add pesto and other various sauces to mix things up a bit. A nice chutney maybe | 1 |
1d5jl7e | Same thing happened to my partner. Cops said it’s a civil matter. Haven’t been able to resolve it. | 0 |
1d55w77 | Yes it’s similar. It’s a streaming device that has all different apps available for your smart tv to connect to. There is no monthly fee for using Hubble. | 1 |
1d4r1os | Ringlewood always up to no good | 0 |
1cszxwq | As a great man once said, "Suffer in yer jocks." | 0 |
1d4j6lo | Very true about the misdiagnoses! I had so much therapy growing up, diagnosed with ocd tendencies and chronic anxiety. I’m surprised it wasn’t picked up earlier for me- although I’m female and the social stuff is less obvious in women/it presents differently to boys
When I had my autism diagnosis, my doctor asked if I wanted to be tested for adhd, I was like nah I do not relate to any of those symptoms
I hope your child is doing better/well after their diagnosis :) | 0 |
1cwtvhw | There’s no way Albo will go this year. They will get massacred in Queensland. He will wait until after the state election in October hoping the voters have got some anger out than. The current Labor government is about as popular as a ham sandwich in a synagogue. They are on track for a 2012 style massacre (alp lost 44 seats, keeping 7) | 0 |
1d4qwie | If shrinkflation were an Olympic sport, Domino's would be stacking gold medals | 0 |
1d3yxnw | mom with baby sooked and cried unfair because venue didnt allow her and baby into an 18yo+ event.
this very much reeks of entitlement. | 0 |
1cyk40i | Just bring in a proper UBI and be done with it. | 0 |
1d263x7 | Not the same issue for me, but I sent them a 2 page list of bugs, inconsistencies, and confusing UI with their website, last month. Doubt they care, but it pissed me off so much when contesting a bloody fine. | 0 |
1d59r41 | Whereabouts? If in the city, not surprising, check the price list next time.
I still pay $4.50 for a large takeaway coffee in my inner city suburb. | 0 |
1d34g2t | How do they keep getting buildings to even have these shops? I would of though these type of buildings would be "High Risk" in terms of insurance/leasing/renting, but yet they just get burned down n pop back up again. Thought it would be similar to vape shops, it's hard to even get a building to open up a shop with that stuff due to the high risk. | 0 |
1d64uxd | Unless the person in question is subbing for you, you don't get a say when they smoke.
You're paying for the job, not their hourly and you're not their boss.
Hope this helps. | 0 |
1d27182 | No thanks Ed.
Globally we see reduction in tax leads to nothing but share buy backs and executive pay increases.
Nothing in this for everyday people and society as a whole . | 0 |
1d2gipl | Is there an off leash area in St Kilda Beach? | 1 |
1d0bo37 | There are some people for whom it really does matter. The rest of us don't give a shit.
WA *did* have a referendum in 1933 to exit the Federation, some 32 years after Federation, and the state voted two thirds in favor. However later legislation in English Parliament left them unable to carry out the secession.
WA contributes to 46% of Australias export revenue and as such with their distance and size compared to the rest of Australia the secessionist conversation has remained relevant even up to this day, with them feeling they could do just fine on their own. | 0 |
1d3bq1f | I feel like we've also been overexposed to the trend of social media/reddit posts from the USA where they glorify being willing to show off/use their guns on anyone that approaches their house.
"They better make good with their God if someone shows up here uninvited" was a phrase I saw tossed around a lot. At some point it became very cool in the USA to act like their house was the Alamo and anyone walking up the driveway was an invader.
Hard to imagine that this prevailing and over-shared perspective hasn't had some level of impact on the rest of us in the western world. | 0 |
1d0s2gm | >It would explain a lot.
Doubtful. | 0 |
1d4q10g | Was a bit more than a standard car crash. Stolen vehicle involved and driver of that vehicle arrested. | 0 |
1cqqah0 | I dunno, just a day or two before caretaker mode before the last Queensland election. Labor handed Virgin $200 million of borrowed taxpayers money to keep them going.
And we know Qld Labor are the champions at pissing money up against the wall given the state debt is headed to soon be $188 billion yet the infrastructure is all falling apart. | 0 |
1d63c4y | > im sure most people here would agree thats how it is
ehhhh....
So firstly [97% of custody cases]( are settled outside of court.
Mothers get sole custody in 27% of cases, fathers 2%.
So even if courts were 100% in favor of mothers (they aren't) you still have 24% of separated fathers coming to an agreement to have 0% custody.
3 times as many fathers (9%) give up the child and have zero visitation than take it to court.
The [courts give joint custody 45%]( and mother sole custody 40% of the time, fathers get sole custody 11% with "other" being the remainder.
The courts give fathers more custody than when they negotiate outside of court.... If you want to be in your kids life, fucking fight for it. | 0 |
1d3ze8a | I like Movida for lunch meetings - impressive food, nice and quiet and they do a set menu so no need to think | 1 |
1d305e2 | Most of the kids who got 201 all hate each other tho | 0 |
1d52gio | At winter, beaches in Sydney are quieter in terms of seasonal swimming and tourists, but because the swell can be up during winter you’ll still see plenty of people surfing, albeit with steamers.
imo plenty of stuff to do on off days on the Gold Coast and Brisbane, but I guess it’s up to the individual as to what floats your boat. | 1 |
1d5ngze | The debt-burdened Allan government is spruiking its wholly public births, deaths and marriages agency to private investors in a bid to bolster its beleaguered finances.
Treasurer Tim Pallas has begun discussions with private equity firms to gauge their interest in running some of the registry’s services.
Pallas met with one firm last week, according to a private industry source familiar with the negotiations, and pitched the idea as a “limited-term contract” in the style of the partial privatisation of VicRoads’ licensing and registration arms – a deal due to expire in the 2060s.
The industry source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardise commercial interests, said the treasurer was “hoping to close any deal by the end of the year”.
A fresh offer from a private consortium could raise billions of dollars in the short term for Victoria’s bottom line while providing superannuation companies or others with tens of millions of dollars in guaranteed annual income from birth, death and marriage certificates.
A cabinet minister, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed there was a desire for several years at the highest levels of government to rebuild Births, Deaths and Marriages through the private market.
“It can probably be done better,” the minister said.
The senior MP went on to say the registry would ideally be brought back into the government fold entirely once it had proven its value to the taxpayer.
Births, Deaths and Marriages has dealt with high-profile issues in recent years, particularly during the pandemic, when its offices were closed, it took months for officials to issue certificates and urgent emails went unanswered.
Asked if the agency was to be privatised, a government spokesperson instead described the preferred model as a joint venture partnership.
“Victoria’s Births, Deaths and Marriages service will not be privatised, but we are looking at how we can continue to improve the quality of government services.”
The government to this day insists the partial privatisation of some VicRoads services was not privatisation, but a joint venture partnership.
Just seven months ago, the government was predicting it would be in deficit by about $1 billion by June 2025. That expected financial hole more than doubled to $2.2 billion in the May 7 state budget.
The same budget papers forecast Victoria’s debt to rise to $187.8 billion by June 2028. In simple terms, the May budget leaves Victorian taxpayers with a $25 million daily interest bill.
Labor’s primary vote has also plummeted below 30 per cent since Jacinta Allan became premier, according to an exclusive survey published by this masthead last month. The survey found two-thirds of voters wanted the government to do more to reduce debt.
But additional partial privatisation in the name of budget repair would not come without risks. The Coalition will use any proposed agreement with industry to slam the government’s management of debt and government agencies. Meanwhile, the Greens would argue such a move undermines the public service.
Labor will also be in power in Victoria for a decade come December, the timeframe Pallas has told industry he wants the agency deal signed.
Researcher Charlie Joyce, from the independent but progressive think tank the Australia Institute, said he suspected further privatisation was politically dangerous in Victoria.
“Daniel Andrews campaigned in 2022 against privatisation,” Joyce said. “He promised to bring back the State Electricity Commission. A further re-embrace of privatisation would lead to a loss in trust in the Allan government which, I think, frankly, is already fraying.”
Joyce said while Victoria’s debt levels were an important consideration, his research on privatisation showed even partial privatisation was often “short-term gain for long-term pain”.
“For something like Births, Deaths and Marriages, this is a government service that handles very sensitive information. A private owner that cuts costs on security – cybersecurity in particular – could quite quickly run into trouble.
“It would [also] be a colossal mistake to take a step that may reduce the quality of public services and increase the cost.”
Birth, death, marriage or change of name certificates start from $54.40 in Victoria, but registrations and commemorative certificates are more expensive. There were 72,932 registered births in Victoria last year, 29,826 marriages and 45,345 deaths.
The total administered income from identity and worker screening transactions in Victoria for the six months to June 30 last year was $33.83 million, according to the Department of Government Services’ most recent publicly available annual report.
The same report states that Births, Deaths and Marriages failed to meet its timeliness target in the 2022-23 financial year.
It took the agency, on average, 10.9 days to process compliant applications for birth, death and marriage certificates in the 12 months to June last year. Its target for the period was less than 10 days.
The price of general-issue licence plates, black motorbike plates and slimline black custom licence plates all increased by $15 on January.
Driver licensing and registration aren’t the only services partly privatised since Victorian Labor came to power in December 2014.
The Port of Melbourne was leased to a private consortium for 50 years under a $9.7 billion deal in 2016 and the Victorian Land Titles Office was partly privatised in 2018 for more than $2 billion.
Last year’s housing statement also revealed Melbourne’s public high-rise towers will be handed over to private developers in the coming years as part of a mixed model.
When VicRoads was partly privatised in 2022, Pallas refused to label the development privatisation.
“This is not privatisation in anybody’s language,” the treasurer said at the time.
“We’re always looking to see how we can drive better services, better performance, but we will never divest the ownership of assets.”
The partial privatisation of VicRoads was also pitched as injecting $7.9 billion into Victoria’s coffers.
Under the VicRoads deal, the state maintains ownership of the service, the Victorian Ombudsman preserves its oversight and there were extensive talks with the Australian Services Union to ensure workers kept their jobs.
However, a consortium comprising Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust and Macquarie Asset Management was allowed to run the agency’s licensing and registration for the next 40 years. | 0 |
1cwrdmn | relax people , I wasn't being serious | 1 |
1czgx88 | Because I don't want to any time soon. If I do, I won't take his surname. But simply put, I like the independence. I want to merge my life with someone at my pace, my comfort, and allow us to come together and achieve space in a nice symbiosis. That's more achieveable by a partnership that doesn't involve living together or legally tying yourselves to each other.
I already have all my stuff in place regarding life insurance, last will, organ donation etc. I don't need someone to make the decisions, and I don't want anyone blocking them out of their own emotions.
I have a man. I absolutely love him to the ends of the earth, he is my sweetheart and my beacon of sunshine in life. But he and I both like exactly what we have, the way we have it. It works for us and how we live our lives. | 1 |
1d31y51 | There's heaps of stuff to see just in Victoria start with some weekend trips.
Back when I was a young 'un, many moons ago, my ex and I had a paper map of Vic and loads of time on our hands. One of us would close our eyes, point to a random spot, and we'd go there
Sometimes we saw interesting stuff, sometimes not, but the base method was sound. A few of those, then you get a feel for what you like, what you can afford and what your car can handle. Then you spread your range.
From Melbourne, I've driven as far west as Adelaide, as far north west as Broken Hill and as far North as Brisbane. All of them had their high points.
Go for it and enjoy! Definitely get RACV roadside assist though, it's reciprocal in all the states I've been to and has saved my hide more than once! | 1 |
1d4ifrq | Try ascot saddlery just off the roundabout near the racecourse. | 1 |
1d2hg8b | Instead of Darwin, do the Daintree forest tour in cairns, you’ll see crocodiles and the tropical mountain ranges that are pretty.
Also Phillip Island will be freezing! You can see fairy penguins in other places too. Might be better at during another month when you want to do Tasmania. Melbourne is also very cold in August, but it’s a bit more sheltered than Phillip Island. Take a beanie that covers your ears and a big puffy jacket. Only to go into tshirts and shorts when you change to cairns your body might become shocked.
Seems like a very compacted trip! It does take numerous hours to fly to and from these places so I hope you have enough time for everything! Best of luck. | 1 |
1d34g2t | It's almost like regular products have been taxed to borderline prohibition levels and now we are reaping the rewards.
Wonder how long till we see speakeasy's start popping up for cheap beer and whisky and the chance of a firebombing? | 0 |
1d00sm5 | The World Record effort was Chaz n the Chaser boys crashing APEC security. Still unbeaten in 2024 | 1 |
1d3s1nh | dont go to the casino. ever. | 0 |
1d36otr | Your REA should be providng guidance on how to resolve this issue lol. But I guess random people on Reddit are the next logical step for complex legal advice. | 1 |
1d5n16x | Yeah. “Guy hasn’t responded, it’s been 8 hours!” Tells us all we need to know, unfortunately. | 0 |
1d0yydp | You can self exclude. In Tassie, Anglicare’s gamblers help can do bulk exclusions where you are banned from locations with pokies. Once you agree to the exclusion, it can’t be removed for 6 months. It’s great, but it’s useless if someone isn’t ready to make a change due to the gambling apps available
Does your mum want to stop? | 0 |
1d3tcou | This is not a lot of oil.... I doubt it's because someone dumped oil in the river.
Likely runoff from the streets or from a boat. | 0 |
1d375cx | Am not doing anything illegal | 0 |
1d1eojd | >I grew up thinking you needed a sink or bucket full of soapy water, then you wash from glassware to plates and finishing with the most dirty pan.
Because of how precious water is here in Australia and I grew up in drought for many years, we are basically taught not to waste water. America on the other hand have no concept of wastage. And that can carry over to many household jobs, such as washing bath towels. When you go to a hotel in America, they change your towels every day, a lot of places here change them once or twice a week and at the end of your stay.
And from what I believe America is more germophobic than we are, so a lot more chemicals are used. I would use vinegar to clean my bench down and put vinegar in our clothes wash, where as they are more likely to use bleach wipes. And on the subject of washing, they tend to use more smelly softener than we do. | 0 |
1d680x4 | It’s an installation as part of Rising Festival called Pay the Rent. | 0 |
1d2emnt | Trans are always unreliable and the PtV app is *waaaaayyy* too optimistic. Thinking that you can get through on a 4 minute connection or something. As if they aren’t continually running off scheduled times.
They get held up by traffic, the passenger load is unpredictable. The passengers are unreliable. Sometimes there’s a million people every stop takes 3 minutes to load/unload. Sometimes there are none and they fly through the stops.
Sometimes there are people trying to bring a shopping trolley onto the tram and then the tram driver needs to have an argument. And then the passenger eventually agrees to unload their trolley and shouts at everyone to help them. And then the passenger starts huffing and hurling abuse. And then the tram driver has to stop again to ask them to stop. And then the driver has to call the cops. And then the driver maybe feels a little bad for calling the cops maybe and warns the passenger to get off at next stop because the cops will be waiting at the one after that. And then the passenger has to wrestle 10 bags off the tram. And all that takes time. And in the meantime, I missed my train. | 0 |
1d5kce4 | The biggest issue with Perth is not being able to go into a supermarket at 5pm on a Friday night to get supplies. Made me so glad to have moved from that hell hole 20+ years ago. | 0 |
1d648cr | This is...wildly not true. If you've been anywhere near the strip in question you'd see they're all being stored there without anyone living in them, which is unshockingly exactly what the news article says.
If you were correct about the definition of abandoned this would be a non-issue?
People's ability to wildly speculate based on their own assumptions and opinions in the face of stated facts never ceases to amaze me. | 0 |
1cwahc0 | The Opposition has the Minister for Immigration firmly in their sights and unless Charles dies and the public mood changes with William then this is a non starter. | 0 |
1d2dkfl | Cool, without knowing your prospective field, this is impossible to answer | 0 |
1ctqtgq | I here you but wouldn't that be a failure of government not the principles of neoliberalsm? | 0 |
1cwtvhw | The ALP have been playing games with energy policy since the Rudd years, they're just using it as a wedge for social democracy, the goal has always been to destabilise the LNP in wealthy inner-city seats. Listen to what they got away at the last election, they "won the argument" by convincing the gullible public that all you had to do was vote for one party over another in order to have more cheap green energy, at no cost to anyone (that includes taxpayers and consumers) and they did this without providing any real policy detail or proper costings. If anyone dared to question this false argument, they were labelled either a "denier" of climate change or were subject to ridicule for not understanding the benefits of renewable energy.
These arguments are extremely clever, at the end of the day, the ALP is a ruthless political machine, and Bowen and co and experienced and professional politicians. They skillfully framed the "climate change" debate as a political argument, and they won that argument comprehensively. Yet here we are, 2 years down the track and facing the prospect of blackouts, you can't make this stuff up. | 0 |
1d605km | Coalition looking to prove their commitment to renewables by recycling old material. | 0 |
1ct4epu | See what voting for the minors leads to?
>a contentious power that could allow gas projects to bypass environment laws will be abandoned
The horror! | 0 |
1d237qo | I like it. It's pretty chaotic and a lot happens in the short run time but the humour appeals to me. I'm glad it's doing well.
Also hearing the cute optimistic Aussie accent is a nice change as Americans usually play us as some tough no BS character with a deeper voice. | 1 |
1d2awds | An escalator can never break.
-Mitch Hedberg | 1 |
1d3iphm | Not for over 40 years
Few times when I was growing up but SPF was only 4 back then. | 0 |
1d3a0uz | Yes, and wear ugly shoes, lease a BMW and be hated by your own mum | 0 |
1d5n2rv | I love 120 Collins exterior. | 1 |
1d284x4 | >even so they have a right to stay here
Both sides disagree with you here, there is no right merely a "consideration". | 0 |
1ctv148 | AFAIK councils are funded by states, no idea what they are on about. | 0 |
1d4pxoc | Ok so you want your income to exceed your expenses..that's generally a first step | 0 |
1cp3y6y | Notice he said he's Bi and not gay. Complete fraud. Deport immediately. | 0 |
1d1rxsp | Hey Legends. Thanks for the advice and the pointers. The landlords and the real estate agent came over yesterday to have a look and yes, it is a mess up there, full of rat and possum shit and piss. The joy.
They are getting a pest man and a possum man to clean up and treat the area over the next week. Thankful for such a quick response from them. They seem to be taking it seriously and it's not an uncommon thing i.e they have dealt with it before.
They are also taking liberties to board up / put mesh on the roof where the possums and the rodents might be getting in. | 1 |
1d5klqx | People don't care about rugby. Especially whatever Rugby this is | 0 |
1d02u3e | The dream's shattered, and the harbour rots with dead fish from the head down. | 0 |
1d3khm6 | so basically he won't deport people back who have been accused of raping children, even a disabled 14 year old girl, also a man that had sex with he's step daughter when he's wife was in hospital giving birth to their child, are these the type of people we need here? | 0 |
1d0r77q | It's completely different here. Strata applies where there is shared land or property to maintain, like flats etc. Over there, entire suburbs of single dwelling houses need to live by insufferable rules that, in some cases, even dictate the colour of curtains you hang inside your house. They can literally sell your house out from under you if you don't pay a massive fine because your grass is 1cm too long for a day or if you have your garage door open for too long (more than five minutes) because you're working in it.
I'd rather wring out the ball sweat from undies worn for a month and drink it than live in that special kind of hell.
Check out r/fuckhoa for both horror stories and glorious acts of petty revenge on the fascist Karens who run them. | 0 |
1ctbnbr | In my opinion it's no surprise that the promised update was missing. The policy position on nuclear will be a dumpster fire and only further expose them to criticism (rubbery costings; sites for plants; lack of energy systems modelling relevant to Aus etc). Hasn't QLD and NSW LNP already backed away in any case?! | 0 |
1cye52b | No this is why, we need to divorce infrastructure from politics and let engineers make decisions rather than politicians. Every project, the big decisions are made by people with little to no-understanding of what they are deciding upon. | 0 |
1d2bxho | Da Guido La Pasta in Carlton | 1 |
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