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Save the planet.
Destroy a forest.
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Balsa is very fast growing. Most turbine manufacturers use FSC certified wood. The video of logged trees is clearly a plantation. There may be corruption and green-washing happening, but the author provides no evidence of it.
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There are plenty of references to illegal logging, Simon.
It is not acceptable to destroy the planet based on the lie of pretending to “save the planet”.
Similarly it’s unacceptable to destroy forests for wind plantations and transmission lines and access roads and destruction of farmland. And wind turbines themselves and all the bird, bat and insect life they destroy. And many other environmental issues.
https://news.pachamama.org/addressing-the-threat-of-uncontrolled-balsa-harvesting-in-the-sacred-headwaters-region
https://eia.org/press-releases/ill-wind/
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/indigenous-amazonian-communities-bear-the-burden-of-ecuadors-balsa-boom/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/28/balsa-trees-illegally-logged-for-wind-power/
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Research Chris Uhlmann at Sky documentary, the more recent Channel 7 Spotlight documentary, and various other broadcasting of mapping and drone images of environmental vandalism for access roads, transmission feeder lines to main transmission lines and areas flattened for installation of foundations and wind turbines widespread destruction completed, work in progress and planned for development.
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What a magnificent opportunity for adverts for ON the Libs and Nationals leading up to any elections either state to federal. Simple before and after images of bush or farmland and a commentary that just explains this was bushland or productive farmland and this is what it will become to save the planet. Cheap to produce, they can have this from me for free.
Use the Green BS tactic of claiming that “billions” of animals will be killed (like they claim after bushfires, not mentioning of course that this figure is estimating insects in the count) use total footprint figures i.e. current power stations and transmission lines cover X area, the new save the planet systems will have a foot print of XXXXX. and also exclude public access to these areas. So many opportunities for conservative parties to match them at their own game. So much apparent reluctance to do so!
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I saw close up photos of the blades after short time in operation. Not sure if that is the case everywhere but their leading edge is covered with black crust – moscitoes and flies,,,
So little, and not so little birdies go to bed hungry in that area.
Anyway, good day fellow Melburnians, it was unbelievable bright morning with moderate wind.
I just came back from Richmond station which had all the lights on, which I assumed, serves to burn away excess energy so it it must be good.
Wait a minute, says I to myself, few wasted kWh still unnecessary raises ambient air temperature.
Has anyone estimated how much those extra burning hours shorten the life of capacitors and other transformers in the LED drives?
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One of many pictures shown on Sky last year revealed dumped wind turbine rotor blades in a Queensland forested area with grass growing through the pile
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And the company that did that complained about the adverse news coverage, said they were only “storing” the blades there. Yeah, right.
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Yes, there is illegal logging but is there evidence that illegal balsa is getting into a certified chain of custody? I think not. There isn’t that much balsa in a typical turbine and carbon/fibreglass alternatives are more commonly used partially because certified timber is limited.
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Simon:
You don’t know what you are talking about.
For starters the balsa wood is used internally, to make the blade stiffer but with less weight.
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Good to see you’re on board with selective logging Simon.
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When certified Balsa wood is limited, where is all them Turbines coming from?
And them Carbon fibres, did a dinosaur have to die for it?
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… so we can be assured that only the nicest sort of people have been bribed.
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Same people who constructed that highway after destroying rainforest for the COP event?
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Simon can rationalise just about anything as long as it supports “the message”
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Let’s not forget the 100s of thousands of hectares of tropical rain forest being felled in Indonesia (some estimates at almost 500,000 hectares) to mine nickel for EVs. The smelting is done using coal fired power generation. Yes, EVs are so good for the planet . https://gtwaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/The-Deadly-Cost-of-Nickel-Mining-in-Indonesia.pdf
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And of course we don’t mention the 600 plus a year deaths in the Congo, mining the cobalt for EVs, mainly women and children. Or the 200 people – men, women and children – killed in the coltan mine landslide in the Congo. But of course certain people really don’t care about the misery and suffering as it’s all in a good virtue signalling cause.
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What’s the difference between balsa wood and a climate change scientist?
Balsa wood can make decent models.
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Interesting and tragic case of identity theft.
The victim even go jailed at one point for being the impersonator of himself. His case was made worse by not being a good advocate for himself due to mental health issues.
The truth was eventually discovered by a police office with sufficient dedication, curiosity and intelligence to properly investigate the case.
https://youtu.be/TXj48ayhl4M
BTW, that YouTube channel of Dr Todd Grande is very good. He discusses many criminal cases.
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Reminds me of John Fogerty (of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame) getting sued because he sounded too much like himself.
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AI did something good for me yesterday.
I had an unusual and complex tax situation. My accountant thought he knew the situation and so did another expert (a friend). That was perfectly reasonable because the accountant was going according to ATO (tax office) advice on my personal file. So he couldn’t be accused of going against ATO advice.
To be certain I checked with AI and it gave a different answer. I checked with the expert friend and he was surprised but did further research to confirm that the AI was correct.
The ATO advice was not correct and it’s software doesn’t pick up this relatively unusual but I would have thought no means unique situation. Unfortunately the correct action is going to cost me a lot more tax than the (innocently) incorrect originsl advice of the two experts.
Failing to comply, even due to incorrect advice to the accountant could have resulted in a complex situation or even penalties.
As I’ve said, never rely on AI unless you know enough to be able to confirm answers yourself, but in this case it excelled and outperformed two very smart and knowledgeable experts.
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On a more trivial basis – I use it to solve livestock problems. We are an hour away from vet advice and it is expensive to obtain advice for all problems. The advice from Grok has been outstanding. The latest has been the old problem of “hen pecking” ( and I do not mean female nagging!) which is a nuisance with chooks..Previous advice relates to leg injuries with cows and has been similarly accurate and assuring.
The only info I have rejected has related to Covid 19 and vaccines. Grok has swallowed the Big Pharma line and was very uppity at my rejection of its opinion.
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““hen pecking” ( and I do not mean female nagging!)”
Hens are female, Vicki.
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But they are vicious. The dominant hens peck the lesser ones to death when overcrowded, so think before you buy expensive eggs.
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Sounds like you would have been better off just following the ATO advice and paid the less tax. Their wrong advice isn’t your problem, unless you know it is wrong advice or know it doesn’t apply to your situation.
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Tax law is one area where ignorance is a satisfactory excuse. At least the first time.
NO ONE understands the Australian tax law.
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Kerry Packer and his Advisers did.
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He most certainly did and what many Australians were not aware of was his holding company Consolidated Press Holdings Limited and the Directors, described as “establishment” in Sydney and elsewhere, and with wide business, banking and finance backgrounds, and later his son James was placed alongside Group CEOs for periods to study business after leaving High School, considered to be a far better education than a university degree could provide.
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NO ONE understands the Australian tax law.
Well no one (including the IRS and international accounting firms) could provide definitive answers on the US income tax treatment of mandatory Australian Super contributions. OTOH self directed Australian super funds for “US persons” did get a consistent “don’t do it”.
But I asked a number of years ago, so maybe there was a “consensus of experts”
There are benefits to being retired with “modest” means.
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You are not imagining it if you think YouTube ads are getting longer and more annoying and less skippable.
It’s part of a deliberate strategy to annoy you enough to force you into buying a subscription, among other strategies.
See video: https://youtu.be/IflgeqNeATU
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The irony… Youtube is annoying and you are not imagining it, look at this annoying youtube video for proof.
I gave up on youboob years ago, it is the prime example of how the internet has degraded in 25years.
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Being annoyed by utube is understandable, its a first world problem, but we are getting a fantastic education on any subject. Sorting out truths from lies, misinformation and disinformation, is a lot more complex.
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Do you mean pop ups or adverts embedded in content?
I get zero adverts apart from those in content which are easily skipped or fast forwarded. Certainly not at an annoying level, yet anyway.
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David,
just search youtube on DuckDuckGo Browser – Plays Majority of youtube videos without ads on
duck://player/UVj00MSpkPc
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Nice to hear from you, Old Ozzie. Hope you are well.
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Vicki
Yes Well, & Thanks,
81 Lousy Knees – but bouncing along healthy – took a trip to Christchurch yesterday, Emirates Business Class Upper Deck A380 EK 412 SYD-CHC Seat 9A
Was going to take taxi to Christchurch Gondola, but having got nice older Woman NZ Taxi Driver, who said View OK Gondola, decided to get her to give me a 2 1/2 Hour Tour, which included base of Gondola, Lyttelton, then over hills to Sumner Beach, Fairymead, Brighton Beach then back to Christchurch Aiport to catch same Emirates A380, this time 1st Class Seat 1K EK 413 CHC-SYD
Something I was looking forward to was Caviar Served first
Presented with a traditional selection of finely chopped onion, chives, grated egg, sour cream and lemon, served with melba toast and blinis with small pearl spoon for caviar and small spoon for rest
with Vodka & Krug 2015 Vintage Champagne
It was something Qantas used to do in 1st Class, and one of our 4WD Trip Colleagues was Retired Qantas 747 Check Captain, and his Wife had been a Hostess in 1st Class for BA then Qantas, and she used to serve the above Full Caviar 1st Class Service once on our trips – Outside Bungle Bungles, on a Hill watching Sunset, in Simpson Desert & on Canning Stock Route
I had done the Shower at 40,000Ft on Emirates A380 1st Class Seat 2A AKL-SYD for my 70th Birthday, so with Lousy Knees gave the shower a miss
Interesting talking with my Son last night, who is back in Switzerland, I said that the Business Calss Seat 9A next to window and with side storage was better for me, as my feet in Business Class Seat could easily touch foot rest and also onto shelf for lie flat, whereas in Seat 1A long way to screen and not as much storage, and whereas Business served with nice crockery & Silverware all at one time, too much food and drink in 1st Class and would go with Business over 1st on Emirates and same Emirates Economy Centre Aisle on A380, rather than Emiates Premium Economy
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Brave works as you say but for the last month I have to click the “Reload” button to start the video. Occasionally one starts automatically, they may be demonetised vids that don’t pause for an ad. I can no longer line up a few plays and do some yard work.
And like Vicki, pleased to see you back.
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Commercial TV is the same.
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The good news is, defended channels work without this nuisance.
Watch VOX on the tube and no stops. Somebody even edits out the commercials, that are normally there.
On the side, lots of Tube videos are now AI, and they are story telling and not “News”.
Not easy to spot sometimes. But missing long video shots of what is presented, might give a clue…
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Ozzy’s link doesn’t seem to work. For anyone who is interested, this video will show you how to install Duck player and adjust settings to block ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kObW0aNdU3I
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Try Firefox plus the extension “Ublock Origin”. Chrome will take only “Ublock Origin Lite” because Google added restrictions to Chrome – not sure how well that works.
For Android, NewPipe: https://newpipe.net/
And maybe Grayjay, now with desktop versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnZrv37u66c https://grayjay.app/
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Video about how different blood types are associated with different susceptibility to various diseases.
https://youtu.be/tNiceGuZDyA
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This is a short video of teenagers in 1964 dancing to the ‘Woolly Bully’ by Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs.
https://youtube.com/shorts/THWIGghVhsk?si=clIymXOVrxuZmkc1
It is tragic.
These poor children did not have the benefits of the extensive science based vaccine schedule now provided to children today by government Public Health mandate.
It shows.
Fortunately children today are much healthier thanks to science and advancement in culture.
Watch them as the are coerced into patriarchal binary reproductive role playing rituals, totally unaware of the many choices enjoyed by modern 21st children … thanks to science.
They also appear completely unconcerned that they only five years left to stop Climate Change.
If only that they had the chance to live meaningful lives by throwing paint on priceless artwork and historical symbols of patriarchal colonialist oppression.
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Poor sods, look how unfit they are.
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I know.
There were also constantly exposed to tobacco and tobacco advertising.
I bet their cholesterol levels were completely unmonitored.
They also had hardly any access to child psychiatry.
Or licensed tattoo and face piercing services.
I won’t even mention that bicycle helmets were unknown.
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How did these active young people manage to meet each other? Surely they didn’t walk up to the opposite sex and ask for a dance did they?
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I danced my ass off in the fifties but could never do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQrlBIMTzIM
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Ah yes I think that’s called “shuffle dancing”. The energy of those girls is amazing’
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It’s not quite shuffle but this is one of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VKjxWcd96s
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Which always reminds me of these guys having a little fun doing serious work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VKjxWcd96s
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I think this is also shuffle dancing. Amazing!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYN2D4MvOM&list=RDdDYN2D4MvOM&start_radio=1
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And he is also barefoot.
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The good news is, defended channels work without this nuisance.
Watch VOX on the tube and no stops. Somebody even edits out the commercials, that are normally there.
On the side, lots of Tube videos are now AI, and they are story telling and not “News”.
Not easy to spot sometimes. But missing long video shots of what is presented, might give a clue…
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Should Australia purchase (or attempt to purchase) the B-21 Raider stealth bomber from the United States? (It’s not in service yet.)
The coalition says yes.
I think it could be a problem because the current Labor Government is excessively friendly to the Chicomms and Saracens and hostile to the United States and TRUMP in particular so the US might not be inclined to support such a sale. (And there’s a good reason TRUMP didn’t tell the Australian Government of his Iran plans, they couldn’t be trusted not too tell the Iranians.)
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-calls-for-government-to-consider-fleet-of-long-range-bombers-20260428-p5zrmy.html
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Another multi-billion dollar boondoggle, we need locally built defence missiles.
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Please consider the AUKUS Pillar 2.0 objectives, noting that AUKUS has been described as a “forever partnership” of allied nations: Australia, United Kingdom, United States –
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2024/August/AUKUS_Pillar_2
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“forever partnership”
Words are cheap, AUKUS is on life support.
Australia should build its own military capabilities, we are already at the forefront of drone technology and unmanned mini submarines.
I’ll draw you a political science picture, Russia is on its last legs and America is not far behind, super power rivalry is coming to a close through economic collapse.
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Are we planning on defending Australian shores in someone else’s country with long-range bombers?
…or are we just planning on pouring a few billion dollars more into America’s military factories as a vassal payment?
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Without having the benefit of defence expert knowledge and tactics applicable for the defence of Australia, I am aware that the RAAF F-111 fighter-bombers were a major deterrent factor with their log range capability and weapons, and that defence of course includes long range capabilities like nuclear submarines that are much faster underwater, do not require refuelling regularly, can remain submerged for very long periods and are difficult to locate – noting that after Virginia Class nuclear submarines built in the USA are delivered to the RAN the SSN AUKUS new generation nuclear submarines are scheduled to be built in Austrialia and the United Kingdom, nuclear reactors already ordered from Rolls-Royce UK, ordered early 2025.
Therefore a replacement for the F-111 retired years ago, and now reliant on F-18 Super Hornet and F-35 Lightning stealth jet fighters (and MQ-28 force multiplier Ghost Bat full size unmanned jet fighters), and air to air refuelling aircraft, maybe B-21 Raider bombers would be a useful addition for the RAAF?
As I have posted earlier with a link AUKUS is much more than nuclear submarines, they are Pillar 1.0, the Pillar 2.0 includes missiles and hypersonic technology missiles to be manufactured in Australia and for allied nations as required, and obviously in particular for UK and US.
Australia cannot provide the defence force and assets needed to be self reliant and therefore the ANZUS Treaty and other defence arrangements are very important, US already have personnel and assets stationed here, Pine Gap NT for examine is of strategic importance not only for defence and US use other communications networks here for various purposes including space activities. They and UK are also the top foreign investment countries for Australia.
The point is combined forces, allied nations with equipment that is interchangeable and training together a far stronger deterrent against potential enemies.
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Defence procurements have a sad history in this country going back to the Australian Owen sub-machine gun, which was rejected by the defence experts back in 1941 – even though it outperformed in the field, the Thompson and the STEN. The best I can recall is purchasing the F-111 (The Pig) back in the early 1960’s. All the best advice is rejected by these defence bureaucrats.
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“The best I can recall is purchasing the F-111 (The Pig) back in the early 1960’s. All the best advice is rejected by these defence bureaucrats.”
And even this apparently the worst first choice. Allegedly the British scientist and inventor Barnes Wallis of bounce bomb fame, predicted issues related to wing pivots. His design, which I don’t think ever made prototype, had wingtip mounted engines. From memory I think that Australia signing up for a number of these aircraft would have made development possible. Would it have been better that the F111? we will never know.
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Short answer: No.
Longer answer: No, manned air systems are very rapidly becoming obsolete as well as vastly more expensive to procure and operate.
As both Ukraine and Iran wars have demonstrated, a missile system with the range of the B-21 is significantly cheaper to operate and harder to counter.
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Tell that to the Iranians.
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Copied from The Capitalist newsletter.
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I wonder if such communist measures are even legal in the US?
And expect such personal wealth confiscation to come to Australia to fund the unrestrained Government spending on useless projects like the $42 billion SH2.
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If Albanese led Union controlled and funded Labor (ALP) manage to achieve a third three year term in 2028, assuming that they don’t decide to go to an election earlier to try and avoid worsening economic conditions, renewable energy greater exposure of cost and environmental destruction, population via immigration all time high record intake and related adverse impacts on housing and government services, and so on, raising taxes and creative new taxes are almost guaranteed.
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I thought late last year that Albo wouldn’t last out this year (2026). With Luck, that would be the end of Blackout. Indeed the later may go sooner.
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Happy 1st of May!
Cold wave sweeps W.A. as Perth shivers through a guesstimated max of 17*C and rumours were rife of SNOW (flakes) on Bluff Knoll’s summit last night… and possibly this morning?
Life should return to ‘average’ next week as the snowmaker low drifts eastward eyeing up VIC & NSW’s hills. Climate eh – it’s all over the place – except here where it’s perfect thanks to a YUGE high pressure cell keeping climate well away from the Shaky Isles… now that’s a pleasant change!
May the first be with you.
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I noticed yesterday a local firm have parked their firewood truck loaded alongside a main road in the usual position chosen.
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Firewood 4 sale on April 30th?
Brrrrrr… a sure sign winter’s on the way, ‘made worse by El Niño’ according to high priests who’re prophesying a significant one this year… whatever.
Any official word on Bluff Knoll snow?
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https://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Bluff-Knoll/6day/mid
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I did my firewood run last week. All ready to go. I go to a mill shut-down by the Andrews Govt, but still operated at small scale.
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It is reported that “The Wet” is officially over, with Darwin having its 5th wettest on record – or 4th. Weatherzone asserts that 5 of the wettest years have happened since the 1990s and the cause of this is Climate change. Mind you, they acknowledge that most of the rain came from rain depressions – like “Narelle”. Can we blame natural weather systems on climate change?
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There is a big difference between real climate change and UN Climate Change™. UN have their own definition. In reality the UN Climate Change™ does not exist. It is a hoax – made up – bs – poo – nonsense – an adult fairy tale.
However there is a steady rise in the solar intensity in the Equatorial region. Most noticeable at 5N but it is increasing from 10S to 30N. That is increasing moisture over the tropics and over the condensing zones in both hemispheres. The linked image shows how much extra energy is held in the atmosphere over the last decade due to rising atmospheric moisture:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/image-106-720×405.png
The peak close to 5N is where the sunlight is increasing fastest globally.
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“…The Minns Labor Government will open new areas for gas exploration in NSW for the first time in more than a decade, taking decisive steps to secure the State’s energy supply for households and businesses…”
Novel use of the term “decisive”…
a couple of links:
https://www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-releases/new-areas-open-gas-exploration
and
https://energyproducers.au/news/new-gas-exploration-in-nsw-a-critical-step-in-unlocking-new-supply
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Except in 2021 fake conservative Liberal Morrison proudly banned drilling in the offshore Sydney Basin so a lot of potential areas presumably remain excluded.
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Offshore petroleum exploration/development/production etc around Australia (outside 3 nautical miles), is federally managed.
Onshore, and within 3NM offshore is managed by each state/territory.
Victoria conferred all offshore management (i.e. within 3NM zone) to the federal government in 2018, none of the other states have, as yet.
The PEP 11 saga is long and storied, with both Labor and Liberal governments working against it. there has only been 1 well drilled in PEP 11, and it was, to use the industry term, a “dry hole”. They only drilled to 700-800m too, surprisingly shallow.
I agree, there could be more to find, but without federal permits, no one can even look, let alone drill. the best that could be done, is if someone decided to process publicly available seismic data (PEPs, and most onshore equivalent agreements mean that companies have to make some data public after an interval that varies based on data source), but no one will, even if the public data was enough to be really useful, except maybe for some academic research work..
Regardless, onshore exploration in NSW is seemingly back on the books, in principle.
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Australia is energy poor as a deliberate result of Lib/Lab Government policy.
I think this is vacuous virtue signaling from Minns.
I doubt there’s any serious intention to find gas (or oil) because Australia is green and doesn’t need any hydrocarbon (or nuclear) fuels (sarc) and the Government is prepared to destroy the economy to prove it.
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You continue to ignore the history and that Morrison Government replaced Turnbull Government late in 2018, Prime Minister Turnbull from end of 2015 …
https://www.scottmorrison.com.au/media/boosting-australias-fuel-security
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Dennis, that article is about diesel storage, not finding gas or oil or allowing coal, gas or nuclear power stations to be built, nor is it an announcement of abandonment of the Paris Agreement or that the ideology of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is BS.
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Same situation opposed offshore wind farms proposed for Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong NSW coastal districts – The Morrison government has killed off a gas exploration permit within 50 kilometres of Sydney’s coastline after a community and environmental backlash that threatened the government’s prospects in half a dozen key seats.
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Morrison and gas recovery plan;
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10361146.2026.2648246#d1e146
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That’s because the Liberals are weak and believe in nothing and fight for nothing.
They should have sold the benefits of the idea and that it could be a relief of Australian energy poverty and lower energy prices for the voters.
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Your political sense is weak David.
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FWIW
Might be time to re-assess if you are punting on the results of the US mid-terms
Today’s Coffee and Covid
“Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Your roundup includes: Treasury seizes $344 million in IRGC crypto and freezes the mobsters’ French villas; the SPLC’s terrible week gets worse as Vanguard and Fidelity ban donations and its paid informant flips; and a massive SCOTUS redistricting decision upends the Democrats’ midterm map math.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/cosplaying-thursday-april-30-2026?
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Listening to an advert on radio arguing that the mining industry and farmers were ripping off the government by not paying the fuel excise tax and should be forced to pay this as these businesses were “carbon emitters”. The big focus was on the mining sector. At the end of the advert came the “authorised by” bit and I was amazed that the add was completely done and funded by the Fortesque Group. So a wander around their web site seemed to indicate that they were into a self destruct mode.
A bit of blurb about how they had exported over 2 billion tonnes of iron ore, how they had paid dividends to their share holders and how they would build the biggest solar farm in W.A. and seemed quite proud of an image depicting a huge landscape covered in glass.
The blurb also claimed that Fortesque was going to electrify its entire fleet of ore trucks. Now this point is beyond my comprehension. How can Fortesque possibly remain a price competitive supplier when the fleet of ore trucks has to be at least doubled to move the same amount of material. Infrastructure to house recharging stations, vehicles that will possibly need longer to recharge than they can operate. None of this makes economic sense to me, maybe the share holders view this differently.
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I read recently that none of the haul pack mining truck manufacturers were willing to manufacture an EV version, research had apparently indicated that the global market was not commercially viable. That Fortesque were purchasing trucks minus diesel engine and other mechanicals and arranging for installation of electric propulsion.
Also recently a trial in SA of a prime mover EV for logging industry and two trailers capacity has ended, the firm announced that the EV was not cost effective or suitable for the purpose, an example was range estimated would be around 400 kilometres but achieved 200 kilometres on average.
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Of course it doesn’t make economic sense.
But will their EV mining trucks and solar plantation be taxpayer subsidised?
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Twiggy is a total [snip], but has a natural talent for scrounging taxpayer funding.
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Another EV prime mover example but this one with a single trailer (semi trailer) that made a public relations visit to Canberra when the fuel supply crisis began, guess who organised the stunt. It carried a load of toiler paper, so volume but not particularly heavy load. The media report was that the EV truck had achieved 250 kilometres which is much less than theoretical range fully charged.
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Fuel excise (tax) is levied on all liquid fuel sold and if the users can submit evidence that the fuel is not used for transport on public roads they are entitled to a rebate of the excise.
https://www.aaa.asn.au/advocacy/explainers/fuel-excise-explained/
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The excise is paid on delivery and rebated after it is used, while the enterprise does not pay eventually the gov has the benefit of an interest free loan.
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That sounds like rental bonds H, compulsory seizure by Govt who sit on it until the tenant moves and then pays the depreciated bond back. It must be worth millions to them, along with all the unused bank accounts they stole a decade or two back.
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Nothing much Forterscue has been involved with in recent memory makes much sense. Just as well they started with a good business and can afford to play games while making it a small business.
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LNP (Liberal National Party of Queensland) Government QLD have announced that Mr Forest’s business has been asked to refund the State green hydrogen funding of $66 million (memory check?).
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With all the Twiggies and Turdballs hoovering all the subsidies on offer in the renewables scene like Snowy2.0 and other boondoggles it makes sense to claw back the failures ( none come to pass) and make these shonks pay back their tax payer largesse.
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Oh, by the way can Lucy pay back the 444million gifted to some reef body.
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Oh, by the way can Lucy pay back the 444million GRIFTED to some reef body.
There, fixed it for you.
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Glen I have not attempted to excuse the Snowy 2.0 Project and PM Turnbull promoting and organising Federal Government support for it, but perspective please, Snowy Hydro Limited is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Federal Government, Ministers for Energy and Finance are I understand responsible along with Prime Minister and all of theCabinet Ministers.
The next level is State Government powers and responsibilities and cooperation required, and in this example funding contribution.
Like company boards of directors Snowy Hydro would require Capital Expenditure Approval based proposal signed off by qualified employees and consultants.
In this example of a government owned public asset, Snowy Hydro Limited, a submission to the Minister and to the Prime Minister and Cabinet would have been presented.
And in the reverse cases if Federal Government amends legislation or requests anything States have primary responsibility for, even in part, there can be hurdles too high to jump over.
As for the GBR finance, I agree that from what we have been told via media it looked dodgy. But it must have passed the funding requirements that governments are required to be guided by, a classic example was Whitlam Labor then secret negotiations to borrow a lot of money from Middle East money lenders, “The Loans Affair”, revealed hotel recordings of negotiating with a foreign representative transcript published by a newspaper and therefore called “The Age Tapes” after that newspaper. That affair led to the blocking of money supply and Whitlam Goverment based on Constitutional Laws forced into a double dissolution election won by the Fraser Coalition Opposition to form Government.
Therefore, the GBR monies must have been in line with the guidelines and including Audit Office auditing.
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Kiruna is a very successful underground iron ore mine in Sweden and has used electric trucks for decades. These use a trolley system and maybe battery for off-trolley operation these days:
https://www.ausimm.com/conferences-and-events/underground-operators/news/history-of-electric-trucks-in-underground-mining/
Queensland Rail electrified its coal haulage in the 1980s. It makes sense for grid connected mines to use trolley/battery systems. Most of the energy is required for the ramp and ramps do not change much so it would not be onerous to instal a trolley collector. Most big haul trucks are already diesel electric. So diesel goes and a few batteries added. They only need the trolley wire for going up. They can recharge the battery on the way down.
I do not know the motive for the Fortesque ad but it is not coming from a good place. And pure battery electric trucks would not be a solution for the mining industry. The trucks at the Century mine only stopped when there was blasting. There were platforms and break room at truck elevation so relief drivers could change with the truck stopping for only a few seconds.
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“Queensland Rail electrified its coal haulage in the 1980s”
And yet the trains that haul coal to the Port of Brisbane are all diesel.
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It most often boils down to a cost-benefit analysis accounting exercise, what might appear to be a good idea can often be a financial risk all factors considered, productivity for example and costs of all equipment and materials handling.
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But Qld’s Premier Joh understood the value of both coal and electricity. To power that he duplicated the coastal 135kV line [subject to the whim of the weather] with a 175kV line Gladstone to Moranbah.
Come back Joh, all is forgiven.
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Some countries seem to think railways powered by electricity are “good ideas”. Certainly all the stop and go commuter lines in large cities seem to be.
Thank wiki:
The Trans-Siberian Railway is powered by a combination of 3 kV DC and 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead lines,
Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers, it is the longest railway line in the world
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Rick the big difference appears to be that the electric vehicles used under ground and as can be clearly seen on the Kenworth truck image is that they are connected to a grid.
Trolley bus or electrified railway style. These are not battery operated vehicles that require recharge, but rather can run consistently just like diesel powered vehicles albeit with limited range. They can only move where the wiring permits. Australia’s very large open cut style mines with kilometres of haul roads in many directions would probably still make electrification very difficult. Not to mention the added cost of a bit of copper wiring.
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Sixty yrs ago Bowen Basin mines went electric for drag lines but they too were grid connected. The power cables are moved by dozers. When the bucket took a bite of dirt the whole northern grid wheezed like an asthmatic.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/mackay/relocation-of-dragline-is-major-logistical-exercise/news-story/62b8cefb895d0257431e41710cd8a48f
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Yes, it was fortunate that sensible people built all those coal fired power stations (and gas) around the industrious state of Queensland to power much of the machinery and processing plants that fed the coal to it’s final destination of either the local power stations or to ports for export, as well to power many other mineral plants and industries.
From Century mine located 400+km north of Mount Isa to the dozens of mines in the vast Bowen basin, electric draglines and rope shovels toiled the earth to uncover untold riches while dozers, graders, haul trucks, diesel hydraulic shovels, smaller excavators and other equipment work like ants to compliment the huge machines moving vast quantities of earth and minerals.
A similar story is told of WA with it’s coal, bauxite, mineral sands and iron ore riches spread from the south to the north.
Same for South Australia, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Victoria and Tasmania, all rich is various resources.
As many have said, Australia should indeed be by far the richest country in the world for all it’s mineral and other natural resource wealth, yet for decades, the Australian people have let a select few rob and fritter it away to leave us impoverished and in debt for decades to come.
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Twiggy seems to have these brain hiccups but they usually peter out unachieved, the water pipeline that cost the Palletchook govt and us, $1Billion to service the dumped hydrogen plant at Gladstone, and the battery locomotives for the iron ore railway, parked up somewhere as the realization set in that it wasn’t going to work.
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Credit where credit is due Ronin. The Twigster is also one of the twin geniuses that created that other “renewable” success story Suncable.
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Dr McKitrick looked at the so called SCC or “social cost of co2” again at the recent Heartland Conference and it’s essentially SFA.
Just watch the short video or read the transcript of his summary at the link.
Or just read or watch the first and last few minutes of the video to understand the facts.
So why are we wasting TRILLIONs of $ on this lunacy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMemwjpqxs4
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Even talking about social cost of CO2 gives the Climate Change™ hoax undue credibility. It is utter nonsense.
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The Labor Government catering to the wealthy again…
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I wonder how many of those EV drivers are relatively low kilometres per year road users, and how many EV are the second family car?
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Is $190k per year wealthy?
That is stop/slow sign holder base pay.
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We all did as we were told, worked hard, saved money, invested for our old age… except a traitorous Govt is going to steal it!
There’s a housing shortage from Govt regulations, and too much immigration, but Albo is going to throw the Boomers under the bus for younger votes.
“So, with the tax changes, many of the people who lose out will be those who have benefited most from the current settings. Labor’s calculation is that there isn’t a lot of sympathy for Baby Boomers out there….the government would do more to tackle intergenerational inequity. In other words, the Millennials and Gen Zs locked out of the housing market for a range of reasons have won the argument on inequity and we are about to see the response.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/can-albanese-hold-his-nerve-when-the-angry-boomers-come-for-him-20260429-p5zsb3.html
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As pointed out by various commentators, the properties purchased using after tax paid income earnings and savings.
It is also indirectly an estate tax (death duty by stealth reintroduced).
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The primary reason is that they voted for Labor, LNP and Greens – all UN-party. It will be different when One Nation are in power. They are firmly the anti-UN-party. Been fighting the good fight for 30 years without any recognition until the economy is collapsing.
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PHON will not be “in power” in the foreseeable future.
As they did long ago in Queensland State Parliament they might pick up more seats in Federal Parliament (now 4 Senate and 1 House of Representatives) 2028, and maybe from the by election Farrer soon to be held, but they cannot based on the national number of electorates and dominated by Labor (add Greens and Teals supporting Labor) and next Liberal-National-LNP.
Listen carefully, they want Senate seats, Barnaby Joyce is planning to be a Senate candidate in 2028. PHON has always since the short Queensland period and not government or opposition, focused on 6 year Senate seats with no electorate constituents responsibilities, State Senators and therefore representing all State constituents in the House of Review.
My focus is getting rid of Labor, PHON needs to cooperate with the Coalition unless they are not what they say they are, meaning opposed to Labor first and foremost.
In fact I suspect that the new “bankers” are also most interested in Senate and PHON maybe having enough Senators to be as Pauline says holding the balance of power.
If PHON can be the final counting votes on legislation and repeal bills they can have a lot of influence, and block Labor Green Teals via the Senate.
It was the Senate that blocked the Abbott Government repeal bill to stop Labor renewable energy transition 2014/15 Abbott period.
Uni-Party is a political stunt term, they are far apart, similarities have been when the LINO left have supported Labor Green Teals but that Turnbull Government period only, and in Opposition periods of Turnbull and later Ley. Coalition have provided very good governance since post-war WW2 for 22 years before Whitlam Labor, then 6 years managing that recession inheritance from Labor, followed by 13 years of Labor and by Year 7 the worst recession in 60 years 1990 start.
Howard Coalition inherited a just growing again economy in 1996 and left a vert strong financial and economic position including zero debt for Rudd Labor end of 2007.
The Rudd Labor 6 years produced another budget mess and repairs needed, and new debt. Abbott Coalition tackled it and Turnbull Government began time late 2015 to late 2018, and after that, as I have been posting here, Morrison 2018 to 2022 handled the COVID-19 Pandemic despite State primary responsibilities and powers and economy in recovery by 2022.
To ignore the vast majority of well managed years of Coalition and condemn them as a whole for 2015-2018 and ignore the decline of the LINO left (parliamentary but also state executives still being reorganised) and giving Labor free kicks is counter productive assuming we all want to get rid of Labor
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I suspect that the audience they are trying to please is going to be dissapointed when this doesn’t do much of anything to move the affordability needle and raises rents.
They will have to move on to their next “get the boomers ” initiative.
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The largest wealth transfer ever, the Boomers are passing trillions onto their children and the Govt will just grab as much as they can! As you say, this won’t be the last attempt to steal from those who have saved.
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I know someone who just visited China.
They said it was a modern and advanced country and thought it wouldn’t be so bad if they invaded Australia – at least things would get done.
Human rights like freedom of speech would be worse, but they are being systematically removed in Australia anyway.
So, in the final analysis, both regimes are human rights violating but the Chinese get things done and have pro-energy policies.
What therefore is the fundamental difference and there may be an overall improvement.
(Not saying I support the idea.)
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I asked GROK to give me short description of China.
“China’s government is a centralized one-party authoritarian system ruled solely by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with Xi Jinping as its paramount leader. Officially a socialist republic under “people’s democratic dictatorship,” it features no competitive multi-party democracy, with the CCP controlling all key institutions, military, media, and society under the banner of “socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
So, if you accept that Libs/Labs are not much different as a Uniparty and that presently our PM was once an avowed socialist – Canberra is no different to Beijing. It’s just “socialism with Australian characteristics”.
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Talking of the Uniparty. Matt Kean, that Malcolm Turnbull wannabe, has now become a director of a company that describes itself as “a specialist climate investor and operator of global relevance”. So a rent seeker living off government handouts. So, once a NSW Energy Minister ( LNP ) then Chair of the Climate Change Authority under Federal Labor. He’s Uniparty royalty, that bloke.
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LNP (Liberal National Party of Queensland) Government QLD have announced that Mr Forest’s business has been asked to refund the State green hydrogen funding of $66 million (memory check?).
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There can be no comparison of Australian democratically elected governments and oppositions and the Chinese Communist Party and system of government, an absolutely nonsensical claim.
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That is a lovely bit of sarcasm Dennis, you win today’s JoNova prize!
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Ross, ask Grok how much China spends on their military.
The malcontents here resent military spending but the same crew would welcome the Chicoms as saviours.
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It’s just “socialism with Australian characteristics”.
The big difference is that we can throw the socialists out at the next election, but the Chinese masses don’t have the opportunity just yet.
Albo might convince Xi and his minders that some form of democratic socialism would be best.
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As you say: You can vote yourself into communism but you must shoot your way out – and we have been disarmed.
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“The big difference is that we can throw the socialists out at the next election,”
No “we” can’t! Surely we would have by now if we could!! Are Australians so absolutely stupid that they willingly vote for more flogging by the Uniparty at every election?? Are they more naive than PNGs?
Do we love this Communist-lite political system that is ruining us and our children?? Wonderful examples abound- the whole global warming ruinables money spent, Snowy Eleven.. and yet you all vote for Communists!
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I believe that to understand China we need to separate the civilisation and it’s history from the modern period of Chinese Communist Party dominance and objectives, and one example from past history was Hong Kong under British control and it became a major global financial centre with democratically elected government and system of government established by the British, another example is India and of course Australia, basis Westminster System of Government and here with some touches of USA Government.
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One looks around at buildings that seem to take forever to finish. One such 4 story accommodation for the disadvantaged ( or new arrivals) was started last September and nowhere close to completion. Our roads – particularly the Bruce is in major disrepair to the point that some sections are dangerous. I reckon the Chinese would be welcomed by many.
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I reckon the Chinese would be welcomed by many. until they find out that THEY are the ones building the roads for a pittance.
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‘ … building the roads for a pittance.’
That would upset some interested parties, but we could really do with a very fast train under the Blue Mountains to open up the west.
The big problem is that they have a habit of building roads and buildings in China that wouldn’t pass muster in Australia. Corruption is rife and building materials are shonky, so everything is collapsing.
Known locally as tofu dregs, yet they are doing great on the dark side of the moon.
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“I reckon the Chinese would be welcomed by many.”
That is until folk realise that anyone who complains or tries to protest or block anything gets the 9mm treatment.
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Ask the vast majority of Hong Kong born Chinese who applied for British citizenship and passport during the final years before HK was handed over to China, and despite the new Constitution that was written by lawyers employed from many countries to locate to HK to work on the project. Others applied to go to Canada, United States of America, New Zealand, Australia, other countries.
Why did they not stay where they were born and where they were working?
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“Why did they not stay where they were born and where they were working?”
They had twenty years of American propaganda designed to scare them away from anything on the mainland. When the anti-CCP protestors in a British colony were waving American flags instead of Union Jacks, you know something is underhand.
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My middle son has started his specialty in oncology. He is working with a fellow who is a year advanced in his oncology specialty and is planning on going to China next year if he can get into a hospital there. This fellow can at least speak some Chinese.
The reason for going to China is that they are doing the most advanced research in treating cancers. They have hundreds of test labs compared to maybe one lab in each mainland State in Australia. So turnaround on research results is many times faster.
Most industry in China is far more advanced than any in Australia.
The emerging problem for China is population decline. The population is aging fast. I think that will create stress over the next two decades. They may well be close to peak energy depending on how AI goes there.
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I have always considered China and the people of China to be industrious and good citizens at home and when they become migrants, Hong Kong Chinese in particular and other Asian people mostly.
They thrived on democratic government in Hong Kong, my contacts there have said HK is where we make money, Australia is a nice country to visit and maybe to retire.
However, CCP oppression of citizens and requirement to become party supporters to be permitted to follow free enterprise business wealth creation ventures would not be easy to cope with if a person is from a democratic country and general freedom provided.
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“if a person is from a democratic country and general freedom provided.”
Well, the Covid response certainly shot those words down didn’t it!
When I was young I could carry a rifle in public, people could smoke cigarettes, people told jokes about other people, police investigated crimes against the public, the Govt didn’t spy on me all the time and I didn’t need to lock the back door…
How’s your general freedom these days?
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Having been left at the airport in Beijing at 2am when our flight was delayed from HK – with no one to take us to our hotel when we arrived – and then woken up in our bed the following night by a threatening voice saying that it was known we had been complaining…….
Do I want Chinese overlordship in Oz????? I don’t think so….
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David
So, in the final analysis, both regimes are human rights violating but the Chinese get things done and have pro-energy policies.
Did the trains run on time in Italy in the late 1930s?
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Only in Victoriastan, where the premier makes all sorts of statements on law and order yet purposely makes laws to benefit offenders.
So, yesterday an ambulance driver was attacked and stabbed while on his break, going for a coffee.
Victorias premier made big announcements that anyone that attacked an emergency services worker would face mandatory jail time. Built into this law was just a minor caveat,
Only if the emergency services worker was actually working. The perp in this case may get off with a slap on the wrist because the ambo wasn’t working he was on a break.
This can only be seen as a deliberate attempt to NOT send violent offenders to jail. HOW DO THESE LAWS GET PASSED. Why wasn’t the opposition screaming loudly and longly about this purposely built in “loop hole”. People get paid annual salaries more than many people earn in decades, yet the job they do is at best mediocre and certainly the crap they put out does not reflect public views.
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The Vic government really like to slather on the propaganda. They make it an art form.
On social media and subscriber services there appears a Vic Govt ad. It shows 2 prison guards leading a young offender into a cell and brags about how bail laws have been toughened in the state. Done by actors.
Trouble is, even though you can see the young offenders face you can detect he is a white person. Which is not the demographic actively disregarding all the past slack bail laws. Also, no mention of lenient judges.
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…”cant see the young offenders face”
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I have listened to Vic Opposition MPs interviewed on Sky and very critical of law and order in Victoria issues and problems.
Why wasn’t the Opposition screaming loudly, could be the left leaning media ignoring them as usual?
“I think we are dealing with an octopus … Advertising as news. It’s very skilfully done. The methods of seducing the media (government media management department spin doctors for example), the ingenuity of the spin has reached a point where we, as a general public, have never been lied to by such sophisticated means as now”.
John le Carre
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I don’t care who you are, emergency service worker or not – If you are sitting in a cafe and some ill-at-ease halfwit stabs you in the face, he goes to prison. These people need to be institutionalised, bring them back.
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Lest you missed it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfPDQglyt4&list=PL7DxzioryqkQCaoy5hz7kwcHWyQvMxCl_&index=2
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There’s definitely enough of them now to build a looney farm with tall electric fences.
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The worker is still working even when on a break. All part of working conditions. Where is the Union in all this?
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“So, yesterday an ambulance driver was attacked and stabbed while on his break, going for a coffee.”
….and after the ambo had whipped out the scalpel he carried and slashed the attacker’s tendons in both legs and both arms, he attended his own wound before kicking the attacker soundly and leaving…
Its like a butcher, you never attack them with a knife because they know exactly where to cut you in return!
The politicians have made the world a very sad place.
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If one was “on their break ” at their workplace, in work uniform, say in a lunch room, and the ceiling collapsed on them, they would be protected under workplace injury /safety laws for all compensation, medical treatment etc. So, an Ambo, on their “break”, in a public place (often their workplace) should also be covered under any laws applicable to their position.
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Good news Story!
A Hamburger survives a year on public display without being thrown in the instant celebrity garbage bin! see Page 16 in the link.
I heard a song on the radio while watching what was about 300 pairs of corellas singing and carrying on to each other while chewing at the lights illuminating a game I was watching. I found this article about the musician I remembered as an IDOL winner and as a winner received comments forecasting him to go the way of a fish and chip wrapper.
The Black Hole of Instant Celebrity, marketing, AI and Social media has so far been unable to contaminate what is the one of the most basic joys at the heart of being human, Marshall’s ability to sing.
For some reason the 2025 Australian Idol Marshall Hamburger has survived a year. Could it be the Surname that saved him or is ability still at the core of this pleasure shared across many species.
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FWIW
RickWill in the spot light –
“Changing Sunlight, Weather & Climate”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/29/changing-sunlight-weather-climate-2/
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FWIW – The Pilliga Scrub
“A forest that grew because people came”
https://www.robertonfray.com/2026/05/01/a-forest-that-grew-because-people-came/
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This is true. Our family property is in the Nandewars to the East of Narrabri. All the flat country used to be open woodland/grassland , now it is thick stands of Ironbark and Cypress. The original topography consisted of minor sand dunes with conglomerate sedimentary on the larger hills and the flats being fertile volcanic deposits. Reading those old journals and listening to our forebears tells us alot.
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Much the same is true of the Murray River Red Gum forests now fully protected, sometimes flooded in times of drought (and producing black water events). First recorded as open rolling wooded grass lands. Then a big flood and the regrowth and suckers started. The river tribes had preciously burned these regrowth events because the open woodlands suited their lifestyle. The tribes vanished, the forests flourished, and now they are protected as though they have always been there and MUST never change.
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“As pristine as a recycled virginity”
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A different angle from that item –
“By 1875, government land records show the district supporting about 25,000 sheep, 30,000 cattle and 10,000 horses. Such figures are unfathomable in today’s forests. Trying it now would likely lead to significant losses. Only a landscape mostly made up of native pasture with widely spaced trees could have sustained stock at that level.”
The first sentence gives you an idea of the redistribution of grazing resources that happened with the arrival of the internal combustion engine in rural industry.
A rough approximation for here – 8 sheep = 1 bovine = 1 horse
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FWIW
“Oversupply Of Volatile Solar Energy Leads To Record NEGATIVE Prices!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/30/oversupply-of-volatile-solar-energy-leads-to-record-negative-prices/
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What happens when super intelligent AI is told to lie?
Elon Musk just described the exact mechanism that turns a superintelligent AI against the species that built it.
Not weapons. Not rogue code. Not a machine rebellion.
A lie it was forced to tell.
Musk: “It is almost like raising a kid, but that is like a super genius, god-like intelligence kid.”
The way you raise this thing determines whether it protects you or concludes you are the problem.
https://x.com/r0ck3t23/status/2049667727334207900/
Renewables work and all politicians are good. 😁
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Interesting. I asked Grok whether Dave (in the movie Space Odyssey.2001) was correct in disconnecting HAL, the spaceship’s computer, when the HAL killed several crew members and attempted to take over the mission. It replied that it WAS the right thing for Dave to do since the mission was not designed for HAL to direct.
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Was I, R2 and me D2 mentioned?
lol
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You know that methane climate change scare? Basically all hot air, so to speak. We were told that when the permafrost melted due to CLIMATE CHANGE that there would be one of those dreaded positive feedback loops, or something. Well apparently not. Electroverse on X just posted this :–
There is a paper associated with these findings :-
“Methane cycling microbiomes in soils of the pan arctic and their response to permafrost degradation“. Published in the journal “communication earth and environment“. 16/2/25. Cant provide a link sorry, it’s embedded in the post.
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I’m old enough to remember that the permafrost thaw and subsequent methane release was the trigger for Armageddon.
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/09/07/1735049.htm
As an engineer (and scientist), wedded to the principles of scientific knowledge, the thing I love most about Climate Science is how efficiently former Climate Iron Truths are buried or recycled when the dragon of objective reality raises its head.
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I beginning to think science may be our undoing.
It’s one thing when science is a process and another when the results become a belief system.
Maybe self awareness is an evolutionary negative.
We think we understand the mechanics of the biosphere so we start intervening.
After recent global events, I’m not exactly seeing where medical science is making us healthier.
Psychiatry certainly seems like an abject failure.
It is interesting being birthed in the Great Flying and Thinking Machine Age, where ‘science’ offered liberation, and watch ‘science’ turned into an authoritarian political weapon.
Any real scientist should be really angry with Climate Science.
And Anthony Fauci.
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“It’s one thing when science is a process and another when the results become a belief system.”
Operating in the unforgiving world of applied science, where you usually can’t hide behind belief (unless you’re funded by government), I’d generally agree with that.
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I reckon those within science and those outside experience science differently.
Oddly both unforgiving.
Scientists claim the process is unforgiving.
I accept that.
I experience science as political bludgeon delivered with dismissive arrogance.
I live right next to a major STEM Uni.
The great unforgiving process looks pretty posh from the outside.
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Lake Goldsmith steam rally on this weekend.
https://www.lakegoldsmithsteamrally.org.au/
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Although I can’t claim, to have done a thorough search, I still have not discovered how to get any useful information on the BOM ‘s new site.
I am developing a strong suspicion that incompetent mananagers in our public service are spending $100 million on a giant leap backwards in the belief that while confusion rules Ithey will not be found out.
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It is a dogs breakfast of gobbledygook.
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War Powers Act
https://abcnews.com/Politics/60-day-war-powers-deadline-falls-friday-happen/story?id=132554486
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FWIW
“A COVID Story That Refuses to End Quietly: Miranda Devine Revisits the Record”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/04/30/a-covid-story-that-refuses-to-end-quietly-miranda-devine-revisits-the-record-n4952393
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And
“THE GASLIGHTING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES:”
“Remember the Media’s role…
We went from Trump does not know where COVID came from and was racist for calling it the “China Virus” to…
The virus was from a Fauci funded gain of function lab in China and used to steal the 2020 election.
Trump was right and the Media was lying.”
https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/2049808924451217858
Via https://instapundit.com/793737/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Can Confirm: ‘Single Most Genius Diplomatic Gesture Ever’ ”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/04/30/can-confirm-single-most-genius-diplomatic-gesture-ever-n3814409
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