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1d61bgb

When will the internet stop being racist? Is that really your question?

1cyee7t

Julia implemented the carbon tax to encourage green investment- libs created sovereign risk by rolling it back. Labor created the clean energy finance corporation. Tony gutted it. Labor have been doing what the can federally for 6 of the last 30 years. The other the other 24? Liberal just deny and delay.

1czwypv

Perhaps if I was not hearing impaired I would. Google was unable to help me, hence why I resorted to this.

1d3tja9

You're probably also complaining that you can't find anyone to fill a position

1d34ukx

I'm in NSW. But I'll check out my local tafe. Thanks :)

1d263en

Aussie broadband are great. Most providers offer you a modem to purchase too.

1d3exqq

the average anyone doesn't get sailing lessons. australia is one of the top sailing countries in the world, bud

1d4t7ip

Mackay looks great, in the rear view mirror

1d43it3

In my experience, sometimes the salary is too sexy to ignore, and the coffee here is better.

1d0wqfz

I’m down for nuclear power. It’s a very sensible solution for clean energy stability with room for future increases in demand. Tack on renewable energy sources where it makes sense. Decomm coal where nuclear is available. The real big win would be a major breakthrough in energy transport, though. I doubt anything will happen in that space, though. :(

1d5ef9q

Immigration is just the latest flashy issue by the Murdoch empire to distract from the housing crisis.

1cxvd1m

Don't worry , Albo feels your pain and help is on the way. Tax cuts for everyone and $300 off your power bill should make all the difference. Unless bracket creep still gets you like Albo has designed it too.

1d5a48g

Lol, no. A handful of Aussie kids wearing designer gear will have absolutely no impact on the price of the gear.

1d3p81k

Lol no I think I'm too young for that but I definitely heard about them. Sounds like it was a mad Max world of trains

1d639bm

This was me! My boyfriend bought me a necklace that I knew I would never wear. I told him while I liked the necklace (white lie), I knew I’d never wear it because if I was going to wear this particular type of necklace, I’d wear the one I already owned as it held great sentimental value. I said I’d love it if he could return it and get a simple (far cheaper) necklace that I didn’t have in my collection, but that I would cherish as more likely to wear it. Given the emotional connection he knew I had to the sentimental necklace, he was very gracious and was happy to exchange it. I didn’t end up with my simple necklace, it was about 10x more expensive because he felt so bad (my tears helped lol). But i do love it. Humility and graciousness, while being honest, goes a long way.

1d1nhyk

My son was born in QLD just over a decade ago and he was circumcised against my wishes by my now ex husband and his family. There was no medical reason for him to be circumcised but they did it without my knowledge (i was suffering from birth complications and the in laws were looking after him for me).

1d4fl4d

I assure you Sydneysiders spend more time worrying about the cost of housing than ‘Melbourne’.

1cx57gn

Given recent judgements, maybe the "women just use drugged and raped as an excuse" brigade can sit out a few rounds? No? No, of course not, let's learn nothing.

1d59r41

That's ridiculous. But because people are too embarrassed/shy to say not thanks, it sells at that price and just encourages all prices to be increased. Don't be afraid to walk away if you don't like the price.

1csuhhz

Yes this, you’re spot on

1d36g27

Man I remember going to a Cold Chisel farewell tour like 30 years ago

1d267b2

Love how halfway trough the article we find out that the questions include: Hume has asked several department and agencies – including smaller entities such as the Australian Institute of Family Studies and Cancer Australia – how much paper they have used over the past five years and who manufactured it. She has also asked several departments how many of their staff work on public holidays. Other more common accountability questions have gone to the use of agency credit cards and the costs of overseas trips." Aka: Shes asking some questions that make some people very uncomfortable because they know they are rorting the system. Nothing like claiming youre working on a public holiday while really youre sending yourself down to bali for the weekend and charging it on the good ol company card. Also wouldnt be suprised if the paper company is owned by someones mate and shes wondering how a block of printing paper can cost $200.

1ctzm63

You're quite wrong on all fronts, which is consistent for your take on this matter but I'll explain. Again. Genocide is a *jus cogens* offence. As such, the Australian state cannot punish it; it has a solemn duty to prevent it but that's it. South Africa, in a bold move to distract ANC critics at home (when electoral woes were headed their way) sought to make a case for it in the ICJ, and that ruling has been ignorantly and wilfully interpreted since. **Our** obligation under the convention is for the prevention, though. **Not** the punishment. Some objective research would have illustrated why, and I'll have to explain it for you because of the pesky "objective" part. The first jus cogens trial, for which our own Doc Evatt was not involved (but he was in UNGAR 181, fun fact), was the Nuremberg trials. Here, the new German government did not punish the old, nor did the US take the lead. A tribunal was convened with a panel of Allied judges. When the Rwandan genocide went to trial, it was at a UN-backed [International Tribunal]( Similarly, when the Serbian leadership went on trial for the genocide committed in the Yugoslav wars, it was via a UN international tribunal ([ICTY]( This is not coincidence. It is a function of a jus cogens offence, because as opposed to the application of jus commune in the domestic courts, no state can permit any derogation from this norm nor validly punish it. In other words, you can *only* have an international legal trial. The right thing has happened; the ICJ was involved. Australia's best bet is to let that play out, and make sure politically and legally ignorant senators don't say the kind of stupid shit normally reserved for horrifically unqualified redditors on the topic, lest someone take them seriously.

1d2lukw

Had this happen to me - didn't even realise my bank card was expiring and they had sent me a new one. No activation required at all. They went on a shopping spree in my local area buying cigarettes from every supermarket and servo, always under the "tap and go" limit.

1ct44ue

Didn't the LNP indirectly increase the international students in the first place by trashing the uni funding? How do they expect for any institution they plan to defund to make money if not importing rich migrants?

1d5j6wm

It's an internet meme. Same as everyone assumes every American has an assault rifle under the bed and every Chinese migrant is cashed up to the tits and is only in other countries to buy up a hundred properties

1d3qufm

I'm not your dude, bro. I'm not your bro, mate I'm not your mate, dude

1d2g5iz

Disgusting move, government. Way to create a whole generation of Andrew Tate acolytes.

1d2h47p

I learned some hard lessons, not so much financially, but with my grandfathers quality of life. We had to move him to a better facility. So my tips would be: - do the other residents look happy in that environment or bored, plonked in front of cartoons in the common room. - check out the activities board. If they don't have one, run. If the activities are all children's games... also run. - does the facility have in house chefs making delicious fresh food, or do they simply warm up bland pre-packaged frozen meals. - will the facility allow residents to have their own mini fridge in their room, access to internet and phone. - observe staff interactions with other residents when inspecting facilities. You can tell very quickly if it's a warm and caring relationship between them. - ensure any cultural/religious needs can also be met. When we found a facility that could provide my grandfather all these things, he was very happy and thoroughly enjoyed his time there, right till the end.

1d27csq

Raya has great cookies (I think they're baked fresh each day).

1d5j6wm

This is an old post I’ve shamelessly copied and pasted that explains why this belief is bullshit Australian ecologist here: my god, there is a lot of rubbish being touted in this thread. Okay, first up: there are not more dangerous animals in Australia then elsewhere. This is a misconception fueled by silliness and exoticism. The famous list of Australia having nearly all of the world's most venomous snakes comes from a terrible LD50 study that only used five or so overseas snakes for comparison. To get a more accurate impression of relative venom toxicity, check out Dr Bryan Greig Fry's LD50 page. For the question of why we have so many venomous snakes here to begin with, one has to look at the dispersal of snakes within Australia. First there was the best snakes of all (fact), the Aspidites-- primitive snakes that branched off the snake family before pythons evolved. Australia was pretty empty with just these guys around, so when the elapids came down from Asia, there was lots of space for them to diversify into. Elapids are very venomous snakes with fixed front fangs: cobras, mamba, etc. All venomous snakes in Australia are descended from these elapids. Australia has pretty venomous snakes because they all came from highly venomous stock. Since elapids were the main game in town for so long, they diversified to take over all niches, from super-venomous (which get a lot of attention) to nearly lacking venom all together (which no-one pays much attention to!). So Australia has a diverse range of venomous snakes, not just highly venomous ones. Focusing on the big hitters and making ridiculous guesses as to why they're here is missing the bigger picture. The very venomous sea snakes that we have are simply land elapids that diversified into the oceans. Our spiders are not more venomous that those of anywhere else in the world. We haven't had a spider-bite fatality since the '50s, and even then it was children and the elderly that succumbed. South America and Africa have many more venomous species than Australia, including more venomous lizards and venomous mammals (!). Edit: I worked out some ratios of lethal snakes:non-lethal snakes for a few different countries here. Australia ain't so bad.

1d66680

WFTD is wage theft. Pay them minimum wage for the work they do. Fill the rest at newstart rates.

1d3p306

That, plus our city is relatively flat, and areas of soil are relatively hard compared to other places. Sydney in comparison is much hillier with a lot of sandstone. Even though they didn't build an extensive subway network, they were able to bridge, embank and do short tunnel sections a lot easier than us so their railways had a lot less level crossings and conflict with other uses.

1d3n0qc

When I see the confederate flag I think of the Dukes of Hazzard. Oh and racism.

1csf5w3

Bail is now trying to predetermine guilt by using profiling characteristics. In my opinion, if you want to minimise deprivation of freedom and maximise security of the public, you have to find a measure that accomplishes both without predetermining the outcome of the judicial process: that means detention in a secure hotel with all conventional freedoms provided except leaving the premises and a protection detail on the accused home to prevent taking advantage of the situation. We could even combine court accommodation in a separate part of the building. If it was not an emergency 5 years ago or even 1 year ago, it is not a national emergency now when crime is steadily falling. It's simply not possible to get to zero crime and whilst we should try to minimise crime, events will still happen like the stabbing of 5 people at Bondi: it's a tragedy, but it doesn't represent an emergency. I believe this is all stemming from idiotic legislation on indefinite detention and equally idiotic lack of a legal alternative. I also don't understand how the High Court can suddenly strike down legislation after years of inaction and result in a compromised security of the public as government rushes to implement emergency legislation as a knee-jerk and compromised solution. Surely the High Court could advise government of a likely challenge sufficiently in advance to permit well-thought out legislation to be put in place before striking down legislation and putting the public at risk, especially since this was about indefinite detention and nothing had been done up to that point. Isn't the High Court also bound to minimise harm, or die on the hill of point of law?

1d27182

Good. There's [many]( studies showing Corporate tax [falling heavily on consumers and employees](

1d2y6sl

Outside major towns like Bendigo and Ballarat, there are quite a few bus stops that are old and barely used. East of Bendigo is mainly bushland though, but you might have a bit more like north and west of town

1d395tb

Really :))) and i just wanna ask about the package. It is have a box and the mini one inside of it like the commercial ? Or its only have the computer

1d276je

I probably wouldn’t out him to his superiors, that’s extreme for an off the cuff remark and would result in a negative judgement for him. If you actually care then keep talking when you can and offer support where you can.

1cyvuc4

Partly geography, mainly because not many people want to live there. I can't find a good image right now but the easiest way to understand it is to look at a map of both countries with the rivers and mountain ranges. Basically, our deserts are bigger. There's no farmland in the middle of the country. Very few rivers to divert. We have less water overall (even the coastal cities rely pretty heavily on desalination and recycling). We also don't have as many people. There have been proposals to pipe water into the middle of the country but they've been laughed out of town, it would be astronomically expensive and there isn't much demand for Alice Springs to become a major city.

1ctvihi

Have you been living under a rock? There was a constant barrage of attributing inflation at least in part if not wholly to wages growth. The treasury, AFR, Murdoch press, and Liberal pollies all chipping in while the Australia Institute published various opinion pieces and studies to refute that, and over several years now. Culture Wars fought on every front, and we're not out of the woods by a long shot.

1d41669

San Telmo/Asado, La Luna (get in before it closes)

1d02u3e

Those that don't heed history are condemned to repeat it.

1ctbnbr

it's more muttered constantly,around the bowen energy section..yelling was a touch strong of a word to use. Looks like lara tingles already brought the issue up to taylor as well as to why they couldn't just get their message out,and had to resort to personnel jabs

1d0skc8

So many of these are familiar, I hear them in Dad's voice too. He used to complain about having too much shrapnel in his train smash, weighing down his sky rocket and mucking up his bag of fruit.

1d4i6bj

I guess hes not a good candidate for 'Tell us someone we haven't thought of in a while'

1d0s25i

>Lauga confirmed Queensland parliamentary services had closed her electorate office in Yeppoon after “several offensive and threatening safety concerns” from members of the public C'mon Qld. Can we be better than that please? It's troubling when shit like this interferes with her ability to represent her constituents.

1d5w7f3

Thankyou

1d35hu3

They got school interns to write articles wonder if it's ai now

1d4vktg

I guess I have to message all of them one by one but thanks for your help

1d2dv3l

Tram way back in the 90s, hit a car. After school and packed. I was holding on, my friend was not. I saw him yeet, down the aisle as if he were falling off a cliff, taking the whole aisle with him. He maintained eye contact the whole way, wide eyed with an outstretched hand. One of those slow motion moments. A++ would experience again.

1d36j3j

He’s not dead yet. I’ll get back to you.

1d0onj5

It's way better. Australians can legally drink from age 18.

1d3m34g

> “The new, revised Direction, will make it abundantly clear community safety is a consideration that outweighs all other considerations. And beyond that […] we will introduce further mechanisms to enable the perspective of victims and their families to be more clearly brought to bear.”

1d605km

The sense of entitlement runs strong in Josh, but even in Australia you some times need at least glimmer of talent and/or intelligence to get what you deserve.

1d60iqa

In North Queensland so this is probably different. Our commercial fish boats freeze fish at sea and it is usually labelled fresh.

1d54cey

Really? People were allowed to make informed decisions on their own health and safety were they? Oh wait, no they weren't. Their human rights were denied based on poor science and cowardice, which has week and truly been confirmed over the past number of years.

1csw003

Anyone able to give me one example of a defamation case in Victoria that this bill would have prevented. Ffs it wouldn’t even have prevented Canberra’s most famous one because it doesn’t prevent complaints made to me the media. This legally speaking is a nothing-burger.

1d2d1bi

We are one of the most successful multicultural countries on earth. What country are we more racist than? Its a meaningless criticism when you can apply it to literally every country on earth. Migration is an absolute contributor to the housing issue, Dutton is focusing on it because he will do fuck all about it anyway like when he was in government - and most importantly it doesn't upset voters who benefit from owning investment properties.

1d305e2

You’re obviously not from western Sydney. Definitely not a new phenomenon.

1d3znbk

Why would someone need to mark a house in this day an age? Everyone has a camera and maps in their pocket.

1d51qif

No - [here's a story why not]( It's a small chance, but the consequences are devastating (He came off his skateboard, hit his head on the curb, traumatic brain injury).

1d3xmly

My beauty therapist was under contract that she wasn’t allowed to poach customers when she left as too not take away money from the business. During my last appointment with her, a piece of paper “fell” into my bag with her private number and new place of business and now I just happen to still see her and said new business. She was working at one of the big names business that pay staff horribly and charge customers so much more than the small places so I have no bad feelings towards ditching them to follow her

1d38xk0

I believe you! It's beautiful.

1csg89n

Not that I don't think the narrative that the Liberals are good economic managers is a complete joke of an opinion and should be laughed at but this article is kind of shit and the way it goes about its analysis is also a joke. There is always an element of luck to governance but the Liberal party are reliant on it, case and point Howard and Menzies. The former presided over economic architecture created for him but missed the boat on capitalising on it for the benefit of the nation, and the latter was an astute politician that took advantage of the Labor - DLP split with great skill.

1cye52b

Looks like the darling of the woke left, Malcolm Turnbull and his plan to build all this renewable energy is falling flat on it's face. All this yapping going on about "pumped hydro", well here is a shining example of "pumped hydro". It is hard to believe such stupidity has been allowed to manifest it's way in Australia's political class. Is it because so many of them no longer have ever worked a real job and have been professional politicians all their life? If you look at the upper leadership of all political parties, how many of them have ever worked real jobs? It is no wonder Australia is headed down the path of being eventually on this path taken over by another country.

1d3t3d0

Armadale, East Malvern, Hawthorn, Glen Iris. Good private schools nearby (be prepared for boys only as a regular option!) I grew up in Melbourne -- lived in Menlo Park for 20+ years. My kids went to private schoolw in Palo Alto for high school!

1d3xfaw

At least his honest

1d3y8wb

okay thanks!!

1d29tvx

Our OT is going to do a couple of school visits so we’ll see how it goes - it’s just such a different system and it’s clear the kid is falling between the cracks already and we are relatively early in their school career.

1d3axmw

Korean Media getting East Asian men laid + why u citing decade old ocksford and OkCupid studies

1ct84j8

This is what people wanted you have to remember. Every time they go a touch too progressive, they lose ground.

1d5fqvb

Please look up what life insurance is

1d4m7aw

Few things are as scummy as stolen valor.

1d3adea

Inform them that you would prefer to hold the meeting when your union rep can be in attendance as your support person.

1cyk225

Typical VIC ALP double speak, the same as during COVID. "We have health advice that says we should close playgrounds" "show us" "nahhhh" The VIC dept responsible for energy knows there is a shortage coming as electrification just is not happening quickly enough. The VIC minister continues to bury her head in the sand.

1d5f2t8

Yes. The determiner for how good a school is is checking the ICSEA value. That is the socio-economic score of the students that attend. In general, the higher it is the better the school. It's why the schools you see in the VCE honour roll at the end of the year are either private schools, public schools in rich areas or selective schools where parents have enough money to get their kid tutoring to pass the entrance exam.

1d1eojd

I grew up in Australia and live in the US now. There’s a lot of untrue stereotypes in this thread except for a few which are for the most part true (bearing in mind that it’s a population of over 300 million people and there are vast regional differences.) Americans don’t dry clothes on the clothesline and will always use a dryer. Americans use air conditioning all the time so need to dust quite often. And then in the winter central heating will blow dust everywhere too so the dusting never stops. Americans tend to use more disposable plates and cups, but it tends to be lower income people who do this. But that said - I would agree that most Americans are generally less conscious of the environment. Paper towels for everything. Disposable wipes. Disposable mops like Swiffers. Disposable dusters. And lastly- this is a town by town basis but it seems like recycling is half hearted at best. I recycle at home but honestly I’m skeptical the bottles and glasses are cardboard I sort into different bins is actually recycled. Edit to add: almost everyone I know owns a kettle. I don’t know where this stereotype comes from other than people taking the piss.

1cug696

Opposition leader Peter Dutton says under the Albanese government, the “only thing made in Australia is inflation”.  “I just think the Prime Minister is trying to get this slogan up of ‘Made in Australia’,” he said during a media conference on Friday.  “But under this government, the only thing made in Australia is inflation.” 

1d08rxp

Hughes was basically already far right. She thought the school system was run by Marxists - her words. And apparently her replacement will be even more far right? Geez.

1d0s25i

>"Most people don’t know that alcohol is the most common drug used in drink spiking,” she said. Huh?

1d276je

Please support him both psychologically and professionally if possible

1d28erd

Stopping middle of the road on Seacliff bridge to take photos. It has fucking parking bays for this. Get out and walk a tad to get the perfect photo. Bitching at me about the prices of things, who told you Australia was cheap? Your in a bar.. you want the beer you pay for it like the rest of us. Or that the tap beers aren't ones you like... 99.9% of our customers like them that's why they are on tap. Ordering coffee like it's Starbucks at a normal cafe and getting mad at the staff because you got what we thought you meant because you refused to clarify. Fucking wait for people to get off the bus/train and stop trying to force your way on. They'll wait for you. Literally they will wait until everyone is on. Bitching at me that your bank card that is not one that does international shit like a MasterCard won't work here. We don't have your bank here... Why did you not get a MasterCard?

1ct40gb

Why do people feel the need to even respond to propaganda crap pumped out by outlets like murdoch press?  The dozens of knuckle-draggers who still read that drivel will never be swayed by any response you give anyway. All you achieve in responding is creating a semblance of legitimacy to these rags... 

1cvixc3

Mining: >The way the tax incentives are designed at the moment is a little bit concerning. The one for critical minerals allows you a tax credit for 10 percent of your operating costs, but it’s available for existing facilities as well as new ones. And it doesn’t have a requirement for those facilities to improve the emissions intensity of their production. Super Tax Breaks: >They probably don’t involve the same degree of economic costs. They have sort of distributional consequences that are attractive given rising wealth inequality, and they do sort of reorient the intergenerational bargain, which is fraying. And so, the big one, the biggest hole is super tax breaks. So, they’re costing 45 billion a year. >It’s about 2 percent of GDP. They’ll pretty soon cost more than the age pension. They’re obviously not very well targeted. Half the benefits flow to the wealthiest one fifth of households. I put these in two buckets. There’s the bucket of things that you could probably take to an election at this point and be fairly confident it’s not going to hurt you too much. >And that is title limits on pretax contributions. It’s raising the tax rate on some of those pre-tax contributions through division 293 tax that would reduce the use of super as a tax minimization tool. And if you do those, there’s 3 or 4 billion dollars a year of sort of policies there that really trimming at the top end. >And then the elephant in the room is the fact that as soon as you hit age 60, you’re not going to pay any tax on your earnings. You basically had to check out of the tax system and that’s costing Australians billions of dollars or the government billions of dollars a year. And that’s not really sustainable in the long term. NDIS: >Yeah, look, and look, this is always the thing when you see an expenditure category that’s growing faster than the economy and then a tax category that’s growing slower than the economy, you know, you know, you’ve got something you’ve got to reckon with this sort of mismatch between how much we’re willing to pay. >At the outset of the NDIS, there was a really important you know, piece of thinking around how by supporting people through the scheme effectively you support them to, into employment and that’s part of how the scheme starts to pay for itself. Was this an erroneous assumption or do we think this is still something that the scheme can achieve? [they lean towards it being largely erroneous]. Housing: >I think that’s a great question. And the issue here is that like sitting at the heart of this problem is the fact that we haven’t built enough. That’s why housing in part is so expensive. It’s not the only factor, but it’s certainly a factor that we have some control over. And if we shifted the dial on housing supply has a whole bunch of other really positive benefits for the economy. Healthcare: >As the Commonwealth faces more pressures on its budget as well, you see in the health system or in terms of disability supports, you see each government try and push the problem onto the other level of government. And so, you see you know, we, we’ve seen historically, the Commonwealth has tried to cut down its expenditure in primary care or in preventative care. >And leave the states to carry the consequences of that in terms of growth in hospitals. Or in the case of the NDIS, you see the conversation around what are some of those foundational supports that people will get in schools or other state-based settings. And as the states have less money to spend, they’re going to be less cooperative in, in, in those conversations. >And I think this comes back to the fact that Australian Federation wasn’t well designed on the tax side. We’ve got a deep vertical fiscal imbalance with responsibilities for services sitting with the states, downstream services sitting with states, but taxation power sitting overwhelmingly with the Commonwealth. Job Seeker: >Look, it’s a really tough one, because I think it’s clear that we need the rise. So, JobSeeker for a long time has been well below the level that I think allows people to be empowered to go and find work as well as survive. >If they’re on that payment for a while, we’ve seen increases for originally from the Coalition and then in Labor last year. That mean that the payments gone up by 45 a week in real terms. Our position had always been it needed to rise by at least 100 a week. So, we’re still 55 dollars a week away from that. I could have imagined a world where we did more of that.

1d4r7ks

I went into this knowing the answer and left doubting the f#ck out of myself. I give up on interpreting Sunday.

1d5a48g

Well look what happened to Burberry in its chav era.

1d36g27

Well done Editor

1d35ec2

*"about* to nuke himself with women voters? Honey, that bomb was dropped decades ago.

1d4r9n1

It's bereft of life ...

1d404vh

Push out and pull in the way it should be done. Turning round is for peasants.

1d66qny

This is what I thought. Mostly I want to know that I actually got what I paid for. I don't mind paying a premium, so long as I bought was genuine.

1d41a1q

It’s not just hospo. Healthcare are implementing it, hair dressers, beauticians, car washes, butchers. The eftpos providers are pushing retailers hard on it as well, although they’ll be the last to crack given how price sensitive retail customers are. The problem is that it also costs as a customer to use cash. The banks have fewer and fewer ATMs around and the ones that do exist will surcharge you too. Classic cartel behavior by the payment providers. They squeeze out every other option and then add whatever fee they like. It’s only now that businesses are passing it on that it’s become so noticeable.

1d5j84n

I used to give in Kew. Get drunk as fuck and play pool at the skinny dog and Uber eats maccas the next day.

1cxpdgd

I always assume it's just one of those people that has some obscure and horrendously diluted uranium pennystock that they think will pump if they can sell the nuclear debate. They are a dime a dozen these days.

1d5a48g

rich people, much like these brands, much like everyone in the country with an IQ >30, dont care about eshays or what they do with their centrelink money

1d0r77q

I'm in a strata as a renter and tbh I'm okay with it. During the really bad flooding situation we had a few years back, my apartment flooded due to there being no flashing at all in my external wall to my private courtyard (owners responsibility) and also the external wall that the driveway is on (strata responsibility). And I'm talking 2inches deep in my apartment removing access to my loungeroom and kitchen. Also inadequate drainage in my courtyard which helped make it even worse according to the guys who xame to fix it. My landlord (owner) decided that because it was unprecedented flooding they wouldn't be fixing the wall to my courtyard, that it was fine and likely wouldn't happen again, while strata was prepping to fix the driveway side. This caused an argument between the two as technically strata would have to rip apart some of my internal walls to ensure the flashing was fixed and for of course... Mold checks. One of the other issues I had was my courtyard is 2ft below the road level and I only had the one drain, which wasn't effective to stop water pooling, so that + absolutely no flashing and the courtyard being under water so far the weep holes (I think that's what they called them) were under the water.. so the water only had one way to drain. Into my apartment. Strata ripped away ALL the walls affected to redo the flashing, including in the courtyard, had 2 more drains added to my courtyard and then took the owners to court to pay for the repairs to their part of the wall and the new drainage as my strata saw it rightly as unreasonable to not fix the other part of the issue. Took the lovely workers 3 days to do it all including repainting the inside walls they had to pull apart to fix it. We had a very similar flooding incident this year, strata were all over me to check the flashing was working, there was nothing coming into my apartment and even sent an inspector out to just... Check via little holes they fixed the same week. And look, while it was unprecedented flooding, it still was absolutely not okay for my apartment to 3xs in 6mths end up 2inches under water. And there was time between each event to fix it, clearly as it was done in 3 days total. Others can I guess be absolute shit shows, but not all are. Edit to add: ours is a corporate style strata, no owners are on their board or whatever it is. They are a management of the property style set up. Owners can bitch at them/ask them to do repairs to common area, but owners have to accept anything really they say, unless totally unreasonable. Like the fight they had about cleaning the exterior with a pressure washing company. Owners didn't want to... Strata told them we are doing it either comply and pick a company yourself or we will and you'll be fined, there mold growing lol

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One of Australia’s most frustrating failures as a nation has been a limited capacity to value-add. This country has the world’s third-largest population of sheep – behind China and India – but much of the Australian wool-clothing we wear is imported, such as men's suits from Italy. There are a multitude of similar examples. Why is it so difficult to add value here, to become an exporter of finished products as well as raw materials? The excuses typically offered are that our labour costs are too high, we don’t have the necessary skills, our design and managerial systems’ capacities are limited or deficient, among a host of others. While there may be some elements of substance to these arguments, it is probably more relevant to blame a failure to create a deliverable national strategy for industrial development. The Coalition’s usual response has been that such development should be left to the market; however, the government has a responsibility to set the framework for where those market forces should be encouraged to operate to their best advantage. The Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia (FMIA) strategy should be seen as an attempt to meet that responsibility. One important feature of the latest budget was that it provided some of the detail and commitments of such a national strategy, recognising that this country’s transition to a cheaper, clean energy future, and possibly into a global energy superpower, is the most significant industrial shift to come. A key element of the FMIA package so far is the National Battery Strategy launched last week. Of course, the visionless, destructive and denialist opposition remains content to argue that the focus on renewables leaves this country without a capacity to ensure baseload power. They claim renewables don’t work when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow – ignoring the potential for cost-effective energy storage from these sources. As Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen points out, this country learnt how to store water when it doesn’t rain all the time, so why not sun and wind power? The battery strategy sets out a “vision” over the next decade, in which Australia becomes “a globally competitive producer of batteries and battery materials, providing secure and resilient battery supply chains, delivering affordable and secure energy for Australians, boosting productivity, and creating wealth and opportunity while being part of the global energy transition”. We certainly have the minerals in abundance, in a strong resources sector, as well as manufacturers’ know-how, sufficient trading partners and skills capacity in our workforce. The government has now provided the necessary framework and identifies certain financial commitments. We just need to get on with it! The global battery industry is dominated by China, whose market share is estimated to be as high as 75 per cent, although there are other significant players such as Japan’s Panasonic and others that may be ripe for joint ventures. I recall an early statement by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who said he didn't want his electric vehicle company Tesla to be dependent on the Chinese for batteries. Is there potential here to become a battery supplier to Tesla? The scope for a battery industry in Australia is enormous. A particular focus domestically is achieving grid-scale and community storage, beyond the expansion of mining critical minerals. I have been struck that the usual list of these minerals often excludes graphite, as Australia is one of the few politically stable countries with significant reserves of natural graphite, which would seem to be an advantage, as natural graphite has superior heat-storing capacity. Most of the graphite used globally is synthetic, and mostly manufactured by the Chinese, using a dirty and energy-intensive heating process to convert petroleum coke, a residue of the oil refining industry, to synthetic graphite. I am also aware of an Australian-patented technology that uses a self-contained chemical process, with no wastage, to refine natural graphite, removing “impurities” such as iron and silica, and further improving the storage capabilities. Miners can also market these byproducts, providing additional income streams to the straight sale of the graphite. Our graphite industry has enormous untapped potential, which should be released by the government’s battery strategy. An important related point is the potential of graphite-based thermal storage has been largely ignored in Australia, as the process of concentrated solar thermal became too expensive and, in part, because of the fad-like attraction of pumped hydro. This technology has also turned out to be more difficult and expensive than anticipated – note the cost blowouts and tunnelling difficulties of Snowy 2.0, the mother of all pumped hydro projects, which, as I pointed out in an earlier column, didn’t stack up on a rigorous cost-benefit analysis. The potential advantages of graphite-based thermal storage for grid-scale and community batteries ought to be more widely recognised. Consider the possibility of a new housing development with a community battery, fed by each of the houses having solar roofs rather than just solar panels. This would enable each house to draw electricity, and hot water and hot air for heating and cooling, even for cooking, as required. These homes might never again receive a power bill. Thermal storage also opens the possibility of generating steam at the desired temperatures, which would be significant for industries such as processed food, cement, and even steel making. There is an important distinction in grid-scale storage systems between electric batteries and what is known as load-shifting batteries. The Hornsdale Power Reserve battery that Musk built in South Australia is an electric battery that really only provides short-term back-up to variations in power supply, whereas a load-shifting battery stores the sun or wind energy when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing to be drawn down in evening and morning peaks, for example, guaranteeing dispatchable or base-load electricity. The recent budget committed a significant amount of new money to fund the government’s battery strategy. Specifically, $523.2 million for a “battery breakthrough” initiative to help manufacturers build capacity in crucial areas with a focus on “high-value battery products” that align with our areas of advantage and support the climate energy transition. There was a further $20.3 million for building future battery capabilities to develop skills and expertise, $5.6 million to deliver an “Australian-made battery precinct” in partnership with the Queensland government and $1.7 billion for a Future Made in Australia innovation fund that will support innovation, commercialisation, pilot and demonstration projects and early-stage developments in priority sectors, including development in battery technologies. The implementation of this battery strategy will need careful coordination, both domestically and internationally. In Australia, state and local governments must collaborate, along with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and private financiers. These efforts may also need community action plans, including for First Nations communities in areas where there is potential for expanded mining developments. Internationally, it will be important to work and trade with both the United States and China. Efforts must be made to avoid being swept along with the US’s anti-China strategy and possibly to demonstrate a willingness to work with China, where there are advantages in terms of both technology and money. Of course, an important issue that will inevitably arise is the need for effective taxation of those who gain approvals to mine the critical minerals. The overarching need is to recognise these are national resources, the mining of which should be to the benefit of all Australians. As easy as this is to say, the past attempts at introducing a mining tax under the Rudd–Gillard governments demonstrated just how easily this basic requirement can get lost in the melee of dealing with the mining industry. Whatever happens, this engagement with the private sector needs to be dealt with effectively moving forward. In summary, the government’s battery strategy is both a visionary and a realistic response to the challenge of taking up a leading role in the inevitable global energy transition.

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is there like ZERO actual answers here? It's called a rolling cloud. It is cause by fast windspeeds at higher altitude impacting the slower moving cloud layer. Think of it like the sand at the bottom of a stream with fast running water. the same pattern appears in the sand. Also... it's brushwood screen fencing apparently lol pretty common here... we get some ffreaky high windspeeds at higher altitudes. Much higher than typcial elsewhere. Making Melbourne my base in flightsim with real weather has bee nan eye opener

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Im visiting Melbourne for the first time this weekend, what streets can i find beautiful autumn trees?