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CONGRATULATIONS (AGAIN) CHANTELLE: So the Electoral Commission of South Australia found 642 votes they didn't know they'd lost. Then decided only 81 of them were worth counting. 🟠 Let that sit for a second. Three sealed boxes of absent ballots were sitting somewhere, unopened, since the March 21 state election. Votes cast by real people at the Port Pirie Early Voting Centre and polling places in the electorate of Stuart, who were enrolled elsewhere and doing the normal thing of voting while away from home. Those boxes were supposed to be sent to the "absent exchange" in Adelaide, sorted by electorate, and forwarded to the correct returning officer for counting. They never were. Nobody noticed. Not on election night. Not during the count. Not during the recount. Not when writs were returned. 81 of those votes belonged to Chantelle Thomas MP - Member for Narungga had been declared the winner for One Nation by 58 votes. So the maths suddenly mattered. ECSA ordered a further count on Friday. Scrutineers attended. The count went ahead. Chantelle increased her margin to 74. Good result. Seat confirmed. Here is where it gets interesting. The other 561 votes are not being counted. ECSA says the margins in those other seats are too large for the votes to change the outcome. That is probably true in a narrow mathematical sense. It is also entirely beside the point. Because the question is not whether those 561 votes change who won. The question is how 642 votes went missing in the first place, how the absent vote reconciliation system failed to flag it, how nobody at the absent exchange noticed they had received boxes from 46 electorates instead of 47, and whether the three boxes that were found are the only three boxes that exist. Acting Commissioner Leah McLay was asked about the cause. Her exact words were: "We have not investigated what the cause of the error was." That is the Electoral Commission of South Australia, almost a month after the election, telling the public it has not looked into how hundreds of ballots sat uncounted in sealed boxes. And in the same breath, assuring everyone that "no other irregularities have been identified." You cannot identify what you have not looked for.

That's the Nature of electrical supply and demand in our Modern society where Every Place is air conditioned People have dishwashers Fans, electric stoves, Washing Machines and dryers etc. Baseload has no real Meaning. Just a term used to confuse the Issues.. Nev

Iranians have More reason than ever to Hate Americans. Imagine you are Living there Now and being threatened with Obliteration by a Maniac, and His Weirdo hangers on, who have recklessly and Illegally smashed a lot of the essential Infrastructure and Killed innocents. Nev

They don't need to anymore. Trump is doing it all by himself.

I think that is a little optimistic. As far as we know the Ayatollah's more hard line son is now in charge. The Iranian people are still suffering. The Straights of Hormuz that used to be open is now closed it restricted possibly triggering a world recession. Trumps approval rating plummeting.

use to be regularly. Know happens most day. Bit like the price, Use to variable, know it is volatile. No wonder it is so expensive with all the parasitic intermittent gen. No one knows whats happening next day.

I don't think we'll hear Iranians say "Death to America" again.

Trumps mental capacity is now openly being discussed at high levels after the profane midnight rant to open the Effin strait, to then declaring it closed, and having a go at the Pope. Albos meeting with the Malaysian PM to shore up fuel supply was notable for Anwars direct jab at Trumps sanity. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-18/fallout-iran-war-spreads-focus-donald-trump-mind/106576096 Meanwhile American Troops in the middle east are running out of food & morale has sunk to a major low point. Hegseth spent all of the food budget on lobsters and steak before the conflict began & now they are being served rubbish & not much of it either. This is simple logistics and supply that the incompetent US political system and military don't seem to be able to comprehend. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360966583/trumps-troops-served-grey-meat-and-few-boiled-carrots-n

Since I have been trading on the wholesale electricity market the export price is a maximum price of zero from 7:30am going to -1 cent by 10:30am and -2 cents from 11:30 up to -3 cents and back to zero at about 3:00pm. It doesn't get back to positive territory till after 4:30pm and rises to 22-25 cents during the peak evening period of 5pm till 7:30pm. It is during this peak evening period that my battery exports to the market and that offsets all of my electricity grid imports for the rest of the 24 hours by some considerable margin so my credit grows daily. The other thing I didn't know before I signed up to become a VPP was that I am entitled to an additional battery rebate based on battery size, the maximum being 25 kWh so I completed the application & will be getting $676.00.

That's another evil Minion, Pete Hegseth

I heard they have split up. Apparently he can't stand her either.

I have heard that jdv has many tattoos. I'm not sure but one on his arm might be seen as evangelist crusader-ish. Which might explain a few things. From wiki;- "Deus vult is a Christian motto historically tied to ideas of divine providence and individual interpretation of God's will. It was first chanted by Catholics during the First Crusade in 1096 as a rallying cry, " Note these pics are a bit dated.... before he started using eye shadow.

Be careful what you wish for. If Trump carcks it, or they invoke the 25th Amendment, Vance will be Acting President until January 2029. It will be a case of the puppetiers stringing up a new puppet.

Maybe we need a "What has Vance done today" thread, but if we had one for each of Trump's evil sycophants we'd run out of space. Anyway I thought this was a brilliantly written piece on JD. ( I hate that he's known by those initials, because I quite like Jack Daniels). Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer | Marina Hyde https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/17/pope-leo-jd-vance-donald-trump-catholicism?CMP=share_btn_url

USA is gathering speed. Lil Donny is achieving his task - gutting amerika.

This could be true, but it is many decades away. 1.6% of our cars are electric. The percentage of heavy vehicles is so small it is a rounding error. At the best historical rates of fleet replacement we have barely begun to change. And the replacements are still dominated by non electric vehicles and will be for the foreseeable future for a range of reasons. An economic recession is inevitable and no one will be rushing to replace their car. And anyway, oil is needed for many non fuel purposes.

It would be good if we could turn canola into urea as well. That way we could grow canola to make urea and diesel to grow canola.

We coulld stop selling canola overseas and turn it into bio-diesel.

One of the reasons for granting bail was that it is going to takwe a very long time to bring these charges before a court. There is no likelihood that he will commit further offences whilst free on bail, so community safety is not endangered. The only condition that I see as not being useful is the reporting three times per week to police. That is supposed to restrict his movement from the local area of his residence. As one who was able to set bail conditions, I always felt that this was an onerous condition. Once a week is sufficient if the condition is required.

Shit, l use to live in Altona through some of that period. But anyway, so we have had fires before, well that's sorta good news then that's probably all this one is.

Ben Roberts-Smith has been granted bail by Local Court Judge Greg Grogin in Sydney after being charged with five counts of war crime murder. The 47-year-old former SAS corporal was released from Silverwater Correctional Complex on Friday, April 17, 2026, following a hearing where the court acknowledged the exceptional circumstances of the case, noting that the trial could take years to resolve. Bail conditions imposed on Roberts-Smith include: Forfeiting his passport and reporting to police three times a week. Granting authorities access to his electronic devices. A strict travel restriction preventing him from leaving Queensland except for legal or medical reasons. A $250,000 bond (surety) provided by his father, former judge Len Roberts-Smith, which would be forfeited if conditions are breached. The judge ruled that these stringent conditions would mitigate risks regarding flight or witness interference, despite opposition from Crown prosecutors who argued the charges were gravely serious and that there was evidence suggesting Roberts-Smith had attempted to move overseas. While Roberts-Smith denies the allegations, the criminal case follows a 2023 defamation trial where a judge found the accusations of murder were substantially true.

When a gold mine closed once, I sat with the manager in the wet mess. He said tonight the two of us are going to cover this table top with empty cans. It was one of those round steel three legged tables. I think we came close. It was the Porphyry mine at Edjudina.