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So you agree that first past the post is ok? But would you still agree if the candidate who won was a One Nation candidate, you wouldn't condemn that candidate for winning in a first past the post competition.

"something better" means Govt handouts and the pension, and the means by which immigrants can send remittance back home. $5 billion sent home by Indians, $3.5 billion sent home by Chinese. Add the rest and it reached $25 billion (in 2024). And my village can't even get a dusty main dirt street sealed. Our Council simply hasn't got the money. A grant from the State Govt would only need to be about $2-3 million. The traffic is quite extensive because of a popular camping ground. The street is short but the dust from it gets in/on everything, in your lungs. Everything needs constant cleaning.

People pay big money to go for long train rides, and the aura and advertising associated with the "Great Train Journeys of the World" is very prominent. Both the Ghan and the Indian Pacific make money from passenger traffic. These trips are advertised as "premium" tourism events, and the passengers pay high prices for premium accommodation, premium food and dining experiences, and associated events in towns that the lines pass through. A company named Journey Beyond runs these train trips and the whole operation is quite highly profitable.

Great man. He's done a lot for the world.

David Attenborough turned 100 today.

I was there then too! I never got beyond Rangoon, stayed at the Inya Lake hotel for a couple of weeks on a mining job.

We just drove 250 km in our Toyota hybrid. Efficient and comfortable.

No mass transport system for the carriage of humans makes a profit. It is freight that makes the profit because the costs of transport can be forwarded onto the end consumer of the freight.

Nev, You're the greatest bloody naysayer of all times! When anyone posts anything, you misread it and then bag it. Did you even watch the video? I bet not! All I was saying was that the video explained the concept underpining the hybrid design. I said nothing about power output comparisons. Of course energy cannot be created from nothing. It can be converted from one form to another - with losses as was stated in the video.

When I was in Burma in 1985, about the only reminder of the war was a lot of psp used for rural fencing once you got out of Rangooon into the countryside.

I told you HE is clever. I couldn't work out what the Black thing is. Nev

Bittersweet symphony

The Adelaide to Darwin thing has never Made Money and I'd question the Indian Pacific also. Cheap Air travel kills it. A day in a train is one hour in a Plane. Nev

Most People who've experienced such circumstances hate war and seek something better.. Nev

Agree. The kids will need to be re-educated into civil behaviour, in a big way. Most of them have been taught nothing but hatred and cruelty as normality, and they all would have been taught how to shoot and kill.

It's a SEXY Plane GIFTED from Gorgeous Gina.. Nothing to see here. Perfectly Normal. Just Imagine the Hoo Haa IF Albanese got one given to him.. Sky would fall down on Him.. You'd Never hear the end of it. Nev

They are nowhere near the same size or Power. You cannot create energy and the engines of hybrids get a hard time.. Don't believe everything you get on You tube. Nev

This video gives a good explanation of how a hybrid EV works. What I found interesting was at teh end when the presenter explained the differeence between a parallel and a series hybrid. Apparently in a the parallel the vehicle has a low power output ICE and the battery boosts the available power when needed for beginning to roll; hill climbing or overtaking. In a series system, the engine is in fact a generator which continually tops up the battery as the battery discharges to power the electric motors. So a Toyota Hybrid uses the parallel system and BYD Shark uses the series system. That's why the Toyota has better fuel economy than the Shark.

Som of the kids might have been born in Syria, but some of them were Australian born and taken there as young 'uns. I'm concrened about how ISIS indoctrination might have done to those kids.

Well that's one positive thing. And they don't desribe it as a home-built ultra-light.

The mothers may have been under the same duress as the Iranian Women's Soccer Team who wanted asylum in Australia, with threats to their family in Iran. They may have had no say in who they married, the Muslim religion treats women worse than dogs. 9 year old girls are forced to marry. The mothers did not want that sort of treatment for their children. Bringing them here gives the kids a chance to grow up as caring compassionate human beings.

these children were all born in Syria NOT in Australia ergo yhey are Syrians , let them all stay there with thier Traitor mothers

The actual lyric is "I Can See Clearly Now". There should be a second C there. The plane (not plain) is meant to be a Lear 45.

I wish those idiot reporters would stop referring to "Pauline's Jet". Can't they see the ruddy great propeller on the front of it. And it's less than $2million, not multi-million. It's as bad as calling it a Cessna.

I am reading a book about the WW2 Burma campaign. The US 111 Brigade retreated from Blackpool to Indawgyi Lake and couldn’t take the badly wounded. They were all shot to save them from falling into Japanese hands.