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Whether or not you approve of the term "nation of migrants," these are the hard, rational facts. As of 2023, 31% of Australians were born overseas. The 2021 census shows that nearly half (48%) of Australians have a parent born overseas. Let's leave out the term "Nation of Migrants" if it freaks you out. Let's just say a nation with a significant number of migrants.

You're just in denial.. I'll leave it at that

No, but it might show a brain about the size of a walnut.

You can think whatever you like, whether it's right or wrong. But if you turn up to a rally railing against people who got here about a minute after your family, while you're wearing clothes made in Bangladesh, shoes from the Philippines, sunnies, flag and MAGA cap from China... Well then I reserve the right to call you a bloody dickhead. How Australian is that?

They don't MRI your head unless there's a reason for doing it. I don't think it will show crappy Ideas and Psychiatric disorders. Nev

When I was Young I was a BRITISH Citizen even though there was 4 generations born HERE before Me I was then declared Australian as I didn't qualify to stay British. I could not care one way or the other. it made no real difference unless you wanted to reside Permanently in England. Nev

Each Battery no Matter who Owns it Helps the system. You trotted out the OLD 275 Dollar thing from years ago. THAT'S not science Based. NOW I Know you aren't fair Dinkum and the Spanish situation has NO bearing on what happens Here. Free Power for people at certain times. Lower cost than would be otherwise because of other people's SOLAR. Nev

It's a way of No bias random Picking when you have More to Pick from than you need. How would you recommend it be done instead? Nev

Batterys paid for by subsidies, all well and good if you can afford it. Catastrophic if you can't! And there is a lot more people around that can't even buy a house let alone worry about solar and batterys!

If the whole grid is running on several synchronous generation it gets the capacity factor up and they aren't underutilised. If it needs to ramp quickly every plant just needs to change a little bit and the system load follows quickly. It also has a large amount of inertia. Obviously they can ramp back at night as has been done for many years with controled loads like hot water.. Intermittent generation can't ramp up if there is no extra wind or sun. This is where the batterys come into it as long as they have charge and the people that trade the electricity haven't made a wrong call and emptied them previously. Remember the companys that generate our powers number 1 priority is to make money, not to keep power on to our homes and workplaces. There is definitely a place for batterys in a modern grid for sure as there is for some intermittent generators. We also need to remember these people that are selling this type of grid also convinced the government that the power was going to $275 cheaper. Definitely not dearer. 37% this year I heard. Luckily I have solar and don't feel it yet. I still standby "No-one anywhere in the world has run a large grid on intermittent weather dependent generation." Australia is running an experiment. It may work but at what cost and what help will it do to the environment.(make absolutely no difference.) We saw what happened in Spain when a solar inverter started to fail and put stupid frequencys on the grid. Are we willing to risk it.

You're dead right about that, I lost. Glad you put it that way. Trump got it right, we were suckers and losers. Let's make sure criminal ballots like that never happen again.

It is not surprising that the right wing of politics are heading down hill. They keep rabbiting on about how they will make electricity cheaper but have no plans on how this will happen. They keep harping on about "base load" power a term from last century when everything was coal. It is "peak demand" that is the issue now and during heat waves with the huge demand for air conditioning etc brown outs are a reality. These have happened even before there was much renewable energy around. We are awash with energy in the middle of the day now with so much commercial solar and wind and the huge amount of rooftop solar on homes and businesses so storing that energy is just common sense. Many early solar farms are switching off during peak production when the spot price goes negative as they never envisaged they would need to store energy. In NSW home owners are limited to exporting a maximum of 5 kW to help prevent grid overload. So if you are producing more and have no storage the excess is dissipated as heat. Storage is what we need. Batteries are expensive though but fast to deploy. Pumped hydro is a great way to do this as well but costly & time consuming to set up. One part of the puzzle is State & Federal subsidised batteries for home owners. My installer said to me that up until June it was all new rooftop solar. From July on it has been all new batteries, most on properties that already have large solar systems & some like me installing both. These do not need any new infrastructure at all and reduce the load on existing poles & wires so the subsidies are paying for them selves.

You're being absurd, you're asserting that generations of offspring in a convict line are technically immigrants. Convicts were prisoners in a colony. Their only paper work was a certificate of release from incarceration at the end of their sentence, and certainly had no personal bank account. Had they not been arrested for their misdemeanour back home, they would have still been residing there in Britain, poor, and unable to travel anywhere. Suffice to say I don't subscribe to the lefty progressive's ridiculous assertion that we are a nation of immigrants, and trying to convince us into thinking we have no right to have influence over present and future immigration outcomes. It's bad enough that the major parties have joined to block discussion about it, and that's one of the reasons I've never voted for them.

Liar Leavett provided reporters with the doctor's summary of Trump's MRI examination. The summary said that the MRI showed that Trump's heart and ciculatory system was just fine, as were his abdominal organs. Can you believe that teh MRI only examined his torso? Given his many physical symptoms associated with muscle control, surely the MRI must have examined the contents of his cranium. But it probably only showed the cranial space filled with sheep shit.

A reporter asked what his October MRI was for. He didn't know which part of his body had been tested. But he Aced it!!

Hybrid is for People who can't make up their Mind. It's a Punishing life for some Hybrid engines and you still have ALL the Maintenance issues of a normal car. Conditions for EVs will continue to Improve and Petrol /Diesel will recede. as there's less demand for it. Nev

We'll ALL be RUNED said Hanrahan. They HATE Power poles but still want electricity available. Bl@@Dy whingers. Get REAL! Nev

In rural W.A., the State Govt electricity system provider and maintainer, Western Power, has been pulling out long rural power lines to distant farms, and installing stand-alone, off-grid power plants to the farms. The stand-alone power plants are a combination of solar, battery and backup diesel power. WP says the stand-alone systems are cheaper than the cost of installing and maintaining long power lines with only a handful of customers. With this change, there's also the benefits that less trees are required to be cut down for poles, farming operations are easier when they don't have to work around poles, blackouts from storm damage to poles and wiring is reduced, and fire outbreaks from fallen power lines are eliminated. A farmer friend in the W.A. wheatbelt accidently bumped a pole in his paddock with a seeding unit, and the pole promptly fell over - and it took 6 other poles down with it! The holes for the poles are oversized and the dirt refilled around the pole is not compacted, so it doesn't take a lot to make them fall over, especially when the ground is wet. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-02/thousands-of-renewable-standalone-power-systems-to-be-rolled-out/101479136 However, the changeover is not without its problems, and primarily, the problems relate to WP inflexibility and faulty planning. Some farmer customers are not happy with the standalone systems, due to limitations, rules about resetting circuit breakers, and what may happen when the stand-alone systems are worn out and a future cash-strapped State Govt refuses to replace them. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-12/farmers-question-western-power-push-standalone-regional-units/103549708

Obscene isn't It? How would HE have a Clue (or care) How the Ordinary Person Lives? Nev

You are one of those who EXPECT the gov't to Wipe your ass and provide all the services but don't vote or care about who gets elected or want to Pay for Gov't services. WE are SICK of hearing about you being called up. That was a Ballot and you lost. Others served Overseas and Many got traumatised. You got free training and met a few People you otherwise would not have. It's OVER Rover. Stop Bitching and get on with the rest of your Life. You are NOT the Only ONE who has had a $#!t deal at some stage.. Nev

Early summer is always Unstable in Melbourne as the average Temperature is on the Increase. Autumn is the direct opposite, stable little wind. It won't be long before you will be wishing for a cool day. Darwins temp Must be the least variable in the Country. Average about 33 c. max daily temp. IT has only a WET and a DRY season. Nev

Not suitable for Purpose. Goes back to the "BASELINE POWER" argument STILL trotted out by the Naysayers. Older Coal fired Power stations can't be relied on and IF one fails it's a BIG problem. to fix because it an out of date thing. .Nev

There would be a Lot of driverless VN Commodores. Nev

The comparison with Qantas aircraft is misleading, because traditional coal-fired power stations already rely on vast amounts of underutilised equipment. Coal plants cannot ramp quickly, they cannot turn off at night, and they must run even when demand collapses — meaning the whole plant is burning fuel simply to stay online. This is the definition of expensive underutilisation.

Supplying Power to remote farms etc can never PAY. There's extra strength in Aircraft structures for the Occasional Turbulence too and you often carry extra fuel just in case you need it. Water and sewage systems don't run at full flow either. AIRLINES would have aircraft sitting around but as few as can be organised. If there's a 'Plane on the ground" Common Term there must be a replacement or Passengers don't go where they were booked to go and that doesn't win customers. Just in Time, runs risks carrying stock costs money also. Reserve stocks of Fuel. It's all part of the show, and the SHOW MUST GO ON. Nev