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Do you accept Anthropogenic climate change? Nev

All the countrys we are trading against use coal. Personally I haven't got a problem with it as long as we head to not using it in an orderly fashion. (like China and India- India has jut started a fast reactor in the last couple of days)One of the things that is sending our remaining industry overseas is the price and perceived unreliability of our weather dependent intermittent electricity generation.

"Tradie" CANAVAN is for Coal. Never forget it The rest is Just an act where he Plays to Naive People. Albanese is and has been for quite a while attempting to Be More self sufficient and Value add Overseas Refining is Cheaper and of a high standard. IF we do it Ourselves it will inevitably cost More so THAT may be the future OR electric. It would be Hard to Predict the Vagaries and excesses of Trump and the Incredible damage that has resulted to TRUST and ORDER. and be able to Avoid being affected. Storage has risks and costs. AUSTRALIA hasn't caused what is Happening in the ME, and is NOT Pro war,. nev

I am very aware of that, There's nothing better than views of Natural Phenomena Including the Universe itself What a Colossal amount is available to us at the Moment but We Get Karl and Jackie O and Views not News. TV could have educated Millions instead of Creating Division and HATE. . Nev

I didn't see Planet "B" there, There's also an Asteroid Belt. 7% of Americans "think" the earth is FLAT. More cratering happens when there is No atmosphere. Just Imagine the State of your Mind IF you didn't believe in Science? Nev

I think my post went straight through to the catcher. My bedroom window is 3m wide and faces east. I don't need a TV.

Why allow yourself to be Indoctrinated with Merdy Propaganda? Bit by Bit it will ruin your Mind. , Guaranteed. There are examples everywhere. Nev

Writing stuff to get a Bite from Me specifically Willedoo? How is THAT acceptable. to do to anybody. ? A joke at someone else's expense is not a Proper. Joke. Nev

We had a reverse mortgage for quite a while. I think the maximum we went to was about 20k. The thing is, most of this was used to make home improvements, which more than paid for itself when we sold the house. The other thing that worked in our favour was the fact that during the 10 years we had the reverse mortgage, the value of the house increased at a greater rate. Of course, for those undisciplined, you could conceivably burn through the value of your house. I know of elderly people who are struggling but live in a huge house, which is both too much for them to maintain and just too big for 1 or 2 people. At 80 or 90 you would have to be pretty irresponsible to blow through $500 000. We sold our 44-acre property and now live in a nice unit. The profit from selling the property allowed us to retire in our mid 50s whilst we are still fit enough to travel, bushwalk, kayak and cycle. Too many people (in my opinion) hang on to an overly large house whilst spending their remaining years in poverty. Although we do not need one at this point, I would not rule out another reverse mortgage. Here is an interesting article. This little‑known government scheme can help retirees tap into $3 trillion of housing wealth

I watch sunrise most mornings. I don't get closed captions. Just twitters, bluesky and a colour show. The wrens come out first. Best of all it has no merdok.

Marty, that's fine whilst you live in the sweet spot of having good income and totally owning your property. Do you really think that reverse mortgage is great? What if you outlive that mortgage? Do you lose your home? It sounds like a way of bleeding the ownership away. Then what? Are you expecting to die before you need to sell up to pay for your aged care expenses? I will more likely drop off my perch before needing to liquidate my assets to pay for aged care. My mother-in-law thought that too.

I think there are a lot of us in the same boat. I did have partial pension until recently. My once affordable rural bushland block is now a financial burden. So after some expense and 3 years dealing with state titles office, getting a full survey, we got a archaic property boundary reinstated. We just sold that bit for what our whole block initially cost. Hurrah - money to sustain us. But then our remaining land theoretical value went up. And combined with our new bank balance, we will never get a pension. So when the cash runs out, we will sell up. By then the sale won't buy a little townhouse in suburbia. What then? The system is already set up to remove any accumulated wealth of the average wage earner. The elite live in a different financial world. If you think there is a safety net just take a look at the average pensioner. The social obligation to the aged has been eroded.

Wow. Awesome pics. I wonder,,, since our moon always has the same 'side' faving away from earth, does it actually stop a lot of incoming asteroids,etc, that would otherwise hit earth? There seem to be some big impacts in these new pictures of the 'dark side'.

Well, there already is. For any homeowner that has more than two hectares. According to our accountant my mother-in-law pays CGT on the majority of her land. Her 100 acre 'farm' is in a rainshadow and never produced an income. Due to urban sprawl it now seems closer to town so it has been revalued as an asset which precluded the age pension (lost that a couple of yrs back) and now around 70k will go as CGT. You might think that's small bikkies as a % of 1.6 million (less commission), but matters - it is costing 650k to get her in the door of a nursing home. The nursing home still charges substantial monthly costs, so the rest of her wealth will be whittled away by that. Her present temporary residential care is costing about 1.5k per week until the property sells and the market is flat so that might take a while. Some people have to take a mortgage on the home to tide them over until the home sells. Aged care is a different issue but CGT comes into it. So CGT is not a simple thing. Tax reform isn't either. But successive governments have dragged their feet on that.

Would Canavan really be any worse than any of the others. Looks like he would get some industry going, eg making fertiliser. Phosphate Hill may be going down the tube. We are trying to go green but buying are fertiliser from country that is putting industry first. Jobs for our kids. It would be good if we did the same, we have all the ingredients and don't have to transport it on dirty bunker oil burning ships, so it is greener than what we are doing now.

Silent p, as in swimming.

Winding path is correct.

Yes, I'll give you that, but E is the most common letter, and often used to change the pronunciation of the the word, as in ton/tone. But there are other letters which appear to have no purpose and could be omitted without changing the word. eg. P in Psychology.

The Moon Photos from Artimus II

The Planets New photos downloaded from Facebook.

And for all the Trump and Netanyahu fanbois... Tell me again what "the master of the deal" has done for America? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-08/donald-trump-cedes-ground-to-iran-before-negotiations-even-begin/106541368 After being fooled into this war by a war criminal, Trump has: - caused devastation to life and infrastructure in Iran - spent billions of US taxpayers money on a war they didn't want or need - depleted the US armory - caused mayhem around the middle east - raised prices around the world due to fuel and transportation costs, along with associated shrinking of tourism etc - trashed America's reputation even more - put money back in Putin's coffers enabling him to continue the Ukraine invasion. And in return for all this pain, felt worldwide, what has he accomplished? Nothing. If anything, the Iranian regime will come out of this with more than they started with. Not only will sanctions be removed, they will be making money, Mafia-style, from any ship using the Strait of Hormuz. No regime change. No democracy. No stopping of their nuclear program. And you think this pathetic creature is doing right for the US? Don't make me laugh.

Canavan is a nut job. Anyway isn't this a bit off topic? There's another thread about Australian politics.

The most common silent letter is "E", because it is often found at the end of words, and isn't pronounced there (see, I just gave you an example!).

Winding path (to the find the missing letters, above)