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hahahha well you explain to me why the Labor government is governing with 34% of the primary vote but has 90+ seats in the parliment....this is what pref voting does.

This is beautiful.

As long as it didn't walk into the cockpit and announce, "Good morning. This is your Captain speaking."

It is interesting that there are two famous books dealing with the bad sides of the human nature of group control, Animal Farm by George Orwell and Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

And one expects to pay premium prices, the same as one does on an ocean cruise or First Class airline flights. When it comes to mass transport of humans, there is no profit. Such systems must run to schedule. You can't have a commuter train standing on a siding while a profitable freight train goes by. Unless of course you are in the USA where AMTRAC trains give way to freight trains.

Fcts, please. Engine capacity; battery capacity; fuel consumption in l/100km. Thank you.

Maybe this airline incident belongs in the Accidents and Incidents forum (Over the fence). But it is rather random. BTW, if it isn't accompanied by a human assistance animal, is a two year old robot classified as an unaccompanied minor? https://abc7news.com/post/humanoid-robot-named-bebop-causes-southwest-airlines-flight-delay-oakland-san-francisco-bay-airport/19016906/

With first past the post in a multi candidate electorate, depending on the number of candidates, the winner could win with only 30% of the first preferences. That means that 70% of voters didn't want that candidate. Don't they have the right to say "OK, X didn't win, but I don't want Z, I'd prefer Y.

Correct Marty.

I have been back since and got to Pagan and Mandalay. But in 1985 Rangoon was crazy. There were slabs missing in the footpath and if you fell in you would be swept away in a giant storm drain. We thought the beer had no alcohol in it but instead had some hallucinogenic drug that made everyone weird.

I think gerrymandering is a separate issue. The don't have preferential voting in US but still squabble about gerrymandering.

It was a crazy place back then, probably still is. It was fairly hard to find a safe place to eat in Rangoon from what I remember. We used to eat at the Strand for British food and the Karachi for Indian. Back then the Strand hotel was still like something from the days of British rule. The most far up north I got was Pagan, never made it as far as Mandalay. It surprised me how dry it was in that area, almost semi-arid with a lot of eucalypt plantations. The gum trees were a welcome smell having been away for a long time. My first impression of Burma was landing there on a Bangladesh Biman flight and getting a taxi into town. The taxi was a big yank tank from the late 50's, right hand drive and driving on the right side of the road. It's still like that, some left hand drive vehicles but predominantly right hand drive vehicles driving on the right.

Onetrack .... the gerrymander system is well and truely envoked in the preferential system already. Look at sydney electorates like Burkes one....its gerrymandered by race as a lot of them are..Benelong is another. A lot of electorates are bordered to encompass majority ethnic groups

No not at all.....you have to concede that what ever horse wins the race is the winner no matter how many are in the race. Its a fact. You are talking politics not democracy of numbers The difference is that there was a mojority group that have voted for that candidate than any other. To me thats a majority of people

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