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He must have a really great paper run!

I believe travel by family members should be paid for by the member personally. I don't think many employers pay family members travel. It's been years since I travelled anywhere, and things may have changed. Public funds should only be used for official business travel. I shouldn't have to struggle to put food on the table while paying to send someone else's son off to go skiing or play football.

Is the DON Key the way you wind him up? Nev

Well, give the MAGA mob a break - at least they've still got the Donkey!

I wouldn't go if it was FARE Paid unless the Purpose was a Couple of funerals. Nev

The frightening side of this is the alleged memo that outlines the scope of electronic searches. I believe there are phrases such as "anti American" and any content that is called "counter to accepted American family values" and not favoring christian values, etc. And authorising automated electronic trawling of phones, social media accounts and emails - over the past 5 years! Remember also that Australian telcos are required to store all our internet activity. And we have intelligence sharing agreements with USA. So glad that I have no intention to visit USA

You don't finish if you have a lead foot. He has a Bright future. Nev

This is a video made by an Englishman about the visa requirements. It contains images of the list of information an applicant must provide. The creator also brings up the economic effects associated with decreaased attendance at FIFA matches. CAUTION: At the moment these requirements have only been put up for consideration. They are not in force - yet. Here is an Australian story

What alchemy! His lead foot has turned to gold.

Forget planning a trip to Disneyland or Las Vegas. The Trump Administion now requires people requiring a visa to enter the USA to disclose not onloy their own digital presence for teh past ten years, but also that of family members. If you have posted in this thread, or the "Only in America" thread here, you won't get a visa if you have not laid down your life for Trump. The Administration has effectively destroyed the FIFA World Cup. Thousands of fans will be denied entry to the USA. Billions in tourist income will be lost. But Trump has his Peace Prize.

This was kept quiet. A massive new Tesla Megapack-powered battery energy storage system (BESS) is now officially online in Victoria, Australia, marking the largest completed battery project on the country’s main grid — and one of the biggest operational grid batteries in the world. Read more here.

I wouldn't be a politician for the 4 or 5 hundred grand a year they get. Their lives are not their own and they have little time for their families. Taking the family to a sports event when you are the sports minister is OK with me as she has long periods of time away from them. The trip to the UN was an absolute must as Australia is the first in the world to impose a social media ban for under 16s & she championed it and needed to get this across to other nations who are trying to do the same. To me it promotes Australia as being at the forefront of a caring society not at the bottom of the pit like the US where the only thing that matters is the billionaires getting even richer. At their level of importance and the personal sacrifices they have to make plus having to be places at short notice means flying first class is totally justified and what I expect. Like everyone she made the choice to get in to politics but it is unforgiving and brutal. Put any of the armchair warriors who whinge about everything in their position and the tune will change pretty rapidly

I'm a Poet but don't Know It. A veritable shaft of wit. I Dart into the Fray, any day. Nev

You're a modern Banjo Patterson! Maybe "Electric Guitar" Patterson.

I think it's a Bull, judging by the trail it leaves. When there's Air in the Hair, there's not much there. Nev

Yes. I think the donkey has yellow hair.

Who the hell would WANT to go to the USA while this authoritarian rabble runs it?

They still have milkmaids?

A: Barron Trump's fortune is mainly from their rorting of cryptocurrency. B: T.R.U.M.P is crying about how much they are losing through falling tourism.

Naturally Oscar was disappointed to miss out on the driver's championship, but the blow has been softened somewhat. In addition to his 2024 earnings of $35.6m, this year he took home a sum of $56.4m which included a $40m bonus.

She's good at her job and probably didn't do anything she wasn't allowed to under the rules, however she (and a lot of other politicians of all stripes) should have seen the warning flags and paid out of her own pocket for her family to attend these events. However the obvious point is that the rules need to change to align with public expectations and Albo needs to get onto it.

God yeah red she'd be different alright , whole world is. Thanks to bloody computers , not. Every fart you make is on a damn computer somewhere and if it's not they wanna know why and nothing will be done until they find out. l'm always good to em emu, turn on my sweetest, without sucking ha ha. Sometimes some are ok , most, hopeless but glad you've had a good run lucky you. Not to mention the office now, when you said go in , crikey. You've either gotta try and talk to them through a little hole in a 7ml thick x 2mtr sheet of perspex while they sit on their stool mumbling a meter away on the other side- or they had this one stupid tiny mad capsule type thing, only one in the whole office. Dunno which would be worse the bloody perspex of that idiot of a capsule thing. last time l went into one they had desks and chairs like normal people. Anywayyyyyy, thanks to my lady today, mannnn. l still can't believe tbh, it's gonna take awhile.lf it was up to the others l've had to deal with though ,don't think l could of got there.

I reckon Willie got a new lease on life with his new hip and he's probably built another couple of sheds by now, as well as finished a heap of projects. He hasn't got time any more, for BS'ing on forums. 😄 I trust Spacey's O.K., and hasn't taken a turn for the worse. For most, the old body starts playing up, once you're over 80.

The greatest enemies of solar farms must be fire and hailstorms. In the USA I would add tornados, but not so much here. Presumably they are insurable events, and the premiums will just be built into the cost of power. They will be fairly rare, so not too expensive compared to distribution costs.

They interviewed Albo on Sunrise this morning and he said she and her support staff were originally meant to travel with him when he went to meet Trump, along with the press etc who went with them. But due to the introduction on the social media ban for under 16's, it was decided that she should stay here to deal with that which is why her booking was late. He said these matters are handled by an independent committee and he wouldn't be drawn on whether the rules needed reviewing.

I have to pull you up on that. There is no equivalence. The facts are that Trump did exhort his insurrectionists to fight and made a heap of inflammatory statements to them. All TV programs cut sections out (imagine the run time if they didn't) but in terms of changing the facts, it didn't. And the BBC, instead of apologising, should have told him to f*ck off. If Sky News and ABC were soccer teams, the ABC is getting a red card for accidentally bumping another player, while Sky News gets it for machine-gunning the opposing team.

STUCK FARMER, CUPID STUNT. A British agricultural worker has been freed by emergency services after hiding in a hay baler. He said he did it to allow a friend to enjoy time in the haystack with a milkmaid. 'I am embarrassed' he said, 'but reporters should find more important things to write headlines about'.