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A law means nothing to Trump even if he knew about it, which is unlikely. His performance at the G7 was pathetic. He's so transparently out of his depth, inarticulate and now floundering to defend his bad Iran deal, that it's hard to believe this is an American president. I don't hate Trump, but I don't understand how anyone could have any respect or admiration for him.

To balance my whinge about hospitals, I must add that in spite of frequent past experiences of looong wait times, our health system is generally good. I attribute this to the exceptional diligence of nursing staff, and doctors. The admin, financing, etc..... well that needs work.

The only recent time I've walked into emergency entailed a five hour wait before being triaged, but I wasn't a critical case. It was more a formality; the stroke clinic phoned me and wanted me to do it. As I know now, that's what I should have done in the first place instead of going through the GP and then getting a referral to the hospital. A couple of years ago when I was stretchered in after running low on the red stuff, it wasn't too long to wait. Maybe ten minutes ramped in the ambulance, then another ten in the hallway. The paramedics stayed with me and kept an eye on blood pressure so it was all good. Our local public hospitals are good in my opinion. Not the case everywhere from what you hear.

Their triage is usually good. Head injury or chest pain, straight in. Something that's not going to kill you, you'll be waiting.

A lot of people Have died who needn't have. Lives don't matter where the Privileged Money is at stake and Egos drive events more than Facts and logic. Nev

To paraphrase an old saying, He who lives by the Law, dies by the Law. There is a law in the USA which says that if a terrorist organisation attacks US interests with drones, that organisation cannot be removed from the list of terrorist organisations for four years. In April 2026, the US Administration informed the Congress that an Iranian organisation ws hitting US interests with drones. The nett result is that the US cannot lift sanctions against Iran as promised in the current peace agreement. This video explains it.

Two television celebrities put themselves up as candidates in elections to find a leader for their countries. One did it as a joke, and became a respected leader. The other did it to become the leader, and became a joke.

A capital gain on a personal use asset is subject to CGT if it cost you more than $10,000 to acquire the asset. Capital losses on personal use assets are ignored. This means you can't use a capital loss on a personal use asset to reduce capital gains on other assets (including other personal use assets). Personal use assets are CGT assets that you keep for your personal use or enjoyment. They include: boats furniture electrical goods household items an option or right to acquire a personal use asset a debt resulting from a CGT event involving a CGT asset kept for your personal use making a private loan to a family member or friend. The following are not classed as personal use assets: collectables – these may be subject to CGT your main residence, which is generally exempt from CGT cars, which are exempt from CGT. If you dispose of personal use assets individually that would usually be sold as a set, you get the exemption only if you acquired the set for $10,000 or less.

Trump ripped up Obama's nuclear treaty with Iran, then started a pointless war that cost thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, half of the US missiles and tens of aircraft, disrupted shipping to most of the world and caused fuel crises in many countries. Now he's desperate to end the war before the midterms, so is doing a "deal" that leaves the Iranian regime better off than before the war. Tell me again how he's "righting the ship"?

I've never understood sidecars. To me it destroys the whole purpose of a motorbike, which is to have fun leaning through corners.

He's back! I especially liked the last one. It's what's in the mind of many young blokes (and women) in the nightclub...

A malignant narcissist, 6 time bankrupt, insecure, compulsive liar & con man. Absolutely nothing to like there.

Often when I was performing constabulary duties, I had to take mental patients to the local hospital which had a psych unit. Like the ambos, I had to stay with the patient in the corridors of the A&E until the patient could be asessed by a doctor for admission. You can imagine how fustrating that was when I knew that my partner and I were the only crew available to attend to calls in our patrol. And it usually happened during evening shift on weekends when there was lots going on out on the streets.

I hope it has a good subwoofer.

I beleive you can avoid any tax,if you sell it within 2 years and under some circumstances this period may be able to be extended.

Another mistake. Trump forgot to forge Netanyahu's signature on the MOU.

Trump Came from the FAR queue. Nev

Don't take it so badly. Soon HE will drop out of the picture and a new face can earn that title. There is quite a queue of similar types waiting in the wings.

Speaking of things 'they' track:- Yesterday I received a text to my phone and an email. The AEC sent me this:- "Dear xxxx, The Australian Electoral Commission is contacting you because we have information indicating you need to check your enrolment. Either you are not enrolled to vote, or your enrolment details may be out of date. This might be because you have changed your name or address. The great majority of eligible people in your local area are enrolled to vote.......... Remember that enrolment and voting are compulsory by law." The important thing to remember is the phrase 'we have information indicating you...' They probably know I recently sold a bit of land. Or maybe they received information that I booked my car onto the Spirit of Tasmania to return to the mainland? For those of you who think 'big bro is watching you', you better believe he IS!

I know the collectibles CGT wasn't introduced by Albo et al, howeve, Labior did introduce CGT in 1985 as a more equitable tax. At the same time, it did reduce income and some corporate taxes. However,the reforms were only at the top marginal tax rate so, with the exception of bracket creep, don't impact too many Aussies. Yet the thresholds for the tax to apply haven't changed since 1985. And even then, for the average punter - even a hobbyist. There is no threshold for a reasonable turnover as a hobby (i.e. selling off say one stamp to fund the purchase of another). AAlso not being able to offset against losses of othe CGT assessable asset classes is also pernicious. The cultural comment was aimed at the Aussie governments as a whole. Not just Albo... Not indexing thresholds, for example, is a cultural thing,. It is niot necessarily the coal face workers I am talking about. Is the CGT a stealth death tax? Yes.. In Australia, you don't pay inheritance tax on receiving the property, but when yu sell it. Many people sell the property (or want to).. so you have to pay the tax. It effectively defers the inheritance tax payable. It is better than the UK though, where death taxes are payable on property recived > GBP 250K per person and the taxes payablke on inherited pensions can be up to an effective 80%. I am setting up our property (which is diminished with this house) such that it is owned by an Aussie company,, and the kids can derive rental income so as not to ave to sell it. They can then use the equity to fund hopefukly fund further investment/growth.It is about the most tax efficient way of doing it..

You're a better man than me. I despise the prick.

I doubt they'd sell them to the Russian military due to sanctions risk. They're headquarted in the U.S. now and manufacturing has moved from Russia to Kazakhstan since the war between Russia and Ukraine began. The new ones are a big improvement on the old Soviet made bikes. I guess they'd want to be for the price of them. Sales are strong, they have a big following around the world.

Ben Jennings on Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran – cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/18/ben-jennings-donald-trump-ceasefire-deal-iran-cartoon?CMP=share_btn_url

Some things they track. For example, all aircraft change of registrations are notified to the tax office.

$42 M in Australia today does not buy you a radio announcer or a union delegate, let alone a munitions storage.

They are riding Chinese bikes.

I neglected to include the difficulty of enforcement (train/phone at the time), but if when you sell someone wants a receipt, you are going to be, if only slightly, a little more at risk because the next bloke nay get audited and he produces a receipt from you. Granted, the risk is tiny, but regardless $500 for a single item that doesn't have an exemption for, say not having up to a reasonable amount of the type of collectable for normal use whether you can prove it is for normal use or not is scummy and shows they may be prepared to use it against the little people when there are far bigger fish to fry. It's about a culture as opposed to the probability of enforcement... IMHO

And for carrying Mother, when you couldn't afford a car.

They're good for carrying groceries. And building arm muscles.

Just to qualify those sidecar details, here's the quote from the transport department regultions: 'Sidecars which bolt directly to the motorcycle’s frame without the need for any modifications to the motorcycles are acceptable without specific approval. Sidecars which require the motorcycle to be modified (for example, welding to the frame) must be approved by the Department of Transport and Main Roads. Before modifying your motorcycles so that a sidecar can be attached, you should engage the services of an Approved Person Engineer, who can submit an application on your behalf.' So a normal bolt on sidecar doesn't need approval. The park brake ruling is that a motorcycle manufactured after February 1976 fitted with a sidecar must have a mechanical parking brake. A bike can have a right hand side car only if it was built that way before 1 July 1988.

As far as I know Queensland is the only state that has the option of either single or dual seat registration. About a month ago I spotted this Royal Enfield Bullet 500 and sidecar in the shopping centre carpark. I got talking to the owner and he was saying that as long as you have two seat rego on a bike, you can fit a sidecar any time you like without any engineering certification or inspections. You can build a sidecar yourself and fit it, the only transport department stipulations on sidecars are that it must have four attachment points and a park brake. We don't have annual vehicle inspections here, only on trucks so for other vehicles they only need a roadworthy certificate to transfer registration from one owner to another. The owner of this Royal Enfield is a retired pilot and has quite a few classics from what he told me. Norton Commandos and single thumpers. This one is his daily driver although he said he sticks to the secondary roads and doesn't go near the highway on it.

No, and that's a big problem. People with mental illness, especially those whose illness has made them homeless usuyally have had very traumatic interactions with police whose lack of training in dealing with the minds of the mentally ill exacerbates bad interactions. The feeling of helplessness in the police to be able to reach a satisfactory solution to the problem presented by a mental illness situation is demoralising. Remember,too, that for the constables called out to a mental illness situation there are likely to be aware that at the same time calls are coming in for them to deal with all the other types of situations that normally occur durig a shift. There are never enough police on duty at a given time to deal with all the calls coming in. So while police are stuck in an A&E unit with a mentally ill person, some arsehole is beting his partner and some drunk has wrapped his car around a pole. Which job gets priority? As dramatist W. S. Gilbert's lyric in The Pirates of Penzance song "When a felon's not engaged in his employment" sung by the Sergeant and Chorus of Police, "A policeman's lot is not a happy one ..."

Are they trained to handle Mental people? I think they are there more for security reasons. It's pretty common to see. Nev

I still haven't identified the drum brake wheels on this 1970 Ural frame yet, but the tyres on it bring back some memories. They're Dunlop Roadmaster K81/TT100 tyres the same as I had on my Norton Commando Fastback in 1972. In those days they were the latest big thing. They still make them now but market them as a classic vintage style tyre. It makes you feel a bit old hearing that.

There's also an electric prototype. https://www.imz-ural.com.au/

That certainly doesn't look like anything earth shattering. How many of you People have ridden Outfits? They are not everybody's cup of tea. You have to get used to them and look well ahead if you are Pushing it near the limit.. Nev

Looks like Iran (or, rather Israel) couldn't wait for Trumps Tuesday Taco. The ink had hardly dried before they suspended the MOU. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iran-halts-us-negotiations-lebanon-strikes-1803651 Are we still winning.... again?

Move to Australia before it's too Late. Nev

Well, yes, and no. Public system is a bit of a lottery. You must have had good timing. I have been taken in to the Royal by ambulance - true, I was not actually at death's door but I was in great pain - and I was ramped on a gurney, in the ER hallway along with other unfortunates. The silly thing about it is that we were technically still under the care of our respective Ambulance staff because we were not yet admitted to the hospital. So we were surrounded by a bunch of First Responders (two to each patient). These were regularly checking on each of us, not the hospital staff. So there was a queue of empty ambulances blocking the driveway, unable to respond to further emergencies.

You Must be Wilfully Blind to Reality GON. Look what's REALLY Happening. They owe a lot. Have high inflation, Fuel more expensive than Here and no other Nation can TRUST the USA to keep a promise. and Trump is SICK. Nev

Norton had that set up on their Military 16H Model (2 wheel drive). Several German Makes Predated them. Nev .

These Days it's Fool You. Nev

You're better than me OT. I thought the first bit was "F*** you" then couldn't figure out the rest. 😄

"If you can dream it, you can do it". Universally attributed as a saying, to Walt Disney - but the experts claim it was an advertising executive working for GE, who wrote it on a GE recruiting brochure.

Wasn't BMW the original 2WD motorcyle/sidecar combination of WW2? Did Ural copy them?

Trump has debunked the adage that wisdom comes with age.

Oh, great. Just what we need. Another big target on our backs.

My brother had a copy chinese Chang Ziang 750 as a solo but with the chair brackets. It had the leading link front and useless drum brakes, compression, what little it had, was the main barking force. Not suited to modern traffic in anyway. It also had reverse gear and a hand lever change, very weird compared to my usual rides. Was a laugh to ride but only for gentle jaunts in the country. However, I would not kick it out of the collection if free and on clasic rego. Today, I went to get a green slip on the bike and its $882- a bullshit amount.

The US is planning to spend $42 million to build a munitions storage facility in the Albury/Wodonga area. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/us-marine-corps-builds-warready-weapons-dump-in-victoria-amid-china-fears/news-story/ef24940b8a068deedd0257590bc478a8?utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_content=SocialBakers

Finke is a free for all but they still have a womens class, which by the way i think is a great thing. Love seeing women compete in things like motorcycle riding. Tried to get my daughter into it a bit, she can ride but was more academic type.