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Well all I see is people losing their minds over a guy who only wants for his country to be the best. How you get there of course is the methods you use. Why dont you point all your agression and comments and pontifications to the dickheads who lead our country down into the shi#t chute we are heading into. We are a Island..we dont have nutjobs on any of our borders than can just walk in. We have done our best over the past 30 plus years ( thanks to keatings globalization push) to defang and deindustrialize to a point now where we are a joke. We used to be self sufficient in power and oil and manufacturing pretty much anything we wanted. Exported all around the world and had a balance of trade far in excess of the situation we have in this country currently. Now we are a weak pissy shadow of our former selves. Both political parties are responsible for this terrible decline the problem is they are still in that mindset. We need someone to come in and reshape us. I am not saying thats Trump but we need someone with a big set of khunas or boobies..I dont care who it is just someone with the conviction that Trump seems to have. Not his runaway mouth but his drive and vision for a better country. If that makes me a racist or a woke hater in your eyes then so be it.Thats your opinion !...I have a thick skin and sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Oh and I am aloowed to still have a opinion dont I...I mean if I offend you with what I have said..then good...its not illegal to offend anyone...yet. well the current govt seems to want to try to even take that away from us. What ever happened to common sense and critical thinking to run your country. We have the resources here to be one of the wealthies countrys in the world and give the population here a lifestyle that could rival anywhere in the world. Wether you are born here or immigrated here I dont care. If you have immigrated here dont bring your shit here or try to convert what we are or the way we want to live. We are Australians..well we used to be...sometimes I really wonder who or what we will become in the future as I can not currently see any path forward to a better country under our current and ever former numbskulls Now you have a opinion in my view and I ont or probably wont be offended by whatyou say. I will listen and make up my own mind of what I keep on board what you say or discard it into the rubbish bin of ideas..be they sane or insane

But it is not compulsory to drive. The fact is that people get injured in traffic accidents sometimes catastrophically. How, as a society, do we handle this? Do we deny people the means to live, perhaps as a paraplegic? If this insurance were not compulsory, would you not have it? If you were to cause an accident, would you be happy to be sued for every cent you have in order to provide for the person you may injure? If you yourself had life-changing injuries, would you want to be provided the financial means to help you live? You say you get nothing from this insurance, but what you get is protection from losing your house if you injure someone, and protection for yourself should the worst happen. In life, there are rights and responsibilities. To want the rights without the responsibilities is childish. Operating a car does involve responsibilities and expenses. I am compelled to have tyres on my car that are roadworthy, the brakes must be serviceable, etc. (oohhh it's so unfair sob sob). I have not had a significant accident in 46 years of driving; however, obviously, it could happen. I am not willing to lose my house if I injure someone. I also am not willing to be injured by another motorist, which could cause me to have to sell my house for my medical treatment. Sorry, but this is just another one of your endless list of "whinges"

It's not the first time a keen innovator has built a Lister-powered Rat Bike!

This might give you some idea. The area around the Strait of Hormuz. Territory to the left of the image above Mountains around Tehran

The present system for costing this insurance is probably the best way to remove the complexity for calculating a premium based on annual mileage. I don't know if it still applies, but back in the day the premium was reduced a little bit for vehicles garaged outside the Metropolitan Area of Sydney. Consider this. In NSW when you get your annual roadworthiness certificate (pink slip), the mileage is recorded. A lot of people wait until the last minute to get their pink slip. The premium for CTP, if based on mileage would have to be calculated before a renewal notice could be sent. Very inconvenient for paying rego on time. As it stands, I get my CTP renewal notice a month before the due date, so I can pay it any time after that, and before the expiry date. Knowing how much the premium will be lets me put a few dollars aside each pension day throughourt the year so that I don't have to worry that I won't have the money necessary when I want to pay it.

If it were voluntary and a sizable chunk of drivers opted out, there would be a smaller pool of contributors, and most likely the cost would be greater. I have no problem with a more sophisticated system where premiums depend on kilometres travelled, although this is complicated and discriminates against country people who may have to travel long distances. When I lived in the country, I did around 45000 km a year, and a trip to work was 100km each way (200 per day). Now I live in the city with good public transport, so I am around 5000 km per year. My compulsory insurance premium is probably subsidising country drivers, but I don't really mind. You say you could haggle, but I think your major complaint was that you seemed to believe your premiums should be refunded if you don't claim. So even if you could shave $50 of your premiums, you still would not get it back. The people in the hotel garden in Daylsford who were killed or injured by the driver, who had a medical episode, deserve something. Compulsory insurance is not just to cover bad drivers; it is to cover the victims of bad drivers. I understand that you believe you are a great driver and could never make a mistake. That could be true (but I doubt it) but what if you are hit by a drunk driver or someone overtaking badly, or someone who drives through a red light, or perhaps answering their mobile and becoming distracted? What you are saying is that your medical treatment or rehabilitation is purely determined by whether the driver who hits you has bothered to take out third-party injury insurance, and if they haven't, you are screwed. That is the nature of insurance, and most grown-ups understand that. You seem to group drivers into good and bad and I suppose you think that only bad drivers are involved in accidents. Apart from the fact that everyone is capable of making a mistake, so-called good drivers are often the victims of bad drivers and perhaps bad drivers would be less likely to take out insurance. Where does that leave the good driver who is injured by the bad driver? Again, because you don't seem to be able to understand. CTP covers all victims of traffic accidents, whether they cause the accident or are merely victims of someone else's bad driving. I don't know how many times I can say this. You do get something; you get some protection from being sued, and you also get some level of financial protection should you yourself be injured. I can't understand why you can't comprehend how insurance works. Perhaps you don't understand that the money paid out to claimants IS from premiums paid by people who do not claim. To use the example of a raffle, I recently bought tickets from a charity. The price is a campervan worth 165k. This vehicle is paid for by all of the ticket purchases. If all the people who did not win were to be refunded, how would they pay for the prize? At this point, you are going to say that the difference is that buying a raffle ticket is not compulsory, and that is true. Let's consider this. You employ an electrician to do some work on your house. They screw up, and your house burns down. My understanding is that electricians have mandatory Public Liability Insurance. This would pay to rebuild YOUR house, and I suspect you would be here whinging (again) if your house burnt down and there was no insurance. How are you not getting this or is it a case of your usual modus operandi being to whinge about everything? When I was flying, I understood that I had obligations. I accepted this like a grown-up. These obligations were onerous, and for many years I accepted them. The last thing I would do is cry on my friend's shoulder and say, "Oh, it is so unfair," because to me, that is a loser move. Driving a car is not necessarily cheap. Some people can't afford to replace worn tyres, sad but tough luck. If you want to operate a machine, you have to ensure that you are not endangering people either physically or financially. I assume you are struggling financially. As an act of charity, I am happy to donate $50 towards your CTP if you are genuinely struggling.

Get value then, Crash away. Insurance is to avoid risk of being exposed to a cost liability you can't cover. You are buying Peace of Mind. You CAN'T HAVE that and then say "I want a refund". Insurance Companies DO have No Claim Bonuses. You should be able to work this out for yourself if you weren't so determined to be the "Greatest Whinger on the Planet" Nev

We learned in Vietnam and Iraq, and in most wars since WWII is that the average Yank infrantryman is poorly trained and lead by poorly trained leaders in the field. If the Yanks try to put feet on the ground, it will be an unholy slaughter of the innocents. Basically, you can't invade a country whose countrymen are fighting to defend it. And you can't win if your troops have no experience fighting in terrain they have no experience of. I have not learned what the terrain is in Iran becasue I have never been exposed to it. Have you any idea what it is like?

What rock are you living under GON? We have NO idea what he will try Next and Neither does HE. He's FAKE. To Him the whole thing is a Game. He spends 1/2 his time Playing Golf . The other 1/2 playing GAMES with the World and feeding his insatiable EGO.. Nev

The problem with Trump is that beyond quoting a slogan, he has no vision that he can articulate as to how to achieve what he allegedly wants for the country. On the other hand, it's very clear what he wants for himself - power, respect or fear (doesn't matter which), and money. His personality is that of a liar and cheat, and the energy and drive he has is all aimed at his own political survival and personal enrichment. As for Australia, if we had an outstanding and far-sighted politician who had a clear vision for improving the country and making it more self-sufficient that made sense to the voting population, he/she would likely be given a chance to implement their agenda.

You do realise that's something made up by Trump because his fragile ego can't accept that the majority of people on earth think he's an absolute c**t?

What a donkey. I guess he destroyed his last few functioning brain cells too, with that overdose. There are warnings on the packets of all dangerous products, but it's amazing the number of people who don't even read them, or just dismiss them. Old Italian farmers using pesticides and other farm chemicals are notorious for not reading the labels. Re the SR1, they're a good old engine, but the accent is old, now. They're tricky to work on with largely hidden diesel injection plumbing. The injection parts are where the $$'s are, but they last a long time if they haven't been run with dirt in the fuel. Usually, with most old diesel Listers, pulling the head and doing a top overhaul will see them go for a long time yet. When I was goldmining and re-treating tailings, our partnership bought dozens of new LT1 Lister engines to drive little centrifugal pumps to circulate the cyanide solutions on tailings dams. They're the smallest of all the Lister engines and run from about 1.5HP to 9HP maximum. You can run them at 3000RPM, but they're pretty noisy at that speed. We used to run the pump engines at about 2000RPM, they would only put out about 5HP at that speed, but it was plenty for the small pumps. In the multiple years we owned those LT1's (all through the 1980's), we never put a spanner on a single one of them, even though they ran 24/7 when pumping. I've got a stack of engines lined up to restore (after all the tractors and trucks and cars!), but the pride of my collection is a Ruston Hornsby 3 cyl VSH engine rated at 34HP at 1500RPM. It is a monster of an engine, it weighs over 700kgs. It is a 1943 model and was in a powerhouse in a refractory brick plant, but the place was shut down and abandoned, and the thieves got in and stripped anything of value. The aggravating point here is the thieves stole all the brass ID plates and the exhaust manifold, so I've got some work to bring her back to original condition.

Get it off the back of the ute for a start. Then clean it up, put some parts on it and see if it's going to be a motor or a boat anchor. If it's ok, I might put an alternator on it for a backup.

https://newrepublic.com/article/208580/transcript-trump-war-tirade-backfires-gop-panics-what-hell Yeah, I know it's from a lefty echo chamber, but there are a couple of good quotes. Re: DT's recent 'speech' about The Iran Situation: Apart from saying that the Strait of Hotmus will open up naturally one day.... "He thinks he’s Superman. And of course, that’s fine when you jump off the building. It’s just a problem when you hit the ground."

It seems Charging for or threatening safe passage would amount to extortion: Under international law, Iran does not have unilateral legal control to close the Strait of Hormuz. While Iran and Oman share territorial waters within the strait, they are bound by the international law of transit passage, which guarantees innocent passage for ships and prevents arbitrary closure. Key Legal Constraints: UNCLOS Standards: The Strait of Hormuz is a "strait used for international navigation." The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) allows coastal nations (Iran and Oman) to pass rules for safety but not to stop or restrict transit. Transit Passage Rights: All ships and aircraft, including military vessels, have the right of "continuous and expeditious" passage that cannot be suspended by Iran. Customary International Law: Even though Iran is not a party to UNCLOS, the rules of transit passage are widely recognized as customary international law, binding on all nations. Limitations on Action: Iran can only legally act against vessels engaged in illegal activities or "hostile" maneuvers, but it cannot legally declare a total or selective blockade of the strait.

Spoil sport! Don't listen to him Willie. he's just jealous.

Iran wants to charge ships tolls for passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is claiming sovereignty over the waterway in the middle of the war, and it's important because about one-fifth of the world's oil and gas goes through that waterway. NPR international affairs correspondent Jackie Northam reports. KCCU Public Radio - a service of Cameron University National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Picked up this little air cooled 7.75 hp Lister SR1 today for bugger all. Most of it is there except for the fuel tank, air cleaner, fuel filter and some missing fuel lines. It's the clockwise running version. The 7.75 hp is the rating at full revs, 2,500rpm. At 1,000rpm I think they make 4 or 5. Hopefully it won't take too much to make it a runner. There's a place about 100 klm away that sells unaffordable genuine parts and reasonably priced non genuine parts. Everything is still available for them.

My grandfather used to grow red pontiac potatoes and he would bed them down in straw on the floor of the laundry outbuilding to keep them a long time. That was in a cool climate though. I don't know how he kept the rats away from them. I guess I'm an embarrassment to my Irish ancestors, not being a potato eater.

Pure right wing American, MAGA-land, unadulterated BS. This part is especially untrue - "The contradiction being that Europe’s energy systems, industrial bases, and geopolitical sermons 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝-𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭." Europes energy systems don't ALL depend on America. They get energy from Russia, from Norway, Azerbaijan, and Algeria for pipeline natural gas. They ship in millions of tonnes of Australian canola and turn it into transportation fuel. They ship in Uranium for nuclear power plants from Canada, Kazhakstan and Australia. They have huge hydro, windpower and solar energy projects. They have diversified their energy suppliers since the start of the Ukraine War. And at the end of the day, European consumers of energy use around one-quarter of the average American energy user. They drive fuel-efficient vehicles and EV's, not gigantic V8 fuel guzzling urban assault vehicles, and even their homes only use modest levels of energy because they're well insulated. It is pure American propaganda. The Europeans are primarily seeking a ceasefire, as they see massive global upheaval, a huge global recession, high interest rates, and vastly increased levels of unemployment, if this idiocy of Trump and his sycophants is left unchecked.

Papaya juice

Thanks Peter and yeah, l mean look at the bottom two. You bet that's where the Iranians would be leading them to. Sitting ducks.

Yeah that was bloody disgusting talk coming from the president of the US for God sake. Imagine how that made the general population over there feel , as if they won't be going through enough.

Yeah they showed videos of the terrain lt's mountains alright lots and lots of it but not just any old mountains. They're very rough the kind that sort of have lots of sharp ripples running all the way down, how you'd even get around on them , no idea. The Iranians would have their ways though for sure. And this is what they were talking about to and of how they could have anything on them and inside them but also be perched all through them too picking off the yanks from above type thing. Very very heavy duty landscape.

Yes, OME, I am in complete agreement with you. My reference to mileage was just to throw a bone to poor old GON.

Pretty close. The fact that the letter I was picked but not put in the last word ruled that answer out.

Lots of engines used CI Pistons, including the Wartime JEEP. Nev

Muslims come in all skin colours and nationalities.

Have you thought about running yourself, GON?

Trump wants to Increase his Wealth and Power and thrives on telling whoppers and getting revenge on anyone who doesn't worship Him or throw money. No-one in Australia comes close to his embarrassing incompetence. He will try to avoid the Mid term elections as He Looks like losing. When He's gone the book will be written If the world survives his chaotic, risky and deadly Interventions. Nev

That's right, but we won't get such a far-sighted politician from the ALP or the Coalition.

Trump Derangement Syndrome or Trump Disaster Show?

Lots of TDS on this thread

PLEASE let him try that. Even from the roof of the white house.

Just a quick correction, my Ruston engine is a VSO, not a VSH. Faulty memory there, and I had to go back and check. I recall I had trouble identifying the engine model until I found "VSO" cast into the cylinder head part number. This means it does 1000RPM maximum speed, the later VSH model was upgraded to 1500RPM. My VSO has cast iron pistons, the VSH went to aluminium pistons.

They are Cooled by water boiling. Latent Heat of evaporation. That Motor should not Knock. It's spark Ignition, Lister DO make Diesels and river crossing Punts that pull on chains were common Places to Find them. Also used to Pump water on Farms.. Nev

It sounds like GON wnts the system that operates in the USA. Hurt someone with a vehicle and they sue you for millions in damages. They might win the legal argument and be awarded costs, but the average motorist cannot fork out the millions in damages, so the injured party gets nothing and the driver loses everything, if they have anything to lose.

The "truth social" chart should have shown something like this.... An approval rating nearly Nixonish

I think it shows that he's just as useless at maths as everything else.

Does this graph show that Donold is controlling the media by 188% ?

It's not compulsory to buy Lotto tickets.

What are you going to do with it?

He called it sickening. He called it evil. Then he signed the two harshest laws in the country. No hesitation. In March 2025, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed two laws that together created the harshest punishment framework for child sex offenders in the country. HB 380 made sexual abuse of children under 12 a capital crime punishable by death when at least three aggravating factors are present. HB 37 made the firing squad Idaho's primary method of execution, replacing lethal injection as the default. Both laws take effect on July 1, 2026. When signing HB 380, Little said: "The sexual abuse of children is sickening and evil, and perpetrators convicted of these crimes deserve the ultimate punishment." The House passed the death penalty bill 63 to 0. The Senate followed 30 to 5. Before HB 380, Idaho had no mandatory minimum sentences for child sex abuse. The state is spending $950,000 to retrofit its maximum security prison near Kuna for firing squad executions, and construction is already underway.

Idaho is a beautiful state. I know people in Idaho as one of my best mates was from there. He was out here last year visiting and we got to catch up after a lot of years, but sadly he died suddenly three weeks after he went home. When he left here we were discussing his next trip back here in a couple of years time and the possibility of me going over there for a visit in the interim, as I haven't been there since the mid 80's. It's a very scenic place with the mountains and rivers and a nice slow, relaxed lifestyle a bit like we had here several decades ago. Not a big popuation, the capital has only 235,000 people. According to the mate, it hasn't changed much since I was there 40 years ago. His family live on the Snake River; attached is one of his photos of a canyon near their place.

Absolute shite. Trump couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.

Spuds don't handle heat and humidity very well at all. On Cocos and Christmas Island, they struggled to survive the trip from W.A., and if they made it, they went "off" in days.