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This is beautiful.

I agree with you there Nev...the media in this country is shockingly bad. Journalism is now tainted with woke and left bias. Very few have any right bias its mainly left. What ever happened to unbiased fact based journalism that just gave you the facts and not the spin depending on who owns the media company The ABC used to until it was poisioned by idealogy and crap interviewers

Your preferences only apply in your electorate, which wins one seat in parliament. To win government, a party must win sufficient electorates in a first past the post race in the House, so it's only a partial preference vote.

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.

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.

New immigrants from "war torn" countries often go back and spend a holiday with relos. There's no money, that's why. The Govt spends it on terrorists' families.

You’re implying that was money handed to them by the Government. It’s much more likely that they worked hard for it doing jobs and running businesses that Real Australians didn’t want, and paying taxes as well.

I haven't looked into this however if true does not bother me. At this point I don't own an EV but the the more of these vehicles on the road the better for everyone. As a regular cyclist I can say that I would rather be waiting at the traffic lights behind an EV than a car spewing fumes in my face We know the kids who live near major highways have more respiratory issues. My son recently spent time in Beijing. He was expecting the air to be thick with car fumes however the air was surprisingly clear thanks to the uptake of EVs. Thus benefits all of society.

Kyle, You think Sky and Murdoch don't have any right wing Bias? I can't see how you can say that with a straight face. Nev

https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/outrage-over-proposal-to-charge-all-households-for-national-ev-charging-network/news-story/bbd8978da0b62ff10da3bbd60c8758d4?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers

With FPP and a Lot of Candidates a ridiculously Low number of Votes can get someone in by a small difference. . FPP is NOT the Magic bullet. A DECENT Media would be the Biggest Help. Nev

I am not sure that more than 50 percent of voters follow how to vote cards I am the go today so I have not thoroughly read this article but here is a link. https://antonygreen.com.au/do-how-to-votes-matter-evidence-from-the-2022-sa-election/ The Victorian and South Australian Electoral Commissions regularly analyse ballot papers and have determined that around 40% of major party voters complete their ballot paper with their preferred party’s HTV preference sequence. The proportion following HTVs is even lower for minor parties and independents. The difference in follow rate is largely related to the proportion of voters who receive the HTV for a particular party or candidate. Obviously the probability of a voter copying a HTV recommendation is higher if they receive a HTV than if they don’t.

Up till recently OME, you were the Greatest Naysayer re Electric cars of all.. I also went to the University of Technology which you poo pooed, remember, as being lower class. I have also researched a lot of this stuff as it has developed over many Years and still continue to do so. Anyone can Post on You Tube. A recent trip with My eldest son in a near new Toyota Camry Hybrid gave 3.8 Litres/100kms over 730 Kms in 3 days of mostly Highway driving.. Nev

The pref system will work if everyone who voted actually used their brain and cast their preferentials to as they actually want them done. The problem is most voters are sheep and only mark their papers as per the handouts given by the partys. This of course is how that party want YOU to vote NOT what you should vote. You should vote the way you want to the outcome NOT what some dick in a political party wants you to vote. In my opinion this is what makes the system flawed because way more than 50% of the voters just copy what the party voting slip tells them. Thats not clutching at straws Nev those are just the facts. This voting system is designed so that the sheep in the population just follow each other over the cliff

My name is on a well wishing List. Very talented Person, as was his brother. Thanks OME. Nev

My Point is that anything is better than war. IF you CHOSE to live in the sticks don't expect the Features and facilities of the Suburbs to be there. Nev

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.

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.

Great man. He's done a lot for the world.

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/

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.

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

"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.