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If he is protecting us, God help us. He has been useless so far and only denigrates those who have done all the protecting work. He is just a scaled down version of Donald trump, with a bit of Modi thrown in. Now I hear that our Aussie cricketers are goin to spend a couple of weeks in Sri lanka or Madagasker just so that they are not coming from India. What have the Sri lankan and Madagasker people done to deserve such treatment? It will certainly not look good for Australia if either of those two countries get outbreaks of Covid.

I agree with the comments about Julian Assange, but news of him has gone terribly quiet. The Brits treated him abominabably and the Aussie government only stood by an applauded. Would the present ruling on Indian returnees have anything to do with how Australia treats New Zealand citizens, Is their agenda to get those Indian dual citizens who return and could get jail time to be deported and their citizenship rescinded?

Now the government has decreed that Australians returning home from India will not be allowed entry and if the do get in they can be jailed or fined. We have had a ban on Australians travelling overseas for quite a while and some have been granted dispensations to travel. I cancelled my overseas travel plans last March, considering the risks as unacceptable, both for myself and for others I came in contact with. Those Australians travelling to India and now wanting to return, seem to be of two types, namely Aussies going overseas to earn money and Aussies of Indian descent going back to their place of birth. The latter I assume would probably have dual nationality. Should Aussies who elect to go to another country during a pandemic be allowed free access to return home whenever it suits them, even if the risk of bringing disease into the country could be considered unacceptable? Should those with dual nationality have the same rights to get out of their one nationality base to come home to get away from the disease? Should someone holding dual Indian and Australian nationality have a right to become either Australian or Indian whenever they like? Should the Australian government take responsibility for the quarantine of travellers coming to Australia? They have this as a requirement of the Australian constitution, but have not stepped up to their responsibilities so far. Does anyone know what rights we have as Australian citizens? I don't think it is spelled out in our constitution.

It seems that several f you consider they could do without a car, but for those of us who live less than 30km from a big city and have no train, tram or bus connection it is an essential tool. Avoid the yuppy cars and buy something like a Toyota that will run forever on minimal maintenance. I haven't worked out what it costs to run my car, but I know that having to call a taxi wold be very expensive and also inconvenient. All I want is for electric cars to get to a realistic price and batteries to be reliable.

To go back to trams rather than trolley buses would be stupid. The trolley bus picked up its electrisity from overhead wires. rather like Qld rail electric trains. The advantage of the trolley bus over the tram, was that the passengers got on and off from the footpath, not as they do in Victoria, where they are still in the middle of the road and traffic has to give way to them as they cross the traffic lane to get to the footpath.

That is only similar to a brothel creeper. The real thing had a thick sorbo type rubber, or slightly firmer than sorbo rubber sole with no tread.

I have just seen that the government is proposing to provide the Covid vaccine to olympic athletes and let them back into the country without quarantine. Given that the government has stated that the vaccine will not prevent you getting the virus I doubt the sanity of both the government and their medical advisers. Athletes can catch the virus, come back to Aus. and go straight into the community. How stupid is that?

The class system was one of the reasons that I left England and when I go back on holiday it still seems to be there. The old school tie and the elevation of military officers and doctors is just a small thing that puts me off. I did personally know three OBE bearers and a Lord. One of the OBE was in my opinion an obnoxious man, but the rest were OK.

The Russians explored this concept years ago and it was called Ekranoplane. A friend of mine worked on a similar concept in Cairns about ten years ago. He tells me he has all the info about the planes he worked on, but it was not a viable idea.

The media is doing a great beat up on the sad state of India with its outbreak of covid, but they never mention USA which has more active cases than India, also more serious cases and is only about 1/3 the population number of India. Just pray that Scotty doesn't get his way with letting others into Australia or the media will be singing our swansong. I really cannot see how getting us all evacuated will prevent Covid getting here and once it gets a good foothold we will have it and its mutants forever more.

The right to not vote, by just getting your name crossed off and not marking the paper is OB, but those who are so thick that they should not be allowed to vote are also too thick to realise that they can just dump the ballot paper. My son tells me he got his name crossed off and straight away put the ballot paper in the ballot box. The official there told him he could not do that, but as my son pointed out that he just did. Of course it is a secret ballot so how did the official know how he had voted. I was on holiday in Wales a few years ago and had a postal ballot from Australia house. My brother in law was so amazed at the 1.5m long voting paper that he took it into Abergavenney to show all his mates. I think there were about 50 names on the senate sheet that time.

Marty. Especially when we have compulsory voting. The pollies love it all the non thinkers and idiots have to vote, so the pollies only have to promise to make them better off and hey presto. I think Labor have learned that it is better to be in opposition, then they cannot be judged, but they can stir the pot against the party in power.

Qld voters don't seem to have a very good record with their members. I should know I am one of them and luckily our member is not standing again at the next election. Sadly the Qld member for the area will try to take his place. Another National and another useless lump.

Religion on the way out? When I was a kid in Trunch in Norfolk, my father insisted that I go to the church choir. Village population 300 approx. maximum attendance numbers would have been about 20. That is in the early fifties. There was one redeeming factor about having to go to church, there were a couple of good looking girls of my age in the choir. I never sang as I think the church would have closed completely if they heard me sing. A few years ago friends who lived on an island invited my wife and I over for a weekend. They had a new toy, a karioki machine and they insisted we sing along. Next time I saw Don I asked him how he was going with the machine and he had sold it.

That is my first rule of cooking. If it doesn't taste good, add some bacon.

That is how I can tell that I am running out of fuel with my chainsaw and whippersnipper. Revs go up, then it stops.There was never any hydrogen when I was working around power stations in the sixties. Don't know why they would need it. They pulverise the coal, so it is nearly an explosive when injected into the boiler.

Joh b'Jelke Peterson is laughing in his grave. maybe he was correct after all.

Scomo's energy minister has told us today that the government is going to spend big dollops of money on Hydrogen and carbon sequestering. He also said that there were two ways of making hydrogen, that is by treating natural gas and then having to do something with the by product of carbon, or by electrolysis. Electrolysis seems to be the obvious way to go. We have vast quantities of sea water which could be used and the by product would be salt, which i suppose could be taken back out to sea and dumped. The minister said that it would not be all green hydrogen, which is hydrogen produced by electrolysis using solar electricity, but would include hydrogen from gas and coal produced electricity. I cannot see much green or eco friendly in producing hydrogen for export to Japan and Korea unless we do it with our abundant solar power. Given that it takes a lot of energy to get the hydrogen into a form that can be transported I would consider it more efficient and eco friendly for Japan and Korea to produce hydrogen using our coal at their point of use. What our government is proposing is something to make us, the voters think they are doing something to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while they are not really thinking through what it is all really about. No matter what happens Japan and Korea will be getting hydrogen from Australia at a cheaper rate than Australians will and once again our government is giving our industrial competitors a big hand out. just as they have done with the natural gas.

My usual trim change when descending is to go nose down and to make that work I have to reduce power. I could also go nose down and maintain power, but to achieve 500fpm I would have to travel a lot faster and in my plane probably exceed VNE. Alternatively I could reduce power drastickly and go nose up. So the answer to your question OME is that it depends upon a lot of other parameters. I could also maintain the same power and attitude and still achieve 500fpm descent rate, but it would take a pilot to work out how that is achieved.

fact no name hunter, at least that is how a well known author names his main subject.

I think it is time we looked at what a Royal Commission achieves. We have had Royal commissions into just about everything that can go wrong and the situation doesn't seem to change. The PM gets to set what the Royal commission can look at and then he gets to see the first report and acts accordingly. It is all about making the government look good and also look as if they are doing something. The real cause of the problem in this case is that the government sent our troops into wars started by the USA and made the rules of engagement such that the troops were on a hiding to nothing. They had no real visible enemy and were as vulnerable as a young woman in a dark back street. Basicly governments are using Royal commissions as get out of jail cards, which also act as great delaying tactics.

I think Scotty is stupid, but is he stupid enough to try to look like Daniel Andrews? No even he is not that stupid. I did notice the new first and second nodder behind Scumbag and wondered what they were. The one in the hat looked as if he was security, eyes going all over the place. A couple of things that I think are grossly overdone by the media are the Nodders behind every pollie on TV. and the obligatory in car interview which never seems to be relevant. That of course is forgetting the person receiving a Covid jab and the thosands of little bottles on a conveyor. When I got my first jab I complained to the doctor that they hadn't got the TV camera for the occasion. I must be the only person not to have appeared on TV.

It seems to boil down to the indigenous people getting more convictions than the rest of us. they may be for things like non payment of fines, but what were the fines for and if they are not paid, do we just say too bad and forget it? Could we have a small part of the population who keep getting convicted and refusing to pay fines, because they an get away with it?

I see on the news today that the old chestnut of Aboriginal deaths in custody has come up again. I would like to know why we don't have a white lives matter campaign against non indiginous deaths in custody. Looking at the figures published since the Royal commission I don't think there was one year when aboriginal deaths exceded non indiginous deaths, in fact even though the indiginous population is far less percentage than non indiginous, the non indiginous deaths exceed indiginous in proportion to their numbers. No doubt all this is brought on us by the deaths in USA, which are abominable and i would appear will continue to be so. We have a popular uprising here based on false facts and what should be happening is questioning about total deaths, not just indiginous deaths. We could also have a look at why the indiginous prison population is so much higher in proportion to their actual numbers. There seems to be a push to not imprison indiginous people because they are over represented, but why are they over represented? Could it be that they commit more crimes per head of population or are they targeted by the police? Could it be a bit of both? Certainly there seems to be a crime spree in Townsville, where there have been vigilantes trying to stop it and that resulted in a death. It seems to me that keeping criminals out of jail because they are indiginous will not work, it only appears to encourage crime.

It is only in the last year or so that there seems to be any mention of early explorers seeing aboriginal agriculture. Having read one or two early explorers journals and see no mention of agriculture I would like someone to point out which explorers saw the agriculture and where it was written down. The earlier mention of square kiometers and its acceptance as being a conversion begs the question. Is the agriculture also a conversion?