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The coffee culture is certainly a uptake of Italian coffee here in Australia. We are now considered one of the premium coffee cultures in the world. Even Americans with taste buds seek the Aussie version as takeaway, so Aussie chains are taking over from Starbucks. In recent food Olympics, Australia was number one for coffee. We also grow premium coffee in northern NSW and southern QLD.

Sympathy for the devil my friend. BMW make the the best big bikes in the world. The smaller ones not so much.. It feels and looks like new, far better condition than me. I have shaved the big grey beard and long silver hair, hopefully they will mistake me for a young hipster..

I just went and bought a new to me Zoot scoot.. BMW K1200R A bit on the slow side with only 163hp.. I promise to ride slowly or at least try officer.. A absolute blast to ride and in fantastic condition except rear diff needs new bearings and seals. Not bad after 121, ooo km, far better than constantly replacing chains and sprockets, which it would consume every 20-30,000 km. When new in 2005 it was the fastest naked Bike on the planet, still looks like a new model. One happy rider and yes, you touch my scoot, I use you as shark bait.

I agree driver training is the answer. My nightmare stretch is the Hay plains, damn dangerous dusk till dawn. I have touched a grey in Blue mountains in a car and a big grey glanced the front wheel down south on BMW bike. No hurt no foul, both were on bush tracks and slow. Us humans have removed vast tree cover ecosystems and replaced it with grasslands and artificial water sources. A perfect Roo environment has been created. It's our fault and we have to live in harmony or at least not conflict with nature. Bounties should be placed for introduced feral animals to totally remove them from the country- the damage they do is extreme. If it does not live on your farm and managed as live stock, it should be culled to zero. That means all goats, cattle, horses, buffalo, camels, pigs, cats, foxes, rabbits, deer, feral dogs etc Dingoes and all other natives must be completely protected as they balance the ecosystem and are native. Limited culling only by professional shooters of Roos for meat, skins and welfare reasons only.. no cowboys or gun junkies. This is a role for a dedicated federal government department with a big workforce on country to implement. The employment, environmental and farm benefits would far outweigh the costs. This should be seen as a national goal and beyond politics but essential to a liveable and sustainable planet. New Zealand is aiming for Zero ferals by 2050. We should do the same.

Sadly no matter how much you take the piss... They are still full of shit

Ben Mendelson also has a interesting background, his father is a famous and lauded scientist. He headed the Florey institute for medical research.

Drove past yesterday, saw a poor bloke on a scooter been lifted away, drained of blood and left like a used condom. Bloody vicious buggers and huge.

Or the Brethren nut jobs insisting they can't vote but campaigning for the LNP

Poor bugger.... Give him a seat, strap him in and turn on the current...

An example of publicise the losses and privatise the profits on a grand scale. Power should be a government service with only open transparent contracting to install the the actual power source if government invests to encourage competition. No Macquarie bank style schemes. The running and ownership should be in government hands for the entire grid power system. The grid would be maintained by the government by permanent staff. Yes, that means a large public service but it would employ and have the level of ability to replace the current system of private contracting. A gov grid would also maintain long term knowledge and expertise in house, no consultants or other profit gougers. It would also mean there is always a place of responsibility for the quality and price of the service. It would be far cheaper than all the for profit large and small contractors with the gravy train of inefficiency that means. You could privately own a system/micro grid and feed the gov grid, but you directly sell the power to the government grid. No multi layer ownerships and profit gouging/rent seeking capitalism. Then you can buy direct from the grid or through a retail seller who buys it from the grid at a small discount. The discount should be fixed irrespective of scale to encourage small and competitive retailers. No massive discounts for very large retailers and buyers. By having the gov grid as a default retail seller the market would be hugely competitive with tight margins and no incentive for big capital markets to game the system. Currently a far larger part of power prices are the baked in profit centres in the system of getting it to your door. The generation price can often be less the 40% of a bill. And those generators owners make a profit. No bullshit energy price market that skyrockets prices,if a generator fails it allows gaming of the system. The current game means a big operator with multiple power stations can actually profit by putting a station out of action by intent or neglect. The price rockets as do the profits with no incentive to get it back on line quickly. We have a clear case of market failure. We most certainly should not provide large consumers like aluminium smelters a heavy price subsidy. The local smelter at Tomago uses a huge 8,300 GWhr a year with a constant 950MW load, that's 10% of the states power at a minimum. Nor should we give big handouts to them to invest in their own systems. The vast majority of that is by burning coal. They must pull their own weight for renewable power. The big consumers can invest in their own power generation either alone or as cooperative groups. As could local communities of housing, new estates, councils. With solar on roofs and home batteries with electric cars combined, a local area community can be a collective grid. A large local battery and public solar shades in carparks, public seating etc can mean a local micro grid that provides its own needs at a fraction of todays current market system price. It could still be connected to the overall grid and provide stability both ways. Local businesses would bloom with minimal daytime energy costs as they use up all the excess solar when the micro grid storage is full. Any excess gets fed into the government grid and paid into the community account at a fair rate. Most grid consumers would rarely pay a bill and often get paid to make power. Electric car owners would have local charging at the carpark and home. A micro grid community would be a cooperative that owns it's power grid and only interacts with the government grid. The public grid should only charge sufficient to maintain and invest. It should not be a dividend provider of government. Currently our energy economy is fundamentally flawed and needs a clean sheet design as a fundamental service by government. I need a 🍺

His son Robbie has a major import and gun sales business. He has been a huge importer and pushed the sale of currently illegal weapons.

I wish we knew, maybe they all had lead sugar on weatbix as children while they listened to Joh doing a sermon on politics. Redneck wonderland is alive and thriving north of the border.

The bloke is not a down and out cobber struggling against a unfair system. Nor is he a person with a disability and or mental illness that can be treated. He is a sociopath with murderous intent. His sense of self entitlement is complete, sovereign citizen or not he would still be like this. He has jumped on the bandwagon to justify his actions, he would always find a reason to act this way. Irrespective of the societal ecosystem, he would always be a angry defiant violent person. I doubt he will surrender, instead he will try to murder police and feel self justified and see his actions as heroic. I hope they get him alive and no more innocents are hurt. He deserves a life long cell with no opportunity to commit suicide. Sadly is he is killed other nutters will see him as a matyr.

Katter is a racist thug fuckwit, pure and simple. It's not a lefty trap to simply ask a question directly related to his policy of whites only for Australia. His policy is completely racist and the turd used the typical shoot the messenger tactic by calling the journo racist then threats of violence. Typical right wing politics of claiming victim hood when called to account. Funny how he claims been against wokeness but uses it to bully others. He is a disgrace and should be censured in Parliament. He should also be charged for assault and a slander suit. If it's good enough to use lawfare against the rights critics, he should feel the heat.

Birds have very compact super efficient brain design, like a quantum computer compared to us old Intel inside mammals. That trick with the cups would take very little time to train or rather problem solve Generally Corvids ie crow family are as smart as a 7 year old human.