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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.

A friend has a Ducato Fiat lwb with full camper gear. He says it gets 5 L/100km at av 90kmh. And 6 @ 110 kmh. Fantastic for a big heavy loaded camper. The modern Italian Fiat/Iveco/Alfa/VM Motori turbo diesels are leaders in the field. As they should, Fiat invented the modern ultra high pressure direct injection diesel engine. They hold the patents and those other companies either paid to use it or made inferior tech to not pay the patent. Europe particularly Italy has always lead the Diesel development game. As an aside they also invented variable valve timing for twin Cam engines. It was released first in a showroom as a Alfa Romeo GTV in 1975, available as 2 litre mechanical injected turbo with variable valve timing. It dominated its class and won the World Rally championship for Aussie Evan Green in 1975. A lot of problematic modern diesels design/ maintenance issues stem from a refusal to pay for the patents. Billions have been wasted by manufacturers and by owners because of this.

Here in Port Stephens we have had a major storm every 4 weeks for the last three months. Getting like clockwork. Very much over the roads that swallow cars and shit repairs.

That trike is ugly and unsafe. If the front has two wheels trikes are much safer. The Honda trikes maimed and killed a generation, they are inherently unstable at speed our on rough uneven ground. You have to ride them like a dirt track racer for stability, a skill far exceeding most riders esp kids. It was smart policy banning them, like giving kids a loaded gun to play with. The Yella terra Goldwing is much safer as a motorbike. As a trike you are wide as a car but the front wheel cops every pothole the rears escape. The worst bits of a bike and car combined.

Has long been a greens policy to lower the age to 16. You can get a gun,join the military, drive, work full time at 16/17. So why not vote? In some USA states you can be a 3 year war veteran but not allowed to legally have a beer. I think it's a great move. We have a ridiculously low 12-14 years age of Adult crime sanctions. In that basis they should get to vote at 12 or 14 years. We seem happy to load teens with adult responsibility but not the benefit of a say.

Well done Jerry. You have a smug grin and a good Aussie red to celebrate.

Keep in mind 2/3 of prison population have a mental illness and most of those have never had proper treatment prior to jail. Our mental health system is a afterthought to politicians and doesn't make great headlines. But getter tougher on law and order gets cheers from the right wing media. It's a race to the bottom, how poorly we treat those in society that need help. It's a race to the top of the pile for the rich and self entitled.

Well done One-track, We are pleased you have change your mind. Even if you never get shingles the benefits of reducing dementia are worth it. Cheers

So a army is communist? Try having one that follows the profit and corporate model.

Have a ring around to different doctors and chemists. The price may differ greatly, I know it does for other injections. Ie . semiglutimide can be $400 or only $250 at a different chemist.

Having a extremely painful dose of shingles across my chest and stomach, it's a serious thing. It lasted on and off for six months and small flare-ups for about a year. No matter your history of health , if you have the antibodies, you are at risk. Especially as we age, the odds drop and so does your bodies ability to fight it's effects and reduce the severity and longevity of the disease. Taking two little jabs in the arm is the best insurance medicine can provide.

He doesn't need support, if he needs to spend a billion or more campaigning he will use petty cash.

For all his faults, Fraser ended up been a great ex pm, he used his position for social causes and excelled. Unlike every Liberal ex pm since.

It should be noted that the only one in the world who could kill Hitler was Hitler.

For water crossing, unless you can safely walk into the water and check total depth, ie safe enough to walk into then it is a no go period. Cars,4wd and even trucks are no match for running water. If you don't trust it to walk through, then stay away. That means the driver does the walk not a passenger, so the idiot behind the wheel pays the piper. If someone dies, you the driver have killed them and should expect a manslaughter change or dangerous driving occasioning death. There is absolutely no excuse. A goal sentence is the only adequate response. No remorse or I thought it would be okay is enough. We don't accept it in boats or aircraft and vehicles should be the same. Every flood event sees some idiot kill themselves and often others with a it's fine attitude. And the poor rescue guys risk their life to rescue them.

Climate change or global heating is really kicking in fast. Meanwhile new mines and gas ventures get a big tick and the world burns...

Now the storm has stopped in Port Stephens and the sun's out. But never count your luck, as I speak the wind went from zero to 25knts...bugger