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They're ruthless barstewards, and we need to come up with a way to counteract their scheme. They can't keep subsidising smelters forever.

Worm. The sentence is a palindrome.

I can remember the Sunbeam Trolley buses we had in Perth, they were made obsolete by diesel buses, with the last of them taken out of service in 1969. Leyland trolley buses were first introduced in Perth in 1933, but I don't recall seeing any of the Leylands, they were probably gone by the early 1950's, when the Sunbeams came in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Perth

As an old mate found out in Cobdogla, after he bought a small vineyard and ripped out all the vines - growing vegies that are in demand, pays better than growing grapes.

The legislation in Qld is the Legal Profession Act 2007 (as amended). Suspension or cancellation of a lawyers certificate to practice appears to start at Sect 59, and it seems the regulator initially sends a "show cause" notice to the offender stating the reason/s why they should be suspended, or surrender their certificate. As Sam Iskander surrendered his certificate, it appears he must have weak grounds to refute the allegations, or one would think he would've taken legal action to stop the action, by showing he had cause to stop it. My personal opinion is, I think that anyone who works for Clive Palmer must have dubious ethics, anyway. https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-2007-024

You mean Koonunga. You're slurring again.

Bangui

The W.A. Govt has purchased its last diesel bus, all public transport buses produced in Perth from here on in, are going to be electric. My landlady turfed me out of my factory unit (along with the other 11 factory lessees), and sold the 3.7Ha of industrial land she owned, to the W.A. PTA (Public Transport Authority) for conversion of the site to a huge electric bus parking/recharging depot. Everything on the entire site has been demolished, and work is proceeding at speed to totally renovate and rebuild the site to the new major plan. Once again, it's the European companies getting the lions share of the EV development money. I don't understand why Australian companies can't be in the forefront of these developments. I was also quite surprised to find (there was no fanfare with this expansion), that an entirely new Govt Dept, The "Dept of Energy and Economic Diversification" has appeared. This agency is pursuing a major new initiative, called "Powering W.A." Powering W.A. is taking charge of a massive revamp of the entire electricity supply system in the S.W. of W.A., as coal power generation is planned to be phased out within 2 or 3 years, huge wind and solar generation projects take its place, and massive grid batteries are being installed everywhere. The speed and level of change in our electricity network is staggering. https://www.pta.wa.gov.au/news/media-statements/electric-future-starts-now-as-last-diesel-bus-leaves-the-depot https://www.pta.wa.gov.au/news/media-statements/electric-buses-charge-into-the-suburbs-for-the-first-time https://www.theindustrialist.com.au/2024/08/28/bayswater-327ha-site-sold-strategic-transport-operator-new-electric-bus-fleet-colliers https://www.sustainable-bus.com/infrastructure/kempower-perth-electric-bus-depot/ https://www.wa.gov.au/government/media-statements/Cook Labor Government/Construction-starts-on-Merredin-Battery-Energy-Storage-System-20250805 https://reneweconomy.com.au/construction-begins-on-merredin-four-hour-big-battery-in-wa/

Vest

News just to hand, has Clive Palmer making the startling claim, that his solicitor (Sam Iskander) has stolen possibly up to $30M from Palmers private company Mineralogy, between 2016 and July 2025. Palmers lawyer has issued an injunction to seize a large amount of the solicitors assets, and Iskander has handed in his solicitors licence to practice law. I guess this step is due to the allegations and injunction. Iskander has not been officially charged with any offences at this time, which seems unusual to me. It appears that Palmers move is simply one designed to stop his lawyer from spending any of his money or disposing of assets, until Palmer can actually prove he's been robbed. The whole setup seems strange to me, I thought anytime there was criminal wrongdoing, and you could provide some evidence, that Police moved in and charged the defendant. Maybe they have different rules for lawyers?? https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/clive-palmer-accuses-long-time-solicitor-of-stealing-30-million-20250808-p5mlcw.html https://au.news.yahoo.com/palmer-claims-30-million-fraud-080552730.html

The modern vehicles making smoke are usually doing a DPF burn.

Interesting how they all keep doing 3-point landings. Was that the preferred landing style in WW2?

A walk in the park.

Never forget, you get exactly what you pay for! Remember the old mail-order tricks? You bought what appeared to be large toy items in the catalogue, when they arrived, you nearly needed a magnifying glass to see them!

I'd have to say EV's range must be dependent on how they're driven and over what terrain - the same as IC-engined vehicles. IC-engine cars are notorious for never reaching their manufacturers claimed fuel economy. I read an article recently where the battery developers were stunned to find that EV batteries behaved in the exact opposite manner to what they believed, as regards lifespan. It was formerly thought that steady current drawdown was best for long battery life, but AI computing found that batteries last longer with a wide range of usage and recharging styles. The AI-computing research found that dynamic cycling and ultra-fast charging can lead to much longer battery life than previously calculated. It took only a small modification to battery manufacture to allow the ultra-fast charging.

Satan could've always asked him where he was going to get a lawyer, as he already has them all lined up.

You can buy lists of mailing addresses from list brokers for direct marketing purposes. It's legal, but some of the addresses can be out of date, or the person is recently deceased. A lot of these companies only update their lists every few years.

Because it's entrancing, watching a show unfold, and you don't know how all the twists and turns of the story are going to pan out?? We're all just hoping the baddie gets his comeuppance, the heroine gets saved, and the goodies come back in force, and take over the town, and restore civil order from lawlessness!!

Pinch me, I must be dreaming.

The most interesting development is in Texas, where a sizeable number of Democrats left the State to avoid voting in a rigged Congressional electoral boundaries redistribution, that is going to greatly favour Republicans in the next Federal Govt voting round. Now the Texas Governor and House speaker are trying to arrest or remove the Democrats who left the State and who failed to vote on the redistribution. This is a whole new ball game. https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/texas-democrats-redistricting-quorum-08-04-25

Putin is more likely to be moving the bombers to try and get them out of reach of constant Ukraine attacks on his aircraft. Russia hasn't been faring too well lately as regards Ukrainian successes on wiping out Russian aircraft. Operation "Spider Web" in early June was absolutely devastating for the Russians, and the latest hit on the Russian air base in Crimea was also quite successful. https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/global-affairs/ukraine-wipes-out-dozens-of-russian-doomsday-nuclear-bombers-in-massive-surprise-attack-on-air-bases-kyiv-says-russian-pearl-harbor/news-story/5cb84fc515f7bc8c263ec8e136a2a34c

Dancing for ..... but the last word has me absolutely beat. Even with SWMBO's help, neither of us can get it.

No question about it.

There is bugger-all chance of us seeing U.S. beef on our grocery shelves. The U.S. cattle industry has a major beef shortfall, their national cattle herd is at its lowest level since 1951 - but demand hasn't dropped, it's actually still increasing - despite U.S. beef being at an all-time high price. The Americans love meat and they love beef as much as they love pork. The U.S. farmers have had to deal with drought, labour shortages, a lack of breeding stock (because they bumped off a large number of cows in the last couple of years, trying to meet demand), inflation, fears of a recession, high input costs, and corporate sell-outs in cattle ranching (making quick profits at the expense of longer-term good planning). The only thing that is going to happen is that the Americans are going to import more of our beef - despite the increased tariffs. They NEED our top-quality lean beef to make their hamburgers, and there has been a major rise in cattle prices here, following the tariff announcement. Prime steers are now bringing $2500 a head, I can't recall pricing like that since the big cattle price boom days of 1973 and 1980.

Here's an interesting news item that's starting to show the cracks in Trumps tariffs irrationality. A bunch of Montana farmers are joining in with the Blackfeet tribe to oppose Trumps tariffs, on the basis he's exceeded his executive and statutory powers, and he's created major forward planning uncertainty for the farmers, that is costing them dearly. The Blackfeet are suing over a 1794 treaty that gives them exemption from taxes and duties over trade with Canada. The U.S. Govt lawyers are stalling and saying the argument need to be transferred to the Court of International Trade in NY, saying U.S. District courts have no power to rule on the case. The farmers lawyers say otherwise, saying it's an important action to determine the constitutionality of executive orders. It's not the first time Trump has paid out big-time to U.S. farmers to compensate them for losses as regards his decision-making. Under his previous Presidency, he compensated U.S. farmers in huge amounts, over lost trade with China. He paid out US$16B in that deal. https://www.rawstory.com/montana-farmers-sue-trump-cant-afford-any-more-uncertainty/?utm_source=microsoft_global https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_farmer_bailouts