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Statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics. Have you ever noticed that journalists aren't mathematicians? And they definittely are biased. They publish a statement like this: "Party A tops the poll as the most hated party, with 25.6 per cent of respondents reporting a strong dislike of the party compared to Party B at 24.2 per cent." That is clearly showing a bias in a number of ways. What were the valuse for people who disliked each of the other Parties in tne mix? I hate the Conservatives, but I know someone here hates Labor. How do our opinions affect the percentages? Also Party A might be the ideological opposite of Party B. That's got to affect the result. As with all statement of that format, what does it tell us about the other 75% of respondents. It is comminsense to realise that their responses could range from slight dislike to absolutely adore. What if 70% of respondents's opinions ranged from "They're OK" to "God's gift to Humanity". The reported comparative responses would not mean much.

As ironic as it seems in a country with the land area of Australia, but unlimited immigration can lead to over-population. I don't mean that it could lead to the population densities seen in countries like India and China. I mean that in localised areas such as our metropolitan areas. I mean that it could lead to the inability of an area to support that population. The first thing I think of is water supply. I see the growth of residential areas in the Sydney Metropolitan Area, and I see the possibilities for water supply for those areas. The major storage facility is Warragamba Dam. Our climate is one of somewhat irregular rainfall. I have seen this dam overflow, and I have also seen its water level drop a great deal. Already the height of the dam wall has been raised above its original design height. There are no other sites for dams because any dam would hold back water flow into Warragamba. The water supply problem exists all along the east coast and the inland. The 48 States of the USA, which cover the same area as Australia, can support their populations because the land has abundant water throughout. Similarly for Europe. This continent has been inhabited for 50,000+ years. Why wouldn't it have produced a similar population size to other places? Simply beause the lack of water meant that the inhabitants did not have any time after attending to mere survival to develop the civilisations the developed elsewhere. It immigration continues unabated, Australia will not be able to provide the essential need for survival - water. If that happens, we have over-population.

I'm have got to stop starting posts with headline-like sentences. They are always misinterpreted. What I was trying to say was that it was a good thing that domestic solar installations were being done at a great rate and that the battery subsidy was a big help. It was my belief that the inability to store excess electricity was holding back the adoption of solar. That disability now seems to have been overcome That's good. An aside: I was nearly going to write that solar installation rates were going through the roof, but I didn't want to pun.

Maybe we don't need wind turbine generators. It seems that domestic solar is doing the job. For those who championed Nett Zero for electricity generation, Australians have come on board this year. Going solar is great if you own your own a traditional home, but leaves those living in multi-storey residential blocks and renters out of the game. I suppose the landlord of a rented house could instal solar and up the rent.

I take every HTV card offered to me from every Party as I walk towards the polling station. I do that out of politeness to the volunteer. I already know who I am giving my first preference to, but the card is useful in sorting out lower preferences amongst a large number of candidates.

There is so much that Tump's Administration has done that cannot be undone. Take income from tariffs for example. Importers have paid the tariffs and passed those costs onto the wholesalers in the form of higher prices. The wholesalers have passed them on to the retailers, who passed them on to the consumer. How does the consumer recover the money that tariffs added to, say, the meat from Australia in his Macdonald beef pattie? Impossible. The US Treasury has had a massive injection of money that is impossible to return to its rightful owners. Notice that not much has been said about all the social service things like Medicaid and food stamps. The Trump Administration keeps creating situations which get media attention while earlier issues are ignored. I hear that teh UAE has stopped the USA using its military bases for the conflictr with Iran. Guess that's the end of the Golden 747.

One seat in the House, and that seat is on the Cross Benches. He will be a voice crying out in the wilderness. It is interesting to note that teh Libs directed their preferences to ON and away from the Independant. Guess we know which way he will vote. However with Labor having such a big majority, the rest of the House won't have much effect. In order to bolster the standing of ON, Farley will have to spend the majority of his time on the ground working for the people of Farrer. He can't spend his time in Canberra pushing the ON manifesto. If he concentrates on working for his electorate, he might get re-elected at the next General Election. Just a comment on the "donkey vote" discussion. I reckon most Australians don't care too much about politics and only come to vote for the Democracy Sanger. They have already decided which Party they will vote for and only take that Party's HTV card and follow it. Have you watched people going along the line of Party volunteers handing out HTV cards? You will see quite a lot of impoliteness. The percentage of votes found not to follow HTVs is an indication of teh amount of thought voters are putting into making their choice.

I may have had a Paulian conversion on the road to Damascus. And Paulian if not a misspelling of Pauline.

Newspaper editorials have always been political when the there is a political discussion going on. They are not something that Murdoch et al invented. In Australia you can go back to the very first newspapers published in Sydney. (You can find them using Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/ ) and see the political editorials therein. The editorials always promoted one view or another of the situation.

This is beautiful.

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.

No mass transport system for the carriage of humans makes a profit. It is freight that makes the profit because the costs of transport can be forwarded onto the end consumer of the freight.

Nev, You're the greatest bloody naysayer of all times! When anyone posts anything, you misread it and then bag it. Did you even watch the video? I bet not! All I was saying was that the video explained the concept underpining the hybrid design. I said nothing about power output comparisons. Of course energy cannot be created from nothing. It can be converted from one form to another - with losses as was stated in the video.

This video gives a good explanation of how a hybrid EV works. What I found interesting was at teh end when the presenter explained the differeence between a parallel and a series hybrid. Apparently in a the parallel the vehicle has a low power output ICE and the battery boosts the available power when needed for beginning to roll; hill climbing or overtaking. In a series system, the engine is in fact a generator which continually tops up the battery as the battery discharges to power the electric motors. So a Toyota Hybrid uses the parallel system and BYD Shark uses the series system. That's why the Toyota has better fuel economy than the Shark.

Som of the kids might have been born in Syria, but some of them were Australian born and taken there as young 'uns. I'm concrened about how ISIS indoctrination might have done to those kids.

Well that's one positive thing. And they don't desribe it as a home-built ultra-light.

For what it is worth: https://time.com/article/2026/05/07/trump-xi-china-meeting-what-to-expect/

No. I am not assuming the weight is mostly the prime mover. All I meant was that a road train of a prime mover and two trailers has one less prime mover than if each of the two trailers was pulled by a prime mover. In other words, a two trailer combination halves the amount of weight of two prime movers. These are the legal axle weights:

Who do you think sets the price of fuel? I bet the oil companies are partying over the sitution Trump has created. I bet the party is being held in the East Wing Ballroom.

Well, we do have compulsory voting, and that's good. Everyone gets to make a choice. That's good. First past the post? Dunno, Just look at the primary votes in recent elections. It is very rare that a candidate gets more than 50% +1. At least with preferential voting one can indicate that which candidate you really don't want, and which candidates one thinks are better than the others.

Short road trains are very commonly seen running up and down the Newell. I suppose that with a train of two trailers at least the rod is spared the weight of one prime mover.

That may be correct, but building the infrastructure to run them on is where the cost is. Also, railways need a higher level of maintenance than roads. Trains don't like potholes and other sorts of irregularities that trucks can accept from the roads they travel over.