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“Finance Minister Katy Gallagher concedes the government cannot sustain its current rate of climate spending”
I read such comments with amazement. We actually have a Federal minister and so a deparment and massive budget for Climate (Change) and Energy. Australian politicians spending hundreds of billions to control Australia’s weather?
It was a mad, opportunistic idea from Presidential Candidate Al Gore in 1988 and now the Australian government is balancing their moral duty to control Australia’s Climate(s) with fiscal responsiblity? The sheer stupidity of controlling Australia’s Climates is astounding. The fantasy is presented as a modern moral and fiscal dilemma. Doesn’t anyone see that it is obviously all completely nuts?
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The funniest part is a big chunk of those billions they are spending to control Australia’s climate is from taxing coal exports to China. Burning the devil rocks down under is bad, but selling them to someone else to burn up over is totally fine. CO2 molecules clearly stay where they were burned, and don’t disperse in the atmosphere.
If governments/politicians actually gave a crap about climate change, they would have gone all-in on nuclear power decades ago. But they didn’t …. because they don’t. It was all a money/power grab meant to centralize political power and move societies from capitalism to to becoming socialist utopias.
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I am beginning to believe that’s what they really think. I’m not joking.
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Yes David, they forget that it is “Global” warming they believe in , not Australian Climate Warming or Chinese climate Warming. The CO2 density in China is the same 420ppm that it is in Australia after we cart all that coal to China and burn it there.
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Vaxxes stay at the injection site and don’t disperse through the body either. 😆
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That’s assuming the climate zealots put any effort into thinking. It’s interesting that when challenged to apply some thought, they always just say “follow the science”, and never attempt to debate the issues.
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China is opening up to two new coal power stations PER WEEK. When I raise this I am told that they ALSO have lots of hydro and windmills and solar? Why? They don’t cancel out the soaring CO2 output, 40% of the world emissions from one country and soaring?
So while the Australian government is desperate, like Spain, to go 100% replaceables with windmills, solar and zero coal, China is never criticized for hundreds of new coal power stations?
It’s a bizarro world. And I cannot believe our politicians let alone our world leading 6,000 CSIRO scientists cannot see that? And all those universities?
Or are our brave smart politicians really spending all our money on Australia’s Weather by buying Chinese windmills and Solar panels and Snowy II? I almost want to believe it’s just stupidity.
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If CO2 was the existential threat to humanity and the planet that it is made out to be, there would be universal condemnation of China. But all we hear is crickets. If you search the web for a global heat map for CO2 emissions, there isn’t a great number that appear. If the average Australian saw a visual representation illustrating how negligible our emissions are, they’d be astounded at the disproportionate amount of money we spend on trying to change the weather.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/watch-carbon-dioxide-move-through-earths-atmosphere/
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China emits over 13 billion tonnes of CO2 per year, which is more than the United States, India and the European Union combined. US, India and the EU as a bloc are the 2nd, 3rd and 4th largest emitters.
China produces 32%-34% of all the world’s anthropogenic CO2.
It beggars belief that the anti-energy lobby doesn’t consider this a problem.
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/
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TdeF mentions this:
Here’s a bizarro fact then!
China’s new tech USC (UltraSuperCritical) coal fired plants, and now Advanced USC, the next higher level of tech up from USC are just so advanced it’s not even comprehensible.
They opened the Waigaoqiao USC plant in 2008, two Units, each unit driving a 1000MW generator. This image shows the (disgustingly dirty filthy sooty black /sarc!) turbine hall, with two turbine/generators in operation. The two section turbine is the larger of the half round structures under that overhead pipe, with the smaller generator at the end of this foreground Unit, and here, for the sake of scale, look closely in the foreground and you’ll see two orange clad men on platforms, one either side of the pipes above the multi stage turbine there.
Now, why I’m even mentioning this at all is that this plant burns coal at the rate of 282 grams per KWH of generated energy.
Here in Australia, our ancient old dinosaur clunkers burn coal at the rate of 380 grams per KWH of generated energy, almost 35% more coal per unit of energy than the pictured Chinese plant.
And the Advanced USC plants burn even less coal again.
Tony.
PostScript – Australia has 13460MW of wind Nameplate, so, the equivalent Nameplate of 6.5 times this one Chinese coal fired power plant. This ONE coal fired plant delivered 47% of the total energy delivered from every one of those Australian wind plants. Two generators ….. 91 Wind plants.
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I believe that the advanced USC turbines run at 700-800 C, which I thought was close to the melting point of normal steel.
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800C is amazing!
Regardless entirely of the source of heat, the maximum possible conversion of heat into work is set by Thermodynamics and the Carnot cycle. The limit is the upper temperature.
There was talk of car engines this high and much higher with ceramic sleeves. It may yet happen.
W = QH(TH − TC)/TH, where W is work out and QH is heat transferred from the hot reservoir to the system per cycle. TH=High temperature and TC=cold temperature of the engine cycle
Make Tcold as 0C or 273Kelvin, we get efficiency or Efficiency = W/QH = 800/1073 or 74.5%!
Yallorn in Victoria is 28%. Ultra Super Critical is around 47%, nearly double the efficiency. But these new plants can reach 75%, 2.66x the energy for the same amount of CO2. The $42billion spent on Snowy II to be finished sometime after 2032 could be spent on coal power stations and halve electricity based CO2. More importantly, they would halve coal consumption which would double reserves!
Then that’s mathematics, ratios. Chinese power stations would reduce CO2 by 70%!
But you cannot expect a Federal Treasurer to work that out. He is too busy raising the cash with new taxes to pay for more windmills and Snowy III.
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Re-checked the operating temperature using AI, which said 760C max, but sone critical components need to operate up to 815C. Wrong about steel melting temp though – 1400C or higher.
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Steel does not melt but it ignites at approximately 830°C to 1250°C. This is used to cut steel with oxy-acetylene torches and it is known as ‘burning’. Same result, collapse. Melting I assume would only happen inside steel. In oxygen its about burning. That’s why fires in steel structures are so dangerous. The steel has to be covered in fire proof material. In 9/11 this material was stripped away by the collision and the steel burned.
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And of course it softens which in a steel structure is as bad as melting. Columns taking massive vertical loads crush when they melt and bend out of vertical.
From the Australian Steel institute “Structural steel begins to lose strength around 300°C–400°C (572°F–752°F), with a rapid reduction in load-bearing capacity occurring above 550°C (1,022°F), where it often retains only about 60% of its strength. While it typically fails structurally between 500°C and 600°C, it does not melt until roughly 1,500°C (2,750°F).” But in furnaces I expect steel would be used in containment and lined with ceramic fireblocks or liners of some sort.
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Any response will be token in nature to pretend they are being responsible. So rather than slicing off hundreds of billions of dollars being wasted on impossible weather control, they might cut finding of some tiny amount in an insignificant project like a few thousand dollars and then pretend they are being fiscally responsible, “Yes Minister” style.
She is clueless DEI, a product of Labor’s gender quotas, has a background in “community work” and “union advocacy”, and it’s alarming that she and all the other clueless (that’s all of them) in the Albanese regime are involved in such nation altering monumental decisions they have no idea about.
If she knew what she was doing she would be doing something about unrestrained Government spending not only on futile attempted weather control but the $2.3+ trillion dollars federal, state and local government debt. Instead she pretends to be concerned about just one aspect of the debt,, as bad as that is, and with a likely token response.
And where’s the accountability or her concern such as independently audited accounts of Australian taxpayer money the Albanese regime is spending to terrorist enclaves such as Gaza? Just one example.
Australia really needs a DOGE department. Staggering amounts of hard-earned taxpayer money are being wasted at all levels of government and the taxpayer base is shrinking as more and more future Labor voters are being imported, nearly 100,000 in February 2026 alone, people who will likely never work, pay taxes and be welfare recipients for life apart from not accepting Australian or Western values and who will cause the sort of social destruction we are seeing in Europe.
One Nation is our only hope.
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Even more amazingly obvious is the snail’s pace at which the the electorate has reacted to this ignorant political class & their fantasy climate policies. Maybe the ALP has been doctoring the water!!
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Yes David, on Sky last night they had a Budget Wargaming panel, upon which sat Cassandra Golding the head of ACOSS and she went ballistic on the need for more renewables and more “climate” policies. Talk about embarrassing, and these people have the ear of Government. We are doomed unless the movement started in Farrer spreads rapidly.
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ACOSS is supposedly the national advocate for people affected by poverty, disadvantage, inequality, etc. It’s hard to imagine a more certain way to drive the populace into poverty and disadvantage than to blow our treasure on imbecilic planet saving policies which will have no effect on the weather whatsoever. It’s becoming more difficult to believe that this is all due to stupidity.
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Yep. It’s a sure way to make the poor, poorer and make everyone else poorer as well, except the Elites who “invest” in these ruinous schemes.
And it’s absolutely not due to incompetence or stupidity. They know exactly what they’re doing.
Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and former IPCC Working Group III Co-Chair, in an interview from November 2010 with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) said (in German):
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ACOSS Non-Government Organisation has since it was created been a Green Labor left “Council” and typically with no engineering or economics background.
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Agreed, except that Madeleine King knows her stuff. Maybe one or two other junior ministers too, but they don’t get to be senior ministers if they try to do the right thing for the people. The Labor party rules for the Labor party.
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Lots of commentators in The Australian this morning have been pointing out that she doesn’t seem to know the difference between Net and Gross.
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Sorry, this was Gallagher, not King.
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Even more embarrassing was the Minister struggling with her phone trying to understand advice obviously being sought from staffers as Liberal Senator Paterson very politely questioned her.
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Yes, that was gross.
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You have underestimated the stupidity. These clowns are trying to control GLOBAL weather not just Australia’s weather.
If Australia shut down all coal fired power stations this week, the reduction in CO2 they produce would be offset by China and India’s new coal fired stations in 4 months.
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I saw that story also this morning.
For me, I think it might be the start of the great climate awakening. Or at least I hope it is. That point where Australian politicians start to realise there’s no more votes in climate alarmism any more. Maybe the canny ones ( eg Gallagher) have noticed the vibe from some overseas countries and have seen what the new US administration is doing for their country. Who knows, perhaps the Farrer bi-election has also had an effect along with the whole ON progression?
Because we know it was never about the science, it was always about the politics and the possible profiteering opportunities offered. Which is why Bill Gates is no longer a part of it. Suddenly there’s money to be made from AI and pretend pandemics. You can’t power AI with fans and mirrors, it needs decent grunt with either gas, coal or nuclear.
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Meanwhile in America, can one substitute Labor for Democrat?
The Democratic Party is historically unpopular & hemorrhaging working class voters.
Focusing on the issue of climate change —an issue mainly impt to their educated/affluent base—is not a way to reverse this.
This marks the end of an era.
New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax
A New York Times op-ed argues voters are turned off by climate messaging after decades of failed predictions
David Marcus of Fox News – For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet.
But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.
“Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore,” blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject.
I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history.
In elementary school, I endured warnings of a coming ice age, then by high school it was global warming that was minutes away from ending humanity.
By the time I was an adult, the warming having failed, surprisingly, to occur, we settled on “climate change,” as the vague name for the inevitable apocalypse.
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If Leftist voters and Leftist readers of the NYT are bored with “climate change” one wonders what the next scam will be.
Remember how things on the climate change front quietened down during covid?
Leftists were then more interested in promoting draconian lockups, compulsory vaccinations and being general maskholes.
Maybe the next big thing will be Hantavirus, after all, they already have patented vaccines. All they need now is a stupid government like Australia’s to make them compulsory like they did last time with covid “vaccines”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/science/hantavirus-vaccines-treatment.html
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5614193A/en
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I suspect they have their next big thing already.
It’s called anti-Zionism. A euphemisn for genocide of the people of the Jewish faith, anti-Semitism and straightout racism.
The left have always been closet racists even from their earliest days of the “White Australia Policy” and even more so today. That’s why Albanese (the Australian PM – not the UN’s rapporteur) worked so hard to avoid a Royal Commission into the mass murder of people of the Jewish faith at Bondi Beach earlier this year.
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ALP National Constitution extract;
PART B – OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES
Origins
3 The Australian Labor Party had its origins in:
(a) the aspirations of the Australian people for a decent, secure, dignified and
constructive way of life;
(b) the recognition by the trade union movement of the necessity for a political voice
to take forward the struggle of the working class against the excesses, injustices
and inequalities of capitalism; and
(c) the commitment by the Australian people to the creation of an independent, free
and enlightened Australia.
Objectives
4 The Australian Labor Party is a democratic socialist party and has the objective of the
democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the
extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields.
5 To achieve the political and social values of equality, democracy, liberty and social co-
operation inherent in this objective, the Australian Labor Party stands for:
(a) redistribution of political and economic power so that all members of society have
the opportunity to participate in the shaping and control of the institutions and
relationships which determine their lives;
(b) establishment and development of public enterprises, based upon federal, state
and other forms of social ownership, in appropriate sectors of the economy;
(c) democratic control and strategic social ownership of Australian natural resources
for the benefit of all Australians;
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‘Supercharged’ climate funding can’t last forever, Gallagher admits
The Finance Minister concedes the government cannot sustain its current rate of climate spending as Labor lays the groundwork for breaking promises in Tuesday’s budget.
Labor, under Labor Energy Minister Net Zero Fairyland Fantasy Believer “Bankrupting Blackout” Bowen, have become a Labor Party of Robbing The Poor to Pay the Rich,
FBT EV Subsides for the Wealthy Taxpayer, Home Batteries & Solar Subsidies for Wealthy Home Owners
Labor Party Motto Now – “Forget the Peasants, the Renters, the Trades, the Pensioners” We, Labor only want to help the Rich – Tradies, you don’t get a 20% Reduction in HECS, just because you were smart enough not to incur an Irrelevant Degree
Labor Treasurer “What’s Economics – Intergenerational Envy“ Dim Jim Chalmers ably assisted by Labor Finance Minister “What’s Net” Katy Gallagher, and a Conga Line, of the Most Ill Qualified, Inept, Incompetent Labor Federal Ministers that have ever been seen in Australia (Eat your Hearts out, Gough, Jim, Rex as you RIP) along with Labor Victoria, sending Australia down the Bankruptcy Drain!
Led by the Most Incompetent Prime Minister that Australia has ever seen, the “I have lived my life on the Public Purse” Labor PM “It’s Not My Fault – I am taking the Begging Bowl around Asia” Flyaway Anthony Albanese!
And lets not forget those beautiful words, Labor PM Albo said with a little tear in his eye, “MY WORD IS MY BOND”.
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“The government cannot sustain its current rate of climate spending”
As Margaret Thatcher said, “There’s no such thing as Government money. The government has no money! It only has your money. On the presumption that it can spend your money more wisely than you can. And I doubt that”.
Gallagher, Chalmers, Pong, Bowen and Albo Akhbar have been spending our money like drunken sailors. And achieved only destruction. It’s time to stop. Especially Snowy II. Another 7 years to achieve what?
THey have not touched 2/3 of CO2 output from imported fuel on which the country utterly depends.
And could have halved CO2 output by just upgrading coal power stations without building ANY new transmission lines.
So when politicians say they have run out of money, it means they cannot tax us any further without losing their jobs.
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“Hantavirus conspiracies”
Dr. John Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPWXLE3GQY
Moderna has been developing an mRNA hantavirus vaccine since 2024.
It’s not conspiracy, just good anticipatory timing and business acumen.
So what if the news cycle just happens to cooperate?
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“Haunted by the Hanta Virus” podcast by Bret Weinstein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_ZNpDqu5s
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In the USA there were deaths in 1993 that brought such a disease to the main news media. In the Four Corners region (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah) there were 17 deaths from 33 confirmed cases. More recently, Betsy M. A. Hackman, wife of Gene Hackman, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome around February 12, 2025. As of the end of 2023, there have been 890 reported cases of hantavirus disease in the United States, since surveillance began in 1993. The states of Arizona and New Mexico are leaders but only a few cases per year. Deer mice are the primary carriers. Likely the Southern (Peromyscus labecula) species or similar.
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“there have been 890 reported cases of hantavirus disease in the United States, since surveillance began in 1993”.
So definitely a need to develop a vaccine then. Roughly 0.00029666 percent out of a population of 300 million over 33 years. I might start buying shares in big Pharma .
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The solution is to say out of old barns and sheds and not stir up the dirt and dust (urine and feces). If necessary to muck around in such a place, wear a mask. That’s the advice since the 1993 investigations.
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Easier said than done, John. One of our barns (machinery shed) has a concrete floor & is relatively easy to keep swept. The other – where hay bales, shelving with farm bits and pieces, paint, tools, has a dirt/straw floor and is impossible to strip of dust etc. Fortunately, the visiting fox (night only) and the day free ranging chooks demolish any rodents.
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A cure would be better than a vaccine. The disease is not widespread.
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When Disney went fully woke with Star Wars, they destroyed the franchise and younger people have little interest in it.
Now even Disney is considering removing the woke sequels from the timeline and restoring the original characters.
Benny Johnson discusses: https://youtu.be/VOTROyFMW68
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Five yrs ago Disney share price was $184, today $108, a 38% loss. They do have the reverse Midas touch.
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Design of the Mach 3.2+ Lockheed SR-71 predecessor the A-12 started in 1958 and the SR-71 first flew in 1964.
All designed with pencils and slide rules and only primitive early computers and deep knowledge of the subject matter.
Even today, over 60 years later, it still looks like it’s from the future.
It is the design inspiration for fictional aircraft/spacecraft like the X-Men X-Jet, Top Gun: Maverick Darkstar and Star Wars’ J-type 327 Nubian royal starship and real aircraft like the Mach 6 SR-72 (under development at Skunk Works).
Well done Kelly Johnson and Skunk Works.
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The USA atomic bomb was designed by 3 mathematicians, one using an electric calculator, one using a slide rule and the third using an abacus.
Calculations were checked against each other.
It was noted that the abacus was fastest and the slide rule second.
Of course, both these required mental judgements, something that the calculations for the IPCC should try.
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As late as the mid-1970’s, precise survey calculations were routinely done using 13 decimal place trig tables and huge, noisy, hand-cranked mechanical pinwheel calculators. The trig tables were the size of phone books.
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The magazine, Natural History, for May 2026 has an excerpt of a new book by Emily Seyl titled “Trinity: An Illustrated …” A brief review is on Amazon.com
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As a kid in the 1950s the only comics I was allowed to read were The Great Illistrated Classics
https://www.greatillustratedclassics.com/book-p/ivanhoe.htm
I had to go to Friends Houses to read Disney & Phantom etc Comics
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One story is that Fermi, when testing the first atomic reaction using carbon blocks as moderators, was advising how many carbon blocks to remove before the lot went ballistic by using a small slide rule for his calculations.
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David, the same team developed the U2, which first flew in the 50s and is sill in service I believe. Probably hovering over Iran and Russia as I write.
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Now called the Dragon Lady. It’s profile has changed with it’s mission.
I saw one take off from Laverton, it vanished vertically, not horizontally, it had such lift, in contrast to the F4 which did it on raw power
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I once saw a hundred or so Sandhill Cranes vanish vertically via a helix shape. They don’t make as much noise as do the planes. Impressive, nonetheless. And they don’t use trig tables or fancy abaci.
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And apparently they taste like beef. The “rib eye” of the sky.
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Why are scallywags seemingly made of rubber?
Stolen bike crash, then watch carefully as he runs away!
Arrested and no serious injury apparently.
https://youtu.be/RpUkV_GbIKM
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Adrenalin or drugs, or both.
When they started running there was a feminine aspect to their movements. I wonder if they started out that way. Or it’s true, you can change gender with the right impacts. 🙂
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FWIW
“Antarctic “Triple Whammy” Paper Lands Just As the Ice Rebounds”
“Last Friday’s Science Advances served up a new Antarctic doom paper, perfectly timed for the weekend news cycle. A team led by researchers at the University of Southampton announced they had diagnosed the cause of the decline in Antarctic sea ice since 2015 — a self-reinforcing combination of stronger westerlies, deepwater upwelling, and a positive feedback loop that the authors’ press release dubbed:”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/10/antarctic-triple-whammy-paper-lands-just-as-the-ice-rebounds/
Noting “There is, however, a small problem with the timing.
Meanwhile, In the Actual Data”
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The comments are informative, our old colleague bnice is on the money.
‘Satellite data as given by UAH, shows very clearly that the warming since 1979 has come from major El Nino spike+ step events, which have absolutely nothing to do with human CO2.
‘Apart from those El Nino events, there is essentially no warming.’
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FWIW
“Keystone XL Rebranded as “Keystone Light” in Trump’s Push for North American Energy Security”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/10/keystone-xl-rebranded-as-keystone-light-in-trumps-push-for-north-american-energy-security/
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After yet another election loss in Farrer, the Liberal Party is still clueless as to what’s wrong with it…
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Why does this worry you so much?
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Because for those of us living in Victoria with an ineffective and dysfunctional Liberal Party opposition, we see that the voters re-elect the Labor party no matter how bad that party performs. Better that voters have a viable and obvious better choice, rather than being like the Twin Tower jumpers who were faced with hoping to survive a fire or hoping to survive a fall. Or worse, knowing each option was the end and they chose what might be the least painful.
Hopefully Angus Taylor meant it on Saturday night when he said they must stop being the party of convenience and be the party of conviction.
Johannes Leak’s cartoon from today’s The Australian.
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ad0bb0410c6435e60a03862b8a153062?width=1024
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I don’t think it worries DM.
I think he’s just stating a fact.
The Libs are clueless.
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Why not stop the abuse and start with constructive advice [they need it], maybe cause change at branch level. You are talking yourselves, and others, into NOT voting labor out of power.
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I have relatives who joined their local Lib state branch to try and cause change. Hoping to get it back on track. They’re sticking with it but have found so much resistance, and are very disappointed. Especially with one senior Lib figure who said to them, “We’ve tried being conservatives. It doesn’t work.” (quoting my relative who relayed what the senior Lib said to them).
Change isn’t easy to effect by conversations. Some people can only learn through hard lessons. But either way, those people are just responding to whatever gets them elected. They’re not doing it because they believe in what needs to be done. So really, they’re better off getting out of the way.
Of course frustrated voters shouldn’t sabotage. But thanks to the preference system we can have our say and have a back-up plan.
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I haven’t voted for the libs for years, however they are always placed above Labor, Greens, Teals on my ballot. I get satisfaction out of knowing the Libs don’t get the $3.12 AEC electoral funding they would have received if they were my 1st choice.
You are still stuck on voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
Myself and many others are past that stage.
We gave the lesser of 2 evils too many chances already.
No more!
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Any Non Net Zero Liberals (if there are any there?) need to give Labor Lite Liberals – Turnbull Acolytes – LINOs, the Flick and join Nationals!
Nationals & One Nation need to run Candidates in all upcoming State & Federal Elections, and hire Maths Quants (Perhaps Gina Rhinehart could help?)to work with all Australian Conservative Groups, Family First, Advance Australia, Shooteers & Fishers, aktter Australian Party, Nuclear for Australia, etc, to work together and game preference swaps.
Remember Glenn Druery an Australian political strategist who earned the nickname “preference whisperer” for his role in electing minor party candidates to the Senate and state upper houses through complex preference harvesting deals.
Since the mid-1990s, he has formed the Minor Party Alliance to coordinate voting patterns among micro-parties, allowing candidates with very low primary vote percentages (often under 1%) to win seats by ensuring their preferences flow among allied groups rather than to major parties.
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I have posted a link to the source below;
Which countries opted out of COP26?
Over 40 nations pledged to phase out coal use within the 2030s (and within the 2040s for poorer nations). This includes major coal-dependent nations such as Poland, Vietnam and Chile. However, some of the world’s largest coal-consuming nations, such as China, the US, India and Australia, did not sign up for the pledge.
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What continues to concern me is that obvious to all who follow politics and current affairs is that One Nation just had elected their very first House of Representatives MP at the Farrer by election with no Labor candidate and Union Labor support via AWU GetUp activist organisation for Teal Independent who on the 2PP calculation basis came second.
The best time for assessing the result, and I would prefer One Nation to a Teal, will be when all the numbers are allocated meaning preferences from [ 2 ] down and expert advice on the total result including from where preferences came and to whom they favoured.
Noting SA and ON gained a number of seats in Parliament but Labor was comfortably returned to government and at the VIC by election the Liberal candidate was the winner but Teal not One Nation came second 2PP basis.
And the Farrer very relevant factor being a Liberal who retired inside one year from the last Federal election in 2025. And who had been involved in public differences between Liberal and National after the 2025 election resulting in her resignation and Angus Taylor receiving a two-thirds Liberal MP vote majority and the National’s leader also resigned and Matt Canavan was appointed in his place unopposed.
Of course the voters in Farrer and many other electorates are fed up with politicians and first and foremost the governments of Labor Victoria and Commonwealth Albanese. After all they not the Opposition have the numbers to control governments.
And voters generally have short memories and too often cannot work out powers and responsibilities of Federation of States verses their Federal Government Commonwealth of Australia.
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The Liberals have lost their way and a loose coalition is required.
‘We have no plans for going into a coalition with One Nation. Again, if we focus on the Australian people, if we focus on developing substantive policy. If we focus on removing this very poor Albanese government, that puts us in good stead. So, you know, I’m personally not looking around at any major structural change, trying to engage with One Nation under some formal coalition.’ (Ted O’Brian/ Guardian)
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“I’m personally not looking around at any major structural change, ”
So… more of Labor’s policies then… A complete waste of a vote for them, we need MAJOR structural changes!
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The old guard must be worried, but confident they can retain city seats, thinking the agrarian uprising won’t reach them.
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After 30 years in the wilderness.
‘The increased support for One Nation was largely drawn from the previous Liberal vote. One Nation was also helped considerably by the Liberals opting to preference Farley over Milthorpe. Farley received approximately 60% of Coalition preferences. The Liberal total declined from the 43.4% primary achieved by Sussan Ley in 2025, to an anaemic 12.4% for new Liberal candidate Raissa Butkowski.’ (The Conversation)
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One Nation was also helped considerably by the Liberals opting to preference Farley over Milthorpe. Farley received approximately 60% of Coalition preferences.
That seems to be the conventional ‘whistling past the graveyard’ wisdom.
However, looking at the first preference numbers – and assuming that previous Labor and Green voters mainly went to Milthorpe – the fact that Farley apparently received about 60% of the massive defecting Liberal vote (plus a fair chunk of Labor) put him in the position to benefit from Liberal and National preferences.
https://antonygreen.com.au/2026-farrer-by-election-result-summary/
If I were a Liberal Party strategist, the numbers wouldn’t be telling me that the message sent in preferencing a pale Green pseudo independent above ON might have been a winning move.
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The three cornered contest between Libs, Nats and ON should be encouraged at every opportunity.
In the meantime they will be looking at polling, which seats are unwindable but may still produce good results through preferences.
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The machinations of the parties and the preference deals and non-deals are not of much interest I would suggest to most of the disaffected. Preference deals are for parties who don’t get the policies right. There’s 60% of us out there who want real change.n If any of the parties listen and hear what is being said, preference deals won’t be critical.
I’d suggest One Nation is not just getting the policies pretty much right, but they have a voice in Pauline that people trust brecause they have seen her unwavering commitment over the years despite the elites trying to crush her party and crush her spirit. We can identify with that experience.
What I’m concerned about with the growth of One Nation is that people currently behind her start feeling the power and want to usurp her position. Eg her chief of staff types and the well-known politicians who are presently pulling their heads in, but maybe love the spotlight more than their love of the nation.
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There was commentary last night on the Surveillance State and the rollout of further digital ID regulations later this year.
Phase 4 is a particular concern:
“By December 2026: Accredited private sector providers, attribute providers and exchange providers can apply to the Digital ID Regulator to join the Australian Government Digital ID System. This will provide more choice of which Digital ID provider you can use to access Commonwealth services.“
https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/news/expanding-the-government-system
Aside from the arrogant presumption that people want choice of Digital ID providers, the Albanese Government is commoditising our personal identity information. Why on earth would any ‘private sector provider’ be interested in providing ’more choice’ in how we access Commonwealth services – unless there was some sort of a commercial benefit in the background.
You can be 100% certain that there will be either misuse, or a catastrophic leakage.
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This was the video that was posted yesterday about the matter.
The implications on what little is l left of the traditional Australian way of life are profound.
I just wish TRUMP would start accepting Australians as refugees just as he is taking in South African farmers.
https://youtu.be/98Y5KqEw68g
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Who posted that?
Shame on them! 😆
Go overseas and come back by inflatable.
Free rent, food, power, housing, everything.
Commit crimes and get off free.
Play the race card.
Go back to the country you “escaped” from for holidays.
What a life.
All funded by your host country’s taxpayers.
Never mind, June and July loom large. Will be interesting to see the pollies handling of it, like we don’t know.
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It won’t be ‘misused’, the whole purpose of any company getting into that nice secure Govt purse there is to on-sell the gathered information to others, and it will be the most valuable data ever for any advertising company.
You get names and addresses, sex, age, probably a phone number and email address, and I fully expect a list of sites often visited by that particular person, so the ultimate personalised advertising will be forced upon you.
Your phone will get anonymised texts advertising goods you searched for on a computer the previous night.
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We get varying degrees of all that right now.
What we don’t yet have, is private holdings of unique ‘official identifiers’ that provide access to government services – and (eventually, according to government) ‘secure’ access to banking, home loans, superannuation accounts, etc – and all the issues that go with that.
The internet scammers from Nigeria and the North Korean Treasury Department will be licking their lips.
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Hydrogen power is garbage.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/05/10/90-subsidized-bielefeld-germanys-e7-million-hydrogen-garbage-truck-fleet-sits-idle/
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The joke being that the 7 Garbage trucks had a limited range (once charged) of 300 km. and they had to travel at least 80 km to fuel up. Then that refuelling station was closed, they had to travel roughly 90 km to refuel. 300 – (2 x 90) didn’t leave much available.
There was a hydrogen station in Bielefeld within the city. One might think the solution is simple: just refuel the trucks at the local station! However, due to the strict terms of the government subsidies used to build that station, its use is contractually restricted to hydrogen buses only.
To foul up takes an idiot but to really foul up it takes a bureaucratic mind.
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A recently completed one year trial of an EV prime mover logging truck with two trailers resulted in the firm declaring EV was not cost effective, and the promised range of 400 kms on the job averaged 200 kms each 100% batteries charge.
At the start of the fuel supply crisis a public relations drive to Canberra using a Tesla EV prime mover with single trailer loaded with volume but low weight toilet paper rolls managed 250 kms and well short of the estimated 340 kms.
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Worse than that! From the article
“Blackout News reports that for years, Bielefeld’s hydrogen trucks relied on a refueling station in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. Even then, the logistics were strained; drivers had to make an 80-kilometer round trip just to fuel up. Given that these trucks have a daily range of about 300 kilometers, nearly a third of their energy was being spent just getting to the pump.
When the station in Rheda-Wiedenbrück closed, the situation turned from difficult to impossible. The next available station was in Münster—roughly 180 kilometers away for a round trip. At that distance, the trucks would consume most of their fuel just traveling to and from the station, leaving virtually no range left to actually collect trash.”
The new station is 90 km away. So 90 km to get there, 90 km back to work and needing fuel for 90 km to get the next tank.
So work done would hardly threaten one of the old time little old ladies with a broom
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I think that last 90km is already covered by the first 90 km, Ian.
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Harvard Study finds wind turbines will cause more warming than emissions reductions would avert
A 2018 study by Harvard scientists, published in the academic journal Joule, modeled the temperature impacts of scaling up wind turbines to meet all U.S. electricity generation and found that doing so would significantly increase local surface temperatures throughout the country.
It is important to note that the wind turbines do not produce new warming. Instead, they increase surface temperatures by redistributing heat in the air that already exists.
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/harvard-study-finds-wind-turbines
They could distribute all that data center heat more evenly in winter time though.
Maybe that new 40,000 acre one in Utah.
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I would think chopping down forests to make way for the bird choppers, access roads and transmission lines also affects local weather.
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Why I wear my mask
https://youtu.be/qGYQU1WRGxI?si=df7fmbAxSNmey5S5
Hantascam edition.
https://youtu.be/CkmRyIz87ew?si=qdyYYHf83zJy6Rs0
😁
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Very good.
I’m just waiting for all the maskholes to cone put of the woodwork.
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As for the second video, in real life:
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Behold the path of the Internet Reformation.
We are back to the existential battle between what the academy of science ordained priests say and what the heretics say.
I keep looking for when the cultural and academic intelligentsia are gonna realize they can no longer wave their science wand and control the peasants.
But they have intellectually inbred themselves blind.
It started with Global Warming.
Once it got to men can give birth and obesity is healthy, you’d think they would have realized they’d gone too far.
This po’ boy’s lesson from the Great Pandemic.
It is astonishing how dumb the the smart people are.
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Although there might be a hidden central Blob brain manipulating the whole thing.
Can’t tell for sure yet.
If so, it is likely delusional that it imagines it can control what appears to be intentional deconstruction to its’ advantage.
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A startup company in Melbourne’s west that breeds fly larvae to make fertiliser and protein has been cited by the council for creating fly infestation and terrible odours in the surrounding area. Bill Gates would be proud.
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/rotten-odour-and-fly-swarms-council-seeks-eviction-order-against-former-start-up-darling-20260506-p5zufe.html
Their website: 🐛🐛🐛
https://www.bardee.com/blogs/news
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“But they should be located … in a rural area,””
Love it! The answer that suburban ‘greenies’ always come up with.. push the problems out onto the country people!
I’d relocate them into Melbourne’s most Lefty-recycling-global boiling Karen’s neighbourhood! THIS is what you wanted, factories turning food waste into maggots for kids to eat!
NSW up for it too.. The flies they used are foreign invaders anyway.
https://www.facebook.com/ron.hoenig/posts/for-the-first-time-in-nsw-black-soldier-fly-larvae-or-maggots-are-turning-reside/1074252671184377/
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Where does this soldier fly larvae protein go? Animal feed or human food or both?
This is the sort of rubbish the Left are promoting as a supposed alternative to real meat.
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I understand it’s protein designed for pets (at this point in time). I’d suggest avoiding the unproven dietary products for your best friend and sticking to proven good quality products.
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Way back in BC when mulesing of sheep was a contentious subject I thought that there should be equal time presentations which would require a movie theatre.
Half time on the operation, half time on the fly blown sheep. At the start of that segment the presenter would begin injecting the smell of fly blown sheep through the air conditioning system.
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Finance Minister Katy Gallagher grilled over massive Snowy Hydro 2.0 cost blowouts after ex-CEO blames Chris Bowen
“Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has dodged repeated questions about the cost blowouts at Snowy Hydro 2.0 as the project’s price tag soars more than 20 times above its original estimate.
“We’re still working through some of those issues around Snowy Hydro,” Ms Gallagher told reporters.
She went on to blame the former Coalition government for underestimating the cost and timeframe of the project.
During Friday’s press conference, Ms Gallagher was asked why the government was continuing with Snowy Hydro 2.0 despite scrapping the northern section of the regional Inland Rail project.
The Finance Minister did not address Inland Rail, but lauded Snowy Hydro 2.0 as “an important part of the energy system going forward”.
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/energy/finance-minister-katy-gallagher-grilled-over-massive-snowy-hydro-20-cost-blowouts-after-exceo-blames-chris-bowen/news-story/f81b2e78942e094272fac7fe01c4cdf7
It’s Budget season and this is arguably the biggest project cockup in Australian history.
One can understand why Angus Taylor is keeping a low profile, but there must be a reason why Claire Chandler or Dan Tehan are not taking it up to Gallagher and Bowen.
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And she would be correct. It is why the voters should chuck out Angus Taylor when the opportunity presents.
The level of geotechnical assessment that went into this project would not be adequate to build a house in Newcastle.
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I would like to know why Chrissie “Blackout” Bowen converted this from an incentive-based contract which benefits the customer (i.e. taxpayer) to a cost-plus contract which benefits the vendor.
Heads need to roll.
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/energy/he-created-the-problem-energy-minister-chris-bowen-blamed-by-former-snowy-hydro-boss-paul-broad-for-cost-blowouts/news-story/e05065b29f253674bab48a7c8d645ad0
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Normally, on a large scale engineering project, you would only expect to move to a cost plus contract if a project was so badly specified (ie not a force majeur situation) that it became practically infeasible or likely to break the contractor. And, you were under such serious time pressure to deliver the project that cost stopped being a critical factor to consider.
Hallmark of a desperate cockup – where someone is sweating political cobblers on the delay and it’s only OPM anyway.
Normally heads would roll.
(For the avoidance of doubt, I’m absolutely not suggesting corruption naughtiness.)
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The pile on based on Turnbull and Coalition Turnbull Government was premature.
Of course wholly government owned Snowy Hydro Limited would have presented a capital expenditure approval application with supporting project details and pricing estimates before the tender was issued and later project primary contractor offer accepted. First tunnel began 2019 and was completed October 2022, Albanese Government elected May 2022, and after that Ministers Bowen and Gallagher we are now informed changed the contract financial arrangement.
Sky News report earlier indicated that the cost blow out is building contractor and unions based.
By the way, the Snowy Hydro Limited CEO resigned to Minister for Energy Bowen over the building of a gas turbine generator plant (Morrison Government , and State NSW Government project development approval) the Minister insisted “green” hydrogen be used to fuel, and the answer unacceptable that it musty be natural gas fuelled. It was after that time that Minister Bowen began to refer to natural gas as the transition fuel, previously transition away from fossil fuels.
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Gallagher must be one of the most poorly briefed Minister for a long time. Either that, or the woman is just out of her depth and doesn’t comprehend many issues in her brief.
Probably all of the above. Her latest breathtaking claim is that the earlier infants get into “early childhood education” aka child care, the better they do at school. This is an outrageous and erroneous claim.
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Labor Treasurer “What’s Economics – Intergenerational Envy“ Dim Jim Chalmers ably assisted by Labor Finance Minister “What’s Net” Katy Gallagher, and a Conga Line, of the Most Ill Qualified, Inept, Incompetent Labor Federal Ministers that have ever been seen in Australia (Eat your Hearts out, Gough, Jim, Rex as you RIP) along with Labor Victoria, sending Australia down the Bankruptcy Drain!
Led by the Most Incompetent Prime Minister that Australia has ever seen, the “I have lived my life on the Public Purse” Labor PM “It’s Not My Fault – I am taking the Begging Bowl around Asia” Flyaway Anthony Albanese!
And lets not forget those beautiful words, Labor PM Albo said with a little tear in his eye, “MY WORD IS MY BOND”.
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Our Katy is a one trick political animal.
Two, if you include deflecting onto the last Coalition Government.
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Why is it always Coalition and ignoring the Labor timeline history, the parliamentary two houses system and Federation of States powers and responsibilities?
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Dan Tehan retains energy in the shadow ministry and Taylor has added manager of opposition business to Tehan’s responsibilities.
Poor strategy by Taylor, the man couldn’t run a raffle.
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Based on what evidence?
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Taylor is unsuited to the task, Tehan should be totally focussed on the energy portfolio.
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Guardian has today published an interesting bit about the son of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf the Iranian politician who is currently playing a central role in the Middle East conflict and the peace negotiations.
The father Ghalibaf is the former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ air force and police chief who has boasted about his role in beating student protesters. His 38-year-old son Eshagh Ghalibaf, has been living and studying in Australia since 2014. The Guardian article points out that Eshagh longer term intention has been to settle in Canada and not Australia and his paperwork supporting the Canadian entitlement has exposed a lot of what has been happening in Australia in the intervening period including collecting money from a couple of rental properties and working for a time at the university of Melbourne. I’m guessing the rental property investments are probably more likely his father’s so the obvious question becomes are these the only two that the father holds or are there others and whether the acquisition of these (and/or others) would pass a pub test.
Not saying any thing illegal here but even the Guardian raises the point that the relationship “…raises questions about Australia’s handling of sanctions against current and former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps figures and their families. The IRGC was only officially designated as a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the federal government in November.”
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The hidden answers are of course to be discovered when international left organisation and fellow travellers are investigated, the paper trails etc
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The hidden answers are of course to be discovered when international left organisation and fellow travellers are investigated, the paper trails etc
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For once, good on the Guardian for printing this information. In view of the role of Iran in a number of anti-Semitic attacks in this country over the last few years, I would hope all of this is on the radar of ASIO and the AFP. But I always live in hope.
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And never forget RCP8.5 is dead long live RCP8.5!!!
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AEMO q1 2026 update Thursday. You can register here:
https://energy.unimelb.edu.au/events/aemo-quarterly-energy-dynamics-q1-2026?utm_source=eventedm&utm_medium=email
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3AW _ “Hundreds and hundreds of bus stope, shops and business windows destroyed”
Remarkable organisation, would not everyone agree?
Well, nothing surprises me since Sydney Opera on the 9 October 2022.
Put two and two together, what happened in Melbourne over weekend which fire up certain people anger?
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Well I dunno Vlad, d’ya reckon it was the mad Russians running amok celebrating Victory Day on May 1st? They usually get blamed and the mad Yanks won’t be running amok for another couple of months. World Cup not yet, so it can’t be the mad Poms doing their usual, can you give us a clue?
There are endless pages with articles about vandalism in Melbourne, but nothing more recent than Anzac Day. Seems a great place not to be.
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As the modified number plate surround said –
“Great Place To Be From”
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It wouldn’t surprise me if this is a social media trend, perhaps on a lesser known platform. The perpetrators have to be getting some sort of gratification for their actions- otherwise it’s totally random acts carried out in quick succession.
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I don’t have any sympathy for Scientology, but this link shows more examples of teenagers running amok in Brisbane. 50 odd years ago teenage rebellion was largely punk music. Now it’s livestream bmx and e-bike stunts or coordinated vandalism. I had a 12-14 year old tailgating me on an e-bike tonight doing over 60kms per hour without his feet on the pedals. He had a motorbike helmet on but his potential accident damage is huge…
https://7news.com.au/news/hundreds-of-brisbane-teens-run-riot-after-failed-scientology-speedrun-attempt-c-22259772
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FWIW
News for “ElBowen”
“90% Subsidized… Bielefeld Germany’s €7 Million Hydrogen Garbage Truck Fleet Sits Idle”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/10/90-subsidized-bielefeld-germanys-e7-million-hydrogen-garbage-truck-fleet-sits-idle/
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For the record, I found this comprehensive information regarding the 2021 Glasgow COP;
https://tovisorga.com/glasgow/how-many-countries-signed-the-glasgow-pact/
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Which countries opted out of COP26?
Over 40 nations pledged to phase out coal use within the 2030s (and within the 2040s for poorer nations). This includes major coal-dependent nations such as Poland, Vietnam and Chile. However, some of the world’s largest coal-consuming nations, such as China, the US, India and Australia, did not sign up for the pledge.
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FWIW
“Ancient Roman Artifact’s Weird Properties Point to 1600 Yr Old Nanotechnology”
“During the 4th-century, a remarkable artifact was produced by Roman artisans that exhibits optical qualities so unique they have baffled scholars for centuries.
Known as the Lycurgus Cup, it is one of the most unusual examples of glassworking ever produced by the Roman Empire, as it is made from dichroic glass—a material that appears to exhibit an entirely different coloration when light passes through it—causing it to look green when illuminated from the front but appearing a striking amber-red when illuminated from behind.”
More and link at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/05/10/ancient-roman-artifacts-weird-properties-point-to-1600-yr-old-nanotechnology-n3814774
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I asked if Basslink is operational because, while I have no particular interest in it, I have not noticed it working for a while now.
What does that mean?
I seem to recall Tas advertising itself as “the battery of the nation”. How’s that going?
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“I seem to recall Tas advertising itself as “the battery of the nation”. How’s that going?”
Flat?
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911 collapses?
The steel did not even have to get remotely close to burning for the structure to be terminally insecure.
Drive a decent-sized aircraft, made from aluminium and magnesium alloys and fully laden with Jet-A, straight at the side of such a building and things get interesting, very quickly. The heat from the burning fuel, coupled with the greater heat from the burning aerospace alloys was unlikely to have been enough to “ignite” the steel skeleton of the buildings.
HOWEVER, before steel melts, and LONG before it “burns”, it becomes SOFT. Go and watch a blacksmith at work.
When the steel gets heated to the point of “softness”, the thousands of tons of “intact” structure ABOVE the impact point start to buckle the damaged and softened steel-work. Within seconds of that occurring, the upper levels became a gigantic “pile-driver”. Watch the video with all the commentary turned of and you will get the idea.
The WTC buildings were among the LAST buildings of their type to be built in the USA. ALL of the core structural steel members were also clad in a thick layer of insulating material..
Being “trend-setters”, this cladding may also have been among the first major construction without Asbestos in this thermal cladding. Physically rupturing the core of the building did several things:
Severed ALL of the services, (water, power, phone, data) at the height of impact.
Damaged the thermal cladding on a LOT of critical steel-work.
Started a ferocious fire which raced through level after level, igniting stationery, furniture, etc. NO Water, because the roof top tanks dumped their contents straight down the core risers (assuming the flood valves were opened). Any water possibly being pumped UP the pipes in the risers aaould make it to the impact zone and then leak out.
Osama bin Laden was a CIVIL ENGINEER, as were several of his accomplices. Join the dots.
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Your bald assertions could do with supporting citations eh.
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I doubt most of these dancers ever heard Dire Straits but it’s late-night entertainment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEBD-iNJExM
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