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Well, it sounds like they’re drumming up Hysteriademic 2.0 here in the US.
No offense to the rational Ozzians that frequent this blog, but I will be looking to the Australian government for belle weather guidance.
Perhaps Mr. Andrews could be brought back for experienced leadership.
If you need to leave your beautiful continent for business or pleasure, you may want to get that done before it is difficult for you to return without an extended stay in a Resilience Center.
Lucky those are there.
Is it just me, or does it appear that as climate hysteria wanes, a convenient replacement has materialized?
And just in time.
Coincidence I guess.
Net Zero Unvaccinated?
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It’s an intelligence test.
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Apparently a Dutch guy went to a landfill to watch birds.
Died on the boat, and then the wife died after a plane ride.
I’m not intelligent enough to wonder if anybody that works at the landfill, lives in the vicinity of, you know breathing and touching stuff on a continuing basis, has contracted hanta
Wonder if a team of ‘Public Health’ scientists have descended upon it?
Of course nasty things come from landfills.
Never from labs.
It is obvious to me that we cannot allow the Dutch to travel.
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Astute observation Honk. Especially when combined with the official story that it cannot be passed from human to human.
Captain Obvious then asks how the other passengers on the ship contracted the disease.
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Wonder how often diagnosis is made not from isolation and observation of a contagion, but from merely the observation of symptoms?
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Cue the Lemmings.
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It’s all about keeping the Sheeple in a permanent state of anxiety and/or panic. They are easier to control and manipulate that way.
And it’s easy to do now the society is so maleducated, dumbed-down and unable to exercise critical thinking.
During the world’s most extreme covid lockups outside of China, you saw that Australians were not the “rugged individualists” of mythology but today are mostly a highly compliant and passive bunch, with a few notable exceptions who were severely punished for their crimes of exercising independent thought.
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FWIW – today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
“NYT-vs-NYT hantavirus whiplash; ”
” Today’s roundup includes: the hantavirus media circus that doesn’t survive five minutes of CDC data; ”
“I had hoped to let this ridiculous story blow over and avoid writing about it completely. But since the Democrats’ midterm chances are sinking, the volume of media hysteria predicting the next 100-year pandemic is becoming deafening and increasingly incoherent. Behold two of yesterday’s competing headlines. First, the New York Times, May 12th:”
“First of all, the CDC already tracks hantavirus, and has been tracking it for decades. It’s right on the website. You can see at the CDC’s link that, between 1993-2023, it has recorded 890 reported hantavirus cases in the United States. Only five had confirmed foreign exposure:”
“To put that in perspective, more Americans are injured annually by vending machines. But the media would like you to know that this is the moment to panic, and they would appreciate it if you could do so before the November midterms.
There are so many that I won’t bother going through all the reasons you should instantly reject any hantavirus nonsense. It’s much less of a threat than monkeypox, even to leather festival aficionados. I’ll just point out a few key facts that will expose the whole rigged game.
And much more at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/blanket-of-doom-wednesday-may-13?
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And
“‘The Hantas Are Coming! The Hantas Are Coming!'”
In there
“This, however, is a cautionary tale if one so inclined, as our Southwest Hanta strain does not transit human to human, where the Andes strain does. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/13/the-hantas-are-coming-the-hantas-are-coming-n3814914
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There’s certainly something really evil developing, that goofball from the WHO / UN has suddenly appeared on our TV screens. His appearance is more of a threat than any virus!!
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3 deaths from Hanta.
95,000 per year from Diabetes and 680,000 per year from heart issues in the USA.
Which one does the dying legacy media focus on?
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Wow. They are reporting on news in the news media?
And you don’t have to try too hard to find the “legacy” media regularly reporting on trend/ongoing/worsening health issues such as those you mentioned. Is there something new that is breaking (ie news) that they missed?
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Exactly, its only a distraction from the summit in Beijing.
The soothsayers and geopolitical analysts are confident of the outcome.
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A virus outbreak that started a few weeks ago is a distraction from a summit in Beijing today?
i think you need to take a few steps out of your bubble and maybe take a long walk away from the internet.
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The virus is not newsworthy.
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Yay! G got into work and poeted on
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https://modernity.news/2026/05/12/parents-sent-to-prison-after-isolating-kids-for-four-years-over-covid-fears/
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That’s an extreme and tragic case but even today you see maskholes wearing masks, alone in cars. Some feeble-minded people like to be in a permanent state of anxiety. And they are extreme conformists to the woke mind virus.
And now there’s the hantavirus panic.
However, there are also genuine concerns as well. For example, I wonder whether the Australian Government has checked the “Australian” ISIS terrorists they just imported from Syria for the common communicable diseases there such as cholera, measles, typhoid, hepatitis A, cutaneous leishmaniasis, influenza and tuberculosis?
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These are excerpts from an email from the US CFACT organisation, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow on what the UN is actually up to right now.
They are relevant to Australia because Australian Governments are obsessive signers of UN agreements which is how they govern without the will of the people. They sign just about every treaty or agreement that the UN Globalists put in front of them.
You will notice much of what is described below is already being enacted in Australia.
There is a petition for Americans to sign, none for Australians. https://secure.anedot.com/cfact/american-sovereignty “Tell unelected UN bureaucrats: Hands off our economy, our homes, and our families!”
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Video:
Why civilisations collapse:
https://youtu.be/yV-Cwcy8K6A
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Freedom quotes. Freedom is never free.
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“It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy ”
Sums up Australia pretty well. I have no idea how long “new arrivals” have to be here or if they actually have to contribute anything before they can start sucking on the public teat.
I have been fascinated by the fact that many new arrivals from 3rd world countries had more stuff than I had managed to accumulate over 50 od years of working
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/earn-your-keep-libs-tell-new-migrants-no-handouts-until-youre-an-aussie/news-story/0c2d6e42619d1e62140c550327614c46
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Video.
Very strange and extremely dangerous electrical products from Ebay examined by Big Clive. They have no obvious purpose and likely no purpose at all.
https://youtu.be/N3It566t_AU
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A new paper in Nature confirming what we already know, rainfall is getting heavier and dry spells are getting longer.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10487-7
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So!
“A new paper in Nature confirming what we already know”
Just ready for the “eggs and Alzheimer’s” treatment then?
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/05/eating-eggs-five-times-a-week-associated-with-27-lower-risk-of-alzheimers/
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Weird claim. More rain and more dry spells surely mean no change in precipitation.
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Looking at the rainfall map for Australia, there didn’t seem to be any major changes across the southern parts.
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You can’t be serious.
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Simon, if you have any ambition to pass climate science 101 then you should also look at paleo climate history.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/05/11/new-paleo-research-modern-climate-change-has-had-no-apparent-impact-on-precipitation-patterns/
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NoTricksZone is ironic. He highlights isolated sentences and chats without context. When you actually read the paper, the results are usually the opposite of what NoTricksZone tries to suggest.
Example:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S112578652600038X shows that megadrought frequency increased during the warming of the 20th century on the Tibetan plateau.
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You’re highlighting an isolated location with so few events as to not be reliable in that Tibetan Plateau study.
So we have two in the 1700’s, two in the 1800’s and three in the 1900’s. On that basis you claim a megadrought frequency increase and attribute it to warming.
Also, it depends on when you start the clock ticking. They have chosen to use 1700’s 1800, 1900’s. But the study cuts off the first 20 years of the 1700’s.
What if we start the 100 year period at 1735. First 100 years 3 megadroughts, 2nd 100 years 3 megadroughts, 3rd 100 years 2 megadroughts. Oh look. Warming causes less megadroughts. The study period ended 2014.
What if we start the 100 years at the study start 1720. We get 2.5 megadroughts, 2.5 megadroughts, 2.5 megadroughts in each 100 year period. Oh look, warming has had no impact on the frequency of megadroughts.
Oh look, warming causes less drought intensity.
Or how about the average megadrought duration was 18.7 years in 1700’s and 1800’s, but only 16.5 years in the 1900’s. Oh look. Warming reduces megadrought durations.
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But what if we look at the 900 year temperature reconstruction for the Plateau and see if the 1900’s were warmer than the 1700 and 1800’s.
Here’s a reconstruction of temperature mapped against possible influences, such as the Atlantic Oscillation AMO, Solar irradiance, Northern and Southern hemisphere volcanic events etc. You’ll see the temp has not really varied in total across the centuries, but has within each century. So the idea that the 1900’s has been warmer isn’t correct for the plateau at least. So local warming has not occurred and is not a factor. If tree ring reconstruction is reliable. It apparently was for your drought claim. (obviously your claim is that global warming is a factor).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79096-6/figures/6
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Thank you Strop, very nice..
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Focussing on Australia over a 30 year time span, the south west has been particularly droughty, while the south east was not as bad.
I blame SAM in its positive mode, nothing to do with global warming.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/aao-index-monthly.png
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Absolutely, I learnt about droughts and flooding rains about 65 years ago from a lady that learnt about it long before that.
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…you forgot to add that the rain that falls will not fill the dams. /S
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Haven’t had a new dam in 50 or so years. Guess the rain we get won’t be filling them!
What happened to logic??
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Also the paper refers to ‘global population’ impacts of a warmer world, which is folly because Australia was very wet during the Holocene Climate Optimum when the world was two degrees warmer.
In more recent times it was a mixed bag, check out the dates for comparisons.
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2015/12/500-years-of-drought-and-flood–trees-and-corals-reveal-australi
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Of the many horrors of the Federal budget, $500 million is allocated to fast track ruinables. Just as the rest of the world is trying to extricate themselves from the madness.
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Another reference example to the Commonwealth and States involvement required combined based on areas of responsibility;
What this means for the sector. For renewable energy proponents, environmental approvals have long represented a material development risk. The establishment of NEPA, coupled with AI-enabled processing and more coordinated Commonwealth-state assessment pathways, represents a substantial structural attempt to address those bottlenecks. The critical issue for industry will be whether these reforms translate into materially faster and more predictable approval outcomes.
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Rather than faster approvals I would rather have seen the whole economy-destroying scam dropped.
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I agree, however the Commonwealth-States system of government and areas of responsibilities and powers do complicate our system of government and imposing seems to be easier than repealing
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That’s the whole problem isn’t it?
The whole defective system is self-perpuating and in the “can’t do” country it’s deemed too hard to fix.
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Only the public service would need $500 million to rubber stamp faster.
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It’s only a bureaucracy. How can they possibly spend that much to rubber stamp faster?
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If they had to explain it they would probably hire KPMG, which isn’t cheap.
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FWIW
“Study posits how carbon dioxide cools the upper atmosphere, and warms earth below”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/13/study-posits-how-carbon-dioxide-cools-the-upper-atmosphere-and-warms-earth-below/
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FWIW – ironies
“Peter Mansbridge The Truth Denialist
And introducing his favorite non-journalist journalist Emily Enns”
https://wokewatchcanada.substack.com/p/peter-mansbridge-the-truth-denialist
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FWIW – more ironies
“Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC”
“This is fast becoming a train wreck for the CBC.”
“CBC-linked sting tried to lure MP Gunn by posing as Sir John A. defenders”
https://www.junonews.com/p/cbc-linked-sting-tried-to-lure-mp
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/05/13/things-youre-gonna-see-on-the-cbc-31/
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Food for thought:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/05/leftism_a_religious_cult_for_psychopaths_and_crazies.html
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I sat through the AEMO Q1 report session yesterday. The main points:
Highest wholesale demand of 33,645MW since 2020 and Victoria set a record wholesale demand of 10,736MW at 1800hrs, Tuesday 27 Jan.
Lowest minimum wholesale demand yet at 11,058MW.
Average wholesale demand down to 21,406 – a drop of 0.5% on the Q1 2025.
Rooftop solar up 8% to average 4090MW
Household batteries now detectable in increasing lunchtime wholesale demand.
Average wholesale price of $73/MWh – down on Q1 2025.
Batteries set price 33.2% of the time; becoming the most frequent price setter for the first time.
Rooftop solar contributed 15.8% of the total demand; just ahead of wind at 14.9%.
Black coal generation was down by average of 629MW.
Gas generation down by 63MW (lowest this century) as batteries take over peak lopping.
Energy Connect will be commissioning by end 2026.
There are eleven data centre applications with a combined demand requirement of 5.4GW.
This highlights why the cost of grid power is going up. The peak demand is increasing while the average demand is falling. More capacity required to produce less.
It is worth noting that batteries set the price at time of charging and discharging. They are prepared to pay to charge above the lowest negative price so they can discharge at high price. Battery discharge $215/MWh, Gas $151/MWh, Hydro $123/MWh, black coal $84/MWh, Battery Charge $26/MWh, Lignite $24/MWh, Grid solar MINUS $26/MWh and Wind MINUS $27/MWh.
So batteries charging sits above lignite as far as price setting goes. The negative price setting for grid wind and solar would be unsustainable without subsidies. Lignite would be then used to charge the batteries.
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…… so we didn’t have to.
Thanks Rick.
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Rick
How accurate are the roof top solar figures likely to be ?
Doug
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AEMO need to have a reasonable handle on connected solar output because they need to be able to forecast demand on cloudy days. They obviously can see the rise and fall of demand on a daily basis and difference by regions on clear and cloudy days. However the daily rise and fall of rooftop solar is being shifted as batteries go in. It is being observed as higher lunchtime demand but lower daily peak demand. So household batteries make it harder to estimate the amount of rooftop solar. Through most of summer and even now, I was invisible to the grid apart from some afternoons when there was some export.
In the report, AEMO provide a chart that shows generator increase and decrease by energy source from Q1 2025.
They measured that:
Wind up 328MW
Grid solar up 308MW
Hydro up 200MW
Lignite up 32GW
Other (diesel, biomass etc) up 28GW
Black coal DOWN 629MW
Gas DOWN 229MW
They mostly estimated that:
Rooftop solar up 320MW (exported solar is measured of course)
Do the maths on what was measured and you find there was net increase in large scale measured generation of 38MWW. They must have measured increase of 44MW of rooftop solar because, overall, the wholesale market declined 6MW.
So the increase in solar was at least 44MW and I would take their 320MW rooftop solar increase within a 10% range. Rooftop solar production of 4,090MW probably within 5%.
I might put that question to them next quarter because it will get harder to estimate as more batteries go in.
The new record demand in Victoria in Q1 this year would have surprised AEMO and it is that surprise that makes the grid fragile at both transmission and distribution level. A lot more connected load in Victoria that is increasingly invisible to grid until the weather causes it not to be. Line pack in gas lines is a lot easier to manage than instant change in demand in the grid.
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“However the daily rise and fall of rooftop solar is being shifted as batteries go in. It is being observed as higher lunchtime demand but lower daily peak demand.”
Sorry if you have covered this point elsewhere. I don’t know how widespread amongst suppliers it is but our one has a “Peak Event” money saving offer that gives $5 or $10 credit for participation in a 1 or 3 hour event. I received an sms invite to one back in March (haven’t received any others even though I have not “opted out”) advising a peak event was starting at 4:30pm 12th March – their sms was timed 15:34 so had 56minutes to get ready. Then there is/was their other offer of changing your account to a new rate that gave you “free electricity” in the middle of the day. Of course they only told you that the new rate applying to your non-free period went up ie reduced/cancelled out your supposed saving.
With all this meddling with accounts/offer/peak events how do they know what is really affecting the performance/use during daylight hours?
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They observe the pattern. Even to the point of looking at individual households.
AEMO have finally recognised that rooftop solar is the only generation that is growing so they are putting more effort into understanding it and monitoring it. The report has new figures 10 and 11 on page 12 that is based on household samples to see how they are load shifting and what it means for the aggregate. In Figure 10, you see the demand around 10am has increased due to batteries being charged through the morning period. The reduction in the peak demand is not as evident because it still rose. They are pointing out the evening peak would have been higher if there were no household batteries.
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/qed/2026/qed-q1-2026.pdf
Sp far, rooftop solar is serving all of the new demand. There is a lot of hopium around data centres and the prospect of them actually increasing demand but I cannot see them being viable in Australia with the present cost of electricity.
The biggest (720MW) is proposed for Haxelwood in the Latrobe Valley. This is based on the region becoming a “renewable” energy hub but it also puts it on top of the lowest cost fuel in the world.
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Battery discharge $215/MWh, Gas $151/MWh, Hydro $123/MWh, black coal $84/MWh, Battery Charge $26/MWh, Lignite $24/MWh, Grid solar MINUS $26/MWh and Wind MINUS $27/MWh.
That’s beyond the pale. Absolutely no hope. Nuclear power would overcome that quicksand bog but is still politically impossible in Aus.
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The price they are asking for Lignite is by far the lowest cost without subsidy and it carries some artificial cost of carbon as well.
Base load power cost $23/MWh in 2003. It would be back at that level if lignite was run flat out and there was more of it.
When One Nation gets to power and coal is given priority, wholesale electricity price will be a fraction of what is now.
It would be just stupid for Australia to take on nuclear until there are low cost package systems up and running.
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Rick I am not opposed to One Nation Party and I acknowledge the popularity indicated by the published polls and the results in South Australia state election with Labor comfortably returned to government, Victoria state by election won by the Liberal candidate and Teal Independent second (2PP basis well in front of One Nation candidate) and most recent Farrer Federal by election and One Nation candidate first with Teal Independent second (2PP basis again well in from of Liberal and National candidates) however, the Farrer most important considerations were;
* The Liberal MP elected at the 2025 election resigned a year later after being the member for many years after a National Party MP had held the seat for many years. The Coalition arrangement, as I understand it, does not permit both parties to compete when there is an elected MP from one of the two parties standing again for election. Farrer by election had a Liberal and a National candidate, past National voting in Farrer irrelevant so no loss only votes gained.
* The Liberal MP who resigned was briefly chosen as Leader of the Liberals and therefore Leader of the Opposition and after she was elected by a narrow Liberal MP ballot win she decided all policies taken to the 2025 election were off the table and future policies would be established resulting in the split between National and Liberal parties and Coalition. Disunity on public display results in voters being turned away. As former Labor Prime Minister Hawke once commented “disunity is death” for a political party.
* Obviously from the results from the by election voters were turned away from the new Liberal candidate and some voted for the new National candidate. And others decided to give the Teal masquerading as Independent their vote – she was backed by Climate 200 vested interests in so called renewable energy and Union established via Australian Workers Union and imported from USA GetUp activist organisation that, by the way, also had support from at least one former Liberal leader and left faction activist. There was no Labor candidate however, very obviously, Teal was Union supported alternative for political tactical reasons and purposes.
No doubt One Nation will now continue to pick up seats in maybe Victoria State election later this year and Federal election 2028 or maybe 2027 if Albanese Labor continue to upset us and the conservative side Liberal, National, LNP QLD and One Nation cooperate to get rid of Labor governments? No more public disagreements and One Nation seeking publicity by provoking responses? Unity ticket required.
And consider that to form Federal Government requires seventy six (76) House of Representatives members minimum. One Nation now have their very first House of Representatives MP elected and their second was elected again in 2025 as a National candidate (and twice earlier National Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Coalition government). They have only four Senators – compare with Labor supporters Green Party with One House of Representatives MP and ten Senators, and Independents several who the Hansard record shows they mostly vote with Greens and Labor.
One Nation is not going to get into power in the foreseeable future and noting they have had twenty nine years to achieve that goal and remain a minor party.
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“One Nation is not going to get into power in the foreseeable future and noting they have had twenty nine years to achieve that goal and remain a minor party.”
The conservative landscape might have changed a bit in recent times. Past performance and all that. I think One Nation will be in a position to weild some influence next election cycle.
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I do not disagree with you.
However we need combined forces to get rid of Labor governments and to that end cooperation
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To get rid of the Labor/Green/Teal alliance we need a Liberal/Nats/ON alliance.
This is good for democracy, preferences are important and we should expect to see a One Nation minister on the front bench after the next election.
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“One Nation is not going to get into power in the foreseeable future and noting they have had twenty nine years to achieve that goal and remain a minor party.”
The conservative landscape might have changed a bit in recent times. Past performance and all that. I think One Nation will be in a position to weild some influence next election cycle.
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It will take many years, unless “they” break contracts and get sued for billions.
We also have gas available, sign contracts, build pipes and use it for OCG turbines inland.
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First One Nation must win 74 new House of Representatives electorates, to add to the two they hold since the Farrer by election.
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All the new contracts have guaranteed return on investment. So they get paid even if they do not produce. It is the only way the proponents will enter this dog’s breakfast.
The bulk of the AEMO managed contracts is for batteries at 33.2GW with 20.7GW combined with solar so it is what is called “grid forming”. They can still make money on arbitrage by buying lignite generated electricity or using their solar and selling it at peak to avoid running gas. That is already happening. It means existing lignite plants can go flat out all the time.
Proposed new gas decreased with only 200MW in the pipeline. So next to no action with gas.
There was only 1.43GW of new wind projects added in the quarter. Wind is on the nose – just too hard to get land access. Southerly Ten will have their environmental assessment available for public comment on 18 May.
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OCGTs are very inefficient, not a good choice for supplying a lot of power. I know the renewables enthusiasts like them as back because they can start up quickly, but it’s a costly way to generate electricity.
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FWIW – the tide turns!
“Canadian Liberal Who Championed Mass Migration Questions Election Results After Losing Race to Immigrant”
“Nate Erskine-Smith, a former Canadian Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities who served under both Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney, was supposed to be a shoo-in for the nomination for a by-election in Ontario for the left-wing Liberal Party.
Instead, the open-borders advocate got beaten by a Bangladeshi immigrant pizza shop owner — and he’s complaining about ID issues while voting. Whoa, pal, getting into a bit of denialism there, aren’t you?”
More at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/canadian-liberal-championed-mass-migration-questions-election-results/
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More at SDA
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/05/10/diversity-was-their-strength/
He looks rather pathetic schlepping away in the rain
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More on that
“Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Canadian”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/13/karma-karma-karma-karma-canadian-trainwreck-n3814918
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This tale of woe should carry a message to leftist, treacherous imbeciles like Tony Burkha. Be careful what you wish for. It couldn’t happen to a more appropriate loser.
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FWIW
“EU Climate Cultist EXPLODES in Unhinged RAGE at Renowned Geologist During Brussels Lecture – Calls Opponents “Criminals,” Then Fires Off Midnight LinkedIn Meltdown to the Professor!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/eu-climate-cultist-explodes-unhinged-rage-renowned-geologist/
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FWIW – developments in that other drama –
“HANG IN THEIR KEIR, JUST LONG ENOUGH TO DRAG ALL OF LABOUR WITH YOU: The Starmer Drama Continues. “A rift is actively tearing the Labour Party to pieces. CNN reports that some 100 MPs signed a letter warning against a leadership contest — which Downing Street swears it didn’t organize. Yeah. Sure.” ”
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/05/13/the-starmer-drama-continues-n4952810
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The Grauniad tells the story of Labour despair. Streeting has no support, golden boy Burnham has limited support and no opportunity, and nobody is interested in the pitiful alternatives:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/13/hold-the-line-burnham-tells-allies-in-parliament-he-still-has-options-to-return
‘…a key Burnham supporter, put it bluntly: “They’ve f***ed it. Everything is falling apart, they’ve run out of time.”
A third pro-Burnham source said it looked as if any leadership race would move too fast for the mayor, with Wes Streeting expected to start an accelerated process this week. “It’s a big s*** cocktail. We’re all doomed,” they said.’
Car crash politics, showcasing a failing government.
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And more here
“From the Caveman I
2 Comments / Rants / By Roger Watson”
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/from-the-caveman-i/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/05/13/wednesday-on-turtle-island-200/
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He is executing the Labour Party Samson Option.
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Solar panels on fire
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t5w9s3UACq1zlxqpx.mp4
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Wonder what caused those fires?
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FWIW
“Ransom Demands”
“I’m aware of the arguments that colonialists stole land from indigenous folks, but I didn’t know that they deserve some form of reparations for the ocean winds that we are apparently stealing as well. Can anyone make this make sense?”
“Atlantic chiefs call for Indigenous collaboration on offshore wind farm development”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/atlantic-chiefs-call-indigenous-collaboration-080008852.html
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/05/13/ransom-demands/
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Live from 10 Downing St – Keir Starmer vows to fight on
https://imgbox.com/kLp61fy9
😆😆
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FWIW – careful now!
“Ex-Con Hacker Twins Fired – Proceed To Wipe Out 96 Government Databases In Minutes”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ex-con-hacker-twins-fired-proceed-wipe-out-96-government-databases-minutes
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That went well.
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I recall years ago one where something similar happened without the company realising that the fired programmer had a hand grenade built into the payroll code –
The first thing it did when run was check to see “if” he was still on it – with a “then” action
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I wonder if current Ukrainian stalemate will bring, in time, literature monuments similar to Erich Remark, Henri Barbusse, Hemingway …
You hear comparisons all the time from both sides, how similar is the trench life, how long survives a private, a corporal or a first lieutenant on the front line in 1916 and 2026…
Besides absence of Yprite there is another interesting difference – the No Man’s Land v KillZone – an English term both Russians and Ukrainians use.
The French-German front line was about 500 mi v 750 mi today, however then there was 100-50, at times – 30 meters between trenches. Roughly – 40 km.sq.
Today, it’s 20 km wide, 1200 km long, 2400 km.sq. strip which belongs to no one, I doubt even wild boars survive very long there.
Future crops on the previously best soil of Europe?
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A ceasefire is on the cards and the gray zone will become no man’s land until Russia eventually withdraws behind their own borders.
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There will be no ceasefire while Crimea is unfinished business.
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Crimea must be returned as well, but there is no rush.
First a ceasefire without security guarantees, drones maintaining watch over the whole front line.
Both sides will continue to build up armaments, but Russia’s war economy is experiencing stagflation and there is no way out of this predicament.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that most Crimean folks are at odds with Ukraine and prefer to be linked to Russia.
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Immigration Data from Howard to Albanese governments …
https://immitrack.com.au
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Immigration Data
Howard Government from 2000-2007 (elected 1996) = 125,800 per year
Rudd Gillard Rudd governments from 2007-2013 = 259,000 per year (Big Australia policy)
Abbott Turnbull Morrison governments 2014-2022 = 168,700 per year
Albanese government 2022-2025 = 424,300 per year
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Dim Jim, being grilled on Sky, denies any plans to tax:
– Death
– The Family Home
– Wealth
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/jim-chalmers-2022/transcripts/interview-kieran-gilbert-sky-news-25
“We’ve never considered them, we’ve never thought of doing it. We won’t do it and they won’t happen.”
Handsome Boy, bring grilled on the Today Show:
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/television-interview-today-show-28
ABO: Alright, Will you introduce a death tax?
PRIME MINISTER: No.
ABO: But things change, don’t they? As you and the Treasurer have repeatedly said.
PRIME MINISTER: These are the positions that we’ve put in, Sarah. And we have put forward –
ABO: But you’ve also said that things change. So how can we believe you?
PRIME MINISTER: Sarah, we have put forward these changes. We’re being up front about that. We are saying we’ve changed our position and why we have changed our position. And we have changed our position because we don’t want a generation of people who watch your program to be sitting there and thinking they’re going to be running for the rest of their lives.
So, it’s fairly safe to assume that Death Duties will start as a modest impost on estates valued at (say) $1 million (excluding the family home).
Similarly, a gentle surcharge on the stamp duty applied to the sales of family homes valued over (say) $2 million.
Just for those who can afford it and probably won’t miss a little extra contribution to the government bonfire.
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And once established tweak the thresholds downward over time
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Inflation ensures the threshold limits do not need to be reduced.
Instead of family trusts, the family farms will be owned by corporations with a new zero value. Ensures death duties will not apply.
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The Australian of May 14, 2026 said:
Communist hypocrites!
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Humanoid robot at work
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak
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FWIW
Sounds like Rickwill’s area of interest
“COPE: The Countervailing Obliquity–Precession Effect”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/13/cope-the-countervailing-obliquity-precession-effect/
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Buckminster Fuller once remarked that when we fully understand the principle of Precession, we will better understand our world.
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FWIW – heating up?
“BREAKING: CIA Went Rogue, Raided Tulsi’s Office to Seize Papers”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/13/breaking-cia-goes-rogue-raids-tulsis-office-to-seize-papers-n4952844
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A headline from Next News Network:
Revealed: Trump Drops Obama ARREST Demand After Tulsi Report Exposes What They Hid
There’s talk of a civil war. Hope it’s only talk but the (D)s are crazy.
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More ??? in here
“CIA Went Rogue, Raided Tulsi’s Office to Seize Papers”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/13/breaking-cia-goes-rogue-raids-tulsis-office-to-seize-papers-n4952844
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Benny Johnson’s take on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzsar-mxouY&t=334s
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This is all George Bush Jr.’s fault.
If he hadn’t reorganized things, Central Intelligence world still be central and information would not be getting into the wrong hands.
And government intelligence would have remained an oxymoron only recognized by the disreputable, which is the natural order of things.
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Latest Kunstler
“The Earth Moves Just a Bit
“Operation Epic Fury was the loud one. Operation Economic Fury is the quiet one. . . . While the carriers were on television, Treasury was doing the actual demolition.” —Jesús Enrique Rosas on X
James Howard Kunstler”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-earth-moves-just-a-bit
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And
“California Death Trip”
““History records no pity for parties that choose purity over competence, vengeance over vision, pathology over pragmatism. The long night is not coming. It is here. . . . ” —LHGrey on X”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/california-death-trip
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How many people in the street would know that a Light Year is a measure of distance if someone put a mic in their face? Tim Burchett is discussing UFOs on Ruthless Podcast. Long, I have never watched their whole podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6dpfAv9H1M
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Just found this. Can’t independently confirm, but interesting. 19 minutes.
” DR MARANDI BREAKING Egypt Blocks Suez Canal to US Warships — Global Shipping HALTS ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrxXe4FjaKw
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