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I believe I see much wind around Australia, meaning over the nearby oceans. Meanwhile, it blows not over OZ. Raptors will be happy, not so the “Net Zero” fans.
Have I correctly interpreted the situation?
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Sounds about right. Very little wind in the west, down to zero now, and has only contributed 9% of the power in the last 24 hours. Australia is not in the direct path of most of the winds, and the average wind CF is slightly lower than the U.S.
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Sometimes the jokes just write themselves:
Uranus Leaks More Heat Than We Thought
But besides being the butt of so many jokes:
Voyager 2’s findings, “can be reasonably explained by the arrival of … an intense blast of solar wind…which warped the magnetosphere just as Voyager 2 flew past in 1986.”
Voyager 2 is 47 years and two months into its mission and is traveling through interstellar space at 55,347 kph.
Voyager 2 is now nearly 20.9 billion kilometers from Earth.
That’s over 138 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.
That’s 19 light-hours away.
Not even 1 light-day, let alone 1 light-year.
Imagine how fast and how long it would take to traverse just one light-year.
And yet:
The closest galaxy to the Milky Way is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, a small irregular satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. It’s currently located approximately 25,000 light-years from Earth and roughly 42,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s galactic center.
https://gizmodo.com/uranus-leaks-more-heat-than-we-thought-2000629628
https://gizmodo.com/something-strange-happened-during-voyager-2s-flyby-of-uranus-in-1986-2000521526
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Thanks.
Fascinating.
Puts our little corner of our Solar System into decent perspective!
Appreciated.
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I’d argue that the distance between stars is a good thing.
Imagine the damage that would occur to the fine gravitational balance between the planets and the comets if a star were to wander past every couple of years.
Alternatively, it might give us a spot where we could arrange a “Golgafrinchan” type event, off-loading our politicians.
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Skepticynic mentions this:(my bolding here)
So, Voyager 2 has been speeding up all that time, despite having no ‘drive’.
Its original speed was Escape Velocity from the Earth’s Atmosphere, and that is 40,000KPH. (give or take a little)
There may also have been some speed increase assistance from its Planetary fly-bys, but that would be minimal at best.
So, at Voyager 2 current ‘speed’, it might only take 84,500 Years for us to reach our closest Star (well, other than our Sun anyway) and that’s Alpha Centauri, and that’s ONLY 4.367 Light Years away.
Ah, space travel, no wonder it’s all so easy in Science (umm) Fiction, eh!
Tony.
PostScript – Umm, speaking of SF, has anyone else read Cicin Liu’s Three Body Problem trilogy? (the actual novels, not the TV Series on one of the streaming services)
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IIRC, after leaving Earth’s atmosphere Voyager 2 took advantage of an unusual planetary alignment for a series of slingshot flybys to boost it’s speed.
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I have read “The Three Body Problem” and found it a bit heavy going. I had not realised that there are two more novels to go.
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‘Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to Earth after the Sun, located 4.25 light-years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus.’ (wiki)
There is gossip swirling about that James Webb saw city lights on Proxima B, but obviously this cannot be verified.
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Even though the prohibition is not universally applied:
Apparently you’re not allowed to be racist in the UK.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/15/john-torode-sacked-from-masterchef-after-complaint-about-racist-comment-seven-years-ago/
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Wait till they go back through the many witness statements from my childhood friends. All the times I played cowboys and indians and shot them without mercy.
And of course, don’t mention the war.
I figure that I’m unemployable within any sheltered workshop.
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…played cowboys and indians…
Across the ditch and even back in the 60s we must have been ahead of our time in all things racial. We often played cowboys and itchy bums. Nowadays there is nothing derogatory with itchy bums, NDIS probably has a benefit you can apply for.
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Ah, the UK, that well-organised home of peace and justice… The Govt spent $4billion bringing in 24000 Afghans who’s identities were leaked after they helped the British army in their occupation over 14years. It was felt the Taliban would take reprisals over their actions. So about $170000 each, to get them to the UK….. whereupon they are now sueing the British Govt and the bill is expected to hit over $14billion!
However no-one heard about this cockup by the Right half of the Blob because they slapped a censorship notice over it to stop the media saying anything, and this has recently been lifted by the Left half of the Blob.
“News of the leak comes as Britain’s public finances are tight and the right-wing, anti-immigration Reform UK political party leads in the opinion polls… a government review that found little evidence of intent from the Taliban to conduct a campaign of retribution against former officials.”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/thousands-of-afghans-secretly-resettled-in-britain-after-data-leak-20250716-p5mf9f.html
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“Personal details of UK special forces and spies were included in Afghan data breach”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c706jdlr934t
Latest. How bad can it get?
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Just time to refresh the show and get cheaper talent. The contract must have been tricky to get out of, so abracadabra! “incident”
Get some zany, tattoed GenZs in there and watch it fly with a “modern audience” the ex Jaguar ad team is building the promo.
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Gregg Wallace, the other UK Masterchef host has also been sacked. Only three days ago. BBC must have some DEI hosts that they want to move into the hosting roles on Masterchef.
It will become unwatchable. Those two had a bit of larrikin about them, so were often entertaining.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-14/article-gregg-wallace-masterchef-uk-allegations/105531362
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Black American moves to Kenya.
Villagers tell her: “We want whites here, not folks like you. Also, you bald and childless. You’re not woman.”
Video, 23 seconds.
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Whites who can farm and feed them.
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NZ 2028 Census will be ‘admin only’ – terribly convenient, no need for filling in forms, we know everything about you anyway, we just have to triangulate the right data…
https://off-guardian.org/2025/07/14/one-register-to-rule-them-all-part-four/
the traditional survey model of doing a census is “vulnerable to events like pandemics and natural disasters”, as well as being prohibitively expensive to undertake. … the traditional population survey model is “unsustainable”.
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How bizarre.
So they’ve already decided what statistics they want so they just have to pretend they’ve collected them…
It sounds like the way they collect weather data…
If the data doesn’t fit the narrative it’s the data that’s wrong, not the narrative…
It fits in with the Left’s doctrine of post-modernism, that there is no such thing as objective truth. The truth is whatever one thinks it is and everyone has their own “truth”.
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The problem with a full census is that there are inevitably people who don’t want to or unable to participate. You don’t need to count everybody and force them to fill in forms. That cohort can be estimated from statistics.
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So just make up the numbers like they do for “climate change”, as Tony Heller has documented for the US and Jo Nova has for Australian data on these pages?
The whole point of a census is that it is close to a 100% count and the compliance level is very high. There are people to assist those unable to fill out the form online or with paper.
It becomes dangerous when Leftist political ideologues are allowed to decide how many of each type of person there are and where they are located. It should be determined by an actual count. I would have thought that’s obvious.
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Census seems a necessary stocktake procedure to assure the validity of other sets of statistics that are produced.
Censuses are conducted periodically in the majority of the countries in the world; they have been promoted internationally since the end of the nineteenth century, when the International Statistical Congress recommended that all countries in the world conduct them. Since 1958, the United Nations has also been actively promoting the population and housing census by compiling the principles and recommendations for population and housing censuses.
https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/books/9789211561593s005-c001
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Well, why would a company ever do a stock-take if the figure can be estimated statistically like this?
You see it all the time in retail, ‘the computer says there are three left on the empty shelf’..
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Inevitably.
I agree.
All such data can be created by homogenisation.
Much faster and cheaper.
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Or modelling. Cheaper still, and you’re sure to get the desired result.
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“That cohort can be estimated from statistics.”
Probably similar to the stats on ‘reluctant’ voters.
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A bit like the MET Office in the UK where 103 stations report regular rises in temperature showing Global Warming (caused by using fossil fuels).
There is a slight problem that none of these stations exist.
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Goodness, I hope the UK’s own Office of National Statistics doesn’t hear about this.
They can’t get incoming folk – in any one year – right to within a whole MCG [which I think holds about 95,000 …].
Revisions have been six figures – look out for the revised 2024 figure … coming soon!
So this suddenly looks very attractive.
Saves folk [ possibly in the UK legally … ] refusing to fill it in.
Saves arguments about sex, n gender [we have 303 genders … according to one of the more progressive London Councils].
Sorry – it’s now 305. Two more discovered this afternoon.
Saves folk lying about their age [Guinness Book records/get a pension/get out of jury service/etc.].
Saves making up a religion [8th Day Arrivistes etc.].
No use to policy makers, but in post-modern Britain, that’s pretty sound.
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Goodness no, how will they ever know that I am really an indigenous transgender lesbian who speaks French at home?
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Does the form cover that possibility?
If it does, the results should make interesting reading.
If not just estimate it! 😆
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I was just wondering …
if they would engage in child trafficking … then jail some people for trafficking children to nobody … even alleging they have video of the alleged nobodies …
what wouldn’t they do?
Nothing is coming to mind.
But my memory only goes back to 1963.
And goes completely blank in late 2019.
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@Thomas Massie
Please thank these folks for sponsoring my bipartisan legislation to release the complete Epstein files:
@RepRoKhanna
@RepMTG
@RepTimBurchett
@RepEliCrane
@RepBoebert
@Congressman_JVD
@RepEricBurlison
@RepMillsPress
@RepTomBarrett
@RepRashida
Full text:
https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres581/BILLS-119hres581ih.pdf
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Trump seems to want to shut down the Epstein files, for reasons unknown.
However they seem to be developing a life of their own.
Reports of the doctored jail surveillance videos keep coming out. The one minute gap is now 3 minutes and the surveillance camera did not even have a view of the corridor which had Epstein cell! Why do they keep producing this dodgy evidence?
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Read on…
https://off-guardian.org/2025/07/16/the-experiment-of-representative-democracy-has-failed-whats-next/
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Same ol’ democracy with better politicians it seems, no-one can think past that.
The propaganda that democracy is the best form of Govt has been very successful, and it will always lead to the situation we have now, corrupt politicians controlled by rich interests.
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Panda-Albo – Cute, Obedient and easy to Train – The perfect Pet – LOL.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fcommentary%2Fcartoons%2Fjohannes-leak-cartoons%2Fimage-gallery%2Fde8f7d34d6dcf6dbb2f01239663cedd7&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=LOW-Segment-1-SCORE&V21spcbehaviour=append
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Can see Johannes Leak Cartoon – Panda-Albo – Cute, Obedient and easy to Train – The perfect Pet
on this link if not a Subsciber – https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary
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Another Leak on Albo & Xi from Michael Smith – https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02e860ef1324200b-pi
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Is that spelled “pander”?
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“Pander” like “Epstein blackmail evidence” does not exist !!!2+2=5
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Panda, Pander, Pandemic.
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I’m sure Albo craves respect and admiration. Then he does what he does. Every time I see him I cant help thinking he is way out of his depth. Ah well, this too shall pass.
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“Indigenous elders lose landmark climate battle against Australian government”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8pwed355o
TSI.
This climate change is plainly pretty powerful …
‘Uncle Paul’ “told the court about a seawall – built around 2017 – that was breached by a king tide in 2000, destroying crops and flooding homes.”
If my maths is right, 17 years before it was built. Wowsers!
Strong stuff!
Or, possibly, the BBC can’t employ literate subbies …
The whole article [on the BBC!] is all climate & spend money.
No suggestion climate might have changed before, say, 1750. Or 1850. Or 1950,
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Surely real sea level rise is within their collective cultural memory?
Why don’t we hear “dreamtime stories” of the real 110m sea level rise they surely experienced from 14,000 to 6,500 years ago?
What’s the big deal with the small imagined amount alleged to be happening now?
I am pleasantly surprised the court decided like this. Taxpayers were lucky they didn’t get an activist judge which would have cost us billion$.
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Uh Oh!
“Umm, I think we need a dreamtime story about sea level rise.”
Coming soon from a script writer near you.
“Hey, look what we’ve just found, an Auntie who remembers that specific story.”
Tony.
Damn, I just got hit by a lightning bolt! And there’s suddenly a guy at my front door with some smoking eucalyptus leaves, wearing a colourful nappy! and chanting in braille.
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“Hey, look what we’ve just found, an Auntie who remembers that specific story.”
Tony I can remember this happening in Victoria, an aunty or uncle told a story about some water creature and specifically stated that the Yarra river entered the sea at what are today the heads. The Port Phillip Bay Area was all a lovely plain full of wildlife and peaceful groups living on the bounty and in harmony.
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Those fellas must have the same lawyers as our Maori mob over here: when a new-and-improved highway was being built across a minor faultline, some bloke with a greenstone pounamu pendant around his neck demanded, and received, money to bless the taniwha which lurked beneath the schist.
Taniwha – mythical water creature guarding rivers, lakes, harbours, probably based on a huge eel or an octopus which once had a go at some unlucky bather; or possibly a whirlpool.
Of course everyone lived in harmony until James Cook arrived…
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Sounds remarkably similar to Scylla and Charybdis to me!
Tony.
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Surely AI could ‘dream’ that up.
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As I’ve said before, the dramatic and ongoing cost increases of just about everything in Australia is certainly not reflected in the low official inflation rate of 2.4%.
I’m sure everyone has a favourite example of a product or service they regularly purchase where the observed cost increase is many times the official inflation rate.
Clearly the Government and public serpents who compile the figures are manipulating them for political purposes.
The people who are best at knowing the real inflation rate are mothers with young children due to the wide variety of goods and services they buy and when I speak to them they usually estimate the true rate as 25% to 30%.
The fake conservative Liberal Party remain silent about this, as expected. But in the next election we have conservative-oriented parties to vote for such as One Nation and Libertarian Party etc. although I have little to no confidence that Australians can wean themselves off all the “free stuff” taken from the hard work of their fellow citizens via taxes and they will keep voting for the commies.
Total Australian Government debt, federal, state and local, now:
$2.123 trillion and increasing by about $6500 per second without limit.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
Liberals silent about that too!
Enjoy!
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Lest we forget.
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Actually the inflation is simply devaluation from “money printing”
just look at the gold price to work out how quickly the dollar is devaluing.
1 yr ago $3695 Currently $5150 = 39% increase.
So this agrees with David’s estimate.
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That’s correct, the price of gold isn’t increasing, the value of the dollars to buy it is decreasing, a powerful barometer of the performance of currency right there.
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Exactly Ronin! Everyone is chasing dollars which a are taxed 40% in on year in addition to any overt income tax/ GST that is paid.
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Simon, thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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The price of gold is rising. Its gone from USD1000 in 2010 to USD 3000+ today. Totally aside from any AUD gyrations.
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Lately I’ve noticed that a lot of news items I hear on the radio cannot be found online via search engines such as Goolag, even 24 hours later.
A recent case I couldn’t find after I heard it on the radio, surprisingly enough, Their ABC, was about the two men who took loaded handguns with no lawful excuse into the MCG which was full of 82,000 people.
The one sentenced so far got a pathetically low sentence and will likely be out in 12 months or less. In contrast, a law abiding firearm owner who might make a mere accidental technical breach of regulations with no threat to life might get far worse.
I must give credit to Their ABC for reporting this case where no one else appears to have bothered.
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I went to school with magistrate Sonnet.
I wonder if he would remember me?
You would have thought that just possession of a firearm would have got you a sentence higher than the one given. Maybe the government is trying to send a message that it’s time we all rearmed, the penalties aren’t that bad after all. /s (of course).
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Seems to me if you can play the troubled childhood card you can pretty much do as you like with little consequences.
The community consequences rarely play out in the Magistrates/Judges leafy suburbs.
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No doubt the firearms were not registered and illegal in any case.
Isn’t it a major crime to have a concealable firearm anyhow.
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That’s a reasonable sentence, after all they weren’t carrying firearms to commit an act of terrorism or rob someone, carrying a firearm for self-defence is just a normal part of daily life on their side of town.
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“Mohammad Noori ”
There’s your problem, right there.
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Deport the pair and their immediate families, that would slow up some of this senseless crime and make housing available for proper citizens.
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Sorry, they’re not New Zealanders, only they get deported after they’ve served their prison sentence.
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Apparently Grok now remembers previous conversations, at least with the particular person it had them with.
They haven’t yet turned on the “learn” button for interactions with the public, but at least it will remember previous conversations particular users have had with it. E.g. you’ve convinced it about a certain aspect of “climate change” and you don’t have to start all over again at the next conversation.
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The question is though, if I asked it about that same certain aspect of climate change, would it use the version you convinced it of, or go back to its original stance?
Are you able to test it by logging on as someone else or from another device, so it doesnt remember you?
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Until you delete the conversation.
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Apparently there has been flash flooding in some areas of New York. I was looking for the “climate change” part but it wasn’t mentioned, just the simple fact that the drains were not designed to carry large volumes of rain fall over short periods of time, but there right at the end, New Yorkers warned of a “heat wave” of 30 to 32 degrees C once the rain clears.
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Nothing about the drains being clogged with McDonalds detritus or pizza boxes. ??
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Pizza boxes? Blame the TMNJ!
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What’s a TMNJ. ?
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I thought I had it until the J
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Emirates’ small-parcel delivery makes big promise to Aussies
Emirates is bringing its Courier Express service to Australia, promising door-to-door deliveries from almost anywhere in the world within 48 hours.
Emirates is adding Australia to its ‘Courier Express’ service, promising to deliver packages from almost anywhere in the world within days.
Launched in the UK in April, the service harnesses Emirates’ massive fleet and broad network to accelerate cross-border deliveries. Currently only 6 per cent of international shoppers are buying from Australia, according to the International Trade Administration, due to fluctuating costs and long timelines along with delivery and logistics’ challenges.
Conversely the inbound small-parcel volume to Australia has increased by 45 per cent over the past two years as a record number of households shop online.
Emirates SkyCargo senior vice-president of product and innovation Dennis Lister said the Australian market was seriously under-served by couriers, which made it an obvious choice for the new venture.
“Since the early test phase of Emirates Courier Express, we knew Australia would be a key market,” Mr Lister said.
“Logistically challenging and historically underserved, business and end-consumers will feel the benefits of our direct connectivity, high frequency flight schedules and flexible scalable solution.”
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Same as FedEx and DHL but marginally faster but still constrained by Customs processing time, and invariably more expensive.
Meh.
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Good luck with that.
Takes more than 48 hours from Perth airport to Albany
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Now that’s funny!
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For Oz post in regional Vic. I’m 1.5 hours drive north of Seymour.
If the post tracking shows the goods going to Seymour, I just add a couple of days to the delivery estimate. And weekends….. well nothing moves on a weekend.
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Best Oz Post I’ve experienced – picked up by Oz Post from the sender in Toowoomba, arrived at destination about 500 km away 6 weeks later and the markings showed that it didn’t get a “tourist trip”.
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I love a good Apost story. In our area if something comes via Startrak (Apost) they simply deliver it to the PO at the nearby larger town. It the gets scanned and you get a message that you parcel has been picked up. You the wait two business days and the (mostly) it get sent out to the PO shop near us to actually pick up. You are jusy supposed to “know” this somehow, with nothing saying this is business as usual.
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The frontline on the fight with the Climate – Granity NZ facing down rising seas with art, performance and a punk rock radio station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJToduVPaw
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https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467273/grand-canyon-lodge-wildfire-history
Then there is this observation by a local with history in the area – language warning..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqv_D7tZ40
An oh so familiar story to us here in Australia.
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Old mate is carrying a few grudges there.
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But he would be right about the Sierra Club.
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Drone mustering and aerial stockmanship
SkyKelpie is the world leader in drone mustering and aerial stockmanship.
Our groundbreaking trials have proven that drones are extremely powerful tools for mustering livestock. SkyKelpie is building a range of products and services that will help livestock handlers unlock the numerous benefits this technology has to offer.
Drone mustering takes off 16 Jul 2024
In the two years since SkyKelpie was founded, drone mustering has reached new heights. With customers representing more than 100,000 head of livestock, the benefits of drone use on-farm continue to be unlocked, far beyond mustering.
On his beef property in Mitchell, Queensland, producer Joe Allen has been using a drone to help with the workload since the early days of SkyKelpie.
While the main motivation being to help muster the 2,300 head of cattle he runs, Joe soon found himself incorporating the drone into other aspects of the property.
“I’ve recently upgraded to a drone with a thermal camera, and that has been a game changer.”
“Now I use it for feral pest management and control, mustering at night and before the sun comes up, and even finding cattle in the trees.”
For Joe, the drone has been a crucial addition to his arsenal of ag-tech.
“Having these tools to work at night, check and control water sources, they’re all a way of improving efficiency. I’m not sure about anyone else, but I’m always struggling to find more time,” Joe said.
While for million-acre properties there may be no better alternative for helicopter mustering, he found that the drone was more than enough to help across his 25,000-acre property.
“The original purchase is a bit of an outlay, but you more than make your money back, even in the fuel you save from working from the paddock over.”
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I saw that too but you can’t pat a drone on the back and say “well done”.
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Work underway to improve drone regulations for producers
There is a landholder exemption for flying drones to muster livestock, which allows producers to fly without a license, provided they can see the drone at all times – otherwise known as the “visual line of sight” rule.
But Cloncurry-based drone operator Luke Chaplain believes the line-of-sight rules are limiting the potential of using drones on properties.
“It might work for smaller paddocks or producers who want to follow the drone on a side-by-side vehicle,” Mr Chaplain said.
“But it is not really practical for a long-term solution on a larger scale.”
Mr Chaplain has been studying the use of drones on cattle stations for the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Meat & Livestock Australia and as part of a Nuffield Scholarship. He said gaining the qualifications to go beyond line-of-sight was onerous.
“You basically need your remote pilots license and a land permit when you are flying beyond line of sight, which is a very expensive, detailed and overcomplicated process,” he said.
“It is the type of process where you would need to employ a consultant, who is an expert, which makes it even more expensive.”
Mr Chaplain said he was hoping to form a group to liaise with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to update the regulations and make drones more accessible.
“The idea is to give graziers more easy access to using drones out of sight,” he said.
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” liaise with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to update the regulations ”
Lol… Dreams are free, he will wake up sooner or later!
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The drone with the thermal camera is particularly useful, also I saw a clip on Landline that showed how helpful a drone was for a farmer who became a paraplegic after a farm accident, he was able to muster cattle into whatever yards he needed them to be in from his motorised wheelchair.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-03-17/luke-osullivan-drone-mustering-with-skykelpie-after-spine-injury/104890592
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“Now I use it for feral pest management and control,”
Those cheap ones from Eastern Europe that drop grenades on foxholes??
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For those who might be interested in mathematics, a PDF of the timeless “Handbook of Mathematical Functions” by Abramowitz and Stegun. 10th printing, 1972.
https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cbm/aands/abramowitz_and_stegun.pdf
And, for those interested in Numerical Analysis, “Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77”
https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/christophe.winisdoerffer/INTRO_NUM/NumericalRecipesinF77.pdf
FORTRAN77 is easily translated into Visual Basic for them that thinks.
Something to add to one’s resources list.
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TELL THE TRUTH!!
Meanwhile in (what’s left of) Spain, the people have had enough of MSM lies.
https://x.com/ada_lluch/status/1945430279365030168/
https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1945427187999330661
Now for the ABC here…
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Who to blacklist next?
Bud Light? Jaguar?
Ah – Barnes and Noble bookstores!
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1944449446244426233
No child needs this twisted garbage.
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Fancy a peek inside the lunacy?
Bye Bye Binary:
https://ufile.io/m36ui59m
I’m a baby and ready to smash gender norms!
Maybe you should learn to stand and learn the alphabet first. 😎
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Trump – cane sugar is just better
United States President Donald Trump has announced that Coca-Cola will start using cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup in its US-made soft drink at his urging.
“I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
“I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola.”
Trump said the switch would be a “very good move”, adding: “You’ll see. It’s just better!”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/food-and-drink/beverages/it-s-just-better-trump-says-he-s-convinced-coca-cola-to-use-cane-sugar/ar-AA1IKnxm
Groan…
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Take you pick-
natural cane sugar, known to be bad for you.
artificial sweeteners, known to be bad for you
HFCS, known to be bad for you
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14903553/Netherlands-RATIONS-electricity-country-struggles-cope-turning-away-gas-green-policies-expert-warns-Britain-trouble.html
Big troubles in the Netherlands.
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Coming to a town near you soon!! Everyone on their time-rated smart meters?
Love this bit-
“Despite the alarming report, officials close to the situation have tried to downplay its effect with one saying: ‘It’s nowhere near as bad anywhere else.‘”
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FWIW
“White Lies, Damn Lies, and California Lies”
“In historic first, California powered by two-thirds clean energy – becoming largest
economy in the world to achieve milestone.
What you need to know: Clean energy reliably powered California to levels never seen before – 67% in 2023 – as renewable energy and clean resources continue to advance the state’s world-leading energy transition while fueling the nation’s largest clean energy workforce, more than a half-million strong.”
Text from image at
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/newsom-clean-energy-lies.png?resize=720%2C484&ssl=1
And Willis E. has a look –
Much more at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/16/white-lies-damn-lies-and-california-lies/
Polishing a “trud” while holding it by the clean end?
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Thousands from LGBTQI+ and sex worker communities can now donate plasma
Thousands of members of the LGBTQ+ and sex worker communities can now donate plasma in Australia without having to wait three months from the last time they had sex.
On Monday, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood removed most wait time restrictions for gay and bisexual men, transgender people, sex workers and those on the common HIV prevention drug pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
This change means an estimated 625,000 additional Australians are now eligible to donate plasma.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-15/who-can-donate-blood-and-plasma-australia-gay-bisexual-men/105530302
I had to read the ABC story because DM didn’t! 😁
Oh joy, blood from the rainbow squad.
Think I’ll take my chances instead.
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Obviously desperate for blood these days… Too many problems from the vaxxes meaning too many operations?
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Obviously not heard of the blood scandal in Britain, where thousands were infected with H.I.V. and Hep. C. Contaminated plasma imported from the U.S.A. was sourced from people who were sometimes paid and many were from a demographic which made them more prone to such diseases.
Many victims have since died. Don’t worry, I’m sure our ‘health professionals’ are right on it.
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FWIW – get the idea?
“Nolte: 50-year-old ‘Gunsmoke’ Reruns More Popular than Disney’s Star Wars/Marvel Junk”
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/16/nolte-50-year-old-gunsmoke-reruns-more-popular-than-disneys-star-wars-marvel-junk/
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FWIW
How not to get a high speed train –
“Trump Ends Boondoggle on Rails”
Read it all
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/07/16/trump-ends-boondoggle-on-rails-n4941827
In the Kenny Rogers song
https://genius.com/Kenny-rogers-the-gambler-lyrics
they might have been going to nowhere but they at least had a train
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FWIW
“How to Spot a Journalist’s Lies”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epdk_g14TnE
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/16/how-do-you-know-when-a-journalist-is-lying/
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