Oh okay. I only have a vague sense of these things due to family members being big into running.

What a great idea! :)

Haven’t read the article, does this mean its classed as an Olympic qualifying event?

Go!

Western Australia, which operates on a separate grid and with a different market system, which means it cannot export surplus power or import when needed, recorded a renewable share of 41.7 per cent for the month.

I’m so used to thinking of WA as a formerly coal and now gas led State, that when i see numbers like this, it does surprise me.

Renewables are creeping inexorably into the energy mix. It was all but guaranteed when their cost became the cheapest a few years back. But its interesting to witness the reality of the phasing energy system.

My idea, kids playground sun shades.

Once this rolls out, this is where australian capital like super funds or a billionaires venture capital need to get involved, even if its in subfields of the technology, otherwise the technology will be bought into by the US funds and taken offshore.

The CSIRO, and responsible ministers should be acting now and engaging with investors in australia with a view to keeping the manufacturing in australia.

Regardless of that this is such an great step for the CSIRO to take.

I’m so interested to see the results from this QLD election. The Katter-abortion issue i’ve really seen as analogous to the USA’s much talked about ‘October Surprise’.

Damn right it is. I’m not sure i blame anybody, seems its just a general lack of fucks given, with inspiring and notable exceptions.

A Liberal tack to the climate could be a real vote winner here, but they’ll of course lose mining money so thats no chance.

Gawd this is depressing.

The good thing is, these birds have a large cross section of the community who love them, so hopefully barriers to action for planting 2 million more banksias will be minimal.

Sounds like a joint venture for Perth Zoo, Trillion trees, and Kaarakin.

Question is, who can fund this? Minderoo maybe?

Simple, apply the toll roads business model… /s

so why not?

Did you mean, why not criminalise them?

If so, because theres lots of experiential evidence that it doesn’t work to change criminal behaviour, and as drag alludes to, plenty of evidence now that the criminalised children are locked into a cycle of crime throughout their life.

Their life of crime becomes a cost to you and I, and all those who are victims of their shit behaviour, as well as the State. Its a cost i’d rather pay once through proven crime prevention pathways.

And the above only considers their direct impacts on people personally not even to consider the moral, humanist, or economically efficient use of a nations resources as elements here.

• Wheres the CLP’s case that a policy like this is going to work this time?

• What are their targets for acheiving the change?

• If those targets aren’t met and peoples cars are still getting stolen, or worse, will they own their policy mistakes, or will they blithely double down on this flawed and absolutist policy?

Problem is theres a hard to break narrative about Unions in the public consciousness. So anything that can be spun as a handout to the “Unions”, ~in common parlance, workers~, is easy fodder for media beat ups, and the people consuming those articles to ‘tut-tut’ about those “lAzy ANd coRrUPt UniONS”.

I don’t know about wise, powerful though yeah

Ooh wow! Good thinking. I don’t know if its over in WA, so i’s still doing the bird bath thing without a thought.

It seems its been a failure to oversee market operation with an effective organisation in the position of market regulator.

Just think of the price these schemes could be demanding per tonne now if there was widespread trust in the system reliably delivering its proposed benefits.

In so many cases these great ideas are let down by a lack of knowledge or care about the effectiveness of well implemented and ongoing institutional regulation.

The Australia Institute was actually saying the increased demand in the last few years is less about population growth, as Ian Verender states in this article, and more about the drop in ‘persons per household’ phenomenon that happened during COVID.

Interesting post, but lots of this discussion wasn’t respectful, (Rule 1), today. I think its best to move on tomorrow. Sorry but gonna lock it.

Good one. The text does a great job at presenting all the well known facts from several different political perspectives. An important reminder that when you think you agree with someone, many things go unsaid, and therefore under analysed.

The quote underneath was the most succinct example for me,

As Bernard Keane has noted, “Labor tries to make a virtue of supporting “social cohesion”, even while demonising pro-Palestinian protesters, cutting immigration, refusing entry to Gazans, and denouncing political organisation by Muslim voters.”

I knew about all but the ‘demonising pro-palestian protesters’, yet summed together as they are here, these actions hit different.

I found myself wondering if i were Muslim in Australia would I have noticed the whole as an accumulating set like this?

Oh wow!