Jeff Kennett desperately trying to remain relevant after dropping out of headlines for a few weeks

Great poddie this, they can disappear up their own ass sometimes but they get some great guests on.

Bloke has no money: he’s been trying to get a job for over a year now, and even as a former prime minister nobody wants to touch him with a ten foot pole.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s living of Jenny’s wage the rest of his life

He really is stuffed here: nowhere to go but on the attack.

What a lonely, bitter existence these Liberals must lead, forced to drag themselves to the next election through their own mud.

Pretty clever tech but I can’t see this being more than redundancy in the case of blackout. Trying to co-ordinate thousands of distributed systems like this is nigh impossible.

Why not just build battery banks and use the existing transmission infrastructure?

Put it this way: Imagine you’d been trying for fifty years to push a rock up a hill and failed. You’ve tried a different approach every five years and nothing seemed to work: sometimes it made it worse.

Then a committee of rocks representing the majority of rocks got together and volunteered to come up with new ideas for you. It wouldn’t cost you much, and it would make the rocks much happier knowing there’s a rock involved in the decision making.

What’s the harm? You’ve failed to push that rock for so long. You’ve tried everything. Maybe they will be right? And if they are not, you’ll be back where you started with sweet FA.

Sure, the rocks down the road are sceptical. But what are their ideas? Are they gonna do anything about it?

I used a third party app so I haven’t noticed so much, but j do like the idea that my lurking is not being watched and sold to some corporate entity.

It will be interesting if the NCAC will be able to investigate this: there is no evidence that they knew it was illegal when they implemented it, only that they found out and failed to take action.

Possibly gross negligence? Definition a violation of the spirit of office, but that’s not a criminal offence.

The worst part is that there’s a significant portion of the country that will vote right MORE due to this coming to light. Ive heard so many people in this country say that the poor, disabled and homeless should just be left to die rather than give them handouts. Often from people of privelidge and power.

The only way the liberals would ever give an inch on this issue is if they know there’s a smoking gun.

It will be interesting to see what happens if we ever get real privacy laws in Australia. I imagine the agencies have enourmous databases full of private information about customers that they share and combine with abandon. They see it as one big marketing tool and don’t give a shit about security.

One fix for this issue would be a data breach similar to Optus.