I was chatting to my brother on election day, talking about how the Liberals have nothing on the Tories, similar to my post here earlier. He then told me about talk of the Sri Lankan refugees being possibly an election stunt, with would be refugees spotted by Sri Lankan locals being loaded onto a boat by Sri Lankan police. The inference being that this was orchestrated by the Australian government.
Suddenly all the loathing that had subsided due to absence from Australia had resurfaced, the bile had risen.
Itās sad but whenever there are these totally unbelievable stories coming out about the potential actions of Centre-Right parties around the world, you need to stop and try and fact check it and ask āis it possibleā? Because itās apparent most of these parties actually have no shame and will do practically anything to get votes and stay in power
Would the Morrison government organise with the Sri Lankan government to have a boat load of people arrive on election day so they could blanket text voters in marginal seats and scare them off voting ALP? Probably.
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FIFY.
What they actually do once theyāre in power is completely different.
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Morrison and the LNP are as bad as the tories. In many ways the LNP is actually now the model for the tories worst recent ideas and is now significantly influenced by Lynton Crosby who alongsite Mark Textor have been responsible for selling much of the worst Liberal stuff going back to Howard - most recently just look at the refugees to Rwanda approach cf to Nauru and Priti Patel with her Peter Dutton impression.
Donāt know why I didnāt see this earlier but I think it fairly accurately represents Morrisons views:
And this is a nice send off:
Ok Aussies. We are coming down in Spring, so please sort it out before then. Ok?
Thanks,
CJ
Hi Craig, weāve replaced ScoMo for you as requested. Can you please bring out your new predator boot design with studs that reduce the chance of injury? Also if youād like to turn around one of our failing companies (for token credit) that would be great.
No worries mate etc.
Unfortunately the predator brand has fallen foul of the old political correctness bollocks. Everyone is associating predator with Prince Andrew.
Iād love to turn around a company. What about Arnottās for example?
Anyone here subscribed to the beIN sports pack on Fetch? Iām wondering if they show the champions league games on there as well as the domestic cup games? Itāll save subscribing to Paramount+, Stan etc. to get access to these games
When I was living over there 18 months ago, I realised just how ridiculously low energy prices were. I was paying $237 (Ā£130) a quarter for our 3 bedroom house, whereas pre-energy crisis I was paying about Ā£100/month for gas and leccy here. The energy prices are just worlds apart. You can see how there has been very little public pressure to move away from coal-fired power plants. Why would the public want to move to another form that will cost them probably much more? Its also hard to justify spending all that money on an electric car in Australia if its all going to be fed from coal anyway. How does that help the environment?
I know this article relates to energy shortages due to technical problems with some of the coal plants, but it also mentions some flooding events closing down mines (climate change!). I really hope something like this plus the change in government can be the catalyst for change in Australia with the population putting pressure on the government to change the countryās ways. I donāt know how much has changed over the last 18 months with the flooding and fire events that have occurred but back then there was just a real lack of awareness of the problems the world was facing in relation to the climate.
I might be wrong, but isnāt the cost of solar/wind much lower than coal? After all, itās not like Australia doesnāt have any sun or empty patches of landā¦
Existing coal fired plants would be cheaper to keep going than to outlay resources into renewables I would have thought. If it was a choice of a new coal plants or renewables then you are probably right.
Reading about it, Australia is a weird case where the government has been doing their best to block solar farms at the utility level, but where there is a lot of rooftop solar and thats probably compensating for the lack of industrial scale solar farms. Its pretty sad when a country like the UK and its renowned weather is outpacing Australia in solar, a country that has incredible potential out in the West in Western Australia or Northern Territory.
Wind farms I think Australia is way behind the rest of the world. I havenāt really looked into Labourās pledges but I hope they are removing all the protections of the coal industry so that Aussies can move away from that and move to renewables
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donāt fuck with Byron Bay. Please.
@chung no mate. I subscribe to Stan for the CL and Optus for the PL. Then Kayo for the rest except the A League on Paramount. Fuck Paramount how many streams can a man buy.
Oh fuck. I thought it was the other way around and that Optus had CL and Stan had PL. Iām going to have to look for alternatives. Iām not watching the EPL in Optusās lousy video quality.
Optus is good enough but gee it is hard to watch a lot of the LFC PL games live when most start 1-3 am. I know a lot of people here that wake up and simply watch the replay not knowing the score. I canāt do it, I need to know the score first.
Top rank though is Stan because the time in Oz for CL kick off is perfect at 5am to 7am. Paying for this is not negotiable.
Optus are going 1080p from August (along with a new pricing model which is $25/month or $200 for season).
Ok. That has
ād my interest.
