Pipe dream:
Tax income generated from accumulated wealth the same as income generated from actual work. I.e. a rate somewhere in between the two. No more CGT discounts.
End negative gearing for existing structures.
No more tax breaks for commercial vehicles
Curtail corporations from off shoring profits to tax havens.
Tax on exported gas
UBI
Good to see us considering something that’s in favour of digital rights for once.
Also as an android (Graphene) user it is good to get this precedent in place because Google is steadily turning android in to an awful walled garden too.
If those are the biggest behavioural issues the author is worried about then I would question if she has ever even caught public transport.
Mass consumption of “low fat” (high sugar) processed food like products?
As a fan of wagons, yes it sucks that there are so few left to buy.
The European manufactures still sell wagons here. But $$$
There is also still the WRX wagon.
Vehicles with a front height that’s above the average adults waist height should be given automatic zero stars for vulnerable road user protection rating.
Anything with a zero rating should be restricted from being driven while on probation. They should also attract a special extra registration fee.
The fact that at the moment some high fronted child crushers can get 5 stars is a damming indictment of ANCAP.
The sky propaganda said this after the last election, the libs put Dutton as leader and did just that. Historic loss for them.
Again they are saying it now. I look forward to the libs following the advice more and getting reduced to a minor party.
I used to think that a majority labor govt should have fixing media concentration as a top priority.
I think they should still do it, but it’s becoming less of an top priority issue these days.
Murdoch and Packer/Gina propaganda failed this time and last.
I think that the billionaires have learnt it’s easy to negotiate in the background with labor to get their reforms through as far as cutting red and green tape goes.
Bolt is just salty because he built his whole fake media persona on culture war outrage. The worst thing that could happen to him is happening, that is him and the rest of the sky talking heads are losing audience share and fading in to irrelevance.
I used to work for a company that agreed with you, well at least some clown in management did. Even though it was an Australian company, at least part of the problem was we had an office in Manila, and they speak “American English” which seemed to include the awful date system too. We dealt with a lot of files being issued to clients / received from vendors etc. Because the “official” system used those fucked up dates, everyone ran their own secondary sets of data folders in / out with everything done in ISO dates so you could actually sort it properly.
I tried this then it wanted me to do a verification video of my face.
We have:
Preferential voting.
Proportional representation (at least in the lower house)
Independent organisation that sets seat boundaries.
compulsory voting
no electoral college system
Our system is completely different to the USA. Granted our media landscape is still just as fucked as theirs.
First preferences also result in funding going to that party provided it meets a minimum threshold. Putting others ahead of the major parties sends them a message to do better. It has also resulted in a number of seats being held by independents.
Unless you actually live in the seat the party leader is in, you are not voting for that party leader / giant douche / turd sandwich.
As much as I love the south park analogy it simply doesn’t apply to our system at all.
Can be fairly sure they are in the USA.
To grossly simplify a very expansive topic of concrete vs asphalt, vs bitumen…
Concrete = more upfront cost, slower to built. It is more durable. Costs more to repair. Less traction. More noisy to drive on due to joints.
Bitumen = cheapest up front to build. Less durable, but can still get a fairly good life out of it if designed to meet expected loads. Can be repaired more cheaply.
Asphalt. Middle ground between the two. (It’s effectively bitumen with cement binder added) Most of our freeways, major arterial roads here are asphalt.
Things that effect the choice: Different CAPEX vs OPEX strategies, especially with politics for public roads.
Local availability of materials.
Local environmental conditions i.e. freeze / thaw cycles we don’t have to deal with in most of Australia. High temperatures we do get, which does effect bitumen.
Fair to say that costs in one country for different labour and materials look a bit different too.
Guessing you are not from Australia and have never been here. Thick concrete and rebar are not typically how we construct our roads. The vast majority use flexible pavement.
We use the outer suburbs as a fire break. No trees left to burn there. Just roof and road.
What if my lawn mower is battery electric?
A friend shared their account with me. Whilst their reviews focus on how a product is when new, it does not really do long term reviews of how they hold up over time. Which for bigger purchases is also just as important.
Drove from Perth to Albany yesterday. No evidence that anyone cares about double demerits.
The usual experience of course. That is people doing 80 around corners / up hills in the 110 zone, that speed up to 120+ in the overtaking lanes. Including several double trucks.
I tend to take my chances and fly past them in the overtaking lane regardless whilst hoping there isn’t a police car around.
They also banned adults from big social media who don’t want to comply with what ever data harvesting / govt spying mandate that will be implemented.
Really?
I’ve never really bothered much with appliance ratings.
Any time I see star ratings on anything that the govt has been involved with I automatically assume it’s a load of bullshit that was guided by industry with their wants put well ahead of consumer needs. At best star ratings just dumb down actual metrics.
See:
The absolute joke that is food rating stars.
Home energy star ratings. Why not just state use the passivhouse standard? Or just state energy used and air tightness in changes per hour etc.
Vehicle star ratings where fucking human crusher 4wds still somehow gets 5 stars for vulnerable road user protection because it has some sensors in it.