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  • Private buildings, public land: how Australia’s national parks became a battleground between conservation and commerce

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  • National and State parks need funding from somewhere. I agree that Private operators should not act as middlemen in building “Resorts” or “Glamp Sites”, where they can funnel off the bulk of the profits and only leave a pittance for Park maintenance.

    Any “improvements” need to be designed, developed, deployed and managed by the Public Sector for the public benefit.

    Natural environments do need to be maintained. Whether it is by Traditional Owners, Western-style Park Rangers, Primary Industry producers or just local concerned citizens; they need to be audited and managed for the benefit of the whole community, national interest and future wellbeing and prosperity.

  • Pornhub’s owner to block Australians over age check laws

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  • This is just more Corporate Welfare for foreign VPN companies.

    Sex workers and performers should be getting all the Johns money, rather than a portion going to ExpressVPN, SurfShark, NordVPN, etc.

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    Chris Bowen urges motorists not to panic-buy petrol

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  • Solar and batteries will take up a lot of the strain and provide the population and nation more independence and sovereignty over their energy usage and consumption;

    Except for the major percentage of the population who can’t have rooftop solar, don’t have space for a battery and can’t afford a new car, but also don’t have access to public transport infrastructure.

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    Chris Bowen urges motorists not to panic-buy petrol

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  • We still face an extensive public transport network in major cities. The petrol price increase will give governments the mandate to (or to continue to) invest in public transport infrastructure.

    The most efficient electric vehicle is a Train.

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    ‘People have lost all sense of shame’: three threats against federal politicians reported to police every day

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  • The price of freedom I eternal vigilance.

    There are lots of Australian cases where politicians are downright criminal.

    We need to have protections in place to stop our Polies emulating the like of Indian Russia, Brazil and Lebanon. Those protections need to be enforced, so the don’t emulate the US.

  • Three-quarters of Australia’s new cars use more fuel than advertised lab rating, testing shows

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  • Part of this is Speedometer calibration.

    Fuel consumption is calculated in lab conditions, using an externally arbitrated distance and the fuel consumed is also measured under lab conditions.

    Speedos will never be 100% accurate so manufacturers make sure that the error is conservative. Someone being charged with speeding when their speedo was exactly on the speed limit would be bad press. Most new cars are travelling at about 90-95km/h in 100km/h zones.

    Petrol expands and contracts as it changes temperature. This is a good reason to only fill your tank on cold days, in the morning. (Although the cost difference is not worth considering, the difference in volume of fuel is measurable.

    Finally, the fuel pump flow that is measured in your EFI system and the diameter of your tyres are also affected by temperature.

    These three factors affect what your fuel gauge tells you. You may be travelling 100km and using 5.6l, but your ECU may be calculating and displaying a higher result.

  • Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills?

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  • We don’t even need to pay tax for it. If you take the capitalism out of it and create a government monopoly; we still pay for the service, and it gets put towards funding the service.

    Take out the Executive Salaries and other unnecessary overheads and it is much more cost effective.

  • Blaring sirens on smartphones to warn Australians of major disasters under emergency alerts overhaul

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    • except Optus Cuatomers. Their warning that a natural disaster is happening is that they will loose reception. /s

  • Three-quarters of Australia’s new cars use more fuel than advertised lab rating, testing shows

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  • Regulators are creating a Rat Race of fraudulent testing and claims of compliance.

    This is going to be DieselGate all over again.

  • ‘Stuff of nightmares’: calls for help surge by 50% after Australia launches aged-assistance tool

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  • Of course it is uses GenerativeBS.

    General Purpose LLMs need to be banned.

  • Australian health insurance premiums just had their biggest hike in a decade. Is it time to scrap private health cover?

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  • The only redeeming aspect of Private Health insurance is that it is a big employer.

    Australia does not have any more primary or secondary industry any more. Closing down the Private Health Insurance Companies will make a helluva lot of people unemployed.

    That said; these roles are just a leech on the community, without actually generating anything that benefits our society.

  • Queensland Tesla registrations in free-fall, as Musk embraces far-right

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  • The contempt that Australians have for Seppo trucks such as Silverados, RAMs and F-trucks is real. Basically, the consensus is that all people who drive these trucks have “body issues” below the waist.

    Except for the Technophiles, and Enviro-nerds the consensus is that Tesla Drivers also have Self-confidence issues with their communication skills.

    There is no overlap between these two demographics so there is no market in Australia for the Cybertruck.

  • Queensland Tesla registrations in free-fall, as Musk embraces far-right

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  • Two tiny circles.

  • Australia faces drenching as storm system set to bring heavy rain and flash floods

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  • The retarding basin near work is getting a bit manky; same as the wetlands near our housing estate.

    They could do with a flush.

    The low-socio-economic housing estates down the hill from us in the reclaimed swampland are getting a bit manky too.

  • India's AI Summit opening in New Delhi marred by long queues, confusion

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  • Since most early product marketed as AI was really just “Another Indian”, they were probably people who didn’t know where the employee entrance was.

  • The star rating on food is now mandatory – but some experts think we should scrap it altogether

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  • Star references are always gross oversimplifications of a review.

    Is that car really unsafe to drive or use too much fuel?

    Does that washing machine really use too much energy or water?

    Did that retail store really provide Karen with the “Worse Experience Ever!”

    Is that food really bad for you personally?

    Some manufacturers are part of the industry compliance bodies and will game the system so that that their product gets 5 stars even if it is objectively terrible. Look at Diesel-gate. Look at the amount of Permeate in “milk”. Look at the amount of sugar in “fat-free” products. Look at the mind-altering chemicals in artificial sweeteners.

    Different people and different applications have different needs, expectations and dietary requirements. When making a decision about a purchase, consumers need to make their own informed choices.

  • Not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia explored as option in US congressional report

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  • Not kowtowing to Trump is not the same as ending our relationship with the US.

    Albo can tell the walking dumpster fire to bugger off and trump would come out of worse than Australia.

  • Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless'

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  • Existing institutions are still controlling the narrative, just that people aren’t believing it.

    One good think about the GenBS bubble is that those people that aren’t complete drones improve their BS detectors.

    The problem are that there are still plenty of complete drones who still believe everything that is fed to them.

  • Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless'

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  • It was never about protecting children. It was always about spying on citizens.

    And now the Albo is giving all our personal data to the Seppos, we are pretty much screwed.

  • Telstra warns older iPhones may be unable to connect to Triple Zero [or any number, after recent update from Apple]

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  • iOS26 is just a shitshow in a dumpster fire.

    Apple needs to rollback all devices running iOS26 to iOS18 and admit that they screwed up.

    It (and MacOS Tahoe) are almost as bad as Windows 11, and that is a big statement.

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    Salvo @aussie.zone

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