The legislature sets laws. The senate approves laws. The judiciary interprets laws.

If the legislature doesn’t like how a law is interpreted, they can change the wording to be less ambiguous, but it would still need to be approved by the senate. This new law would supersede any precedents.

The executive is there to keep the system functioning, not to create any laws itself.

We need to have local manufacturing of Solar Panels and Home Batteries.

Not do economic or political reasons; purely for environmental reasons.

The problem is that environmentalism is disrupting manufacturing.

I can’t believe that Elon Musks pet techno-SS brigade are dragging this poor Corgis name down.!

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After this he joined DOGI and went to the Library of Congress.

Time to watch Glass Onion again.

The majority of them have a GVM of 3495kg, which is just below the threshold of requiring an upgraded licence.

I am pretty sure they do get kitted out above the GVM without a legal GVM upgrade.

I would love to see a VicRoads blitz on GVMs of large vehicles and Caravans.

The petrol V8 is comparatively economical when you drive sedately. The problem is that the majority of people who buy vehicles with big Petrol V8’s appreciate the sound (much to the chagrin of their neighbours). It doesn’t have to work hard to work hard.

The Toyotas (and Suzukis) are reliable, the problem is that the L4 in the Prado (and the much smaller one in the Jimny) need to be driven hard to work hard.

The pained screams of an underpowered 4 cylinder engine is much less pleasant than the rumble of a V8 (or even the roar of a V8 or the symphony of a perfectly tuned V6).

Different vehicles for different purposes.

My brother had a V8 VB commodore and his mate had a L6 VC commodore. The big V8 was much more economical on the highways, while the inline 6 was much better when stuck in traffic.

I used to have an L4 Grand Vitara and an A V6 Alfa Romeo. They had the same economy.

My mate recently purchased a V8 petrol Y62 Patrol for towing his camper instead of a L4 diesel LC250 Prado to tow his camper. He reasoned that the cheaper upfront cost would offset the increased fuel bill.

What he found was it was more economical when touring, but it was also cheaper around town as well, as long as he used his right foot and his brain to control the accelerator and didn’t use his testicles to control the accelerator.

As a Jimny owner and driver, you don’t need a giant 4WD, even if you do go OffRoad.

I do struggle occasionally when arseholes in giant light-trucks have chewed up the track before me and left huge, impassable ruts.

ICE Cars are getting bigger (and heavier). EVs are significantly heavier again.

The combination of passive safety systems (like impact bars, SRS and crumple-zones) improve your chances of survivability when interacting with a larger vehicle at the expense of weight.

The problem as that this has resulted in a rat-race of bigger and bigger (and less manageable) vehicles.

To deal with such large vehicles, Driver Assistance Systems need to be integrated, which adds more weight and increases driver complacency.

Impreza wagons are technically wagons, but more closely resemble a Hot Hatch.

Pretty much every subcompact wagon is really a hatch.

Not to mention heavy!

My little Jimny has a (comparatively) high grille and it will do some nasty damage to anyone who I neglect to see, but it only has 1200kg of mass. Still enough make people have a bad day and not the most ergonomic thing to lean against when it is moving. The Driver Assistance Systems are not great, but enough to stop me from making too many stupid mistakes.

These huge American behemoths weigh 3-4 times as much, have even worse visibility and the nose is shaped like a giant tenderising mallet. The driver assistance systems are just as bad, but meet a checklist of features that give the drivers as false sense of complacency and ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from AMCAP.

I wonder how much of her denial was Denial and how much was avoiding guilt.

Driver Assistance Systems are there to assist a competent driver, not to empower an incompetent driver. If the second party is using these features as a crutch to compensate, or excuse their shitty driving, they need to be charged with reckless driving and needs to have the book thrown at them.

There are two reasons why people place Informal Votes;

• Ignorance (they don’t know how our great Australian Preferential Ballot works)
• No confidence (they do not feel that any candidate can represent their interests.

Given the fact that voters had 13 different candidates to choose from, and still voted informally, I think that it may be the first reason. I think that Old Mate now has a mandate to invest in education for his constituents so they now how our Australian Preferential Ballot works for next time.

https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-31496-250.htm

I assume Climate Corp would be like Park Rangers or Environmental cleanup.

When we were younger National Parks used to recruit students during school holidays to perform works around the parks. We used to get food and accommodation and would maintain the public facilities, clear overgrown bushland and perform basic maintenance on infrastructure.

Nowadays, due to Economic Rationalism, they pay top-dollar for professional contractors to perform the work, or in most cases, just don’t perform the work.

Degrowth & Transport Carbon Offsets may be difficult to balance until there is a huge shift away from consumerism.

It will take a lot of convincing the electorate that they can’t have their latest consumerist bauble unless they make it themselves, or find someone local to make it.

Even if they find someone to make it, decentralised manufacturing is usually more expensive (from an environmental impact view) than mass-produced goods.

A million individual people making a jacket each produces more waste than 10 people working together to build a million jackets.

The more the Liberal Party and Gina’s and Rupert’s Right Wing media waffle on about the Mythical Culture war, the more people think that it is actually a thing.

Zuck’s and Elon’s Right Wing “new” media need to Fuck Off too.

This will make it so much more likely for a ALP/The Greens 2TP election in the future.

The Greens and Labour also hope the Right-Wing Parties also continue following Gina’s instructions. It will make it so much easier to acquire more seats in the next election.

The Coalition probably used these models to predict what the Electorate wanted.

This would explain why their policies were so Tone-Deaf.