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The previous post froze.

No I didn’t. The whole idea would need a total strategy including especially the major the supermarkets and places like Bunnings, Mc Donalds etc. if part of the claim is “what if the internet goes down” then none of the majors are able to price or add up lists of items at the cash desk so if the system goes down it’s a total failure irrespective of having cash. It’s happened at Woolies and McDonald’s and cash doesn’t save the situation and they will not change for cash.

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No I didn’t. The whole idea would need a total strategy including especially the major the supermarkets and places like Bunnings, Mc Doonalds etc. if part of the claim is “what if the internet goes down” then none of the majors are able to price items

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You don’t need to worry about the prospect building an atomic power station or an atomic submarine. We can’t even make our own tin cans of beetroots. About the limit of our ability to mske anything is a few runs or a few goals from kicking a ball around a paddock.

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Did either of them need to go the Hunter? It was only an announcement, there was no physical need for either minister be there.
I wonder how much aviation gas was expended by the PM and the relevant minister on sprucing the failed Voice?
And politicians wonder why the public often think they are just an expensive joke.

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Three further lobbying cases just today. Vehicle emission standards reduced yet further due to lobbying. Corrupt Crown in Melbourne keeps its licence, who would have known it, the lobbyists. A shonky multi-story builder in Wollongong which has produced an unlivable tower yet again passes problems onto buyers yet again.
Airline lobbying, just look at Qantas stuffed with tax payers money.

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  This country is run by industry lobbies; the government is not there for the people, it is there to ensure the increased profits of big business and cash payments to political parties for service rendered. Just a few examples of many make the average Aussie thousands of dollars a year worse off than they need to be so half the population have virtually no savings and live close to the poverty line. Why are Australians the world’s biggest gamblers? It costs on average over $1,000 a year per person, not in waging but actual loses and that’s the average, so many lose far more. Average electricity bills are 38% higher than they need to be purely because State governments won’t ban dark roofs which heat houses unbearably in summer because developers have lobbied governments not to do so. The energy companies lobbied government to increase electricity and gas prices far beyond any justification. The gas and coal belong to the Australian people, not the foreign miners. Developers build multi-story homes which are too dangerous to live in but who do governments hold responsible for paying the massive rectification bills? Not the developers but the poor mortgage holders. We pay more for petrol and diesel because the automotive importers lobby government to ensure that inefficient gas guzzlers could still be imported when they are banned in many advanced markets in the world. Oh, I forgot this is not an advanced market, it’s a lobby paradise because our political parties of both sides have their hands out for cash and if that means millions are close to destitution or can’t afford a house or even rent, that’s just too bad, it’s the cash cow lobbies which get looked after, not the voters.

 We have few value adding manufacturing industries left to provide living wage jobs, numerous industries were allowed to move to China. Talk about building nuclear power stations and submarines, we can’t even make a tin can of beetroot!

Then we add the helicopter parents which have brought up a generation of kids who have no life or employable skills, are so incapable that they either live on Uber eats or have little career ability to do anything beyond riding a scooter, delivering cooked food to their peers. So we bring in overseas trained and skilled young people to fill the high value jobs our youth are incapable of doing.

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So where did the 600,000 overseas migrants go and doesnt that have a greater effect than internal movements? If the part picture painted here was true, NSW would be a renters paradise but its clearly not.

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If the LNP believes that nuclear is the way to go, why didn’t they push for it during the nine years they were in government but only hit on the idea just after they got thrown out? Was it because If it was their policy while in government they would have needed to do something about it and they have no intention to do so. It took them nine years to not even agree an energy policy let alone implement one.
How’s their Snowy Hydro 2 going, still on budget and on time?

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Remember a COALition prime minister introducing us to coal and telling us not to be afraid? Coal went out of fashion about as fast as the prime minister promoting it. I suspect any future leader telling us not to be frightened of uranium and nuclear will befall a similar or fate.
Compact nuclear power plants are simply not available, but of course don’t let honesty get in the way when you’re devoid of any policies.

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I would think the starting point in any attempt to sort out this can of worms of educational inequality would be to ensure that every child receives the same amount of public money from the same source. Ajustments for genuine disadvantaged schools should then be made from that base.
The funding of private schools from federal and public schools from States has the potential, appearance, and reality of distorting educational funding by lobbying and pork barreling exacerbated by the fact that a disproportionate number of politicians were students of and send their children to private schools. So guess what?

We know what works best because we send countless experts overseas to study more successful systems than ours and they return to have only the bits that suit us cherry picked.

On top of this we lack an educational culture. The prime minister committed more money towards a football stadium in Hobart than is spent on half of the nation’s public schools’ capital works. The ability to kick or hit a piece of leather around a paddock is valued more highly than the ability to invent, make and create or to fix humans, proved by the frequency that many immigrant children from lower socio-economic backgrounds exceed local kids at school.

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If our so called world leaders, Putin, Xi, Netanyahu and Trump continue on their current tracks, depopulation could happen a lot sooner than that.That’s a bad thing!

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This confirms the total mindless, stupidity of many so called elite athletes and the fact that it is even being considered is yet further proof that the world as we know it is going mad. Let’s hope that these idiots chemically blow their brains out in the isolation of their own homes causing no danger or cost to the general public.

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I believe Australian house designers, builders and buyers of 100 years ago had more sense than today.
We live in a pale grey roofed, sandstone house with a 9ft verandah all around with French doors to every room, a design of yesteryear which is still relevant and works today. However only 20 years ago with today’s knowledge we watched the Canberra bushfire home replacements with larger fence to fence house widths on quite generous blocks, most with little or no eaves, black tiled roofs and everything designed for power guzzling air conditioners. Who allows these totally inappropriately homes to be built and why, when we know what the climate has in store?
We have a multi-faceted housing crisis; too few homes, blocks of brand new apartments that are ready to crumble and tumble and many houses which are built are a social, economic and climatic disaster.

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Just like some other irrelevant imports from the USA incuding Halloween, I agree we should let the Americans keep Black Friday to themselves.
I just don’t follow the logic of saving money by buying loads of cheap stuff that you don’t really need.

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My local GP clinic in northern NSW told me they dont have the vaccine now but will have it around March of next year. This seems to confirm the shortage account. A bit odd, I mean the government wouldn’t over-sell an initiative would they?

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We’re really in a Catch 22 on this one. Our local bank sub- branch closed years ago and was replaced by a bank ATM. This has now been replaced by a commercial/generic ATM which charges $3.00 per withdrawal. At the same time more businesses are charging a card fee. Lower income people who are more likely to use cash and withdraw small amounts are hit harder by the fixed ATM fees. The attraction of visiting a bank branch is not what it was, more systemised, lower quality staff working for banks which rip-off long term loyal customers.
I like to use a mixture of card, cash and bank transfers but the banks have a vested interest in eliminating cash and are persuing their own agenda in making it harder and more expensive to access.

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The new CEO should also be dismissed. How do you get cultural change by putting a many years long part of the old culture in charge? If the outrageous salaries are justified by being the world’s best available for the job then what a coincidence she was just sitting there already at Qantas? And if she is the best person for the job, how come Joyce wasn’t kicked out years ago because clearly he wasn’t the best?

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The PM and his government is selling a proposition, it has spent $400 million on its unconvincing sales pitch. While I accept your suggestion of ‘Googling it,’ if I went into a local car shrowroom about a highly promoted product and they put a proposition to me and my questions were answered by ‘Google it mate’ I would almost certainly walk out. Unfortunately the PM by his refusal to answer so many questions has given the impression that he is hiding something.
Unfortunately, for most Australians the idea that setting up another committee will make a difference to anyone’s life is a hard argument to accept.
If after nearly 250 years of living in the same country and over 120 years of federal government it doesn’t know already what needs fixing in Aboriginal communities and implemented those fixes, then irrespective of another committee, nothing is likely to change.
MS Burney has already said she has priorities to put to the Voice committee. Isn’t this just another example of, if the government already knows of specific needs why instead of waiting for the committee to be set up and creating another bureaucratic vortex, the Minister isn’t getting out of her designer attire, putting on some appropriate bush gear and going to talk to the affected people about working to fix the issues.

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I pay a little over $600 pa for a Range Rover in NSW. While that is modest what annoys me is that irrespective of the car brand, each year from new the value of the car reduces but the insurance premium increases after another year of accident and penalty free driving. Insurance companies like banks, power companies and supermarkets encourage us to shop around by their greedy tactics.

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I’m with Jacka on this. I don’t want to buy fruit and vegetables that have been poured over and fondled by a bunch of out of control, snotty nosed brats which their mothers can’t control. I don’t see why I need to be delayed by breeder reactors whose kids block or chase around supermarket aisles dislodging products as they go for other shoppers to relocate.
To avoid most of this We have kept to our Covid shopping time, around 7.30am when we avoid most ‘impatient mums’and we are much more likely to be shopping with kids shopping for breakfast before school because their time poor mothers couldn’t be bothered.

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