Marty_d

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/how-much-might-it-cost-to-electrify-road-freight/106956614

We bought our MGS5 a month ago and have done 2000km. We just plug it in to a standard power point when it's parked at home. We have solar on the roof, and when it's charging at night Tassie uses hydro power. That 2000km represents about 3 tank fulls of diesel in our previous car, or about 165 litres (at current price around $430). For comparison the EV gets around 16kW/100k so 320kW. Even if we weren't using solar and paying full price (23c/kWh), that's about $74 for the same range. (If my calculations are correct!)

Well, one of his policies was not to take 5 million pound bribes from billionaires, so he's already better than Farage.

I am so glad we have compulsory voting here. One of the best features of our electoral system.

Possibly unpopular with clothed people too 😊

If only Binface had won. That would have been so good.

Adding the words "at Scrabble" to the end completely changes the question too.

Nope - from the raincoat.

Under $1000 a year? I wouldn't be complaining about that. Ours is somewhere around $1500 with no water, sewage or rubbish collection. Not sure what cockatoos have to do with your rates. @willedoo- your council sounds like a pack of useless c**ts. My sympathy.

I call BS on that. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Takes a grubby type to destroy the only worldly possessions of people with nothing.

Not around here. We don't even have that many smart people, let alone meters.

I dunno. I was happy enough to tick "no religion", I didn't care that they didn't break that down into "agnostic", "never thought about it", "atheist", or "cult survivor atheist".

That one's been around for a while. Doesn't make it any less true.

I'm a little surprised at 1820's spike in the "unprecedented" graph. Whenever I've read or heard the use in a historical context it has been "without precedent", not "unprecedented".

Now that's commitment. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/eltham-pilot-turned-baker-quit-flying-for-climate-change-vic/106945332

Trump goes to his doctor and takes off his hat to reveal a huge toad on the top of his head. “When did you notice that?” asked the doctor. And the toad answers: “It began as a boil on my ass.”

"roads were made for horse and cart, but now you want to ditch them for these newfangled automobiles... It'll never work..."

'Twas on the good ship Venus, By christ you should have seen us, The figurehead was a whore in bed Sucking on the captain's... I forget the rest. Good song though.

Yeah but then has to pay them $130k to keep it quiet. Guess they don't call it the "money shot" for nothing.

I think MSN needs some humans working for it (who have passed primary school English). Check out this title. "Passenger plane nearly misses helicopter carrying Donald Trump in chlling near-miss" So it nearly missed, but fortunately it didn't?

Jeez, those are worse than Dad jokes. Granddad jokes?

Not sure how much you listen to Radio National, but there's been a LOT of commentary about Albo's ill-judged dinner and his subsequent avoidance of questioning about it. There's only so much you can put in a news bulletin. So no, they didn't just let him get away with it.

That's absolute rubbish. The ABC is far less biased than any other news service in Australia. It's widely recognised that Sky News or whatever they call themselves now are among the most biased. So surely Hanson refused entry to them too? The reason Hanson doesn't want the ABC around is because they ask difficult questions. Guess what? That's their job. They do it to all sides of politics. And as a politician, if you haven't got answers to difficult questions, then what are you doing there? As a reporter said this morning, it's dangerous for democracy when politicians exclude segments of the media from their announcements. Look how many criminal investigations leading to charges have been initiated by investigative journalism, especially by the ABC. Without proper media scrutiny, corruption flourishes.

Maybe they could combine with North Korea. Between the two leaders, they would almost make up one set or normal sized hands.