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Here's an article on how New Zealand changed to proportional representation in 1996: https://electoral-reform.org.uk/how-did-new-zealand-get-proportional-representation/ Another bit on how and where it's used in Australia: https://www.ecanz.gov.au/electoral-systems/proportional

The U.S. version of the Betoota Advocate.

It's hard to see it ever changing. The two party system, sometimes referred to as the uniparty, needs preferential voting to maintain their hold. They'll fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.

It's always interesting watching how the seats pan out on election nights. One seat, Mawson I think it was, Labor has lost 20% of their vote to One Nation. In a lot of seats the 20% approximate swing to One Nation has come at Liberal cost with a much smaller amount from Labor.

So how does Gina get rich. How much does government regulation and tax laws contribute to her ability to accumulate wealth. If it's a factor, she's become rich under both Labor and Coalition governments. At the moment she's getting rich under the watchful eye of the precious can do no wrong Labor government. If you have a complaint about her wealth, take it up with them. Whingeing about it here just makes you look foolish. Do something about it. Contact your federal member and take it from there. No amount of social media babble will reduce her wealth and power. Only governments can do that.

I can remember back when they mandated the low suplhur diesel there was talk of older engines having some issues with things like injector pump seals leaking. The only diesel engine I had at the time was an old IH motor, late 60's vintage and I never had any problems with it.

A handy combination Nev. You could get on the plonk, start up all the motorbikes and have a fat old time, all in the one space.

I filled up before the government lifted restrictions to allow us to use higer sulphur diesel, so I still have an almost full tank of the old low sulphur fuel. We normally export all the high sulphur fuel to countries that don't have as strict environmental rules as we have. $2.90 price of diesel today at our local servo. edit: I originally wrote $1.90 for today's price, it's $2.90.

The buggerup is supposed to hit the Cape tomorrow as a cat 5, wind gusts up to 315 kph they are saying. They're tracking it to hit the east coast just north of Coen and the west coast just south of Aurukun.

Nev, do you have a photo of it?

Looking at the photo, it looks like the frame doesn't run underneath. I can remember in the early 70's there was still a lot of old stuff to be found in farm sheds but rare these days. There was so much around then that I knocked back a Panther 600 sloper shed find as I thought the $20 asking price was a bit steep. It was in good original condition, just needed new clutch plates. We still have a 1924 Hupmobile in the family from new, my grandfather's car. It was put out to farm use at one stage of it's life and then shedded sitting on blocks for a lot of years.

Just posting a photo of this old Norton. A mate sent a link to the facebook group it was on, and the poster said he found it in a barn where it had been sitting for sixty years.. Looks like a late 30's ES2 with a dodgy seat.

Most of the brains of the Soviet Union was centered in Ukraine back in those days. They provided the bulk of engineering and development for the Soviet Union and industrial capacity. It's where the tanks, armoured vehicles, tractors and machinery were designed, developed and manufactured. Aircraft and rocket engines was another area. Right up until the Ukraine/Russia war Russia was still buying their helicopter engines from Ukraine. We tend to think of Russia as the centre of the Soviet Union but Ukraine was where all the talent was. As an analogy, the Russian approach to opening a can would be to bash it with a hammer; Ukrainians would sit down and design a can opener.

The verification is a bit hit and miss in my case. I'm logged in all the time on my phone so no problems there. With the laptop, I have a dynamic IP with my server so get a different IP every time I boot up and FB thinks it's a login from a different device. Also the IP geolocation can be 800klm away from where I actually am, so they think someone in Townsville is trying to log into my account. Usually they just ask to check notifications on the other device (phone) so I just pick it up, check notifications and click the verification that it's me. As soon as that's done the FB page on the laptop automatically loads. That method is nice and simple, but this clicking on pedestrian crossings bs really sucks. Even if you get it right the first time it's a much slower verification method.

Suckerbook really knows how to annoy people. Went to log in tonight and they now have a Google security thing going. First you have to check a box to tell a robot that you're not a robot. Then you have to do a series of those things where you click on all the squares with pedestrian crossings or cars or motorbikes. I had to do about four or five of them.

I just looked it up. Tasmania does have a pension or eligible concession card holder discount for one vehicle only, $60 for a car or $55 for a bike and an insurance discount as well. I don't know whether they class an over 60 senior's card as eligible. In Queensland a senior's card is elegible, a 50% discount on the registration component which is about $140 p.a. saved. https://www.concessions.tas.gov.au/concessions/vehicles

Marty, I thought in Tasmania there's no pension discount but pensioners can have a second vehicle rego free. That was a few years ago I was told that and it might not be right. If it is, it would only be the registration component free, not the insurance and any other charges.

That's a good deal Nev. With Origin I'm paying 35 cents/kWh and $520 connection fee. I don't use much power so it's not a big expense, about $25 per week all up. A lot cheaper than council rate charges which is about $35 per week.

It will be interesting on Saturday night to see how One Nation goes in South Australia. Despite all the talk, I don't think they're confident of picking up any lower house seats. As a consolation, if they get a good primary vote and fall short on preferences, it would be a financial windfall for them under SA's new electoral laws considering they're running candidates in every seat.

I looked it up, Kidmans own this one. It matches Pauline's hair.

It's a long time since I've been in a 172, but I think you're right. They could pull a couple of seats out of a 206 and leave Cory on the ground.

It might be one of Kidman's mustering 172s. The pilot and Pauline in the front, Cory and Gina in the back.

Gina has lent Pauline a Kidman plane to fly around SA campaigning.

Our domestic production has had a fairly brief history. Our first commercial oil field was discovered late in 1961. Before that we imported everything. We don't have a lot of heavy crude, but some of the oil from the Cooper and Surat basins is like ready made diesel. Santos used to fill their Toyotas with it under some excise agreement with the government. I'm not sure what type of fuel filters they used, but standard ones clog up fairly quick. A lot of our oil is not economical to extract.

Mining industry backing is a natural for Canavan as mining aligns with his economic beliefs. Just as union backing aligns with Labor party beliefs. He's one to watch and in his case it's an over simplification to pidgeon-hole him. He's got a fairly diverse background. Started out as a communist in high school and uni, got disillusioned with that (the communism, not uni), went on to get an economics degree, worked as an economist for the productivity commission and as a KMPG executive, then Barnaby's chief of staff before entering the senate under the LNP. He has the ability to think things through a lot better than Littleproud, which wouldn't be hard to do.