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The W.A. Police force bought a large number of Harley-Davidsons in the late 1980's for Police patrol work - against the wishes of most of the serving officers. There must have been a kickback involved. The WAPOL's HD Shovelheads performance was absolutely abysmal. They broke down 4 or 5 times as much as the previous Jap WAPOL bikes. And when they broke down, there was always a huge parts delivery delay, and the cost of the parts was through the roof. The serving officers largely hated them. Heavy, excessive vibration, oil leaks galore, electrical problems galore. The W.A. Govt took the step of getting rid of all the WAPOL HD's by auctioning them, and at auction, about a third of the HD's on offer were non-functional. They brought dismal money. There were questions asked in the W.A. Parliament about the debacle, and the horrendous reliability of the HD's, and just who was responsible for acquiring them. No-one ever accepted any blame, nor pointed the finger, and the WAPOL hierarchy ensured the fiasco was brushed under the carpet. The next lot of WAPOL motorcycles were Japanese - and they've been Japanese ever since. One of the nicest bikes I've ever ridden (in the early 1980's), was a late 1970's, ex-WAPOL Yammy 750.

Hit nail on head.

There are numbers hidden in the middle of the phrases. Zero, One, Two and Three.

Yeah, I got a bit confused with my big hand, little hand, and thumbs and fingers.....I don't look at analogue clocks much, any more! 😄 The answer to the computer question is PASSWORD. Take the letters to the left of QBTT and take the letters to the right of VNQC.

96 times.

They're ruthless barstewards, and we need to come up with a way to counteract their scheme. They can't keep subsidising smelters forever.

Worm. The sentence is a palindrome.

I can remember the Sunbeam Trolley buses we had in Perth, they were made obsolete by diesel buses, with the last of them taken out of service in 1969. Leyland trolley buses were first introduced in Perth in 1933, but I don't recall seeing any of the Leylands, they were probably gone by the early 1950's, when the Sunbeams came in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Perth

As an old mate found out in Cobdogla, after he bought a small vineyard and ripped out all the vines - growing vegies that are in demand, pays better than growing grapes.

The legislation in Qld is the Legal Profession Act 2007 (as amended). Suspension or cancellation of a lawyers certificate to practice appears to start at Sect 59, and it seems the regulator initially sends a "show cause" notice to the offender stating the reason/s why they should be suspended, or surrender their certificate. As Sam Iskander surrendered his certificate, it appears he must have weak grounds to refute the allegations, or one would think he would've taken legal action to stop the action, by showing he had cause to stop it. My personal opinion is, I think that anyone who works for Clive Palmer must have dubious ethics, anyway. https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-2007-024

You mean Koonunga. You're slurring again.

Bangui

The W.A. Govt has purchased its last diesel bus, all public transport buses produced in Perth from here on in, are going to be electric. My landlady turfed me out of my factory unit (along with the other 11 factory lessees), and sold the 3.7Ha of industrial land she owned, to the W.A. PTA (Public Transport Authority) for conversion of the site to a huge electric bus parking/recharging depot. Everything on the entire site has been demolished, and work is proceeding at speed to totally renovate and rebuild the site to the new major plan. Once again, it's the European companies getting the lions share of the EV development money. I don't understand why Australian companies can't be in the forefront of these developments. I was also quite surprised to find (there was no fanfare with this expansion), that an entirely new Govt Dept, The "Dept of Energy and Economic Diversification" has appeared. This agency is pursuing a major new initiative, called "Powering W.A." Powering W.A. is taking charge of a massive revamp of the entire electricity supply system in the S.W. of W.A., as coal power generation is planned to be phased out within 2 or 3 years, huge wind and solar generation projects take its place, and massive grid batteries are being installed everywhere. The speed and level of change in our electricity network is staggering. https://www.pta.wa.gov.au/news/media-statements/electric-future-starts-now-as-last-diesel-bus-leaves-the-depot https://www.pta.wa.gov.au/news/media-statements/electric-buses-charge-into-the-suburbs-for-the-first-time https://www.theindustrialist.com.au/2024/08/28/bayswater-327ha-site-sold-strategic-transport-operator-new-electric-bus-fleet-colliers https://www.sustainable-bus.com/infrastructure/kempower-perth-electric-bus-depot/ https://www.wa.gov.au/government/media-statements/Cook Labor Government/Construction-starts-on-Merredin-Battery-Energy-Storage-System-20250805 https://reneweconomy.com.au/construction-begins-on-merredin-four-hour-big-battery-in-wa/

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News just to hand, has Clive Palmer making the startling claim, that his solicitor (Sam Iskander) has stolen possibly up to $30M from Palmers private company Mineralogy, between 2016 and July 2025. Palmers lawyer has issued an injunction to seize a large amount of the solicitors assets, and Iskander has handed in his solicitors licence to practice law. I guess this step is due to the allegations and injunction. Iskander has not been officially charged with any offences at this time, which seems unusual to me. It appears that Palmers move is simply one designed to stop his lawyer from spending any of his money or disposing of assets, until Palmer can actually prove he's been robbed. The whole setup seems strange to me, I thought anytime there was criminal wrongdoing, and you could provide some evidence, that Police moved in and charged the defendant. Maybe they have different rules for lawyers?? https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/clive-palmer-accuses-long-time-solicitor-of-stealing-30-million-20250808-p5mlcw.html https://au.news.yahoo.com/palmer-claims-30-million-fraud-080552730.html

The modern vehicles making smoke are usually doing a DPF burn.

Interesting how they all keep doing 3-point landings. Was that the preferred landing style in WW2?

A walk in the park.

Never forget, you get exactly what you pay for! Remember the old mail-order tricks? You bought what appeared to be large toy items in the catalogue, when they arrived, you nearly needed a magnifying glass to see them!

I'd have to say EV's range must be dependent on how they're driven and over what terrain - the same as IC-engined vehicles. IC-engine cars are notorious for never reaching their manufacturers claimed fuel economy. I read an article recently where the battery developers were stunned to find that EV batteries behaved in the exact opposite manner to what they believed, as regards lifespan. It was formerly thought that steady current drawdown was best for long battery life, but AI computing found that batteries last longer with a wide range of usage and recharging styles. The AI-computing research found that dynamic cycling and ultra-fast charging can lead to much longer battery life than previously calculated. It took only a small modification to battery manufacture to allow the ultra-fast charging.

Satan could've always asked him where he was going to get a lawyer, as he already has them all lined up.

You can buy lists of mailing addresses from list brokers for direct marketing purposes. It's legal, but some of the addresses can be out of date, or the person is recently deceased. A lot of these companies only update their lists every few years.

Because it's entrancing, watching a show unfold, and you don't know how all the twists and turns of the story are going to pan out?? We're all just hoping the baddie gets his comeuppance, the heroine gets saved, and the goodies come back in force, and take over the town, and restore civil order from lawlessness!!

Pinch me, I must be dreaming.

The most interesting development is in Texas, where a sizeable number of Democrats left the State to avoid voting in a rigged Congressional electoral boundaries redistribution, that is going to greatly favour Republicans in the next Federal Govt voting round. Now the Texas Governor and House speaker are trying to arrest or remove the Democrats who left the State and who failed to vote on the redistribution. This is a whole new ball game. https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/texas-democrats-redistricting-quorum-08-04-25