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Octave "I agree that the infrastructure in this country is way behind many other countries but that is why it is important to prepare for the future."

Mate it is stupidly behind because all the govt of the past 20 years literally vow not to spend money on infrastructure its taken 5 years to put an extra lane on the gateway motorway..11KM of road for christs sake and only 1 lane each side...who makes these stupid decisions..The Gateway is highway #1 the Bruce Hwy if you have ever been on the gateway in the mornings and afternoons you know what its like

You missed my point...with what power generation are you going to charge all of those EV with.....possibly during the day lots of renewables but what about when the sun goes down and the wind certainly up here doesnt blow at night

None around my way and I am half way between the sunshine coast and Brisbane... There is one and its not even anywhere near the main centre of town The others are almost at least 30 to 40 km away so in my little piece of the world..which by the way is a outer north suburb in real terms have 1 hahahahha They better get moving installing a lot more to that dirty filthy coal fired grid

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As I said EV is the way of the future for sure..we all want a cleaner planet but it will take time and much money to get it there but all the do gooders want it done yesterday and it just cant happen. Labour are talking about subsidies for the EV sector to get their 50% in a ridiculous time frame. Infrastructure is no where near what it would need to be and neither is the storage tech

See this is still the chicken and egg argument..you currently need coal fired power to power the charging stations so if the discussion is ONLY on the EV as a tool then thats fine but the bigger picture and all the hyperbole about EV is the "green" side of them. We dont have hydro here so we cant use "natural" power when the sun goes down as there is no bulk storage for renewables. I see the lot of this all tied together but in different ratios of course

I was surprised at someone who was a environmentalist would come up with that article. Yes it is a bit biased towards about killing the large birds with wind generators and he is right about cats that just like to kill things but dont forget whether you have a EV or a IC vehicle you are still going to run over the same amount of animals. So yes he has a bias when it comes to that but I thought his opinions and the facts he posted about the power generation was very good and had weight

I do believe that EV will be the way of the future it just is no where near it needs to be in my opinion to be even useful to 50% of the population in the formats we have now. That format will not change that much in the next 10 years until a new style of power is developed/invented. Batteries are really very old school and have been around a long time. Yes they have come a long way since first developed but for long term use and capacity for a EV there needs be be a whole new development for storage or fuel cell to make it viable for the majority of the population

I am involved in tech and I just cant get excited about EV.....well not for my usage anyway. I drive way too many long km stretches for them to be practical. Fine if your a city dweller whose life revolves in about a 30km radius. Finding a EV point to charge up at where I live is a joke...nothing out here at all let alone on the way out to where I work. The expense has to come down a lot more for a car and anything that has some size to it is big dollars let alone anything that can tow a trailer 300km in one hit carrying about 700 kg. EV has a long way to go yet as far as I am concerned. But like everything in this renewables push it is all trying to be done in a extremely short time and it just isnt practical. As far as subsidies from the govt let it happen under its own developments. I saw Abbot say something a week ago that surprised me but what he said was true..did the govt subsidize the changeover from horses to automobiles..it evo;ved naturally with companies having a idea and a product and funded it themselves. I read a very interesting article the other day about renewables from a guy who has been a environmentalist most of his life. Read the whole article not just a bit of it..he makes some compelling arguements and also stated some facts that I was not aware of...probably because I am not out there doing what he does.

https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why-renewables-cant-save-the-planet/?fbclid=IwAR0xShYoG1-LrhL-_08e3QTYHZoWm6MHcEPFzSKH1Pxl73qxjq3sspb_hlU

Shit usually happens in threes

I get it all the time too...your not on your lonesome there Peter

Hey Phil you need to get that guy to be PM. Every single word spoken was so true and it is almost a mirror image of the bullsh1t that is happening here. Thanks for the video its a ripper

I agree with what you say but there are not a lot of people who can get ahead when renting..these are the ones with jobs that is. I know my daughter pays $460 a week for her house but just cant get the 50K within a reasonable timeframe to afford the deposit for a house. Building affordable housing creates jobs for lots of people and trains apprentices. The government supplys the houses at a reasonable rate so people can actually save some money towards getting their own houses.

People who dont have a job and on welfare cards will have to make sure they take care of any housing they get and pay a rate for of course out of their 80% but any damage or such like you see they are immediately thrown out with all their crap on the footpath and they will never get another house and will have to pay market price rent. Work for the dole would be enforced as well and compulosry

There would be some sort of bank scheme probably govt based to allow young people to get deposits for houses quickly and get them into their homes quickly even some type of wage garnish to ensure payment.

Its a huge job to sort all this out now because its all been right royally stuffed up for years and years so a mamoth effort would be needed. The problem is to do all this you need a revolution to get rid of the numbskulls that are there now. A coup is not likely here thats for sure

Put me in...there would be a lot of changes.....but then again too many cooks in the kitchen....the Head Chef HAS to be the boss...all the others are Sous chefs they do their jobs on what the head chef says.....thats the only way it CAN work

There would be a lot of changes if I was in...trouble is it cant be a fast change otherwise the populus will get pissed off.

First thing would be make every single multinational pay the tax they are supposed to...none of this profits to Ireland crap... money earned here stays here...if they dont like it then piss off

Then I would start building affordable housing for the lesser fortunate as there just isnt enough but along with that goes rules...like the welfare card...80% on living expenses and 20% as free cash. All below the age of 30 without a job now go into the army or similar for training and the army also start doing community work like road cleaning and seaside clearing of rubbish

Tax incentives for local companys to employ people. More infrastructure projects like a pipeline from northern australia. A big emphasis on apprentices and traing people. University will be free for people who want real education and ambission...none of the arty farty courses they have...you want the arty farty course then you pay for it but for teachers and nurses and doctors all of these sort of professions if you score high enough at school you can go to Uni free....well thats a small start :)

By the way I am not a commo in the corner...I like to think I am a realist with a touch of idealism :)

Yes Old Koreelah but those countries are not capable of being self sufficient like we are. We have to start up all our steel mills and other mills and oil rigs and refineries..all shutdown due to the "global economy" conspiracy.

Gough was not overseas at the time. He was here. It was a huge uproar too. I was in grade 11 at school but remember it all very well

Yes I loved Gough's idea I thought it was the right thing to do but he got screwed over...however you may think that screw over was initiated. I still think its a good idea and if I was a benevolent dictator here its what I would do...is toss all these overseas blood suckers out or at least make them pay fair and reasonable tax

The problem with our governments of the last 40 years is no foresight at all. WE have all the resources here to be able to tell the rest of the world to get stuffed. We can be totally self sufficient. The only poliyician who tried to start something like being in control of all our crap was Gough Whitlam. He got rooted over by kemlany and the rest of the knuckle draggers. If you believe conspiracy stuff where the CIA wasnt partial to all the big US owned companies getting tossed out of here then put in motion the need to get rid of Gough. He was a true commo Gough but he did see things for what they were but being too much of a ideological brain he wasnt watching the back door

I agree we need to piss off all the bleeders that are here sucking the life out of our country..thats the Chinese buying up all our food resource land and all the others owning our minerals etc. if we had our own control then we would have too many jobs for not enough people and the tax man would have his cup running over...

Used this method on my kids...both are great now..my son(the one I had the main trouble with doing that stuff) lives and works in China in quite a high up position in education. My daughter has 2 kids and 2 jobs and her husband has a good well paid job...so quite proud of how both have turned out even though there was some "teenage" issues

Throw the thing out the window and smash it

then when they arc up you threaten to take the phone off them...but you MUST do what you say...never threaten with no intention of actually doing it

I remember watching it when I was in grade 5 at school..we were all in the science room watching it live

In theory, I don't disagree with both @Marty_d and @Old Koreelah... Not sure how Aus foreign aid is spent, but the big criticism of the £12bn a year spent here is that it ends up in the hands of, or for the benefit of the tyrants and oppressors rather than the population suffering at their reign. I am sure the reports exaggerate, but with all the mud/smoke, some must be true. Which means we can give them money for them to invest in schools to teach their propaganda and extremism, etc.

In anycase, if I was spending my money, on say building an infrastructure project (water, power, roads, etc) for the benefit of another country, what is wrong with requiring the companies that do it to be from my country? Win win and one could partner with local companies to transfer knowledge (but there are other issues with that)..

Well thats what everyone is bitching about inc me. The new train fiasco here in Qld is a perfect example of such. 4 Billion dollars wasted and now a govt enquiry about it. The govt projects should all use locally based engineering and construction. Its a no brainer...yes it may cost more but it generates far more in the local economy of the country.

I am a big believer in the welfare card..it should have been bought in years ago. 80/20 is a good split. People still need some free money but the rest is locked to living expenses not smoked in a pipe or shot in the arm or down the throat of a one armed bandit

My NBN is still really great..still doing constant 23mb/s dload and 4.7mb/s upload. there has been a couple of hiccups but only for a very short time so in general I cant complain at all but there are a lot of others in my local area that are having issues but I believe it is their ISP. I am wit TPG and they have been excellent

Allstar is a non compatable network. But they can be all connected by using a "bridge" network. I have never done it but you may have heard that VK3BA on Allstar here is a video that Michael VK5ZEA has done

I have a DMR radio here but rarely use it. I find the audio on DMR far less quality than Dstar. The C port will remain Dstar only but soon will change the B port over to multimode. Just waiting on the new multimode board for the repeater from Canada

Hi Phil

Yes I am on Dstar still. I own and operate a local Dstar repeater VK4RDS use the C port...The B port works but antenna is stuffed at the moment on UHF so need a rigger to change it over. I have RDS connected to DCS 028 all the time on VHF and REF001C on UHF My callsign is VK4KZK

I think the moggster could end up being the PM...he is the only politician I have seen in a lot of years that actually must think about the country's best interest. I enjoy watching him and only wish there were more like him

Interesting video