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Pretty much. There’s an enormous crossover between the people spruiking pie-in-the-sky nuclear projects on forums, and the people pumping small cap uranium mining stocks on Hot Copper. Pump’n’dump is the name of the game, although recently they managed to sucker in the Coalition to spruik for them.

Amazing.

Sometimes you need to take a hard line. I get it.

But indefinite detention is fucking barbaric. And I hope that those affected now have legal recourse due to this decision.

It was never the only solution. It was an expedient solution, and it’s wise to remember that when the architects of that shit show are in power and need to make hard decisions. Because the decision will be the one that maximises their political leverage - it won’t be the one that addresses say…catastrophic climate change, or over irrigation in the Murray basin, or falling education standards, or….

It’s good to see the evidence, but it was no real secret that the big private mining company owners were all scared as hell about the Voice.

Of course they can’t come out and admit that. But it’s still hilarious (in a really shit way) when people still proudly admit that the voted ‘no’ to keep Australia ‘fair and egalitarian’.

Err, no. At least 20% of the population was swayed through some astroturfing by Australia’s most wealthy toffs.

I can imagine this becoming a full time job itself, just to make sure you don’t get absolutely mauled when the spot price goes through the roof.

This is kinda like comments from the alien site circa 2010 which have aged pretty badly.

“20% renewables is the absolute maximum that can be achieved, anything over that will result in Armageddon!!!”.

“We just throw all the money up into the air, and what god wants he takes, and leaves the rest to us.”

Kurnell Is also tiny, it can supply bugger all water. Not like VIC’s Wonthaggi plant that can provide a massive proportion of Melbourne’s water.

Many of the reasons they’re “in deep shit already” come back to governments making unilateral decisions for easy media and corporate donor ‘reasons’ - specifically targeting Aboriginal people (as allowed under the constitution) rather than listening to what the communities actually need or want.

Hence the Voice. But now we can keep doing the same old shit, targeting the same old Aboriginal communities, but 60% of the population can keep kidding themselves there’s no victims and they’re absolutely not racists at all, oh no no.

From what I understand, although Australia has a large number of native bee species, our main pollinators were birds, which is why we have so many flowering frees with ‘robust’ flowers.

In our (inner city) garden we have at least 3 hives, all naturally occurring. Two are euro bees and 1 is natives. There’s at least 1 other native hive in the garden or nearby - we see a lot of blue banded native bees on some flowers.

I really like your thinking, but I’ve become much less convinced about the natives only in the cities. A lot of natives are really well adapted to cities, and the ones that do well don’t necessarily create the right environments for critters.

As an example all our hives live exclusively in camphor laurels. I think it’s because that the camphor’s have a lot of good hollows and they create a lot of shade. Bees don’t like it too hot and they need protected places to build hives. I don’t suggest that you go around trying to plant camphor’s because they are a real invasive species, but they’re definitely good for critters and a really hardy and fast growing, and suit suburbs well. There’s probably are more suitable alternative (ours are very old), but most suburbs are so devoid of significant trees that something has to be better than nothing.

We’ve got a mix of natives and introduced plants here, which all flower at different times. I think this means that there much more certainly and diversity of pollen for the bees. For example the early spring all the rodedendrums were out, wattles were flowering a few months ago, and then the jasmin start and has just finished. The bees bloody love the jasmin. The calistamons are about to go off now, and then all the other summer flowers will take over.

I like the idea of turning vacant land into something useful, but there’s also so much we can do with our own gardens that create permanent habitat that isn’t just grass. We’re part of a strata in a major city, so if we can do it I’d encourage everyone to give it a go themselves.

“Well Muslims are part of the voting base now, and China’s donating loads to us again, so the only poor schmucks to stick it to are the blackies.”

LNP strategy meeting.

This is a great snapshot and breakdown of the result and voting patterns. Really interestingly is the comparison to the last referendum (for a republic). That was almost 25 years ago now - but the electorate results are almost identical.

In the 2019 mega-fires, Sydney hit a max of over 2,500.

It can get a lot worse yet…