I’m local, he’s my state M.P. The reason he was re-elected was because he was (and undoubtedly still is) extremely popular with the kind of people who live in this part of the world - by which I mean (mainly) white and well-off. He’s without doubt one of the slimiest most vile and repugnant people I’ve ever met, but he has this base he’s built in almost Trump-like way that loves him. Women of a certain age defend his every action on the local FB groups and are giving off very Trump-like vibes about the verdict (“how could the jury do this?” etc). He will, of course, appeal the verdict because he has literally nothing to lose by doing so.

Read this story this morning in my feed. Pretty shocking outcome to be honest. They’d been trying for EIGHT years to get these EV chargers funded for their region and then the mayor watched that channel 7 video about nickel mining in Indonesia. On the basis of that video he called a motion to cancel the install and it passed 4:3. Turns out that he also has some constituents who ‘regularly contact him’ whenever anything about renewables comes up - I’m sure you can imagine the type - and he decided to pull the pin. Side note - the ch.7 doco was debunked - turned out literally nobody uses the nickel from that Indonesian mine in car batteries because it’s too low quality. He also failed to mention what the nickel in car batteries has to do with EV chargers that, since this is in Queensland, are probably powered by fucking COAL.

I went to the one at Albion Park Rail when it opened and it felt like a run-down post-apocalyptic eatery even though it had only been open for two weeks. I’ve eaten at Taco Bell in the US and can confirm it’s every bit a shite.

Good luck with that. He’s employed by Gina Rhinehart to protect her interests - and protections from climate change are contrary to her business goals.

They’ve got absolutely fuck all of any use to say about anything - they’re just ‘anti’ the greens. No policies, no big ideas, just opposed to another party. Fucking useless nazis.

I’ll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.

What a legend. Love it.

Thunderstorm just rolling over the village, but the house battery is fully charged and I need not fear the inevitable power cut.

You’re a legend - no judgement here about how you choose to go with the courts .

FFS. We had 12.75kw of panels installed on the roof and a 13.5kw battery in the garage six months ago, and we weren’t under any illusion as to the money we’d get feeding back into the grid. It was literally the last thing on our minds. We use all the power we can during the day (washing machine, dishwasher, tumble dryer all set to come on at about 11am), cook the big meal on the induction hob at lunchtime, run the aircon all day long. On sunny days the battery’s full before midday. In the evening the battery kicks in and sees us through to about 11pm if we’ve been running the aircon and right through to the next day if not. Zero expectations in this household for earning money from the electricity we produce.

Made chunky bolognaise in the Thermomix we inherited from my dad and it fucking rocked. Wasn’t sure about the worcestershire sauce and the chilli flakes, but went with it - very glad I did.

Oh no! Anyway …

There isn’t a policy yet devised that Dutton and the jackboot brigade wouldn’t oppose if it looked like it would do some good.

Spoken only like someone who didn’t view the video.

Dick.

Seriously? I think it’s about as funny as cancer. Different strokes I guess …

Depressing, isn’t it. Imagine using your nation’s natural resources for the betterment of your citizens and not so vile fucks can make comments about the jealous poor.

The central issue is control. I’m happy to use EFTPOS but would definitely not want to see cash disappear as it’s not something governments can easily track and/or move.

Live semi-rural south coast NSW - soon as the mercury dips below 20º the smoke starts rising from the chimneys.

They argued they used it for entertaining potential clients. (I know, right!)

I’m on the fence about it. I was part of the Digg migration and made it into the Eternity Club. I’ve supported the black-out and will continue to do so, but I have a soft-spot for the site and even if I’m not active on there for the time-being, I won’t be deleting my account. My ‘on the shitter’ site switched from Reddit to TikTok a couple of years ago, so I won’t miss that, but there is a vast amount of pornography on the site that is neatly contained and easily filtered that will be hard to replace.