I have nothing much to offer in the way of new material for an open thread post, for reasons I hope you’ll understand. My standby on such occasions is the regularly updated tracking poll of Anthony Albanese’s personal ratings from US pollster Morning Consult, which currently has him at 56% approval and 31% disapproval. This leaves his approval about where it was mid-year, with his disapproval having climbed a few points.
🙂
I’d make pork barrelling socially acceptable, but uniform ($1m/year for Reps, $2m/year for Senators) and require the MPs to acquit the spend. We’d very rapidly find out who of them couldn’t run a pissup in a brewery, and that’s valuable information (worth $300m/year)
Imagine what Billy the Goat could do with funding of $2m/year!
E. G. Theodore says:
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 11:30 pm
I’d make pork barrelling socially acceptable, but uniform ($1m/year for Reps, $2m/year for Senators) and require the MPs to acquit the spend. We’d very rapidly find out who of them couldn’t run a pissup in a brewery, and that’s valuable information (worth $300m/year)
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Brother when you were Treasurer and then Premier of Queensland we had State owned Butcher Shops and Bakeries. Queensland even owned a Brewery and a Pub!
When the State got involved in mining and refining you got in some strife with the Tories and their Hokey Royal Commission, chaired by a sympathetic New South Welshman.
Legislation was even changed to prosecute you! But the jury of your peers found you innocent.
Is David Rowe Rowe on leave or has he upped stakes and departed from twitter?
So…….
IR Bill and NACC just about done. 🙂
And, just before Xmas… a price cap on Gas and what seems to be a reservation policy of sorts. Can they do that by regulation, or will it take legislation??
Merry Xmas Australia. Albo and the Team in Santa Hats. 🙂
Nats in W.A. showing….again…that they are actually a very different beast that the nutbaggers in the federal Nats. 🙂
Will be interesting to see what the polling does if anyone bothers to do some in a couple of weeks. 🙂
Upnorth
The state owned butcher’s shops etc etc were an unfortunate necessity, made necessary because the QLD private sector was strangled by the corrupt Country Party, who indeed couldn’t run a pissup in a brewery
imacca says:
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 12:07 am
So…….
IR Bill and NACC just about done.
And, just before Xmas… a price cap on Gas and what seems to be a reservation policy of sorts. Can they do that by regulation, or will it take legislation??
Merry Xmas Australia. Albo and the Team in Santa Hats.
Nats in W.A. showing….again…that they are actually a very different beast that the nutbaggers in the federal Nats.
Will be interesting to see what the polling does if anyone bothers to do some in a couple of weeks.
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That’s right cobber and the “same same” artists can stick it where it don’t fit.
So with all the secret hearings all they will need is a conservative slow very through very cautious Mueller type establishment lawyer to lead the pretend hidden ICAC and it will be just like we don’t have one. You know like the US thought it had a capable honest Special Counsel who’d bring Trump down for all his out in the open crime and corruption but they had nothing at all.
About what we will have.
Interesting the recent articles on the Boeing Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb, like that linked upthread, and whether it will get sent to Ukraine.
Reading up on it, its a 250lb guided glide bomb that until now has been air launched. Attack aircraft can carry lots. Currently being superseded by a newer model with better capabilities. Its ground launched from anything that can fire HIMARS rounds using an M26 rocket motor.
That’s the rocket that throws (or used to) the very first generation of the US multiple Launch Rocket system from the lat 80’s, early 90’s.
First takeaway is that there are lots of both these components in storage in the US and NATO, particularly the rocket motors. Considerable magazine depth available.
Seems that a HIMARS gps guided round costs about US$100, 000 each. These will cost about US$40,000 each. GPS guided like HIMARS rounds, but because its a glide bomb it has up to twice the range (150km), or, at shorter range, can be programmed for a convoluted, even backtracking course to its target. Nasty. No hiding behind things like big hills that may make a shot from a strictly ballistic weapon difficult.
Decent sized warhead, and may be in Ukraine by early-ish 2023. Not ATACM’s that would give them a 300km strike range, but a HIMARS / M270 launcher can carry 6-12 of these instead of 1-2 ATACM’s.
Wouldn’t call it a “game-changer” exactly…but the Ukrainians could certainly hit anything on Ukrainian territory and a lot of Crimea with these. Will be a bad bad day for daS Rusky if these do come into service.
WeWantPaulsays:
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 12:38 am
You’re the sort of person who’d find a $50 note on the ground and be pissed off because it wasn’t a $100.
https://youtu.be/l5Cqp3pnE98
WeWantPaul:
You got “Judge” Ken Starr on your speed dial – maybe given him a call.
It has to work for all seasons, over the long term, and where the Star(r) Chamber did not.
As Shellbell has alluded to, it really depends on someone smart and strong (per the person) being allowed to do the work (per the Act) and actually putting the yards in (so not on someone on a victory lap, no matter how attractive his/her politics)
Actually you should hand it in to the nearest authority or otherwise attempt to restore it to its rightful owner, though you’re unlikely to be prosecuted for not doing so.
https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/criminal-law/nsw/offences/larceny-by-finding/
New thread.
Mavis,
Thanks for pointing this out.
I don’t know the gravitational wave community very well, but good on her!