In addition to new posts on Saturday’s Tasmanian election and state polling numbers for Queensland, there is the following:
• Gisele Kapterian, the Liberal candidate who fell 26 votes short against independent Nicolette Boele in Bradfield, has announced she will launch a Court of Disputed Returns appeal against the result. The accompanying media statement indicates that Kapterian will seek revisions to formality rulings for ballot papers that were reserved for the adjudication of the returning officer, as was done after the 2007 election by Labor’s Rob Mitchell following his 12-vote defeat at the hands of Liberal member Fran Bailey in McEwen. On that occasion, the court re-examined 643 ballot papers and admitted 76 votes for Bailey and 66 for Mitchell that had originally been deemed informal, while excluding seven votes for Mitchell and two for Bailey, with the effect that Bailey’s winning margin in fact increased to 27. The court’s determinations were used as the basis for revised AEC guidelines on formality, which should in theory have meant future court rulings producing fewer changes. Should the court make enough revisions in Kapterian’s favour, it could either declare her the winner (though it seems few expect this) or void the result and send the voters of Bradfield back to the polls. Climate 200 has been spruiking polling suggesting a clearer win for Boele should that transpire.
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• DemosAU has published results on federal and state voting intention in Queensland, the latter of which are covered in an earlier post. The federal results have Labor leading 53-47, compared with an election result of 50.6-49.4 in favour of the Coalition. The primary votes are Labor 35% (31.0% at the election), Coalition 31% (34.9%), Greens 12% (11.8%) and One Nation 13% (7.8%). The poll was conducted July 4 to 9 from a sample of 1027.
• The Australia Institute has a YouGov poll finding 49% saying the AUKUS agreement makes Australia more safe and 20% less so, but that 66% favour a parliamentary inquiry into the matter (it was first put to respondent that “reviews” had been announced by the US and UK, with only 12% opposed. The poll was conducted June 27 to July 3 from a sample of 1522.
“If you don’t like our system of checks and balances, and reckon your opinion is more reliable, join a lynch mob.”
The same system with its checks and balances that allowed paedophiles to run unchecked through the church for decades and allowed paedophile enablers like Pell to escape justice. That kind of system? Why on earth would you believe that kind of system is infallible.
I disagree with the High Court therefore I am a lynch mob. Sophistry at its most childish.
Oakeshott Countrysays:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 2:43 pm
Entropy
I think you may have left out the NZ and PNG numbers for both games.
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I’m not sure Channel 7 or 9 whose figures I quoted telecast there. NRL’s world wide figures would be much higher than AFL’s though (UK would also be good market I expect?). Only did domestic free to air figures and not pay to view either.
EV chargers and P1 beLaboring yet another useless point?
P1 reckons the rate of installation is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad and shows that Labor is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
The real stats are on p20 and p21. The trend is rather spectacular and, in this case, is our friend.
https://electricvehiclecouncil.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1734312344781.pdf
Nath
Actually I think the preponderance of Islanders, many of whom have strong Christian beliefs, has improved the behaviour of the players. There seem to have been fewer nightclub incidents in the last few years.
I have to say my love of Rugby League is similar to that of H.G. Nelson. Greig Pickhaver was asked why he and Rampaging Roy Slaven were obsessed with RL. He said that they actually liked talking about silly stuff and RL is full of silly stuff. You have to admit that 30 years ago things like an NRL game in Vegas, a team in PNG paid for by the federal government and Polynesian players forming a prayer circle on the ground after a match would have been rejected as too far fetched for “I’m Paul Murphy and this is the South Coast News” BUT under V’Landys they have all occurred.
UpNorth’s invitation to England may be a bit disappointing- England last held the Ashes Cup when I was in High School and I have a strong feeling that it isn’t going to change this year.
Seadog @ #1748 Sunday, July 20th, 2025 – 3:48 pm
Yes, I understand it was Australia’s first public charging network … something WA should be proud of, and (you’d think) would want to expand and extend. But apparently not …
So even though it is in constant use, it’s apparently “not in a great location”. And the technology is apparently “becoming outdated” (not sure how that could be – maybe needs a new type of plug?). But instead of either upgrading it or moving it, they are walking away.
Oh, but I suppose there’s this …
So, WA had (apparently) Australia’s first public EV charging network, but has chosen to either close it down or privatize it.
That’s progress WA-style, I suppose. Charging ahead one day, flat batteries the next.
On the subject of EV chargers, in this case Sydney:
https://www.drive.com.au/news/sydney-to-score-over-500-new-electric-car-chargers-soon/
For general information, there’s also the brand-new website:
https://www.energy.gov.au/electric-vehicles/owning-electric-vehicle/how-charge-your-electric-vehicle
I don’t think the number of chargers is so bad but reliability and maintenance is an issue.
I drove from central coast to Canberra last week intending to recharge in Goulburn. Every single superfast charger there was either occupied or off line. Fortunately I got to Canberra with 40km to spare.
On the way back the same situation made worse by an air temperature of 3 degrees which made the car burn more power. The car’s range anxiety was worse than mine as consumption rapidly improved coming out of the tablelands.
Telling the full national charging infrastructure story?
Motes and beams.
P1’s pathological hatred of Labor and reflexive snarking is on full display today.
EV charging stations are popping up around Sydney, in supermarket and other public car parks in particular, but also on streets.
‘Oakeshott Country says:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 4:14 pm
I don’t think the number of chargers is so bad but reliability and maintenance is an issue.
I drove from central coast to Canberra last week intending to recharge in Goulburn. Every single superfast charger there was either occupied or off line. Fortunately I got to Canberra with 40km to spare.
On the way back the same situation made worse by an air temperature of 3 degrees which made the car burn more power. The car’s range anxiety was worse than mine as consumption rapidly improved coming out of the tablelands.’
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Yep. There need to be maintenance and availability standards.
Back to WA, RAC may have started the charging network, the WA govt. is finishing it:
https://media.drive.com.au/obj/tx_q:70,rs:auto:1280:720:1/driveau/upload/cms/uploads/32759bfd-7ec6-52d2-a332-a6dee2d50000
https://www.drive.com.au/news/western-australias-public-electric-car-charging-network-is-now-switched-on/
Lurker, taking from your green steel info page, it’s about 2GWh of energy, using today’s technology, to produce 10T of steel. Our world produces about 2B Tonnes of steel per year. That energy requirement is about 15x the total annual capacity for all grid energy (not just renewables) currently in operation in our world. If you wanted to replace steel production. Just making sure we all understand the scale of the transition. These are spitball numbers, but they’re gonna be in the ballpark. I think we’re going to do this thing fwiw.
Steel is the problem we hope we can easily solve in 25 years. Australia has all of the things to make it cheap. It’s not even like there’s a ‘we’ll take elsewhere’ thing either. It works here or nowhere. If you’re against transmission links and solar farms, you’re gonna have a bad time is all I’m sayin.
Pi
Yep, it won’t happen in a rush, and we’ll be lucky if we can produce a small fraction of that 2Gt p.a.
There are others who think primary steel production will drop significantly as we use electric arc furnaces (EAFs) to recycle old steel, perhaps from redundant gas pipelines.
In the US, the vast majority of steelmaking capacity is EAF. Maybe they are recycling the rustbelt:
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-iron-and-steel-tracker/dashboard/
Here is P1’s national peak body:
Not a mention of climate change, EVs or, gasp charging stations.
https://www.qualitytourismaustralia.com/home/policy-priorities-2/
No-one says its infallible . It’s just the best that we have, as long as we think it’s important to avoid putting innocent people in jail.
Recycling steel in China?
This is in the gunna category, but nevertheless:
https://news.metal.com/newscontent/101683977/MIIT:-China-Will-Strive-to-Recycle-320-Million-mt-of-Steel-Scrap-by-2025
As long as we stop avoiding putting guilty people in jail I would be happy.
The overcapacity in China’s steel industry means that their relatively small EAF capacity is underutilised:
“China remains off track for its 2025 climate targets for the steel sector, as low-carbon electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking remains stuck at below 10% of total output, far from the government’s 15% goal for 2025. EAF share is weighed down by relatively low recycling rates and economic incentives that lead to the use of scrap steel in blast furnaces-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) rather than EAF.”
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/urge-for-reform-blast-furnace-glut-in-china-erodes-profitability-and-hinders-green-steel-transition/
China increasing its renewables but is it worth it?
“China has broken ground on a $167 billion mega-dam in Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo river basin, signaling a new phase in its high-stakes hydropower expansion near the India border.
Premier Li Qiang inaugurated the project Saturday in Nyingchi, a city in southeastern Tibet, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. The project—one of China’s most expensive infrastructure undertakings to date—will be developed by the newly formed China Yajiang Group.
Bloomberg reported the hydro complex will consist of five cascade dams and be primarily used to export electricity outside the region, though some power will stay for local use. Beijing has not disclosed the facility’s expected capacity.
Strategically located along the Yarlung Tsangpo, which becomes the Brahmaputra River downstream in India, the project could strain already tense relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Beijing has insisted there will be no negative effects on downstream areas, but New Delhi remains wary.
Environmentalists have sounded alarms for years. The Yarlung Tsangpo gorge—where the river drops over 6,500 feet in just 31 miles—is not only geologically volatile but also ecologically rich. It cuts through a national nature reserve and is considered one of China’s top biodiversity hotspots.”
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/inside-china-s-167-bn-tibet-dam-and-why-india-has-more-than-just-power-to-worry-about/ar-AA1ITUIy?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds
Bystander, Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 4:37 pm:
That’s a myth about our justice system. Ask Lindy Chamberlain or Kathleen Folbigg.
Also, everyone in on remand is, strictly speaking, an innocent person in jail.
China’s growth in hydro generation has been modest in recent years:
https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?entity=China&fuel=res
https://createsend.com/t/y-6CF70172E383A9AC2540EF23F30FEDED
Like I said, it’s not infallible. But you obviously agree that putting innocent people in jail is to be avoided at all cost. Unfortunately it failed in those two cases.
Bystander says:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 5:15 pm
newy boysays:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Bystander, Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 4:37 pm:
“No-one says it’s infallible . It’s just the best that we have, as long as we think it’s important to avoid putting innocent people in jail.
“That’s a myth about our justice system. Ask Lindy Chamberlain or Kathleen Folbigg.””
Like I said, it’s not infallible. But you obviously agree that putting innocent people in jail is to be avoided at all cost. Unfortunately it failed in those two cases.
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At all cost? Shall we dispense with gaols altogether? Saves a bit of money too 😉
If you want to build the green steel industry (after it exists) and you want to integrate it strategically, regulate that you must use green steel in government building. But you have to be sure you’re making a premium product. Until we know that, we’re setting up industries in the next decade, when our grid has over doubled in size. So before that, the primary focus has to be on the production of premium steel using renewables. We are at the “what works?” stage. What can we scale up? We already do this.
I love the nem graph.
https://i.imgur.com/fzeJlOI.jpeg
In it you can see the Abbott poison of carbon reduction rollbacks. You see the drop off in gas. But the most marked thing for me, is that we only recently overtook 2010 in total grid capacity. 15 years ago. It’s the same everywhere you look too. LED lighting. Estimated to have reduced world energy requirements by between 25% and 30% since they were introduced. If we hadn’t done that we would have needed a third more of everything. Yes we regulate usage of LED lights. Sometimes they come from nowhere. EVs are it for me. They’re going to transform everything. No more fuel supply line. To an Australian, that doesn’t mean much, but it is the first time to happen in history. Not reliant on others for energy. What’s not to love?
But if we want to switch off the steel making coal tap, we have to be capable of switching off the tap for ourselves, and also to offer an alternative. Ethically n all. Until then, get crackin electrifying your life. That tap is not going to get switched off for a bit i reckon. There’s a lot of steel in building 20x energy infrastructure and more of what we currently have. 4-5 doublings in capacity over 25 -40 years? That seems doable.
I think we’re going to overshoot it. In human history no one has been able to get an energy collector and storage device that lasts for 20 years and more if you take care of them. It truly is striking how cheap solar and batteries are now. There’s no reason to think they won’t be cheaper in five years either.
Meanwhile the liberals are not being asked if they agree with the nationals saying they want to abandon net zero.
Just read back through today. Most enjoyable 🙂
Ken Henry wants Australia’s media to do a better job
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/ken-henry-wants-australian-media-to-do-a-better-job/105546186
“He says the media has to hold Australia’s political system accountable for its failure to deliver a better future for younger Australians.
“Report after report tells the same story,” he said last week.
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Australia’s environment protection laws have both failed to stop the degradation of nature and also held back economic growth, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry warns.
“The environment is not being protected. Biodiversity is not being conserved. Nature is in systemic decline.
“We have whole industries with business models built on the destruction of the natural world.
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“I am angry at our failures. But we should all be angry at our collective failure to design economic structures, including environmental regulations, that underpin confidence in a better future for our children and grandchildren,” he said.
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He said none of today’s politicians will be alive in 100 years, but younger Australians will have to live in a world that today’s politicians leave for them.
He said that unless the media holds the political system accountable for its obligation to deliver a better future for our children, that obligation won’t be observed.
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If the media wanted to hold Australia’s political system accountable for its obligation to deliver a better future for younger Australians, what hope does it have if Australian governments don’t even care about the science?
“What has been missing here is a respect for the science, is a respect for the evidence, is a respect for the truth,” Henry replied.”
Griff posted
‘At all cost’ in this case is not talking about saving money. It’s talking about saving innocent people from incarceration. I would have thought that was pretty obvious.
Bystander @ #1778 Sunday, July 20th, 2025 – 5:36 pm
They call this one “begging the question”.
Pegasussays:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 5:36 pm
Ken Henry wants Australia’s media to do a better job
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/ken-henry-wants-australian-media-to-do-a-better-job/105546186
“He says the media has to hold Australia’s political system accountable for its failure to deliver a better future for younger Australians.
“Report after report tells the same story,” he said last week.
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Australia’s environment protection laws have both failed to stop the degradation of nature and also held back economic growth, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry warns.
“The environment is not being protected. Biodiversity is not being conserved. Nature is in systemic decline.
“We have whole industries with business models built on the destruction of the natural world.
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“I am angry at our failures. But we should all be angry at our collective failure to design economic structures, including environmental regulations, that underpin confidence in a better future for our children and grandchildren,” he said.
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He said none of today’s politicians will be alive in 100 years, but younger Australians will have to live in a world that today’s politicians leave for them.
He said that unless the media holds the political system accountable for its obligation to deliver a better future for our children, that obligation won’t be observed.
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If the media wanted to hold Australia’s political system accountable for its obligation to deliver a better future for younger Australians, what hope does it have if Australian governments don’t even care about the science?
“What has been missing here is a respect for the science, is a respect for the evidence, is a respect for the truth,” Henry replied.”
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Commercial media are major stakeholders in the fossil fuel cartel.
Hydro in China is a case of before or after the Three Gorges dam. Before it was built it was “holy crap that’s big”. After it everything else is “holy crap that’s small”. Until solar and batteries came along they didn’t look like they were going to meet their targets. Now, they are far closer to switching off their carbon emitters than pretty much anyone else.
Bystander says:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 5:36 pm
Griff posted
“At all cost? Shall we dispense with gaols altogether? Saves a bit of money too”
‘At all cost’ in this case is not talking about saving money. It’s talking about saving innocent people from incarceration. I would have thought that was pretty obvious.
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Well, quite. Removal of gaols will remove any chance of an innocent person incarcerated. Surely you are willing to have at least ‘some’ appetite for innocent people being incarcerated? A wafer thin slice? 🙂
Omar
I neither expect anyone to answer any post I make, much less demand that they do so.
Nevertheless I think I did answer your posts. You just didn’t like the answers.
If I seem to be ignoring you it’s usually not that. I work mainly off a phone these days, which is about ten times more clunky than a PC.
Don’t get too upset, demanding this and requiring that. It’s only a blog.
How about that local sports team.
They went great!
Life’s good when Collingwood lose.
Communist China is leading the world in transitioning to renewables.
The so-called democratic US is doubling down on planet-killing fossil fuels.
Albo should remember this when he jets off to the Whitehouse to see our great ally.
Gambling inquiry scam of silence
https://michaelwest.com.au/gambling-inquiry-scam-of-silence/
“It’s been over two years since the late Peta Murphy MP tabled her report on online gaming and its impact on those experiencing gambling harm. What’s the scam?
The scam is that the Government is supposed to respond to House Committee reports within 3 months. It still hasn’t, even after Peta Murphy’s sad passing, and an outpouring of grief during a December 8, 2023, condolence motion in the House.
The Prime Minister made a point of recognising the great work she had done on the ‘You win some, you lose more’ report.
The continual silence in the wake of the inquiry has only further deepened after a freedom of information request revealed that the Government has been sitting on a draft response for over 7 months.
To make matters worse, the Department is refusing to let the public see the draft. Despite the draft report not containing fighter jet secrets or details on intelligence services’ operations, just measures to make life better for people, including children.”
Latest Resolve Poll (the 1st since the election).
{Comparison figures with the election result}.
* ALP 35% (down 0.5)
* LNP 29%. Ohhhh, golly gosh. Sub _ _. Moving on, (down 2.8)
* GRN 12% (down 0.2)
* Pauline 8% (up 1.6)
* Others 16% (up 1.9)
Link: https://www.smh.com.au/national/resolve-political-monitor-20210322-p57cvx.html
Evening All!
Welcome back, nadia.
Hello nadia
Good to see you back nadia88. Just do your thing and don’t let others dictate and demand what you do.
Umpires gifted Fremantle the win. Hopefully we’ll catch up with them again.
Welcome back nadia88. You da best.
I was on the Tassie thread and just saw your post.
So glad to see you posting again after 4 months or so.
Thought you had gone for good.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-long-climb-disaster-for-coalition-in-new-opinion-poll-as-albanese-builds-on-record-win-20250718-p5mg0x.html
William Bowe says:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 5:56 pm
How about that local sports team.
Pi says:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 5:58 pm
They went great!
Stoogey Lurker says:
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 5:59 pm
Life’s good when Collingwood lose.
中华人民共和国
Ohhhh. That’s why Nath was cranky earlier. I don’t mind cobber. You can’t take out your frustrations on me.
Big welcome back too nadia88.
Yep, made my evening.
Where have you been?
Haven’t seen you here since April.
Cheers, Vladimir
William Bowe @ #1784 Sunday, July 20th, 2025 – 5:56 pm
Does this mean I can’t reply at all or?
Dare I say that if Susssan Ley can present herself as a meat & potatoes moderate liberal leader, the preference flow at the next election may be quite different.