So, over in Perth, i assume its the same across the country, we have these big bridges over freeways and highways, theres probably hundreds of them throughout the whole city. Theres massive piles of sand inside each side of each bridge.

So if the Polar Night Energy heat energy storage technology can be retrospectively fitted to these, thats potentially hundreds of heat storage batteries spread out across the road network just sitting there ready to use.

Is it a book about how Russia becomes the world’s hegemon, or how it beats the US/West/Atlanticists?

What does it say in relation to East Asia?

Most interestingly China, considering today’s context, but thinking about the time it was written Japan might’ve been more pertinent in their thinking.

Fair point. Theres not much up there for a reason.

I think it should be considered whether we need to overcome the barriers of the harsher environment to have a larger presence in the North of the State, for trade, security and connection to the world reasons.

Unfortunately its not only a case of corrupted politicians. I think with the after career board appointments its hard to argue against that. And also, WA Inc…

But theres the fact that the only major media (sevenwest) in the State is owned by Kerry Stokes with deeply vested interests in mining.

And then, most importantly, it comes down to that Upton Sinclair quote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Too many people in the State are ready to believe their industries arguments against possible reform before debate even begins, which it can’t due to the aforementioned media dominance by mining interests.

Agreed, although apartment living isn’t the only option, and while it has its place Australians do it wrong, in my opinion anyway.

Problem is, a city like that is hard to impossible to do to the scale required, in the time required. With so much property already parcelled up and used for private purposes, already having been built on, not the least the cultural phenomenon that drives the need for detached housing.

For example terraced housing, like in the UK, would probably improve things massively, while still maintaining that front door and garden concept that seems very popular.

Coventry very light rail

I saw this the other day on lemmy, and thought theres a few places, like Albany highway (vic park - cannington), fremantle, along Beaufort street (northbridge - mount lawley), that could use it.

Especially to connect the main districts to their train stations better. Fremantles not bad in that regard, but Mount Lawley, Cannington and Vic Park are shockers.

At this stage we should just put the flag’s Black Swan in a hi-vis vest.

After all its pretty high up on those flag poles.

I think Australia needs to look at its sovereignty and make some hard choices. But i’m not sure i’m with Michael Pascoe on labelling the submarines deal terrible.

Its a few months old, but Malcolm Turnbull hosted a talkfest on the issue at the start of the year with people with a lot more knowledge, the discussion was vigorous and mixed, its worth a listen,

Episode 1, Is Trump all Froth and no Bubble? - Defending Democracy

Before that i also listened to Decouple, a Canadian podcaster, Dr Chris Keefer, he had an interesting conversation on the subject with an Aidan Morrison, Director of Energy Research at Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies. They also had an interesting perspective,

Defense in Depth - Decouple

So i don’t know if these submarines are a bad idea, and it seems pretty complex to work through.

Isn’t this somewhat true? Don’t we have plenty of that building sand for concrete, that the rest of the world is apparently slowly running out of?

I love a good conti roll!

Tried one from a local store just last week, it wasn’t that good though, so i’m a bit deficient in that department right now.

I think the WA government should designate another major city, and start investing now to build it out, otherwise our housing issue will be worse than any other city in the nation. Perth’s shape (oval), and the lack of largish regional centres in this State will supercharge housing constraints if people pile in without major forethought by West Australians now.

In regards that, I think we should try for a major northern city. I listened to Ken Henry and he was pretty convincing on Port Hedland (i think) being developed as a major port to compete against Singapore, with it’s major selling point being the avoidance of the constricting Strait of Malaka. Good for a less stable and unpredictable world.

Otherwise it would have to be committing to Albany or Bunbury becoming far more major than they are now.

An option would be investment in a Bunbury based rare earths hub, including mining company divisions headquartered there, mine sites, education, and all community services and housing all taken into account.

It would be a serious and highly contentious expansion of mining in the south west though. Serious preparation and protections for the forests would have to be carried out. After all these Alcoa debacles down in Pinjarra, i’m not confident thats possible.

Must be low populations of drop bears in North Queensland for the kangaroos to make the jump into the trees.

Map of where they’re driving.

WA police minister Reece Whitby said, “the firearm legislation elevates community safety above everything else.

“It is important to note that PCYC could have continued offering the program if they had chosen to transition their licence in accordance with the legislation.”

I feel like Isla Tomlinson should have explained this last statement to the reader. That allusion to a transition to a new licence seems like the real story here, where PCYC turning away scout groups is a detail of the wider story driving its newsworthiness.

Partner has done a Lamb Roast, its pretty darn nice.

That looks idyllic.

Only a communist deals in absolutes! … wait… thats not it…

I’m a dummy, i iust saw ‘live’ and accepted that was the only way to view it, in my defense i’s watching it qoth only half an eye while i did other stuff.

Just watched for about 5 minutes its the least action packed thing on youtube, probably better for your brain though! Might check in later on tonight, they might not be awake yet?

What does the term Greater signify. I see it attached to certain animals, but i’ve no idea why.

Yeah, helped me understand a friends surprising reaction to some Just Stop Oil protests a few years back.

It was a really negative reaction, but this person i knew understood the science better than myself, but rather than taking the blocking the road and art painting protests as an extreme method of trying to change the ‘conversation’, he had quite a visceral reaction.