Operational Incident

Actually they’re all chronically online anti-Labor NIMBYs, apart from the council and golf club reps. Literally zero point to this.

I genuinely feel sorry for the SRL staff who have to spend two hours a month answering absolutely insane questions from Heatherton QAnon with a straight face.

Meanwhile in Melbourne we have the entire establishment trying to radicalise outer suburban voters into January 6ing railway tunnels.

Interested by your take that it’s likely not a final timetable. I find it hard to see Wefo/Westall shorts through the day given the relatively modest overall funding

I wouldn’t describe this as a community group so much as a one-personal political project of incredible intensity.

FIVE escalators DISGRACE

I suppose the counter argument to breaking at Ararat vs Ballarat is that a BOG means the expense of a new depot and transfers to Melbourne etc. committing at Ballarat would at least open the possibility of extensions towards Geelong and Mildura at a future point

Made even more explicit by a 3% swing towards Labor!

Either put more trams up Elizabeth St or start shooting tourists for catching trams from Melbourne Central to the market.

There are Sunshine Super Hubs everywhere for those with eyes to see

I would also like to see the entire idea of the voucher scheme abolished – that is after all the root cause – but it’s so deeply embedded in the economy now I’m not sure it’s viable without intermediate steps

Yeah look I handle a plan on behalf of someone so I see the good up close but also the very very bad and wasteful. Likewise I have no rose coloured glasses about the state system but it’s very clear the economists have massively overreached here

IMO the only way this is going to be possible at this point is a major (re-)expansion of public sector providers who can force some of the rent seeking out of the sector, combined with nationalising big components of plan management and coordination.

The NDIS is quite obviously eating the budget and to an extent the economy. It’s pretty worrying to see the right-wing rhetoric ramp up without any serious advocacy from anywhere else about major structural reforms that could make it sustainable while preserving rights and welfare of participants.

Yeah I’m basing my judgement entirely on 78 and 380 routes so I don’t doubt that.

I think one reading of the whole episode is that the Trump guys miscalculated only insofar as failing to realise that he would see it as a betrayal of the polite fictions that normally characterise the liberal–war machine relationship.

Personally I reckon Qantas international is hugely underrated these days but there’s no question flying domestic – especially out of MEL – is about as grim as catching a bus from Keilor Plains.

Yeah well Qantas did reprioritise basically their entire order book to go to Jetstar the last 5 years.

The one and only @saveheatherton.bsky.social

incredible front page of the Age today

If we accept your premise Mister Heatherton then the choice is whether to implement price signals with a net gain or loss of state revenue and I sure know which I’d choose

Statement via FAA: A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m. local time. PSA was operating as Flight 5342 for American Airlines. It departed from Wichita, Kansas.

How do you achieve this? I get absolutely cursed images despite hitting every one with the “less of this”

Certified Melbourne Moment.

Oh I didn’t say it was a GOOD idea. I could have seen Brumby doing it in say 2015 after Westlink opens in that alternative universe. But now the outer west electorates are in play it’s a non starter

The Victoria line also an interesting data point given the left discourse about this being a uniquely carceral state government etc.

magnificent

Is it on specific pages? I have honestly never had this happen

Very funny that Victoria is gradually morphing into a Georgist utopia without anyone noticing really

Interesting to ponder that it would be fairly straightforward to sell everything inside the M80/M3 cordon to Transurban that they don't already own. WGB alone is probably worth enough to buy out Eastlink and pay off a fair chunk of NEL...