Rick Grounds

If you are curious about the possibilities, whats and hows of Australia's accelerating energy transition, this is an interesting and encouraging read. Plus, for the average Joes and Janes like me, it's quite educational 🤔

Now, which of our governments should also find this interesting? QLD? 🥱 NT? 🥱 WAside? 🤮

Liked your quip and loved the story

Thanks for posting Scott

Limoncello is a type of cordial, correct?

Man of greens - I trust you have some almond flakes in that pan, with a dusting of pecorino to come!

That so-called expert is an amoral jerk, imho

Hmm. There’s something not quite right about their dress code …

Got it 💡Next time Albo catches up with Mark Carne, he should give him a sack of good old Australian uggboots, size and colour matched of course. Wouldn’t want those judges to get cold feet

I have struggled to cope with what has happened in and to our nation over the last two years, with no end in sight

Thanks Jonathan. I overreacted
You’re right. Should be treated the same way as the front page of The Oz

Hmm.

I find today's Hamas graffiti outrageous. However, my outrage is not "profound" and I'm not "all seized with it".

I found the celebrations in some Australian locations on 7 October 2023 utterly repugnant and I profoundly abhor what Israel has done in Gaza and the West Bank since that date.

Hmm.

I find today's Hamas graffiti outrageous. However, my outrage is not "profound" and I'm not "all seized with it".

I found the celebrations in some Australian locations on 7 October 2023 utterly repugnant and I profoundly abhor what Israel has done in Gaza and the West Bank since that date.

Smart and funny cartoon, as usual

Well, the Coalition is pretty much assured of losing the 2028 election. So, if they're serious about nuclear power, they might as well work hard and prepare a policy that has a higher degree of detail & plausibility than what they presented at this year's election.

But yes, I also wonder about the etymology

I mean, it's not as if Christian preachers tell members of their flocks that Jesus "passed away on the cross" to save their souls

It feels like it could have originated in the US but that would run counter to the American obsession with shortening words

Not a fan. I'm a refusenik

On the morning my mother succumbed to a side-effect of Alzheimer's, I told the funeral operator that I was the kind of person who says "my mother died this morning"

Magical thinking?

In The Age yesterday

"Geelong have scrapped future Mad Monday dress-up celebrations for the players after inappropriate costumes and offensive social media posts"

The greatest game? Racist fans; homophobic players; targeting Caro Wilson for daring to have opinions; Adam Goodes hounded out of footy

Guardian Essential poll: Australians back emissions target while One Nation support doubles Poll finds One Nation’s primary vote has doubled to 13% since the May federal election

Aside from support for One Nation, which will scare the bejesus out of the Coalition, the number that caught my eye was the 21% who think Trump has been a +ve for climate change!
I think we can assume they're climate-denialists who also back anything Trump does

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If I was an anxious Liberal Party supporter - I did say IF - I wouldn't be bothered much about the net-zero issue

But I would be deeply concerned about what the Libs next energy policy might look like. Because the green energy transition has become a freight train light at the end of a dark tunnel

👍🤞

Isn't it just?! All the unforeseen but useful possibilities that amplify the benefits of the green transition

Aah! The place of the kodja (stone axe)

Future Liberal leader or party disruptor? Andrew Hastie and the rise of the ‘Maga right’ WA MP offers a divisive brand of politics that shuns net zero and migration and is anchored in flag-waving patriotism, faith and family

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

YouTube video by Beat-Club Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time (1966)

I still ignore stories about what Trump is inflicting on Americans. However, I have read the series of reports on the opinions of MAGA-styled Liberal MP Andrew Hastie.

Seems to me he has intelligence and some heartfelt beliefs. However, he brings to mind this song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWBS...

My favourite creeper, on a loop

Yes, I agree. It is excellent.

@tommcilroy.bsky.social has the happy knack of being both succinct and thorough and has grown into his role quickly and smoothly. (So says this septuagenarian!)

‘I’m a team player’: Andrew Hastie says he supports Sussan Ley amid leadership tilt speculation West Australian MP seeks to hose down prospects of a leadership challenge and says he was only being a ‘little bolder’ on some policy positions

... says the spokesbot for Team Hastie

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Coalition MPs say Australia’s emissions are a fraction of the world’s total. What kind of argument is that? Australia’s emissions are only about 1.1% of the global total. But it is scientifically wrong to say half a billion tonnes of CO2 don’t matter, experts say

In the latest column by @readfearn.bsky.social
"If you create a group with Australia at the top and include every country with emissions lower than ours, then all those countries contribute 28.4% of global emissions."

So, if we all did nothing it would matter

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Suburbs where property prices fell by double digits in five years A handful of neighbourhoods are bucking the broader growth trend after buyers turned away – but it may not last.

On The Age website, this story was headed "If you invested in property in these suburbs five years ago, you made a mistake"

Why? Coz they didn't fit the cult of wealth-through-property-ownership, as if those who bought such a home couldn't be happy

Disgraceful!

www.theage.com.au/property/new...

Should someone do a health check on Chris Uhlmann? Make sure he's not in his garage with a hose running from his ICE ...

Yeah, nah! He avoids reading factual stuff about renewables, so he'll be okay