Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Bligh Turnbull will be appearing as the only guest on the ABC program at 8pm on Thursday, 8 November 2018.First shots fired in another legacy war? #InsidersExtra #Insiders @barriecassidy #auspol pic.twitter.com/juKW5uqCVE— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) November 1, 2018
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Fight, fight!
Tuesday 6 November 2018
The portfolio trainwrecks Barnaby Joyce caused when he was in the ministry continue
It became obvious even before he lost leadership of the National Party of Australia, stood down as deputy prime minster and went to the government backbenches, that Barnaby Joyce oversaw a corrupt administration of national water resources.
Later it was revealed how he had blocked reform of the live animal export trade.
Now we find his porkbarrelling of the electorate he still holds has led to this.......
ABC
News, 31
October 2018:
Australia's pesticides
assessor is three months late delivering its report that reconsiders a chemical
banned in other countries and linked to brain damage in children.
The report is the
culmination of a 22-year process reviewing the health impacts of chlorpyrifos,
a popular insecticide used in fruit and vegetable farming.
The Australian
Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) had planned to deliver
the report as part of its reconsideration process in September 2017.
However it revised its
work plan and amended the deadline to August 2018.
The organisation is now
saying the report will be released in early 2019.
An APVMA spokesperson
blamed the delay on "the complexity of interpreting scientific
information, particularly the epidemiological data", that is, the extent
of health impacts caused by the chemical.
Within the organisation,
just 15 per cent of chemical reconsiderations were finalised on schedule during
2017-18. The stated goal is 100 per cent.
APVMA has suffered staffing losses due to the 2016
decision by former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce to move the organisation
from Canberra to Armidale, inside Mr Joyce's electorate.
The organisation declined to address whether this had
contributed to the delay.
Like Donald Trump Scott Morrison is a politician who should keep his tweets to a bare minimum
This is a
classic example of a badly through through tweet.
Scott
Morrison apparently thinks gender is recorded on drivers licences and, having
failed to check his own NSW Drivers Licence, he tweeted this belief to the
world.
[1/2] A Liberal National Government will never remove gender from birth certificates, licenses and passports – who are Labor kidding? Get real. https://t.co/CLk70qL3rI— Scott Morrison (@ScottMorrisonMP) October 31, 2018
This was a typical response on Twitter.
So, memo gallery journalists: when the politicians fume about removing gender from driver’s licences, maybe one of you might quietly point out that it isn’t there now.— Jonathan Green (@GreenJ) October 31, 2018
Yes, that’s
right. The states not federal government issue drivers licences and as can
clearly be seen on this NSW mockup – although the
current licence application form asks for full name, residential
address, date of birth and gender – only the first three appear on the actual drivers
licence issued.
Image from Nambucca Guardian
Yes, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets more Trump-like with each passing day.
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Monday 5 November 2018
Calling all Newtown, Erkinville, Redfern, Stanmore girls wherever you may now live - it's time to make history!
New South Wales goes to the polls on 23 March 2019 to elect a state government. It's everyone's chance to make a difference.
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Scott Morrison doesn't know watt's watt
This was the ‘interim’
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison
on ABC TV The Drum, 23 September 2018:
SCOTT MORRISON: I want
more dispatchable power in the system.
ALAN JONES: Could you
stop using the word dispatchable? Out there they don’t understand that.
SCOTT MORRISON: Well,
real power, OK?
ALAN JONES: Real power.
SCOTT MORRISON: Well,
fair dinkum power.
So what
exactly is this “dispatchable power” the Prime Minister is talking about
whenever he cites “fair dinkum power” that “works when the sun isn’t shining and the
wind isn’t blowing”.
This is what Energy
Education:has to say on the subject:
Dispatchable source of
electricity
A dispatchable
source of electricity refers to an electrical power system, such as
a power plant, that can be turned on or off; in other
words they can adjust their power output supplied to the electrical grid on
demand.[2] Most
conventional power sources such as coal or natural
gas power plants are dispatchable in order to meet the always changing
electricity demands of the population. In contrast, many renewable energysources are intermittent and non-dispatchable, such
as wind power or solar
power which can only generate electricity while their energy flow is
input on them.
Dispatch times
Dispatchable sources
must be able to ramp up or shut down relatively quickly in time intervals
within a few seconds even up to a couple of hours, depending on the need for
electricity. Different types of power plants have different dispatch times:[3]
Fast (seconds)
Capacitors are
able to dispatch within milliseconds if they need to, due to the energy stored
in them already being electrical, whereas in other types of power storage such
as chemical batteries the power must be converted into electrical energy.
Hydroelectric facilities are also
able to dispatch extremely quickly; for instance the Dinorwig hydro power
station can reach its maximum generation in less than 16 seconds.[4]
Medium (minutes)
Natural
gas turbines are a very common dispatchable source, and they can
generally be ramped up in minutes.
Solar thermal power plants can
utilize systems of efficient thermal energy storage. It is possible to design
these systems to be dispatchable on roughly equivalent timeframes to natural
gas turbines.
Slow (hours)
While these systems are
typically regarded as only providing baseload power, they often have some flexibility.
Many coal and biomass
plants can be fired up from cold within a few hours. Although nuclear power
plants may take a while to get going, they must be able to shut down in seconds
to ensure safety in the case of a meltdown.
What this tells us is that renewable energy can and is used
as “dispatchable power” and often responds faster than coal-fired power.
Battery
storage by way of home battery installations and mega battery
installations such as the Tesla system in South Australia are just two successful
examples of storing renewable power for later use – making it dispatchable
power.
According to the Melbourne
Energy Institute, South
Australia’s new mix of renewables and traditional source of energy is working
well.
What has
become increasingly obvious over the years is that once
renewable energy via wind and solar reaches a reasonable scale it becomes cheaper
than coal and other fossil fuels. That is where Australia is now.
Yet Scott
Morrison apparently doesn’t understand how electricity generation and the
national power grid work – it’s a though he has been asleep for the last
decade. Because he
appears to believe that renewable energy systems have not evolved to meet
market demands.
Therefore, based
on his erroneous views Morrison states he is “going
to force them [electricity wholesalers]
to put more fair dinkum, reliable energy, power, into the system”.
Expensive,
polluting, coal-fired power supplying electricity to Australian homes at maximum cost to ordinary consumers.
Sunday 4 November 2018
Xenophobic, racist US President Donald J Trump produces a midterm election campaign video
This is US President Donald J. Trump campaigning ahead of the American mid-term elections on 6 November 2018.
As with everything Donald Trump tweets - a little fact checking is in order.It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now! https://t.co/0pWiwCHGbh pic.twitter.com/2crea9HF7G— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
Firstly, the
convicted felon in this video entered the USA illegally twice. The first as a 16 year-old under a Democratic Administration
in 1963 ,which later gaoled and then deported him in 1997 on drug offences.
The second time he entered the USA was under
a Republican Administration sometime around 2002 and he was not arrested until
2014 – after the drug-fuelled killings for which he was sentenced to death in April 2018.
Secondly, the
Fox News mass scene shown is not necessarily video of recent events as Trump has a history of misrepresentation and, the current 'migrant caravans’ are nowhere
near the USA-Mexico border, as the first caravan had not yet reached San Juan Guichicovi and the second was yet to enter Mexican territory on 31 October
2018. Both are quite literally thousands of kilometres south of the United
States and members of these caravans are travelling on foot.
The yellow line represents the distance the first caravan was from the US border as the crow flies on 1 November 2018. The second caravan is at least 200-300 kilometres behind the first.
The yellow line represents the distance the first caravan was from the US border as the crow flies on 1 November 2018. The second caravan is at least 200-300 kilometres behind the first.
What Trump is also not saying in his campaign ad is that no previous migrant caravan has ever made it to the US border. The last one reportedly made it to Mexico City before petering out - at least 1,300 kilometres short of reaching the United States.
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Scott Morrison just can't get his political spin to stick up here on the NSW Northern Rivers
Interim Australian Prime Minister and Liberal Member for Cook Scott Morrison just doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut.
He tweeted what looked like one of his own staff's media releases which had been taken up by the Murdoch media, only to have Byron Shire Council issue a denial of his claim that it had backed down.
SBS
News, 29
October 2018:
Byron Shire mayor Simon
Richardson has dismissed the Morrison government’s claim the council has backed
down from plans to change the date of its Australia Day festivities.
Immigration minister
David Coleman stripped the council of its right to hold citizenship ceremonies
in late September as a punishment for “politicising” the day, only
to reinstate the right on Monday.
The government claimed
Mr Richardson’s council had “reversed” its plan to change Australia Day
ceremonies.
But the mayor said the
bitter argument with the government was triggered by a “misunderstanding”.
Byron Shire will proceed with its plans to move Australia Day speeches and
awards to January 25, he said.
“Nothing has changed,
from our perspective,” Mr Richardson told SBS News on Monday…..
The council plans to
hold a citizenship ceremony in the coming weeks. The events are held
semi-regularly throughout the year.
BACKGROUND
North Coast Voices, 26 September 2018:
An est. 5 per cent of the total population of the Northern Rivers are Aboriginal people principally from the Bundjalung, Yaegl, Gumbaynggirr and Githabul Nations.
They are an integral part of townships and villages spread across seven local government areas and, able to clearly demonstrate cultural connection to country, hold Native Title over land and water in parts of this region.
These families and tribal groupings contribute to the richness of community life in the Northern Rivers.
These families and tribal groupings contribute to the richness of community life in the Northern Rivers.
So Byron Shire Council's media release of 20 September 2018 comes as no surprise.
However, Prime Minister & Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison's reaction and the manner in which it was delivered did surprise me.
SBS News, 24 September 2018:
A NSW mayor says his council's decision to change the date of an Australia Day ceremony is to reflect history after Prime Minister Scott Morrison weighed in.
A NSW mayor whose council won't hold its Australia Day ceremony on January 26 has hit back at Scott Morrison after the prime minister tweeted about the issue.
Byron Shire Council will hold some council events on the national holiday but has announced its official ceremony will move to January 25.....
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Australia Day,
history,
local government,
Northern Rivers,
people power
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