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Focusing towards Mars, there's a reason for that.
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Is a lier someone who does a lot of planking?
Pipelines and deep storage (not shallow and wide) is here and now. 4-7m of rainfall from Tully/Innisfail need not be wasted on growing cotton. Question: are the victorians on the this thread happy to be paying $2m/day to keep the desal plant on stand by ? Did you notice your taxes/charges go up?(I'm a little curious) We need extra people to pay tax for those that expect welfare and pension. We need guys like Musk - vision / solution focused, not people that give you a hundred reasons why something can't be done. Sure, think about the failure modes and plan accordingly, but solutions are grand. Hell even the Greeks and Romans moved vast amounts of water everywhere they went. Can't be that hard if the Greeks could do it. I bet they didn't even have CNC machines, ANFO, 400T dump trucks or excavators... |
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Socialism is nice too.
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I'm still waiting here in N.E Victoria for a slow speed train network or one that turns up occasionally.
Its well known the Feds (ARTC) who control the line want it closed to passenger services (VLine and XPT's) as its holding up their freight. Don't hold your breath for high speed rail infrastructure anytime soon.
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The continent of Australia needs more than one country. The incompetent slugs in Canberra can't manage this country. Is there any avenue apart from a cultural revolution australia could be divided or sold off ?
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Touché seems the world's greatest achievements were done through slaves, look at the pyramids. When everyone has equal rights and wants to get paid, look at what happened in modern Greece... Hey why can't we make our prisoners useful for something? Turn them into slaves. Win-win scenario ?
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You'd have to massively multiply the incarceration rate to match the ancients in person power. Depending on your definition of slavery, from indebtedness through incarcerated forced work up to 80% of the Egyptian population was in 'enslavetude' (sic)(my word) To be honest, our society isn't that bad. largely stable, most of us wealthy beyond the ancients wildest dreams and free. Im an architect and the greatest achievements aren't big piles of stones, nicely arranged piled of carved stones or even tall gleaming glass towers. Probably our greatest achievement is cooperation, culture, altruism, and love. JP |
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Yes they are.
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Restrictions on development because of green policies.
As has been said: do you honestly think a project like the Snowy Mountain Scheme would have got beyond the planning stage if it was started today? Green groups would be burning themselves in front of parliament house, protests would be Australia wide, the UN would be telling us to stop ruinging our environment...it wouldn't happen. There is every indication of massive oil reserves offshore...just outside the Barrier Reef. God luck any of it ever being drilled though. Basically, we've chickened out. By the way, common misconception about the builders of the pyramids being downtrodden slaves: the pyramids weren't built by slaves. They were built by farmers (during the Nile flood seasons) and paid workers and skilled stone craftsmen. They've found masses of housing for workers and bread ovens, and nowhere does any painting show the stereotypical whipping of hordes of slaves. Lots of guys pulling huge stones, but only being guided by overseers, as you would expect on a big construction job. Last edited by 2011G6E; 21-06-2017 at 06:27 PM. |
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Well at least Turnbull is finally doing something about our LNG pricing for eastern households and industries/businesses that use lots of LNG for heating, instead of selling most of it to Asia at dirt cheap prices.
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The main reason why the Jews State has progressed is that the people were united and better educated and truly comprehend what business is and worked for a common cause. it's a crappy worthless bit of land that they made a go of and look at USA or Australia, a great land and full of fools who could not make a go of a land that is great. Nazi Germany reason why it turned around and powered on so well economically was 'the people were united to work for a goal' and Australia once had a goal, but we don't get that united patriotic nationalistic brotherhood any more, sadly it's all about the individual now and dog eat dog get what you can get by hook or by crook, head in the sand attitude and huge ego driven fools with no morals worth jack but just full of foolish self rights, we once could make cars here and we still could with no problems, but the people now just give up, if the generations before us were just degenerate like how Australia's are now, we would be still be living in stick huts. It's true that we are being taxed to death and supporting every no hopper you could to think of, but kick the s---t out of people who work for themselves and all the red tape, regulations ect just works against anyone who try's to have a go. Just look at USA the greatest Nation on earth is now bankrupt and there is no excuse for it at all, no one could be truly that stupid ! The same with Australia our Nation should be that wealthy that we don't borrow a cent but only be lending money to others. Something is wrong if a man starts his working life and does not own a home by 55yo and should question yourself as to why and the same thing with a Nation, Australia has been here long enough by now to be able to stand on it's own in the world. there is no excuse for it at all ! What's Australia going to be in another 100 years still a busted **** garbage dump scraping for money to get things done and still supporting all the dead beats to just be empowered dead beats. People are not truly looking towards the future because they are all wrapped up in a narrow minded selfish socialist politically correct dream world tailored for misfits and every 3rd rate dingbat cause. I have lost count of the people in there 30's with claims that are totally delusional and they are 3rd rate tradesmen plus they are on drugs. ![]()
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Here's a good example of our brilliant infrastructure. Took this picture last week when a freight train ploughed up our rail crossing.
This is one of hundreds of sink holes created when Australian Rail and Track "fixed" the rail corridor between Sydney and Melbourne. They spent billions on this, people out in the country are calling for heads to roll. Meanwhile all who were involved in this fiasco are blaming one another. Just recently politicians are asking ARTC to do a costing to fix it while they give more money to them. Sort of like leaving the fox in charge of the hen house. ![]()
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Australia is too busy trying to scrape every last cent of profit from its existing infrastructure and will continue to do so, without maintenance, until that infrastructure degrades beyond the point of usability. Then we'll all stand around with our hands on our hips, wondering what happened and looking for whoever is going to pay us our next dollar.
As a nation, we've no forward-thinking ability and no desire to build any form of industry that provides sustainable profit in the long-term. Let's just keep scraping everything we have from our ****ty country until it literally has nothing left. It's all about short-term profitability, right??? |
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Infrastructure project happening in my backyard right now. https://static.ptv.vic.gov.au/siteas...y-Brochure.pdf
Its a bit of a boom for businesses in town. Accomodation, food, services for workers. They had an information session the other day in the town hall offering jobs and opportunites for the local community to get involved. The project will hopefully take some of the grain trucks off the road. They'll just be running farm to silo instead of silo to port. |
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https://independentaustralia.net/pol...ure-plans,7151 As you can see in this article there are lots of other areas that need upgrading. For example, quoted from the article, 'A single freight train travelling from Melbourne to Sydney can replace 150 semi-trailers, saving 45,000 litres of fuel on each trip, according to the Australasian Railway Association'. . If you are interested the author of this article has some other good reads on infrastructure if you just click on his name at the bottom
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They've been working on the rail section near me for 2-3 weeks. 1500km of track to upgrade. I can't remember government investing so much in infrastructure around here. The death trap roads just get a bandaid thats ripped off by the next grain truck.
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As long as the Victorian Gov. are converting the lines. PLEASE VIC. GOV. DON"T LET ARTC ANYWHERE NEAR IT I once spoke with a senior rail worker at Gunning where he told me ARTC's intention was to run the passenger Sydney to Melbourne line down so they could spend the money building the inland freight route.
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Funny thing is most of those grain trains will be pulled by ex WA locos that used to do the grain runs here until Barnett ripped out all the tracks. We now have to transport over 10,000 tonnes of grain 700km via road using pocket road trains on a highway so full of pot holes it breaks cars. We used to take it 5km to a siding. I wonder why sick people, pensioners and those left unemployed always get the blame as being bludgers and a drain on society? I could tell you a horror story of someone with terminal cancer with months to live and he can't get sickness benefits. (He is not considered sick enough LOL) I wonder if these same people would call him a bludger to his face?
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Anyone in Melbourne that does alot of driving around especially in Northern City suburbs should go to this sight and register support for the East West Link project.
Apparently Labor knocked it back? It really really does need to be done its getting beyond the joke now. http://www.buildthelink.com.au/ Last edited by GASWAGON; 27-08-2017 at 06:56 PM. |
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Unfortunately medical care simply continues to become progressively more expensive, whilst at the same time more people are requiring it and for longer. Unfortunately it is simple mathematics that society cannot continue to pay the bill. There is the additional problem that we facing increasing competition from countries with lower taxation, lower costs, and where the sick and elderly either work or starve. Quote:
There's no such thing as "Sickness Benefits." You just go onto Income Support (aka newstart) and have a doctor sign your form. Even if you can't find a doctor to sign your form, worst case scenario is that you need to say that you looked for work. The problem remains that for every genuine case, there is somebody else out there rorting the system. |
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What is it costing us a day again, even when it's not doing anything??
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i feel sorry for the country folk that the govco have deserted and the political bs that they have to endure, like rocwiz,s story. i,ve always figured that if the country areas were a little better looked after, then there might be some population growth , like people moving out of rat hole Sydney.
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Think lake Argyle & Ord river irrigation scheme would be one example. |
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