It'd be interesting to find to find out how much she has to pay to see it disappear over there.
Brown, gay and female. Pretty much the apex of intersectional pyramid, then add to that the mass adulation of a leading sports star - all must bow to her will.
Don't you just love it when the truth slips out? This is from Chae Jeong, in an AFR article today: Last year, I worked as an adviser in the economic policy branch at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. As part of the trade, investment, and geoeconomics team, I saw firsthand the frustration of experienced economists – many former Treasury officials – who opposed Future Made in Australia, the Albanese government’s flagship policy in the 2024-25 budget. Their concerns were dismissed not because they lacked merit, but because economic pragmatism had been sacrificed for political gain. With state and federal elections looming at the time, the government was more focused on winning votes in Queensland than implementing sound economic policy.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/melbournes-albert-park-college-aircon-fiasco-exposes-australias-great-climate-paradox-david-penberthy/news-story/15c1a92db2fbc45d158b88c2207dc8a8
FFS that site is pay walled - please cut & paste the text as a post. Or get Robert to show you how to use social media...
OLIO Melbourne’s Albert Park College aircon fiasco exposes Australia’s great climate paradox | David Penberthy There’s a yawning chasm between meaningful gestures and practical solutions that was laid bare again this week, writes David Penberthy. There’s a high school in Melbourne which encapsulates the lunacy of Australia’s energy landscape and the yawning chasm between meaningful gestures and practical solutions. Its young occupants got a taste this week of what virtue signalling feels like on a hot day. Victoria’s Herald Sun reported this week on the case of Albert Park College which has won all sorts of accolades for eschewing traditional energy-sapping airconditioning for what’s known as “passive cooling”. The school’s sustainability statement explains that its “state of the art campus buildings” feature “recycled building materials, sensor lighting, passive cross ventilation and data collection of energy and resource usage”. It all sounds terrific except there’s one problem. It doesn’t work on hot days. And by “hot” I don’t mean insanely hot, but normally hot for an Australian summer, as was the case in Melbourne last week when the temperature hit a perfectly routine February high of 37C. On that day passive cooling became non-existing cooling. It was decided that the best way to deal with the situation was to send the kids home. The school with passive cooling stopped doing any schooling at all. The Herald Sun quoted students saying it was “a billion degrees” in the classroom and railed at the school “caring more about the environment than its own students”. One parent said she was “livid” at the decision to send children home early and the lack of adequate cooling. “Airconditioning is against the school’s ‘green policy’,” she said. “We would love to hear the reaction if government pulled airconditioning from public service offices. “I’m stunned that kids are having their school day cut short and missing out on valuable lesson time because of this.” It’s a good point that last one. I doubt the Victorian Education Department has foregone an airconditioner, or if its former bureaucratic inhabitants, free to work from home indefinitely in that economically destitute workers’ paradise, are doing Zoom meetings in their study without the cooling on. The logic behind embracing passive cooling instead of airconditioning is as follows. If we don’t act now in the face of a climate emergency, life will soon become so hot as to be unbearable. How has that played out at Albert Park College? By embracing ineffective technology in response to a climate emergency, life at that school has become so hot as to be unbearable. There is no doubt that renewable energy can play a huge role – possibly even the sole role – in meeting our future energy needs. It is also plainly obvious that we are not yet at that point (which, by the by, is a big argument for pursuing nuclear). The nation’s food industry has now openly declared that Australia cannot afford to adhere slavishly to its 82 per cent renewables target, unless we want to send businesses and households broke. The nation’s peak food distribution organisation – the people who own and pay for all those massive fridges and freezers – broke rank this week to call for an immediate rethink in Canberra as to how we generate power while we are still transitioning to a renewables future. They even went so far as to suggest that instead of mothballing coal stations the moment they look a bit dated, we invest to upgrade them. They also argued that we should be much more bullish about the use of gas. Independent Food Distributors Australia chief executive Richard Forbes provided two statistics that cover the past two years while Australia has been labouring under the planet-loving leadership of Energy Minister Chris Bowen. The first – power bills for food businesses have risen more than 50 per cent. The second – insolvencies for food businesses have almost doubled. I read a piece on news.com.au earlier this week about some British “influencer” in Sydney who has produced a series of videos explaining what life’s like in Australia for her Pommy mates back home. She raves about Twisties and is particularly keen on the Arnott’s Mint Slice. The worst thing she says about Australia? The price of fruit and vegetables, citing a piece of broccoli which set her back $7 at a Sydney supermarket. Aussies used to talk about how expensive things were in England; now, Brits are coming here and warning their friends back home that in this energy-rich country, you might want to sell one of your kidneys in order to buy a fruit salad. How did it get to this? More so than anything, power bills. If you think about that piece of broccoli, every single person involved in cultivating it from seed, housing it in a greenhouse, harvesting it, packing it, transporting it and selling it – all of them have to pay a power bill. You can describe this with the same sentence construction to explain the logic behind the Albert Park College and its non-operational passive cooling system. The argument goes that if we don’t act now and embrace renewables in the face of a climate emergency, arable land will become so depleted that food will be unaffordable. What’s happened instead? By acting in the face of a climate emergency and subjecting business to insurmountable cost increases, food is at risk of becoming unaffordable. This is what feel-good thinking looks like in real terms. No wonder that Woodside CEO Meg O’Neillwas so bleak when she ventured to Melbourne this week, not far from Albert Park College in fact, where she said that the state’s decade-long fossil fuel fatwa had made the state a no-go zone for investors. “The reality is that the state that was built on the back of oil and gas is now at this stage,” Ms O’Neill said in Melbourne. “Ideology has stood in the way of sensible energy investment. In times of crises things can move quickly. We’d like to see them move before you get a crisis.”
I am really enjoying reading the paper today! Marsden State High School teacher who identifies as a cat A teacher at one of Queensland’s largest schools has been referring to themselves as a cat, asking students to call them “Miss Purr” and wearing cat ears. A Queensland high school teacher has been referring to themselves as a cat, while also allegedly hissing at students and licking the back of their hands in disturbing classroom behaviour. Photos and short videos show the Marsden State High School teacher in a classroom wearing a cat ears headband and a lanyard with the word “purr” on it. Marsden has a student cohort of more than 3000. The Courier-Mail has been told the teacher was asking to be referred to as Miss Purr, and has been seen wearing the ears around school grounds over multiple days, including at an assembly. A relative of one student claimed the teacher had even hissed and growled at them when they asked a question or didn’t listen. “(The teacher) forces the children to call her Miss Purr and screeches and growls when they don’t listen,” the relative said. “(The teacher) sits in class and licks her hands. “It’s absolutely disgusting. “Something needs to be done about this.” Image Unavailable, Please Login
There are so many facets to this... BOM figures http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/maps/averages/degree-days/?maptype=cdd24&period=an show using 24deg as cutoff, there are generally LESS than 50 cooling 'degree days' in Melbourne. Having said that, the maps are based on data only up until the 90s so maybe they need to be updated. Secondly. since there are over 250 heating 'degree days' in Melb, and that reverse cycle aircon is actually the most efficient heating method, may just some of those would have been an option. Looking at images of the building though, I doubt even aircons would have coped with 38deg...
IGA just now. Salad veg : Image Unavailable, Please Login Cooked Veg: Image Unavailable, Please Login Marinated freshmeat: Image Unavailable, Please Login Bulk meat ie multi kg whole rump,half lambs etc: Image Unavailable, Please Login Charcuterie including the remaining boerwors from yesterday,I had one last night: Image Unavailable, Please Login ...and the poultry section: Image Unavailable, Please Login Every single north-south road is cut from East coast to the NT border. including the 3 that I use. Every east-west road is cut to the NT border except from Darwin to Mt Isa by the look.
Nah got a freezer full,prawns,chorizo,chook,bacon,mince...no bloody veges except home grown caps,chillies and herbs.Vic's got heaps though. Two jobs postponed,one was/is a two week truck job to Gympie
This is what happens when you import crap from overseas Nurses in alleged antisemitic video at Sydney hospital identified
Some kant used my credit card at 1am this morning to order two phones from Harvey Norman online for more than $2500. I woke up to messages about these transactions but somehow they had been provisionally approved and were "pending" (ie, the money is out of my account, at least for now). Of course I immediately alerted the bank and Harvey's and my card has been cancelled and presumably I'll get a refund. What is interesting is that I've also got emails saying that the order is ready to collect from the city store (which means the fraudster is a local) Part of me wants to hang out there and see whom arrives to pick it up... ****ed if I know how this happened as my card literally never leaves the house. I use my phone for all purchases. So it must be someone whom has previously been provided with my card details. I'll be filing a police report as according to HN that will allow them to provide the police with full details of the order (which they won't provide to me). ****ers.
That sucks !!!!! Which bank are you with ? Who gave you the refund? Go find the bastard that used your details and make a citizen's arrest ... I hate this sort of thievery
2 most likely scenarios: Your card was skimmed at an ATM (by device affixed to the card slot); or Your details were captured via an online transaction. Run antivirus scans on your phone and computer and stop downloading gay porn
And if you're using Windows turn on mirroring if you're doing porn I saw many episodes of people getting ransomware after visiting porn sites and then have to send money to Russian kants who encrypted their files If they had mirroring enabled I could save their files Always thought it funny how the men would deny going to porn sites but a short view of their browsing history said otherwise
