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Good call. SMRs are a great solution.
The recent announcement through the trilateral AUKUS partnership that Australia will acquire nuclear submarines "means it's time to reconsider our ban on civil nuclear energy," AWU National Secretary Dan Walton said today. Walton described SMRs as a "logical progression" from the plan for nuclear submarines. "SMRs are at the core of the US and British plans to create zero-carbon economies. Australia should be following suit. We already have the uranium, why would we not develop the capacity to use it in safe and effective modern ways?" he said.
The question I have: will the submarines - due in about 20 years - get here before SMRs are viable in the market?
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Looks like David Pocock might pinch the ACT Senate seat of the Liberals.
Forget the teals in the lower house, Dave may hold the balance of power in the Senate.
Surely his first action has to be looking at the 'supporting your body weight at the breakdown' law that has been his nemesis for so many years.
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@dogmeat Thankfully in Australia we end up with a candidate the majority of the electorate prefers, even if they're way, way down the list of first preference.
I like to number all the boxes below the line, going from who I'd most want out of the least likely and working my way towards the best worst of the most likely winners. With one caveat; Greens always go last.
This election may go down in history as the one that finally splintered the dominance of the two major parties. Depending on the next three years (assuming Labor does get a majority this time), we may be looking at the last majority government.
Labor losing working class votes and inner city to the Greens. Liberals losing traditional soft liberals in upper middle class areas.
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@barbarian said in Aussie Politics:
Looks like David Pocock might pinch the ACT Senate seat of the Liberals.
Forget the teals in the lower house, Dave may hold the balance of power in the Senate.
Surely his first action has to be looking at the 'supporting your body weight at the breakdown' law that has been his nemesis for so many years.
Never seemed to bother him. Just ask the Saffas.
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Asked about Mr Dutton potentially becoming the new leader of the Liberal Party, Mr McGowan said he was not fit to be the Prime Minister someday. “He’s an extremist and I don’t think he fits with modern Australia at all,” the Premier told reporters on Monday. “He doesn’t seem to listen, he’s extremely conservative. I actually don’t think he’s that smart. “I’ve seen him present on things. I don’t really pick up there’s much there, as opposed to Scott Morrison.” ... Mr McGowan said he believed a major factor for WA voters in the election was the Liberal Party’s opposition to the hard border, which kept the state safe during the height of the pandemic. He said the Liberals essentially supported Mr Palmer’s fight to bring down the border for about two months before backing down. The Premier recalled he even received a phone call from Mr Morrison telling him the state would lose the court battle and should give up. “Hopefully, they’ve learned a lesson that Clive Palmer is a bit like kryptonite – you don’t want to touch him because inevitably with these things, particularly political things, it goes bad,” Mr McGowan said. “It was a terrible look and actually, not just a terrible look. It was just the wrong decision.” Mr McGowan said it was good that no one from the United Australia Party was elected. “I saw their actions on the polling booths. I saw how the Palmer people behave,” he said. “They’re misfits and losers and they scream and yell at voters. They shove things in people’s faces. “They are offensive and rude people, and I’m glad that Australians haven’t supported them.” Mr McGowan said to a lesser a degree the same could be said about One Nation supporters. “People screaming, yelling, bustling, harassing. They’re just misfits and losers,” he said.
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Facebook of the presser here. McGown always looks like he's got better things to do.
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@dogmeat said in Aussie Politics:
So both the major parties party votes are down with various loonies of different hues gaining. Is this disparity between party vote and seats down to the STV system?
Nah, the disparity is smaller under STV compared to the First Past The Post system that they use in the UK, which the Aussie parliament is based on
Pretty much every election in the UK a party that wins 35% or 40% of the vote will get 60% of the seats
Theres some weird shit that goes on with Senate preferences, but on the whole the Aussie system is far fairer and more democratic than the British
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
The question I have: will the submarines - due in about 20 years - get here before SMRs are viable in the market?
Ooft. France's aging fleet might need the SMR treatment before we do. Capacity Factor of 52% is rubbish.
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slight change in tack here
so, the independent who rolled Frydenburg
Prior to her new gig in parliament she was
Director of Neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital
Now, great that she feels the need to serve her community but
Is it churlish of me to think she could do a fuck load more for Australia in her old job than as an independent MP? She wasn't even a GP (not that we are flush with those) but so fucking smart and qualified she was heading up friggen neurology for kids!!!
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@mariner4life had the same thought in terms of patient care and outcomes. Could also argue that, as Director, she was a step removed from a lot of the day to day clinical care EDIT: and more about the financials and policy.
If she helps drive policy, it could be a much broader uplift in services across a range of disciplines, not just neurology (which is darts for medicos really).
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
slight change in tack here
so, the independent who rolled Frydenburg
Prior to her new gig in parliament she was
Director of Neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital
Now, great that she feels the need to serve her community but
Is it churlish of me to think she could do a fuck load more for Australia in her old job than as an independent MP? She wasn't even a GP (not that we are flush with those) but so fucking smart and qualified she was heading up friggen neurology for kids!!!
She's clearly smart. The question is she smart like Ben Carson..?
The reality is these smart, strong, independent women should've been walk up starts for the Liberal Party to assuage concerns about quotas, toxic politics, etc.
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@antipodean And that's the crux of the matter. Most of these teal candidates should have been Liberal candidates 5-10 years ago.
Instead they preselect a conga line of (largely) uninspiring blokes who occupy the back bench for term after term.
There are plenty of factors rolled into the teal vote, but that is definitely one of them.
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@barbarian Australia is not America, get rid of the happy clappers that seemingly took over the party.
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@mariner4life but recruiting happy clappers has worked at so many levels... Local, State, AND Federal!
It is only when it turned from your bog standard vanilla christianity to an overabundance of Pentecostals that it has seemingly become a problem.
I mean, look at this crazy shit: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/21/nsw-nationals-candidate-tells-congregation-of-her-aim-to-bring-gods-kingdom-to-politics
The National party’s candidate for the marginal northern New South Wales seat of Richmond told worshippers at a Pentecostal church that her “ultimate goal” in politics was to “bring God’s kingdom to the political arena”. The comments by the endorsed Nationals candidate, Kimberly Hone, have emerged alongside a series of old social media posts described by her opponents as “repulsive”, and include a post with a broken Facebook link from 2017 that says “one way to avoid domestic violence is to marry well”.
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interesting comments from one of the candidates to take the Nationals leadership off that stain of a bloke Barnaby
He probably fucked himself with these comments, but i thought they were incredibly honest and full of merit
Basically the views of some of the more "extreme" National party MPs contributed heavily to the losses suffered by the Liberals in the City seats. And if they are going to be good coalition partners, and get back in to Government, they need to recognise that.
Barnaby of course is taking the opposite approach. Because Barnaby only cares about Barnaby.
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@mariner4life prior to the election, the LNP were making scary noises about "hung Parliament" and "minority government"
We had a minority government for a decade; it's called the National Party
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A hung parliament is my ideal outcome. Imagine having a parliament where grown ups need to talk and agree on whether things are a good idea or not to get things done
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@gibbon-rib at this stage, the ALP will need to play nice in the lower house, even if they reach majority, because the senate will probably have enough greens or independents to hold the keys
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