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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
Polling must have been terrible. Newman has a lot to answer for.
Newman?
Meaning how he fucked up and let her in in 2015?
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@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
Polling must have been terrible. Newman has a lot to answer for.
Newman?
Meaning how he fucked up and let her in in 2015?
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@antipodean what could've been… Newman had the most chaotic office and set of advisers that was only matched by Rudd’s chaos. Hopeless.
Palaszczuk might be smarter than I give her credit. She gave her deputy a ringing endorsement in yesterday’s press conference. If Miles gets it, things will be even worse and some will be calling for Palaszczuk to come back!
Unfortunately for Qld the left faction of Labor has too much of a stronghold and a sensible third option other than Miles or Fentiman is no hope.
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Pretty much everyone who isn't a union official hates Miles
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I saw Anna speak not 2.weeks ago and couldn't believe how lacking in charisma or even polish she was.
State opposition across the country have a lot to answer for. Because they have been so rubbish a lot of very average Permiers have had a lot of time.
I have no faith in the LNP either. They'll get 1 term Max.
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Despite her obvious limitations she'll go down as the nobody who led the ALP to an impossible win in her first opportunity.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Aussie Politics:
If Miles gets it, things will be even worse and some will be calling for Palaszczuk to come back!
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Queensland’s Paradise Dam, built by the Beattie Labor government less than 20 years ago to irrigate one of Australia’s most productive food bowls, will be abandoned and replaced with a new dam because construction defects are so bad.
After more than four years of work on a $1.2bn joint state-federal government repair of the 300,000 megalitre dam, near Bundaberg, new tests show that concrete in the once-52m high wall is so degraded it will be a future safety risk to the local population.
The dam, opened in 2006 and constructed under a then-lauded private public partnership set-up by the state government, was found to be riddled with design and structural problems in 2019.
The wall was lowered by 5m for the repair, cutting its original storage capacity to 42 per cent, amid fears it could break apart if the dam was filled in an extreme weather event.
But now testing by the dam operator, state-owned SunWater, has found that the “existing dam wall has too many issues to be repaired’’.
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@MajorRage said in Aussie Politics:
Engineers that live in that region have a lot to answer for .....
Dunno what you mean...
Had a very peripheral involvement when we looked after the restoration works post 2013. Staff member did some inspections. IIRC something to do with the inlet works, or pump station maybe? Nothing to do with the dam. Thankfully.
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@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
@MajorRage said in Aussie Politics:
Engineers that live in that region have a lot to answer for .....
Dunno what you mean...
Had a very peripheral involvement when we looked after the restoration works post 2013. Staff member did some inspections. IIRC something to do with the inlet works, or pump station maybe? Nothing to do with the dam. Thankfully.
The amount of people who will be saying exactly this...
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
@MajorRage said in Aussie Politics:
Engineers that live in that region have a lot to answer for .....
Dunno what you mean...
Had a very peripheral involvement when we looked after the restoration works post 2013. Staff member did some inspections. IIRC something to do with the inlet works, or pump station maybe? Nothing to do with the dam. Thankfully.
The amount of people who will be saying exactly this...
I will admit to having been there maybe twice ...
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@MajorRage said in Aussie Politics:
Engineers that live in that region have a lot to answer for .....
Dam Engineering is hyper safety focussed, with rigorous peer review. It's international as well. They are bloody hard to get 'right' - so I am very surprised that this one has gone as poorly as it sounds like it has.
Interesting update - will google a bit and see what I can find out
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Senator Gallagher said in her National Press Club address.
“We’ll use the Workplace Gender Equality reporting framework to make it a rule that, in order to win government work, businesses with 500 or more employees must commit to targets to improve gender equality in their workplaces. These targets will focus on the gender makeup of their boards and the workforce; equal pay; flexible working arrangements; workplace consultation on gender equality; and efforts to prevent and address sexual harassment.” -
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could go in any number of threads, but yesterday's announcements in Qld seemed more political than anything
Anna Palachook brought the 2032 Olympics to Brisbane, giving herself an enormous pat on the back in the process. She then quit, and left the wildly unremarkable Stephen Miles to take the electoral fall for all the shit Anna put Queenslanders through.
By-elections have gone poorly, and it's looking for all the world like change is coming this year (of course I'll believe it when i see it, Queenslanders love a labor State government).
So yesterday Stephen Miles announced enormous changes to the stadium plans for the Olympics. The first plan was a knock down and rebuild of the 'gabba. A $500m review then recommended building a completely new oval stadium at another location.
Labor came out yesterday and said "something something cost of living" and went off in another direction. No new stadium. Instead a temporary facility at the "dilapidated" Qld Sport & Athletic Centre (yeah, I've never heard of it either). It'll be small by modern olympic standards, and then reduced to a very small capacity later. Opening and closing ceremonies will be at Suncorp.I am sort of torn by this. On one hand, spending billions on massive stadiums for one-off events is fucking stupid. On the other hand, you fucking bid for it, obviously made some promises about facilities, follow through. One the back of Dan dumping the Commonwealth Games, this isn't going to provide international committees faith in Aus state governments to actually put on international events.
In addition, it's widely accepted the 'gabba is coming to the end of its life, and will need a serious upgrade in the not too distant future. It is already falling behind the other stadiums around Australia and costing the state events. This was the perfect opportunity to future-proof the event tourism of the state, and the government blinked.And why? it's very hard to ignore the opinion that it is a politically motivated announcement that enables a "we care about how we spend your money in this current Cost Of Living Crisis. Please do not vote us out this year. It's so shameless i can easily foresee a backflip if they win the election.
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oh, and the kicker is, there's a rumour that the Qld Government already investigated what it would cost to rissole the Games entirely.
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i saw that on the news this morning, big headline, "BREAKING NEWS: QLD government discussed ditching the games as recently as this week"
i was like....good? shouldn't governments be continuously reviewing how they spend their money? in this case the loss of federal funding plus the fee they would have to pay the olympics (and i assume bad press/loss on income) out weighed what they would save ditching them...but good, just check
but now they have confirmed...get on with doing the best job you can. im not adverse to them upgrading the track and building temp stands at QSAC if thats where athletics will be held in the future...then they get the most out of an olympic quality track...but make the most of the opportunity and upgrade/rebuild the gabba for the ceremonies and i assume the 7's/football etc
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@antipodean we have that all the time
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Nailed it Mariner - more than happy to swan around Europe and soak up the plaudits when the announcement was made, but it's not so easy now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Miles now standing behind John Coates, who was happy with the option they ran with. The IOC are fixated on not being seen to force Governments into constructing white elephant facilities (burned by multiple examples of disused stadiums in Rio, Athens etc).
But what the IOC don't take into account is that a new oval stadium would be far from a white elephant, and receive year round use from cricket, AFL, concerts. So their perspective isn't entirely valid here.
Hard to believe the Olympics are going from Tokyo, to Paris, to LA to... Brisbane doing it on the cheap. What an embarrassment it's going to be.
Ultimately the Olympics is for grown-up world cities. It never fit in Brisbane and the actions of Miles only shows why.
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