Not So Dumb After All. No I don't mean the Aussie peoples https://news.yahoo.com/social-species-kangaroos-communicate-people-133333458.html 'A Social Species': How Kangaroos Communicate With People Yan Zhuang some Chinese person writing k'roo news Fri, December 18, 2020, 5:33 AM PST MELBOURNE, Australia — When they’re hungry, they’ll let you know by coming up to you and looking beseechingly at you and the container of food. If that doesn’t work, they’ll sniff and paw at your leg. No, we’re not talking about dogs. We’re talking about kangaroos. . . Anyone ever met a kangaroo in the wild. Moi Don't further ize Australia
From "Latest News . . ." forum https://www.news.com.au/finance/rea...m/news-story/21eebff2400bce7bad548c656aa491a4 Australia ‘will pay foreigners up to $50,000 to buy a new home...' Chinese buyers are being lured back to the Australian property market by generous government rebates of up to $50,000 on a new home, with calls to extend the incentive schemes past their expiry dates next year. Brought to you by @JET3534 on the thread below. That's south on a map http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/australia-‘will-pay-foreigners-up-to-50-000-to-buy-a-new-home.582670/ What is going on? Next up giving the Japanese FREE natural gas to establish stable prices domestically. Makes sense to me. Wouldn't want domestic gas prices to get too low, I suppose. Moi
The above was brought to YOU by @JET3534 The article link https://www.news.com.au/finance/rea...m/news-story/21eebff2400bce7bad548c656aa491a4 Lily Chong says “Australia will pay Chinese up to $50,000 to buy a new home, Australia will pay Hong Kong-ers, Australia will pay Malaysians – it doesn’t matter where you come from. It’s all in the interests of supporting the economy.” . . . How about White South Africans? Or White folks from anywhere? Even Australia.
That sounds weird, but in my state there’s a stamp duty concession. Not just for Chinese buyers. Could this be similar? “The Victorian government has announced an investment of over $293 million to fund a stamp duty concession of up to 50 per cent for homes valued at up to $1 million. The move has been announced in the Victorian Budget 2020/21, which invests $1.5 billion in new tax relief for Victorian businesses and families.Nov 24, 2020” Victoria announces stamp duty waivers - The Adviser
Holy Moly! Premier Daniel Andrews has closed the border to visitors from Sydney, given Victorian residents until 11.59pm Monday to get home or face two weeks of hotel quarantine, and will establish police checkpoints along the southern side of the border for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began... The new restrictions come in the face of an escalating COVID-19 outbreak on Sydney’s northern beaches, where another 30 new cases were revealed on Sunday. The outbreak now numbers 68 cases in total. Throwing Christmas holiday plans into chaos, Mr Andrews has dispatched 700 police and military personnel to enforce the border lockdown, which will begin at 11.59pm on Sunday.
Stamp duty is a state government tax on property that you buy. There is a fifty percent reduction on stamp duty, but it runs out in July. It’s a stimulus for the housing industry.
Sure do. We don’t want to be like other countries with uncontrolled COVID. Better to try to confine it. Ps. They check driving licences for place of residence.
Sometimes freedom is overrated. If freedom is ignoring 3,000 deaths a day while demanding your right to get a haircut you can keep it.
Of course. It's for you own good, Graduated from UnFREE to Not Free. Time for Lock Downs to be voluntary. Like breathing unhealthy quality air.
@Sallyally, RN ret. How about the FREEDOM to get that haircut or "duck & cover" as YOU choose. When the lockdowned are liberated the surge happens as a susceptible population is released to catch Covid. Seems lockdowns just delay, not solve the pandemic. Unless you do it Red China style and no one is willing to do that. Moi I opt to lockdown myself YOU should be FREE to choose.
So? What aboot it? Republic of Australia. Possibly The Republic of Victoria & Tasmania, The Republic of Western Australia, etc.
I choose to be responsible for not spreading the plague. I haven’t met everyone in Australia and don’t expect that I’d like all of them. I don’t want to be the cause of the death or disablement of any of them. we all have a responsibility to not wantonly cause harm to other members of the community. I don’t understand how people can say “bugger them, what about me?”
~ Australia sets the example of things to come as wind/solar systems take to the power grid - much to the delight of a certain few who are all for $green ( the cash kind ) Australian Power Prices Set to Surge With Interconnector To Wind/Solar ‘Powered’ South Australia https://stopthesethings.com/2020/10...nnector-to-wind-solar-powered-south-australia/
Electricity prices to fall over the next 3 years 21 December 2020 2:19pm Households can expect to be paying about $120 (or 9%) less for electricity in 2023 than they do today, the AEMC’s latest annual residential electricity price trends report shows. The 2020 report examines the direction household electricity prices will take over the next 3 years and what’s driving that direction. It has found for the second year running that prices will continue to fall. The main reasons for the drop are lower gas prices and the uptake of renewable energy sources like solar and wind. Reductions are forecast across the entire National Electricity Market (NEM), with a drop of more than $200 expected for households in South Australia. Falling wholesale costs are the primary driver of the price and bill reductions, with the AEMC predicting that wholesale costs will drop by more than $150 (27.4%) during the period. The Hon Angus Taylor MP, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, said, ‘After what was a tough year for everyone, news that electricity prices are expected to continue falling in 2021 is a welcome relief.’ The Australian Government has outlined its expectations for the electricity sector to deliver 1000MW of dispatchable energy before the coal-fired Liddell Power Station closes in 2023. For more information, see the AEMC report and the Minister’s media release. https://www.energy.gov.au/news-media/news/electricity-prices-fall-over-next-3-years
Yes, delay. That was always the point of lockdowns. Save our healthcare services from getting swamped while we wait for a vaccine or a cure. They have said that all along. No one ever said lockdowns would "solve the pandemic". That's just a strawman. Australia is looking good now with their very low rate of deaths and a vaccine just around the corner.
How good is this? A Budapest-based biotech start-up, Poliloop, has created a 'cocktail' of bacteria that they say can breakdown all 7 types of plastic listed in the international coding system and return back them back into the 'natural life cycle'. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/bacteri...ek?cid=sbsnews:edm:newspm:relation:news:na:na
Couple of potential problems, firstly it depends on how long the process takes. On a commercial scale you need to be able to dispose of hundreds if not thousands of tonnes of plastic waste every day. The link says it takes 'several' weeks to reach the end product which sounds pretty par for the course when organism's have to break down complex molecules to produce energy. It does you no good if you it takes a bio-reactor running off plastic feed stock weeks to process single tonne amounts. Secondly, the biological breakdown of of polymers and other organic molecules etc usually produces CO2 as a bi-product. In nature you have natural decay processes converting leaf litter & plant mass etc into soil/biomass all the time. Part of the CO2 gets trapped in the soil but part is also released back into the atmosphere. So the question is how much CO2 is released during this process and what happens to it? What you might be able to do is thoroughly analyze the genomes of their bacteria to identify what enzymes they are producing at each stage of the process and to then study the chemical structure of these enzymes in precise detail to see if they can be copied and mass produced on an industrial scale as a way of speeding up the process. Other than there are already industrial processes for the breakdown and recycling of plastics but they are relatively new and expensive. Basically industry would have to be forced to adopt them globally - with the usual kicking and screaming along the way. So that means additional taxes on plastic to pay for its collection and recycling or perhaps forcing plastic manufacturers to accept end to end 'ownership' of their product where they are forced to recycle their products post use. Nothing is ever easy.
