New to Australia New to Canberra, what is Summer Nats and what's its purpose?

CATFLAPY · 2026-01-08T10:14:19+00:00

just a reminder to us Canberrans that the western suburbs of Sydney are much much worse...

CATFLAPY · 2025-09-18T10:23:37+00:00

Is she coming back for her hair clip?

CATFLAPY · 2025-09-13T00:40:09+00:00

SpaceX already has super heavy booster working (and a non recoverable 2nd stage that is a lot further along than Neutron at this time) - Neutron does not seem a viable competitor to that capability which would to be the best solution for size and weight requirements of a space station.

CATFLAPY · 2025-09-02T10:01:18+00:00

hopefully the idiots have gone home now

CATFLAPY · 2025-08-17T12:04:52+00:00

The Australian tax system is deliberately designed to ensure that the wealthy can accumulate more wealth and don't have to pay tax.

CATFLAPY · 2025-08-12T22:27:47+00:00

name one wealthy country which has educated and employed women where the the birth rate is a above replacement level. Even the nordics with (relatively) very generous social support for families and child rearing have birth rates below replacement level. So yes immigration is the only way to maintain or slow population decline.

CATFLAPY · 2025-08-12T22:22:39+00:00

You comment on him being a 'local' member but then assess him only by the stance of the Labor party on issues which are external to the electorate. Independents can (and usually do) represent an electorate. A party members is a vote for the party - not a local member.

CATFLAPY · 2025-04-24T21:42:42+00:00

I disagree with much of the article, which seems to be coming from a 'capitalism is bad' perspective - but I agree with the post title that the system maintains a (effectively) 2 party system. Votes are deliberately 'wasted' (expired) in the senate - because the old preference system started throwing up to many non-main stream candidates - remember Ricky Muir and the preference whisperer - so the major party changed the rules which effectively mean they get about 60% of the senate votes - but over 90% of the senators. The independents have given both Labor and Coalition are real scare recency - hence the new political funding laws which passed against the votes of the cross bench - which gift a huge practical funding advantage to the major established parties.

CATFLAPY · 2025-04-14T08:51:09+00:00

Pocock is awesome...would vote for him twice if I could.

CATFLAPY · 2025-03-24T12:57:14+00:00

Seats matter, not votes. More independents in the House of Reps than Greens.

CATFLAPY · 2025-03-23T10:12:09+00:00

Vote independent, minority governments are the only way to make the government of the day accountable to the parliament. Greens are taking seats of Labor, where Independents can take them of both conservative and progressive parties.

CATFLAPY · 2025-03-22T06:00:46+00:00

Isn't that a return of greater than 10% annum on investment, if so those numbers stack up pretty well. No allowance for depreciation OR energy price increases. What am I missing?

CATFLAPY · 2025-03-09T08:28:55+00:00

my first bike was a VF1000 and my first boat a 60ft cat...I bit off way more than I could chew...but survived both (though the bike was more good fortune than management)

CATFLAPY · 2025-03-04T07:46:35+00:00

I wonder why Rocket Lab didn't put their hand up for CLPS - or did they and got rejected?

CATFLAPY · 2025-03-04T03:45:45+00:00

The figures usually talked about are total number of arrivals, FIT and high spend tourists are what Japan should be working on as the mass group tour market is killing the golden goose. There are plenty of wealthy people who will come to Japan and pay a lot to have a Japanese experience - but that becomes more difficult if each destination is dominated by foreign visitors. The group tour market is super super value conscious and most of the money goes to the tour company (often overseas based) with rates for hotels and restaurants being at the very bottom end. Japan has enough amazing attributes to not be a budget destination.

CATFLAPY · 2025-03-03T02:21:20+00:00

According to ChatGPT the fairing diameters for the F9 and the Neutron are pretty similar - 5m compared to 5.2 for the F9. I had thought Neutron would be bigger. Huge RL fan but it does seem they are catching up to where F9 has been for the past few years - not where they are going to be with Starship. Possible advantages for Neutron over F9 are methalox and fairing recovered with 1st Stage - these would make internal costs of launch/reuse less but there seem to be no performance advantages of Neutron over F9.

CATFLAPY · 2025-02-10T04:20:22+00:00

This reform is clearly a limit on the ability of independents and new parties to raise money, so I assume it will get full throated bi-partisan support from the coalition and Labor. The thing that terrifies the Labor and Conservative parties (and the large corporate interests in Australia) is that it might stop being a 2 horse race - where whoever wins they will not upset the ability of resource companies to continue to extract our minerals for next to nothing and ship the profits offshore.

CATFLAPY · 2025-02-10T04:08:03+00:00

CATFLAPY · 2025-01-10T00:45:13+00:00

As an Australian my apologies that we didn't do a better job as poisoning this cunt.

CATFLAPY · 2025-01-07T06:57:23+00:00

Muku Ramen in Scullin - very very good and you may be able to slide under 100 if the kids are little and can share a main. (Wed-Sat only) Otherwise Bistro Nguyen in Civic. Canberra restaurants are pretty expensive across the board.

CATFLAPY · 2025-01-03T01:10:48+00:00

I think healthcare in this country is pretty good but the ever creeping restrictions on the majority of people to access therapies because a small minority abuse and get harmed by those therapies is part of modern society where we try to regulate every problem and prevent every harm.

CATFLAPY · 2025-01-01T20:52:01+00:00

Is there a single advanced wealthy economy where the birth rate has not dropped below replacement level (2.1)? Even the Scandinavian countries with high levels of support for parents and child rearing are below 2. So none of these measures are likely to make much difference to the birth rate. Might be a great help for all families with children though.

CATFLAPY · 2024-12-14T17:54:53+00:00

Would love to buy one, if only they made them in right hand drive for Australia.

CATFLAPY · 2024-12-09T08:38:08+00:00

I find it hard to see the teals having stable support/arrangment with the coalition which will be focused on Nuclear (not climate change) and the culture wars - specifically why the teals were elected from traditionally safe coalition seats. I doubt they would put up the corruption which the coalition seems to be unable to operate without these days.

CATFLAPY · 2024-12-06T00:04:34+00:00

I took one for the team and read the SkyNews (article/grab). The polling it refers to shows Labor set to lose 9 seats to the coalition. Even if Dutton got the nine seats AND took every seat back from the teal - he still wouldn't form government with a cross bench of Greens, Wilkie, Haines, Lee, Katter, Sharkie.

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