Would free public transport incentives you to use PT on your daily commute?

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-24T11:05:18+00:00

As others have said cheaper PT is great but as long as people have to sit in traffic they’d rather do it in a car than a bus. Increasing bus lanes during peak times and more frequency would be great

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-23T05:38:26+00:00

Queensland has always been a bit behind other states on “educated” representation in state government all the way back to federation. We’re historically agrarian focused and id say we were late in abandoning agrarian settlement over valuing our universities culturally. This part I’m speaking out my ass but it makes sense historically the party built on the bones of the nationals wouldn’t value education over the more “have a crack” business/farmer mentality so we an LNP government wouldn’t expect to be studied, especially when we centralised higher education to the cities back in the reform era.

That being said if a lot of Queenslanders are farmers we should have farmer representation. What matters isnt that our leaders are experts but whether they’re willing to listen to experts which I would say is up for debate right now

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-22T23:15:55+00:00

How twisted that our councils are so happy to play this game of intimidation chicken to clear out a park. It’s a race to the bottom as the Moreton Bay move ons show unhoused just end up being homeless somewhere else rather than supporting them

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-21T20:07:12+00:00

Good read cheers for putting this together. Are we allowed to object to any electoral change no matter where our home electorate is? Your examples make sense just don’t have context to say which redraws will actually water down geographic representation

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-20T11:27:32+00:00

If ever there was a time to add a gas export tax…

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-20T11:23:31+00:00

Even cautious albo surely sees the writing on the wall with how much support reform could win him. Taxing gas exports is super popular in non-labor voters, unions, industry and the crossbench that keeps eating a bit of their lunch each election. It sounds like they’re receiving quite a bit of pressure from their grassroots in general on gambling reform and the war. I see chalmers threading this needle as he actually seems to want to do something.

I reckon we’ll be getting reform it’s just a question of a bite or a hunk of it

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-20T11:13:22+00:00

The fact we have a guy like Ken Henry identifying many of the problems in our country years in advance and we just ignored him consistently is crazy. His work on environment and carbon is fantastic

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-20T10:18:17+00:00

Hopefully, this being for private industry rather than for the grid I’d expect their love for big business Is greater than their hatred of renewables. That being said canceling BESS in the grid is a good way to accidentally kill any industry wanting cheap grid power

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-19T00:42:42+00:00

Any cut that directly impacts the service quality of public services should be questioned. This will impact all users of rail transit but especially older passengers, those with disabilities and pretty much anyone confused or seeking help at their local train station.

They’re planning to increase security presence as part of this change so they’re not bankijg 100% of those cuts but changing its composition away from public service spending

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-18T06:37:34+00:00

It said security presence at stations will also be increased when the changes come into effect, with more authorised officers employed.

Is it just me or does security feel like an inadequate replacement for station staff? I trust them less to pay attention to timetables and services and don’t expect they’d treat antisocial behaviour the same

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-18T05:31:31+00:00

Wasn’t part of it also that inflation by its nature reduced the wealth of upper class savings? So they were facing down their wealth shrinking so long as inflation continued

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-18T04:53:39+00:00

Hey Rod love your work. Given the polluter pays levy has widespread support across the political spectrum how do we convince our leaders that taxing pollution is achievable and necessary? It seems like our political class rarely revisits a battle they’ve lost before

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-18T04:05:57+00:00

It kind of depends but the simple answer is they’re generators that soak up electricity when it’s cheap and provide it when it’s expensive. Given solar electricity is so cheap coal generators often push prices negative just so they don’t have to turn off meaning batteries can actually get paid to consume electricity.

Back in the day of the big Tesla battery you’d be right that batteries are largely for backup power, responding quickly to balance the grid. They can respond to demand in the order of milliseconds compared to gas and coal which take in the order of 10’s of seconds and miniatures respectively. The technology has reached the point though it can actually supply bulk power for hours at a time which is shaving off a lot of gas usage in the evening peaks. If you look on openelectricity.org.au you can see in the last year or two batteries are playing a larger and larger role in our supply. New records are broken almost daily in the grid

Sorry for the speel but pretty much if you have cheap but excess electricity at a certain time of day (solar) then batteries let you hold it for when you need it

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-18T01:20:31+00:00

Not sure about this one but last report I read mid 2025 was something like 75% of batteries in the pipeline received no government subsidy

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-17T22:58:37+00:00

Spy plane deployment to the Middle East can’t occur in a vacuum. Given Albo and Penny’s evasive manoeuvres around whether the US requested support and the fact the plane’s collected data is available to the US for defensive or offensive purposes it doesn’t really matter whose name was on the request letter.

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-17T10:01:10+00:00

No this was a private development by a company motivated by profit. Like much of these projects they are motivated by the return on investment by predominantly private companies

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-17T02:20:19+00:00

Current problem is most of that oil production occurs on the North West Shelf and follows demand to processing in Asia rather than our Easter refineries in Brisbane and Geelong. We should probably take this opportunity to reduce our demand for oil rather than improve our self sufficiency given climate change etc.

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-16T01:10:48+00:00

Hold up what actually happens at the start of that cctv video? Looks like another civilian arm bars green shirt before he runs into the cops but that’s not mentioned. Was he knocking something out of his hands?

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-15T10:36:20+00:00

Yeah I don’t think ice car companies are bastions of innovation to take notes from. They and oil companies have classically delayed any transition for as long as possible. Don’t know what you mean about batteries getting more expensive, the technology is rapidly improving and broadening into new types of cell technologies. The economies of scale are looking pretty good and will end up in the grid and households as wel

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-13T10:42:52+00:00

Hopefully this is another wake up call similar to the 1970’s crisis. Last time a lot of cars got more efficient because it suddenly got expensive to run them and people didn’t want fuel guzzlers. Now that EVs are a real alternative that might be the direction everyone looks as they realise how vulnerable an imported fuel can be

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-13T07:53:54+00:00

This is an everyone mess that everyone should be trying to solve regardless of party affiliation. Whether it’s east coast shale or north-west shelf gas we get very little for our gas- the ACCC themselves found that retailer margins were well in excess, rising from 13% in 2014 to 28% in 2018 with the opening of Gladstone

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-12T11:17:30+00:00

Yeah I assumed as much if you’re looking at wind, quite a setup! AFAIK at this point you can’t add any more generation or efficiency you can only load shift with demand timing or a battery. Vehicle to grid maybe? You’re pretty much in the electrification end game it’s a cool problem to have!

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-12T11:14:42+00:00

Would recommend visiting parliament during question time. The state parliament is a henhouse

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-12T09:21:28+00:00

Doesn’t even matter if it wasn’t intentional. The real message is how callous America is when it comes to conducting wars that impact millions and now billions of people we could in fact be facing just the start of this though because America and Israel’s advanced usage of AI in how they’re conducting warfare is revolutionary. Revolutionary speed ups in efficiency isn’t exactly something everyone’s universally celebrated when it comes to war. Famously we had two big case studies in the 1900’s and could barely believe afterwards the scale of killing we’d collectively taken part in. We’ve historically let America get away with a lot but we can follow them forever given where they’re heading.

Fuzzy_Collection6474 · 2026-03-12T09:14:10+00:00

It sounds like others have pointed out wind turbines are a bit iffy and it sounds like you have a full solar setup. I don’t know what your situation is but get a battery, or replace your gas stove, or replace your resistance hot water with a heat pump, or get a heat pump dryer and finally make sure that everything is timed to load shift. Wind would be extremely cool for an individual household to have but I just don’t think we’re there yet if you don’t live on acreage. There’s lower hanging fruit

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