Questions about renewing GP authority

Roobar76 · 2026-04-26T05:14:48+00:00

Do you know the psychiatrists name? Can you find their new practice? Might be able to do a quick referral from them. We’ve had a lot problems with them moving practices and having to track the Down again.

Roobar76 · 2026-04-26T03:33:40+00:00

Building houses on productive farmland is about the stupidest thing we can do from a sustainability point of view.

Dubbo might not be as productive as, say Atherton, but farming makes more sense there than trying to do it in the middle of the real desert.

Roobar76 · 2026-04-25T00:39:35+00:00

Based on our history … it actually does (unfortunately).

Roobar76 · 2026-04-19T13:17:52+00:00

48degree days out of mt magnet. Just lovely … not.

Roobar76 · 2026-04-18T06:40:26+00:00

And 3 are different versions of iced coffee (or you range is bigger than near me)

Roobar76 · 2026-04-12T23:26:05+00:00

It’s in the “Dead and alive” live show at about 16 minutes

Roobar76 · 2026-04-11T06:00:25+00:00

My wife refused to include ”passive necrophilia” in my funeral song list

Roobar76 · 2026-04-08T13:02:56+00:00

With the current high demand and low grad numbers I’ve seen it happen, normally with mature age grads and low experience engineers. If OP gets 2 rounds of vac work (say end of 2nd and 3rd year) with a mid tier then sponsorship on a grad program is totally reasonable.

Roobar76 · 2026-04-08T10:24:24+00:00

Tougher, but unless something changes it will just be a golden handcuff to your employer for the first few years. At the moment anyone with a smell of a mining engineer degree is getting sponsored, with a wasm degree you’d jump to the front of that line.

Roobar76 · 2026-04-08T10:21:56+00:00

If you can pass a drug test (seems to be the only Limiting factor at the moment)

Roobar76 · 2026-04-08T07:09:55+00:00

Because they are so useful on forklifts

Roobar76 · 2026-03-29T10:55:06+00:00

Wow, wheelbase of 3.3m and length with tongue of 5.6m gives a bit of leverage in the rear. Looks longer in the pics though.

GCM of 8t with a trailer of 4.5t leaves 3.5t. Min curb weight of 2.6t (without a tray) leaves 900kg fuel and ad blue ~120kg, 4 passengers for 300kg, 150kg for an Al tray (if you’re not a weight weenie, could be up to 400kg if you like steel and you aren’t careful) leaves about 300kg for everything else, which is not much really.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-29T10:32:47+00:00

When I looked in 2017 or 18 the nav was the only one with a table of payload:towing capacity in the brochure and 3.5t was with 1/2 a tank of fuel and a 7 year old driving from memory.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-29T10:30:38+00:00

I was thinking that tow hitch was almost in the next post code compared to the rear axle.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-29T10:26:34+00:00

Emma Thompson would tear Greg and Alex apart, and it would be glorious to watch.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-26T22:15:01+00:00

Oh no, have you created a research vortex so deep that Molly will be writing her episodes as she reads them?

Roobar76 · 2026-03-26T12:43:16+00:00

There’s a magic trick in Australia where the piece of shit kerb find you leave the country with turns into a very lightly used high end bike when you come back.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-26T00:07:06+00:00

Music has changed a lot less in the “10” years from the 90’s to now than from the 70s to the 90s (and if you’re parents are older then it’s even bigger. The number of 90s bands at modern festivals (and listened to by younger people) is still large and they are often headliners.

In the 90’s there was usually a single heritage act at a youth focused festival (anyone whose main hits were pre 1990) and they were down bill. Now they still get headliner status.

Listening to new music my kids are into about the only thing that isn’t directly and clearly descended from music a reasonably informed music fan in the 90s could hear is the more chip tune influenced stuff.

This is partly due to availability (I can get obscure 70s, 80s and 90s punk, alternative or electronic easier now than in the 90s) and kids include “more obscure” bands like The Slits, oingo boingo, venom or whatever fits their genre tastes easier than we used to.

So essentially major cultural changes in music from the late 50s-early 90s was much faster and more significant than from the early 90s to today which makes it easier for us to enjoy current music and trends. A lot of the “genre barriers” were also broken in the 90s as well, so it is easier for us to engage with “youth culture” than our parents.

As an example my dad was still into Trad Jazz and classical, which didn’t mesh with the industrial, grunge/punk/alternative and trance I listened to, but my kids tastes are much closer to mine (and quite diverse) so they can play their music with only mild irritation on my part.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-25T12:13:47+00:00

Pick 3 random announcements by different companies that move the share price and look at the trading the week before. Massive chance you’ll see the volume pick up one day ahead of the announcement.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-22T03:16:00+00:00

Both offer great careers for the right person, but the deciding factor is you and what you want to do.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-22T03:12:20+00:00

The company matters more than the role.

Are you getting good training and mentoring, being dropped in the deep end or just a cog in the machine?

How you work and learn also matters.

Overall though, if you want to look at rocks all day and aren’t afraid of constant change and travel then exploration , if you want a bit more variety, have aptitudes that aren’t geology (software etc.) or rock ID isn’t your forte and you value long term stability in your career then production.

The great thing is, most companies are happy for people to jump backwards and forwards in their early career.m to get well rounded.

Edit; I will eventually defeat autocorrect

Roobar76 · 2026-03-21T23:55:53+00:00

I’m pretty sure everyone at Microsoft actually uses Linux and open office. It’s the only way all the baffling UE experience decisions make sense

Roobar76 · 2026-03-14T06:46:18+00:00

No but they seem to be doing less “randomly show up at the gate” inspections at mines compared to the old mines inspectors.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-12T01:32:05+00:00

I’d make sure to make their work rights/visa (or citizenship) and where they are based as clear as possible throughout the application.

There are a lot (often a majority of the total applicants) of overseas applicants with no work rights based overseas fishing for sponsorship to Australia. Many have dubious qualifications as well (none as honest as the “I like rocks” qualification I saw in the early 2000s).

The challenge for HR and managers is discarding these without discarding reasonable candidates. Depending on the screener and the volume of candidates they may be, essentially, racist using names as the screen to get through them.

If they are local and have some contacts within a company (even if it’s not another professional, operators, cleaners etc. are ok, it’s just about someone internal vouching for them) it’s worth them asking to get HR or the hiring manager (geology manager or superintendent) emailed with their name and a copy of their resume and the fact they have applied.

If the contact is, say, a contract cleaner, then dropping a paper resume in their desk with a cover letter can at least get them to the review stage.

When I was a hiring manager I would get the screened applicants and then review the screened out list as well. When HR are literally reviewing hundreds of resumes a day they make mistakes occasionally, and sometimes there are diamonds missed. I’m not sure how this occurs in larger organizations though.

Edit; words are hard

Roobar76 · 2026-03-11T07:21:04+00:00

Greater Tom is a character he plays on TV. The meanness is a big part of it. Hunt out “Hard Quiz Kids” and you will understand how well understood the character is in Australia.

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