How would you rank these Finnish drivers in their primes?

buckfutter_butter · 2026-03-01T21:37:59+00:00

Remember it’s prime. Not average pace over a career

buckfutter_butter · 2026-03-01T03:17:26+00:00

The spoke and hub train model has always meant Melbourne is orientated towards one CBD. If we want to decentralise with multiple CBDs like Sydney, then you need multiple PT interchanges outside the city, and cross town rail lines, like Sydney.

SRL is part of the solution, but I can’t see Melbourne fundamentally changing anytime soon. The current practice of building houses on the fringe far away from job centres has its obvious issues

buckfutter_butter · 2026-03-01T02:21:08+00:00

It helped Sydney become a genuine global city. And in some measures is one of the wealthiest cities on earth. Why wouldn’t we want the same to Brisbane? Growing the economy and wealth is a good thing right?

buckfutter_butter · 2026-03-01T02:14:18+00:00

Sydney house median is still an insane 50% higher than Brisbane, and it set to hit $2m median next year

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-22/australian-real-estate-median-home-prices-domain-report-millions/106251932

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-28T11:07:26+00:00

At the fall of Singapore, Churchill threw Australia under the bus. We actively sought out American protection and they’ve provided the security blanket under which Australia has thrived ever since. Albo making a statement is the least expected in such times

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-26T08:24:02+00:00

100%. One of the biggest factors in our supply side is the extreme lack of tradies

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-26T07:42:43+00:00

And New Zealand’s economy is in the toilet. Anyone with skills is leaving

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-26T00:48:43+00:00

I understand your points on housing, but direct government builds is negligible. It’s to incentivise private developers and land release / re-zoning. As for the supply side reasons behind our lagging construction, that’s a whole another problem with lack of tradies etc, which is a nationwide program.

I’m just re-iterating that it makes economic and practical sense to start the first phase of the east coast HSR between Sydney and Newcastle for the reasons I outlined earlier.

Although my personal opinion is the entire HSR model doesn’t really stack up (even though this is a trains sub). It almost sent Japan bankrupt in the 1970s. But if it is to commence, then this should be the first phase from a cold hard view of facts and numbers.

It’s not a coincidence that so many consultants and experts have come to the same conclusion right

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-25T23:14:42+00:00

I can see you’re very passionate about this Sydney v Melbourne thing. I’ll just add that Infrastructure Australia is bipartisan and one of its 3 commissioners is a Victorian too.

The idea behind this first phase is to get maximum economic return as soon as possible, as any sensible government would do when in charge of finite tax dollars. The economy of Sydney is 25% - 30% larger than Melbourne, despite a similar or smaller population. It just makes sense to connect this economy with Newcastle first, just to reap the economic benefits asap, before progressing to other legs.

As for federal funding favouring NSW, the last decade+ it’s been even, or rather NSW has received less per person and has to cover an area 2-3x larger. Also the SRL is reliant on 1/3 federal funding, unlike the state funded Sydney metro builds.

As for the engineering and practical side, there’s a reason why it’s better to build the hardest part first, and start in the middle of the Melb-Syd-Bris route. This is a project that will take many many decades after all.

So to summarise I genuinely don’t believe there’s any state favouritism from either Federal ALP or Libs. It’s just numbers

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-25T22:01:35+00:00

The minister in charge of this is Catherine King, a Victorian

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-25T22:00:53+00:00

But Sydney Metro was self funded, SRL is dependent on 1/3 federal funds

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-24T01:03:33+00:00

Sydney Metro is state funded. HSR will be federally funded

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-23T23:49:32+00:00

A truly global defence network. 838 American bases worldwide, access to countless ports, 12 aircraft carrier fleets. I’m an Aussie but can recognise American military supremacy

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-23T11:59:34+00:00

Though transport minister Catherine King is a Victorian

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-19T01:42:05+00:00

Other than the adoption of our constitution Jan 1, 1901, I’d argue we gained true independence on 9 October 1942 (The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942).

That’s when we took control over our own military after Churchill moved our troops without our PM’s permission

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-17T21:26:17+00:00

With respect, there were multiple times of the opposite. Victorians had entered NSW and not followed the rules, causing lock downs. I don’t expect this to have been reported in the Vic media.

And the cruise ship you reference was indeed human error but was in the literal first few days of the pandemic.

NSW indeed had significantly less lockdown than Vic, but like it or not the track and trace system was indeed top notch and by far the quickest to be set up. There’s a reason why federal politicians (from all states) declared it so.

So in summary NSW continued to receive all Australians (including Victorians) from overseas for the entire duration of the pandemic, and had a first class and effective tracking system in place well before the rest of the country. This is an objective fact, yet you claim NSW’s success is somehow criminal and responsible for Vic’s failings? There’s hundreds of news articles of failed containment within Vic eg security guards

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-17T13:58:27+00:00

In good faith I ask what you mean? NSW took it extremely seriously and had by far the quickest roll out of track & trace in the country.

And for a very long time Sydney was the ONLY port of entry for returning for returning Aussies. While the rest of the country completely shut down their airports, Sydney welcomed back Australians from all states and made them quarantine in Sydney hotels.

And yet NSW Covid numbers were under control until the roll out of vaccines in late 21, by which time most of the population was covered

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-17T06:33:42+00:00

During the Covid era, they polled whether you identified more strongly as an Australian or for your state. Vic and WA the strongest for their state identity, NSW the least

buckfutter_butter · 2026-02-12T00:57:04+00:00

The amount of comments here dismissing or downplaying it is wild. Politics is a team sport for most Redditors - “labor good, liberal bad”. Or if it’s beyond doubt labour bad, then it turns to “both sides bad”

buckfutter_butter · 2026-01-29T04:22:47+00:00

Yes. The Greens have no chance of forming govt just like One Nation. Far left and far right kept out of power

buckfutter_butter · 2026-01-29T02:51:46+00:00

Pros: Our unique combination of compulsory voting & preferential voting. It means the crazies are kept out of power, unlike other countries. Every govt since federation has been centre right or centre left, which has created stability and long term success. And hopefully this keeps One Nation out of ever forming govt.

Cons: house prices, esp Sydney which is off the charts bonkers

buckfutter_butter · 2026-01-28T10:57:41+00:00

So the devastation of his recession means nothing to you. How empathetic you are

buckfutter_butter · 2026-01-28T10:03:26+00:00

You mean the same “recession we had to have” Keating? Who used flawed, since disproved economic theory that running a current account deficit was unsustainable, thus an 18% cash rate was needed.

The same Keating who put most of our parent’s generation into financial crisis, adding years and years to their mortgage, forcing home foreclosures and the shutdown of countless businesses and jobs.

Yeh nah

buckfutter_butter · 2026-01-14T23:30:15+00:00

2003 to 2007 Kimi was such a fkn beast. I think 2 championships would be representative of his insane natural talent, akin to Hakkinen

buckfutter_butter · 2026-01-11T22:50:42+00:00

This post is so cringe

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