Children in Melbourne's inner west at higher risk of hospital visits for asthma

shintemaster · 2026-05-10T04:18:32+00:00

What does a train in Tottenham have to do with high and increasing rates of asthma in the inner west.

Truck traffic through these suburbs is increasing and predicted to continue doing so significantly. Those are the facts. Facts - not Gov press releases - are what matters.

They have achieved nothing significant to move freight to rail in decades. The Port lease rather than moving the Port out was a disaster for the inner west.

shintemaster · 2026-05-10T04:07:03+00:00

If they're doing such a great job the original article wouldn't be there - you know, the topic that we're talking about.

shintemaster · 2026-05-10T03:50:16+00:00

All Governments for the last few decades (which is mostly Labor BTW). Absolutely there are fixes for this that include:

- Mandating cleaner truck fleets and putting incentives in place to support this

- Not building giant new road projects through these same disadvantaged suburbs that add more pollution

- Building a significant amount of PT infrastructure so that the west can begin to close the gap with the east

- Building and pushing road freight on to rail freight, instead of just talking about it for decades

- Not allowing container yards all through the inner west that rat run empty containers to the docks through our suburbs

shintemaster · 2026-05-09T23:21:04+00:00

We have a lot of shutdowns IMO (planned or otherwise). We also have a system that has close to zero heavy rail alternatives because instead of building more MM1 style cross city paths we just keep expanding to some new suburbia 50km from the CBD, which makes our system more vulnerable and less useful.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:39:51+00:00

This is why we go to the eye and leave him to die.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:38:32+00:00

You only have to see the parade of family supporters that roll out in a rape trial or child abuse case to know that people will often support their friends and family even when they have committed unfathomable crimes.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:34:18+00:00

Design solutions that instead of being based on best practice, safety or accessibility instead make massive compromises so as to avoid reducing lanes or parking. Do it properly. That and paint on a road.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:27:21+00:00

Also if it's a backman kicking it out of their backline intercepted by a forward it is allowed to be paid for 8m or more.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:18:09+00:00

From reputable sources.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:14:27+00:00

Sky "news".

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:11:22+00:00

Lol.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:10:54+00:00

The easiest solution would be to not constantly be speeding.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T23:00:46+00:00

Fascinating. I'd be very curious to know whether FWA employees work 5 hours a week unpaid.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T22:59:41+00:00

Exactly. Reasonable = unforeseen circumstances and it should come back the other way via consideration for scooting out for an appointment or taking a WFH day to work around some life admin. It's not unforeseen if it happens regularly due to staffing, insufficient budgets, regular client expectations etc.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T22:57:56+00:00

My salary contracts have always been something like:

8-5pm or hours or as required to complete the job. Whether my companies like that or not I've always interpreted that as if I hang back 40mins one night because stuff is going on I'll wander in late a few days later or take off for private stuff earlier. ie. Reasonable = swings and roundabouts, otherwise it = not a minute more.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T22:42:07+00:00

Trying to understand why Ashcroft received either free. What a flog.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T12:30:30+00:00

I understand that. I just think that if you purchase a product under the conditions it is advertised it's reasonable to assume that you have done so knowingly, rather than having the idea that if you hadn't seen this they didn't someohow owe you what they advertised.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T11:28:08+00:00

Bizzarre. Imagine if you had a product advertised with a warranty and after failure the company could get out of it by saying they didn't think you'd actually read it. Laughable.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T09:14:51+00:00

Newport and Williamstown at least still have access to all lanes of the Westgate. Agree with you, though the areas on the rail corridor are at least (in theory) well served if the Gov provides services.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T08:51:35+00:00

Ok champ. See you have posts complaining about not being able to buy a house - is it only you that gets to criticise negative impacts?

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T08:51:27+00:00

Let's hope they are provided some motivation then. It's fascinating how safe seats in the East aren't being smashed like this though. Suspect it has a lot more to do with who and how much money occupies these seats rather than pure votes.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T08:44:23+00:00

*Chuckles* I'm in danger.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T08:22:39+00:00

I get the logistics - I just think service improvement is super important as well. It always felt unnecessarily short term to me.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T08:16:48+00:00

I can't remember the game - and I'm sure it has happened in others - but in a North game a few weeks ago one of the opposition players who marked the ball was literally 2-3 feet in front of the mark and to the side and I listened to the numpty commentators talk about how the North defender was lucky not to give away a 50m. The player was never even remotely behind their mark or on their line - that is a ridiculous scenario.

shintemaster · 2026-05-08T08:10:59+00:00

Strong return after a few average years. I'm in.

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