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Mine pleasantly seems to already have converted.
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Can't blame Micronesia.
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Yes look at your loving face.
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Don Dongington posted:An Australian academic (who spoke at an NTEU national council meeting right before Covid) put in the yards going through them and released a book; but between the Liberals being in power and they and the mainstream media having zero interest in promoting the narrative that the Libs were complicit in a straight-up coup OR that the Americans had a major role in it, and the global pandemic hitting not long after it did fall into the memory hole a bit. Any chance of recalling the author/book?
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What are the odds he's known for a little while he'd have to cop to it but waited and then jumped to announce it when Pell died so people were still distracted with that?
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Jan 12, 2023 12:45
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The Lord Bude posted:This sort of thing leads me to wonder; how does anything ever get done or planned out in Sydney on a larger scale when the city is a patchwork of little tiny local councils? As someone who lives in Brisbane it seems like such a strange way of doing things. The state government effectively acts as the capital city government. It's more focused in NSW and VIC than it would be in Queensland - like, wider Melbourne is 77% of Victoria's population, so of course the government is happy to spend all their time governing the city (and ignoring the wider state). I imagine it'd be messier in Queensland if it still worked like that because the population is more spread out.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:How does it work in Brisbane? Brisbane City Council (and LGAs in general in queensland) is fuckoff huge and covers much of the city, and even for things larger than that they only have to coordinate with a few neighboring also-fuckoff-huge councils.  Brisbane Council covers 1338 km². Melbourne City Council is 37.7 km².
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Recoome posted:Having so many little fiefdoms in the same metro area feels like it would be a clusterfuck as you'd probably have insane levels of duplication of systems which don't necessarily talk to each other The little feifdoms in Melbourne end up dealing with much more low-grade local responsibilities and are like "let's do things to promote the local shopping strip!" and "rearrange the parking around the train station!" and "people don't like their neighbour's front yard!" and deal with things on a much more individual personal level. But still, you're not wrong. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Surely I've ranted about this before, but abolish state governments all together. If we didn't have them we wouldn't invent them. We do not need 8 departments of health and education and all that stuff is better administered federally anyway. And yes make councils bigger. In a world where we're ignoring all the problems: shunt things like health etc up to Federal, reduce the states to high-level planning bodies, rearrange for areas of similar concern. Melbourne Government, Sydney Government, Southeast Coast Government, Murray-Darling Basin Government, GoldBrisbane government, Eyre Basin, etc This is an awful idea. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Jan 18, 2023 12:24
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gently caress it just divvy Australia up into the water basins.
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This conversation is reminding me of the Auckland clusterfuck. They had a similar situation with Melbourne and the like with lots of little councils, but since NZ had no state governement and the National Government was busy with national things, Auckland was a big city without any authority focused on it to actually do central planning, and trying to figure out how to get it to work and controversy over reforms has been a half century long process. They had the Auckland Regional Authority which was an umbrella council formed in 1963 that encompassed 32 local councils for certain responsibilities, and that worked badly, and then in 1989 there were a bunch of reforms and they reduced the number of local councils in Auckland to to 7, and the ARA was replaced with the Auckland Regional Council as an umbrella over those 7, and that continued to be a clusterfuck with ongoing fights between the locals and the ARC (especially re: land use), and to try to bring transit and road design under control they spun off the Auckland Regional Transit Authority as well in 2003, and then in 2010 it all went gently caress it and the ARC and all the locals were dissolved and replaced with just a single Auckland Council, although with that they split up the city into 21 local boards that have local decisions and issues and facilities delegated to them, but unlike before they're properly under the Auckland Council so there's not fighting over power and jurisdiction.
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Recoome posted:maybe the little fiefdoms made sense in ye olden times but i suspect it was starting to not be great in the latter half of the 20th century, and it's completely obsolete in the 21st. I think the 'local boards' approach Auckland eventually settled on, "a metro-wide government that delegates local duties to local boards but keeps them on a comparatively tight leash and has choice of what it wants to delegate and ultimate authority in the end" is a model that makes sense. But I don't actually know how it's worked out there in the last decade since they introduced it.
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Are they going to make it so you don't have to pay full and get some back and instead just have to pay the remainder?
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And even if it's just flagging, the big issue with using systems to pick out items for human review is that it's really, really hard to stop people falling into the trap of just ticking what the system pops up.
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Jan 29, 2023 15:07
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Ugh, such ragebait, the article is almost entirely about how Millennials have it worse by every actual measure and according to economists, but they have to use her quote for the title. Damnit ABC.
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birdstrike posted:here have some phenylephrine That bullshit shouldn't even be legal to sell it's so much of a fraud. Just putting something that does absolutely nothing out and claiming it's real medicine. Not even herbal or anything.
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"Senator Pocock has requested a budget increase for... tearaway suits. Granted."
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Is there a reason Sydney’s dams aren’t hydroelectric, and could they be modified to be so? Warragamba Dam generator was retired in 2001, it was a waste of money to keep it maintained compared to how little it could run.
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Yeah, Pride is Pride because it's the opposite of shame.
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I do have to wonder what the cost efficiency of a hydrogen plant is when we still have hydro that hasn't been converted to act as grid storage. Isn't that massively more economical and easier?
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Yeah, go ahead and throw the entire city's nurses into jail. If you're critical and it's illegal for you to strike that just means you throw 'gently caress you, grant us amnesty' onto your strike demands. All in.
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