good morals in kids

I think you mean basic human decency

I don’t like it when they interview celebrities on 7:30. What? Is there no news that needs an in-depth look?

Unlike most media outlets I don’t read political press releases

Exactly and that is something a lot of Pro-Israel people try to obscure

Labor’s position on Palestine is a bit complex. They are actually Pro-Palestine, Australia just voted at the UN in support of a motion to make the PA a member. They’re trying to play the risky game of appeasing both parts of the community, as they have seats in both Islamic and Jewish dense regions. They might lose both sides playing this game though. For whatever reason the Pro-Israel voice seems to have more influence while the Pro-Palestine voice gets tossed to the side. This is weird in the context of the 2021 census:

Which marks the Jewish section of the community as near negligible, but what really matters is what the rest of the community thinks. Murdoch has chosen Israel, and thus have the LNP. The Greens have chosen Palestine. Personally if you don’t support the coexistence of Israel and Palestine, I’d vote for either of those parties.

We should also note that Australia has very little power to influence international events and the LNP are clearly using this as a distraction to win votes due to their woeful domestic policies. But it is morally reprehensible to not try for a resolution. Israel do nothing for us and we should recognise Netanyahu as a terrorist alongside HAMAS

Yes that one

Looking at the article the insect repellant bottle looks a lot like a juice bottle, but still

driving while unhealthy, tired or whatever or taking drugs known to increase violent tendencies like alcohol.

If it was up to me, alcohol would be banned as well but such a ban would be largely impractical and there would also be a large black market formed just by how easy the stuff is to make—it literally used to be a learning exercise in year 12 chemistry in QLD. When it comes to driving when unhealthy or tired, there is generally a choice to not drive and if you do crash you will almost always be identified as being at fault. So it’s not like there is no recourse for those poor decisions. With vapes the user cannot stop anytime they want, they’re addictive and there are companies exploiting that.

It’s a lot easier to avoid fog machines than it is people vaping. I’ve never seen a fog machine at the train station…

Not exactly, as they won’t be promoting the vapes as they’ll be plainly packaged and they’ll be heavily regulated. They will still profit but not encouraging it

Are you saying that vaping is a good thing and a net positive?

A bunch of businesses will basically be shut down because of this … they can’t exactly pivot to something else

It’s a damn shame too - I don’t know what we’ll do without all those businesses built around exploiting drug addicts

Thanks for linking that, their position makes a bit more sense now, at least by restricting them to pharmacies there won’t be as much of a black market

I’m not sure I understand the Greens position on vapes. Are they pro-tobacco or something? or is it about creating a black market?

Why? Because he held the US to account?

If you don’t know, vote no!

I just saw an opinion piece by Chris Kenny in the Australian whinging that the “majority” of the media isn’t giving Dutton a free ride on nuclear. Bro you are the majority of the media. ABC and the Guardian have much smaller audiences

I can’t remember where but they mention in the report that SMRs were the most suitable form of reactor for Australia according to some industry consultation and it being difficult to realise the full costings of the large scale “traditional” nuclear reactors due to government subsidies, lack of transparency and different labour costs in Australia VS somewhere else 50 years ago.

Do you think the Coalition (or any hypothetical but still possible Australian Government) could actually deliver nuclear by 2040? Given the lack of expertise and experience, as well as pushback from States and lack of private investment I think it’s really unlikely

For anyone interested the full report may be found here: https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/2024-06/20240612 UTSACRI BIDA Poll 2024 - Australian views on the Australia-China relationship_Introduction and executive summary_0.pdf

However, the report fails to say what the actual questions are…

Some interesting excerpts:

Acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS: Nearly half of Australians (48 percent) agreed that ‘The Australian government’s plan to acquire nuclear submarines under the Australia–UK–US (AUKUS) trilateral security partnership will help keep Australia secure from a military threat from China’, a four-point increase from when the view was first measured in 2023 (44 percent).

Victoria residents (71 percent) were significantly more likely to agree, while Australian Capital Territory residents (29 percent) were significantly less likely to agree.

so the subs aren’t terribly popular.

The possibility of military conflict with China within three years: Half of Australians (50 percent) said that ‘Military conflict with China within three years is a serious possibility’, a continuation of views expressed in 2023 (51 percent). Twenty-three percent disagreed and 27 percent expressed neutrality.

And the media/LNP narrative about war with China is kind of working.

better bang for your buck

No, you’ll definitely get bang with nuclear 💥💥💥