Listening to a Big Ideas podcast about housing in the northern territory. It just makes you wish every politician from every state, territory and federal government would live in one of these houses for a week.
They're taking to the only Aboriginal person that has solar panels on their roof. The power meters there are pre-paid - if you used up your money the power shuts off. The power meter has a plug on the side that says "solar input".
The power and water department said "we can't attach solar, it's dangerous".
They went back to the manufacturer of the power meter that power and water had installed and got the manual and showed that it was perfectly safe.
Power and water put a padlock on his power box so he couldn't plug the panels in.
He took the padlock off with an angle grinder.
This is the kind of stupid, deliberately antagonistic, needlessly wasteful BS that Aboriginal people have to go through to do something that politicians throughout Australia have got without a second thought.
Of course it's a Liberal government there. But things haven't been better under Labor either.
Us city people need to know these things to realise the real gaps in our society.
