The whole right wing media pushing a punishing and abusive agenda has been exhausting. Rallying and driving victims of crime to commit crimes is disgusting. #qldpol
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“The rooftop solar record wasn’t the only one to fall on the weekend.
“According to GPE NEMLog2, other records to fall included record instantaneous battery charge in South Australia (334.7 MW earlier on Saturday at 10.30am), Victoria battery charge (390 MW), and record NEM-wide battery charge of 594.8 MW at 2.50pm (AEST) on Saturday.
“In NSW, battery discharge hit a record 174.5 MW at 6.30pm on Saturday.
“Other records included instantaneous wind output in Queensland (842MW), at the same time as a record amount of wind curtailment (854.7MW), and a record wind share (15.9 per cent).
“Also in NSW, black coal output hit a record low of 2,073.0 MW at 13:55 hrs on Saturday, and coal and gas together hit a new record low of 2,073.2 MW at the same time.”
Fire Ants: 'Throwing everything at our efforts' reads more like 'playing with the fringes'.
Considering the closing end of Winter, you'd think this would be the last timing to increase the number of field officers doing surveys and baiting in Queensland;
while NSW increase field officers to first deploy on Verroa mites, and redeloy where needed to survey far-north NSW for fire ants.
“It’s just an unbelievable summer,” said Peter Gleick, a climate scientist and senior fellow at the Pacific Institute. “It’s the kind of extreme weather that we climate scientists have been warning about for decades—it just now seems to be happening everywhere, all at once.” #climate #water
So just imagine we let one man, and his company, buy most of the papers in our regional cities and small towns.
And that man was named Rupert Murdoch.
And that man decided to shut down the print editions, and instead put those papers behind the paywalls of his big right-wing metropolitan tabloids.
Want to read the local newspaper in Lismore? It's now behind the Daily Telegraph paywall.
And then that man gutted the editorial team for each online newspaper to just one person.
And then used generative AI to centrally churn out 3000 local news articles per week across all his local publications, overseen by four human journalists.
A question for QLDers and others - would you support the reinstatement of an upper house (senate; legislative council) in QLD?
This would a senate elected via proportional representation and modelled somewhat after the federal senate. Two small arguments, for and against:
For - Legislative Council could act as a check on the Assembly, and prevent the passing of controversial legislation/check the executive
Against - LC would have the power to block supply and bills entirely. If the opposition and ind's teamed up to block legislation, this may be seen as undemocratic by many.
Under Qld law it is not permitted to publish the names of people accused of crimes before they are committed to stand trial. There's currently a legislative change before the Qld parliament to bring the state into line with other jurisdictions. The committee working on this is due to report on July 28. #qldpol#auspol
Culling K'gari dingos is not an option. When the last Butchulla people were removed from the island the wat’dha camp dingo & the wongari wild dingo were left behind. For decades they avoided humans but in the mid-90s their behaviour changed as tourists began interacting with them. The local people are upset over visitors ignoring the guidelines & rules. They say to treat the visit as though touring a wild nature reserve in Africa. #qldpolhttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/23/kgari-dingo-attack-tourists