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Where was this clown a quarter of a decade ago? Everyone voted for the mess we're in, deal with it.

by jaimex2 2y ago

downrightmike 2y ago
Why didn't he do it when he was still a justice?
- defrost 2y ago
  Are you thinking perhaps of a politician arguing for a policy change and bringing that about through party support, or a human rights lawyer bring a landmark case before a justice and then a Supreme Court? As a general rule Supreme Court Justices only decide upon cases bought before them on the balance of the legal arguments made for or against them.
- exe34 2y ago
  people mellow out and change their minds in old age.
- paranoidrobot 2y ago
  Because people generally dislike and get nervous when Justices start doing things that look like political campaigning. Anything that appears to impact their impartiality is a problem, and campaigning for anything would do that.
lmpdev 2y ago
The great unwashed voted for whom Murdoch told them to, especially Queensland. Queensland is also the biggest predictor of Federal election outcomes. It’s been this way since the early 90s, but ramped up in the 2010s. The period of 2013 to 2022 was the time we should have been slowly building back the calibre of our public sector that Howard had dismantled from 1996-2006. Murdoch ensured this wouldn’t occur, though. I’ve become extremely cynical about the nature of the Australian character; this is best exemplified by the original text spurring the phrase “The Lucky Country”. Australia is a beautiful and lucky country, filled with people weak of character or substance. We are effectively the halfwit-run mine for the rest of the world. We manufacture nothing. Innovate on little. It sounds awful, but we haven’t suffered enough. Our identity is only half developed, and our past is largely shameful. I love my country, but we need to be better and try much harder to be better people. We need to do what we can, not just what is easy.
- contingencies 2y ago
  This. What sux is that we have so much space and decent tech and engineering education, we should be a renewables leader, but instead we have 1950s American suburban dystopia 2.0. I really think we could restructure industrial outcomes with Industry 4.0 style thinking along renewable lines, so that we can harness low cost energy in the periods where it makes sense. Aluminium smelting is a prime example. We have all these stupid sites like former open cut mines that are just begging for industrial uses, or space programs, or something else of forward-thinking potential. Not to mention oodles of flat land nobody wants to live on anyway. Unfortunately our federal government is AWOL on comm's, and the state and local government is even worse. Entrenched corruption and not my department is the order of the day. So many people see a degradation in social character, the new norm is 'me first' and 'who cares'. Our political system worked to defer change when post-WWII it didn't matter. Now reality is moving ahead and we're left with the rotting carcass of a social democracy where flesh-eating maggots (and I'm referring here to native politicians and business people especially, not well-meaning immigrants from less educated backgrounds who may not actually know another way) have already hatched and our public wealth is being carried out the door. It is a shame they tortured Assange so much, I had high hopes for his transparency applied to government. It's so sorely needed.
  - defrost 2y ago
    A massive tender for wind and solar projects is to be launched next week to help repower Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter Tomago, near Newcastle, with its majority owner saying nuclear is out of the question because it is too slow and too expensive. The tender will be a landmark event for the Australian renewable energy transition, because the Tomalgo smelter – with annual demand of more than 8 terawatt hours, is the biggest single energy consumer in the country. ~ (Mar 13, 2024) https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-biggest-smelter-to-launch-massive-wind-and-solar-tender-says-nuclear-too-costly/ https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-biggest-smelter-to-la... Majority owner Rio Tinto this year has already announced two record-breaking contracts for wind and solar farms in Australia to provide power for its Boyne Island smelter in Gladstone, Queensland, and its two alumina refineries in the same port city. Those contracts included one for the first gigawatt scale solar project in Australia, the 1.1 GW Upper Calliope solar project in central Queensland, and the 1.4 GW Bungapan wind project to be developed by iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest’s majority owned Windlab. > Unfortunately our federal government is AWOL on comm's, and the state and local government is even worse. They don't seem to be involved and it's not clear why they should be.
yulingar5 2y ago
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Where was this clown a quarter of a decade ago? Everyone voted for the mess we're in, deal with it.

downrightmike 2y ago

Why didn't he do it when he was still a justice?

defrost 2y ago
Are you thinking perhaps of a politician arguing for a policy change and bringing that about through party support, or a human rights lawyer bring a landmark case before a justice and then a Supreme Court? As a general rule Supreme Court Justices only decide upon cases bought before them on the balance of the legal arguments made for or against them.
exe34 2y ago
people mellow out and change their minds in old age.
paranoidrobot 2y ago
Because people generally dislike and get nervous when Justices start doing things that look like political campaigning. Anything that appears to impact their impartiality is a problem, and campaigning for anything would do that.

lmpdev 2y ago

The great unwashed voted for whom Murdoch told them to, especially Queensland. Queensland is also the biggest predictor of Federal election outcomes. It’s been this way since the early 90s, but ramped up in the 2010s. The period of 2013 to 2022 was the time we should have been slowly building back the calibre of our public sector that Howard had dismantled from 1996-2006. Murdoch ensured this wouldn’t occur, though. I’ve become extremely cynical about the nature of the Australian character; this is best exemplified by the original text spurring the phrase “The Lucky Country”. Australia is a beautiful and lucky country, filled with people weak of character or substance. We are effectively the halfwit-run mine for the rest of the world. We manufacture nothing. Innovate on little. It sounds awful, but we haven’t suffered enough. Our identity is only half developed, and our past is largely shameful. I love my country, but we need to be better and try much harder to be better people. We need to do what we can, not just what is easy.

contingencies 2y ago
This. What sux is that we have so much space and decent tech and engineering education, we should be a renewables leader, but instead we have 1950s American suburban dystopia 2.0. I really think we could restructure industrial outcomes with Industry 4.0 style thinking along renewable lines, so that we can harness low cost energy in the periods where it makes sense. Aluminium smelting is a prime example. We have all these stupid sites like former open cut mines that are just begging for industrial uses, or space programs, or something else of forward-thinking potential. Not to mention oodles of flat land nobody wants to live on anyway. Unfortunately our federal government is AWOL on comm's, and the state and local government is even worse. Entrenched corruption and not my department is the order of the day. So many people see a degradation in social character, the new norm is 'me first' and 'who cares'. Our political system worked to defer change when post-WWII it didn't matter. Now reality is moving ahead and we're left with the rotting carcass of a social democracy where flesh-eating maggots (and I'm referring here to native politicians and business people especially, not well-meaning immigrants from less educated backgrounds who may not actually know another way) have already hatched and our public wealth is being carried out the door. It is a shame they tortured Assange so much, I had high hopes for his transparency applied to government. It's so sorely needed.
- defrost 2y ago
  A massive tender for wind and solar projects is to be launched next week to help repower Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter Tomago, near Newcastle, with its majority owner saying nuclear is out of the question because it is too slow and too expensive. The tender will be a landmark event for the Australian renewable energy transition, because the Tomalgo smelter – with annual demand of more than 8 terawatt hours, is the biggest single energy consumer in the country. ~ (Mar 13, 2024) https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-biggest-smelter-to-launch-massive-wind-and-solar-tender-says-nuclear-too-costly/ https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-biggest-smelter-to-la... Majority owner Rio Tinto this year has already announced two record-breaking contracts for wind and solar farms in Australia to provide power for its Boyne Island smelter in Gladstone, Queensland, and its two alumina refineries in the same port city. Those contracts included one for the first gigawatt scale solar project in Australia, the 1.1 GW Upper Calliope solar project in central Queensland, and the 1.4 GW Bungapan wind project to be developed by iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest’s majority owned Windlab. > Unfortunately our federal government is AWOL on comm's, and the state and local government is even worse. They don't seem to be involved and it's not clear why they should be.

yulingar5 2y ago

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