Well deserved, although I'm still going to soapbox that the Baudin's Cockatoo (which unfortunately didn't win) is under immediate threat by the proposed Alcoa mine in the southwest Jarrah forests! It's some of the last habitat they have left, and once it's gone, it's gone for good.
I do love tawnies though. They're such characters.
I've listened twice and I think this is probably gonna be my AoTY, but at the same time it's so musically dense and all over the place that I need at least 10 more listens to make head or tail out of it!
Genuinely I think the world would have much better scientific outcomes if a decent portion of grants were just straight-up randomly allocated (from a pool that meets a minimum standard I guess). Everyone wants to fund 'almost complete' research but there's such little money for the early-stage 'high risk high reward' basic research, which is what basically all applied research is built upon.
10 minutes of sun per day is typically less likely to give you cancer than 0 minutes. Vitamin D (and other compounds involved in the synthesis from cholesterol that you won't get in supplements) upregulate DNA repair polymerases that protect against carcinogens. Of course after a few minutes the costs of UV exposure outweight this benefit though.
At least when LNP are in power I don't get my hopes up for a sane response to anything... I was hoping the spinelessness of the ALP was enough to at least keep any statement neutral, pretty pathetic to see them outright supporting the US.
Thorpe and now Cox... they really dropped the ball on vetting senators in 2022 it seems.
This is tangential, but it feels kinda weird where the "R word" is atm, seems like we can't decide if it's genuinely offensive or not. I have some social circles where saying it would be almost like saying homophobic/racist slurs, but other social circles that throw it around as a synonym of "idiot/lunatic". I'm almost afraid to ask at this point what the correct answer is/should be, but I think humans will be joking around about mental cognition for many generations to come, R-word or not.
Lose-lose situation for the Liberals. They'll pretty much never get a majority without the nats, but the concessions they've had to make here aren't going to help them win back any votes.
The cycle continues... the Free Trade party merged with the Anti-Socialist party, and then with the Protectionist party (ironically enough) to form Deakin's Liberal party... enough Labor dissidents fused with that to form the Nationalist and then the United Australia Party (no relation to Clive's party). When the United Australia Party became so politically unfavourable, they completely dissolved and rebranded into the current Liberal party.
Either the coalition re-emerges in the near future (by far the most likely option), or we will see another shake-up/rebranding/fusion. Labor look set to hold power for several terms now, but the longer this continues, the longer the power vacuum for opposition stirs up. There are a lot of independents in the house now, and when they realise they may have collective power against Labor in a coalition with the Liberal party, they may end up uniting. Possibly within the decade. I think it would look very different to the Liberal party of 2025.
Bills still have to get through the senate to get passed at least, so the party with a lower house majority still does have to cater to that third option somewhat.
Well deserved, although I'm still going to soapbox that the Baudin's Cockatoo (which unfortunately didn't win) is under immediate threat by the proposed Alcoa mine in the southwest Jarrah forests! It's some of the last habitat they have left, and once it's gone, it's gone for good.
I do love tawnies though. They're such characters.