zik
@zik@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia's criminalisation of peaceful protest is a stain on our democracy 4 months ago:
If it’s peaceful it’s peaceful. When I check the dictionary under “peaceful” it doesn’t say anything about business.
- Comment on Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs 6 months ago:
Nuclear power is already much more expensive than every other mainstream option, and the gap is widening every year. In twenty years time it’s going to be so much more expensive it’ll be ridiculous. No one’s going to want to buy power for several times the cost of other options.
The idea’s not only dumb - it’s completely commercially unviable.
- Comment on Federal Coalition commits to dumping 2030 climate target as it pursues nuclear power 6 months ago:
It just seems dumb at this point. Nuclear energy is so incredibly expensive compared to the alternatives. Most countries are moving away from it due to it being commercially unviable. And yet here we are with the NLP acting like it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
I know they see it as their duty to push the opposite of whatever Labor’s doing but they don’t seem to care that it’s just a bad idea.
- Comment on Federal Coalition commits to dumping 2030 climate target as it pursues nuclear power 6 months ago:
“We’re already doing very little but it’s WAY TOO MUCH!”
- Comment on History of Flagstaff Gardens 6 months ago:
This was a really interesting bit of history. Thanks Philip.
- Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood 6 months ago:
At what point do Labor realise “Are we the baddies?”
- Comment on Why Australia's biggest city has a problem with 'forced car ownership' 8 months ago:
Even more interesting is how all of Geelong is excluded from Melbourne’s count when Gosford’s included in Sydney’s count, despite neither being continuously connected to the larger city and Geelong being closer to Melbourne than Gosford is to Sydney, and Geelong having just as large a proportion of daily commuters as Gosford.
The reality is that Melbourne’s population outpaced Sydney a long time ago and the boundaries are only just starting to catch up.
- Comment on Why Australia's biggest city has a problem with 'forced car ownership' 8 months ago:
I did a double-take at “Australia’s biggest city” referring to Melbourne
It overtook Sydney about a year ago: www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65261720
- Comment on Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised' 8 months ago:
Why not start them off in the way you mean to continue? It’s not like there are any significant downsides.
- Comment on Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised' 8 months ago:
Compulsory is such a good system. It doesn’t take long. It’s on a weekend so it’s not inconvenient. You get a sausage at the sausage sizzle and you do your vote. There’s a real holiday atmosphere. And it produces much more representative results. Brexit wouldn’t have happened if they had compulsory voting so there’s no denying it’s valuable.
- Comment on Carbon emissions limits for cars weakened amid opposition's 'ute tax' campaign 8 months ago:
More than an inconvenience - they cost hundreds of millions in additional road wear every year which we all pay for.
