Okay, i'm sticking my IT dummy hand up again.

What is this post about? I've never had/sent any emails from Aussie Zone.

Is there some sort of notification system i've not noticed or, i don't know what else it could be..??

“Fremantle continues to maintain a colonial appearance that is uninviting” he said.

Joe Collard.

Each to their own, but i like Fremantle's appearance. I think its one of the most visually appealing suburbs in WA.

Um... their loss. Toss me a piece a that camembert.

Is this a bakery run by the New Zealand government, or is this an unofficial, and underground Kiwi baked goods extravaganza?

so why not?

Did you mean, why not criminalise them?

If so, because theres lots of experiential evidence that it doesn't work to change criminal behaviour, and as drag alludes to, plenty of evidence now that the criminalised children are locked into a cycle of crime throughout their life.

Their life of crime becomes a cost to you and I, and all those who are victims of their shit behaviour, as well as the State. Its a cost i'd rather pay once through proven crime prevention pathways.

And the above only considers their direct impacts on people personally not even to consider the moral, humanist, or economically efficient use of a nations resources as elements here.

• Wheres the CLP's case that a policy like this is going to work this time?

• What are their targets for acheiving the change?

• If those targets aren't met and peoples cars are still getting stolen, or worse, will they own their policy mistakes, or will they blithely double down on this flawed and absolutist policy?

Problem is theres a hard to break narrative about Unions in the public consciousness. So anything that can be spun as a handout to the "Unions", ~in common parlance, workers~, is easy fodder for media beat ups, and the people consuming those articles to 'tut-tut' about those "lAzy ANd coRrUPt UniONS".

This is the point i've continuously made in discussions. Without lessening the elasticity on the ability to pay for the rentier class any supply side intervention will inevitably be partially soaked up by their ability to stretch that little bit further than everyone else.

It leads to the 'market' having to supply more than it otherwise needs to for the same results.

Chicken Fried rice. Gona be delish!

I don't know about wise, powerful though yeah

I could really do with a series of maps to appreciate a lot of whats said here.

Ooh wow! Good thinking. I don't know if its over in WA, so i's still doing the bird bath thing without a thought.

It seems its been a failure to oversee market operation with an effective organisation in the position of market regulator.

Just think of the price these schemes could be demanding per tonne now if there was widespread trust in the system reliably delivering its proposed benefits.

In so many cases these great ideas are let down by a lack of knowledge or care about the effectiveness of well implemented and ongoing institutional regulation.

The Australia Institute was actually saying the increased demand in the last few years is less about population growth, as Ian Verender states in this article, and more about the drop in 'persons per household' phenomenon that happened during COVID.

Interesting post, but lots of this discussion wasn't respectful, (Rule 1), today. I think its best to move on tomorrow. Sorry but gonna lock it.

Good one. The text does a great job at presenting all the well known facts from several different political perspectives. An important reminder that when you think you agree with someone, many things go unsaid, and therefore under analysed.

The quote underneath was the most succinct example for me,

As Bernard Keane has noted, “Labor tries to make a virtue of supporting “social cohesion”, even while demonising pro-Palestinian protesters, cutting immigration, refusing entry to Gazans, and denouncing political organisation by Muslim voters.”

I knew about all but the 'demonising pro-palestian protesters', yet summed together as they are here, these actions hit different.

I found myself wondering if i were Muslim in Australia would I have noticed the whole as an accumulating set like this?

Oh wow!

I love this system of indoor spider approvals your developing.

An insect that is blue and black and has three b's?

A Blue and Black winged Butterfly?

WA Labor has to respond to the circumstances of the State, and WA is dominated by mining and farming industries. The practices in those industries often run counter to a great deal of modern progressive policies.

Not saying its impossible to be progressive, but WA Labor probably has a tougher time than in other places bringing a minimum amount of WA people 'metaphorically' along with their policy proposals. Especially where those industries mount their own campaigns pushing back at the governments proposals.

Don't know about divine intervention, but Judicial will do me. Pierce that corporate veil and send this joker to jail.