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No look at the ship in a shot where it's front on coming towards you there's a bit of both there. It looks like the Falcon and the Defiant, like the Jupiter is the child of a pairing of the two.
Interesting, and mildly scathing, article from the New Daily, an, for want of a better word, e-newspaper I get in my email.
Government in Australia is broken. There is no cause for immediate alarm: services will continue, moneys owed will be paid and public servants will be employed. But government as a guardian of the public good, architect of principled policy and diligent steward of the economy has to all intents and purposes ground to a halt.
We have reached this parlous state because the incumbent administration, the Turnbull government, is so riven by internal discord over energy policy that it has been rendered virtually immobile. Enter the “Monash Forum”.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/fi...edium=email&utm_campaign=Sunday Best 20180408
Government in Australia is broken. There is no cause for immediate alarm: services will continue, moneys owed will be paid and public servants will be employed. But government as a guardian of the public good, architect of principled policy and diligent steward of the economy has to all intents and purposes ground to a halt.
We have reached this parlous state because the incumbent administration, the Turnbull government, is so riven by internal discord over energy policy that it has been rendered virtually immobile. Enter the “Monash Forum”.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/fi...edium=email&utm_campaign=Sunday Best 20180408
I don't know what to make of all this. Is it the hard right causing all the problems or everyone?
Basically the hard right (Abbott, Abetz, Andrews, Joyce, Kelly) because they can't stand Turnbull and are in the pocket of Big Coal. Only these brain-dead idiots would think using $4bn of government money to build the first of a number of coal fired power stations would count as a good idea. Not just the expense, but the fact it flies in the face of their own policy of government ownership when the private sector has it covered.
So much for the free marketeers who want the government out of everything.
If the fossil fuel sector wants a coal fired station let them build it. preferable in an electorate where the likes of the above are members.
Something tells me that while abbott et al are spruiking coal they do some from the knowledge they want have a power station polluting the air in their electorates.
And what's this Monash thing going to accomplish?
Shit-stirring.
And considering John Monash essentially stood for the opposite of the forum's stated aims....
But won't causing all that kerfuffle taint the LNP?
So big news of the day - is that channel 7 and foxtel has got the rights to cricket for the next 6 years.
And ch9 gets the Australian open.
Truely hell must have frozen over.
Though many probably wish the cricket was back on the ABC.
Kinda sucks for people with no pay TV now..
So how did they skate over the anti siphoning laws?
