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Deeply ironic that Adelaide's bid for COP31 has a good chance of exclusion-zoning a heap of their rail public transport.
This is hot on the heels of SA Labor locking in parking minimums!
There's gotta be something in the water...
Going to be rather enjoyable seeing the reactions of those parents supporting the ban of social media for under 16s, discovering that means they now have to prove to YouTube, FB, etc that they are over 16.
"I thought this was just about the kids, I'm over 16, why do I need to provide ID???!!!!!"
Yeah it'd be really interesting (and perhaps better aligned to how we do "xyz artist was robbed" if they summed votes by artist, and then picked the top song for each artist.
A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years
Fucksake if there's one thing TMR could be better at for very cheap, it's four sided crossings.
CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES
THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT
Anti-preferencers still being seen whinging about Labor getting 62.7% of seats off 34.6% of primary votes when under the system they support UK Labour 2024 got 63.2% of seats off 33.7% of votes.
The Portland area transit service expansion plan that we worked on had just two goals: ridership and equity.
Here are some of the payoffs: New service in lower-income inner-ring suburbs, including a new Frequent line and a new line that has a chance to be Frequent someday. But there's more 🧵 1/
Because by occupying one of the 6 traffic lanes for a period of about half an hour, "people's right to freedom of movement would be excessively interfered with".
So people's right to freedom of movement being completely denied for months without end is fine, but impeding a few cars is a problem.
In that case -
Portland or Mt Gambier (if it's not too big already) can anchor MEL-ADL HSR
Sale or Bairnsdale should have better water prospects and are also not *too* bad climate wise
What's the functional difference between Goulburn at 2M and Sydney sprawling its way through the southern highlands to Canberra?
How big can the starting city be?
If it's just "sub 500k" then I pick Hobart
Wave goodbye to heavy rail to Maroochydore.
www.bettertransportqueensland.org/releases/wav...
How do you feel about having BRT use the reserved corridor to Maroochydore?
I compare Qld House and Senate 3CPs and 4CPs (where available) from the last election here:
abjago.net/psephology/2...
Yeah that seems safe enough - it'd take both a huge 2PP correction to break from 3L 3R and also enough GRN-ALP...
Never thought I'd see this - and it will likely change with more prepoll and postal - but LNP are below two quotas in Qld right now.
(PHON + Rennick + Trumpet ≈ 1 Q)
So in terms of results it's a 2-2-1-1 like last time, but I have no idea who'll come unlucky 7th
I think we really have to wait for the early & postal votes on this one before celebrating too hard. We've been seeing early/Eday differences for a long time and there's more early voting than ever...
Yeah like what is this, 2017 state election levels of performance right here
I think the most effective intervention would be to tilt the scales against negative campaigning, just a bit.
My proposal is that if you mention a different disclosure entity (by name/logo/likeness) then your own name/logo/likeness must be at least as prominent.
Electoral donations?
(Though that one is content neutral; you could receive the same tax deduction for a donation to an anti racist party.)
Depends on if you care more about exclusion order effects, or later-no-harm.
The nice thing about LNH is that it supports giving a full ranking
Nothing dramatic, we just couldn't quite lock in a second candidate to make it a ticket.
I seriously doubt any part of Fusion is going to make money off this election.
If only we could monetise all the rocks thrown at us in the last couple of days!
Reading this while I'm preparing to give evidence at a parliamentary hearing tomorrow afternoon supporting a planning amendment bill that does nothing but fast-track public housing and public health infrastructure
Renters can be a powerful voting bloc this election - if we're organised! Shoutout to @betterrenting.bsky.social who are coordinating renters to use our collective power to push the government to fix renting. I've taken the Renter Pledge and if you're a renter, you should too!
"Girl, I don't need no lifted truck/Revving loud to pick you up" Chappell Roan, welcome to the war on cars! youtu.be/DubtPdXXjew?...
If an MP were to spend every waking moment meeting voters, that works out to about 8 minutes 45 seconds per voter over a 3 year term.
Have you met your local member this election campaign - or ever?
@australiainstitute.org.au fellow Skye Predavec shows in 1903, a single MP represented 25,000 voters. Now it's 120,000. Any surprise most Aussies have never met their local member? australiainstitute.org.au/post/electio...
Media: *Writes articles on “No party is doing [policy issue] for [demographic group of voters] this #ausvotes “*
Numerous minor parties: *Have brought this policy to elections for roughly the past decade.*
It’d be wonderful if the media here stopped pretending we’re a two party system. #auspol
