Australia - you're standing in it
True story. Happens in most areas, unless you’re right in the inner city.
Reckon it's about time we tell the USA to f off.
Let them go to war with China, we enjoy our living standard in big part because our trade with China.
Some ex Fox news pundit war monger with neo nazi tattoos telling us to buy more American made products of murder.
Hey it's not China actively enabling and participating in a genocide.
Australia really needs to get independent with its international relations.⁷
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/02/anthony-albanese-...
I feel sorry for the people of Kalbarri….
Bowens given some foreign company 840 million dollars for a green hydrogen project which after the seeing the guy in charge looks like a scam I reckon.
Looks good on paper but I doubt it’s a real deal and the people will suffer for it…
The infrastructure will change the community forever and then will probably be left as another unfinished white elephant.
If it was such a winner why dosent the Labor govt do it themselves….
Easy to give away other people’s taxpayer money to make yourself look good via another player……if they fail …it’ll just be oops….
Currently green hydrogen needs nuclear power to be successful which is why the big players are moving their projects to the U.S.
That project will alter the landscape forever and while it would be nice to have hydrogen power……why sell it all to Europe??? If it ever gets sold at all…
Smells dodgy….will look dodgy…..dunno about that one.
3.5% minimum award wage payrise - reasonable, too much or too little?
It's stated that this pay rise is above inflation but I gotta say, it doesn't feel like it to me.
Thoughts?
What's the minimum wage in Aus?
Found it. $24.10/h
From first of July
The National Minimum Wage will increase by:
$0.85 to $24.95 per hour
$32.10 to $948.00 per 38-hour week
$1,669.20 to $49,296.00 per year.
Popped up on insta...
Metals recyclers on the brink with high energy prices:
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/07/gas-cartel-destroys-metals-proc...
The chart was interesting: WA has lost the Kambalda Nickel Smelter but also Kwinana Nickel and Alumina, and BP Kwinana also stopped refining so the industrial muscle of Perth has been greatly diminished.
The others are in the east and some are asking for government backing for a transition to energy metals, or wondering about keeping operating in high energy cost environment.
At what point do we become third world? When there is no value-adding or economic complexity left?
andy-mac wrote:Reckon it's about time we tell the USA to f off.
Let them go to war with China, we enjoy our living standard in big part because our trade with China.Some ex Fox news pundit war monger with neo nazi tattoos telling us to buy more American made products of murder.
Hey it's not China actively enabling and participating in a genocide.
Australia really needs to get independent with its international relations.⁷
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/02/anthony-albanese-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare
The minute it kicks off our seaborne trade is gone so we should prepare for that. But we won't.
@andy-mac
“ Hey it's not China actively enabling and participating in a genocide.”
Are we 100% sure on that? Reckon you might find a few dissenting views and some pretty compelling evidence…
The "I can't believe it's not politics" thread.