An angry mob, of 200 at the hospital, police have deployed tear gas. Alice springs. The murderer of little Sharon, a police car has been set on fire. Police have been hurt and hospital staff. Also the aboriginal groups have bashed the monster, and he is in a critical condition.
@realRick_AUS@SenatorThorpe Not sure who this lady is or if it’s related to the current issue but she is clearly not a fan. Understandable
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From an ignorant old Civil Engineer - here is a picture of a cobalt mine in the Congo. Every bit is excavated, moved and processed using fossil fueled powered equipment. The hypocrisy of the renewable energy clowns & grifters now praising battery storage - is alarming.
Our agencies: police, defence, intelligence, all have been heavily politicised - and are now on the opposite side of the nation!
This shouldn't have never happened.
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Every wind turbine and solar panel on earth today is expected to be decommissioned and replaced long before Net Zero in 2050.
We aren't just building a new energy grid, we're initiating the world’s largest, most resource-intensive replacement cycle. The staggering cost of these recurring cycles is expected to add trillions to an already massive price tag.
McKinsey Global estimates the transition requires $9.2 trillion per year, totaling $275 trillion by 2050. However, these figures are only the baseline - they don't account for the new price ceiling driven by the physical failure and required replacement of first-generation infrastructure.
Most of today’s 225,000 wind turbines (over 1.2 TW capacity) will exceed their 20–30 year lifespans by 2050. This necessitates waves of decommissioning or 'repowering' on a scale never seen before.
With wingspans rivaling an Airbus A380 or Boeing 747, these massive composite structures are fueling blade graveyards that present a disposal challenge unmatched in human history. Projections suggest 43 million tonnes of blade waste and 60–80 million tonnes of solar PV waste by 2050.
A global rebuild of this scale must compete for finite resources. China currently refines 90% of the global rare earth supply, creating a precarious geopolitical dependency for the permanent magnet technology required for modern turbines.
* Rare earths: Neodymium and praseodymium for magnets; dysprosium and terbium for heat resistance.
* Essential metals: Massive quantities of copper for wiring, tungsten for components, and tin for soldering.
* Physical scale: Larger direct-drive turbines require 0.5–2 tonnes of rare-earth magnets per MW, supported by vast quantities of steel and concrete.
A 'second transition' is destined to become a third, and a fourth—replacing the entire global inventory every few decades. This demands a WWII-scale 'D-Day' mobilisation of capital and labor, occurring just as subsidies fade and private investment thins due to uneven returns.
Furthermore, the 'diesel paradox' remains: heavy mining equipment is still powered by the very same fossil fuels the transition seeks to eliminate.
The math suggests a looming collision between physical reality and political agendas.
Image: The Casper Regional Landfill in Wyoming has become a global focal point for 'clean energy waste'.
NO HOMES - BLAME IRAN: Watch Labor senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah blame the Iran war (which has only gone for 8 weeks) for the reason why Labor has not built 200,000 homes.
Ananda-Rajah has 7 investment properties negatively geared.
This is an interesting read. All credit to Peter Lyndon-James and his page.
Pauline Hanson got a $1.5 million plane. The major parties are dead silent. Here’s why.
Yesterday Hanson stood in front of a camera and unwrapped a Cirrus G7 light aircraft, valued between $1 million and $2.1 million, donated by a company owned by Gina Rinehart. On top of that came $1 million cash from NSW stockbroker Angus Aitken and his wife Sarah, $500,000 from former Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles, and another $500,000 from geologist Ian Plimer.
Total drop: around $4 million in plane and cash, all in one announcement. She named every donor and thanked them publicly. The whole thing happened in front of a camera in an aircraft hangar.
So where’s the outrage from Labor and the Coalition? Where’s the moral panic from the press gallery? Normally these mob are jumping up and down at the slightest whiff of money going to a minor party. This time, nothing but total silence and there’s a reason for that.
Labor pulled in $67.5 million in 2024–25 and the Coalition pulled in $73 million. Across the major parties last cycle, the total was over $417 million up 58% on the previous election. That’s nearly half a billion dollars flowing into the same two parties that have been running this country into the ground for decades. And a huge chunk of it comes from people you’d recognise.
Anthony Pratt, the packaging billionaire, gave $2 million to Labor and $1 million to the Liberals in the same year, hedge his bets, buy both sides. Hancock-linked entities funnelled hundreds of thousands to the Liberals, the LNP and Advance Australia, Sportsbet, Tabcorp and the Lottery Corporation collectively dropped serious cash on Labor and within months Labor quietly dumped its planned gambling advertising ban.
DoorDash gave the Liberals $785,000 after opposing Labor’s gig worker laws, Coal Australia funnelled $5.15 million into fossil fuel lobby groups during the campaign.
And the part that should make every voter sick: roughly 45% of the money flowing to the major parties is “dark money” pushed through associated entities like the Cormack Foundation on the Liberal side and Labor Holdings on the ALP side. Around $75 million in a single year with no real public disclosure of where it actually came from. Money is laundered through shell entities so the public never sees who’s really paying for the government.
That’s why they’re silent on Hanson. The moment Labor cracks the whip on a $1.5 million plane, the next question from any half-decent journalist is: what did Anthony Pratt buy with his $2 million?
The moment the Liberals attack One Nation’s donors, someone’s going to ask who’s really behind the Cormack Foundation and why the public can’t see the books.
Hanson named her donors, stood there in a hangar and thanked them on camera. Whatever you think of her politics, that’s transparency. The major parties hide the bulk of their cash behind shell companies, associated entities and disclosure loopholes specifically designed to keep the public from joining the dots.
That’s the real story. The silence isn’t accidental, it’s defensive. The duopoly does not want a national conversation about political donations, because they would lose it badly. They’ve built a system where the public can see the loose change but never the cheque book.
How much of your government has already been bought, and you’ll never get to see the receipt?
What’s your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
$45m public $$ for an elite golf course in a cost of living crisis? One that takes the chop to Parklands tree canopy & has never been put to the public? With thousands on SA’s public housing wait list? A Mali-made, Trump-like golf disaster. 🛑 https://t.co/nuTulhdojD
All that water will be gone by the next federal election, & by 2030 it will be back to looking like a moonscape, or the surface of Mars.
If we started geo works in 2000, it could've held water ever more.
Lake Eyre's Biggest Flood in 50 Years https://t.co/xKA484xfU3 via @YouTube
This is the reality of country hospitals.
A woman in her 50s suffered an aneurysm. Her eyes were fixated , but she was still breathing. She had been preparing to travel to the UK for a holiday.
She was taken to a rural hospital while MedSTAR was dispatched from Adelaide.
She was placed in what was essentially the only ICU-style room the hospital had.
When MedSTAR arrived, they said she wasn’t breathing. The on‑call doctor who had been flown in from interstate and was working alone across multiple emergency departments and aged‑care facilities insisted that she was.
She wasn’t. No fault of anyone’s.
She was in cardiac arrest.
MedSTAR took over and began CPR while her husband, in the room next door, heard everything. They placed her on life support and airlifted her to the RAH.
She didn’t survive. She died in RAH
It wasn’t the rural doctor’s fault, and it wasn’t MedSTAR’s fault.
The real issue is the lack of rural health support under the Labor government. Doctors and nurses flown in on huge contracts work themselves to the bone, yet millions are being spent on things like a $45 million golf course while people in rural areas are dying.
Maitland hospital
Yulong breed 500 yearlings a year.
Many are shipped off to China, never to be traced again, so much for Australian racings traceability hey💁🏽♀️
Others are sold off on online sales for others to deal with, like this 2 YEAR OLD filly being sold as a broodmare because she’s basically crippled & they feel zero responsibility for her so make her someone else’s problem.
Where’s their retired racehorse program for these thousands of horses they bring in to the world? It doesn’t exist.
Unbelievable.
@HaveeSnowball@SamanthaMe13019@MurrayWatt Well they also own clubs and poker machine venues! You don’t get to see where the profits are going & buying accommodation so some of those donors makes sense now!
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