I received two or three summons letters during a few months period when my name was on the shortlist (close on ten years ago). Each time I checked online close to the date to see if the trial was still going ahead and they all ended up having been called off for whatever reason so I never got to see further along the process.
The lesson seems to be that it helps a bit but is by no means a panacea - i.e. pretty much what one would expect.
Someone's being optimistic putting that on a pine pallet (and not even across the stringers...).
The scale of heavy machinery can be a real step up from the usual cars etc - trying to work on an old tracked loader at Grandad's place required a lot more mechanical aid than I'm used to with light machinery.
It will be an offence to use a carriage service to access material on the manufacture or modification of guns and accessories, as well as other explosives or lethal devices.
This has such broad potential for misapplication, but apparently everyone throws critical thinking out the window because guns are scary...
I think the gun number limit is also a kneejerk reaction playing more on people's fears rather than actually being logical, but at least it's affecting less people than the above.
One of the places I work at has a display cabinet showing historical media formats and devices, seeing things in it like the zip disc and the Sony camera that took floppies always makes me feel like Elrond:
From my reading it's going to be the same campgrounds that already exist, but now with a commercial operator being able to book a proportion of the sites before the public can. I don't know if they will physically separate the commercially booked sites but at this point I have seen no mention of expanding or creating campgrounds for this purpose.
I am ideologically against letting commercial operators into this field - I accept the reality that camping fees in national parks are a necessary evil to help with provision of services and reduce false bookings, but I think if such fees are going to exist the money should go directly to Parks rather than have the majority go to a private company. Commercial camping operations should be operating on private land rather than public - that way public access to public land is not reduced and the public gets limited access to land they would not otherwise get to (the camping might even help fund preservation of said private land).
"Every closure of a manufacturing facility is a loss of sovereign capability and compromises Australia's ability to build a more complex and dynamic knowledge-driven economy."
I agree with this sentiment, I don't think it is a good idea long term to lose manufacturing capability and knowledge. I would however prefer that a stake in the company is transferred to the government when they have to spend large sums bailing out a facility due to it being in the national interest to do so.
Last year, Australia showed how unengaged and racist this country remains by refusing to insert an Indigenous advisory voice
Convenient that the author forgot to mention that the very person they're writing about was a vocal No voter. You can say many things about Lydia Thorpe but politically unengaged is not one of them, and while she might be a little bit racist it's definitely not against Indigenous people.
I'll also note that the Tent Embassy had a giant banner hung up urging people to vote No, guess they're all politically unengaged and racist...
I was concerned these recent stabbings would start a push towards screwing over people like me who regularly carry pocket knives, and unsurprisingly it's started. It's rather disappointing how many people go straight to pearl clutching at the mention of a knife even though I and many others have had them on hand as useful tools for decades without feeling the need to stab anyone.
Good. I think the other option - setting a precedent allowing businesses to skirt discrimination laws by claiming their behaviour was art - would have been a rather poor decision.
44 trucks in a month is not a particularly big wave, though I'll grant it's a sizeable step from previous sales.
Electric trucks do make sense for a lot of the last mile delivery sort of stuff (lowish and predictable max km per day, lots of stop/start, return to same base each day) so I expect this use case at least will become popular in the near future. As the article says though charging is a bit of a killer and will likely be more of a problem than the actual purchase price of the trucks. It'll be interesting to see if it leads to a shift towards the big companies buying rather than leasing more of their depots due to the capital input required for charging infrastructure (small companies are probably just out of luck).