A World Turned Upside Down: Australian News

Wanderfound · November 11, 2021, 7:30am

Alice Springs is home to the famous Henley-on-Todd Regatta, raced in bottomless boats across the usually dry riverbed.

Here’s what the Todd looks like right now:

Wanderfound · November 11, 2021, 11:21pm

You know you’re doing right when Murdoch’s tools are upset:

Wanderfound · November 12, 2021, 8:46am

Lucy_Gothro1 · November 12, 2021, 3:58pm

A-HA! This is the supply-chain problem!

Wanderfound · November 14, 2021, 1:15am

Wanderfound · November 15, 2021, 12:08am

Ulverstone is the next town west of Devonport. Not quite in my area, but not far from it.

Wanderfound · November 15, 2021, 2:18am

Wanderfound · November 15, 2021, 4:49am

If you’re unclear on what they were protesting about, see:

Wanderfound · November 15, 2021, 5:48am

That’d be this dude:

Wanderfound · November 15, 2021, 6:04am

Wanderfound · November 15, 2021, 7:31am

Wanderfound · November 15, 2021, 10:10am

Struggling for ideas about what to get the young 'uns for Christmas presents?

Lucy_Gothro1 · November 15, 2021, 3:19pm

It’s like LA, only prettier.

Wanderfound · November 16, 2021, 5:24am

Wanderfound · November 16, 2021, 9:23am

Vun Pui “Connie” Chong and her daughter, San Yan Melanie Lim, sought to import into Australia 25 kilograms of brown ginger tea, a well-known remedy for period pain in Malaysia. It arrived in five rectangular boxes, each containing 24 individually wrapped packets of tea, which the women were planning to sell with a mark-up that would have netted them a $90 profit.

But Australian Border Force officials intercepted the product at Sydney Airport on January 17 and identified it as Phenmetrazine. Bankstown police confiscated the contents and replaced them with an inert substance, which was delivered to the women’s Greenacre home and then seized when they raided it a day later.

The women were charged with commercial drug supply, which attracts a lifetime prison sentence, and refused bail.

However, the Downing Local Court heard on Tuesday that the presumptive test used by the ABF to identify the shipment as a prohibited substance merely generated a spectrum of similar substances to the one detected, and the Australian Federal Police did not rely upon it to conduct investigations.

A forensic operator from the AFP wrote to Bankstown Detective Senior Constable Tara Conaghan in February, advising that she would need to have the sample tested independently to be certain that it contained Phenmetrazine.

“Mate in a nutshell we cannot take from this ABF result that the sample contains or does not contain Phenmetrazine,” he wrote. The ABF “hazmat” test had only identified Phenmetrazine as the fourth most likely substance contained in the seized shipment, behind sugar, sucrose and powdered sugar, he said.

The court heard that Detective Conaghan did not pass this information onto the women’s defence team, and they remained behind bars.

Wanderfound · November 16, 2021, 11:10pm

Wanderfound · November 16, 2021, 11:30pm

Wanderfound · November 17, 2021, 9:17pm

A:

Nothing in that ad is false.

B:

However, there is an extremely strong argument that dealing with climate change is absolutely going to require the construction of a shitload of hydro and wind and other renewable power resources.

Even if we have a massive focus on degrowth and efficiency, we’re still going to need substantial generation capacity. That infrastructure has to go somewhere, and often the location will be dictated by environmental conditions rather than human preference.

C:

This does not provide any justification for continuing the long tradition of ignoring indigenous autonomy, economic justice, responsibility for environmental protection, etc. Dealing with those issues in a just way is difficult and expensive, yes. That is no excuse for ignoring them.

Wanderfound · November 18, 2021, 12:13am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Redfern_riots#Thomas_Hickey’s_death

Wanderfound · November 19, 2021, 10:24am