The problem with global media is that every single outlier event gets hyped to such a degree that it appears to be a common occurrence.

And people had the nerve to name a Swimming Pool after him! /s

Still the best Award acceptance ever by Les Murray when they won their ARIA.

After seeing TISM, MGF, Eskimo Joe, Ben Lee and The Mavis’s last nice, I would have to agree with this list.

“don’t You worry about that…”

It will get messy because they can fall back on “the government told us to do this so ACCC can’t touch us”. Lawyers will win; Government will lose, Telcos will lose and consumers will lose big time!

The ramifications of this is the black-listing of dozens of VoLTE phones following the 3G shutdown. This government slap-on-the-wrist has given Optus, Telstra and Vodafone carte-blanche to tell customers “you didn’t buy the phone from us, so we can’t guarantee you can make calls”.

Bloody Jeff.

Sold all our Publicly owned infrastructure to private companies.

Now we have to deal with electricity resellers screwing us over and the government needing to fork out Corporate Welfare in the form of “Energy Relief” to line their mates pockets.

But that Spectrum being used for 3G is beneficial. Not just for support of older devices but also increased, redundant coverage.

This purely Corporate Welfare legislation, which is going to backfire on the corporations when they realise they have to build more infrastructure to provide the same coverage.

It is going to be detrimental to product consumers because they won’t have the same amount of coverage. Also, the higher bandwidth of 5G is going to increase backhaul requirements which mean that the person calling 000 using VoLTE will need to compete with the person steaming 4K Netflix while playing CoD.

The only winners in the long-term will be the advertisers and data miners, who somehow manage to bloat a 4kB website to 40mB.

It was the Telecom Oligarchs that kept the speed and infrastructure limited.

I really wish that Telstra had not been accepted into the NBN; In my alternate history, FTTH would have been rolled out in parallel to all existing corroded copper. The problem with my alternate timeline is that Telstra would try to push fixed 4G and 5G as their only option and oversaturated the MobileNet infrastructure… wait they are doing that anyway!

Some imported dual-cab utes struggle with the kerbs of drive throughs.

That’s fine. The landlords still have the power to increase rent to astronomical levels in order for force unwanted tenants out.

If you can’t evict them, you can make it so they can’t afford to live there.

Different people lost different things during the Pandemic.

Some lost their independence and freedom. Some lost their social ties. Some lost their innocence and ignorance.

They were the lucky ones.

Lots more people lost their lives and quite a few still haven’t realised that they have lost their good health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-_9eEkW9g

Once again Garn hit the nail on the head.

We have preferential voting for a reason (except for literal Nazis), the major parties should always be last on everyone’s ballot.

It should be;

1. Someone I agree with
2. Someone I agree with on a lot of issues but not quite everything.
3. ditto
4. ditto
5. Greens, unless the candidate is a complete hippy fucktard that doesn’t know how economics works.
6. Shit Lite party
7. Shit party.
8. Yellow Shitstain
9. Literal Nazis.

“We are price gouging customers, we are ripping off suppliers and we are making our customers feel like criminals. What else can we do it pure evil?”

Considering that Grill’d claim to help community groups with donations, this is very hypocritical. They can help and homeless by paying their employees a living wage.

Maybe the RAFFWU needs to apply to be recipients of “Local Matters”

https://raffwu.org.au/