No Oppo Supporters The TAN 77 - Where Social Distancing is encouraged

[SunshineBoy]

 

[SunshineBoy]

 

[Phar Ace]

I first saw Chain at the Prospect Hotel in Kew, long time ago

I was a bit young for the pub screen but remember the release of Black and Blue on 3XY - "Where no wrinklys fly"(I think) and it was a huge song, massive!

 

[Phar Ace]

All-time classic - one of the biggest of my youth for sure

 

[Cdog71]

Bit before my time, but what a talent.
I think I remember some interview or someone talking about that Aztecs playing loud. They played some venue in Sydney I think that had an aquarium on the second floor and they were so loud they killed all the fish.

 

[This Is Anfield]

All-time classic - one of the biggest of my youth for sure

Jim Keays had a daughter born the same day as my daughter at Waverley Private... I should have said hello but chickened out.
Massive fan... RIP

 

[Cdog71]

The link above (and also links in the article) about Hispanic deaths are interesting.

I’ll keep it and have a nosy another time...but bloody fed up with the news.
I’m starting to think that I know the Mayans got their calendar wrong.
But maybe it was just a typo

 

[Phar Ace]

Jim Keays had a daughter born the same day as my daughter at Waverley Private... I should have said hello but chickened out.
Massive fan... RIP

My first daughter also born at Waverley Private!!!. No such claim of fame there at that time though

 

[This Is Anfield]

I’ll keep it and have a nosy another time...but bloody fed up with the news.
I’m starting to think that I know the Mayans got their calendar wrong.
But maybe it was just a typo

I've had that same feeling all day...

 

[This Is Anfield]

My first daughter also born at Waverley Private!!!. No such claim of fame there at that time though

How long ago?
21/9/2001 for mine.

 

[Phar Ace]

How long ago?
21/9/2001 for mine.

March 12, 1994 - it was such a great day in my life as I'm sure yours was too for you. Still recall the look my wife and gave each other as we left, 'are they really going to just let us go and care for this beautiful lil girl"

 

[RFCGloryJC]

They had a story on ABC news.
20th anniversary of Whyalla air crash.
Eight dead.
Completely forgot the story, don't know if you recall it.

How the Whyalla Airlines disaster forged crucial friendship through shared grief

It has been 20 years since the Whyalla Airlines disaster, in which eight people were killed on May 31, 2000. Two families say they couldn't have got through the aftermath without each other.

www.abc.net.au

 

[RFCGloryJC]

Interesting doco on Nine tonight.
The LA riots of the 1990s.
Latasha Harlins, a young black girl, was shot in the back of the head by a Korean shopkeeper.
She had mistakenly thought the girl had stolen an orange juice and killed her as she exited the store.
The white judge let the Korean woman go free.
No prison term. Not guilty.
All of the pressures are simmering.

 

[RFCGloryJC]

At the trial, they show the grainy CCTV footage from the grocery store.
You can tell by the muzzle flash that the Korean shopkeeper had a very powerful gun.
At point blank range in the back of the girl's head.
The judge overturned the original jury ruling of manslaughter, 16 years in prison, and let the woman go free.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Coalition gave private pathology companies lucrative Covid contracts

Coalition gave private pathology companies lucrative Covid contracts

Government has shielded closed collection centres from takeover and provides big subsidy increases after industry lobbying

www.theguardian.com

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Ya reckon?
We are on a slippery slope to hell.
This should be rereleased...

Canna make an omelette without breaking a few eggs...
Change never comes up prettily wrapped on a silver platter just for the taking...

 

[roacheee]

Coalition gave private pathology companies lucrative Covid contracts

Coalition gave private pathology companies lucrative Covid contracts

Government has shielded closed collection centres from takeover and provides big subsidy increases after industry lobbying

www.theguardian.com

And so they should. Biotech and medical research is one area this country specialises in and China cant compete. People cry about saving the car industry but point fingers about protecting another industry. Probably because they know what a car is but don't understand biotech

 

[Phar Ace]

And so they should. Biotech and medical research is one area this country specialises in and China cant compete. People cry about saving the car industry but point fingers about protecting another industry. Probably because they know what a car is but don't understand biotech

I hope we get the funding model together for the manufacture of green steel in SA We need to build resilience into that sector any way we can.

Green steel industry could secure jobs future for Australia's coalmining heartland

Report says steel made with renewable hydrogen could become a multibillion-dollar export industry

www.theguardian.com

 

[JackNah_8]

the protest in NY are getting intense (again)

 

[roacheee]

I hope we get the funding model together for the manufacture of green steel in SA We need to build resilience into that sector any way we can.

Green steel industry could secure jobs future for Australia's coalmining heartland

Report says steel made with renewable hydrogen could become a multibillion-dollar export industry

www.theguardian.com

If we have borrowing capacity for an extra $60 billion from the reduced uptake of jobkeeper....$60 billion would build a very large solar array, a state of the art steel smelter and infrastructure to bring in iron ore and ship out the end product...that'd also piss china off royally....win win

 

[Rayzorwire]

Yeah, pent up rage, dislocation, frustration - but ransacking and looting shops, I mean really that is plain stupid and unlawful Amazed at the comments from a representative from Target Stores there, something along the lines, "we can rebuild stores but we can't rebuild lives, I understand the reason behind these protests" or something like that. Very considered statement.

Nearly always the saddest and weirdest element of these type of flare-ups is that it's the poorest areas which end up on fire and often the completely innocent who end up harmed.

If we have borrowing capacity for an extra $60 billion from the reduced uptake of jobkeeper....$60 billion would build a very large solar array, a state of the art steel smelter and infrastructure to bring in iron ore and ship out the end product...that'd also piss china off royally....win win

Totally, been saying this for a long time pre-covid. Stop selling our ore to all overseas parties and only use it when we can value add to the raw product. The world isn't going to stop needing steel in similar quantities and it's not going to get cheaper in the long term, we're idiots to export raw resources instead of using them to support our own economy for as long into the future as we can.

The government has showed it can create money at the stroke of a pen and loans are literally free ATM when you factor in eventual inflation. They can get the economy booming any time they really want to.

 

[Livonski]

Nearly always the saddest and weirdest element of these type of flare-ups is that it's the poorest areas which end up on fire and often the completely innocent who end up harmed.





Totally, been saying this for a long time pre-covid. Stop selling our ore to all overseas parties and only use it when we can value add to the raw product. The world isn't going to stop needing steel in similar quantities and it's not going to get cheaper in the long term, we're idiots to export raw resources instead of using them to support our own economy for as long into the future as we can.

The government has showed it can create money at the stroke of a pen and loans are literally free ATM when you factor in eventual inflation. They can get the economy booming any time they really want to.

They've got iron ore, they've got the energy source on the NW shelf, and shipping distance advantage as well. Value add iron ore, and non ferrous metals, for that matter. Surely those factors can offset the scale disadvantage (if there is one)?

 

[Rayzorwire]

They've got iron ore, they've got the energy source on the NW shelf, and shipping distance advantage as well. Value add iron ore, and non ferrous metals, for that matter. Surely those factors can offset the scale disadvantage (if there is one)?

AFAIK, the only thing stopping us is that private companies and the individuals who control them prefer selling it raw - and why wouldn't they when there's billions in it and far less complexity than any kind of manufacturing model? Their fortune is quite literally everybody else's loss.

High grade steel will become more precious as time goes on (the world is already flooded with cheap, poor quality steel with limited life), to literally give away the raw material in such huge volumes enriching foreign companies and a handful of individuals here, then buying back the overseas manufactured products at another loss to us is insane public policy.

 

[roacheee]

Nearly always the saddest and weirdest element of these type of flare-ups is that it's the poorest areas which end up on fire and often the completely innocent who end up harmed.





Totally, been saying this for a long time pre-covid. Stop selling our ore to all overseas parties and only use it when we can value add to the raw product. The world isn't going to stop needing steel in similar quantities and it's not going to get cheaper in the long term, we're idiots to export raw resources instead of using them to support our own economy for as long into the future as we can.

The government has showed it can create money at the stroke of a pen and loans are literally free ATM when you factor in eventual inflation. They can get the economy booming any time they really want to.

Loans aren't free.

However...building capacity, industry and infrastructure is worth the investment.

We should be leading the world in renewables, clean(er) coal and carbon capture technology. Then building and exporting the tech.

 

[SunshineBoy]

They've got iron ore, they've got the energy source on the NW shelf, and shipping distance advantage as well. Value add iron ore, and non ferrous metals, for that matter. Surely those factors can offset the scale disadvantage (if there is one)?

You need to have smart leaders in a smart country..........we used to have a great steel industry