What do you mean "already?" It's literally over tomorrow!

[checks community instance]

...oh wait.

@wildwhitehorses Not just you.

Very true, typical faire from them though.

But with population increases putting further pressure on demand and dam levels, Evan Hambleton said efforts to conserve water were more important than ever. 

I'm not really a fan of the ideas promoted by Abundance, i find they're a little too neo-liberal, but the gist of their ideas should be applied when it comes to our water strategy in WA.

The last thing we should be doing is focusing the Water Corp's efforts on conserving water. We should be tasking them with the mega-project supplying water for communities and also long term environmental water flows mitigating for the human induced absence of naturally occuring flows. Otherwise eventually its goodbye Jarrah Forrests, and the whole ecosystems around them, and goodbye farms and orchards that rely on that same environment for the wonderful standard of food security we have in this State.

We have to at least make sure the "sponge" is replenished. See the below quote,

"The catchments are like a big sponge," Mr Hambleton said. 

"It's only when that sponge is fully saturated that we start to see some run-off into streams then into our dams.

"Over many years, that's gotten drier and drier, so it takes more and more water effectively to saturate the sponge before we see some run-off."

Read the article in The West. The lead was originally identified in four sources I believe, two of which “had patient access” and “exceeded the recommended levels”.

Of course, being The West, the article did not mention where the sources were. An unused carpark tap is accessible by patients. A sink in the back of the cleaning room could count as a source. The article also did not specify by how much each source breached the recommended levels. Does 0.001% over count as a breach? Or are we talking a 50% lead to water ratio?

Deposits of minerals were apparently found in filters for faucets that had not been regularly used, and replacing the filter reduced the reading to safe levels. So they could have been old faucets that had not been replaced since the initial incident? If this is a huge scandal, where’s the actual information?

The whole scandal was obviously leaving big bits of info out to weave a narrative. Every man and his dog is talking about ‘accountability’ and asking why PCH didn’t reveal this, but we all know if they announced there was small levels of lead in unused faucets, that parents would go off their nut and catastrophise. If they are doing regular testing (which they must be if they found these breaches) and are quarantining any areas that are unsafe, then they are doing their jobs well without causing mass-panic.

Something the West doesn’t believe in.

“But how will we pay minimum wage employees to work over Easter if we need to pay them penalties?!?!”

Maybe, and hear me out, a ‘Public Holiday’ should allow the public, your employees, to take a holiday? I remember a time when long weekends were actually a holiday for most people. Yeah, you couldn’t go buy milk from Coles, but you planned ahead like an adult. Now if I want to I can do a weekly shop, get my haircut, go to a cafe, shop for a new outfit, see a movie, and go out for dinner. Why do the people who work the lowest pay g jobs deserve to lose their weekends to the rest of us can consume more shit?

I approve of WA aligning its holidays with the eastern states. It is likely to make business easier for companies that operate or trade interstate.

I'd really hoped we for one to be put in the July school holidays.

Oh well can't complain about a extra one in November. The second half of the year up to Christmas was always lacking with just the one.

Also, the gantries and overhead lines could not be installed without at times closing the line to Port Hedland, adding massive amounts of lost revenue to the financial burden of the high capital cost.

I hope these companies also consider the idea of working together abd relying on each other to cover costs of an electrification roll-out up there.

If one line is down how feasible is it for them to travel along another company's line,

or, have a profit/revenue share deal for the times each company's lines have to be closed for electrification thereby ameliorating the individual one time costs across the network of Pilbara iron ore miners. A deal like this would probably be more atteactive to government supports as well, as it supports industry and not single companies.

Everybody involved in that project should hold their heads high, they're trying to build something of value for this country instead of just extracting value from it.

If you are with Commbank then they have some deal with More Internet for a decent discount.

I have been with TPG for 20years and haven't had any issues for a long time. (used to know when they were advertising a good deal becasue speed would die for a couple of months). Speed has been reliable for years and no CGNAT to worry about. Support is off shore but rarely have to call them.
I was about to churn to Carbon Comms last month who were advertising $80 100/20, with static IP, on OZBargain. But when I called TPG they beat that to keep me loyal.

I'm happy with leaptel for gaming.

Ping to Sydney and Singapore is my main priority.

I left Aussie a year or so back due to random spikes in ping to NSW based servers.

A good place to look are the whirlpool forums (not related to the washing machine manufacturer).

My experiences:

• AussieBB: reliable, phone support OK but mislead me one day at a client's place, not the cheapest. Public IP is sticky, only changed once during my tenure and that was because I was poking things on their online self-service system to try and diagnose a problem.
• Superloop: Was fine, but only stayed on them for a discounted 6 months. "Superspeed" temporary feature requires a new DHCP request & IP, boots your connection temporarily. Can't recall if my IP was sticky otherwise.
• Leaptel: Somehow they offerred $65/month for 12 months (not lockin) at 100MBit if I asked to be upgraded to fiber. Did that, still on it. IP is not sticky, if my router reboots (or if there is a midnight outage due to maintenance) then it DHCPs a new public address every time, which is quite annoying.

For all of these providers: they put you on CGNAT by default, you have to contact them to opt out and get a traditional public IP address. (If you don't know what this is then you probably don't have to care about it).

No ISP is good forever, history tells us they're good for a few years and then go downhill. You have to keep jumping.

Aussie are terrific on service and support but not as competitive with cost.

Still the provider I recommend to family though

Seconding ABB, very happy. Good service, great network.

Second this, great performance and support.

I'm still very happy with AussieBB. Just a pleasure to deal with them on all fronts. Not sure how competitive they are, but I've used so many ISPs since the mid 90s, but this is the only one that has made me consistently happy.

Buddy Telco is the AussieBB value brand. Same network for less price but no phone support, online only. You don't have an option to remove cg-nat but can get a static IP.

I've been really happy with Tangerine. A little cheaper than Aussie, and I'm able to get static IP without paying extra (handy for web hosting!). It's been a long time since I've done a speed test, but when I did, I was reliably getting slightly more than the advertised speed during peak hour.

edit: whoops. I'm in Brissy. I doubt it'll make a difference (I thought this post was in !australia or !austech or something like that), but thought you should know just in case it matters.

The good news on cost is that NBN tiers are being massively improved from 14 Sept - without wholesale prices changing, so you might be happy with a lower plan than previously (see here: https://www.gadgetguy.com.au/nbn-faster-internet-speed-upgrade-september-2025-details/).

Aussie Broadband has a good reputation for customer service, but you do pay a little extra for it.

Some recommendations at each tier here: https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband/Guides/best-australian-internet-plans

But remember, these tiers are all going to get a speed boost after 14 Sept (and price may change a bit with some retailers).

It has bollards. He removed one to make a gap wide enough to get through.

Man! Yanchep and Two Rocks will be so different by the time i next get up there. I don't think i've been up that way since before COVID.

Oh yeah, that makes much more sense.

Yeah, as i say relying on the utility of randomness is so undervalued especially to cut through the power dynamics that exist and are built into society over time.

I like that method of election. I'm fairly sure LGA's have a fair bit of latitude as to how their elections work so i think an experiment with this is technically possible in WA.

Sorry for not being clear.

We have 5 positions to fill, we elect 15 people. From those 15 we select 5 at random.

This way everyone who eds up in a position wants it and has been elected but no amount of influence or money can guarantee a certain result