Joondalup campus is a carpark that gives out degrees.

Ooh, theres a couple prime locations,

Up Thomas Road from West Perth/Kings Park area, through the medical campuses, up around UWA. Then the Curtin and Murdoch campuses linking to the research park and hospital respectively. Yeah, i can definitely see those.

ECU Perth and Notre Dame are set up already well.

ECU Joondalup could connect better to Joondalup town, and train station, but i don't know why, i feel like this won't work as well as the others. Things feel soo spread out in Joondalup, and that campus felt so separate to everything else when i've been there. Maybe its just that a new place like Joondalup isn't built up as much as older places, so an inner city infrastructure solution like this sounds a bit odd.

Totally. Funnily i think thats where they used to be to. These days the first light rail id install would be to the universities and tafes.

Gangster

The fuck? Has Zempilas laid off the coke for a few days or something?

I mean, I support this new and improved basil but it seems like an odd turn of character.

Hastie, as usual, can go jam his shit ideas somewhere his christo-fascist pals won't like him playing with.

I honestly thought Hastie was a more canny politician than he is coming out as since the election. What does he mean,

"This motion — moved and supported by my division of Canning — reflects a growing concern from mainstream Australians about our expensive energy bills, unreliable supply, and the erosion of our national sovereignty," Mr Hastie said in the email.

Does he mean 'Mainstream' Australians support his net zero, and welcome to country culture war? Thats such an incoherent statement in the face of their election loss, they have to get back to real policy.

Its a shame, because i think Hastie could be really strong and in a productive way in opposition on defence, but if he's seeking relevance through culture wars like this, then he's lost the plot.

I’m guessing it’s an actual quote and not a scare quote

As a general rule, a headline from a reasonably reputable news source is always going to be using quote quotes and not scare quotes.

That page interestingly advertises it both as a "food additive" and as an "OC spray" (a technical term for pepper spray). While that technically doesn't imply a use-case, it's a term associated with the pepper spray weapon and its strength is in the high end of that range.

A comment from what I think is the product page:

Paige

this killed me at school

do not spray around school. i mean it works if you have enemies.

Cheers 👍

Hart was sentenced over the prank on Tuesday, with Perth District Court Judge Felicity Zempilas telling him she did not accept the claim he thought he had innocuous fart spray in his pocket and not Satan’s Spit as he was seen on CCTV repeatedly looking at the product.

Yeah, I had a hunch it wasn't "a prank". But even if this didn't happen and it was a fart spray, I'd say give them a slap on the wrist for that antisocial crap too (just not a full 16 months like this capsaicin chemical attack earned).

Dunno why traumatic is in quotes and prank isn’t.

I'm guessing it's an actual quote and not a scare quote, even if it doesn't read that way.

edit: I just realised, is there even a legitimate use for that product, culinary or otherwise, or is it effectively consumer-available pepper spray?

Dunno why...

It's lifted directly from a statement from one of the injured parties.

Welllll actually they used the word "traumatising", but that's the reason quotes are used in headlines like this, they are quoting someone involved.

The argument that short-term suites are not really suited to long-term living is fair. Do these suites have proper kitchens with ovens? Laundry nooks? Or are we going to have a shared laundromat on the ground costing $20 to do your weekly washing?

The rest is pure Nimbyism. If the government actually adapts these dwellings for safe and stable housing, it can only be a win.

You say that, but I doubt there would be many who would want to live next door to 200+ social housing tenants. I’m sure many of them will be good people fallen on hard times, but you’re going to get a cross section of tenants who aren’t.

It’s a short term fix that will cause long term social problems for the area. There’s a reason they dont put all the HomesWest houses in one suburb.

If?

NIMBYs

poor naked nurses

I wonder how much concern there would be if they were planning to house the poor people in Balga

the keming will get you every time

I need new glasses. And a cleaner mind. i thought the headline said:

"prescribed bums"

Nah, they're scrub fires, not tree

The wording is confusing. Felling in this context just means dying from fire, not cut down.

The trees aren't supposed to die in burn offs, the shrubbery and grass does

oh, never mind. would still have been nice to invite some people to come haul logs for timber. prescribed furniture.

tl;dr: They fucked up with this particular burn. Prescribed burns are an important part of our forestry programs.

SOURCE: Studied forestry in college. Seen it in action locally. It works.