it’s part of bush fire management

https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/fire-management/prescribed-burns

why burn them? at least use the damn wood..

Sevenwest media being fuckin average as shit again to their captive market.

Must be embarrassing to work there at this point...

What in the gods chosen

If you have a spare 7 minutes listen to the interview, the Mayor's catchphrases just go on and on, in parts she almost speaks in pure catchphrase.

I can't stop laughing at the bit where she starts banging on about a Lee Kwon Yew cities prize they're in the draw for. Like, well done i guess, wanna address the dumpster fire in the carpark now?

That interview was so wild!

I got in the car this morning and they were halfway through replaying it on abc Perth breakfast. I came in right at the point she starts demanding "who doesn't love dying children!?" I did a double, then triple take at, like wtf, i think i understand what she was trying to say, but fuck, that was a trainwreck!

I looked up more information about the childrens hospice, (link is in the edit to the post). It looks like a genuinely good project, that doesn't deserve to be mired in a controversy like this.

This article man...

"If anyone accuses me of bad behaviour or defamation I'll sue them, because I have been nothing but a good mayor," she said.

🙄

Mr Dodson said he could no longer serve in an environment he claimed was "consistently toxic".

I'm like, if this article is even a slight glimpse into the council under her it makes complete sense why so many left

Cheers for the addition of the text link. Story's disappointingly lacking in the details of what led up to it, which is a shame. Surely that's the juicy bit‽ This is linked with a little more background, but still not an explanation for why it has been so dysfunctional.

Also no details about how or when the election of a new council will happen

Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley

Was going to ask, "any relation?" But realised it's easier to look it up myself. The answer is yes. She's Kim's daughter.

I'm a globalised girl with almost three university degrees that can speak two languages

Ok, fantastic for you, Mayor Argyle. I'm a globalised guy with one honours degree that lived in three countries. Wtf does that have to do with anyone's competency as mayor?

So yeah, wtf is going on in Nedlands?

FOGO really seems to be working well then!

I've been happy with it as a user, except one incident during summer with some maggots, but i's a bit lax with the bagging that week. The red bin is so much cleaner now though, its almost all soft plastic from food packaging some weeks.

They raised this in nsw a few years back. Shame it didn't take, the data are in it just makes sense. It's such a minor part of anyone's commute and it would have benefits in safety for humans, non humans, and noise level reductions.

I have driven a lot around the Netherlands. It's pretty great. The only places with bad speed limits there are the highways. All the rest is very well designed and often doesn't even get you to the limit.

There is logic to this. Things can be done to make a road feel like it should be slower. Eg, if it's 2 wide lanes in a straight line, that road can feel like it should be 70 or 80. By making roads appear narrower, for example, can subconsciously signal that we should be going slower.

No. Not at all. I don't feel the need to speed. I just drive at a safe pace, which is often faster than the artificial limit they have put somewhere. (Which they often do just to make money from fines)

Mine don't.

Do you, perhaps, have a pro-speed bias?

Still, slower speeds in local neighborhoods makes a lot of sense. In Victoria it's 50km/h which is way too high even for normal cars.

One way to do this in a more natural way would be to quietly make the city's environment more hostile to cars and driving. This could include things like physically less parking spots (they would have to be replaced by parking outside the city though for a place like Perth); thinner roads including the major thoroughfares; more speed arrester installations like roundabouts, speedhump, those diagonal curb things.

One thing i wouldn't do is overtly privilege another mode of transport above the others. It seems to set up a zero sum competitive positioning in drivers minds. Ie, the bike get a lane, and I lose a lane, etc.

Thats a really good point.

Even the car I had 20 years ago had cruise control that could be set at 30.

Maybe something is better than nothing sometimes? 🙂

Homie just don't push the gas more and the car doesn't go faster.

Linking

You should be aware of your speedometer even if you think you can safely drive at a speed...... Especially in urban areas, where I'd assume it's more likely in urban areas for your car will collide with people at no fault of your own, like a kid carelessly running onto the road. Lower speeds make crashes far less dangerous, I wouldn't be surprised at all if five 30kph crashes a month had a significantly lesser fatality rate than one 50kph crash a month.

edit: very relevant, someone else mentioned this video. Amsterdam set their speed limit down to the same 30kph.

Ignores the massive increase in vehicle size, reduced forward visibility, and deadlier higher bonnet profile on SUVs etc

But we don't want to limit monster trucks or Mum's SUVs, so we'll just make everyone go slower.

The more wrong a speed limit is, the more dangerous it becomes. If it's 30 where I can safely drive 50, I have to keep my eyes on the speedometer to not speed and get a fine, which makes the road less safe.