Is it that time of year again?

Working for an ISP we saw this happen a lot this time of year.

Doesn't help that all the 2 cables to Perth goes through the same straight full of shipping and the 3rd goes to Oman

Probably an extra 50-60ms?

Yeah, but now it's carrying all the backhaul traffic that ordinarily goes to Asia and Europa, the long way round, so it's probably slow that way too.

Over land to melb/Syd should be fine though?

Great news!

Don't know if I'll watch, thought maybe get down to Freo, but it'll maybe be too wild for the kids. The local footy club are thinking of putting the game on their big screen, might wander down to that.

Not sure though. Not a huge fan of AFL myself, so I'm not too worried about it, but I'm bloody happy and excited for them and hope they get that gong this time. Its been so long coming.

Ooh, have fun in old blighty!

Good point

This is even better advice.

It should be a great day to go to the Royal Show, Outback Splash or Adventure World. It's the first day for all three, and crowds will hopefully be small because of the Footy.

There should be screens up in the café strip of Freo but I suspect it'll be beyond bedlam. I would try booking a table in a more suburban pub, although a lot of them will be booked out already.

Personally, I'll be watching with 1500 other Aussies at 5.30AM in London!

Hmm, i hadn't realised/forgotten they'd decided to buy it back instead of wait it out and prepare.

I think theres more than two ways this pig could be sliced though. Like, these unused lines are likely just a liability on the balance sheet for Brookfield, they might practically pay us to take ownership over those lines again, whipe they keep the used ones for longer.

We can then use those older lines and time without a great deal of pressure to rebuild a government run railway corporation that has experience maintaining and fixing these hard to reach tracks before taking over the whole thing.

Propose a 23 year joint venture with Brookfield where the State gradually takes more rail into ownership in pre-set, predictable stages allowing future governments to slowly increase capacity and funding, hopefully having innovative ideas over the course of those decades.

With one of the tortoises being stolen a few months ago, they really need to up their security to be honest.

It sucks that it's something that's become necessary though. Can't imagine what goes through the mind of someone that does this.

Yeah, seems a good news story all round. Props to all involved if you ask me.

Ahead of schedule! I like it

I don't know about these DAPs, i get the need for streamlining processes, but i get the feeling that these DAPs are just rubber stampers.

Freo Dockers should have their parade across it if they win the GF.

This is the result of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, and Right Wing media racist dog whistling.

Well done supine Liberals, really standing up to the enemy of the people you represent with this one. /s

What a joke Melissa Price is, yes its the Labor government playing politics, not your mates at The West Australian. /s

Why am I not surprised! It seems like an extension of funding for private schools (mostly religious) while neglecting public ones. And we call ourselves a secular and egalitarian society.

Yeah, I didn't pay too close attention to the actual policies driving the campaigns, not interested in it enough. There was something I kept hearing about red bins, but that could be 'woKErAti climate wars' LGA edition. So probably not policy exactly.

I don't think awareness of disinformation and individualised algorithmic targeting were ever really widely known or understood enough for it to 'drop off a cliff', it seems like people are completely uninterested in understanding these systems of manipulative influence. At least from where I'm standing it seems that way.

Critical thought and awareness of how misinformation and algorithms target people seems to be falling off a cliff. Is this result not a demonstration of exactly that?

Of course I'm not suggesting people should vote for corporation backed parties, they're demonstrated that they'll always pander to donors. Surely there were actual candidates with strong and responsible policies.

Facebook is for sure the worst. The glimpses of the shit my olds are reading on there is the most toxic and dishonest slop.

What I can't understand is why it's so hard for people to double check the information they're considering, check the context a bit before locking in the point of view presented.

I confess to being surprised. Not about yesterday's result, though I would have been a few weeks ago. I was at a Fathers' day thingy last week and my Brother-in-law and my dad were essentially talking about One Nation as a viable choice. Dad has been a bolted-on Labor guy with every 80's stereotype those voters came with (battler, literal blue collar, lifetime CFMEU member, union shop steward - the whole works) for my entire life. Dad coloured my understanding of politics as a child (Fraser bad/Whitlam good).

So for him to be shit-talking Labor and talking about One Nation as something viable - yeah I was really taken aback. He doom-scrolls Facebook all the time, so I know where this has come from. If he can be shucked from Labor boat and turned, I bet loads of others can be as well.

They have been buy-able for a whilst, Libs and Labour just thought they had the upper handed monopoly and the candidates stopped 'looking' like they care in favor of the 'just rent and be glad you peasant'. This result is almost the same argument that is seen in USA and UK. Economics and class snobbery is hitting hard on the lower incomes, so social media is pushing the purchased self righteous, but useful idiots to make it even worse. Libs and Labour have helped create the mess, showing big money that they can buy public sway, the difference is that money is now sidestepping them playing dirty. They cant and wont object or offer resistance.

Labor need to pull their finger out and make some changes.

Spoiler, they won't :(

The only thing that will save us from this mess is a mass left-wing political movement to counter the rise of the right.

The Labor Party are not the party of workers, and haven't been for many, many decades. We can rely on them only to tinker, and to placate capital at the expense of the workers.

Luckily, preferential voting exists, so there's literally no downside to abandoning them in favour of parties that align with left-wing values.

I'm probably preaching to the choir, but please join your local Socialists branch, or the Greens if you're not yet convinced capitalism in unreformable. And get everyone and their dog involved.