Greetings from the Australian Greens bunker. I can report all your favourite Green MPs are hunkered down here, painstakingly avoiding any public statement, dodging the media and when time allows, assuming the foetal position, rocking slowly from side to slide, murmuring gently, “Everything’s fine, everything’s fine.”
The one exception is Lee Rhiannon, who last week was told by the party’s National Council to go and sit in the naughty corner and think about what she did. She didn’t and hasn’t.
Rather she wrote an Op-Ed in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday advising the Greens were an undemocratic disgrace but only with her careful management and that of her NSW branch colleagues could it become a beacon of participatory democracy. I recommend you read it just for laughs.
Full columns here.
Well I think we can officially designate SA as Australia’s new Tasmamia.
So no more two-headed jokes directed this way please fella’s.
Latest from here is that Walsh’s new hotel planned for MONA will be as iconic as the Sydney Opera House. And what’s more he’s building it with his own money. The unions won’t get a look in there. He would just tell them to piss off.
That Walsh chap is a boon for Tasmania, Boa. You’re lucky to have him. Tasmania’s own Peggy Guggenheim.
True Milton. Controversial at times, but willing to push boundaries
Why would you need a union workforce when everyone is related anyway? HAHAHA. We don’t marry cousins in SA. HAHAHA.
Absolutely correct Dismayed. South Aussies gave cousins away generations ago, just after they moved to siblings.
Never mind the Greens, Jack. Electricity prices are becoming beyond a joke now. What a mess that’s in. Pretty sad when the elderly or low income earners cannot afford to switch on a heater.
Xenophon’s insistence on a token subsidy to pensioners was a joke really. A one-off payment of a miserable $75 or whatever it was, would have not made the slightest difference given the huge increases in the cost of electricity..
Goodness knows how businesses will factor the enormous cost escalation into their operations. Better to move offshore perhaps.
Prices have doubled since the removal of the ETS that you cheered. Take a look in the mirror oh and that will show both your heads down there too.
Just a point re the Bulldogs (AFL). Not travelling well, but this is this year and last year is , well, you know. And, although hurt by injuries, last year they came 7th in the home-and-away. Maybe they belonged there?
I could name six of their guns from last season who played last night and are struggling this season, TV. Confidence and form is lacking.
Here’s a deal for you Dismayed. Elon Musk of Tesla fame is going to build the world’s biggest lithium battery in South Australia inside 100 days or it’s free.
Now there’s an offer too good to refuse. Get yourself down there and run a bit of interference to stretch out the installation. Weather-ill will be forever in your favour for getting the big Duracell on the cheap. Why you might even get to run your fans (the cooling type) next summer for nix.
It seems Business and forward thinking people from all the world want to invest in SA. As I noted on the last blog the Anglo/Indian chap buying the Arrium steel works is going to use Renewable Energy to produce the steel. Oh yes, Whyalla, despite what abbott and mad barbaby would have you believe is still there and lamb is not $100 a kilo either but Energy prices have doubles since the coalition removed the ETS that you cheered about. The project will work 6/7 days a week in all weather and the guys doing the work probably will be CFMEU affiliated will be screwed over by the employment “agency” they work through. the riggers and work crews will be the lowest paid for similar work in the Nation. But that will not stop sheeple like you pissing and moaning.
No need for the common man (even Dismayed) to get involved, Lou. The unions will ensure it doesn’t get built within the time frame. Elon Musk obviously hasn’t done his homework
Ah your wilful ignorance continues. SA has the lowest level of industrial disputes in the Nation. You do realise until the ABCC was re-enacted industrial disputes had been at lowest levels ever. I would have thought a former secretary from a business that designs work would know even the most basic facts about the industry but then again you are just parroting along ideological lines. No surprises.
You magnificent bastard Elon Musk, a super genius, Mr Insider. The world’s largest lithium ion battery will be installed in South Australia under an agreement between Tesla, Neoen and the State Government, Premier Jay Weatherill has announced. Elon in South Australia as I type.
http://tinyurl.com/y7o8r2vs
NBN is in, so all we need to do is activate and reverse engineer the system that we already have before turning off the Optus…..ha ha
when he’s finished send him over here…
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/sa-government-announces-who-will-build-100mw-giant-battery-as-part-of-its-energy-security-plan/news-story/9f83072547f41f4f5556477942168dd9?nk=ee2a250b796e4760bab55a3c22f602a0-1499395392
Football típs folks.
Jack in the event of a nuclear strike which part of me should I kiss goodbye first?
We complain a lot but then there are small mercies – just saw a picture of Kevin Andrews in the news and thought – haven’t heard his name for over a year. That’s got to be a bonus?
It’s certainly not a bad thing TV.