And when they didn’t have a stream of babies they traded to get more people. Or just outright stole them.

It’s going to be an interesting time when the generation of 10 people is faced with hunting and gathering for the generation of 1000. Pro-tip: It doesn’t end well for the generation of 1000

The number of people in the world is predicted to start going negative before the end of this century.

Safe bet they will not use any of the old mines or remote ports you mention because $$$

While it is the right thing to do, continued cultural isolation of its people is exactly what the Taliban want

Nah they won’t get outed or penalised. They’ll just get invited to less cool parties now because treason is gross and nobody wants to be seen with that

Remember governments past and present piss away this and more routinely for far less social benefit

Most people commenting here don’t have kids. Private schools are so prolofic because the majority of public schools are so defunded and sad looking that there is a native demand for schools with… non-below average facilities which families are willing to pay for.

This country doesn’t spend enough on education and instead is letting its citizens fund the education sector out of their own pockets. It’s kinda criminal.

So instead of blanket banning private schools we should be funding public ones to the level that makes most private schools redundant.

That’s way too basic to be a solution. If you take from them they’ll simply take it back from us by cutting jobs and services while raising fees.

We should be making it harder if not outright illegal for them to arbitrarily cut costs in the way they do i.e closing branches, offboarding atms, making workers redundant to keep up profits. They are in many ways a public service and the service component is worth protecting.

Countering this behaviour would be far more impactful to Australians and the economy than just having them hand a bag of money to the government.

Love the smell of cheap KPI attainment in the morning

In a large city they can be practically boycotted. Most people just can’t be bothered.

This is the way

We’ve actually spent tax dollars sending council members over to Holland to check out the safe bicycle infrastructure

Forget Holland, the most amazing bicycle infrastructure I’ve seen are in Chinese cities. Because bicycles were a dominant form of transport for most of the 20th century their cities were built to cater for this demand and had to have it work.

I’ve always liked a Sara Lee cheesecake but Sara Lee faces stiff competition at the budget end of the frozen dessert market and the much expanded availability of higher quality offerings. Australia’s dessert tastes are also changing. I expect Sara Lee will follow the likes of Arnotts and other such formerly beloved supermarket snack brands.

Even 10 years ago the topic of this referendum would have been political suicide. Remember Rudd got crucified for apologising. It’s actually pretty positive that this referendum, as poorly executed as it was, actually happened.

Theres already an AI Attenborough that narrates Warhammer 40k lore. It’s brilliant

Unfortunately mass transit that works for everyone is the enemy of vehicle manufacturers.

Hydrogen currently doesn’t produce, store or transport well. This means it is not as economical as gasoline.

Not really a fan of lithium batts either. We’re going to end up with some environmental problems down the line but its the most economically viable tech we have at present if we’re intending on living the way we currently live.

My dad and I once sat in the cabin of a push to start vehicle for 20 whole minutes before admitting defeat and walking back to the rental office and asking how to start the car. If an action is completely alien/illogical to you, it’s not a matter of being bad at adapting, you’ll just never get it.

In this case we needed 3 actions done correctly: fob in dock, brake pressed down (even though its in park) and hold the start button down for longer than 2 secs. It was the last step that really screwed us around

There needs to be cycling roads that are just for cycling, not just painted green strips on existing roads. Big ask but it’s what we need for the majority of persons to use bikes as an actual mode of transportation.

The wealth of so many Australians is tethered to property ownership that to threaten housing prices is to basically ask to lose an election.