I don’t think that this is really what this article is about.

The media is whipping up a frenzy saying that this is a tax grab. Really it’s a mild tax on the very wealthy.

What’s the Canadian unit of measure for strawberries?

Weirdly in Australia strawberries come by the “punnet” which is just the type of container I think.

Most other fruits are sold by the kilo.

The shit storm in the US is going to overflow.

There’s plenty of blame to go around, but we all do better when we all do better.

Yeah you can tell by the way it is.

Kangaroos do exactly this to dogs fairly regularly.

It’s not necessarily an attempt to drown an attacker.

Roos often retreat into water as a defence. Even on land their defence is pretty much holding with their arms and kicking / disembowelling with their huge clawed feet. In the water that translates to holding something under the water.

Big male kangaroos are no joke. Just like males of any herd animal, they will do whatever they can to harm you of they’re threatened.

I know this isn’t a switch to EU away from the US, but strengthening our relationship with EU can only be good IMO.

Probably naive of me but lining up behind the US makes me extraordinarily uncomfortable.

If we actually needed some support it’s pretty much guaranteed that Trump would throw us under the bus.

Not really. If the solar on people’s roofs is part of the network. The network needs to be able to manage peaks and troughs in demand no matter how the power is produced.

Aren’t the issues it causes mostly because the grid was designed to deliver power from plants?

I mean, aren’t they solvable problems?

they set up contracts with premises not to let competitors in the buildings, those contracts have been made illegal, but they still existhow are you going to know they exist to eradicate them.

Sure but a co-op wouldn’t need to be in a shopping centre next door to colesworth.

Plus high rents that are killing for profit businesses

This effects everyone, and isn’t a reason why co-ops aren’t common.

that combined with Coles + ww buying power

This is the most credible reason that most people are proposing. IGA stores share a purchasing and distribution network to mitigate this disadvantage as much as possible. I don’t know much about that.

They also sign contracts with producers that don’t allow them to sell to anyone else.

True. The flip side of this is that smaller local producers could work with a co-op.

Yeah right. Good to know.

Do they sell comparable things to a supermarket? Or is it more like hardware ? How does pricing compare to for-profit shops?

They’re completely incapable of changing direction.

No one wants nuclear. Transmission distance is too far in Australia. It’s just a license to keep burning coal for another 30 years.

Has renewable energy really lost its social license?

Farmers don’t like wind because all their neighbours are putting up noisy turbines.

Meanwhile every house in my street has solar because it’s a no-brainer.

These are all really good examples of what large grocers can do to maximise profits, but it doesn’t really answer my question.

A large not-for-profit could leverage most of these advantages. Multiple stores in multiple cities certainly could.

IGA stores are all independently owned but have a combined distribution network.

They wouldn’t have to achieve the same volume that colesworth does because… they don’t need any profit.

I disagree.

During a campaign, ok - her political alignment is relevant in so far as who she’s donating to.

Otherwise her statements of opinion on political matters are not at all relevant and I don’t see the value in reporting it.

It might get clicks but does that mean it should be reported?

The title alludes to it. Hard to miss.

Maybe but who whole premise is kinda wrong.

I don’t think css is really the “father” of tailwind, given that it’s also a dependency.

The vote was only 29 to 25 in favour of Ley, and 2 of her biggest supporters are senators who are about to finish up

That’s pretty much what I said.

It’s just denying reality to pretend that this is evidence of them accepting a shift to the centre

That’s the opposite of what Karvellas said.

Your comments are contrary to most other commentary.

Karvellas asserted the inverse just this morning: Ley represents a significant shift to the centre.

You’re right in that she will probably get knifed in the coming months. “See, we tried centrism and it didn’t work”.

However, even the liberals recognising that there’s a need to demonstrate that they tried centrism is significant.

I’m happy to acknowledge that your opinion is unchanged. For my own part I think everything that has transpired over the last week demonstrates a change of trajectory.

Perhaps I’m just unnecessarily anxious, but I feel like the constant culture war nattering makes it be a thing.

For example, my parents are in their 80s. The struggles of trans people just aren’t relevant to them in any way. The chances they would ever interact with a trans person in any meaningful way are infinitesimal.

However, if the leader of the liberal party is on TV every day complaining about how a trans person might use a public toilet for whatever gender, it will make my parents believe that it’s a problem.

These politicians stoke the culture war to fire up and engage their base.

Locally we’ve had some conservative nutters complain about library books discussing sex and gender issues. It’s just another manufactured outrage.

Isn’t it. It has a strange implication as though being in the office is the proper place and one day we all just forgot to be there.