Three men walk into a bar. The American says, “actually that’s only 1 3/23 men in FreedomTM units”.

It’s not the onion, it’s The Chaser who are based in Australia. And I guarantee they don’t give a shit.

Ahhh, Port Kembla. I mean it’s already a whale graveyard what with all those massive container ships chopping them up all year and the massive sewer outfall gassing them out. A few measly pylons just adds a bit of spice to the game!

Just in time for the new wave of bush fire emergencies expected over the next 3 years!

It’s terrible that we’re regressing towards a pre-1850’s society, but also ridiculous is that all this does is drive more money into non-productive housing.

Say want you want about the US, but at least there the dream of wealth is underpinned by the idea that you start a business doing something useful.

The Australian dream of wealth is flipping houses.

This is a really interesting story behind the story. If you remember how much Turnbull public resisted any kind of inquiry or Royal Commission, you get a sense of how powerful an influence the bank was able to exert on any ‘fair’ process.

Bloody Koalas partying all night on drugs, clubbing themselves to death. We need a Liberal government to post police at every club and strip search these buggers. Especially the 13 year old girls koalas in NSW.

It’s good to see the evidence, but it was no real secret that the big private mining company owners were all scared as hell about the Voice.

Of course they can’t come out and admit that. But it’s still hilarious (in a really shit way) when people still proudly admit that the voted ‘no’ to keep Australia ‘fair and egalitarian’.

Err, no. At least 20% of the population was swayed through some astroturfing by Australia’s most wealthy toffs.

I can imagine this becoming a full time job itself, just to make sure you don’t get absolutely mauled when the spot price goes through the roof.

This is kinda like comments from the alien site circa 2010 which have aged pretty badly.

“20% renewables is the absolute maximum that can be achieved, anything over that will result in Armageddon!!!”.

From what I understand, although Australia has a large number of native bee species, our main pollinators were birds, which is why we have so many flowering frees with ‘robust’ flowers.

In our (inner city) garden we have at least 3 hives, all naturally occurring. Two are euro bees and 1 is natives. There’s at least 1 other native hive in the garden or nearby - we see a lot of blue banded native bees on some flowers.

I really like your thinking, but I’ve become much less convinced about the natives only in the cities. A lot of natives are really well adapted to cities, and the ones that do well don’t necessarily create the right environments for critters.

As an example all our hives live exclusively in camphor laurels. I think it’s because that the camphor’s have a lot of good hollows and they create a lot of shade. Bees don’t like it too hot and they need protected places to build hives. I don’t suggest that you go around trying to plant camphor’s because they are a real invasive species, but they’re definitely good for critters and a really hardy and fast growing, and suit suburbs well. There’s probably are more suitable alternative (ours are very old), but most suburbs are so devoid of significant trees that something has to be better than nothing.

We’ve got a mix of natives and introduced plants here, which all flower at different times. I think this means that there much more certainly and diversity of pollen for the bees. For example the early spring all the rodedendrums were out, wattles were flowering a few months ago, and then the jasmin start and has just finished. The bees bloody love the jasmin. The calistamons are about to go off now, and then all the other summer flowers will take over.

I like the idea of turning vacant land into something useful, but there’s also so much we can do with our own gardens that create permanent habitat that isn’t just grass. We’re part of a strata in a major city, so if we can do it I’d encourage everyone to give it a go themselves.

This is a great snapshot and breakdown of the result and voting patterns. Really interestingly is the comparison to the last referendum (for a republic). That was almost 25 years ago now - but the electorate results are almost identical.