With various Govts turning logical contortions to prevent ANZAC Day returning to the pre-covid state and much advice from on high to “stand in your driveway”. Here are two links to 2015 and 2018 where I blogged about the broad history around the early part of WWI involved with the Ottoman Empire.
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Coastal erosion at Port Fairy Victoria
The ABC report boulders strewn across a road after storm waves and quote experts blaming sea level rise.
It seems that almost three years ago there were works extending a rock wall. Monthly sea level data from tide gauges at Portland and Lorne show that from about 2015-16 sea levels have fallen till the end of last year. We will look out for updated data – and there are a few missing months I can checkout but I wanted to present the raw data. Link to chart
Perspective re the late Prince Philip “spear throwing” question
Media has been remembering “gaffes” by the now departed Prince Philip and the time in 2002 when he asked aboriginal performers “do you still throws spears at each other”. Only a few minutes with Mr Google turns up many articles about spearing in the leg as a traditional tribal punishment.
Shonky BoM minimum t data still obvious
My old National Night-Time Hot Spot (NNTHS) may have been vanished but several more candidates are blinking away 2013-2020. I see there are “cool spot” anomalies repeating too.
BoM data is so tortured they can not rid these maps of obvious errors. Larger map.
ScoMo Gov path to doom
It is ironic that the above crystallizes to near certainty at Easter with crucifixion analogies and on 1st Apr.
In view of the crescendo of attacks yesterday on the Feds by Qld & NSW over slow vacc rates it looks clearer now that all the States have been antagonistic towards the Feds dating back over a year now. Motormouth Morrison has been a slow learner maintaining a public fiction that “at least we get on well with NSW”. Anybody watching news yesterday could be disgusted that on such a serious issue as vaccination and at a time of flood disaster relief our various layers of Gov can not make an effort to cooperate delivering for Australians. Instead grabbing the opportunity to dissemble and weave a web of changing lies about why they are withholding vaccs to add to attacks on the hapless Morrison Gov who are indeed beset from all sides.
If I had cartooning skills I would be thinking of the ScoMo Gov deep in a shellhole in enemy territory surrounded on all sides by their enemies – China, States, ABC, activist women, Eurozone holding back Oz vaccs, anti-damists, climate emergency, anti-coal, anti-gas, country shopper and extinction rebellion advocates, NZ PM at times. I am sure there are more.