I respect the official Australian National Anthem –
the following words came to me this morning as topical comments on our situation in 2020.
Australians ruled by idiots,
Our votes we give for free,
National cabinet rules the roost,
With debts piled high for thee,
Our land abounds in sacred sites,
No more dams for we,
drought fire flood and fruit unpicked,
with quislings everywhere,
Free from Robodebts at last,
Long-live Jobkeeper fair.
©
Imagine losing ~2,300 Aussie lives today in an hour or so on an equivalent population basis. HMAS Sydney was lost 19Nov1941 due to not heeding centuries of hard won Royal Navy experience in dealing with suspicious and unidentified shipping.
SMH article Of lives and deaths, writ in water 19Nov2008. Wikipedia Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran –
List of disasters in Australia by death toll
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I would say that for 17 months previously to the sinking of HMAS Sydney various disguised and armed German commerce raiders had been sinking whatever shipping they could intercept around New Zealand and Australia. One of these raiders – the Komet – found its way to our region after crossing the icy seas north of the USSR – with help from Soviet icebreakers. I have a blog on the Komet and a timeline of 1940 German raider sinkings around our region – so far totals 12 ships – still to assemble infor re 1941.
Quick update after the Marxcinda Labour landslide.
large chart
Lance gave me the heads up – BoM says at the old AWAP rain maps page – [Please visit the new Rainfall maps page and update your links.
The Bureau of Meteorology has upgraded its monthly gridded rainfall analysis. The enhanced analysis known as Australian Gridded Climate Data (AGCD) employs improvements in statistical modelling and scientific techniques.
The new page also includes the daily data and the previously separate rainfall archive and RMSE pages.] Here is the Old AWAP map for calendar 2019 – and here is the new AGCD map for calendar 2019 – I am surprised at the differences. Hoping readers search around various periods and post any interesting differences.
It is near a year since the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Premier of New South Wales, Deputy Premier of New South Wales announced their “Billion-dollar investment in NSW dams”. The two big items are a new larger Dungowan Dam to provide water for Tamworth and raising the wall of the Wyangla Dam by 10m.
I am just wondering if shovels will hit the ground at either project before 12 months passes since the big announcement on 13th October last year. Google will find many reports and articles on the above but I am yet to see where shovels have disturbed any soil. Plenty of community consultation and prepping of EIS.
Listening carefully to the torrent of evasive words from the Australian Prime Minister after the so called National Cabinet on Friday moved me to the this headline. Trying to decipher what he means referring to “hotspots” – “borders” – “definitions of a hotspot” – “nobody has to agree” – “travel bubbles” – all lead me to the conclusion that he has been comprehensively gamed, treated & regarded with contempt and defeated by the States for months as Australia muddles into the confused final third of 2020.
We have had an LNP Fed. Govt. for near seven years now – how good have they been?
Here is a quick list of what I think are their major failings.
Not in any particular order.
[1] Failing to rein in the ABC to be more balanced.
[2] Failing to rein in the Public Service to be less green/left.
[3] Failing to find a more rational line re “climate change”.
[4] No new dams despite big talk in 2013.
[5] Failed to control the NDIS and NBN spending inherited from Labor.
[6] Failed or were tardy to combat Family Day Care criminal rorts.
[7] Spent big but talked as though they were thrifty see July 2020 RBA chart.
[8] Snowy 2.0.
[9] Thinking that abolishing the Carbon Tax was solving something long term.
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[11] Doing nothing to prolong life of coal fired power – Hazelwood and Liddell.
[12] Talked big about reducing electricity prices but in the end it is probably Covid19 that has helped them there.
[13] Failing to stop some States gas exploration bans.
[14] Learning nothing from the Chinese militarisation of South China Sea.
[15] Allowing Darwin Port to be leased to the Chinese.
[16] Seemingly asleep to the Sinofication of our universities.
[17] Seemingly asleep to Sinofication influences in our political life.
[18] Fail to take steps to close the gap.
[19] Fail to arrest the slide in international measures of our education standards.
I drew a line before Covid19.
The end of WWII in Europe was less than stellar from a Western point of view due to the USSR push west as far as they could. Similarly in the Pacific theatre hundreds of millions of war weary people ended up being ruled by Reds and it is fascinating to explore why this had to happen. My reading tells me that the US Govt and White House was so “riddled with reds” since the 1930’s that many around FDR were working towards this Good Old Uncle Joe friendly outcome. The West is still paying for this.
At a time I am too busy to post enjoy these audio files.
An audio reminder of WA Inc from 2005 and the 1980’s 12Feb2018
As July draws to a close the Australian current month to date rain percentages bear little resemblance to the July rain Outlook.
As our commenter has reported – now August is here we can see the BoM max and min anomaly maps for July and you can compare to the way-way hotter looking 25th June Outlooks for July max and min.