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The incentive needs to be towards the lightest possible vehicles, albeit perhaps with some allowance made for the substantial additional weight of current EVs so as not to kill off uptake, and they’ll need to be substantial.

We’re in a market where almost everything is an SUV. There are manufacturer line ups and whole sectors that are little else. A levy will be ineffective at changing buying patterns.

VicForests has a single shareholder, the Victorian treasurer. The end dates were brought forward only after it became clear that VicForests was facing endless legal challenges that they would likely lose and that continuing to fight before the courts was financially unsustainable.

Native timber harvesting hasn’t made any economic sense in Victoria for years and the government’s known about the environmental harms for far longer than that. They could have ended it any time after their election in 2014, and realistically this should have been on the agenda as far back as the Bracks government, if not earlier. It’s only stayed because it allowed for public money to flow into the private pockets of mates though subsidisation, board roles, and turning a blind eye to logging activity that would have landed any other entity in prison.

VicForests and the Andrews government intent on continuing their trail of environmental destruction to the bitter end.

VicForests and the Andrews government intent on continuing their trail of environmental destruction to the bitter end.

Fascists like Antic aren't going to save your rights.

The housing policy we’ve seen from Labor has been disastrously bad.

• A refusal to invest in public housing, instead intending to repeat the “social and affordable” model that has already been a dismal failure in Victoria. …well, unless you’re a housing developer.
• Housing targets that focus on commercial builds while we’ve 40+ years of public housing deficit in every state and territory.
• And now this which sees people entering into loans they’d otherwise be told they can’t afford and literally sees the government invested in continuing capital growth of real estate prices for decades to come when the policies we need, properly implemented, would diminish or even end that growth.

Yeah fairly common to see in the inner west now as well. People don’t have a tonne of choice but it’s not particularly safe, either electrically or for pedestrians who may not necessarily be able to navigate over the top of it all.

If we do this (and we should) we’ll need to undo a lot of substandard road works and additions. Plenty of roads built to design speeds that would support 130km/h or more and then modified in ways that drastically drop that speed.

Victoria’s approach to shoulders on highways and freeways springs to mind. Likewise the biker slicer tensioned wire fences. What they catch at 100km/h they’ll start to roll at higher speeds as they already will do with 4x4s and SUVs.

Slow charging needs to be basically ubiquitous. Even on street parking should provide for it in busier areas. Particularly where on street parking is your only parking at home.

Mastodon’s search is restricted to hashtags and users only as a design choice. Full text search isn’t implemented on all instances and where it is only searches your own content, not that of others. The first impression I’ve seen from people not already familiar with the choice is that Mastodon’s search is simply broken, such is the expectation for true full text search across information systems generally.

The restriction means you’re absolutely dependent on conversations centring around a hashtag that is both consistently used by participants and that you know to look for. In practice a lot of conversations don’t work that way.

Content goes untagged, crucially because an originator has no reason to expect a post to turn into a thread when they start it. It not always possible to deduce what the hashtag might be on a topic you’re interested in, particularly when we’re talking about events occurring in real time. It gets even worse when we add regional dialects and different languages to the mix.

Some of this is addressable by having specific, disciplinary based scientific instances and hoping people use them. A planned structure of some sort so you could know where to look. There’s elements of that now.

Contrast this with Bluesky’s very powerful (if currently extremely painful to set up) published feeds system and I think Mastodon’s going to struggle a bit in this space. In my orbit (primarily social policy and support) Bluesky already seems to be winning out even behind the invite wall primarily because conversations and their participants are more discoverable and the control offered over their presentation at both an individual and community level.

Unfortunately commercial charging rates make them much less attractive for anyone without both the space and time to charge them at home or lucky enough to work or otherwise spend extended time at a location with slow charging available.

Rates in Melbourne are now approaching $0.70 per kW/h for fast charging which puts things like the Ioniq 6 at about $10 / 100km and most other EVs a little more. You can run an efficient ICE car for that or close to even at current fuel prices, and spend a hell of a lot less on buying it.

The search limitations on Mastodon are unfortunately a major issue in science / research orbits.

Start by getting welfare above the poverty line and keeping it there. Then there’s a small matter of about 40 years worth of public housing that needs building.

Both anchor women to lethally dangerous situations and are both creating pressures that increase the rates of domestic violence in the first place.

And thank you Ben Doherty for highlighting this:

Two men, Louie Efi and Joshua Kaluvia, were convicted of Barati’s murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison, later reduced to five years. They have since been released. Kaluvia worked for the Salvation Army inside the detention centre and Efi was a security guard for G4S.

The pair consistently maintained others – including expatriate staff working in the detention centre – were also responsible for attacking and killing Barati. “We have to take the blame for them,” Kaluvia told the Guardian in a prison interview in 2015.

Eyewitnesses gave statements to police and to court that up to 15 guards – from Australia and Papua New Guinea – were involved in attacking Barati, including kicking him as he lay on the ground. An Australian government report found Barati was killed by “a brutal beating by several assailants”.

Australia’s detention centre on Manus Island was ruled illegal by the PNG supreme court in 2017, which ordered that it be closed.

I was under the impression the r/Melbourne mods had attempted to show some solidarity, got out voted by their user base and had thus left the sub largely unmoderated. Perhaps a part of it?

The Ombudsman's media release and full report are available here: Misconduct in public organisations: A casebook

Yes. How do you think council heritage overlays and easements work?

We already have these sorts of structures, assessments processes, and limitations in place under the Crown. It’s reasonable to expect a First Nations equivalent.

The day after the Garma Festival wraps up we get confirmation of this from the WA government.

One has to wonder how Albanese thought himself capable of convincing the Australian public of a need to listen to First Nations voices when this and similar issues are rife within his own party. For the stakes the referendum has put on the table for First Nations people Labor isn’t fighting near hard enough. Publicly or internally.

While not yet in line with the party's national platform or its recent conferences in so far as the demand for recognition of Palestine, this is at least a step in the correct direction from a federal parliamentary party still well to the right of its own rank and file membership

It’s relevant in so far as what it says about the extreme carbon intensity of the NT’s economic activity and the current plans to increase that dependence even further.

Per capita is not necessarily relevant from an environmental standpoint directly but it means quite a lot when it comes to gathering the political will to end these emissions and our uncounted carbon exports.