Predictable, and kind of funny:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-01/multiple-people-escape-howard-springs-quarantine-facility-darwin/100663994

Latest ABARE report just came out.  

Big harvest numbers in Vic again, albeit slightly less volumes than last season - https://www.awe.gov.au/abares/research-topics/agricultural-outlook/australian- ...

Ghislane's trial is now in progress.  Lots of names we've heard before (Clinton, Trump etc) and perhaps a few new ones (late Sen. John Glenn!):

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/30/us/ghislaine-maxwell ...

[quote=Valvegear][quote]Given that Western Universities have become a kindergarten for the snowflakes who get offended by everything, maybe that's where the brainwashing is occurring?[/quote] You are ...

Europe is having some serious issues with energy atm. It doesn't help that they are at a geographic disadvantage:

https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1465760991954808835?t=zhC3Zbg7ZI_E1uW3CPHjFQ&s= ...

Mark "Kim Jong" McGowan has pretty much killed off any chance of the Perth Test going ahead.  That bunch of paranoid isolationists don't deserve it anyway.  Let them hide in their caves.

https://tw ...

EV reliability isn't great.  More to do with complex and whiz-bang infotainment systems than powertrain issues:

https://insideevs.com/news/550873/evs-worst-reliability/

One thing I'm finding inter ...

SSR are loading grain in Deniliquin today, returning to Melbourne this evening.  This will be the first revenue train on the upgraded line.  

Locos S312-P14-S317 are hauling it.

[quote=Valvegear][quote]It sounds like most Victorians would rather be ruled by a Nanny State tyrant who keeps them 'safe' (or the illusion of safety) than to have freedom.[/quote] Where and when did ...

[quote=The Vinelander]Those Anti-Dans will be translucent with rage at the thought Dan's brushing off the negatives and concentrating on the positives. There's even a good case to suggest the weekly s ...

Now the Federal Govt has thrown international travel into chaos again.  Knee-jerk madness over a variant that might be far less dangerous than Delta.

https://twitter.com/theage/status/1465246812420 ...

Looks like a lot of unwarranted panic over the new variant.  Too many 'Chicken Littles' losing their minds and sanity over it.  Grrrr....

Another Belt and Road fiasco:

https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1464704020040151040?t=wxnTXAo1JMQtl0wPy2IIAg&s=19

Another Belt and Road fiasco:

https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1464704020040151040?t=wxnTXAo1JMQtl0wPy2IIAg&s=19

They were doing deflection measurements back in September. That was going to determine if the track could go to Class 3 (100 km/h) or requires a whole lot more work to achieve that.

Echuca - Goornong section should get quicker by mid-2022. Hopefully.

VL356-VL360 locos have been swapped with X31 and G532 today for Consolidation train duties.  X31 will be the first loco in VR blue and gold on the upgraded section of the line.

Severely limiting? Maybe in some circumstances.

But religious organisations are not puppets of the State. Or society. Otherwise they would just be an amorphous social club indistinguishable from th ...

Signals fried at Ringwood nearly all day.  Must've been quite the BBQ...

[quote=michaelgm][quote]Reckon Morrison’s religious discrimination bill is a solution in search of a problem. A substantially higher priority than any type of integrity commission.

A legacy to be p ...

The Great Reset?

https://twitter.com/s_deery/status/1463696206421381121

Idiots

Big news today on this project.  SRL East to be completed by 2035.

https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/massive-funding-boost-means-srl-build-starts-next-year

Interesting to see a British Civil Engineer ...

She may have left as she had seen Dan's new legislation to make him dictator for life.

That said, Dan's legisla ...

Ireland is an interesting one to watch.  Over 90% of adult Population vaxxed and yet numbers are very high (~4000 per day for a population of 5 million).  Deaths are fairly low, but hospitalizations a ...