The Financial Review had a set of federal voting intention numbers on Friday from Freshwater Strategy, which were highly distinctive in having Labor leading by only 52-48, compared with 54-46 from the last such poll in December. The primary votes were Labor 34% (down three), Coalition 37% (steady), Greens 12% (steady) and 17% for the rest. Anthony Albanese was on 42% approval (down six) and 37% disapproval (up seven), a substantially narrower net positive rating than recorded by other pollsters, while Peter Dutton had less anomalous numbers of 30% (up one) and 42% (up four). A preferred prime minister question had Albanese with an usually narrow lead of 51-33, in from 55-29. The poll was conducted Monday to Wednesday from a sample of 1005.
Further findings from the poll:
• Support for the Indigenous Voice was down two since December to 48% while opposition was up ten to 39%, including a 20-point increase among Coalition voters and a seven point increase among Labor and Greens voters. This converted to 55-45 after exclusion of the undecided, in from 65-35.
• Only nine per cent felt the budget would put downward pressure on inflation and interest rates, compared with 52% who thought the opposite and 23% who said it would have no effect. Forty-eight per cent felt the country was heading in the wrong direction, up six, compared with 37% for right direction, down seven.
• Seventy per cent supported Peter Dutton’s call for sport gambling ads to be curtailed, with 13% opposed, and 59% supported his proposal to allow the unemployed to earn $150 a fortnight more without affecting their JobSeeker rate.
By-election latest:
• Amy Remeikis of The Guardian reports five candidates have emerged for Liberal National Party preselection in Fadden, with nominations having closed last Friday and a ballot of eligible local members to be conducted this Friday. The Gold Coast Bulletin identifies four of them: Gold Coast councillor Cameron Caldwell, who is widely rated the front-runner; Dinesh Palipana, emergency doctor at Gold Coast University Hospital and the state’s first quadriplegic medical graduate; Fran Ward, founder of a charity supporting distressed farmers; and Owen Carterer, who would appear to have a low profile. “Long-term members” were backing Caldwell, but Palipana had support from “Young LNP party members linked to state MP Sam O’Connor”, though critics were arguing he would do better to run at the state election.
• The Age/Herald reported a spokesperson for Scott Morrison saying his departure from parliament was “not imminent”, and would certainly not be soon enough to allow for joint by-elections in Fadden and his seat of Cook. However, it could “possibly come at the end of the year”.
Other news from around the place:
• David Penberthy of The Australian reported last week that bitterly fought Liberal Senate preselection looms in South Australia, the flashpoint being the position of Senator Alex Antic. Together with like-minded Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick, Antic withdrew parliamentary support from the Morrison government in protest against mandatory vaccinations, and has lately courted far right sentiment by mocking Volodomyr Zelenskyy in parliament and following it up with a theatrically disingenuous apology. Antic was elected from third position on the ticket in 2019, behind Anne Ruston and David Fawcett. As religious conservatives make headway in a push to take control of a party that took a distinctly moderate turn under Steven Marshall’s one-term state government, there are said to be some hoping Antic might be pushed to the top of the ticket (though an unidentified and presumably conservative party figure is quoted denying it), and others hoping he might be dumped altogether.
• Sumeyya Ilanbey of The Age reports Victorian Liberal state president Greg Mirabella told state council yesterday that an external report into the Aston by-election found defeated candidate Roshena Campbell had “the highest recognition and positivity among Liberal names, even when compared with outgoing federal Liberal MP Alan Tudge”. This would not seem to sit will with a view that has taken hold in the party that Campbell’s lack of local connection to the seat explained the result, as reflected in Peter Dutton’s determination that a local should succeed Stuart Robert in Fadden.
• RedBridge Group has results from polling of Victorian voters on federal voting intention, which after exclusion of the undecided finds Labor on 41% (32.9% at the election), the Coalition on 34% (33.1%) and the Greens on 12% (13.7%). The pollster’s high-profile director of strategy and analytics, Kos Samaras, argues the Liberals’ dismal levels of support in the state among non-religous voters, Indian Australians and Buddhists in general puts it in an unwinnable position.
• In his column in the Age/Herald on Saturday, George Megalogenis wrote that “private polling for the Yes campaign is more encouraging” than this week’s Resolve Strategic result of 53-47 (although Kos Samaras of RedBridge argues social desirability bias effects in polling on such questions means proponents should not feel comfortable of even a national majority unless polling has it clear of 55-45). However, Megalogenis says “Queensland is now assumed as lost, with Western Australia doubtful”, with “Tasmania as the potential swing state”.
• The West Australian provides a sketchy report of polling by Painted Dog Research gauging the opinions of 1409 voters in Western Australia on Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton and Jim Chalmers. Albanese recorded an approval rating of “just under half”, with 26% dissatisfied, with Peter Dutton apparently scoring a parlous 16% approval and 48% disapproval. “About a third” approved of Jim Chalmers’ performance as Treasurer, while “just under a quarter disapproved”.
• The Age/Herald yesterday reported results on issue salience from last week’s Resolve Strategic poll, finding the cost of living with a huge lead as the highest priority issue, identified as such by 48% compared with 11% for health care, 10% for the environment and climate change and 8% for management of the economy. Cost of living has ascended to its present level from 16% last January and 25% at the time of the federal election in May.
An article by Western Historian
https://lithub.com/why-the-idea-of-western-civilization-is-more-myth-than-history/
I would have to add, pretty poor form by Ch7 in the way they are running the story. Could they make it any more creepy? Notably Ch9 isnt running it – and Ch7 calling it an exclusive.
You would think that, as this boy is out on bail, his classmates and their parents have a right to know some more detail than just a scary news bite. I would add…. any children who catch the same bus as him too!
Most of the people who lionise “western culture”, and almost always deride others in the same breath, have never read a history book.
>Pi says:
>Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 1:13 pm
>That needs to be about 5500PJ/yr to effectively phase out fossil fuels,
I think this is an over estimate.
A lot of the coal and gas energy goes out the power station chimney. A lot of oil energy also goes out the exhaust pipe.
Throw in heat pumps to replace gas furnaces and you save even more energy.
Catprog: “I think this is an over estimate.”
I dont think so. I expect Australia’s population to increase by 30% or so over the next 25 years. So any efficiency gain, which might get you 25%, will be more than covered by the increased population requirement.
Catprog: ” lot of the coal and gas energy goes out the power station chimney.”
And renewables will be curtailed as required. Hard to get around the raw numbers. Shave off a few points here, add a few points there.
Just in, the WSJ with more Musk for those with high Musk tolerance, covering twitter, time management, succession, Mars, AI, wars, tesla, etc.
It runs for just over 60 minutes but with time stamps (open in separate window, click on ‘show more’ in the descriptor, or run your cursor along the time line and the then topic will appear). Personally, I think it is well worth a listen, despite the weird cackling laughter.
https://youtu.be/9ZxFLUqAyD8
More about EV charging developments in Australia –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z858W51ujg
Yes Albo, you’re same same, we get it.
Pi @ #691 Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 – 1:13 pm
Makes you wonder why we’re also investing in new fossil fuels as fast as we are able, doesn’t it?
Hint: Follow the facts, not the forecasts.
I think 50% effeciency gains are very achievable.
Steve777 @ #362 Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 – 11:38 am
I am of similar vintage to you. In my milieu it depends on how well you know the huggee. Close family, hug no matter what gender(s), very close friends, yes, Uni mates, probably no. Amongst Rugby mates, only old front row partners.
In my younger daughter’s group (she’s 23), all friends hug on meeting, and have done right through school, and on.
Rex Douglas
Yes Albo, you’re same same, we get it.
Albo gave a perfectly reasonable answer. I am not part of this “we”.
Pi
I join with others in thinking the energy needed to electrify in place of fossil fuels is lower than you suggested. For transport there are several reasons:
– energy in replacement of ICE cars by BEVs is not 1 for 1. ICE cars are 25% to 40% efficient; BEV cars are 80% to 90% efficient. So your EV uses less energy. (Same with electric heat pump vs gas hot water).
– Australia’s existing light vehicle fleet is one of the most fuel guzzling in the world. Even without EVs, just by reducing fuel consumption and average emissions of ICE cars in Australia (160+gCO2/km) to European ICE car levels (120 gCO2/km) you would save another -25%.
– Most EVs are charged by owners from PV panels on their roof, so do not add to grid demand.
– Perhaps 1/3 of EVs will be purchased by renters and apartment dwellers who won’t have PV.
So we will need to add grid capacity to power 1/3 of vehicles , each of which use 60% less energy than an ICE car.
well the secresy around asylum sekers is just following the morrison policy andrew hastie is just playing politics labor gave us a national anti ceruption comition but rex is still claiming labor is just as bad
C@tmomma I will chase up with your MP by email, as I have done with my local MP also.
I was overseas when I got the call and SMS but not on holiday. All of my extensive travel – even to Bali – is for business. The pleasure of being a round-the-clock workaholic in multiple timezones!
I’m certainly hoping Soc. It would be great if we got to 2050 and we were using 50% of the energy we use today per capita. I wanna believe… But if we go back to energy use :
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/energy-consumption-by-country
… per-capita, Norway uses 50% more grid energy than we do in oz, and they use about 25% of the total joules per capita. So a factor of about 2x? 3x? And it’s not like Norway is known for its mining industry. As renewables requirements increase, without the consequent increase in storage, more of the renewables will be curtailed. We can’t really rely upon hydro the way some countries can either, unlike Norway.
So I think even then, we’re going to over-correct. Storage is going to be rolled out around the margins, and won’t really affect the raw power generation requirement for at least 10 years, maybe 20, probably closer to 30. We’ll build the capacity and then develop solutions to sort out what to do with the curtailed energy later.
I’m just quoting the ISP FWIW:
https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/isp/2022/2022-documents/2022-integrated-system-plan-isp.pdf?la=en
“Nine times the utility-scale VRE capacity. Australia is currently installing VRE faster than at any time in history. This record rate needs to be maintained every year for a decade to triple VRE capacity by 2030 – then almost double it again by 2040, and again by 2050. Much of this resource will be built in renewable energy zones (REZs) that coordinate network and renewable investment (including offshore wind REZ). These zones have the potential to foster a more holistic approach to regional employment, economic opportunity and community participation that may lead to greater local fulfilment of the NEM’s supply chain needs.”
We’re essentially going from 25GW of renewables capacity, mothballing about 40GW FF capacity, to 250GW of renewables capacity. We’re tracking above that. I don’t really include hydro in these discussions. It doesn’t really change, and is not expected to change, as its use is kind of fixed in all practical terms. I also don’t expect coal to last much past 2030 unlike these projections, so that’s even more renewables than shown in these projections.
Team Katich
Boy discharged a firearm at a Perth School. Guardian blog
Might take some attention off the Adelaide one
Pi
I take your point but I believe that is possible. RE is profitable now. Current generation capacity increase can be continued at that rate, subject to grid upgrades which are feasible, just blocked in the past.
Also a lot of it is self funding in the sense of being cheaper than current spending. Shifting from ICE to EV cars eliminates a $30 billion per annum fuel import bill. Bad for oil companies, but great for our economy. Same with power bills.
Soc: “Bad for oil companies, but great for our economy. Same with power bills.”
I hear ya. I keep bringing up petrol stations. EV’s are already cutting ICE car lunches. New ICE car sales are going backwards. For every EV that gets put onto the road (3.5% of new sales last year, 7% this year) an ICE car reaches its end of life. Average life of a car in oz is ~15 years. 3.5% doesn’t mean that much, but 7% does. That’s roughly a 1% decrease in total ICE cars on the road. That’s 1% less people needing to go to a petrol station. It’s expected to continue to double for at least the next few years. Every 7% takes another 1% off the road. Petrol stations will be looking at their customer based decrease by 1%, 2%, 4%, 8%, 15% etc… Imagine having that as a business model. The only thing debateable is the speed of this obsolescence. I don’t see any way that this doesn’t play out.
So if you think you’re looking at a great opportunity as a franchisee for a petrol station chain, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Finally a statement from the school. Not a bad response – although thumbs down to the committee that came up with this nonspeak;
“I wish to reassure you that the school has implemented advice in order to manage this appropriately.”
Pi
Most oil companies are foreign owned and pay virtually zero Australian tax. We won’t miss them.
Eston Kohver @ #716 Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 – 3:18 pm
Thank you, Eston Kohver. 🙂
Wow, that’s some job!
More on Russia’s sabotage of the UN-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia Black Sea grain shipments deal:
Matthew Miller, spokesperson for US State Department: “Russia continues to obstruct the normal operations of this lifesaving initiative”.
He noted that this is not something new, because Russia began to complain and openly obstruct it as soon as the ink was dry on the first grain deal.
“We should be very clear about what happened here. The parties agreed to enable unimpeded exports of Ukrainian food from three ports. Now Russia is refusing to allow ships to one of those three. It is a clear violation of their commitments under the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” Miller said
He stressed that such obstruction by Russia and threats to withdraw from the agreement threaten to increase global food prices and reduce food availability for countries that need it most.
“We once again call on Russia to stop holding global food supplies hostage,” said the spokesman for the US State Department.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/24/7403569/
It is beyond the pale that Russia has had any success at all in convincing any countries facing food insecurity that the West is somehow to blame for their predicament, when Russia flagrantly violates the agreement they themselves have signed straight after signing it. Remember, Russia has no right in the first place under any form of international or maritime law to forcibly block merchant vessels sailing in waters it is not sovereign over.
Health practitioners cannot just hand in their ticket to terminate disciplinary proceedings
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/district-court-judge-resigns-after-conduct-complaint/ar-AA1bBG0b?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=22fc3f40b6b04f73a226a115975493b0&ei=8
Some figures on the NewsCorp attack on Stan Grant
https://www.theage.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/did-news-corp-target-the-abc-and-stan-grant-the-answer-s-in-the-numbers-20230524-p5daxm.html
The LNP are putting the boot into the ABC in estimates atm.
Pretty interesting atm
You would have thought community consultation and transparency re Infrastructure Australia advice would be standard, but no, not with this Govt. Leaves open the opportunity for same same pork barrelling.
Pi says:
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 4:03 pm
Soc: “Bad for oil companies, but great for our economy. Same with power bills.”
I hear ya. I keep bringing up petrol stations. EV’s are already cutting ICE car lunches. New ICE car sales are going backwards. For every EV that gets put onto the road (3.5% of new sales last year, 7% this year) an ICE car reaches its end of life. Average life of a car in oz is ~15 years. 3.5% doesn’t mean that much, but 7% does. That’s roughly a 1% decrease in total ICE cars on the road. That’s 1% less people needing to go to a petrol station. It’s expected to continue to double for at least the next few years. Every 7% takes another 1% off the road. Petrol stations will be looking at their customer based decrease by 1%, 2%, 4%, 8%, 15% etc… Imagine having that as a business model. The only thing debateable is the speed of this obsolescence. I don’t see any way that this doesn’t play out.
So if you think you’re looking at a great opportunity as a franchisee for a petrol station chain, you’re gonna have a bad time.
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I hope you’re right Pi. Those projections of petrol use look encouraging, but a lot depends on government policy.
Like some of the posters on this blog, I too would like to see this government reject all new coal mines and gas wells (unless absolutely necessary for interim energy needs) and commit to a more ambitious climate target. What this government has committed to is certainly welcome, as was Resource Minister Madeleine King’s recent statement that there would be no more public funding of useless research into carbon capture and storage.
But seriously, we won’t reach the renewable energy targets without more ambitious policy.
The Labor government clearly does not want to upset that part of its working class base in the resources sector, nor does it want to cop an expensive campaign attack from that sector, accusing it of wrecking the economy.
I suspect the government is trying a balancing act; appeasing fossil fuel interests while hoping its other measures, as well as international market forces, will incrementally push fossil fuels into the landfill of history.
This might work; I hope it does. We need to congratulate the government on what it has done while keeping on its back about what to do next.
Aaron can breathe a little easier
https://inbrief.nswbar.asn.au/posts/21dc6bda18d1036ec37b45178e18581f/attachment/President%20of%20the%20AAT.pdf
Oh that’s rich coming from News Corp:
In a similar vein, Janet Albrechtsen – a regular contributor to The Australian and a former member of the ABC board – and Tom Switzer, executive director of the right-leaning Centre for Independent Studies and a presenter on ABC’s Radio National – wrote on Wednesday that “so far the ABC is using the Grant affair to blame News Corp for highlighting the public broadcaster’s editorial fiascos and increasing on-air activism, instead of recognising ABC management’s failure to enforce the division between news and opinion”.
Watching footage of Federal parliament lately, I’m noticing the Coalition resuming its Gillard-era tactic of having its members walk back and forth in front of the camera when a Labor minister is talking at the despatch box.
I’m hoping this isn’t going unnoticed by the government because it’s incredibly rude and distracting.
Sir Henry Parkes @ #729 Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 – 4:41 pm
Re adequate energy requirements during the transition – a national gas reserve. That’s all they have to do. But, no, not this fossil fuel owned Govt.
I was just wondering today exactly what would be the business model of petrol stations going forward. Obviously there will be no shortage of petrol for ICE cars going into the EV future, so will the big producing countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia, decide to glut the market with oil and sell it cheaply to the refiners, who sell it cheaply to the retailers, who then sell it cheaply to the ICE car owners to keep them on the teat as long as possible? Or, will they ramp up the price in order to maximise their profits for as long as possible as their market diminishes? Thence to move into plastic production, which is also being attacked in a pincer movement, but not quite as quickly?
Kirsdarke @ #732 Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 – 4:46 pm
I’ve noticed it as well. But what do you expect from Tony Abbott 2.0? At least they’ve stopped racing out of the Chamber from votes they don’t like since they collected that attendant?
southsays:
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 4:39 pm
The LNP are putting the boot into the ABC in estimates atm.
Pretty interesting atm
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LNP politicians are obliged to defend their media arm News Corp whenever it is under the pump. Or is the LNP the political arm of News Corp I’m not sure the lines are blurred .
Littproud, about whom There is little to be proud of, does a Sussssan Let
Guardian: Trip was to be with family, Nationals leader says
Still on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing, Nationals leader David Littleproud has appeared following revelations he has repaid travel expenses he claimed after leaving parliament early to travel to the Gold Coast in February.
Littleproud said the travel was to be with his family, not to purchase a unit, which he did three days prior.
The proximity of the Gold Coast airport was close to my home and the decision was made that I thought I could go back to either one of those ports [the Gold Coast or Brisbane]. Subsequent to that, the advice was my only port was Brisbane, I wasn’t aware of that and I made an error of judgement in not knowing that.
… I take it very seriously about my travel and how I spent Australian taxpayer money but to remove any doubt, I’m simply paying for the whole trip, even though it was really close to price in airfares from Canberra to the Gold Coast and to Brisbane because of the proximity. It’s important we uphold integrity in that and we try to do the right thing but we made the mistake in getting the wrong advice.
Asked if the property was an investment, he said it would be an investment and at “some juncture” would be a retirement home for him and his wife.
This was simply about going home, not about purchasing a unit.
‘Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine’ … yeah, right:
“During his visit to Paris, Li Hui, the Chinese government’s special representative for Eurasia, has discussed the political settlement of the “Ukrainian crisis” with Frédéric Mondoloni, Director General for Political and Security Affairs of the French Foreign Ministry…
… The Chinese diplomat said that recently “a compromise has been reached, and the groundwork has been laid” for such a settlement.
In particular, Li noted that there are “many compromises between China and France on the Ukrainian issue”.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/24/7403581/
I bet Ukrainians are ecstatic the French and the Chinese believe themselves to have sorted out between the two of them how many Ukrainians have to be delivered to Moscow’s rule, in order for the rest of the world to be spared any further inconvenience from Ukraine’s troublesome insistence upon defending themselves from genocidal aggression. 😐
Ven,
tl:dr David Littleproud … the NACC is just around the corner. 😳
Kirsdarke
It’s been proven in focus groups that distracting the ALP speaker by walking in front of them during Question Time, is worth up to 5% in the marginal seats 🙂
Thanks for the tip on the windy app @UpNorth! I already had it installed and didn’t realise it was international. The interface isn’t great so I tend to use willy weather and fish ranger to plan my fishing trips, but windy will more than suffice for our Vietnam trip
On the discussion RE servos, interestingly 2 new ones have opened in Coffs recently, both are on the highway in town which is surprising given work has started in earnest on the bypass (finally!). I already thought Coffs was over serviced with servos so I can’t see how they’ll all survive the bypass, much less the EV transition
Given that most EVs will do most charging at home I think the future isn’t great for urban and semi urban servos, but the big ones on the highway will do ok if they progressively install more fast chargers, although many will need to upgrade their grid connections. I hope they do big grid upgrades up front so as to avoid rework later
In fact probably my only criticism of the Tesla supercharger network is the locations, they can be quite random and not always even in places with 24/7 toilet facilities available, much less food . But their still miles better than the non Tesla fast chargers being installed at some of the big highway service centres purely because of the number of bays and reliability
Dr Monique Ryan MP
@Mon4Kooyong
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Dan Andrews’ decision yesterday leaves the Federal Government with no excuses.
It’s time to end native forest logging – nationally.
Integrity: “all they have to do”
We’ve had 10 years of nothing following brain-farts from the LNP. We don’t need more ‘advice’ from them.
@Sprocket
It’s more the social media aspect. A Labor minister could be delivering fire in a speech, but constantly seeing the tops of balding silver-haired heads moving around on the bottom of the screen takes the bite out of it somewhat.
Rex Douglas says:
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 4:47 pm
Sir Henry Parkes @ #729 Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 – 4:41 pm
I suspect the government is trying a balancing act; appeasing fossil fuel interests while hoping its other measures, as well as international market forces, will incrementally push fossil fuels into the landfill of history.
This might work; I hope it does. We need to congratulate the government on what it has done while keeping on its back about what to do next.
Re adequate energy requirements during the transition – a national gas reserve. That’s all they have to do. But, no, not this fossil fuel owned Govt.
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I understand your frustration Rex, because the government is to some extent walking both sides of the street. But fossil fuel interests do not have the same hold over the Labor Party that they do over the Coalition. I have been a Labor Party member for more than 20 years. I have met few, if any, Labor people, including serving MPs, who are not in favour of a renewable energy economy.
Labor could be doing more, and those I know in my ALP branch let the government know that at every opportunity. Keep on the government’s back, but this is not a time for anyone serious about climate action to adopt a nihilistic despondency.
To give non EV bludgers an idea, heading north from me:
MacLean – at a pub, so food and toilets available depending on the time
Byron (knockrow) – it’s the macadamia castle, food and toilets only until the cafe closes around 2pm, then nothing
Heading south:
Port Macquarie – at a winery who are nice enough to leave their toilet open overnight
Heatherbrae – random motel carpark, but very close to a 24/7 servo, serves greasy fried food until lateish
@SHP
I’m sure you’re correct about Labor rank and file and the backbench, but the ALP does still accept massive donations from the fossil fuel industries
And certainly Labor are doing far more on renewables than the coalition ever would, but I wouldn’t regard Labor policy on gas especially as anywhere near sufficient
One example of the current state of non-urban service station plans for the immediate future would be the current northbound and southbound redevelopment at Pheasants Nest on the Hume H’way 70 Km south of Sydney, costed in the order of $50M.
https://www.wollondilly.nsw.gov.au/home/latest-news/pheasants-nest-service-centre-upgrade-to-provide-local-jobs-and-a-modern-pit-stop-for-travellers-and-truckies/
Sir Henry Parkes @ #729 Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 – 4:41 pm
No, it won’t work. It is a long way short. Read the article RP posted to see why …
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/Documents/PipelinePaper.2023.05.19.pdf
If you live on the coast, there is a fair chance you’re already toast. I realize it’s hard to accept, but as the article points out, only a miracle could prevent this now.
Do you believe in miracles? I don’t.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/24/narendra-modis-rock-star-welcome-to-sydney-is-part-concert-part-political-rally-and-all-about-soft-power
From the article:
“There are three Cs that defined our relationship with Australia: the commonwealth, cricket and curry. But now it is three Ds: democracy, diaspora, dosti [friendship],” he started. “Now there are also three Es that define the relationship: energy, economy and education.”
Modi went on to list popular eateries in Harris Park, a central suburb for the Indian diaspora in Sydney, much to the delight of the crowd: “I want you all to take my friend Australian PM Albanese to these places.”
He said: “Mutual trust and mutual respect have not developed only due to the diplomatic relations of India-Australia. The real reason, the real power is – all of you Indians who live in Australia.”
Ven, what is your take on Modi’s meeting with President Zelenskyy at the G7 in Japan on the weekend?