Theres something so beautiful about these old stations. I think i’d rather they just restore it, rather than putting that weird roof cover over the top though.

The car industry execs should be laughing their heads off at naive bank execs assuming they know more about it than the car execs. Don’t they think the car execs already know what the risk and competitive nature of their own business.

Guess what bankers, this is how you produce positive growth in a real productive industry, and its risky business. Instead the bankers prescription assumes managed decline.

It’s like that new guy at work who constantly tells everyone about ‘hacks’ only they’ve discovered, when everybody already knows about them.

If you don’t like guns, lets use a metaphor and imagine you’re a golfer

Probably best to stick to guns without the metaphors.

Hard to find an apples to apples comparison. The damage a gun can do is uniquely unequal, while the products still having a societal purpose, to anything else i can think of.

This is a reason the Coalition have structured themselves in the way they have. As a mostly Liberal/National partnership, allied by a secret contract. It allows them to play to their respective bases, and as a unit, to constantly speak out of both sides of their mouth. Unfortunately the rise of the teals, and continuing denial of the climate reality have seriously damaged the Liberal/National electability in this area.

As @Mountaineer says, voter dissatisfaction on many specific points like this one is why a lot of minor parties have gained traction over the last quarter century.

Labor on the otherhand is supposed to represent workers, which is such a broad segment of society that they’ve never needed to form alliances to have the potential voter numbers to have a real chance of forming government before an election.

Labor just lost 31,000 votes next election.

Might be water off a ducks back at the moment, but my experiences with gun owners to date, (apart from one gun owner), is they’re uncomfortably fanatical about their guns. And belligerently oppose any demands they take higher precautions with the guns in their possession.

In short, they’ll remember this, the laws are passed, but acceptance of them isn’t.

Whats the link?

Glad to see someone has mentioned this. Huge gains in time in the day for a huge part of the population.

Looks a nice sitting area.

Their logo looks a bit like the Carlton United Brewing logo.

Everytime i go for a walk i see something new that i haven’t noticed before.

Doing what to casual observater seems like the same thing over and over again, can actually be the process of developing a deeper understanding of the subject area than before, (in this case your local neighbourhood).

This helps in an unexpected way. I’ve been low level questioning why Marcos has received such a quiet western media response upon his families return to power.

It seemed out of step with, you know, the US sphere’s “values” statement. This article got me a little further in understanding the US relationship with Duterte leading up to the event.

I’ve thought a fun promotional tag would be,

Aussie_zone, the socials alternative

Possibly recognisable from a certain media outlet ;)

Its probably better to focus on aussie_zone and any future sister servers rather than lemmy or fediverse as a whole.

Its a broad church out there. Last night i’s reading about the Maven AI controversy. People here on Aussie_zone might be cool with promotion, (also might not be), but others on Lemmy might not be, its not practical to check with everyone on every Lemmy server, and it’d not be nice to garner a perception of speaking for them.

Challenge that moderator to ‘Street Countdown’, i bet they won’t even show.

Hmm, gona have to think about a long term solution, but for now put something shiny in the next suburb over.

Sister instances would be my preferred option, it could mean we build the communities, but never have to sacrifice this instances culture by getting too large on a single instance.

Adding another view would be the way to go for sister instances to connect in a deeper way than the rest of the fediverse but still maintain some semblance of separateness.

It puts me in mind of the EU bloc, a supranational organisation, where the culture and way of life of the participating States is maintained, but many benefits of the closer connectedness are granted.

I’d be keen for a more descriptive view label than ‘curated’. Maybe it could become an extra field that admins launching sister instances are able to fill in themselves. I guess this is something we’d have to approach lemmy developers about.

Giving them the ability to have a uniquely descriptive name could be fun though. In our case it could be Australasian Allied Instances (AAI), or Australasian Union of Federating Servers (AFUS), or my personal favourite “Warboss Gorgritch’s Waargh on the Fediverse”.

and, my mind is mush, i’m going to bed…

I think your right about a need for critical mass.

Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign is probably a topic that should be discussed at some point. Be it of this instance specifically, or Lemmy in general, or even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.

Yeah very true. I suppose those examples were just two fairly extreme examples.

I used to live across the road from where the Indian-Pacific came into Perth. Its a little bucket list thing to ride on that pne day for sure!

‘Eames Silver Chair’

Haha, cheers on the cake day, i’d forgotten!

Thanks for the description of some of the terms. Stroad, that i’ve heard before, is good to read a little reminder on. I reckon parts of Orrong, and Canning roads in WA would be good candidates ecamples of Stroads.

Thats some serious honking capacity up on the top right hand side of that train in the first pic there.