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Smurf1976 said:
I thought darkness was preferred over there?

Stops the cows fading and avoids upsetting the curtains. :D
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Mate you are pushing the boundaries of what is socially acceptable, the cows had a huge amount of difficulty adjusting their watches, which wasn't taken into account when you Eastern State FW's moved your clocks.
Have YOU tried changing the time on a watch, when using cloved hoofs, I mean FFS get real.:mad:
By the way I'm not talking for myself, I'm talking for my member of parliament, $hit I just gave off more methane , "sorry"

We need to adopt a 24 hour clock, then they can't move the goal posts, I just need @rederob on board and it's a done deal.
 
Smurf1976 said:
Just don't try and get into WA driving like this:

www.abc.net.au

Woman towing caravan 'speeds through COVID checkpoint, rams police'

A 47-year-old woman has been remanded in custody to serve 14 days' quarantine after allegedly speeding through a checkpoint at Western Australia's border with South Australia and ramming a police car.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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She only had to do that for 750klm's to Norseman, then do a right turn and do another 180klm's up to Coolgardie, then do a left turn and it is a straight run of swinging the caravan from the left to the right for 600 klm's to Perth, then bail out.lol
OOPs forgot it isn't Hollywood movie, you do have to stop for fuel, I have read people can do long distances in nappies. ?
I had an experience where the youngest son filled the nappy, then filled the wife's lap, then filled the bucket seat. But that wasn't natural and I was scarred for life.
 
wayneL said:
Western Australia has effectively become a foreign country as far as the rest of Australia is concerned, as ipso facto, you will need a visa, stating your vaccination status to enter.

Perth used to be known the city of light back in the days of the Apollo program. Most assuredly the whole of Western Australia has now entered a new dark age.

For now we have some semblance of Liberty, but the inevitability of a mild respiratory disease once again taking hold, McStalin will not hesitate the opportunity to unleash the complete dystopia the rest of you are having to endure.

Just remember, if you want to keep your fingernails, 2 + 2 = 5, Komrades.
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Coincided with your return........
 
wayneL said:
You can blame the extra wet winter on me, it happens every time we move somewhere.
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In that case you could probably get paid big $ to move to the right place. Somewhere up in the Snowy Mountains, on the central plateau in Tasmania beside the Great Lake or any farmer who's having a drought.

Others would probably pay you to keep well away too. Tourism regions basically, any of them unless the local attraction is white water rafting or waterfalls in which case you'd be welcome. :xyxthumbs
 
Well at last someone in Government is actually doing something about social housing.
www.abc.net.au

WA government to spend extra $875 million on social housing in next week's budget

The West Australian government announces it will allocate an extra $875 million towards social housing as it prepares to hand down the state budget on Thursday, with a total of 3,300 properties forecast to be built over four years.
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From the article:
The funding comprises a $750 million social housing investment fund — most of which will be spent on new social houses in the following 2022-23 financial year, with the remaining $228 million to be spent on short-term projects.

In total, more than $2.1 billion will be spent on social housing over four years, to build about 3,300 new properties.
 
Anyone wondering why Mark McGowan isn't in a rush to open the borders, the budget surplus numbers are coming in. As we have being saying since the beginning of the pandemic, with all the W.A FIFO workers having to spend their money at home and the mines staying open, is a huge bonus for W.A.

www.abc.net.au

McGowan's budget coffers make him the envy of treasurers across Australia. How will he spend it?

As Premier Mark McGowan prepares to hand down his first budget as WA Treasurer — in his dual role — sky-high iron ore prices put him in an enviable position.
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W.A wants to tap into bonds market, to fund debt.
www.abc.net.au

WA attempts to tap green debt markets branded 'more icing than cake' as emissions soar

Western Australia wants to raise debt from so-called green finance markets in a bid to counter views the state is a major source of global pollution.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
From the article:
Premier Mark McGowan, who is also the state's Treasurer, has unveiled plans to potentially issue "green" and "sustainable" bonds to the world's financial markets as part of efforts for WA to reach net zero by 2050.

Bonds are a form of debt that governments raise to fund their activities.

But the push has been described as "more icing than cake" and an attempt by the government to greenwash its heavy reliance on the mining and resources industry and support for carbon-intensive projects.

It is understood the money will be used to pay for spending on things ranging from public transport assets such as railways and solar panels on social housing to pine plantation recycling initiatives.

WA's decision to enter the world of environmental, social and governance (ESG) financing follows similar moves in recent years by New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
 
sptrawler said:
I don't know about that, the building industry is flat out, it is impossible to get tradies, also retail is booming.
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Is fifo bogans can’t fly to Bali and need to spend money on something and go some where with all out free time!

they can’t get tradies as very few companies bother training or employ apprentice’s any more along with wages still being at 2013 levels
 
Investoradam said:
Is fifo bogans can’t fly to Bali and need to spend money on something and go some where with all out free time!

they can’t get tradies as very few companies bother training or employ apprentice’s any more along with wages still being at 2013 levels
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I don't know where you are getting your info from, but it certainly doesn't reflect the reality of wages in W.A.
The part about apprentices is true and it is Australia wide, the Government departments, reduced apprentices numbers in the 1990's.
Also a lot of Government departments, farmed out their maintenance functions and the private sector never were big employers of apprentices.
 
sptrawler said:
I don't know where you are getting your info from, but it certainly doesn't reflect the reality of wages in W.A.
The part about apprentices is true and it is Australia wide, the Government departments, reduced apprentices numbers in the 1990's.
Also a lot of Government departments, farmed out their maintenance functions and the private sector never were big employers of apprentices.
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Mining, oil & gas yes

mining wise it was around 2014/15 mining wise the companies stopped apprenticeship intakes
there would be dozens on site across different departments! Now most things have been contracted or to Labor hire who don’t put apprentices on either
Things changed when Karen Rudd & Julia Gillard fair work came in to play as it was just a rentitled version of John Howard’s work choices
 
Investoradam said:
Mining, oil & gas yes

mining wise it was around 2014/15 mining wise the companies stopped apprenticeship intakes
there would be dozens on site across different departments! Now most things have been contracted or to Labor hire who don’t put apprentices on either
Things changed when Karen Rudd & Julia Gillard fair work came in to play as it was just a rentitled version of John Howard’s work choices
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Apprenticeships has been an ongoing issue for a long time, its demise has been three fold, one was the closing of a lot of Government facilities e.g the Midland railway workshops, they took on 800 apprentices a year and two the contracting out of maintenance and three fifo.
The mining towns that were established in the 1960' and 1970's held the full compliment of the workforce and the families of the workers, so inevitably children of the workers did apprenticeships in the mine workshops.

Now with fifo, that consistency of a stable community has gone, a majority of the workforce doesn't live there, major works are now done via shutdowns as opposed to ongoing daily maintenance workforce and the community no longer is employed by a single or a couple of major mining companies. From memory, the fifo workforce came about with the introduction of fringe benefits tax, which made it more attractive to fly a workforce in, than house them and pay fringe benefits tax.

Hopefully things go a complete circle, as with a carbon tax the cost of flying may be even more expensive, also with the advent of massive renewable projects in the NW of W.A a labour force close by may be required.
 
sptrawler said:
Apprenticeships has been an ongoing issue for a long time, its demise has been three fold, one was the closing of a lot of Government facilities e.g the Midland railway workshops, they took on 800 apprentices a year and two the contracting out of maintenance and three fifo.
The mining towns that were established in the 1960' and 1970's held the full compliment of the workforce and the families of the workers, so inevitably children of the workers did apprenticeships in the mine workshops.

Now with fifo, that consistency of a stable community has gone, a majority of the workforce doesn't live there, major works are now done via shutdowns as opposed to ongoing daily maintenance workforce and the community no longer is employed by a single or a couple of major mining companies. From memory, the fifo workforce came about with the introduction of fringe benefits tax, which made it more attractive to fly a workforce in, than house them and pay fringe benefits tax.

Hopefully things go a complete circle, as with a carbon tax the cost of flying may be even more expensive, also with the advent of massive renewable projects in the NW of W.A a labour force close by may be required.
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Agree also governments ran down training centres and farmed apprentice training out to private enterprise the last company I worked for we fought tooth and nail for them to hire a single E/I apprentice place had a annual operational budget of $350 mil...
 
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