A duck's bill is quite large and injuries like this aren't uncommon. This duck was euthanased, had he not been caught, he'd have starved to death. That's the reality of what Malinauskas has authorised.

Because there is no significant political reason to allow a season. It's not like he's desperate for the votes of a few shooters.

The real question is whether the voters will reward cruelty and hypocrisy. Given the state of his opposition, Malinauskas realises he can do pretty much whatever he likes and still say in power. Which implies he must really like people smashing ducks with shotguns.

You also need to cast a critical eye to those saying that everything is going well with the energy transition. The data says otherwise. So perhaps AEMO understands what is required to keep the lights on rather better from those with rose coloured glasses.

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In conclusion, while junk food advertising bans are an obvious evidence based strategy if you are serious about tackling all manner of diseases, there is no evidence I know of that advertisers give a damn about the consequences of their work.

5. The ban on adverising tobacco worked to reduce smoking without requiring a ban on the activity. So that's good evidence that a ban on advertising can be effective.

6. So the ban is evidence based. 6/7

4. As Australian pig meat consumption has risen during the past 30 years, so has the number of early onset cases of bowel cancer. As Australian's have gotten richer, expensive meats (like salami) are more affordaable. 5/7

here's what happened to bowel cancer rates when Japan started to eat these meats ... 20,000 cases per year before growing to 150,000 cases per year after. 4/7

3. 15,000 Australians are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year, with 30% being dead within 5 years. How many of those are due to red and processed meat? Hard to say, but bowel cancer is unusual in countries eating little to no red and processed meat. Also ... 3/7

But the ban is obviously evidence based:

1. Advertising works. I presume AANA accepts this as a premise. If not, I'm sure they could provide "evidence" in the usual bullshit way that advertisers do.
2. Processed meat causes bowel cancer.
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The nuclear waste panic is one of many ways to push up the price of nuclear power and drive mining the ocean for battery metals, or Indonesia for nickel. Or perhaps you don't understand how mind-numbingly complex a high penetration wind+solar+battery grid is. There is no net-zero without nuclear.

enough for you to handle the waste safely. Storing nuclear waste or anything else, for 500 years, is a pretty trivial problem. Of course if people don't know anything about radation, you can sell them any kind of snake oil about its risks and make a mint building a "gold plated" repository. 3/4

"But doesn't it stay dangerour for a 100,000 years?" The only warning required after 500 years, is "Don't ingest". There are 3 main kinds of radiation, alpha, beta and gamma, it is only the last that can harm you from a distance and after 500 years, the gammas have decayed .... 2/3

Lastly, Spains nuclear fleet was only operating at half power. Some was offline because the market doesn't pay for "blackout prevention". Had all the nukes been running, there would have been no blackout because the inertia would have been much higher. 6/6

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If Spain installs synchronous condensers, you will know that the Spanish Prime Minister (just like his SA counterpart) simply lied in saying the blackout had nothing to do with renewables. 5/6

Automatic load shedding blacks out small areas to prevent a total collapse. You need a few seconds for these to kick in.
5. South Australia spent a couple of hundred million installing 4 synchronous condensers to lift the inertia. 4/6

4. In both cases. The low inertia due to the replacement of synchronous generation by wind and solar meant that the automatic load shedding processes didn't have time to function. 3/6

2. In SA, the interconnector to Victoria tripped (shutdown). In Spain the interconnector to France tripped (taking out an extra 2.5GW of power).

3. In both cases such events would have normally passed without notice. The Final SA report cited 3 previous similar events (larger). 2/6