In any case the Jack Lang episode was much much worse but that doesn’t feature in the boomer nostalgiascape so we don’t hear much about it.

As I’ve said for a long time, the fact the “worst constitutional crisis in Australian history” resulted in… a slightly early election makes it very hard to make a compelling case for change.

Had some bizarre mangled quote on the news about “do crime do time”

That the inventor of the computer mouse in recent weeks earned himself an indefinite site ban after a two-decade crusade against such sins as capitalising “draft” in “NFL Draft” speaks volumes about the bizarro world social system that underpins the place.

So much of Wikipedia is, like this, enforced essentially by one frighteningly dedicated individual without any reference to norms and practices in the real world.

lol I saw those absolute peanuts try to rehash it at AN - you’re doing the lord’s work there

YIMBY community win!

Actually they’re all chronically online anti-Labor NIMBYs, apart from the council and golf club reps. Literally zero point to this.

Interested by your take that it’s likely not a final timetable. I find it hard to see Wefo/Westall shorts through the day given the relatively modest overall funding

I wouldn’t describe this as a community group so much as a one-personal political project of incredible intensity.

I suppose the counter argument to breaking at Ararat vs Ballarat is that a BOG means the expense of a new depot and transfers to Melbourne etc. committing at Ballarat would at least open the possibility of extensions towards Geelong and Mildura at a future point

Made even more explicit by a 3% swing towards Labor!