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The Mitchells vs the machines did it best. It was a great and entertaining story and I loved all the characters. Perhaps Disney should just make a story that's worth telling?

Pretty sure that's just a nickname.

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I've worked on a few of the most recent social housing projects and, my god, there's such a disconnect with how much the state thinks housing should cost compared to the real cost. In short, the projects end up being criminally under funded for what they expect and you end up with everything absolutely gutted - materials, lighting, security etc.

My tin foil hat and I say that a lot of the state's money goes to stupid infrastructure projects for Transurban to build, leaving pennies for everything else.

There are also those who make bad decisions and are lazy but have a lot of money and power regardless. Being lazy/making terrible decisions does not equal poor; same as being hard working/making good decisions.

The system at this stage is just geared towards making the poor poorer and the rich richer. E.g. making people pay lots of money to stay healthy rather than give people equal opportunity, making good education only accessible to the rich by making it prohibitively expensive, the wage divide between an employee and a CEO, family trusts and associated taxes etc.

To me, what would make it art is a little statement on the side for the viewer to discern who the cock artist was, when it was painted and materials used, and the vision behind it.

Spicy take: we need to curb our addiction to power sources.

It would still be better than creating a committee and then abolishing it completely until any leadership decides it's in their interests to establish one.

We also won't be in charge of how it's going to work, remember. This referendum is just whether or not it should be in the constitution as a requirement.

I believe it should be.

In a single lifetime, we have moved into severe car dependency. Our cities are purposefully built so that only cars can be used. Don't you see? This is a problem that we've created completely by ourselves. If we keep heading in that direction because it's cheaper and easier, i.e. leaving the band-aid on, major investment into public transit simply will not happen because it's 'too expensive and too hard'.

I never said not do both, but I'm seeing time and time again that new roads are being invested rather than investment into other options. What usually happens in reality is one or the other. Look at Egypt, look at the US, look at Australia. Then look at places like the Netherlands.

Netherlands still have roads but in Metropolitan areas, there are a huge number of alternatives.

By the way, when you say you don't have other means of transport, what locations are you referring to? What I was referring to was Metropolitan areas. Regional areas, where there is a lower density, should still be provided with roads as a means of travel. It's ridiculous to think that Metropolitan cities don't have pubic transit infrastructure in first world cities.

EVs are a distraction and driver funding from public transport options to spaces for cars. Cars need infrastructure such as traffic stops, crossings, parking, etc. And with metropolitan areas becoming increasingly crowded, all of this infrastructure takes up space and costs the city a lot of money as the land value rises.

For example, a car parking space where I'm from will cost something like $70/day. A shop double the size would be leased at $30k/month. Our rate money goes into subsidising the car parking spots because they need to sit somewhere where they're not being used.

EVs (in car form) still use the same spaces as cars and use up money that could be better spent on other things to improve city accessibility. That's a bit of the money part.

From an efficiency perspective, any kind of car (EV or otherwise), is extremely inefficient in Metropolitan areas because a large portion of the time is spent waiting in traffic. Any other type of transport moves more people per second than cars such as motorbikes, scooters, bicycles, trains, trams, buses etc. So, you're allowing a significant chunk of infrastructure to be occupied by an extremely ineffective mode of transport in a city of millions. If you remove the entire aspect of private vehicles in Metro areas, you free l suddenly free up a lot of space and increase efficiency for the other modes of transport.

EVs or cars would be useful in low density areas where the efficiency would be higher than using any other type of transport and would have a much more minimal impact on the climate than if large cities all used EVs.

We have the technology and the smarts to build a better world but we need to rip the band-aid off and understand that the problems that arise in our day to day is of our own making and that we can absolutely rebuild it from the ground up so that it is more sustainable.

But since colonisation, there hasn't been one. There was a committee briefly appointed by Rudd but then abolished by Abbott.

I'd like it enshrined because then we would have one regardless and it would take a huge effort to get it removed.

...Change to the constitution to allow first peoples more say over things that directly affect them via establishing a representative body.

Voting no means that you are against the above. Voting yes means you're for it.

If you're against it, it does feel quite racist as you're voting not to have an indigenous voice enshrined in our constitution. Why not let them have a fair go?