MisterFrog

Sorry, I should have been clearer. People should still pay for the electricity, but at the very least the transmission and most of the generation should be publically owned and provided at cost

And energy retailers like some states have are so dumb. "Shopping around' for electricity when they're just slightly repacking the rate the transmission company sets is so stupid.

Sorry I should have been clearer. I agree the addiction is insidious.

However, making it prohibitively expensive I would argue is part of the reason smoking rates plummeted, as well as no indoor smoking and other smoking restrictions.

I'm only arguing that the illicit trade has been allowed to bloom, and that the black market could be massively curbed with actual enforcement.

And I'm being incredibly sarcastic because there's often someone coming out of the internet woodwork to say that taxing tobacco isn't effective.

That, there are people out there who think smoking is nice, which I think is really dumb, because the high really, really isn't worth the cancer.

I totally get it's very addictive and if you've started, it's very hard to stop, and I sympathize with those people. Only having a go at the people who argue for removing the high taxes, and that smoking is a "personal choice".

All talk about "omgggg you're creating a black marketttt" is nonsense, we're hardly even enforcing anything.

If we properly enforced tobacco restrictions we wouldn't be in this situation.

Sorry, but the high from nicotine is boring as shit and hardly worth the effort.

If it were actually difficult to access illicit nicotine, no one would be doing it.

Case and point: our smoking rate MASSIVELY plummeting before the illicit trade became prevalent.

Nicotine is boring, do a real drug. Wow, you got a little light headed, worth cancer? Change my mind.

Disclaimer: I've had very strong hits of nicotine before.

Capitalism is the reason.

Price stability only exists in a world where we nationalised energy infrastructure.

How will we pay for [edit: constructing] it? Wow, tax. Wow. What a novel idea. Maybe we'll actually get paid for our natural resources. What an idea.

I'm not against licencing for ebikes, especially if it allows 35 km/h top speeds (25 is a bit slow really).

Needing a car to get the licence, is a bit silly though

Privatisation has never been a net good in Australia.

ALP had better deny the visa. Else their propaganda of "social cohesion" is going to be even more farcical than it already is.

The Labor party have been centrists for decades, they're just leaning into it even harder now.

Australian Socialists (Vic Socialists going national) and Socialist Alliance exist, and probably others I don't know exist. Hell, even the Greens are somewhat more left wing than Labor (despite having a really stupid internal party structure which is a bit dictatorial).

Left wing voters need to wake up and realise the "Labor" party are a misnomer and have been for a very long time.

The size of vehicles and the entitlement of drivers is getting ridiculous.

30 km/h on side streets is just sensible and done in many European countries.

Limiting the size of personal vehicles, particularly bonnet height, is sensible and should have been done yesterday.

Additionally, you can design large vehicles with proper front visibility (vans fit a bunch of stuff her someone still have great front visibility.

These American style utes are ridiculous and should be banned.

Finally actually coming, though still many years for completion.

Cowards. Could have at least done it as a trial

Watch the fine be so small it's just the cost of doing business