This is me. Let's not destroy our unique environments pretending to "save the world" while allowing the rentseekers to grow ever wealthier.

When Labor came to power in 2022 Clare O’Neil said she was going to reduce the number of temporary visa holders in Australia. Then she increased it by one million.

Part of the issue with capital and individuals potentially leaving (and not entering) Australia is only a relatively small number need to leave to make the various tax changes revenue neutral or even revenue negative. Then more harm than good is done to the bottom line.

Nelson does not know that the big black animal he shares a field with once carried a rider down the Mall through a wall of sound and never flinched. Nelson does not know about the state funeral, the slow march, the drums, a nation watching through its tears. Nelson knows that the big one is warm to stand beside on a cold morning, that he does not hog the good grass, and that he goes oddly soft when a particular man appears at the gate. Nelson has assessed Hector thoroughly, the way a donkey assesses everything, and filed him under: fine. Large, but fine. It is the highest honour Hector has ever been paid, and the only one that asked nothing of him in return.

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“cutting taxes five times in three ways” Aside from the fact workers will still go backwards, this actually highlights two problems: 1. The convoluted and messy nature of our tax system 2. How politicians manipulate numbers to look like heroes If they really wanted to help, the solution is simple - a massive increase to the income tax free threshold and indexing it to inflation. This ensures workers never go backwards. Instead of taking more by stealth, wasting most of it away and giving back a fraction as a favour. Then government can’t rely on continuously taking more. Grow the tax base through higher productivity - not by squeezing workers, choking the system and driving away investment. That’s how you improve living standards.

Put Florence in reverse and back fill the hole , Snowy Hydro 2.0 never made sense from an environmental , economic or engineering perspective, only fools fell for the feel good boondoggle #Auspol2026

VicGrid are ignoring the REZ areas they have created. 77 out of 111 projects approved are outside the declared REZ areas. Support for renewable energy projects is limited, 90% of landowners opposed. facebook.com/share/v/1JAp3CA… #renewableenergy #VNIWest #WRL #HumeLink #walcha #oranarez #NoRez #windfarm #solarfarm #netzero #Ibedrola @FarmersFightbac

An incredible day of rescues with 4 dogs saved in total. A longer watch but come ride along to see what really happens when we head out in the truck. Lots of ups and downs today!

Daily operations at Aalo's Critical Test Reactor. Validating the procedures and programs to operate a brand-new nuclear facility is as big a lift as building the reactor. But, the work often goes unnoticed. We will release a video soon of an Emergency Response Organization (ERO) drill to share the rigor of nuclear operational safety. Relentless drilling to operate in high-stress scenarios, such as a wildfire near the site, is just part of why nuclear power is the safest energy technology on the planet.

This opinion piece, in support of Ireland lifting its ban on nuclear plant construction, makes an interesting point. When the ban was passed, nuclear was not a viable option for Ireland anyway, so the ban had no real effect. Article link in reply. Available reactors were too big, and their demand/grid was too small. Things are different now. Demand has increased, and much smaller reactors (SMRs) are now options. A recent poll shows that 43% per cent of the Irish now support lifting the ban, with 28% opposed.

The worse Labor does in the polls, the worse the quality of the political discourse on Twitter becomes in recent times...

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I am sick of the government and tax academics gaslighting us on this 30% minimum CGT. Their argument is that people are engaging in some kind of "tax avoidance" by accumulating assets through their lives, deferring those gains and selling near retirement when their marginal tax rate is much lower. This is a spectacularly stupid argument. People sell assets later in life not because they are engaging in some kind of elaborate tax dodge. Most of the time it's because that's when they need the money. This is basically just how long-term savings works. Similarly, if someone starts a small business and then sells it later in life to fund their living expenses, they are not engaging in tax avoidance. They were just deferring consumption. This stuff should be obvious.

A horse is built to run. A donkey is built to stand and think about it. You have met Hector. This is the other half of his field. Here is the thing nobody warns you about a parade horse. Hector stood through the King's Troop and the massed bands and a nation's worst day without shifting a hoof, and he will still, in a quiet Welsh field, levitate sideways at a pheasant coming out of a hedge. A carrier bag on the wind is, to a horse, a clear and present danger. The guns were a job, and the job had rules. The hedge has a pheasant in it and no rules at all, and so the flight animal underneath the seventeen years of training remains, on the matter of pheasants, entirely undefeated. Nelson does not look up. Nelson has never looked up. A donkey does not flee, it assesses, and it assessed the pheasant long ago and found it beneath comment. People call that stubbornness. It is an animal declining to spend adrenaline it sees no reason to spend. And here is the domestic arrangement, which anyone who has kept the two together will know on sight. Nelson is a third of Hector's size and entirely in charge. He eats first. He picks the dry spot. He decides when they move. The black charger who carried the weight of the state stands by, with enormous patience, while a small grey donkey finishes the good hay. The one thing that reliably undoes Hector is Nelson leaving the field. Five minutes, a foot trim, a vet down the lane, and the great composed horse comes apart at the gate, calling and calling, because a horse is herd to its bones and has decided that its herd is one unbothered donkey. Nelson, for his part, despises rain. A desert animal washed up in Denbighshire, he stands in the shelter looking martyred while Hector grazes out in the wet, waterproof and serene. Two opposite natures, each propping up the other exactly where it is weak. The horse who fears small things and the donkey who fears nothing at all. It works. It was always going to.

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The powers that be in the shipping industry moving forward on the option of nuclear propulsion. A new report studies "the steps required to move nuclear ship port calls from conceptual acceptance to operational readiness." Article link in reply. Key quote: ".....the principal barriers to nuclear ship port calls are not technical, but relate instead to local and international regulatory alignment, governance, risk management integration and public acceptance." In other words, the actual risks of nuclear-powered shipping are not large or unique. The truth is that the environmental impacts and risks of nuclear-powed shipes are far smaller than those of dirty oil-powered ships.

Work on our second reactor has already begun. This is for Project Ascension, the 10 MWe commercial-scale system that will produce electricity and power an on-site data center in the coming months. Right next to our first reactor, which will go critical very soon! We've learned a lot in these two projects, things that will help optimize our final commercial Aalo Pod design to be more affordable and mass manufacturable. Note we'll continue to use the first reactor for various tests in the coming years.