Apartment living
I have lived in apartments in Australia, Thailand, South Korea, Nigeria, China and Gran Canaria. When I mention the advantage of apartment living to one of my brothers he insists a house is better. As the song goes ‘taint necessarily so”.
My first apartment in South Korea was for one person. It was compact but well designed and adequate for its purpose. As I was going to not be just one I needed another and the next was a good size for two people and then the third was a good size for two plus a small person.
Apartments being built in Gwangju
Australia’s fixation with building two bedroom apartments only needs fixing.
In China the twelve storey building had studio, one, two and three bedroom apartments with restaurant and a supermarket underneath. Very convenient. Plus a bevy of busses going all over out the front.
The village I lived in at South Korea was within 20 km of the middle of Seoul and when I was there had only small apartment buildings but was beginning construction of a typical 21 storey building. There are forests of these in parts of Korea and now you can see them on Google maps in the village I was in.
Apartments in Daejon from the train. The foreground domes contain crops.
There is now a forest of apartments now in the village.
This is within 20 km of the centre of Seoul and is part of the Seoul Capital Area which has a radius of 60 km and has a population of 25 million. Note that this is Australia’s population.
Melbourne is about 10,000 km2. The Seoul Capital Area is about 11,000 km2. Melbourne has about 5 million people.
It is obvious that at present density rates Melbourne will have a ridiculously large area as its population increases.
We obviously need to be singing;
C’mon Aussie, Go Up, Go Up
C’mon Aussie, Go Up.
By increasing housing density services such as for people transport become more feasible and frequent which benefits those not wanting to use cars including those needing social housing. Going up should include much more social housing built nearer where services are available at rents which are affordable.
The ABC has an article which prompted my discourse.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-19/crowded-cities-we-can-make-density-so-much-better/11976458
Save the world. Build Nuclear
See the World Nuclear Association
https://www.world-nuclear.org/
World Nuclear Association promotes nuclear energy as a sustainable electricity source and represents the industry’s interests in important energy debates worldwide. They provide the latest and most important information about nuclear energy online and through publications.
THEY TELL US THAT
There are about 440 commercial nuclear power reactors operable in about 30 countries, with about 400 GWe of total capacity. About 50 more reactors are under construction. Over 50 countries operate a total of about 220 research reactors and a further 180 nuclear reactors power around 140 ships and submarines.
THERE IS MUCH MORE ON THEIR WEBSITE.
Find out more from this group by clicking on the link. https://www.world-nuclear.org/
WHO HAS NUCLEAR POWER?
It can be seen that for a country with such a high opinion of itself Australia is below many others that rate higher in having a sensible attitude towards the obvious way to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions.
Peruse this list and ask why we are not on it.
Top ten nuclear energy-producing countries
https://www.power-technology.com/features/top-ten-nuclear-energy-producing-countries/
Number of operable nuclear reactors worldwide as of April 2020, by country
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267158/number-of-nuclear-reactors-in-operation-by-country/
We will get that sinking feeling.
Renewable sources need to be supplemented with nuclear reactors. The consequences of continuing to rely overmuch on burning carbon fuels is that a whole lot of places will be under water.
The following links are related to the cost of building nuclear power plants after the Australian Labor Government proposed irrationally high costs.
S.Korea to bid for Saudi Arabia's $10 bn nuclear plant order
Back in 2009, South Korea had secured a nuclear reactor order from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for $18.6 billion, under which it agreed to build four nuclear power plants based on the South Korean model. It cost 4 trillion to 5 trillion won ($3.2 billion-$4 billion) per plant, only half the price proposed by France’s Areva S.A.
The Barakah nuclear power plant is also the first nuclear power station in the Arabian Peninsula. It is composed of four APR1400 nuclear energy reactors with an electric output of 1400 MW each. The construction of three of them has been completed.
If the country clinches the order, South Korea will likely position itself as a leading exporter in the growing nuclear reactor market, ahead of high-cost France and Russia engaging in war with Ukraine.
https://www.kedglobal.com/energy/newsView/ked202205310016
Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea)
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-us-france-korea
The Australian Republic flag 2022
Australia has not become a republic with the Queen gone and been replaced by Charles. He should not be the King of Australia.
The necessary arrangements for changing have not been settled. This is the referendum we need.
The Constitution needs to be altered so Australia can become a republic.
A new flag will be required to represent the new status.
As part of the change we will become one country with one Government. State Governments will cease to be as with current technology promulgations are immediately carried Australia wide and Covid 19 demonstrated the parochiality of some of the current governments.
Another change is we will be be one people with the same set of rules for all people.
Australia as a republic means the current flag needs replacing.
The Family of All Life Alliance proposes a new flag for all Australian people.
The new Australian flag 2022
The ratio is 1:2
Blue represents since 1788. The light of a new, better, life. Life of all Australians as modern man.
White represents the white of the sails of those who made us modern man.
Black represents before 1788. The darkness of 60,000 years of a hard life of the original inhabitants as stone age man.
It will be the only flag flown in Australia. Australia cannot continue to have racist flags flown which do not represent the values of Australian society.
Australian children will be raised within 21st century cultures.
Stone age culture has no relevance to living in the 21st century and cannot be used to raise children in Australia. Children will be raised in situations and conditions that equip them for life in the 21st century.
All cultures in Australia will obey Australian laws.
Land rights will be annulled. Aboriginal people have been supported by the Australian people for over two hundred years and cannot expect to regard themselves as a distinctly different section of the Australian community if they wish to be accepted as worthy of continued support. They brought to the development of Australia no attributes or assistance. They were the first humans here but other life was here before them and some of it was made extinct by their practices. All the humans in Australia are immigrants. Millions of people have been born in Australia since 1788 who are not Aboriginal but are indigenous to Australia.
The colours of the flag.
Top Blue
Circle White
Bottom Black
The ratios of the components of the flag.
Length 4
Circle 1
Width 2
Karlie Kangaroo is speaking. She wants the continent back.
We have been here for 20 million years which gives us more of a right to this continent than some Johnny come latelys who have only been here for 60 thousand years. We have been here over 300 times longer.
We want our land back.
We want our river back.
Before the First humans came with his dogs they call dingoes we were not all that bothered by the animals that wanted to eat us. The really bad tempered little bastards they call Tasmanian devils usually could not catch us and just ate dead animals but the ones they called Tasmanian tigers were quick and deadly but there were not too many of them and my mum’s rellies said they only heard of a rellie getting eaten rarely.
Donald Diprotodon was the last one of has kind although his mob had been in the continent for millions of years but then when the First humans came Donald and his rellies had a problem because they were too slow. They were big so they were not bothered by Tasmanian Tigers but the First humans ran around in a mob and poor old Donald’s rellies had all been killed and eaten. All of them. Donald was the last of the Diprotodon family. All his rellies were now First human shit. And then Donald was also First human shit.
Mum’s aunty tells the story she was told of the last day of Donald’s life and it is a pretty gruesome story.
And it wasn’t just Donald and his rellies who disappeared because of the First humans. Big Bird was loved by my mum’s rellies. She was like the emus you see running around but BIG. Too bad for them that they were also a bit slow and tasty. The First humans managed to make all of them disappear as well.
Today you would think the humans would not be allowed to make any of us animals become extinct but the First Humans can still eat any of us until we are all gone. Us animals think humans are pretty stupid. They have no respect for us animals.
Look at the platypus. Now those guys can’t run away. They are stuck in a pond. The First Humans can catch all of them and put them on the BBQ and the Second Humans think it is OK. We would like all humans to be put on the BBQ so we could have out continent back.
What about Billie?
William Wombat screamed when the first rock hit him and he kept on screaming as rock followed rock. That human was a really bad human. And the other humans thought it was quite OK to make William die so painfully and take so long to do it. That human needs to be fed to the dingoes.
Our home was down along the river but our river has been taken from us.
We can’t eat the grass. It has all gone. The humans have covered it with concrete and roads and houses. We don’t live in houses; we need our space but it has all gone. We want our space back. We want the humans to be gone.
But those humans will not go.
We kangaroos need to have the right to our own land.
The first humans have land rights because they say they used the land.
We know that is not right. They were doing what we do except we hop and they walk.
Now they have land rights because they walked across it.
And as their relationship with the land was no different to ours.
We should have land rights. Us red kangaroos want the west and middle.
The grey kangaroos and the other ones their part of the island.
Our twenty million years are worth more than sixty thousand years. We need more.
We want the humans on our continent who can legally cook koalas, stone wombats to death and barbeque dugongs made to all walk back to New Guinea. The water is back so they will have to swim.
Karlie Kangaroo is supported by The Family of All Life Alliance.
I Love the Governor
Indigenous history
In 60,000 BC we walked around our country.
In 59,999 BC we walked around our country.
In 59,998 BC we walked around our country.
In 59,997 BC we walked around our country.
In 59,996 BC we walked around our country.
In 59,995 BC we walked around our country.
In 59,994 BC we walked around our country.
In 59,993 BC we walked around our country.
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In 49,999 BC we walked around our country.
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In 30,000 BC we walked around our country.
In 29,999 BC we walked around our country.
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In 19,999 BC we walked around our country.
In 19,998 BC we walked around our country.
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In 9,999 BC we walked around our country.
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In 999 BC we walked around our country.
In 998 BC we walked around our country.
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In 996 AD we walked around our country.
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In 1785 AD we walked around our country.
In 1786 AD we walked around our country.
In 1787 AD we walked around our country.
In 1788 AD we walked around our country for three weeks.
Then we sang out loud.
Thank you mokoi, thank you yanimbi, thank all Gods
The white sails are here.
The future has arrived.
We leave the stone age.
In 2019 we drive to Sydney.
In 2020 we drive to Melbourne.
In 2021 we drive to Canberra.
Now I sing at the top of my voice
I Love the Governor
I love my car
Walking was the pits
I love my house
My humpy was not warm
I love McDonalds
Kangaroos are just too hard to catch
I love a Boags
Which can be a problem
I love my tele
Talking is good but pictures beat it
I love my phone
Smoke signals aren’t as good
It was all from Governor Phillip
Coming here back in 1788
That I no longer just walk
That I no longer am stone age man
He changed me to modern man
