Squeaky wheel
The train has 200 wheels.
5 of them squeak, loudly.
They get all the oil, or most of it. The 195 others might need the oil but do not squeak enough to come to the oilers attention.
How do the nonsqueakers (nsq) feel?
All the wheels have the same automatic oiling devices that only need minimal maintenance to remain functional. The squeakers (sq) usually squeak because they do not bother to look after their own equipment. The nsq know this and feel that the sq should remove the digit and get on with living a wheels life in the correct fashion and do a bit of self help. The oilers attention remains with the sq because of the squeaks which are long and loud and enhanced by a bevy of squeaky wheel likers who provide squeak enhancers (lawyers).
The wheels are made from a mixture of metals. Some are pure iron but others are mixtures of iron and copper and nickel and cobalt and titanium. Squeaky wheels are generally made from a variety of materials, as are all the wheels, with only a few being pure titanium. Some have very little titanium but squeak just as much as all the other squeakers. Actually these ones can only be distinguished from nonsqueakers by their squeaks. They look the same, they weigh the same, they are the same colour as the nonsqueakers, but they squeak. Nonsqueakers think that these particular squeakers should be treated the same as them and it irritates them that the oilers do not have the same perception as their 194 fellow wheels.
Why do the oilers not perceive the slight felt by the 195 good wheels? Obviously they are particularly influenced by squeaks, especially as many of the oilers have close connections or friends in the ranks of the squeak enhancers and the squeaky wheel likers. It gets even worse when nonsqueakers find that the oilers have been providing the squeakers with materials to make their squeaks even louder. These materials the oilers obtained from the nonsqueakers in the first place, and they have just dished them out to the squeakers so they can either get more attention, difficult as that seems possible, or to maintain their level of squeakiness.
The oilers need to open their eyes to the real world. There are many more nonsqueakers than squeakers. Just because they are quiet does not mean that they agree with the behaviour of the oilers in only paying attention to the squeakers, especially as the nonsqueakers find many squeakers that are indistinguishable from themselves apart from the squeaks.
Oilers are elected by the wheels. Hopefully there will be enough wheels who think it is time the squeakers got less attention and did their own proper oiling and hence voted for oilers of like mind at the next election.
Aboriginal Australians need to think they are Australians
To be identified as having the culture of stone age man when the rest of the world partakes of that of the 21st century does not appeal to me.
This group constitutes 2.5% of the population of Australia. The population of the country is made up of people from nearly two hundred different countries and hence a huge variety of rich cultures as evidenced by the multicultural environment of Melbourne, probably one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities.
The Aboriginal people have not accepted that Australia is now occupied lawfully by 25,000,000 people who have absolutely no DNA of Aboriginal origin. Of course, there seem to be a great number of those professing to be Aboriginal who are in the same boat, or very little anyway. The genes that the Aboriginals do possess include some that they would be better off without. For some reason their culture thought it was good to not demonstrate academic talent, or so a teacher would think when Aboriginal students of obvious ability shrink back from demonstrating their superior skill and keep themselves in the bottom half of the class. While there are exceptions to this rule the general attitude of Aboriginal students is to not shine out in class as an able individual.
What can be done about it? Well it would help if the politicians got the Aboriginal community to accept that the country does not owe them anything, that the country is now Australia, with a population of Australians generated from many different countries and cultures including that of the stone age man who walked around the land up until a couple of hundred years ago and spent most of the time he wasn't looking for his next meal sitting around a campfire telling stories. When I was a school student some of the class members were Italian students who were the new members of the Australian community. They assimilated and successfully engaged in Australian life in much less than the more than two hundred years the Aborigines have had. They worked hard. They pulled their socks up and got on with the task of creating a new life in a new country. The majority of Aboriginal people have not got the idea that they need to stop expecting to be supported by whatever the Government will dole out to them but get up off their backsides and make their own future. It comes back to the attitude I encountered forty years ago in Western Australia on an Aboriginal Reserve. The Reserve men were sitting around watching while a group of Rotarians erected a building on the Reserve for the use of the Aboriginals of whom not one was assisting. Now it could have been that they were never asked. Just as the Government and previous Governments have thought they needed to be nanny to the Aboriginal people and not expect them to stand on their own feet.
Years ago when I got out of Australia and experienced non-nanny countries to our north I found it exhilarating to be expected to be responsible for my own actions. If you did the wrong thing you were responsible for the consequences. The road outside the office in Bangkok was restricted to buses in the afternoons. A motorbike rider disregarded the law and when he got squashed by a bus the driver merely sat at his wheel looking on, the conductress leaned out the door looking on, as onlookers dragged the body and bike from their path. The Aboriginal community needs to start taking responsibility for its actions and not be treated like children and the Government needs to give up being nanny.
The same applies to the high incarceration rates for Aboriginals. They need to start obeying the law. That would help. The excuse of being drunk and then clobbering their family with a club is not acceptable. Acceptance of the law and a realisation that their future is in their own hands and not dependant on nanny will reduce the number kept under lock and key. They need to accept that they are Australians and expect to be treated like Australians. They need to not be a separate group within Australia with special rights and privileges that the other 25,000,000 do not have. Being here first is outdated. We Australians are derived from a whole lot of places.
The risk for the young
For the young members of Australian society to be blindly supporting the demands of the Aboriginal Industry is an act which during their lifetime will come back to bite them. Currently $34,000,000,000 is spent each year on people claiming Aboriginality. This will be considerably increased with the new claims their lawyers can think up after a treaty is signed such as rent being required for living in Australia. Young Australians need to object to having current politicians loading this on them.
In the media there are frequent reports of Governments in Australia supporting the forming of treaties with the descendants of Aboriginal Australians. Such treaties were not required when the British claimed Australia because of the status of the local population. At the time it was the law and it was followed. Claims today place a different and incorrect description of the Aboriginal population.
The comments on the subject indicate that the people making their thoughts known are ignorant. They have not bothered to do any research at all on the subject because if they had they would known something about the subject rather than knowing nothing at all.
These days you do not have to get a physical copy of a book on the subject to read which can be a difficult and expensive task but merely refer to websites such as http://gutenberg.net.au
When it comes to Aboriginal history there are many books from the First Fleet on. The people capable of writing a book were doing so for publishers in England. See these on the website.
Advice to all Australians; stop being ignorant, read.
The First Fleet
http://gutenberg.net.au/first-fleet.html
Australian History
http://gutenberg.net.au/aust-history.html
The writing of this explorer was one of the sources Bruce Pascoe lied about.
Three Expeditions into the Interior V1
by
Thomas Mitchell
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00035.html
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.
