My side? And so on? And just reinforces and backs my earlier comment! I voted one nation until I saw how autocratic and dumb their leader was. And I've given the man with the hat my first preferences ever since.

My preferred cooperative capitalism economic model would lay waste to unions. But I am not an idealogue welded to this or that idiotic ideological imperative Like Lego or the religious right like runner

. My principled stand on nuclear power makes me the hated enemy of the lunatic fringe green movement.

I've been extraordinarily busy for an aging ripple given all that a patently moribund Lego lays at my feet. And because I dared to call him out?

Been listening to a debate on water and the answer would seem to be limited to more dams. Well, one can look at many dams now that are bone dry in this new normal and indeed bone dry river beds that used to feed them.

There's only one source of water we can't run out of and that is seawater!

What prevents us from using it is the high( 8 times) cost of coal-fired energy and our preference of four times more expensive reverse osmosis! Compounded by price gouging, tax-avoiding, profit repatriating foreigners and the lickspittle pollies that covertly serve them first?

That's why Morrison gets a serve!

And Uncle Donald because of self-evident criminal tax avoidance and the trail of broken and bankrupt family firms he's left in his wake as he acquired "his" billions. You think a six-time bankrupt is a good money manager, economic expert?

Finally, mate, let me say. A lion never values the opinion of a sheep!
Alan B.

ttbn & LEGO hit the nail on the head ! There wouldn't be one sane person disputing their assessment !

Keep in mind folks that ttbn, LEGO and individual are all inmates at the same psychiatric clinic.

"we don’t want our leaders as stand-in father figures, we want them to present themselves"

The ideal prime-minister should always be on holiday and never return!

They say that fires are the responsibility of the states? OK, then state premiers should also be on holidays, always, so they do no damage, so they never harass the people and never, for example, go after them when they clear the trees and bushes around their houses. Fires could be so easily prevented had those tyrant miscreants whom the author calls "leaders" stayed out of the way.

Just imagine the cheap electricity we could get if those oil-filled gum trees that are destined to burn anyway, sooner or later, in a big destructive conflagration, are burned instead in a controlled manner with electricity as side-effect.

burned instead in a controlled manner with electricity as side-effect.
Yuyutsu,
How'd the Greenies carry on if that were to be done ?
Perhaps refuse dumps could be designed to become heating facilities ? Or wastewater treatment plants could be used as Gas supply ?
I fully agree that anything combustible should be harvested from wood to waste. The ashes could be mixed with concrete to produce irrigation pipes to harness run-off.
There's way too much unutilized waste wasted.

Dear Individual,

«Perhaps refuse dumps could be designed to become heating facilities ? Or wastewater treatment plants could be used as Gas supply ?»

This is already being done: garbage decompose into methane, which can then be burned to produce electricity.

http://www.greenprophet.com/2008/07/hiria-garbage-dump/
http://www.touristisrael.com/ariel-sharon-park/702/