Terry McCrann describes SA as "truly the Athens of the south." (Don Dunstan invented the phrase): high unemployment, green/lefty attitude to power - NO coal, hence no base load - and very expensive power, strongly discouraging industrial investment. Highest per capita public service producing the only employment growth.

//Terry McCrann describes SA as "truly the Athens of the south."//

Yeah, we should cut the buggers off from the rest of Australia (literally) and tow them to the East a bit to become the third island of New Zealand.

Only joking. SA should become the France of the south, and generate most of their baseload from the vast uranium deposits they've been blessed with. If the frogs can pull it off I don't see why we can't.

The outhouse rat just wants to store the nuclear waste of other countries, not use it for our power security.

There must be many angry: cold food storage business owners; business employers and employees missing several work days after the last days of September storm had passed.

The main problem is the money stinginess of the towers steel construction. One tower falling over, dragging several towers over as well. The topic should be why towers were unable to stand up against strong winds, instead the designed strength of the towers are to my news media hearing, are seen during 2 second glimpses, yet not and/or rarely mentioned as an engineering disaster in detail, during media articles.

Is the media and politicians redirecting intelligent inquiry into slack engineering standards, onto same rolled over climate charge renewable energy? Political drama keeps the peasantry dumb.
What is said to be political opportunity, taking advantage of crisis to promote a cause and/or fear munga-ring political policy, is in reality, is refocusing thinkable attention back onto prescribed rolled over one liner climate change boring, unproven concerns.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/27/adelaide-is-about-to-get-smashed-sydney-melbourne-are-next/

Fear media on above website page, grabs attention that other states could suffer the same. The question should be, “are all Australian electricity grid towers of similar construction”? Instead the storm event gets turned into a climate change, renewable resource energy issue.

The displayed opportunity to show political ignorance and/or redirect from stingy engineering specifications, by quickly putting on a show of an emergency conference in a hall on energy national electricity grid policy, to thereafter hear politicians going on about long term global climate change, must have many South Australians wondering, as in bamboozled.

Media's seldom heard poorly engineered towers responsible government bureaucrats, redirects, using the SA storm energy policy having no relevance to SA storm falling towers. Journalists mentioning falling towers, political responses lasts for mere seconds before politicians redirect to big picture, long term short interviewed statements.

Several 2 second captured news media scenes where many unrecognised people are seen sitting in rows of chairs in some unimpressive hall, seen with laptops and thick clip binders of paper, looks contrived, showing many angry South Australians, bureaucrats are on the job.

The problem with conferences are that conferences are pointless opportunities to make speeches. Any single person standing up to state an complex opinion. Listeners sitting considerable distances away, many listeners can't merely turn to a page of calculations to examine 2 day old hurried charts.

The correct behaviour, would be for engineers to think over issues, emailing formulated plans for further consideration to many engineer associates. Eventually placing plans in front of bureaucrats. To have lazy and/or self-promoting bureaucrats shelved plans.

Once more, I come back to how society places too much attention on school education's spelling words correctly, media shown creating too many avoiding intentions using language as though politicians were being interviewed on The Drum and late night Lateline. Media and politicians are seen and heard avoiding time frame fixes, hanging onto what needs to be done, what this government's policy long term plans are often spoken in short sentences, moving from interviewer's switching question topics.
Listeners don't realise they're being bamboozled.

Interviewers questions leading to follow up answers are very similar in that topics are different. By listening to any mentioned head lined topic, answers are similar to the many other topics being mentioned. I suggest topics are designed to fit within the rolled over rambling limited conceptual answers: moral; financial; legal; voter acceptance; past government initiatives and embarrassing failures. Citizens learn to criticise "as it happens" shallow political statements.

Bamboozle; bamboozled; bamboozling; 1. mystify; 2. hoax...
Supposedly supported by experts interviewed whoever, comes out with carbon credit scheme suggestions to obtain climate change goals reached by 2030.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/south-australias-storm-blackout-has-turned-into-a-really-ugly-fight-over-renewable-energy-2016-9

To take a survey on people listening to politicians, I suggest a survey will indicate few people care what politicians are saying unless mentioned topics directly relates to themselves as citizenry. People listening to and/or reading what politicians say have separate agendas as to feel they understand media “as it happens” entertainment.

A billionaire said to be wanting people to be living on Mars in 5 years. To believe the assumption is impossible, entertains the what little intelligence many people have.

Could be said, political ministers are similar to religious ministers in that what ministers say, points to some bible reading and/or news paper print reading contributing to people reading moral behaviours, establishment/god laws and murder stories.