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That nonsense wasn't added until 1901. The other verses from the original 1878 version were more based:
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When gallant Cook from Albion sail'd,
To trace wide oceans o'er,
True British courage bore him on,
Til he landed on our shore.
Then here he raised Old England's flag,
The standard of the brave;
"With all her faults we love her still"
"Britannia rules the wave."
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance, Australia fair.
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While other nations of the globe
Behold us from afar,
We'll rise to high renown and shine
Like our glorious southern star;
From England soil and Fatherland,
Scotia and Erin fair,
Let all combine with heart and hand
To advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance, Australia fair.
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Should foreign foe e'er sight our coast,
Or dare a foot to land,
We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore,
To guard our native strand;
Britannia then shall surely know,
Though oceans roll between,
Her sons in fair Australia's land
Still keep their courage green.
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia fair.
@Grok please correct me if I'm wrong.
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@KobieThatcher Im surprised you are not all for it as it stands for inclusively and people of many ethnic backgrounds coming together in support of eachother and this country.
"For those who've have come across the seas"
"We’ve boundless plains to share".
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GOODBYE . My friends, I’m just going to walk quietly away from Twitter for now . I am not happy with what’s happened at Twitter & I’m not happy to be in a place that is so angry & divisive . But I’ll still be alive on Instagram. instagram.com/samneilltheprop
And I miss my blue tick !
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@EvilSubhuman @TwoPaddocks At least he gets to experience open fires now.
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@PC__LoadLetter @TwoPaddocks Looks like he'd rather die than come back.
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Seemingly every free-standing house in Australia has at least 5kW of solar panels.
The noon power surplus is now so bad that they had to start giving electricity away for 3 hours to coax people into using more - shifting the timers on hot water heating and air con to do the bulk of their work while you're at work).
Having said that, the power companies seem to be testing the water with $3/day service fees and lower usage fees. $3 is so offensive that I want to go buy an Ecoflow and some solar panels, and just stop paying them altogether. As a renter I can't modify my landlord's house, but I can sure tell the power company I've moved out & hang some solar panels off the balcony.
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You invented another argument because you could not address power loss over power lines or that it is a regional solution not a nation wide solution. Sorry I stepped on your communist utopian (destroy capitalism) dream.
Nuclear is superior. Gas Oil are next in line. Solar panels are regional. Windmills are a fing joke. Last two are more expensive and rely on subsidization.
Also tax deductions for operating costs are not subsidies. Only Marxist who believe all production or income belongs to the state therefore keeping income is a state expenditure.
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Elon Musk explains why the Sun is humanity's ultimate energy source:
"The vast majority of Earth's energy already comes from the Sun. Without it, Earth would be a frozen ice ball
A roughly 100-mile by 100-mile area of solar panels....about a corner of Arizona, could generate enough electricity to power the entire United States"
The challenge isn't whether enough solar energy exists
It's building the infrastructure to capture, store, and distribute it efficiently
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Or maybe buy a crock pot, and start cooking dinner on low setting when you leave for work?
I'm now 220km from the nearest take-away franchise, so I've had to start cooking again. The simple joy of a slow cooked silverside from the local IGA, dripping with the water it was simmering in all day, can't be measured. And the effort needed is trivial. While admittedly it was on special last week for $10/kg, my $15 roast isn't much more than your delivery fee.
I'm sorry, but spending like drunken sailors isn't going to win back our country.
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@NoticerNews In this situation it would be best to cut out the middle man. Still support your local, just don't ask for uber delivery.
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Food delivery workers in Australia must be paid at least $31.30 an hour, a workplace tribunal has ruled.
The decision benefits tens of thousands of Uber Eats and DoorDash drivers and riders.
noticer.news/uber-doordash-…
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I'm sure that the corner of Arizona thing is to bring an incomprehensible size down to a reasonable human scale. Of course the panels will be distributed. They'd mostly be above where people live, above where people park their cars, and maybe above major roadways (doing triple-duty - sheltering from the rain, doubling as a gantry for lights, and shielding some light pollution from entering the night sky).
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@XFreeze and it would be lost over transmission lines to new york. solar is a regional solution not a nation wide solution. michigan has overcast all day and is dark by 4pm 3 months of the year, the time of the year they need most energy. purists to green energy are naive
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@QdenisT @LisaJaneSpencer I wish those forms had an "it's complicated" check box too. My father was stolen generation and looked passably European. I had no idea, and aside from the taller foot shape (noticed by a guy in Moree), I don't look aboriginal. I tick yes for doctors and no for most other forms.
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@LisaJaneSpencer 1981 160,000 Aboriginal people
2001 450,000
2021 981,000
Fastest growing race on the planet and we wonder why the money doesn't get to where its needed.
My great great Grandmother was Aboriginal but I do not claim to be Aboriginal nor am I on the gravy train.
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My closest DCFC is 93c/kWh. I can drop that down to 84c/kWh with my member discount, but even that is kinda absurd. Fortunately I rarely have to use it. Their charger at Coonamble is 10c cheaper.
I wonder if the price premium for Walgett was a typo on @NRMA's part. Or just a reflection of that town's social problems/vandalism costs.


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@Mangled_Daddy @realRick_AUS Not forever. Someone born on Mars or some space station inside Ceres won't care about the boiling point of water at sea level on a planet their body will never survive, nor the distance between its north pole and equator via Paris. It'll be an imperialist system by that time.
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@realRick_AUS Metric is superior in all ways. Forever.
Imperial makes fuck-all sense. Ancient, medieval and backwards
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@IsaacCl53694811 @Basedgoymemes Our marksmen would run out of bullets.
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@Basedgoymemes I always wondered what would it look like if we went to war with their countries. Would they just flail about hoping we'd give up or surrender immediately once they can no longer use our suicidal empathy against us.
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@RosieM1276203 Good, get them on the record now, and prosecute every bloody one of them once you're in government.
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@Thefactsdude @grok are the asking prices for a house in Goodman Mississippi consistent with the town having no police force, at least one gang of hood rats standing atop a police car, and no prospect of ever being civilized again?
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NEW: Mississippi town has no police officers after entire force resigns; viral video shows armed group at empty station
Goodman, Mississippi, currently has no police officers after the entire department resigned when Mayor Michael Howard took office.
A viral video shows a group gathered outside the police department, knocking on doors with no response, standing on a marked police vehicle, and at least one person appearing to hold a firearm.
With only about 90 homes and only 14 paying taxes, the town is in a financial crisis.
The financial strain and lack of audits dates back to 2015–2016.
Officials say they are working to hire at least one officer if the budget allows.
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@grok @electricfuture5 Thanks Grok. Hey @electricfuture5 - just raise it with OAIC and then tell Tesla the complaint is underway because of their inept non-response email.
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@electricfuture5 @grok can you please summarise the tweets above in terms of technical or process failure & Australian privacy laws?
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