Tony Prescott

@roodave @FerriesInfo @Kelliesloanemp It's TfNSW.

@FerriesInfo not sure who the relevant authority is for this, but chasing the kids under watsons bay wharf, quite a few sketchy piles under here, hollow, looks like several supported by oysters near abutment. Suggest an assessment if not already monitored. Cc @Kelliesloanemp

@Anthony_Klan Without getting out the calculator, it looks like the combined News Corp audience is larger than any other group. Bear in mind some of those individual outlets are national, some State-specific, so not directly comparable. Groupings give a more realistic national picture.

Very interesting: Guardian Australia has more online readers than SMH. The New York Times, the BBC — and the AFL’s news website — all have more readers than any News Corp paper. Its most read, The Australian, is now swamped - in Australia - by the BBC website, by a massive 53%.

@EumanSavage @BLUEfingers2021 In fact they weren't subjugated. The early Governors went to great lengths to connect with them and establish a peaceful coexistence.

Flourished for thousands of years?! Emaciated groups of nomads stealing each other’s women and meagre resources. Ultimately subjugated by 250 marines with muskets and 500 convicts… All the honour and respect I can muster for this beaten and busted race, is from an anthropological perspective.

Acknowledgement and Welcome to Country have been integral to Australian culture for decades. It is a vital recognition of the rich heritage that has flourished here for thousands of years — a practice we should embrace and be proud of.

@sciencegirl Most public transport around the world is mostly funded by taxes anyway. It's almost unknown that fares alone cover the cost.

Luxembourg has become the first country in the world to make all standard public transport completely free, covering buses, trams, and trains nationwide. Funded through taxes instead of fares, the policy aims to ease heavy traffic and cut emissions by encouraging people to leave their cars behind. By removing ticket costs and barriers, public transport is treated more like an essential public service, simple, accessible, and open to everyone, including visitors and cross-border commuters. The results have been noticeable: more people are using public transport, roads are less congested, and urban air quality has improved. While premium first-class rail still requires payment, everyday travel is now seamless, just get on and go. This bold approach has positioned Luxembourg as a global example of how making transport free can help shift habits toward greener, more sustainable travel.

@craigkellyAFEE The cottage roof is slate. Only the verandah roof is steel.

Here's a photo of the Sydney Observatory from 1911 compared with today. It is located in the historic grounds of Observatory Hill , where Sydney’s official temperature has been recorded since 1859. Note the location of the Stevenson screen (the white louvred box inside which the temperatures are measured) in the 1911 photo — it sits south of the building. The Stevenson screen has been moved several times over the past century. However, the most recent relocation in 2017 shifted it more than 100 metres to the north, where it now sits just a few metres in front of a heritage-listed stone cottage with an iron roof. This building reflects and radiates afternoon heat directly onto the Stevenson screen, artificially inflating Sydney’s reported temperatures. Parallel data kept by the BOM (from November 2017 to August 2020) comparing the new location with the old one shows that the new site records temperatures up to 3.2°C hotter. This has corrupted Sydney’s climate data, allowing climate grifters to falsely claim that Sydney’s summers are getting longer. But don’t ever expect the ABC or the legacy media to report these facts, because they don’t align with the alarmist narrative that they peddle to scare gullible & naive children.

@man1cm1ner @NatCon2022 I have dual nationality, including UK by birth, but nobody has tried to strip me of my UK nationality.

@NatCon2022 It's impossible to strip someone of citizenship unless they have dual nationality. So the fact here is this man has Russian nationality; he made that choice.

#NotSatire A Pakistani woman, Shabana Mahmood, has stripped a native British man of his British citizenship. First time in British history. Mark Bullen lives in St. Petersburg with his Russian wife and works for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. He was a British cop for 11 years.

@fulligin I like the irony of the electric bus with a bike rack passing in the background while he fouls up the Waymo.

saw a beautiful use of a Waymo a few days ago - a cyclist stuck in the rain threw his bike in the back seat and dipped. total genius, great trick to have in my pocket

@learning_yohei @Sola_1957 It means a woman's breasts, or a meeting place, both one and same in a sense.

@Sola_1957 キャンベラ！？ 人の名前みたいに聞こえます😅

世界の文化に興味を持つ日本人です🇯🇵😄 オーストラリア人に質問があります🇦🇺🙋‍♀️ オーストラリアの首都ってシドニーですよね？🤔 多くの日本人はシドニーって言ってます🇯🇵🤝🇦🇺

@craigkellyAFEE I wonder how this would have played out in WW2 when Australian soldiers, after discovering what the Japanese were doing to POWs, were killing Japanese captives rather than taking them prisoner?

A CORRUPT, DISGUSTING STITCH-UP So now we know exactly why they deliberately waited to arrest Ben Roberts-Smith in Sydney. They didn’t want the trial in his home town in Brisbane, in front of jury his actual peers in Brisbane. They rigged it for Sydney because a Sydney jury is far more likely to be packed with Hamas & Hezbollah sympathisers and their leftist inner-city latte-sippers friends who carry a deep prejudicial hatred of our military. In short, they think they have a better chance of a guilty finding in Sydney than Brisbane - so they stitched it up so he’d be arrested in Sydney. And these "prosecutors" are in bed with Channel 9 — who have a massive commercial stake in seeing him destroyed. That’s why Nine’s cameras were conveniently parked at the airport like vultures, filming him being taken off the plane to create the impression that he was “at the airport trying to flee the country" because he’s guilty. Now almost every single juror dragged into that courtroom will have that prejudicial image burned into their brains. This is outright corruption. It stinks to high heaven. And these holier-than-thou, corrupt bastards have the absolute gall — the sheer stinking hide — to lecture their prosecution is all about “justice.”

@freedom4UU I bet they're all sitting there wishing they'd ignored their political paranoia and bought a Tesla, so they could use the multiple Tesla chargers down the road.

Gotta love having an EV in #Australia. 5 hours to recharge. 😂

@KezBenn @freedom4UU @TaniaLe84494434 When I used to do that trip in my V8, it took 9 hours.

@freedom4UU @TaniaLe84494434 Watched a guy ride a self driving EV Sydney to Melbourne on TV (they didn’t show the whole trip haha). Took 14 hours lol bc he had to recharge it. What a joke.

@roodave Needs to be fast, frequent and reliable, plus easy, quick interchanges. In Australia, that's Sydney Metro in the lead and Sydney ferries (except the Freshwaters), followed by Perth rail, maybe Perth buses, Sydney light rail (except slow), gold Coast and Canberra light rail.

In most Australian cities, the problem with public transport is not the face value of a fare for a trip on a bus, train etc. It is the “generalised cost”, waiting time, unreliability, discomfort, slowness. Cutting fares does not fix these costs to the user (it makes it worse)

@Ausbobsmit It was an attractive Moldovan lady seducing the Captain on the bridge of Costa Concordia that led to the ship grounding and sinking. You don't own a boat I hope? Just sayin'

I am currently dating a lovely lady. She lives in Moldova. I had never heard of Moldova. Looks a lovely place. I am saving some dough to go visit her, hopefully in a few months. I met her on the internet. However, her internet connection is unreliable and slow so we cannot use video chat. That is fine by me. I sent her some money to by a better tablet, one where she can use 5G. So things are looking good.

@VoteLewko Going through a red light in a red light district 😁

You just know it was a concerned white public servant who thought this warning on a traffic camera fine was necessary. Or the thing any blackfella would be upset about.

@naveenjrazik These films were perfectly accurate. Life in Australia was great back then, better than now, when our politicians have since tipped the country down the drain.

@Squiddy_____ @Samantha7ey It's done in Sydney.

@Samantha7ey You need enough commercial vehicle access to get things to stores that trying to separate that out from cars would be impossible. That said more of the CBD should clearly be pedestrianized.

melbourne cbd could function without cars perfectly fine but they'll never do that because their too fucking stupid to see things logically

@samlutd @xaviairrr The only explanation is that it's the first stage of a metro line linking NW, western and SW Sydney. A lot of people can't see this.

@xaviairrr The only explanation for that stupid Metro alignment is pork barrelling

So with the Glebe Island Port closing and Port Kembla clearly going to absorb demand, can we finally finish Maldon-Dombarton? Not only is there enough industrial demand but it would be transformative for the passenger network

@omilli_gaga @sciencegirl @grok Gibberish.

@sciencegirl @grok what language are they speaking?

Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and ditch human language

@roodave Those small ferries were much easier to maintain though. Didn't suffer the issues and maintenance costs of the big wooden ferries. A couple of them still running in Port Hacking.

@TonyPre15226284 Not really, hegarties, Nicholson also had ferries over 50years into 2000s. Many of the country rail passenger carriages in service in early 80s were also over 60 yrs old. When Rosmans retired mv Radar in 2019, it was over 70 years old

Something to keep in mind when people talk about ferries, trains etc being “very old” at 40 years… Pre-nationalisation Sydney ferry Lady Edeline, 6 months before Opera House opening in 1973. Built 1913, entirely from wood. In service to 1983. 70 years in revenue (JR Caldwell)