Perth / Western Australia

F.o.K.P. Case against & Online Form (their "survey")

What a joke!

I don't know what i think of the issue itself, but the Friends of Kings Park group should be ashamed of themselves this morning.

Putting an online form on their website, and having essentially their network fill it out is not an gauge of public sentiment. And undermines the legitimacy of good faith attempts at data gathering.

Restricting sections of the botanic garden to provide high-priced accommodation for a select few does not align with this vision.

This is one of the examples of leading the respondent in their preamble.

By leaving it as an online form, and taking no demographic information this "survey" is no better than online product reviews and as such should be ignored by the government.

The Gov now probably need to employ a company who actually know how to conduct a survey to gauge real public sentiment, whatever that may be.

Good day for lunch in the sun.

So I rocked up to a poetry slam at the Rosemount but it was $10 cash only to watch. So I went to the bar and bought a pint on my phone instead.

4wd and mountain bike riders would be a natural set to do classes like this with as well.

Might be a bit late for a doco now, but this ones an interesting watch.

Never really thought about a whole community living pretty much full time on the islands, but there ya go.

I reckon its time for a change to the way we build homes here. Our current method seems slow, wasteful, and needlessly costly.

I often go for date night around Freo and we're getting sick of going to the same places over and over (Frida Mexicana, Gage Roads, Mexican Kitchen, and Spice Market). If you have any favourite places around Freo to dine, I'd love to hear them! (Especially if you can walk away from them feeling like you didn't just get ripped off - a very difficult task in 2024!)

Well done ECU!

Sounds like we have the beginnings of our own home grown F1 team with these students!

There's something smelly going on here.

I haven't linked the watoday article from last week about this due to the strike. But if people want it, it is a short scroll down.

Interview with Rebecca James - Direct Download link.

"We send about 100 gigalitres [of stormwater] a year out to the ocean, some of that's pretty important, it's our rivers flowing, so we don't want to get rid of all of that, but some of that is our harvestable resource, and it's our treated wastewater, and we send over 120 gigalitres of that out to the ocean every year," she said. Dr Thompson

These are two good ideas with low cost implementation

The idea for the watering more often with less water could also be workable.

I still think Western Australians should be building many more desal plants to really begin negating the states reliance on a good winter for community and environmental watering needs.

A more consistent statewide watering regime will help with things as different as farmers maximising and predicting crop yields, to reducing the risks associated with fires after dry summers.

Love the idea here. What a great day, shame the weather's not going to be on their side today, but i'm sure they'll manage.

Short run down can be found here, https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/bushfire-smoke-sparks-surges-in-perth-hospital-admissions/

Gun owners need to understand that it isn't a right, its a privilege the rest of us allow only if conditions are met.

If something happens that alters the situation those conditions are set for, they need to respect changes that may come.

Setting themselves up as victims, like they have here, makes me question the participants mental capacity to evaluate their own behaviours, therefore their own risk to those around them.

Two people were killed by a gun owner in circumstances where his ease of access to guns greatly increased the severity of the consequences. Communities have a right to expect gun owners to seriously appreciate the risks of their firearm possession.

Also screw the Nationals for making this a political fight, especially a rural v metro fight. This is bigger than you're never seen dirt akubra hat and white pressed shirt with rolled up sleeves country cosplay.

Cool idea for some of the wood from the old bridge. Maybe there can be a portion set aside for a wood raffle, or design competition for a few pieces in and around Freo. Cool thought though.

Don't agree very often with the party he chose, but i's damn happy to see Ken Wyatt in Parliament representing Western Australians.

There was a spike in offences committed in Midland in January which Snr Sgt Marriott said was in line with crime increases in shopping precincts at the start of school holidays. “To address this issue head-on Midland Police have partnered with breath and drug operations and mounted section to provide high visibility policing to deter offending behaviour,” he said.

So school holidays kick in and crime spikes, we all see the connection. Yet the only response Senior Sergeant Marriott is giving is of more visible force.

I think we could improve things more permanently by having regard to the root causes and implementing social services like family violence mediation and protections, but importantly to this article youth activity services and spaces for youth to spend their time.

And the police as they're often the first point of contact have to be involved, knowledgeable, and have a certain level of involvement with these "wrap-around" services.

Until these sorts of changes begin happening, (plus releases from any acute economic hardships for community members), the police can only offer a temporary and costly bandaid solution.

There is always an opportunity cost to these operations as well. Due to the attentions of so many police resources being focused on this issue time after time.

I want to note, i'm only criticising the police as far as they might not have thought to mention services they probably are already in contact and working with in the above statement. These services should be a part, and maybe are, of any policing operations like this.

As alwaus, great article from the Echo's Guanhao Cheng.

“The Americans are very good at seduction, they make people feel important and unfortunately our politicians are not immune from it,” Ms Vallentine said.

This is a good point in general this ex-senator has brought up. Australians should be alert to it with this AUKUS deal. If we're to have it, then we need to keep level heads about the interests of our American friends.

Also, have the councillora and executives heard of video chats? Give that a go, any serious questions can be answered through that.

If anybody has any ideas for a waste education program the Government is interested in supporting you.

I like the idea at the end of the article more. Spend some time educating people on how to overtake roadtrains safely. Me, i have no ideaif the random bits i've been told would actually be useful or not.