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Pears said the energy rating stickers “have a lot of credibility with people” and is “relied upon” by consumers.

Really?

I've never really bothered much with appliance ratings.

Any time I see star ratings on anything that the govt has been involved with I automatically assume it's a load of bullshit that was guided by industry with their wants put well ahead of consumer needs. At best star ratings just dumb down actual metrics.

See:

The absolute joke that is food rating stars.

Home energy star ratings. Why not just state use the passivhouse standard? Or just state energy used and air tightness in changes per hour etc.

Vehicle star ratings where fucking human crusher 4wds still somehow gets 5 stars for vulnerable road user protection because it has some sensors in it.

The city of mining and fossil fuel.

Really?

Things have definitely changed in the last 15 or so years.

It drives me nuts when they decide to burn huge patches of forest that are no where near anyone's property resulting in terrible air quality in major population centres.

It will be something that in 50 years people will look back on in wonderment at how wrong the DBCA were.

Pipe dream:

Tax income generated from accumulated wealth the same as income generated from actual work. I.e. a rate somewhere in between the two. No more CGT discounts.

End negative gearing for existing structures.

No more tax breaks for commercial vehicles

Curtail corporations from off shoring profits to tax havens.

Tax on exported gas

UBI

I've heard that part of the initial justification is it's going to make access to and from the Perth stadium a lot better for people coming from Mandurah.

The council removed the everyone's old larger general waste wheely bins when they rolled the new system out. Old system was 1 large general waste collected weekly. 1 large recycle bin collected fortnightly.

Now we have 1 half size waste bin collected fortnightly. Same recycle bin collected fortnightly. Large FOGO bin collected weekly. Unless I've done gardening there is usually only a tiny volume of food scraps in mine.

Part of the intent is to encourage everyone to produce less waste by making it harder to get rid of. The other is of course to get the methane generating FOGO separated so it does not end up in landfill.

Oh and the council saves money on disposal by having this system in place. Savings were not directly passed on to rate payer's though. I guess they are indirectly via not raising annual rates by as much.

The council I live in introduced them a couple of years ago.

There was quite a lot of complaining on social media. In conjunction with a weekly FOGO they changed the weekly general waste bin to one half the size and only collected it every 2 weeks. As a result lot of households struggled to get rid of all their rubbish.

Anecdotally: It's seemingly settling down now but a first there was a lot more litter in the streets from overflowing bins, both people's waste bins and bins in parks. A number of degenerates took to burning their plastic waste in combustion heaters / backyard pits. Which is highly inappropriate given we are less than 10km from the CBD and most blocks are sub 500 sqm . some are still doing this in winter. I wish there would be massive fines for this.

The council has been giving notices to people who put plastic etc in their FOGO bin. Unsure if they have cameras in the truck or if it's random inspections. Apparently they will stop collections for repeat offenders.

The council will supply larger and multiple waste bins for households who are willing to pay extra. I think they might have got less backlash if it had been opt in at first for a discount rather than this method.

Personally I think FOGO are pretty good if you have a suburban garden. Means you can do a little bit of pruning here and there and put the cuttings in the FOGO. Previously you would need to collect it all up then order a big green waste skip.

Good to see us considering something that's in favour of digital rights for once.

Also as an android (Graphene) user it is good to get this precedent in place because Google is steadily turning android in to an awful walled garden too.

Infinite scroll

Enshitification of search results when shopping

Planned obsolescence

Scooters are already quite regulated. Max speed 25kph (not allowed to be capable of more than that on level ground) Max weight 25kg Max size 125 by 70 by135 cm

https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/road-safety-commission/erideables The hire ones are all compliant with the regulations.

The hire ones also have GPS in them that is used to determine when they are in pedestrian areas where the speed gets limited to 10kph automatically. Probably not the greatest on narrow streets.

If those are the biggest behavioural issues the author is worried about then I would question if she has ever even caught public transport.