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More than that, press criminal charges since they're unlawful.

I'd call that not so much a victory as a sad indictment of planning that it ever happened in the first place.

Half an hour average to just get out of your estate? What a miserable way to live.

It's already quietly been shelved. The airport link was the first and most visible segment of the SRL and that part has already been officially shelved. They're already winding down work on it.

There hasn't been any official announcement that the SRL has been shelved but given the state of the budget and the shelved airport link it's pretty obvious that the SRL is dead.

I'm curious about their definition of "lakes" here. Lake Eyre in Australia is an enormous salt pan. Once every few years when it rains in the desert it briefly becomes flooded. Does that make it a lake?

The fuck you say?

Contrary to what the other comments are saying, there's no compelling reason why goods transport by train can't be done here when it can be done elsewhere. It was done in the past but then we started spending billions to subsidise trucks and passed a variety of laws to benefit road transport. Plus allowing the taxpayer to cover the cost of road wear caused by trucks which totals more billions per year.

So in the end it was a pure policy decision - in the 1950s various lobby groups pushed for the introduction of laws to favor road transport over rail transport and in 1957 the first laws were passed. The rest is history.

People deye their hair more now. That's the biggest difference.

the left are generally anti development

I guess that depends which left your talking about. Labor are very pro development and make a huge number of building approvals plus big road development projects like the north east link and the level crossing removals.

I find it very interesting that this is a case where the left - which is generally pro regulation - is calling for a reduction in regulation because zoning regulation made things measurably worse in this case, and the supposedly "free market" right wants to keep zones highly regulated.

Here's a random tip I heard about music inspiration: if you're in a rut do something completely differently from how you normally do it. Do something the opposite way from how you usually do it or start using a different approach from usual. Maybe give yourself an arbitrary restriction like "no thirds, use more sixths instead" or pick something you normally do and do the reverse. If you normally start writing songs with chord progressions try starting with a melody instead. Or start with a rhythm instead. Just do something different so you're forced to have a fresh take on composition. Hopefully that'll help you see things in a fresh light.

Grimes would have recorded at a studio in the US along with the other English language voice actors.

This is then opposition leader Tony Abbott when Julia Gillard was Prime Minister:

So yeah, misogyny is pretty much standard operating procedure for the Libs.