The Brittnee swamp water has revealed another creature Fisk and his wife.

Meanwhile in the shallow end W Entsch and his non indigi wife getting $200k for pottery. I expect nothing less from the swamp dwellers. My only query, why news now? Something is afoot.

Thanks Tom.

Gabor

Toyota is making serious claims about breakthrough tech across battery technology and other innovations that will mean that by 2026, their EVs will have a range of 1000 km. This should be taken somewhat seriously because Toyota is a very respectable entity. The disclosure was also made to the various entities it reports to.

Toyota unveils sweeping plans for new battery tech, EV innovation
By Daniel Leussink
June 13, 20238:12 AM EDTUpdated 6 days ago

TOKYO, June 13 (Reuters) – Toyota (7203.T) will introduce high-performance, solid-state batteries and other technologies to improve the driving range and cut costs of future electric vehicles (EVs), the automaker said on Tuesday, a strategic pivot that sent its shares higher.

The Japanese giant’s technology roadmap, covering aspects as varied as next-generation battery development and a radical redesign of factories, amounted to the automaker’s fullest disclosure of its plan to compete in the fast-growing market for EVs where it has lagged rivals led by Tesla (TSLA.O).

The plan comes a day before an annual shareholders meeting where governance and strategy – including a slow pivot to battery EVs under former CEO Akio Toyoda – will be scrutinised.

Shares of the world’s best-selling automaker jumped 5% on the day to 2,173 yen, the highest since August.

Toyota said it aims to launch next-generation lithium-ion batteries from 2026 offering longer ranges and quicker charging.

It also trumpeted a “technological breakthrough” that addresses durability problems in solid-state batteries and said it is developing means to mass produce those batteries, targeting commercialisation over 2027-2028.

Solid-state batteries can hold more energy than current liquid electrolyte batteries. Automakers and analysts expect them to speed transition to EVs by addressing a major consumer concern: range.

Still, such batteries are expensive and likely to remain so for years. Toyota will hedge with better-performing lithium iron phosphate batteries, a cheaper alternative to lithium-ion batteries that have spurred EV adoption in China, the world’s largest vehicle market.

At the high end of the market, Toyota said it would produce an EV with a more efficient lithium-ion battery offering a range of 1,000 km (621 miles). By comparison, the long-range version of the lithium-ion-powered Tesla Model Y, the world’s best-selling EV, can drive for about 530 km based on U.S. standards.

An EV powered by a solid-state battery would have a range of 1,200 km and charging time of just 10 minutes, Toyota said. By comparison, the Tesla Supercharger network – the largest of its kind – offers the equivalent of 321 km of charge in 15 minutes.

Engineers at the automaker have been considering a reboot of its EV strategy since last year to better compete.

The roadmap detailed on Tuesday showed that under new CEO Koji Sato, Toyota has adopted much of the revamp that engineers and planners have been developing as options for months.

That includes use of electric-axle and other technology from suppliers such as Aisin (7259.T) and Denso (6902.T).

“What we want to achieve is to change the future with BEVs,” Takero Kato, president of new Toyota EV unit BEV Factory, said in a video posted on the automaker’s YouTube channel on Tuesday.
NEW ASSEMBLY TECHNOLOGY

Toyota said it was developing a dedicated EV platform to reduce the cost of new models and a heavily automated assembly line that would do away with the conveyor belt system that has defined auto production since Henry Ford over 100 years ago.

In Toyota’s “self-propelling” assembly line, cars under production would drive themselves through the process.

It also said it would use Giga casting to cut production costs, adopting an innovation pioneered by Tesla using massive, aluminium casting machines to reduce vehicle complexity.

Koji Endo, senior analyst at SBI Securities, said he was surprised by Toyota’s move to counter Tesla’s lead in production efficiency. “I’m not sure yet Toyota can push back in a counter offensive, but it’s getting ready to try,” he said.

Toyota’s BEV Factory, established in May, aims to produce about 1.7 million vehicles by 2030, Kato said – about half of the 3.5 million EVs Toyota aims to sell annually by that year.

In April, the automaker sold 8,584 EVs worldwide, including under its Lexus brand, accounting for more than 1% of its global sales in a single month for the first time.

Toyota sold almost 10.5 million vehicles in 2022, and has a market value of about $254 billion. By contrast, Tesla sold one-eighth as many vehicles yet is valued at around $791 billion, a premium reflecting investor belief in Tesla’s growth potential.

Toyota has long said it wants to offer consumers a choice of new-energy vehicles, including petrol-electric hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells as well as battery EVs, as part of the industry’s transition from petrol-powered vehicles.

On the day before it was announced, the stock was trading at Yen 2,068. It closed today Tokyo time at Yen 2253. Markets have taken it seriously as the stock is up around 9% since 12 June.

Anything over that can be a problem when traveling, who wants to sit in a cafe for hours?

Especially when you find out that you are about fifth plus in the lineup to charge your vehicle.
I am in Nhulunbuy visiting my sister and brother in law.
Every house in the indginee only homeland communities with one plus more rooted vehicles rotting the yard. And garbage in the yards and outside the yards, despite the garbage truck coming around twice a week for them. There will be lot of electric vehicles left to rot on the side of the road or in the bush and/or bush tracks when the charge runs out.

What we and everyone else already knows, and has done for years, while turning a blind eye to it.

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

The most incriminating 5-minute supercut PROVING Joe Biden was in on Hunter’s dirty business dealings all along…

Amb. Friedman: It’s ‘Despicable’ that Biden Won’t Meet Netanyahu

JC at 6:14 on Toyota batteries:-

“What we want to achieve is to change the future with BEVs,” Takero Kato, president of new Toyota EV unit BEV Factory, said in a video posted on the automaker’s YouTube channel on Tuesday.
However, Mr Kato did strike a note of caution. “We think it looks promising but we are waiting for renowned mathematician Victor Titsoff to check our workings.”

National Citizens Inquiry (NCI | CeNC)
@Inquiry_Canada

Why did Canada cease reporting vaccine status alongside its COVID statistics, withholding crucial information from the public?

LOL. Vic is a scientific everywhere man.
I wonder what Vic’s says about UFOs.

There’s a reason Big Pokey was called ‘Big Pokey’.

What now Northern American forest fires can be correctly attributed to arsonists because NWO death rays weren’t resonating with the steeple?

Dot

We need to be fair about this. We had a pandemic. Pharma would only develop and subsequently distribute vaccines under the legal protection against consumer lawsuits. Government acceded to this. Why blame pharma when it was the government that accepted this important condition?

Wouldn’t you act in the exact same way if you ran Merck?

rosie says:
June 20, 2023 at 7:52 am

Why do progressives always pretend criticism of their speech is denying them freedom of speech?
What they really want is to deny their critics freedom of speech.

Sorry, but it’s just not leftwingers. We see it here frequently unfortunately.

In Nothing Better To Do news, SEN website:

ESSENDON is giving strong consideration to changing its logo.

The Bombers have one of the oldest unchanged emblems in the AFL, with its current jet image unveiled in 1997.

But the club has embarked on a long process towards a logo revamp. While there are no guarantees a change will be made, there are also no guarantees the plane remains central to Essendon’s brand.

Essendon became the Bombers in 1940. There is no suggestion the club’s nickname will be changed.

But the club is conducting a preliminary research project with an eye to changing its emblem. That projects includes feedback from various stakeholder, supporter and member groups.

The project is seeking to determine how Essendon members and stakeholders view their club, with a number of consultations held over the past four months.

I’m sure this brain fart has the blessing of the board. Whoever instigated it need to be fired, along with the ponytailed men hired to market it.

In further good news from Japan the Australian dollar is doing nicely against the yen.
Excellent timing.

The wind chill made the temp -9. I had to put the bins out. Brass monkeys.

Some expert on the cause:

Australia’s cold change is only getting frostier, with millions set to shiver through the coldest June morning in five years as one capital city plummets to -5 degrees.

Sky news meteorologist Alison Osborne warned on Monday Aussies were in for “another dramatic week of June weather” with “extreme cold” forecast for most of the country.

Eastern Australia will face its second cold front in two days on Tuesday as a rain system settles over the Pacific Ocean, leaving a biting cold air mass in its wake.

It “brings another burst of cold, wet and windy weather and heralds a significant cold outbreak for many,” Ms Osborne said.

“The temperatures, goodness me, they are looking cold even for this time of year … It will be a hard middle of the week to get out of bed,” she added.

Temperatures will drop well below freezing in parts of Tasmania, Victoria, the ACT and NSW, reaching record-breaking lows early on Wednesday.

“It is going to be very cold but also very clear. This means widespread frost and some areas of icy, freezing fog,” Ms Osborne explained.

Sydney and its surrounds are forecast to see their coldest June day in about five years, with minimum temperatures dropping to a frosty 5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. Residents won’t have much chance to warm up before the weekend, with minimum temperatures of 7 and 8 degrees Celsius on Saturday and Sunday, respectively and single-digit lows right into next week.

In Melbourne, too, it will be frosty with a low of just 4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. Showers are expected in the city on Thursday and Friday, while minimum temperatures aren’t forecast to break 10 degrees until at least the beginning of next week.

Hobart will be even colder, with temperatures dropping to just 2 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning. Showers are forecast in Tasmania from Thursday and will last right through the weekend.

Canberra, however, will be the capital worst hit by the cold change, with temperatures expected to plummet well below freezing. Residents can expect morning frost on Tuesday courtesy of a minimum temperature of just -4 degrees Celsius, warming up to a still-frosty 10 degrees. The nation’s capital will still get colder on Wednesday with a low of -5 degrees Celsius, before warming to -1 degrees on Thursday.

The cold burst will bring much-needed snowfall to Australia’s ski resorts in what has been a slow start to the winter holiday season.

“(In) the Australian Alps and even the Grampians, there’s a risk of snow falling to elevations of between 900 and 1000m metres, so I would definitely call that low-level snow,” Ms Osborne said.

“It’s well below resort level and does mean a few of those Snowy Mountains towns at that elevation will see some flakes, as will the Brindabella (Ranges) in the ACT and also pockets of the Grampians in Victoria. Make no mistake, it is going to be very cold, however the snow is very welcome and much needed.”

Across the country in WA, a rain band has formed and will sweep eastwards, bringing rain to almost all of Australia.

“Where the outback meets the coast in Port Hedland in Western Australia, the skies have been darkening considerably this weekend. This is due to moisture-laden air feeding in from the northwest tropics,” Ms Osborne said.

“A low-pressure trough sitting in the Indian Ocean is feeding this band of cloud and widespread patchy rain across outback WA. This is likely on Tuesday and Wednesday, to be followed up by some heavier rain and thunderstorms rolling between Karratha Port Hedland and Broome.

“While this isn’t completely unheard of, it is the first time in quite a few weeks that we have seen a Northwest cloud bend over Western Australia, and we could see some of the heaviest rain around the Exmouth Gulf Coast in a few years as well — between 40 and 50 millimetres.”

Perth will shoulder the brunt of the WA rain band right into next week, with more than an 80 per cent chance of showers forecast every day until Sunday. Minimum temperatures are expected to hover between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius, and maximum temperatures between 15 and 17 degrees Celsius.

The rain will move into SA from Wednesday, with showers forecast in Adelaide right into the weekend. Thursday will be icy, with a low of 9 degrees Celsius and a high of 14.

Brisbane will start the week cold and clear, with skies and minimum temperatures of between 8 and 9 degrees Celsius from Tuesday to Thursday. Though it’s expected to stay sunny, cold air will keep minimum temperatures below 13 degrees all week long.

Darwin will stay warm and dry, with maximum temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius all week and minimums in the 20s. Residents can expect cloudy conditions throughout the week, clearing up into a sunny weekend.

Head prefect, who the fu.k are these people you refer to; I can’t keep up with the soubriquets. Make a list for future reference will you.

Head prefect, who the fu.k are these people you refer to; I can’t keep up with the soubriquets. Make a list for future reference will you.

#MeToo, Cronkite. Like who the fu.k are dickless and crotchless for instance? It’s also hard to keep up with your own “sauerkrauts”. 🙂

Teacher @ryecollegeuk Has Meltdown At Year 9 Student Who Questions Why Another Student Is Identifying As A Cat.

I love that the student is so much clearer thinking than the teacher. It also shows how much convoluted sophistry goes into the ‘gender identifying’ thing that all the teacher’s responses were U-turns back into the theory without mentioning facts other than asserting the assumptions of the theory, while the student was pointing to objective facts like ‘boys have a penis and girls have a vagina’.

It was also funny that the teacher, prattling on about how many genders there are, accepted that deluded kid is a cat. I wonder, male or female cat. The ditzy kid would have one or the other in mind.

But since they have now so detached gender from biological sex and essentially turned it into a game where someone can dictate to you that you must treat them specially and accommodate their flights of fancy, then sex itself has snapped back to there being only two. It also means then that sexual attraction is back the the old and familiar combinations and only being attracted to people who identify as cats or goats or lamp shades becomes a matter of taste like being attracted to redheads or smart people. Just weirder because the former set are more comprehensible as people pretending to be a cat or a cow or a lampshade than actually being them. The person who thinks they are a cat will not have superior night vision, they will not be able to run on all fours, and their intestines useless for tennis rackets.

So, all that is left is the newfound ‘right’ to demand other people that you are something you manifestly are not, and the loss of the right (of everyone else) to make sense of the world as you see it. The obvious is now opinion, and if ‘problematic’ opinion then it is criminal.

As always it is about power.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/06/a-battle-of-long-tan-infantry-veterans-thoughts-on-bodycams-for-australian-troops-lest-we-forget.html

It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.

– Yogi Berra

Yeah, it is a wow, mergatroid, you genius.

Toyota has a market cap of US$ equivalent of $223 billion. An additional $20 billion added to the market cap in a few days is significant, you pipe soldering imbecile.

Make the transition quacks uninsurable.

Breaking news!
It’s cold in winter!

A signpost of the times that gender transition comes with inadequate warnings and often the exclusion of the victim’s support network but our daily lives abound with ridiculous or superfluous safety warnings.

Hopefully there will be quite a few high yield damages cases that will bring this whole horror to an end.

The other thing that astounds me are vegans who protest at animals farmed for food being given chemicals, medicines and hormones yet have not problem with genetically modified crops which used to be their cause célèbre just a few years ago.

Sky news meteorologist Alison Osborne warned on Monday Aussies were in for “another dramatic week of June weather” with “extreme cold” forecast for most of the country.

Wow! What insight? June weather in June. What will they come up with next?

Stakeholder has been expanded to mean anyone with an opinion even if they have nothing to do with the club or even the game.

And not all stakeholders are equal.

Just ask Bud Light drinkers.

The radicals running the country have settled on separatism, division and the apartheid of the Voice to guarantee their long-term position at the top of the heap.

Well said!

Gender ‘Prefer not to say’

Pity you can’t tell them that there is no word for your gender in human languages or that can be pronounced with human speech organs.

Courier Mail:

A coal royalties advertising counteroffensive will be launched by the state government as it moves to convince regional Queenslanders riches gleaned from smacking the mining industry with tougher tax has been worth it.

Treasurer Cameron Dick, launching the $1.5m advertising campaign, defended the “modest” spend amid a cost-of-living crunch and said it was necessary to pitch to Queenslanders the “importance of the benefits of coal royalties”.

So from what I see, you are using money gained from the mining industry to spruik another tax? Do I have this right kind reader? Article continues:

The spend pales in comparison to the ongoing campaign against progressive coal royalties being run by the Queensland Resources Council, which has argued the need for “balance” between taxation and profits companies can keep to put toward further investment in the state.

QRC chief executive Ian Macfarlane said the full impact of the government’s coal royalty change wouldn’t be known for five years to a decade when major new resource projects go to other countries and jurisdictions such as NSW.

A whopping $15.3bn coal royalties windfall – three times what the government had expected – helped pay for relief measures in the latest state budget, including at least $550 in energy rebates for every Queenslander.

Mr Dick, in a move that triggered a rare lashing from Japan’s ambassador to Australia at the time, introduced a new coal royalty tier in the 2022 state budget in a bid to take advantage of record high prices.

The new tier was meant to rake in $765m in the 2022-23 financial year, but sustained high coal prices resulted in an estimated $5.7bn in revenue uplift.

Overall, the coal royalties changes will rake in $7.2bn for the state between 2022-23 until mid-2027, up from the $1.2bn Treasury had initially forecast in last year’s budget.

The 30-second advertisement, produced by CHEP Network for the government at a cost of about $700,000, depicts people in communities in regional towns, including Moranbah, making use of state-sponsored facilities such as sport fields, dams, and a hospital.

The ad outlines how coal royalties “support” local sporting groups, helped pay for the Moranbah Hospital and “inland energy” – meaning the state government’s pumped hydro schemes outside of Mackay and Gympie.

Mr Dick said his “primary focus” for the campaign was ensuring the “sustainability” of the coal industry going forward, and that Queenslanders “need to know it’s going back to them”.

The government’s latest campaign brings the total spend on spruiking its coal royalty tax changes to $2.6m since 2022.

The QRC’s campaign has been running across TV, radio, online platforms, newspaper and billboards, with Mr Macfarlane vowing to keep it going until the day of the election if needed.

Call me sceptical but I can foresee this largesse will be spent on renewable energy projects.

South Africa is the perfect example for what is in store for us.

Thomas Mayo fancies himself as Nelson Mandela?

The Victorian government will consider introducing rent caps and new taxes on owners of Airbnbs and vacant properties to help ease pressure on renters, under a deal struck with the Greens in exchange for their support for the state budget.

Does the notion that the real issue might be binding up the supply side with oodles of red tape & green tape (and soon black tape) – ever enter their mind?

True story: Middle aged man recently turned up at Canberra Public ED with chest pains. Was given some blood pressure tabs and told to come back Tuesday

Whoever triaged him should be up for medical malpractice. Seriously.

Trump’s Presidential Campaign
Australia needs to protect its democracy and economy.

This is on Today Extra right now. Bruce Wolpe the talking head. Caught the last bit, fair to say the derangement was more than a whiff.

Frost in the Grampians. Better put the top on the half track.

Emma Garlett: Don’t be fooled by scaremongering on cultural heritage laws
Emma Garlett
The West Australian
Tue, 20 June 2023 2:00AM
Comments

Change can and does bring out the worst in people. It brings out deep insecurities and fear in people who did not agree to or want the change in the first place.

Those who don’t want progressive change and dispute it may feel less in control than they once were. People like to feel in control. Control brings a safety blanket to those who have it and relinquishing that blanket can drive people to put walls up and push back.

Change is a constant, it is the one thing we can rely on — yet for some they go kicking and screaming when a whiff of a new smell is in the air.

If you have picked up a paper in the past week you would have seen the tiny minority with the loudest voices who oppose the new Aboriginal heritage laws.

Somewhat like a naggy little chihuahua. These were likely the same people who didn’t want the laws to change and voiced it in the consultation events the State Government held when drafting the new laws.

If you did a stakeholder mapping exercise on those people, you’d soon realise they are probably the ones who always kick up a fuss about any change which affects their profit margin — even if the change is for equality.

The unfortunate reality is that Aboriginal heritage is often only seen as a project approval exercise for proponents looking to gain access to land. The new laws bring fairness and equality to decision making. It brings the checks and balances the law needs.

The new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act comes into effect from July 1.

With the Aboriginal heritage laws changing, we need to remember that getting the law where it is now required extensive consultation which means the majority of pastoralists, miners, Aboriginal groups, land users, community groups and individuals are supportive of the new laws and welcome the change.

Laws in Australia are not proactive. This means law reform does not happen to lead the way and be best practice ahead of the curve.

Remember, the new cultural heritage laws are years in the making.

Law reform is slow and reactive, and it only happens once the majority of people want it.

The change in cultural heritage law is in response to State-wide consultation and community expectations.

The new laws are a step in the right direction to rectify the power imbalance in cultural heritage decision making and the failure of the law to allow for Indigenous people to be adequately heard, the remnants of a legal system which excluded Indigenous interests.

The new laws allow for more procedural fairness in decision-making. Previously Aboriginal groups did not have this right in law.

Decisions were made and weight was given primarily to what was wanted from all other stakeholder groups such as agricultural groups, pastoralists, mining groups. And this was recognised by those groups.

They knew the law was not fair. And what good person could keep benefiting of the back of the active detriment of others? So, to make the law fairer, they changed it to include checks and balances for Aboriginal people to be adequately included in decision-making.

However, there are two issues at play here.

Firstly, Aboriginal groups are used to being told what they can and cannot do by others. They have not had adequate agency over decisions.

So, this change may seem like a lot; to be given the same rights as others in law. Change is scary for everyone, especially those who have been so disempowered and downtrodden.

Now, to be given a slither of power may cause an identity crisis as they have been groomed to be told what to do for so long.

Secondly, A change in law means not everyone will agree. It is impossible.

There is a minority of groups which don’t want to include Aboriginal views, and this has been seen in numerous articles published. But remember, those same people probably didn’t agree to laws changing and would have voiced that already to Government.

The new laws provide an opportunity for Aboriginal people to be seen as equals and have input into decisions which affect them in the same way as other groups.

Don’t get fooled by the few who want to ruin it for the rest. And remember, the new cultural heritage laws are years in the making. Why should it change for a few loud voices who want to delay progress in Australia?

How to win friends and influence people….

PS. Is it legal to write comments on a ballot paper?

It’s not illegal.

Just don’t obscure your “NO”.