And just like, Cate Blanchett ended any hope for the Voice:

With all its missteps and all of its successes, to actually evolve into a really modern democracy like New Zealand, like Canada.

On the ABC.
On 7:30.
What a tombstone.

The TRUTH About Female Educators… | Jordan Peterson

Blair piles on (the Tele):

A nation who previously repelled Hitler are now throwing a pity fit because one of their cricketers got himself stumped. It doesn’t require much these days to convert stout-hearted Englishmen into sobbing piles of Pommy pudding

The absolute insolence of those colonial convicts, beating us using rules we wrote ourselves.

Come on then, chaps. Once more into the breach and all that. For Empire!

Surely a relatively simple tax return I lodged last night, using the electronic lodgement, will take less than one month to process the small tax refund I am owed?

Yep. Lodged 5/7. Estimated “issue date”: 3/8.

Which is funny because last year the ATO were talking about real time pre fill and no need for a tax return to be lodged at all!

MiL flies in on her broom tonight. Very much a much older version of Cassie I imagine. Follows politics all over the world. Pulls no punches, stirs up her greenie grandchildren. SiL travelling with her. Will be nice to see them.

Always fine to see Americans partying for Independence Day:

Red, white and blow: Cocaine found at White House by the Secret Service (4 Jul)

Firefox is terrible, this site flies at Mach 2.5 on Edge.

Test via Chrome as the Cat is refusing to load on Brave!

Working with Children check.
FMD.
I need one because I am Treasurer of a sporting club with average membership age 238 years old.
And to be Range Officer; that is, the man who shouts out “CLASS ONE MILITARY RIFLE! YOU MAY CAP AND FOUL! FIFTY METRES OFFHAND! THIRTEEN SHOTS IN THIRTY MINUTES! TIME STARTS… NOW, WAKE ME WHEN YOU ARE DONE!”
So I went online to do the application, and it turns out I can’t. Have to get hard copy form from the organisation, who couldn’t organise a range officer course for us in ELEVEN YEARS.

What screw do you need to attach your rego plates? Vic Pol does something worthwhile and publishes a list:

https://www.police.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-01/Screw-Fitting-List-October-2017.pdf

russias-special-military-operation-in-ukraine-and-how-it-is-progressing

Click on the legend, then click on individual points

Chris, if democracy ever returns, one of the joys will be removing all of the unionisation of volunteering regulations commenced by Gillard and extended by the various state Karens.
The key will be returning choice to the people. “You want to buy a cake from that church cake stall? Sure go ahead”. “You want to sell beer at your footy club barbie? Sure go ahead”. “You are trained to rescue people already, you don’t need another ticket to rescue kids”.
I have an image of bulldozers shovelling enormous bundles of Karens into pits. Palaszczuk has already created a convenient site near Toowoomba.

Who’d thunk it?

Measuring the Long-Term Effects of Early, Extensive Day Care

https://ifstudies.org/blog/measuring-the-long-term-effects-of-early-extensive-day-care

Within 10 years, comprehensive analyses of the universal, “$5 per day childcare” program, including its impact on child care use, employment patterns, and children’s and parent outcomes, suggested cause for concern. Social development among children, as indicated by both emotional and behavioral measures, had significantly deteriorated in Quebec, relative to the rest of Canada (10% of a standard deviation lower). Comparisons between children ages 2 to 4 who had been exposed to the program, with older children (and siblings) who had not, revealed significant increases in anxiety, hyperactivity, and aggression in those exposed to the program. And the analyses found more hostile, inconsistent parenting, and lower-quality parental relationships among parents of children exposed to the program. But it was hard to predict whether the negative outcomes identified for 2- to 4-year-olds would persist across their development, or simply dissipate.

Welp

Twenty years after the Quebec program’s implementation, a second set of comprehensive analyses were conducted by Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin Milligan (forthcoming, in the American Economic Journal). After replicating the previous results for children ages 0 to 4, the authors explored whether the negative outcomes associated with exposure to Quebec’s early, extensive day care program persisted into ages 5 to 9, the pre-teen years, adolescence, and young adulthood.

Their research confirmed that the negative effects did continue, and in some cases became stronger across development. Among 5 to 9-year-olds, negative social-emotional outcomes not only persisted, but in some cases increased, as indicated by 24% of a standard deviation increase in anxiety, a 19% increase in aggression, and a 13% in hyperactivity. The impact on boys and children with the most elevated behavioral problems was stronger, especially in measures of hyperactivity and aggression.

It gets worse as people age.

For youth and young adults, ages 12 to 20, analyses of self-reported general health and life satisfaction indicated that negative social-emotional outcomes associated with exposure to the daycare program persisted into young adulthood. The most striking finding was a “sharp and contemporaneous increase in criminal behavior” for those exposed to the universal day care program compared to their peers in other provinces. Though crime rates in Quebec are lower than the rest of Canada, there was a significant increase in crime accusation and conviction rates for those cohorts exposed to the Quebec child care program. There was an increase of 19% in the average rate of criminal accusations and an increase of 22% in the average rate of criminal convictions. As with the 5- to 9-year-old measures, the impact on criminal behavior was greater for boys, and for those who already had elevated behavioral problems.

Who’d thunk it?

Measuring the Long-Term Effects of Early, Extensive Day Care

https://ifstudies.org/blog/measuring-the-long-term-effects-of-early-extensive-day-care

Within 10 years, comprehensive analyses of the universal, “$5 per day childcare” program, including its impact on child care use, employment patterns, and children’s and parent outcomes, suggested cause for concern. Social development among children, as indicated by both emotional and behavioral measures, had significantly deteriorated in Quebec, relative to the rest of Canada

I cant help but wonder if this self-selected participants who would already have this difference, or whose low parental attention already which would fail to compensate for the difference made by sticking their little children in Ceausescu Hatcheries.

dover0beach
Jul 5, 2023 10:20 AM

Update from below deck: the 524 error is still happening because of the server still processing changes made yesterday, specifically to the comments format. Given the number of comments over the last two years, that is no small number. We are also restarting the server to see if that helps.

I might be a heretic here, but keeping years worth of comments; is it really necessary?
Other then helping stoushers to throw old, maybe currently discarded arguments and opinions at each other, I can’t see a point.

With due respect to all, it’s not as we are revealing earth shattering truths here on a daily base.

Linda Burney:

“Let’s say a local community identifies a problem, like low school attendance, the community identifies that this is a challenge and wants to explore local solutions to improve school attendance, so the community approaches their representative on the Voice and raises this issue with them,” she will say.

“The Voice then has the power to make representations on how to improve school attendance in that local community to government and the parliament.

“It is about linking up that local decision-making and local knowledge with policy-makers in government.”

The National Indigenous Australians Agency:

The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) is committed to improving the lives of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The NIAA recognises that each community is unique. Our team includes people across Australia who work closely with communities to make sure policies, programs and services address these unique needs.

We work to support the Minister for Indigenous Australians.

Either duplication and a redundant agency, the Unicorn delivery model doesn’t work, or the Minister isn’t paying attention.

The only apparent difference is that the Voice will have political clout by virtue of being a constitutional novelty and being able to block up the whole machinery of government with ‘process’.

The payoff for Team Albanese is that the Voice (and all that comes after it) will be a killing field for non-Labor politics.

Slushing a few extra billions of OPM into poorly considered and unaccountable projects is a small price to pay for a constitutional electoral advantage.

I am thankfull that my grandson (2 in Oct) is in day care only one day/ week. Appreciate that for some families both parents have to work to keep their heads above water. My work, babies are born and some mum’s are back at work within 4 months or so. Some may have house hubbies.

Where will the Electricity and Powerlines capable of handling 195kW DC fast-charger come from?

Try Recharging This – Rolls-Royce Spectre EV

The Spectre is also heavy, weighing nearly 3 metric tons with a driver onboard. A thumping 102-kWh battery coupled with two motors offer up 430 kW (584 hp) and 900 Nm of torque, resulting in 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds. Range is stated as 329 miles on the WLTP standard, with efficiency at 2.6 to 2.8 mi/kWh.

When you have had enough of floating silently along, and you want the Spectre to wake up, jump on the accelerator pedal. Despite its 3 tons, the car leaps forward using BMW’s largest motors—so much so that my glasses that were sitting on top of my head flew off behind me (twice). This luxury cruiser might not have the fastest 0-60 time on the EV block (and remember here Rolls-Royce has artificially capped the acceleration), but, trust me, you don’t want more than the car’s 4.4 seconds, otherwise you’re likely to get into a spot of bother.

Use a more typical 11kWh AC charger and it will take you 10 hours and 45 minutes to go from 0-90 per cent of charge.

Hot on the heels of the Canadian kid hatchery story is their ABCcess with another bevy of “experts’ whos jobs depend on screwing things up and suggesting more changes to fix it until they retire.

Social development among children, as indicated by both emotional and behavioral measures, had significantly deteriorated in Quebec, relative to the rest of Canada

…

Queensland parents will no longer have to pay for kindy. But why isn’t all child care free in Australia?

Whole article, because its just a thing of horror.

Like many Australian parents, Alethia Martinez experienced a range of emotions the first time she had to drop each of her children off at daycare — at six and 11 months of age.*

“There was a lot of mixed feelings. It was a big day,” the Brisbane mum said.

“There was a sense of freedom that I was able to do the things I needed to do, but also apprehensive whether they were going to be able to cope well without me.”

Though she wasn’t ready to drop her daughter off for the first time at six months, she felt she had to return to her job at an architecture firm.

“She wasn’t ready, I really would have liked to wait. But we were just really busy and I couldn’t take any more time.”

With both parents returning to work, the financial strain of child care would have a profound effect on their lives for the next few years.

“It was a big discussion for us for a long time — because financially it does take away about a third of our combined income,” Ms Martinez said.**

“I ended up deciding to do child care mostly because I still want to have a career when I come out of this, and I’m very happy I did, but some days you just wonder whether it’s financially worth it or not.

“It’s been very challenging and a big financial toll.”
The federal government’s latest bolstering of childcare subsidies kicked in this week, while the Queensland government announced in its recent budget that from next year, kindergarten (known as preschool in some states) would be free for all four-year-old children.

The decision was welcomed by young families, saving some up to $4,600 a year, but many parents like Ms Martinez were left asking: Why isn’t child care free from day one?

In Australia, there are about 330,000 children enrolled in kindy or preschool, but there are a total of 1.4 million children in approved child care receiving a subsidy.

Ms Martinez said universal child care (either free or very cheap care) would make a huge difference to a whole range of people.

“I think everyone would benefit from that, like, not just parents … because there will be more space for better mental health and better physical health.”***

One reason child care isn’t paid for by government is that it has traditionally been undervalued, according to Divna Haslam, a senior research fellow and clinical psychologist at QUT who specialises in parenting and early childhood adversity.****

What most people call “child care” or “day care”, Dr Haslam very deliberately calls “early childhood education”.

“The role of education in society has always been valued, and that’s why it’s become free across Australia from the time children are in school.

“But unfortunately, children don’t start learning when they’re in school, they start learning much earlier.”*****
Dr Haslam applauded the Queensland government’s decision to introduce free kindy starting next year, but said it doesn’t go far enough.

“Fifteen hours a week is fantastic. And that’s going to make a difference for childhood education.

“But it’s also enormously difficult to actually implement. So it doesn’t make it easier for women to join the workforce, because kindies are available about six hours a day, two-and-a-half days a week. And it’s hard to kind of fit that into family schedules.

“There’s an opportunity for government here to make a win-win, a win for children in terms of education, and a win for women and the economy in terms of increasing maternal access to employment.”
The role of early childhood education for children aged four and under is critically important, Dr Haslam said.

“These are the times when children are learning most, their brains are malleable or plastic.

“Early childhood education is a time for children’s minds to expand, it’s a time to develop early literacy, early numeracy, problem solving and other skills.

“So it’s not babysitting, it’s actually education. And we need to invest more in that early childhood education.”******

The benefits of universal child care would be felt “across the board”, Dr Haslam said.

“We know that the pay gap between men and women increases when children are brought into the equation.

“And we know that family stress increases when people are under financial stress.

“So if we were to be able to provide free or universal early childhood education, the family stress would reduce, we would see increases in maternal employment.
Director of the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University, Peter Hurley, said a 90 per cent subsidy for all families would make a huge difference.

“That would change the game I think for a lot of families,” he said.

“Some families who aren’t receiving any subsidy will be paying over $20,000 [or] $30,000 a year in childcare fees.

“Out-of-pocket childcare costs have been increasing above the rate of inflation for quite some time.”
Dr Haslam said when women are out of the workforce, it affects them not only when their children are young, but for the remainder of their careers.

“They’re putting away less superannuation, they’re less likely to be promoted at work, they’re developing fewer skills.

“And that just exacerbates the existing gender pay gaps and the gender equality in our nation.”

Dr Haslam said society as a whole loses out when childcare isn’t universally accessible.

“Families lose out, children lose out because they don’t have stable, calm parents and society loses out. So we have lower levels of maternal employment, which means lower tax incomes and lower impacts in terms of economic gain.”
According to the Unicef report, Where do rich countries stand on child care?, only Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, Norway and Slovenia provide free access for children under three.

When considering multiple factors, such as the quality of child care, affordability and accessibility, it ranks Luxembourg, Iceland and Sweden as having the best childcare policies.

Australia is ranked 37th of the 41 countries surveyed.

In countries where child care is universal, there are higher rates of equal parenting between genders.

“So more dads are involved in parenting, we see much higher rates of maternal employment. There’s actually economic benefits,” Dr Haslam said.

“And there’s some data that suggests that there are actually gross domestic product increases in areas where women are working more.”

Dr Haslam cites the example of Iceland, which spends about 1.7 per cent of GDP on the provision of early childhood education.

“What they have seen is dramatic increases in maternal employment,” she said.

“Iceland has the highest rates of maternal employment of women in the workforce of any OECD country.
“Some estimates suggest that investment in early childhood education are returned dramatically. So if governments invest $1, they’re more likely to get $1.50 to $2.70 in return benefits throughout the economic gains.”

But evidence overseas also shows early childhood education and care [ECEC] doesn’t just need to be available, it needs to be practical for working families.

New Zealand’s experience stands as a warning to other governments — while 20 hours a week are provided for free, it doesn’t help a lot of parents.

“In New Zealand, they can have up to six hours a day. But it’s very difficult to get a job that’s going to work for six hours a day, including travel time to and from work,” Dr Haslam said.

“So part of what the challenge Australia has is how we make access to early childhood education, both affordable but also accessible.”

The Australian Institute’s 2022 report on The Economic Benefits of High-Quality Universal Early Child Education concluded: “Australians pay more [than Nordic countries], but get less, from an ECEC system that is both underfunded and disproportionately dependent on private contributions (mainly parent user fees).

“Inadequate and expensive ECEC services deter many families from enrolling their children, and this disproportionately suppresses women’s paid work activity.

“Women’s labour force participation, which matches male participation until the late 20s, drops off sharply during prime parenting years — falling as much as 17 points below male participation.”
The Albanese government’s Cheaper Child Care policy begins in July, and increases subsidies for lower-income families.

For a family on about $120,000 with a child in care three days a week, costs will be cut by about $1,700 a year.

The Child Care Subsidy rates will lift to 90 per cent for families with a combined income of $80,000 or less.

An Education Department spokesperson said: “From July, an increase to the childcare subsidy means early childhood education and care will be more affordable for around 1.2 million Australian families, including 265,000 families in regional areas.

The federal government has also directed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to hold an inquiry into ECEC prices.

An Australian Productivity Commission inquiry into the early childhood education and care sector began in March and is due to present a draft report to the government in November and a final report by June 30, 2024.

A Department of Employment and Workplace Relations spokesperson said: “The Secure Jobs, Better Pay reforms put gender equality at the heart of the workplace relations system.

“The Australian government is acting to close the gender pay gap by getting wages moving, particularly in low-paid, feminised industries.”
Dr Haslam said she can speak from personal experience on the cost of daycare, and that change is needed sooner rather than later.

“I’m a parent of two young children and I have spent more on early childhood education for two of them three days a week than I have spent on the mortgage — and that is just ludicrous.

“Access to education should be something that is accessible for every family, it shouldn’t be something that families are able to do if they can afford it.”

* Why did she bother incubating them?
** What a great tradeoff – missing 90% of your kids formative time to pay the childcare and taxman more.
*** Unless they are kids, screw them.
**** shes all for childhood adversity.
***** From parents and people who care for them.
****** This is shit. Parents educate their kids

I gave up at that point.
These are the sort of mental class which engage in wrecking families by making life on a single wage extremely difficult, then seek to try out their new ideas with large poultices of other peoples monies.

Speaking of such things, here’s some exploding houses news.

Researchers move toward energy transition with hydrogen generated on rooftops (4 Jul)

Generating hydrogen on your roof has got to be one of the silliest things I’ve ever heard of. Add some nice PV panels and a spark or two and the suburbs would be very exciting places to live.

Ceausescu Hatcheries

Gold.

Jesus ether huffing passed out in a puddle of someone elses vomit Christ this is the best workshopped example of a practical ‘voice” application…

Indigenous affairs minister Linda Burney reaffirms the voice will work “in a practical way” at the National Press Club. “Practical, practical, practical,” she repeats.

The community identifies that this is a challenge and wants to explore local solutions to improve school attendance. So the community approaches. They were positive on the Voice, and raises this issue with them. The Voice then has the power to make recommendations on how to improve school attendance at the local community level to government and the parliament.

A constitutionally enshrined voice to go to parliament and make truancy recommendations….

From local, state and federal levels.

If anyone has Calli’s email could you please let her know that a volcano may be about to erupt about 30 km south west of Reykjavík.

Here’s the earthquake map:

https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/reykjanespeninsula/

Started to get excitable about 6 hours ago. There’s more in the comments of the latest Volcanocafe blog thread here. Scroll to the bottom.

It’s about dawn in Iceland. There’s no guarantee that an eruption will occur, I’ve seen this several times before without the magma ever reaching the surface, but it seems to be moving fairly rapidly. Fortunately that means basaltic runny lava if it does erupt, possibly with pretty fire fountains. But if it is as big as Laki in 1783 then it will be bad news.

Just leaving Doha, where the mussies have done great things in the 17 years since I was there. Apart from the air-conditioned stadiums for the FIFA World Cup last year, everything has been cleaned up – even saw a bloke mopping the sidewalks at the local souk.

Managed to catch the local police horses on parade; another of police riding camels, and visited a falconry. The tenants were tearing into their evening meal, which looked like chicken wings and legs. Apparently a trained falcon sells for $1000Aus to $3k, depending on its age and how much training it has had.

Hamad International Airport doesn’t make lists of the world’s biggest but I reckon they might need updating. It’s huge, spotless, and very efficient.

Doha seems to have become the Singapore of the Middle East.

Another attempt!

I see the Miniature Minister ( reference to ability only) has frantically increased her lecturing on the Labor Voice scheme.( She must have been given a blunt message to lift her game from the old white guys in the Labor back room)

Those looking at voting “No” have been likened to supporters of President Trump by the designer draped mascot.

Maybe she has something there- the corollary is the intending “Yes” voters
have much in common with Team Biden.
Very likely – indeed I suspect that “10% for the big guy” will be greatly understating things if the Appointed Aboriginal Aristocracy get to settle in to their traditional lands in the CBD of the major cities.

Viewing the site in brave I find all the poster’s names have vanished, to be replaced by [1].

What is going on?

It’s come back.

Not for nothing is it known as the zombie drug. Strong enough to knock out elephants, it has a staggering effect on people. Heads droop, eyes glaze, users sit or stand motionless for hours in a semi-conscious state known as “nodding out”.

Kevin Rudd?

Not for nothing is it known as the zombie drug.

I seem to recall htat back in the day(about 1970) when every episode of Daktari or Skippy had a savage out-of-control alpha male being hit with a knockout dart, that the drug of choice was nicotine. I got this from an article about the airguns and knockout darts in Beeman’s Airgun Digest.
Also,that the difference between a knockout and lethal dose was 20% and you calculate dose from body weight. Ie, if you overestimate someone’s body weight 20% you were into lethality not knockout.
Does this mean that our vape products are potentially lethal as injectibles?

Yes I hear the anguished cries of middle class women who can’t stand looking after their own children.

OR the brilliant mother who thinks that giving her kids the best education starts with Montessori, and therefore has to hand them over from Age 3 and work full time to pay the fees.

I’m now getting the impression the Voice will be magical with wands and everything

With only a few pesky details omitted because they are pesky details, and our parasites can’t be troubled by pesky details.

Like how electricity is generated and distributed, and how all the EVs are to be charged. They wave their hands in a lordly way, and the little people fill in the awkward pesky details. Yep, it’s all done by magic.

That xylazine sounds a little like the Russian bathtub drug krockodil.
Saw one pic of its effects, yeah, that legs going to have to come off.

Burney doing the “we created a mess, so we will blame the other side for it” gambit.

Burney said:

I have met with all the crisis lines … That will be a continuing discussion. I have met with the eSafety commissioner about what is possible online and the way in which we will monitor that. So those things have been done productively and will committee to be done.

Dr Gergis

https://www.joellegergis.com/

No – this is not the bee.

“The pages are stained with the author’s tears, hopes, heart and soul.”
— Professor David Karoly, University of Melbourne

Cute Owl or peacock, whatever cohenite.

If scummo were still Prime Minister, I believe he would have denied Donald Trump Jr a visa also. Same cloth.

BREAKING: Donald Trump junior has been denied a visa for his Australian speaking tour.
……………………………………………….

You have to be kidding. I can’t type what I think lest I bring this blog into disrepute.

Google Leafyishere and Lena The Plug (or maybe don’t google the second personality at work).

Young gamer kid destroys cuck husband and porn star wife.

“I’d rather be crippled all my life rather than cuck for a day”

Some people, really don’t know what is best in life.

Donald Trump Jr has been denied a visa to enable him to visit Oz.

Dont be silly, thats not how you spell Hunter Biden, convicted tax cheat and firearms offender