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Things you should know about toll roads – this in Australia but our government is now and has been as stupid and mendacious as the Aussies (more? but how to judge and what a waste of time finding out.)
Perhaps our gummints have been so successful at keeping our wages low that there aren’t great gains from coming here. But there seems a tendency from bizz to want to suck us dry leaving only a shrivelled husk. So we have to keep alert. Our mascot for today – meerkats.*
google keywords | abc news four corners tolls :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGwqfIrgXRE
How unpaid tolls could land you in prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajpm23zLlOQ
Investigating the multi billion dollar coy Australia’s roads
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x97t5ao
Growing calls to eliminate automatic price rises on tolls
Independent Toll Review | NSW Treasury
NSW Treasury
https://www.treasury.nsw.gov.au › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
26 Hūr 2024 — Interim Report. The Independent Reviewers released their Interim Report on 11 March 2024, introducing their initial findings and…
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Independent Toll Review – NSW Treasury
NSW Treasury
https://www.treasury.nsw.gov.au › default › files
PDF
11 Māe 2024 — The Independent Toll Review is committed to honouring Aboriginal peoples’ cultural and spiritual connections to the lands, waters and seas and …
230 pages (of blah blah – they’re probably being paid so many $ per page!)
Transurban response to NSW Toll Review Interim Report
Transurban
https://www.transurban.com › dam › news › Tra… PDF
The Independent Toll. Review Interim Report is an important step in the process of understanding how we can deliver even better value and outcomes for
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKGZVqvozg Meercats – let’s learn from them.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531869/new-york-times-modern-love-editor-on-what-he-learned-after-20-years-of-love-stories
This is interesting – worth a read – beyond the cursory glance.
Love – Queen – Do the words speak for what we want/need/haven’t realised for ourselves?
There’s no chance for us
It’s all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment
Set aside for us…
But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
https://genius.com/Queen-who-wants-to-live-forever-lyrics
Is everything decided for us – our individual world given/taken over by tech and the power of the imagined exchange system – money – and its managed value. Managed by economics and imagined systems eg neoliberalism etc. yet we lack imagination to think how the multiplier can be effectively used more, for better circulation and distribution of money.
And further, the multiplier isn’t considered for society, isn’t considered for the great flow of goodwill, positives and trust etc. which would result, spread and permeate society and change it, properly cultivated. How long till this can start; before it is too late, and we go beyond the season of our discontent to sink too far into apathy and morbidity, or unreason and fevered violent outbreaks on a scale beyond the present.
Well, on this shithole down the drain, I previously mentioned the Samoan citizenship issue. Now to Trotter, his real indictment. He responded to me there was nothing that could be done about climate change, politically. About as Left as the Right. So, not about reality, which is what concerns the Left. His conviction.
You’re probably just going to have to accept that the Trotter has gone down the rabbit hole – for whatever deep and meaningful reason. I mean it’s possible he was always a cunt, but I’d like to believe it’s more about his struggle to remain relevant, As such he just keeps testing various ways of doing so. After all, as he’d be the first to tell you: He’s paid his dues with a C.V. of left-wing credentials. (Wank wank, money in the bank)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531988/disaster-tauranga-s-marine-precinct-sale-4m-below-value
Gosh reminds me of – Springfield Monorail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
Our NZAO humane future depends on people like those who come to this blog, and learn, talk about what they know and what concerns them, what others/overseas are doing and saying, what sterling thinkers have or are saying, and ways of making changes, some small, that can take us close to our considered best position.
So we need to apply our brains. While others find it useful and use Facebook greatly I remember how it has failed to treat people and businesses fairly and promptly limit bad inputs. And I don’t want to buy the latest tech, and lastly I have learned never to trust anyone including myself, completely. Now I know that I have to ensure that the brain has sorted and remembered things right in myself and others.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/532020/why-are-people-in-their-30s-and-40s-experiencing-increased-memory-problems
…According to a recent article in The Boston Globe, people in their 30s and 40s are reporting an unprecedented wave of memory problems.
Professor Cliff Abraham, who teaches psychology at the University of Otago, is the co-lead of the Aotearoa Brain Project, and the co-director of Brain Research NZ, told Sunday Morning it comes as no surprise….
Abraham said we tend to think of memory as being some kind of magical automatic process that we don’t have to kind of work with, but in fact, it does take some cognitive effort to really store information well.
“Memories are best stored and retained, what we call consolidated, by several principles. One is paying attention to the information, another one is repeating that information in different ways and processing that information.
“And if you don’t spend the time to do that, then you won’t remember the name of the person you’ve just been introduced to, you won’t remember where you’ve parked your car, and so forth.”
There are other factors too, such as mental health issues – anxiety, depression – drug use, stress, and even being “hyper busy”, Abraham said, have significant impacts on brain function.
In regards to an increase in the use of technology, Abraham said periods of not actively using your brain – like watching TV – is “probably not good”.
“The brain likes to be used, and lots of helpful neurochemicals are released. If you’re just interacting with your TV screen that doesn’t produce the same effects.”
Irked at Ginny Andersen’s idiocy about the King’s trousers. Charles wasn’t just one of the first environmentalists, but is known for “ recycling “ his clothes, wearing patched tweed, and having at least one overcoat decades old. Yes, I am offended that Andersen expects to be take seriously as a politician when she wastes time on trivia like this, even if she is another damp Hutt Valley product.
It’s too real, just look and pretend it’s not. Hard times and poverty are recorded by this photographer and are coming again here. And sadly it’s avoidable when government has a will and find a way.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101/audio/2018961554/mother-fighter-photographer-tish-murtha-her-powerful-images-of-youth-in-thatcher-s-britain
Also read Catherine Cookson – they tend to be about families through the eyes of one of the females. They can involve powerful emotions, love, hate, with poverty, hard times, kindness and meanness. There is relentless social striving as some people aim to rise above poverty, adopt rigid codes of behaviour, freely gossip, criticise and scorn others as they attempt to raise their own status. To get the reality of miners, she went down a mine herself after being challenged to get the experience right, the Tilly Trotter series includes mining as part story line.
Her earliest:
The Fifteen Streets (1952)
Colour Blind (1953)
Maggie Rowan (1954)
Rooney (1957)
The Menagerie (1958)
Fanny McBride (1959)
Fenwick Houses (1960)
The Garment (1962)
The Blind Miller (1963)
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