I’m sure there will be someone found who doesn’t like it, but did you look at the map of the area where the limit is changing? Hardly anyone lives within that perimeter or even in the immediate surrounds.

I wouldn’t have too much sympathy for anyone moving into Civic and expecting it to be quiet anyway. It’s like those who buy in Braddon around Lonsdale St and complain about evening noise and Summernats as if these things popped out of nowhere…

Seems a surprisingly sensible decision, I think it’s a good move towards addressing the concerns people have about the new Garema Place hotel potentially affecting nearby live music with noise complaints.

Would get a bit hard trying to keep track of whose place all the patients are supposed to be turning up to, but that’s a minor issue and I’m sure one could work around it…

Highlights IMO are an amusingly ironic bit of tram signage at 7:20 and a very well timed song at 29:40.

Disappointingly I only saw two clips from Canberra but luckily both involved roundabouts (or faux-abouts) so at least the reputation of the city is intact.

I can see why they didn’t think to have measures specifically against something like this given it’s a pretty low probability occurrence. You’d have to be unlucky enough to have both applied hand sanitiser just before touching the globe and then get a spark off the globe to ignite it, and I don’t recall ever getting a spark off plasma globes when I’ve touched them before.

It’ll be interesting to see if this getting into the news means companies/departments will scramble to get rid of alcohol based hand sanitiser in their buildings, ignition is after all technically possible with static shocks etc so there will be people worried about liability.

Includes a video with a selection of the latest examples of people not seeing the giant red thing that can be found in predictable locations…

it seems that the smaller the town, the higher the military worship. They may not even have a public toilet, but they will have a military worship statue that seemed to have cost more than all the town to build.

That’s because the vast majority of our towns pre date WW2, and basically every area lost enough people in WW1/WW2 to affect multiple families and the broader local community. For example I grew up in a country village of a couple of hundred people (with several hundred more in the locality and upriver) and it has a war memorial listing what would have been ~50 people killed in WW2 and at least that again in WW1. I think it is understandable that towns (particularly smaller or more closely knit communities) would be in general support of the families and friends wanting a memorial to their dead given that level of losses.

I haven’t seen anywhere near the number of memorials for other conflicts, they definitely exist but are significantly less common. If you want to avoid war related stuff your best bet would be towns/suburbs built well after WW2, but these tend to be suburbs of existing centres (which are likely to have a war memorial) instead of completely new towns.

Edit: Also consider that many of our country towns/villages have either not grown significantly or have even shrunk in population in the last half century or so, so historical memorials are more likely to retain the prominence they were originally intended to have instead of being surrounded or crowded out by new development.

In the areas of the Brindies you can drive to in winter the normal snow you get is basically in the looking nice category - a few cm deep if that and melts within the next day or so. It does indeed look nice though and makes the bush appear distinctly different.

Up in the highest points of the Brindies (e.g. up near Mt Ginini/Gingera/Bimberi heights) this sort of forecast is likely to make enough snow to do actual snow sports like skiiing for a short period (depending on the weather possibly a week if not topped up). There’s no ski lifts up there or winter car access though so skiing in the Brindies would be more of the hike up and then cross country ski sort of thing. Historically there was a short ski run at Mt Franklin but it’s now overgrown and the DIY style rope lift is long gone.

If you head down to the Snowies though the ski resorts will be very happy to get a decent amount of natural snow for their snow sports, it’ll definitely help them since we haven’t had much in the way of snow weather this year.

It’s definitely a lot lower than I would want if someone decided they could walk in when I was asleep.

Must have been pretty chilly - I’m out of town at the moment but I was looking at the forecast the other day and thinking it was looking like good weather for snow in the Brindies.

I don’t really care about the cafe, shop, or cultural displays but it’d be good to have the observation deck again (ideally free this time, but I don’t like my chances).

Yes, it’s amusing to think of him going to what have been a fair effort to catch a lyrebird all to find it probably went straight back down the hole after it’d been lugged up to the top.

It is indeed a surprisingly big hole, worth the short walk if you’re in the area with some time for sightseeing.

It’s one of these things that logically you know must happen occasionally (and I’ve even seen pictures of it) but still doesn’t seem right.

I am impressed the shark got it out again and didn’t end up with a permanent internal echidna spine collection.

The American inspired variety of sovereign citizen is enough, I don’t think we really need our own special version of the idea.

It is a bit of an odd name really. I suspect it’s due to a combination of their size, many having some orange colouring, and their habit of making off with your fruit come night time.

To be fair, Canberra didn’t score that highly on anything else so the overall score was considerably lower.

It does seem to get consistent usage - I think it’d make a lot of sense for the commute if you lived along the route and worked normal hours in the city. The increase in development was also noticeable - Flemington Rd has a lot of housing built along it now which would have been at least helped along by the presence of the light rail (I expect a lot would have been built regardless, but maybe not as quickly).

Sounds a pretty good use case for an electric truck; low speeds with constant stop/start driving is well suited to electric vehicles and a known route means range is much less of an issue (just spec it with enough to cope with expected decline over its service life and you’re set). The harder part will be making sure there’s enough charging capacity in the depots to cope with a fleet of trucks, I would expect upgrades will be necessary for that.