I should really buy some long pants.

Please don’t scare me with a title like that so soon after an election.

Sure, privatize the railroads. That going well is the norm, not the exception. /s

No, it’s not the angle. The sun’s orbit isn’t exactly symetrical, it’s a bit lopsided. In January the sun is about 5% closer to earth.

In the Northern hemisphere this is during winter, so it’s the best of both worlds. In Australia though it’s the reverse. We get extra dim winters and extra bright summers.

Be careful of the summer sun.

The sun isn’t always a fixed distance from earth. It’s closest in January, which is winter in America but in Australia that’s summer. So they should be ready for hot summers with a high risk of skin cancer.

There’s probably more to worry about in the tropics (invasive species like kane toads and fire ants especially) but I don’t live in the tropics so I’ll leave that to someone else.

Apparently some people did, confronted the AEC staff about it, and were told to “just number 1-6”.

No mention of what they’re actually protesting?

I wouldn’t really know. I just know there’s some kind of issue with that.

And regardless it’s true that it’d be a waste of resources to duplicate a “margin-for-error” on every single house to ensure the fridge keeps running all year round.

Rooftop solar causes some issues for the grid and especially with every person getting their own battery it’s not very efficient.

On rural properties it would make sense to mandate them, but it would also be political suicide.

Bakers Delight donated to them.

Probably more companies to, but Bakers Delight has been the most inconvenient. I haven’t been able to find good bread anywhere else (or indeed, even at Bakers Delight these days).

Regional seats often held for or swung to the LNP. The election results aren’t as much of a glowing endorsement for renewables as you suggest. Still, it is rich for that statement to be coming from the Nationals, considering that their long history of lies about renewables are partly to blame for the loss of their social license.

New developments are always gonna be luxury. That’s how it works. The rich live in the new buildings, and the poor in the older and more run-down buildings. Building new luxury housing means that less luxury housing will be freed up.

What I really hate are house flippers. They take an old house, make it fancy, and sell it at a markup where otherwise it would be affordable housing. We need a higher quantity of housing first and foremost, quality comes second.

More people should spoil their ballot instead of doing the donkey vote. If they want to express disinterest, the former is better than the latter.

It’s also important that the legislation survives a Liberal government, and can’t be used as a campaign point by the Liberal government to win election (see 2013).

Or Amelia Hamer, the fake renter in Kooyong. Or the cashed-up Andrew Lethlean in Bendigo.

Even if all the other in-doubt seats go to the LNP, I hope these three sats don’t.

Problem with that is that it would shift the overton window.