The South Australian Political Landscape

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby locky801 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:40 pm

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tigerpie wrote:Losing the v8's should be the death of this incompetent, nanny state government hopefully.
This bloke and his team could go down as the worst government in SA history.


It's done its dash here
They can go up to Tailem Bend


Not all is lost, the below posted by Nick Percat on his twitter account lol

Hearing a bit of chat about Formula E running in Adelaide..
@marshall_steven do you think 15 Dyson’s running around will draw a crowd?
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby tipper » Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:55 pm

Jimmy_041 wrote:
tigerpie wrote:Losing the v8's should be the death of this incompetent, nanny state government hopefully.
This bloke and his team could go down as the worst government in SA history.


It's done its dash here
They can go up to Tailem Bend


yeah, nah. will never be the same event and draw the same crowd up there.

2 hour commute either side of the day at the track? no thanks.

ive even got access to free accomodation 15 minutes away from the track at tailem and ive only ever gone to 1 day of racing there, despite going to all 4 days of the adelaide 500 pretty much every year.

the 500 is such a success purely because it is basically in the cbd.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby tigerpie » Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:30 pm

tipper wrote:
Jimmy_041 wrote:
tigerpie wrote:Losing the v8's should be the death of this incompetent, nanny state government hopefully.
This bloke and his team could go down as the worst government in SA history.


It's done its dash here
They can go up to Tailem Bend


yeah, nah. will never be the same event and draw the same crowd up there.

2 hour commute either side of the day at the track? no thanks.

ive even got access to free accomodation 15 minutes away from the track at tailem and ive only ever gone to 1 day of racing there, despite going to all 4 days of the adelaide 500 pretty much every year.

the 500 is such a success purely because it is basically in the cbd.

100%.
Even people who didn't necessarily like Motorsport came away from the day impressed.
Concert afterwards was generally pretty good.
The city was rocking all 4 nights.
Just really narrow minded and just to win votes from the nanny's in norwood.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby tipper » Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:38 pm

tigerpie wrote:100%.
Even people who didn't necessarily like Motorsport came away from the day impressed.
Concert afterwards was generally pretty good.
The city was rocking all 4 nights.
Just really narrow minded and just to win votes from the nanny's in norwood.


its also misleading by the government to use the last 2 years crowds to justify cutting the race alltogether. there was flat out less things to see and do the last couple of years.

concerts werent as impressive, a lot of the stuff from the middle of the track just flat out wasnt there at all anymore. the government scaled things back, which reduced crowds, and are now trying to use the reduced crowds as the excuse to cut it...
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby RB » Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:45 pm

Mark Skaife was on the radio this morning - mentioned that he thought there'd been less publicity for the event in the last 2 years.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 4:20 pm

Percat not a fan.

Spurrier quick to point out they werent consulted.

How much do we pay for breaking contract?

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby heater31 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:08 pm

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Percat not a fan.

Spurrier quick to point out they werent consulted.

How much do we pay for breaking contract?

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No clue.

Government only has themselves to blame.....

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:15 pm

Just booking accommodation on the Great State voucher, the gentlemen i spoke with said the decision is gonna really hurt their business.

I'm no revhead, but it created a good positive atmosphere in the city. And people were spending money.

The government have kicked a few goals in recent times but this is like running into an open goal, dribble kick that goes out of bounds from 2 metres....

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby locky801 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:30 pm

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Just booking accommodation on the Great State voucher, the gentlemen i spoke with said the decision is gonna really hurt their business.

I'm no revhead, but it created a good positive atmosphere in the city. And people were spending money.

The government have kicked a few goals in recent times but this is like running into an open goal, dribble kick that goes out of bounds from 2 metres....

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Likewise, spoke to a Manager of a local motel just out of the City, gets booked out each year for the week by rev heads, team bosses and sponsors, says this will really kill his business for that time of the year now
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby stan » Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:37 pm

Does matter what you think of the V8s in the city, it will be an election issue for 2022.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby tigerpie » Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:15 pm

With tourism and hospitality two of the hardest hit industries a blind person could see this decision is severely flawed.
And with people not being able to go to shows, the footy, and just general entertainment that everyone would be pretty keen to get out and about next year.
Just an all out dumb decision, made by fools for the inner city and eastern suburb elites.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Psyber » Wed Nov 04, 2020 8:48 am

locky801 wrote:
Jimmy_041 wrote:
tigerpie wrote:Losing the v8's should be the death of this incompetent, nanny state government hopefully.
This bloke and his team could go down as the worst government in SA history.


It's done its dash here
They can go up to Tailem Bend


Not all is lost, the below posted by Nick Percat on his twitter account lol

Hearing a bit of chat about Formula E running in Adelaide..
@marshall_steven do you think 15 Dyson’s running around will draw a crowd?

I found the F1 GP a complete disruptive pain. I just skipped going into the city area for those periods, taking a holiday from my workplace, then in Gilberton, which was too hard to get to. (The same goes for the Supercars.)

When I went to Melbourne to work for 10 years, my friends and colleagues there felt the same way about the GP there and wished Melbourne had not acquired it.

Formula E may be amusing and more quiet perhaps, and it won't bother me as I rarely go to the CBD area these days. I've moved all my required business services and shopping to Marion, Burnside and Mitcham to avoid the mess the CBD has become recently.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Q. » Wed Nov 04, 2020 9:24 am

Libs finally end the draconian GM Moratorium put in place by Labor and Greens. Whetstone was tireless in his efforts here, so it was great to see Basham follow through and reject the council exemption requests.

GM-free status removed for all mainland SA

FARMERS from all of mainland SA will have the option of growing genetically-modified crops after Primary Industries and Regional Development Minister David Basham announced no councils had their applications to maintain the moratorium approved.

Instead, only Kangaroo Island will maintain its GM-free status.


Eleven out of 68 local government areas had applied to also remain GM-free after the state government introduced a one-off six-month ability to apply to maintain the moratorium in their regions.

But the independent GM Crop Advisory Committee decided that seven of these - The Town of Gawler, City of Victor Harbor, Berri Barmera Council, District Council of Yankalilla, Mount Barker District Council; City of Playford and Alexandrina Council - had not presented suitable evidence.

Another three - Adelaide Hills Council, Barossa Council and City of Onkaparinga - had put together stronger applications, according to the committee, but apparently still need meet the application standards.

The City of Tea Tree Gully, also applied.

Among the requirements, councils were only to focus on marketing and trade and "demonstrate" they were already receiving or could receive a price premium or advantage from being in a no-GM food crop area.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Q. » Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:12 pm

Rob Lucas makes a blatant tax grab:

South Australia's new tax on electric vehicles ridiculed as 'a big tax on not polluting'

South Australia’s controversial new electric vehicle charge has been labelled “a big tax on not polluting” by policy analysts and the EV industry.

It comes as MG launches the lowest price electric vehicle on the market in Australia yet – a $40,000 SUV crossover – that is about $10,000 cheaper than its nearest rival, the Nissan Leaf.

Noah Schultz-Byard, South Australian director at the Australia Institute, said the decision in South Australia – the first in the nation to introduce such a charge – would only made it harder for people to go electric just as it was getting easier.

“Putting a tax on a car because it doesn’t produce any pollution is ridiculous. It’s like saying someone who gives up smoking no longer pays the tobacco excise, so they need to pay a penalty for having given up,” Schultz-Byard said.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby heater31 » Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:20 pm

Using the SA treasurer justification for the tax it shouldn't be a State Government tax.....but a Federal Government tax to compensate for the drop in fuel excise!
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Q. » Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:26 pm

heater31 wrote:Using the SA treasurer justification for the tax it shouldn't be a State Government tax.....but a Federal Government tax to compensate for the drop in fuel excise!


And one that hasn't funded roads in decades.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Q. » Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:55 am

Goodbye gas-led recovery:

AGL, the country’s biggest coal generator and biggest polluter, on Saturday a announced that it is to build a massive 250MW big battery in South Australia, with four hours of storage, making it the longest duration big battery to be built in Australia.

Importantly, the 250MW, 1000MWh battery will be built at the site of the ageing Torrens Island gas generator, which is to due to close within a few years once a new transmission link in built from South Australia to NSW, and as more renewables and grid-scale batteries displace gas generation in the supply of bulk energy and key grid services.

The significance of this battery is the four hours of storage, the first in Australia, which suggests that AGL now sees batteries as competitive with gas generators to meet peak demand periods, and to operate primarily to shift the supply of wind and solar to when it is needed most.


AGL sets new storage benchmark with 1,000MWh big battery in South Australia
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby tipper » Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:26 am

Q. wrote:Goodbye gas-led recovery:

AGL, the country’s biggest coal generator and biggest polluter, on Saturday a announced that it is to build a massive 250MW big battery in South Australia, with four hours of storage, making it the longest duration big battery to be built in Australia.

Importantly, the 250MW, 1000MWh battery will be built at the site of the ageing Torrens Island gas generator, which is to due to close within a few years once a new transmission link in built from South Australia to NSW, and as more renewables and grid-scale batteries displace gas generation in the supply of bulk energy and key grid services.

The significance of this battery is the four hours of storage, the first in Australia, which suggests that AGL now sees batteries as competitive with gas generators to meet peak demand periods, and to operate primarily to shift the supply of wind and solar to when it is needed most.


AGL sets new storage benchmark with 1,000MWh big battery in South Australia


interesting. i was only driving down the northern connecter on the weekend and wondering if all the big transmission towers would be removed and recycled or if it would be put in the too hard basket (i actually thought torrens island had already been shut down permanently)

this would mean that they would still be in use. probably the perfect spot for it really, with all the transmission lines already in place.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Tue Nov 24, 2020 5:25 pm

Q. wrote:Rob Lucas makes a blatant tax grab:

South Australia's new tax on electric vehicles ridiculed as 'a big tax on not polluting'

South Australia’s controversial new electric vehicle charge has been labelled “a big tax on not polluting” by policy analysts and the EV industry.

It comes as MG launches the lowest price electric vehicle on the market in Australia yet – a $40,000 SUV crossover – that is about $10,000 cheaper than its nearest rival, the Nissan Leaf.

Noah Schultz-Byard, South Australian director at the Australia Institute, said the decision in South Australia – the first in the nation to introduce such a charge – would only made it harder for people to go electric just as it was getting easier.

“Putting a tax on a car because it doesn’t produce any pollution is ridiculous. It’s like saying someone who gives up smoking no longer pays the tobacco excise, so they need to pay a penalty for having given up,” Schultz-Byard said.


Victoria follows suit

Electric car drivers – Zero emission and electric car users will be charged road usage fees of 2.5 cents per kilometre.
For plug-in hybrids, it will be 2 cents.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Q. » Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:24 am

Jimmy_041 wrote:
Q. wrote:Rob Lucas makes a blatant tax grab:

South Australia's new tax on electric vehicles ridiculed as 'a big tax on not polluting'

South Australia’s controversial new electric vehicle charge has been labelled “a big tax on not polluting” by policy analysts and the EV industry.

It comes as MG launches the lowest price electric vehicle on the market in Australia yet – a $40,000 SUV crossover – that is about $10,000 cheaper than its nearest rival, the Nissan Leaf.

Noah Schultz-Byard, South Australian director at the Australia Institute, said the decision in South Australia – the first in the nation to introduce such a charge – would only made it harder for people to go electric just as it was getting easier.

“Putting a tax on a car because it doesn’t produce any pollution is ridiculous. It’s like saying someone who gives up smoking no longer pays the tobacco excise, so they need to pay a penalty for having given up,” Schultz-Byard said.



Victoria follows suit

Electric car drivers – Zero emission and electric car users will be charged road usage fees of 2.5 cents per kilometre.
For plug-in hybrids, it will be 2 cents.


Madness. The rest of the world is heading in the opposite direction.
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