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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

@tourismaustralia.bsky.social … Why do you not recognise Adelaide or South Australia?

PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Just wow. I knew the coalition were in trouble electorally but this report, commissioned for a Liberal think tank, lays it out in stark detail. blueprintinstitute.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/Final_YouGov...

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

AI strikes again. At this rate technology could see a backlash not seen since the 19th-century Luddites.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Gotta love South Australia. Pouring with rain, severe weather warning in place and with almost no solar at the moment, still manages 98.9% renewables over the past three days.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The Govt has published the sales of petrol for the first half of the year and there are some startling results… . Overall, petrol sales down over 3% . Distinct shift to higher quality fuel (to 98+ octane) . Sales of ethanol blends dropped dramatically - over 11% Why isn’t this a story?

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Browsing Google Maps reviews can be quite amusing. This is one of the recent best for Burnside Village in Adelaide.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Sussan Ley, having lost control of the right wing of her party, now loses the moderates. Suggesting that free speech about an ongoing genocide is so unimportant that motorists shouldn’t be mildly inconvenienced is, quite frankly, incredible.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Just in case you thought #Spotify was doing artists a favour. No wonder so many are closing their accounts.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Koalas in the Adelaide Hills looking healthy today.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Not sure who came up with this but worth reposting.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

They mount up so here is your periodic reminder: Don’t forget to check that you still actually need all the services that you have subscribed to. 1. On Apple devices you can check under “Subscriptions” in the Settings / Apple Account menu. 2. Then check your credit card statements.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

So not only does #Spotify invest in companies that make weapons, and not only are artists abandoning Spotify, but they also pay the artists the least. Time to change. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Batteries are already knocking off some of the peak. Now we’re talking another 4,500 MWh of storage by next June - essentially doubling the dark blue in 12 months - and then again and again after that. And that’s just the home batteries, not the grid-scale ones.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Imagine being a petrol station owner right now. An almost 5% drop in sales year-on-year in May and almost 7% in the lowest grade of fuel. Are sales of EVs and Hybrids starting to show up in petrol sales? If so, it’s only going to get worse. No wonder petrol prices are so low - supply and demand.

Petroleum sales in Australia- % change YoY

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

How can Barnaby Joyce look at latest polling and think an argument within the coalition over climate policy and net zero is in any way a good idea? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Periodic reminder: Don’t forget to check that you still actually need all the services that you have subscribed to. On Apple devices you can check under “Subscriptions” in the Settings / Apple Account menu.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#Duolingo is getting silly. How is this an acceptable translation? Surely the answer is “Do you want to go to a restaurant?”

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

How much lower does the US$ have to drop before Trump notices that: . People overseas are paying less while Americans are paying more for goods . Americans are paying more for overseas holidays . Investments in US companies less profitable. US$ now down over 10% against the Euro this year.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Just to illustrate how far we still have to go on renewables, over the past 24 hours while SA has averaged 23 tonnes of CO2 emissions every 30 minutes, Queensland has averaged over 2000 tonnes of CO2 every 30 minutes. 3 times the population, 88 times the emissions.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

If you don’t think the AEMO requirement for gas generation in SA isn’t stupid, have a look on this graph. Prices in all states are currently negative and yet AEMO forces SA to burn gas to generate electricity. I really don’t understand. Comments perhaps from @reneweconomy.com.au?

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Actually, there’s a 100% chance that negotiations may or may not take place. Or am I just being pedantic?

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Brilliant satire. chaser.com.au/world/new-tr...

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What’s amazing is that we don’t celebrate just how incredible this is. Even the Wikipedia page hardly mentions Australia and even then is out by about 20,000 years. Hopefully someone with more knowledge on the subject than me can update it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient...

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The editors at the Australian are really quite a thick bunch. First, if you’re trying to persuade people, why put everything behind a paywall? Second, having done that, an awful lot of paywalled articles are then made available by the authors on other sites for free. No need to subscribe at all.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

@australia.theguardian.com has dropped the ball on this one. More than 5 hours after the event, still nothing on the Guardian website. The ABC have it though.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This is funny. You enter “Taco” as an X search and you get Donald Trump as a recommendation.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Oops. Someone forgot to give the work experience kid at @newsthump.bsky.social access before he was asked to put the website together.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The trouble with this is that the damage has already been done. . If the Libs agree to some of the Nats policies and they reform, voters will know, at next election, that the Libs are at the behest of the Nats. . If the Libs don’t agree then Nat voters will know that the Nats are toothless.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

So the government has ~93 seats and the opposition has, what, 18?

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If Elon had his fortune in his favourite crypto then it’s worth almost 30% less. If he had it in US dollars, he’s worth around 7.5% less as the value of the US dollar has fallen against other currencies. Tesla shares are down. His reputation has been trashed. Not a great start to the year.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Another cold, late Autumn day in Adelaide; another day when solar and battery reduced imported electricity consumption from the grid to near zero. Exports to grid 6 times imports.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This morning’s attempt at a scam. Really, they would be more believable if they could spell. Or give a phone number with the correct number of digits.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

That time of year when 90% of our power comes from the battery.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Well the “graceful silence” didn’t last long did it…

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

These diagrams show the depth of the Liberal Party’s problems in Adelaide come next March.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I hope no one is surprised by this result. The main demographic from Murdoch’s newspapers are the Boomers and there are about 3% less of us each year. Until they start appealing to people under retirement age, they will continue to go the same way as video rental stores and floppy disks.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Observation- The LNP preferencing One Nation and separately the Greens preferencing Labor over the climate action friendly Teals probably did more harm than good. Preferences indicate where your sympathies lie - both of those decisions spoke volumes and probably contributed to their votes dropping.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The 2025 coalition campaign has already found its place in history and literature. This from Titus O’Riley’s take of the AFL matches over the weekend.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thank you! After last weekend busily distracted by the election, next weekend is sorted!

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

If you had changed $10,000 from Australian dollars to US dollars at the start of the year and now changed them back again you would only get $9,580 back. The value of the US dollar is steadily falling.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The fact remains that the Greens should have done better in an election where “others”, many of them environmentally conscious teals, went up. They were unlucky in the reps but right now their vote share is down 0.4%. The other parties to lose vote share were the LNP and Trumpet.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

How about a new top tax rate of 55% for income over $500,000 a year.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I swear, sometimes I think Gina is a Labor mole. Every time she says something, Labor’s approval ratings go up.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Interesting observation - the Nationals currently have more seats in NSW and Victoria than the Liberals. That’s how bad things are for them.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Remember that the Tories and the forerunner to Reform both rejected a proposed change to the “first past the post” electoral system. What comes around…

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

At prepolling in #Sturt, quite a few people are horrified at the preferences that are being suggested. Liberal James Stevens’ decision to preference One Nation and Family First in particular isn’t going down well at all.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Beta test version 12.8. Another three years and the policy might be ready for release.

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