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@johnroddick.bsky.social
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Adelaide, Australia. Flinders University Emeritus Professor. Pragmatic swinging voter. But quite frankly bemused at the direction of the LNP at this point. Likes and retweets do not constitute agreement with views or ideas.

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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Right now there is reduced supply as well as reduced demand. With petrol stations having fixed costs that means margins per litre/gallon have to increase. Where prices go from here is anyone’s guess. Up seems likely.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is your friendly periodic reminder to cancel any streaming services you’re not using. They mount up.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Petrol sales in Australia down 7% compared to the same month last year. Same happened last month. Who’d be a petrol station owner right now. EV sales are climbing fast. I give it two years before EV charger anxiety is replaced by ICE petrol station anxiety. www.energy.gov.au/publications...
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Surely “targeting” welfare in order to give tax cuts to the rich is a zero-sum game. Except for the bureaucratic overhead of doing the means testing of course.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Tourism Australia - your website is here, in case you’ve lost it… www.australia.com/en/facts-and...
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Australia time zones - Tourism Australia
Follow our handy guide to Australia's time zones to understand the time in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
From @tourismaustralia.bsky.social - Crickets. Nada. Nothing. Zilch. Surely they interact with social media? Or is communicating with people outside of their scope? @australianlabor.bsky.social
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
So true. www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...
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Party Abandoned By People Under 50 Set To Abandon Their Only Policy Popular With People Under 50
More to come.
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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?
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Already struggling to find any ranking, anywhere, where the US is rated in the top 10 healthiest countries. RFK isn’t helping.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Is there an Australian version of Maple Scan? maplescan.ca
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Maple Scan
Scan any product and find out if it truly supports Canadian businesses. Maple Scan makes it easy.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hands up all those who think one of the reasons Labor aren’t interested in changes to taxes as they apply to housing is that many of their MPs will be personally disadvantaged. @australianlabor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian politicians reveal their housing portfolios, with some owning as many as six homes
Dozens of politicians are landlords, having also declared rental income from their investment properties
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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 · 01/09/2025
Migrant community marches in favour of making themselves leave Australia chaser.com.au/general-news...
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Migrant community marches in favour of making themselves leave Australia – The Chaser
A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from"
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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
Wasn’t listed separately.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Interestingly, this drop very patchy across the country. Total Automotive Gasoline sales, Jan-Jun 2024-2025: NSW - Up 0.4% NT - Down 1.8% QLD - Down 6.5% SA - Down 7.8% TAS - Down 0.2% VIC - Down 1.0% WA - Down 9.3% Queensland led the drop in ethanol blends with a whopping 18% drop.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Note Easter was in April this year but March in 2024 which explains the April figures. Ping @crikey.com.au @australia.theguardian.com
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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 · 27/08/2025
Of course it’s raining in Adelaide - the Royal Adelaide Show starts on Saturday. Given that it’s such a rain magnet, why don’t they move it to the summer when we need the rain?
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Oh good. Labor are going to win the next election too. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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David Littleproud vows to take nuclear energy to next election and claims ‘no malice’ behind brief Coalition split
Nationals leader rails against regional Australia becoming littered with transmission lines, solar panels and wind turbines at LNP conference
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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Shorter Jarrod Bleijie - some of you may die but that's the sacrifice I'm willing to make 😡
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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 · 22/08/2025
This ⬇️ www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...
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Liberals Criticise Australian Diplomats For Not Licking The Boots Of Foreign Governments That Talk Shit About Us
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australian diplomats are facing fierce criticism from within Parliament house for not rolling over and letting more important governments talk shit about us. The Fede...
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I don’t think many attended the 1936 games either.
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Morning. ☕️
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The rest of the world seems to be entering a new phase of engagement with the US. To start with the world was concerned about Trump’s actions. We worried about Americans and America’s place in world affairs. Now, to be frank, we don’t care. We are working around the US. It’s becoming irrelevant.
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Barbara Pedersen @barbie4science.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Talking about road user reforms: how about removing the diesel fuel rebate, which gives nothing to roads while subsidising miners? #Auspol www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2023/09/14/r...
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Report exposes Australia’s biggest fossil fuel subsidy and how mining industry could be better served
A new report by Climate Energy Finance has revealed Australia’s diesel Fuel Tax Credit Scheme disincentivises growth in future industries and will cost taxpayers $37 billion (USD 23.8b) in lost tax re...
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I have no problem paying a road user charge as long as it’s fair. And it’s not fair if it doesn’t: 1. Take account of how far people drive, and 2. Apply to all road users, including EVs, PHEVs, HEVs and ICEs. And mining and farm vehicles driven on roads. #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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EV drivers set to pay road user charges as record number of electric cars selling in Australia
PM says sustainable revenue for roads is needed as report shows nearly one in 10 new car sales are electric vehicles
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Ryan🦉 @arisechicken.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This paints the stark picture that America really is a fading power. I've lived here long enough to know that Americans are beginning to reject new ideas, new technology, and efficiencies. It's a socioeconomic, cultural and political problem that's become deep rooted.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Two points: 1. Try 25-30 years. I’ve had mine for a devade with no drop in output yet. Manufacturers offer a 25-year warranty and they wouldn’t do that if they didn’t last that long. 2. Most parts of a solar panel can be recycled, and are being. Recyclers are available in every state.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Just been talking to an AI expert who’s just turned down phenomenal salary because it would require him moving to the US. “Too dangerous for my family”, he said. With the US President now saying the nation’s capital is too dangerous to go out at night, this attitude isn’t going to change.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Snow. Flake. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC
President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The full headline should read - “Hard choice for cattle farmer after Biloela property contaminated by PFAS from Callide Power Station”. I wonder which side of the argument the Nationals are? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Cattle farmer faces tough choice after property contaminated by PFAS
As Larry Acton looks to retirement, he is grappling with whether to sell his land at a loss or hand the property, which has contaminated groundwater, to his son.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Given that this is from a satirical columnist, it hits home harder. And now for Australia to show some leadership too. Come on Penny, Albo. @senatorwong.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social #auspol www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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From safety first to Palestine first, Keir Starmer shows some leadership | John Crace
The PM is to lead recognition of a Palestinian state – a good day for him, the UK and the starving people of Gaza
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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Well there you go
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fick-dich.bsky.social @fick-dich.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Gang Of Paedophiles
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Noticing a pattern here.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We got a 10. I wish we had gone for bigger. In summer we fill a 10 by 11am, then on hot days the AC drains it by 11pm.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Too easy! My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Left to right: Skip containing statue, paintings, books visible on left. Man in white coat at top of ladder feeding book into open mouth of a huge robotic dog with studded collar and dog-tag “AI”. Red bucket on floor below dog’s lowered rear. Second white-coated man says to onlooking woman: “It’s marvellous really. You just feed in all the intellectual property you can get your hands on without paying for it, then sell whatever comes out this end…”
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Kind of ironic given Trump wants to build the US pharmaceutical industry.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
How about an age limit for anyone running for any office - President, Senate, Supreme Court - all of them. Other countries have mandatory retirement ages.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We have two cars (family of 5). Running costs (similar distance covered): 1. ICE - service $1,300 (needed new battery - ironic huh), petrol $2,200 pa (~$40pw). 2. EV - service $120, electricity $230 less whatever I get from solar panels. Difference over 10 years over $30k!
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Expect tourism to Switzerland to increase… “Look what I got on holidays!”
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Trump actions have, in effect, undermined US watchmakers. There are now millions of people who will now think Swiss watches must be superior because why else would you need to tariff them.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If Labor ever needed proof that what they were doing was okay.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
In 2024, the US was involved in 8.31% of global trade. So that’s 91.69% of global trade that Trump’s tariffs won’t affect. You do have to wonder what proportion of global trade the US will be involved in in 2025. Tourism is tanking for a start. www.forbes.com.au/life/travel/...
forbes.com.au
U.S. tourism will lose up to $29 billion as visitors plummet amid Trump policies
While tourism is booming across the world, the U.S. is a notable loser this year as millions of visitors are choosing to travel elsewhere.
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PA to a Kelpie @johnroddick.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
One other thing… not only are 3sixteen more expensive in the US but they are also now more expensive to overseas buyers. So Australians, Europeans, Canadians and everyone else will simply buy jeans from elsewhere. Tariffs are, in effect, killing any exports that rely on an imported product.
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