Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Imagine if antisemitism was killing this many people a month in Australia 141
Reposted by Wheel reinventorWheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Alan, your whole math is bogus. "The average density of dwellings is 50 per hectare". What you've missed is that new infill is far higher density than this. This lovely medium density Nightingale development is 400 per hectare, for instance. www.sixdegrees.com.au/projects/nig...sixdegrees.com.auNightingale 2.0 – Six Degrees ArchitectureUser. Experience. Architecture. 121
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Hey siri, what is greenwashing? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...abc.net.auVine-covered car parks helping to cool Sydney heat islandsSurface temperatures at a busy car park in Western Sydney are being reduced by as much as 35 degrees by vine-covered trellises which were installed two years ago. 010
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The idea that bike lanes are in conflict with these things is just so stupid. Workers and customers all get to the city by bike, deliveries already happen by bike (ubereats anybody?) 1116
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 19/05/2025This story about a new proposed supermarket focused on the threat to existing smaller retailers, but for me the worst part is this: 010
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 19/05/2025For those following the debate re electoral systems/wasted vote etc, I made this video about how wasted vote still occurs in a preferential system: youtube.com/shorts/QfIGg...youtube.comMost votes in Australia are wasted votes and get no representation at allYouTube video by Wheel Reinventor 000
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 18/05/2025The usual talk about how much this will "cost", an arg that I don't accept at the best of times, but particularly silly here given that it will likely increase fare revenue via increased family ridership. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...theage.com.auFree public transport for children a sweetener in looming state budgetAll Victorians under 18 will be able to travel free on trams, trains and buses from next year under Premier Jacinta Allan’s pledge to ease living costs. 010
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Many such cases - parents want their kids to walk or bike to school, but drive them because the roads are too dangerous. Absolute madness 020
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Free PT for seniors but not 5 year olds. Free travel across the state for seniors weekend tourism - $33 for a family of four to go to the zoo from one stop away on a school holiday weekday. My head is going to explode 251
Reposted by Wheel reinventorDavid Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025get @crikey.com.au to do the 1 vs 25 debate format, but it’s @wheelreinventor.bsky.social surrounded by Australian election analysts youtu.be/68aej2qmCtw?...youtu.beCan 1 Woke Teen Survive 20 Trump Supporters? | SurroundedYouTube video by Jubilee 032
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025It’s amazing how much modern inner city delivery logistics depends on flouting parking laws. In fact it relies on this so much it probably couldn’t exist without it. 070
Reposted by Wheel reinventorPhilip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 05/05/2025How children draw their experience of travelling to school Driving on the left… walking on the right (Via Margrit Stamm) 211025
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Subtle example of anti-homeless architecture in Brunswick. This sports pavilion has a roof that’s designed to let the rain through - presumably because if it didn’t, homeless people would shelter there in bad weather 020
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Seriously, find me a take more vindicated by yesterday's result than this one. You can't. jacobin.com/2024/10/aust...jacobin.comHow Australia’s Voting System Maintains Two-Party RuleAs democracies go, Australia isn’t as dysfunctional as the United States. But its electoral system still ensures that many votes are undervalued or wasted. 030
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Seats per million primary votes based on counts so far and rough seat estimates: ALP: 20 (88 seats, 4.3 million votes) Greens: 0.6 (1 seat, 1.5 million votes) You can call this many things, but "democracy" ain't one of them. 073
Reposted by Wheel reinventorMichael Sanderson @ecoproducer.bsky.social · 04/05/20252019 – 33.34% Shorten looses 2022 – 32.58% Albo wins 2025 – 34.7% Albo wins in a landslide A loss, win & a landslide is separated by 2% THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE SYSTEM 113
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Shameful disinformation by Labor here in Wills 060
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Mr Green I hope you enjoy this video I made that explains wasted vote in Australia @antonygreenelec.bsky.social 310
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Most Australians don’t understand that around 60% of all votes are wasted every election - they receive no representation at all in the final result. I made this short video to explain, let me know what you think youtube.com/shorts/QfIGg...youtube.comMost votes in Australia are wasted votes and get no representation at allYouTube video by Robert Lechte 131
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Compulsory voting with older people is a farce. Apparently the AEC turned up at my father in law’s aged care home and “helped everybody to vote”. My father in law has very significant cognitive issues. How is this allowed or appropriate? 010
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Assuming Xavier is part of a family of four (2 parents+1 sibling), it would cost them $11+$11+$5.50=$27.50 to visit him in hospital for 2 hours on a weekday, even at off peak times, even if they lived one station away in North Melbourne. 021
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025It’s amazing how bad the comms are for the Metro Tunnel. Even basic information like “what are the next stations at each end of the tunnel?” is actually quite difficult to find. Try googling it! 000
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Begging our politicians to understand induced demand. The exact opposite of what she says here is true! 141
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Been a huge week for us here at the Tony Mokbel Innocence Project 010
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Getting very close to a federal election. Now seems like a good time for the media to cover the fact that ~60% of lower house votes don't receive any representation at all, and are in fact entirely wasted. 010
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Share this article with your friends to educate them before election day jacobin.com/2024/10/aust...jacobin.comHow Australia’s Voting System Maintains Two-Party RuleAs democracies go, Australia isn’t as dysfunctional as the United States. But its electoral system still ensures that many votes are undervalued or wasted. 020
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Tell me again how there’s no such thing as a wasted vote in Australia 030
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025ALP MP Brendan O’Connor caught breaking mandatory helmet law (unfastened helmet). If even MPs themselves don’t take these laws seriously, why not abolish them? 060
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025See this map of Melbourne's new "activity centres"? See how it's actually mostly whitespace? (circled a few examples in red). This is the fundamental problem with all the seemingly pro-density+PT changes being announced for Melbourne at the moment. They actually leave most of the city untouched! 130
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Lots of dangerous situations during a cyclone - why not make bicycle helmets mandatory everywhere for the duration? 020
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025“Public transport advocates” will tell you that this sort of professionalized child bullying is essential to funding public transport services 030
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Infrastructure Australia talking complete sense on bike infrastructure (don't get your hopes up tho, the government will completely ignore this) 040
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In August last year, Adam Promnitz of "Yarra Residents Collective" accused Greens MP Gabrielle de Vietri of law-breaking when she recorded a video while riding her bike. But then a couple of days ago on social media, he posted a photo of himself breaking the exact same law! 120
Reposted by Wheel reinventorBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Difficult to overstate just how concerning the new Australian university definition of antisemitism is — making criticism of Israel quite likely to constitute misconduct under Australian university policies www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish...jewishcouncil.com.auJewish Council of Australia slams universities' adoption of dangerous, politicised and unworkable antisemitism definition 23399179
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A real shame Antony Green never used his platform to raise awareness of Australia’s wasted vote and non-proportionality problem, instead contributing to the propaganda notion that Australia has an ideal voting system. 110
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Tried to listen to some music on apple music, and it’s astonishing what a terrible piece of software it is. How can a company have so much money and produce something this bad 010
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 24/02/2025One of the craziest things about Victoria spending billions on upgrading its fare system to support phones, is people with kids who are too young to have a phone will still need the inconvenience of cards. So billions of upgrade work for a system that's still bad (and expensive!) for families. 230
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Crazy how this became such a prominent scandal for scomo that it got its own wikipedia page ("car park rorts affair") but then the ALP just kept on building commuter car parks and nobody seems to care. 000
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 15/02/2025And yet, in Melbourne... www.ft.com/content/5489...ft.comHow city-splitting highways are coming to the end of the roadMany authorities are pulling down elevated urban routes and transforming the sites to improve quality of life 041
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Organised sport is an ongoing mania in this country. This giant park is already covered in organised sports facilities, including a golf course and hockey stadium. Core issue actually is that cricket and golf are very poor use of inner city land. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...theage.com.auSeventy hectares lost: Melbourne’s sports grounds are dwindlingSports clubs across the City of Melbourne are cramming onto a diminishing number of sports grounds in the battle for green space for a booming population. 030
Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Nice to see more road space dedicated to bike parking and plants, but what the hell is going on with the bike rack positioning here? You gotta stand out in the lane to park your bike then have it used as a crash barrier? 450
Reposted by Wheel reinventorYanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Just heard that the Head of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation described the phrase ‘illegally occupied Palestinian Territories’ as an "antisemitic expression". Does he realise he just called the International Court of Justice antisemitic? WTF happened to Australia's establishment? 43582203
