Perth / Western Australia

WA Salvage: We're not fancy, But we're cheap!

Also my life motto.

A thread for discussing the wild, whacky and utterly mundane of life in our isolated corner of the planet.

In short:

The largest recorded fatberg in WA, weighing 30,000 kg, was found in Perth's sewer system during routine maintenance.

Fatbergs are entirely preventable and form due to non-flushable items like wipes and fats being disposed of incorrectly.

What's next?

Workers spent two days earlier this week using an excavator to break up and remove the fatberg, which has been taken to the tip.

A big thank you to the lovely lady who turned around and walked me home as she had an umbrella and noticed I didn't. Love you Perth.

A thread for discussing the wild, whacky and utterly mundane of life in our isolated corner of the planet.

I haven't seen much reporting on this.

No one is surprised Labor have the Assembly, but that's all the media seem to be reporting on.

https://www.elections.wa.gov.au/elections/state/sgelection#/sg2025

For anybody who wants to follow along over the next couple days.

A thread for discussing the wild, whacky and utterly mundane of life in our isolated corner of the planet.

Its a funny answer, but why are they talking about that in this situation?

Why did they even get lobbed that kind of a question? Its a State leadership contest. Who were the yahoos running this leadership forum.

Anyone found a good source for policy summaries for all the minor parties and independents this year?

Haven't found anything that covers the upper house this time around.

Hi all, this is just me exploring ways we could enliven the Perth/Western Australian Community more.

The idea is in the title.

Basically my thought is for casual ongoing conversations throughout the week.

Reasons

I've resisted putting this post up for over a year for a couple reasons,

1. I's not sure that the Community had a stable number of users to support. Over the last year i actually think, while posting is low, interaction from whatvlooks like Fediverse West Australians seems reasonable, (even if some from other sites don't like my posts ;) ). I still don't know if its enough, but looking at the other Community chats its a different sort of interaction than the general posts, so maybe its worth a try.

2. I don't really want to be the leader on this. I'm sick of seeing my username so prominently on this Community :p . To be sure, I'm not going to stop posting, but i don't really want to be the one pushing another thing onto this Community. I also don't think my style of conversation is particularly suitable or relaxed to start a general chat thread. In saying that, i'd of course participate and support in any way i can.

Thoughts

I'm interested to hear everybodies thoughts on this from WA or further afield.

Particularly from people who might be interested in leading this and any thoughts from the other moderators.

What d'ya think?

Western Australian Labor has unveiled plans to slash the cost of home battery storage, with state government rebates of up to $5,000 per household, or $7,500 for households on the regional Horizon Power grid....

Eligible households would have up to 10 years to repay the no-interest loans of $10,000 or less....

Cook has also promised to invest $50 million of public money to a Battery Manufacturing Program of direct grants and low-interest loans to support the development of a home battery supply chain in the state.

"There are a number of turbines that are 200 metres from our boundaries and it's just poor planning to do that," the sheep and grain farmer said.

Not sure i understand this guys issue.

Cane Toads are an excellent and constant reminder of the effects our forebears have on us today. Its something we should consider as we make the decisions we do in our time.

Thoughtful article by Madeleine Cox considering WA Labor's moves in regards Nature Positive laws federally, and our actions in environmental protection to date as a State. Not all bad, but far from good.

Another 3g victim?

Electorates in Alphabetical Order

Pendulum

Legislative Council

Some key Upper house takeaways, (paraphrased from analysis)

• Upper house quota is 2.63%, lower than NSW at 4.55%. This is due to there now being 37 members, compared to NSWs 21 members.

• Greens vote share will likely be better represented, which will likely result in more seats, as with the Nationals bote share, likely resulting in less.

• The six regions are gone, MLCs are eleceted to represent the entire State.

• By electing the entire chanber as a single electorate, it doesn't rebalance malaportionment between rural and metro, the divide becomes irrelevant.

~Note: Watch out for table Seats won at WA Legislative Council elections, 1989-2021, that 20 is not the midpoint, number of seats is actually 34 then in 2008 goes up to 36.~