As is the case in other countries we are not allowed to nurse a baby or a child in a car whilst on the road and all passengers, of all ages, must be restrained (by seat belts).
From cradle to grave there is road safety and there are fines. Some traffic offences attract demerit points as well as a fine and the licence is lost when the points reach a limit over a 3 year period, broadly speaking.
To use a mobile phone is illegal whilst it is hand held. Over time, will we all improve our capabilities so as to use a mobile at the same time as driving like some manage to do? Or will we all run out of fuel before then?
Dry composting waterless toilet in a large outdoor version. Others are for indoor use. Today is World Toilet Day an
d this link is to the organization which aims to raise issues concerning better, clean and hygenic facilities and the extension of sustainable sanitation to billions more people. Another blogger, Jakartass, raises issues such as this in his discussions and rants from Indonesia.A National Public Toilet Map and a trip planner can be found at this government link. Kenny is a funny portaloo movie. Warning: it may contain Australian 'humour'.Disposable Nappies for Babies. Now, 90% of Australian parents are using 800 million disposables per year which end up as 145.000 cubic metres of landfill and we only have a small population. What happens elsewhere?And consider vast numbers in other places who use next to no nappies at all.Somehow, it is estimated, a disposable nappy, can take as long as 500 years to decompose in landfill, according to Renew Magazine and their web site is linked here.A small trial group decided that cloth nappies are a viable and good option during the day and other discussion is in the Issue 101 of Renew Magazine.
Potential shelters waiting for market day and bigger and better times.City markets were planned but were unsuccessful. In the short term, the developers had no commonsense at all. Out of town consultants? No local knowledge? But the council was a player! Perhaps, it takes a large population and a critical mass to support some ventures.
We have seen this before in the city. Ideas are developed as a tax dodge or whatever - "we tried hard and failed" type of thing. Several restaurants are up to something as well.
An early photo as crowds gathered in World Heritage Kakadu in remote northern Australia in a national and international campaign to stop the development of a giant uranium mine and to hear the local Mirarr people. It was a moving experience. The government was unmoved...
Peter Garrett was there. Now as an MP, he continues to be into environmental issues. He was the band Midnight Oil.- It is election time. We have compulsory voting for Citizens (and some British subjects) and the system of secret ballot or Australian Ballot was a first, when it was implemented here in 1856. Preferential voting is relatively exclusive to our system and there is no first-pass-the-post voting done. Proportional voting applies to the Senate.
- Women were given the vote, as well as allowed to be candidates for parliament, in 1894, as a first, in the state of SA and it took twenty years to reach all the states. (New Zealand adopted voting rights for women in 1893)
- In 1962 all Aboriginal people became entitled to vote.
Fibre-optic technology reaches some addresses and is expanding.An election promise is for high speed broadband connectivity over the entire continent. That will sure take some doing but here's hoping!
As is the case in other countries we are not allowed to nurse a baby or a child in a car whilst on the road and all passengers, of all ages, must be restrained (by seat belts).
