Mastodawn

Day four: 🍻🍺 vs 🎓💰

While some issues are being discussed, one isnt HECS DEBT. We can talk about having a beer with the Prime ministerial candidates but not EDUCATION costs and spiralling debt.

While we’re at it. UNEMPLOYED? Has the living allowance been raised? At all, does it match inflation? Is it below the poverty line?

#PubTest / #PrimeMinister / #HexDebt / #HECSDebt / #HECS / #University / #Unemployed / #PovertyLine / #LivingWage / #LukasCoch / AAP <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/from-babysitting-to-keeping-a-secret-the-pm-is-preferred-but-it-is-the-literal-pub-test-where-albo-stands-out>

From babysitting to keeping a secret, the PM is preferred. But it is the literal pub test where Albo stands out

Being a preferred drinking buddy does not win you an election, but it does signal who the electorate is willing to spend more time with

The Guardian

Alastair Bor 🇦🇺Feb 28, 2023

A major resistance point for #australian #ev skeptics is the lack of #charging #infrastructure. I was doing a bit of a #pubtest last year with a #greenie friend who mentioned that there is plenty of capacity to do a charger per pole. I filed that away and then just read this today. https://thedriven.io/2023/02/27/ausgrid-unveils-sydneys-first-power-pole-mounted-ev-charger-in-glebe

Ausgrid unveils Sydney’s first power pole-mounted EV charger in Glebe

Ausgrid unveils its first pole mounted EV charging station in Sydney, among the first of some 30,000 such installations across its network.

The Driven