More time to do what exactly? Soft plastics are effectively unrecyclable. There are no commercial scale recycling plants in Australia which can recycle soft plastics. And even if we did build them the depolymerisation process which soft plastics require takes so much energy it'd be more environmentally sound to landfill it anyway.
The whole thing's a mess and really the only solution is to stop producing as much soft plastics.
I work in software and we're permanently work from home. (I don't want to name my employer but they're a medium sized company)
Even more interesting is how all of Geelong is excluded from Melbourne's count when Gosford's included in Sydney's count, despite neither place being continuously connected to the larger city, Geelong being closer to Melbourne than Gosford is to Sydney, and Geelong having just as large a proportion of daily commuters as Gosford.
The reality is that Melbourne's population outpaced Sydney a long time ago and the boundaries are only just starting to catch up.
I'm literally one of those people who you say is vanishingly small.
It's not even a "the world is bad and I don't want to subject my child to that" kind of decision. It's more like a series of thoughts over the years: "is this the right time to have a kid?" and it's never a good time.
I did a double-take at “Australia’s biggest city” referring to Melbourne
It overtook Sydney about a year ago when the ABS revised the statistical areas: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65261720
Based on these new boundaries Melbourne's had a higher population than Sydney since 2018.
Among scientists there wasn't any significant doubt twenty years ago. It was just spin doctors trying to pretend otherwise.
Why not start them off in the way you mean to continue? It's not like there are any significant downsides.
Compulsory is such a good system. It doesn't take long. It's on a weekend so it's not inconvenient. You get a sausage at the sausage sizzle and you do your vote. There's a real holiday atmosphere. And it produces much more representative results. Brexit wouldn't have happened if they had compulsory voting so there's no denying it's valuable.
The producer who was lumped with this was horrified and handed in his resignation the next day. I don't think he was happy with the situation.
@zik
@aussie.zone