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The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"queensland" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"I say you, but I think it opened like in the early 2000s. So that's a little while now. And the museum split into a few different sections and every section of your only see it by guided to it. So it's not your sort of museum that you wander around. Yourself. And mainly that's because you are looking at actual dinosaur bones. So it can't be touching the stuff. Okay. It's a working museum if you like. So there's laboratories there and they're constantly preparing the bones or fossils. And I'm always hearing about new species of finding and sending them to the Queensland museum. So there's lots of work going on there. Okay. And then so that's in the laboratory. You get to go and see what they're doing there. And then they have a room where they have some of the little bones on display. And then they have this area where you actually see real life dinosaur footprints on display. It's this big area. It's a 54 meters long. And it's got all of these dinosaur footprints. Bits of what they did is they found that these dinosaur footprints somewhere on a property in winton. And so to protect it, their somehow carved it out of the ground bit by bit, put it on a truck. Like a jigsaw puzzle and brought it back to the museum and put it all back together. Okay. It's indoors that's protected and it's the climb ties. What do you call it climate control and all of this stuff? When you go to have a look at it, you have a guide and showing you this is that dinosaur footprint and we think this happened here and it's pretty surreal to think, wow, this is me dinosaurs or something I think Steven Spielberg movie, like it's not real, but it really does bring it all to real life.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"queensland" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"And you hear different stories about how men and women work and live and survive out there, I guess. The way we visit the museum is there's three separate sections. So they have like a movie and they have a live show and then they have the museum. Okay. And you can buy a ticket just to the museum. Or your other option is you buy everything. And I think you've got to buy it for everything in my view. Particularly if you're coming from out of town from outside Queensland, and you start with the movie, which is a great introduction to a bit of a history of Australia but more through the eyes of the stockman and how they look after the stock. Okay. So that's a really good introduction to everything. It will help what you're seeing if you're not really familiar with it. Okay. I think once a day they have a live show, I'm pretty sure it's only once a day at about 12 o'clock. So you really need to time your visit to the stock all the time so you don't miss the show. Although tickets have to be pre booked anywhere, I think. And so the show is really good. It's basically a one man show, but with lots of animals, so you've got the horses, the working dogs and the sheep and you see how all of these animals work together and how the stop and use all the different animals to work on in the art back and on the properties get really interesting and if you're an animal lover like me, you'll just love seeing the dogs and that do all that cute little tricks and stuff. And then there's a lot of out back entertainment again so you've got some songs and some very lying jokes. Okay. I don't know what it is in the outback. Lots of if you're familiar with dad jokes, then that's pretty much what it is. Okay. Your dad so you probably got a few good dad jokes.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"queensland" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"The colors, I don't know, people talk about big skies and I didn't really understand that phrase until I was out there. It's just amazing. And this is on dust, so you're watching the sky change all these different colors as the sun sets and you're sitting there relaxing on this big, beautiful paddle Wheeler. It's just amazing. It's a really beautiful way to finish the day. The crews on the go for too long, maybe an hour, I think. And so you jump off the crews back up onto the river bank, then while you're on the query, they've cooked you this beautiful stew on the campfire. We're not talking like fancy cuisine here. This is on the campfire right in front of you. You can see it getting cooked there. It's absolutely delicious. So damp, which is like bread, cooked as well, and there's plenty of food. I think they're often seconds or highly recommend leaving room for dessert because then another old fashioned apple pie and serves as well, they're not really with it. And while you're having your dinner, they're entertaining you with bush poetry, poetry was quite popular out in the bush back in the day and a lot of things come from the bush. So that's ratings and push poetry, few songs, silly jokes, things like that. And then after dinner, they've got down on the riverbank like stadium style seating along the bank. With a big sort of screen in the water and they show you a short little movie about captain starlight. So he's a, I don't know if you're listening to Australia is pretty famous for its bush rangers or strangers were pretty well known for stealing cattle.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"queensland" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"And it's dealing with some of my preconceptions. I was wondering if, as I'm out there, is it flat and featureless? Am I going to be able to see for miles, but I'm seeing your writing through what I would call scrub, trees, maybe up to 20 feet tall or bushes only 6 feet tall and dirt roads. Is that pretty typical terrain for this area? Yeah, it's quite interesting because it changes a lot one minute like I'm thinking I remember at first we were just riding along completely barren dusty, nothingness. But then there's a lot of the outback people probably don't realize there's a lot of waterways, a lot of rivers, streams. So when you get closer to those areas, then yes, there are a lot more trees. Generally, so then I guess it starts from nothingness, then you get those sort of a meter high strums, and then as you get closer to the creeks again, then you're getting into more trees and stuff like that. So yeah, it varies quite a lot. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, but honestly, I just can't get enough of the landscape. It's just beautiful. So when you come back from the coping code, they take you in for a beautiful morning tea with scones and do you have scones? North America. Sure, we have scones or scones. Yeah. That's a good of the morning tea with cream and jam and a cup of tea. But it served by waitresses in traditional clothing, so it's quite nice. And then they take you to watch an old Aussie bush movie. The one that we watch was from the 1950s. If you're not really familiar with the area, you're watching these movies, which gives you more of a feeling for what it was like. And then after that, they take us out the back for what they call the Harry redfoot old time tent show. The purpose of I know it sounds a bit weird, but the purpose of this is just showing us what Bush entertainment was like back in the day before Netflix was there. So they said you'd have a couple of guys traveling around. I guess basic sort of circus things with farm animals and silly jokes and skits. Pretty lame, pretty lame, really, and you're more cringing than laughing. But it just doesn't give you an idea of what it would have been like back then. Well, you're watching the show, you can have like a traditional bush lunch, which they call a Billy can lunch. So I'm not sure if you're familiar with the Billy can. That's a Billy would be a watering hole. And a Billy. Yes. The can you took your lunch in down to the watering hole? Yeah, pretty much. And often though these Billy cans you would put water in them and hold them over the fire to heat water, but so they've got we would call the bucket or a pail. But these are very similar like you said, so they serve you lunch and we have. We have a sandwich setting off. And paste the cake or something in an apple and a drink just to simple sort of lunch. But yeah, so that's that tour.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"queensland" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Is a bit more convenient for people who might be up that way, but those bites are only, I think it's twice a week with an airline called Rex. So they two options are flying. I'm seeing it. I did want to drive it Google tells me that the whole drive time Brisbane to long reach is something like 13 hours of drive time. Yeah, I would probably recommend you could do it in two days or I guess I suppose you do it in one day if you want to drive that much. When I have done it, I have stopped at lots of places along the way, but probably comfortably if you just want to drive it, you'd probably going to go. Two days. There's so much to see along the way. You're probably going to want to take a week to drive there. But anyway, I'd recommend flying for people who want to throw it in a week, you're going to have to fly. Also recommend before coming that you arrange for car higher for airport, obviously this is a remote town and outback Queensland. You don't have buses or trains or anything. There are a few taxis and hotels can help you with probably airport transfers. Some of the tours on offers will pick you up, but you are going to be limited if you don't have a car while you can walk around to some places you're not going to be able to walk everywhere. And it's really hot. Yeah, it's not essential to have a car, but I do recommend it. When you say it's really hot, that does beg the question, normally I ask this later on, but when we're talking the outback, what season do I want to be coming? Okay, I was going to talk about that at the end, but we can talk about that now. I mean, obviously you can go any time. But generally, they have their season is April to October.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"queensland" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Travel guide dot com AU who has come to talk to us about the Queensland outback. Melissa, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Chris for having me. Melissa and I met it T bex in Thailand and had a good time talking about things that we record on and you are a big fan of the artifact. What is your connection with Queensland, first of all? I have lived in Queensland my whole life in Brisbane to be that, which is probably a bit odd for travel obsessed people, but I haven't lived anywhere else. I've always lived in Brisbane. And likewise people, I have tended to holiday on the coast with a Great Barrier Reef and Gold Coast. And it wasn't really until when COVID, we had quite strict lockdowns here in Australia. And so basically for good part of a couple of years, I couldn't leave Queensland. And so I guess I was forced to travel in to different places. And someone very early on said, oh, have you been to the outback? And I said, no, I haven't. I should go there. So I went off for a two week trip with my 8 year old daughter, just her and myself, and just absolutely loved it. And so pretty much every other trip we did during COVID was in the Queensland outback. It's just an amazing place and disappointed in myself that I haven't been soon. And why should someone go to the Queensland outback? Okay. Firstly, I think when most people think of Queensland or playing a visit to Queensland, they're thinking Great Barrier Reef, maybe Gold Coast theme parks, beautiful beaches. And I just find people aren't thinking about the outback. I don't know why, really, because it's amazing. And I think particularly perhaps for your North American looseness and I know when I'm traveling around the world and people talk to me, what's Australia like what's Australia or other kangaroos jumping down the street and the answer is no, there's not. But if you do want to see kangaroos jumping down the street, then go to the outback. It's absolutely amazing. The landscapes are amazing. The people are amazing. You can walk into a bar and just talk to a local all night. And the other thing is, even if you went in what's considered the peak season, there's not going to be masses of tourists everywhere. There is going to be massive tourists in the Great Barrier Reef. On our beautiful beaches. So yeah, I just think
The Mad Mamluks
"queensland" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"And then earth. What Harvey would be massive amounts of energy transmitted were. I mean, right now they're being used as sonar. You can look examine asteroids and see the depth of them in the go through them, like sending waves through to get an idea of like an image of it. But how did that affect? I don't know. I mean, I'm not an expert in harp or how you think can happen. But does the military and people have technology at the working on that could, you know, I mean, I don't know, but I mean, if it were to come out, would I be smart? I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, put it that way. Oh, look, I remember, I believe it was 2007 or 8. I'm Australia, the prime minister at the time. She promised Australia was going through a drought. She promised in Queensland to work with, I believe, was toiling at the time to induce rain cloud, you know, fast forward four months, Queensland had major flooding and the whole area was underwater. So at that time, it really picked my interest. And then as you start looking into it, you find that all the countries have soundwaves saying, hey, you can use weather modification on your own countries, don't use it overseas on other countries. You can't attack us with it. And then they start talking about we can cause earthquakes. We can cause rainfall. We can cause this or whatnot. So yeah, now it's just interesting stuff.
AP News Radio
Australia rejects new coal mine on environmental grounds
"Australia has for the first time rejected a coal mining application based on environmental law. The governments under pressure to block all new coal and gas extraction projects in the interest of curbing climate change. But environment minister Tanya Plymouth says she would decide individual projects on their own merits on Wednesday, the second announced her decision to prevent excavation of the central Queensland coal project less than 6 miles from the Great Barrier Reef of the northeast Australian coast, the minister said the risk of pollution and irreversible damage to the reef was
AP News Radio
4 Dead in Helicopter Collision in Australia
"Two helicopters collided at an Australian tourist spots killing several passengers and injuring many others. In a briefing, Queensland police spokesperson Gary warrell explained the incident emergency services were called to a two helicopter midair collision just opposite sea world in the broadwater. Those two aircraft when collided have crashed, landed and landed on the sandbank. Witnessed Steve vershire saw the incident firsthand. And
Woman's Hour
"queensland" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"But in my early days, that was in the 80s I was working with settled as well as royal ballet. It was definitely a time where dancers were meant to be seen and not heard. And it really went against my nature. I got myself into trouble endlessly throughout my career because of it. But I also think that it stood me in it stood me in good stead. Because I was able to say what I felt I've never been afraid of that and for standing up for others. And using your voice, I suppose the other thing is because you don't speak when you're on stage. There is that element of to be seen to be beautiful to be admired, but not necessarily heard. Yes, and I think in the early days, you know, when I grew up wondering, you know, people were often telling me that I had a great talent and that I should be a ballerina and I was thinking, well, how could I be a ballerina? I'm a girl who likes to jump around in the garden or on a pogo stick and be outspoken. Exactly. What I had a great athletic training just being in Australia in central Queensland. But really, I think in the early days, ballerina ballerinas were really icons that you looked at silently on a wall, you looked at these beautiful images of women. And I didn't think I fit that bill at all. And I still don't feel like it that Bill, but what is happening today is marvelous. The dancers have so much more agency..
Physical Activity Researcher
"queensland" Discussed on Physical Activity Researcher
"I'm excited about the guest of today's episode senior lecturer at central queensland university. Australia and director of the motivation of health behavior slapped. She completed her. Phd in kinesiology at pennsylvania state university research focuses on the psychology of health behavior change and the impact of physical activity a mental health and wellbeing..
No Agenda
"queensland" Discussed on No Agenda
"Could have made this super cut about donald trump and done it. Two years ago would have also been the same thing same thing. Super cuts are great. They're great it's not. it's not take it. I consider this a super cut. I consider some mash up. Did you hear the premier premiere the premier from from dan dictator. Dan did you hear him. I did as a matter of fact clip guy. I have the clintons a maniac this guy to protect the health system. We've got everybody locked down. We're gonna move to a situation where to protect the health system gonna look out people who are not vaccinated candy if you're making the choice not to get vaccinated then you making the wrong choice. You making the wrong choice and facility psych and for the back to that point about how much work nurses have to do as this becomes absolutely a pandemic of the unvaccinated and we open everything up. It's not going to be safe. The people who are not vaccinated to be rhyming around the place spreading the virus. I'll be doing centers every reason every reason to get vaccinated and we're not gonna have a situation will not in victoria where we locked the whole place down to protect people who went protect themselves. I mean open it up dude not out but you don't understand is like if you're unvaccinated you're not allowed to participate you you. We have a economy of the vaccinated. You cannot be a part of the economy. You cannot get health care which i thought was a basic human right somehow go some basic human rights thought that was a by these liberal human rights. And now you can't in the and i would like to point out that the nurses union They don't wanna make sure. I want to tell you which one that's why i was Second i'll tell you story well now. Of course i can't find it I thought it was industry. Said we are the biggest nurses union. Look it up but the the point of the story is we treat. Covert patients is an open letter. They say here's why the pandemic of the evac unvaccinated narrative is wrong and they take exception to that. And i'm happy that someone spoke up about that and it's getting some legs because it's so evil to say this you are. You are literally calling people national nurses united. That's what it is largest organization registered nurses in the united states. That shit's evil to call it. That that is that is that is true. Nineteen eighty-four level stuff and that makes sense because that's their thinking. Here's the new south wales chief. Health officer listen carefully backing especially with ray opening and people going back pumped good sorry exposure side still will they be put back in place to be listed once way all reopening. Because they're not at the moment we will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the new world order at. We'll be in clubs and things that we have a case there. I mean has. She never never ever heard that. This is kind of a weird thing to say. Does she not know. This is a politician that people are looking out for these dog. Whistles was it meant as a dog whistle. i don't think so. These people are stupid that she she's mass formation. She's completely narrowly focused and she. She's all in a new orleans. Get with it lady bill back better where you bid. You missed the meeting. What's wrong with you. Great reset tech new world order cough and now in australia. They're building these well camps. Well camp it's one word w. e. l. l. a. Mp and they sound groovy howard springs near. Darwin is held up as the gold. Standard of quarantaine sippers cabins onsite testing catering and sosa known breaches but the queensland government reckons. It can do better. This is going to be a great boost for our defense against the delta virus state cabinet assigned off on the wildcat facility. I proposed seven months ago. Businessman john wagner will build us next door to his airport. Four hundred beds operational before christmas. The state government will lay it and run it. The cost to taxpayers is being kept under wraps. What fantastic evaluate will be if we can avoid just one lockdown. The federal government's previously rejected the plan on grounds. It's too far from atrocious hospital. The premise says any covert patients will be transported to brisbane and queensland will have to purpose built quarantine facilities the commonwealth is backing. One here on defense landed pink new brisbane airport. They'll be room for fifteen hundred people by the middle of next so we'll be still locking people up the middle of next year in in the well camp. Wow australia's wild. This is not cool man. This is no wonder they're talking new world order down there. There's they've arrived. they have arrived. And you notice. She said premier and not premier. She said prim premier. Whatever you really jury way. Premier premiere is what what she said. She said premier premier premiere. Listen the federal government's previously rejected the plan on grounds. It's too far from a to serie hospital. The premise as emir. Kind of in between anyway. she's talking. She hasn't australia Australian accent you don't I'm worried about australia too late. No nothing can be too late. Ultimately the people are going to. This is going to blow up. I've seen no evidence that australia people aren't you okay. I'll i'll put money on it that this this blood on the moon. We're going to have blood down under. I i can. It's so easy to see. You cannot keep people caged up like animals and he's got wildest thing i've ever witnessed this. Fema the all the all the crazies about the fema camps it's chess these are actual femur camps and they're talking new world order and economy of the vaccinated. This is this is. This is not just a tv show. This is not a true crime. Podcast this is happening in our lifetime with people. I know and i love chris wilson. Do you think this guy's gonna last. He's kind of break. You've seen see him. I'm gonna put promising to put him in the news in pictures of them. This guy's gonna go postal east totally if he hasn't already by the way it's easy to predict in the united states we're going to have workplace shootings. I don't want to manifest. But people are having to resign left and right choosing conscience and what they feel is right for themselves and ultimately freedom over their jobs fifteen years no no gold watch for you and what and it's crazy in the medical field..
The Science Show
"queensland" Discussed on The Science Show
"The sancho on our end where we now crossed the continent to cans for even smaller creatures but not at all so lovable. Let's join the hadfield and associate professor. Laurie lack at james cook university northern queensland. The yellow crazy and problem people wouldn't have heard of it. We will have read fire ants. But why should we be worried about yellow crazy. Ants yellow crazy ants are one of these few species of ants in the world can become really invasive. They can build up to really high numbers and have pretty dramatic impacts on our native ecosystems. They had been on christmas island since at least the nineteen thirties and hadn't been doing much. People don't really take notice them and then around late eighties early nineties. Suddenly their population density really increased quite a bit. The going hypothesis is that coincided with the introduction of scale insects that produce honeydews so they'll come and they'll consume that honeydew and in doing so they'll be protecting the scale from any predators or paranoids. That might be wanting to attack that scale so the scale population also increases to then. It's a mutual 'isms sap sucking pests are not at high levels until they're being tended by ants so farmers obviously very aware of potential effects of yellow crazy ants. That way and you can imagine if that's happening in a banana plantation or sugar cane or mangoes or something like that. Then you're gonna see decreased yields. Environmental impact is huge. You know we're sitting here in world heritage rainforest so we could expect some direct impacts on our native fauna. They can also be real nuisance. If you have these in your backyard you will probably not want to do a whole lot of gardening. Your pets could be affected. Most people think oh ants neat little trails and now This is where the crazy aunt. If you've never heard of yellow crazy ants. Remember the name. They could be the next big pass to hit australia. They called unease move and split easily. They're very efficient protecting that other australian past sap sucking insects and what makes them dangerous to our life is that they're much better than other ants that spraying for mc acid to blind and then kill their prey so that habit so now being intensively studied as professor. Laurie lack showed me when.
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Crop Circles: Alien Messages or Man-Made Hoaxes?
"One of the first stories that got people talking about crop circles began one morning in january nineteen sixty six when banana farmer george pedley entirely a town in north queensland australia was driving his tractor through his farm passed a lagoon. George hurt a high pitched hissing. Sound assuming it was a pierce tire. He stopped the tractor to check but immediately saw what he later described as a flying saucer. Rise up at great speed from the lagoon and sip away disappearing into a cloud of blue vapor after registering his complete shock. He went to investigate the site from which he saw the object rise there in the lagoon. George found what looked almost like a massive nest of flattened reads fused together floating on the surface of the water spinning clockwise. It was almost thirty feet across later in the day. George called his friend albert to check it out. It seems to me if you see a flying saucer and a floating nest from where it took off you call someone immediately but george was like. Wow i just saw. Ufo oh well. These bananas are gonna pick themselves. Maybe he was a man who has priorities in order one harvest bananas to call friend about ufo citing when albert got to the lagoon. He waited out in to get a closer look and notice that the reads weren't just bent over but rather it looked like they'd been pulled up by their roots at this point. One of the men alerted the media. I'm guessing it was albert since george seemed to be taking a slightly more lazy fair approach to the whole thing when the local press arrived to more smaller circles were found in one. The reads went clockwise. Counterclockwise also found was a six by five foot rectangle of empty space in the reeds where the reads it seemingly been pulled up from their roots and were missing completely
The Science Show
"queensland" Discussed on The Science Show
"I wonder whether that's how alan carr and his wife. Susan started over thirty five years ago in far northern queensland. Let's leap across australia to the tropics. Where ellen and beat ahead. Field awaiting as a botanical arc creator of the botanical arc which is a private at no botanical garden. Tropical north queensland are boundary is the daintree national park. This is the best place to grow tropical plants. When did you set this up. And what was your objective when you started. We bought the property in nineteen ninety-two and our goal. There was to raise a family and a healthy lifestyle and have minimal impact on the planet as we could but it since grown into more of educational aspect. So we've been on journeys more than one hundred trips to rainforest countries all around the world and subsequently got interested in medicinal plants. Their fibers dyes oils. Resins waxes all the useful plants that indigenous people mainly grow in or harvest in the rainforests around the world. Was there any problem getting that through customs. I mean they're very strict on what can be brought. In to the best of my knowledge we have the only government registered quarantine plant introduction premise north of brisbane in the whole country and so it's a very onerous and costly exercise that we engage in. But we'd take quarantine extremely seriously. I guess one of our tag lines is plants and people conservation through understanding if you can't relate conservation to people you've missed the point and you've lost ninety five percent of the people or even more and so our garden with its useful. Plants that people can relate to is our tool to provide them with a greater understanding. Because most people don't realize they have direct connections with the rainforest every day of their lives the such variety here walking along the past and the variety. Different classes quite amazing. Okay well twenty five years ago. The half an acre were standing and had six rows of fruit trees and so we used our original six rows of fruit trees to provide the wind and shade protection to start our rainforest off and so here. We are now where trees which are up to twenty five meters high. Some of them quite big. And we've just learned so much from it and so we're the with six species of plants and a half acre. There's now over two hundred fifty species. Every one of them has at least one use for us as humans. Some produce beautiful fruits but the sap from the young leaves cure skin fungal diseases great cabinet timbers against goes on and on and so we have school children who come here now to look at it. I mean this is very very lush. What sorts of crazy these because they look very well established. This is part of our spice garden. So this is. A curry tree is used for curry. We have a very big collection of gingers. Probably the world's most widely used medicine in the world today is coming ginger. It's a very very important plant. Not just for context and food flavoring but for medicine of the sixteen hundred species that we know about more or less about a quarter of them have known uses for humans and no other family. A plant comes close to that in my opinion. So you're a great believer in learning from traditional knowledge. Let's say traditional wisdom that the fact that this is probably being done over thousands of years through trial and error but they found what works. That's something you think that we're ignoring at our peril while we have now. We're starting to look at some of these things but for far too long. We were dismissive. If it didn't come in tablet form it wasn't good for you know wouldn't cure anything and that's a very narrow minded way to look at things. Now this is our quarantine building and it has a mesh of less than half a millimeter so no intakes can get in out has a double door with air locks and so on and once plants are permitted to come in the country. They arrive in australia. They get inspected by the government. They get fumigated with methylbromide. Which is a really bad gas. And then they get placed in here to grow on if the government's happy with the growth after so many months some of the plants are released. A lot of plants don't survive but some do and it's from those few that do that whole new industries have been established. What makes a good plant that you would go out and say we've got to have this at the first of all is in danger of being decimated or becoming extinct so that's one of our criteria but i guess primarily. Is it useful for people. Will they benefit from it. And can they learn things from it so i'm going to pick some rusoff this tree yep so this is a rather spindle. Looking trees really going for the light. Isn't it when the trees here. The big storm came and knocked down a whole raft trees and palms and so on and it saved this tree now. I just wanted to crush the leaf and smell it and see if you can recognize odor. It's a very common plant. Would take the leaf chewed on the tippy tongue. It won't kill you it's got. Oh my god yes. It's a numbing property. It's coming up. It's oh it's the kind of thing the dentist gives you. That's right it's an anesthetic is the oil of cloves is so this is a clove tree and the oil of clubs comes from the leaves. It's an local anesthetic so they would actually painted on your gun before the novacaine needle went in. Yeah so this tree will get bushy. It'll grow to about ten meters. But as you say. I mean this helps people relate how the mid sins that we using ultimately started off life here in in things like tropical rainforests. That's right and there's so many more to discover. This one is at kept apple and it comes from indonesia. Stella carpets hall into malaysia and many years ago an old friend of mine from florida wrote me a letter and he said alan please go to indonesia and collect the keppel apple because it's reported that once you consume it for the next twenty four hours all your bodily odors and excretion will smell nice and sweet so i said bill. I know some people who could benefit from this. But he didn't tell me where in indonesia to go and this thousands of islands in indonesia so where do you go. Well if you're smart you start with the bigger islands. Because his more on them. And you do your research i well. Apparently this tree was really significant in sumatra. I did mine managed to find a couple of feeds on the ground and two of the seeds. i thought were viable and brought them home and it grew and after seven or eight years i had my first four fruit so when the fruit was ripe i found three friends and we decided to eat ten fruit. Each we worked hard all day. Two of them were karate experts who went to training at nighttime and at the end of the day. We didn't have to say anything because everybody was remarking on how pleasant we smelled really so it does work in the way it works is very simple this volatile compounds in the flesh of the fruit which go through metabolic pathways and sweat glands so we ended up sending a couple hundred of these fruit to the university of vienna in austria. We shouldn't be surprised. If one day we take a vitamin c. pill and we smell like citrus for the rest of the day because nature showing us these pathways. The problem is we're chopping trees down so fast that we're missing out on some credible opportunities. Plants are far more complicated than we give them. Credit for and a few years ago we had to university of missouri. Chemists come here and i was remarking. How a plant can use the minerals in the ground. Sunlight air and water to create this incredible chemical. That makes you smell sweet but also nice flavor for the fruit and new leaves on a tree. Come out pink and so they have chemicals which deter some of the insects. I said to them. I said look this trees probably producing five hundred different complex chemicals and we don't even know how it's doing it and they said try fifty thousand chemicals and counting most people if you ask them just on the street. How are you related to a rainforest today. Or what plants do you depend on from a rainforest. They could mention a single thing and yet by coming here and learning about these plants they sort of make that connection wow we are dependent on natural ecosystems and rainforests so alum call the botanical. Ach one hundred k. North of cans and northern queensland with pita hatfield..
The Dad-Splanation Podcast
"queensland" Discussed on The Dad-Splanation Podcast
"Most goals without missing out on the foods that you love inclusion of cheat meals or cheat days into a diet plan is and has been popular with health and fitness enthusiasts. And why is that. My opinion really works. And i should have really. I should my opinion. This is actually my experience. It works that little break from the norm. It's kind of like again. Like i was talking about earlier when i'm standing up all that you need that break in your day. So this chick meal is essentially your break from the strenuous diet that you have to do but it's now making its way into mainstream diet culture by way of social media social media right. Not only can you get your daily dose of fake news quote unquote but there's a lot of goodness out there if you pay attention to the right people so first off what archie meals and cheap base exactly. Well i kind of answered that already but to be a little bit more specific cheating within a diet plan involves giving yourself calculated queensland permission to temporarily break shrink diet rules so the theory behind this were ward based diet strategy that by allowing yourself. Brief periods of indulgence..
Weird AF News
Teen Awarded $20K for Unique Dorito Chip
"In australian teenager gets twenty thousand dollars for discovering a unique dorito chip and australian teenager is cashing in her chips after finding puffy dorito and putting it up for sale online doritos is rewarding riley stewart a thirteen year old from queensland. Twenty thousand dollars for her entrepreneurship. After she happened upon a very unique air-filled dorito among it's flat counterparts. In a bag of chips that she was eating she put the big fluffy puffy dorito up for sale. The gold coast teenagers one of a kind dorito chip fetched bids of thousands of dollars with ebay users pledging more than one hundred thousand australian dollars after being on the auction block for just a few days.
Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
Virsec Enters ANZ Cybersecurity Market
"Diamond Security in the seek an making a moving to the australian museum market And expanding their market ray chat for the application away would by protection offering. We're going to be joined by rob nobili. Who's the original south director in the building team. We've this here in the 'instead so look forward to speaking to rob regional sales director for the strike museum just joining the same rob. Thanks for joining us. Very good flight. The the lying. In mario side whether it's at your end as well but Maybe introduced this verse. Dick and maybe the is news. Put a team together and you're going to hit up the siles In it's a application away workload protection platform so introduces to your role in what you bet your background. I think that might explain. Why of the brought you on. Shelves originally from palo alto networks. Was that pelvic for around. Four and a half years as regional south niger. Looking up the queensland rockets wasn't planning on leaving the tap on the shoulder from vasic and the technology really jumped on me. It's very different very unique. Nothing quite lock on the market. So yeah it was just a no brainer athlete to come and lead the train business. Ingraham visa satin. Yes to the ceo states and united saying people joining the board people. Watch on chambers. Iran's for twenty five years. Jim ralph came on board on as one of the most well-known see says in the industry with the caliber of people who joining the company It was just a just decision of
The Naked Scientists
Mouse Plague in Australia
"Aced in australia is currently in the groups of a mouse play. Although my sleeve ever way people do. I mean they are coded house mice. Normally they go undetected right now. Though highly favorable conditions have caused mice populations to explode in the states of queensland and new south wales a year of abundant rainfall after years of drought have led to bumper crops. This provides a lot of food from ice allowing them to not only thrive but also to reproduce at an astonishing rate shellback menace and. I spoke with the irs. Missed the my sky. Steve henry to find out. The latest of outbreaks of this kind of magnitude tend to happen at the end of a of dry years so mice are present all the time and i can survive at really large numbers shrewd ron's of really excessively drive is and then when conditions become five. Rable as this seems to be a really high level of survival of juveniles and nothing regulating the braiding of really good climatic conditions lots of food in the system high levels of juveniles late the numbers increasing really dramatically.
Three Wide No Cover
"queensland" Discussed on Three Wide No Cover
"Across the desk by bennie clifton. From this bit trading floor. It was the white. Benny waken was good. Love that Coins and rice is in the spotlight in the moment. Julius i think we'll run with that banana pronunciation Was very well. Backed and very impressive in the us did sunday. Dinner of the map to. We'll get to that very shortly. Let's start with the track. Helpline now is a good for all across to made us that. I brought it an extra two for this week. Good for now issue. They attended twenty collectively. But it had no impact on these rights to run and look. I thought rice really failure. I'm not suggesting. I've got my hitter in the track did same to rice. Fairly you had a couple of points you wanted to mention just with natural ruler in the last rites with rocketing boy on maybe where the jockeys toward the part of the chocolates. He had the option account at Edward with rocketing blind elected to guy state of the middle some thinking that there was probably four lines in the middle of the track the jockeys really narrowing they focus on. That was the best granted. And yeah you automatically going to say are the fences off. The ball. came back on the inside back in the last hundred. Zd drift dad. Back into that sort of middle line may be. The riott wasn't applies to bay but the track rights fair and we would just be looking for excuses for horses. If we're looking now. I think that's a really good point. I think they'll go an extra two maters. I read broke day with a couple of group. Think he'll be at four maters next week. Let's start with rice. One be the rights of the day. It is the rise to follow differently. He benny quarter second. So i'd standard time. I only moderate tempo. Twenty two six four four hundred eleven four eight last two hundred best of the day boy. Incentivize has absolutely going through the roof. Six fifty in the photos hours fifty four dollars fifty saturday morning into three dollars. Twenty market just wanted to be all over these hoes and well we might have unearthed. These won't be this mommy. So's waiting for these holes. The two candidate in brisbane may be a mid wake. I was pretty came to back. And then i'll do the form set down. It's twenty two hundred back died in the right setup. it didn't really matter it didn't have anything else. While early in the rice that was caught wants anthony and it was a co two guy ford. Yeah because it wasn't haza tampa on the right side. Holden wouldn't have mattered in lead. He was on the road horse but he makes that decision no matter the horse the decision matt other result because i think he did the right thing in that in that case when the quickest last two hundred second-quickest last four hundred. It wasn't intended to do that of that sort of running auditor. These horse could be anything what needs doing in the country. What it's done he. It's busting clocks. Looks at twenty four hundred maters. That laced it just seems like further goes the better. It's going to be. What do you think it is absolutely you come into coffee cup nice. They've tra guy with nine heath him from his last thirty. I going thirty. four percent. Mark station has twenty two and a half percent so put as a big time but he's camp is absolutely going really well at the moment jogging. This horse was an import and comes over and wins these rights boy links and does what it does on the clock. Here we probably have fifteen seventy dollars trying to waller or someone linebacker amari uses. We have a fifteen seventy dollars and a coffee cup. No it's restricted idea and it's going to do but the numbers on saturday and the writing now we have an projection. We can get it to all. It's scary good because we need to get these is going to be a super size it. Dan get carried away. But it's not just this run as the previous runs on things at horses in those classes died to eat it. definitely group. -als yep nevada question. He's is a great one. You know i'm laying on the side that it he's been doing calandra cop you've screech cop. I think you mentioned to me yesterday. Be sort of the rice's it attacks. I will look at i can. Win is then it keeps building. It's probably fall gets its writing up and then when you done aware it's going to be. Yeah the world that's always thinking it might be if all loving to put her life spell come back in the spring or very good second rice half second in standard time. So they went. Okay i nine. Hundred meters was one and a half seconds slower than racier rice. Seek so that's worth noting but it was for the two year olds twenty three nine forward twelve one to again okay compared to the rest of the day. Well she's wanting in terms of the market volcanic rock to forty obviously with the scratching of cape britain. Knocked ran sort of wednesday thursday so it was two forty got into a dollar ninety five when we were two within sorta tried it ends up paying three dollars to the market. Wanted to be against light. Sorta wanted to be with horses like the back. Eighty six dollars. Fifty who runs sick and in two tocaka was far fifteen to five dollars a macro wanted to be volcanic rock but it wins the rice auto. Now if i want to take too much out of the rice. He benny now. The story this rice him on volcano grow trained by gateway health harrison. Adrienne bard who had the horses rock-hard feet. This was up in distance and the theories. That guy would assholes as adrian bought up in a very hard to rundown. There wasn't much quality in this whole also are think that was the raw setup and alternatively for that camp if they drop in this and she don't want to be anywhere near di fall off a cliff in terms of writings. Yep so concerned about the rise going full week near the. Jj atkins is overseen away. 'cause i don't know if rockies backing out but i might could win it or wouldn't think so i think dies i in the in the late in the solids much in volcanic rock. I agree with that okay. Rice wray half a second so standard. Tom even tampa he twenty three and a half twelve oaks seeks last four hundred two hundred dollars compared to the rest of the day. Don't what to make this race here..
Three Wide No Cover
Queensland Oaks Day Review
"Love that Coins and rice is in the spotlight in the moment. Julius i think we'll run with that banana pronunciation Was very well. Backed and very impressive in the us did sunday. Dinner of the map to. We'll get to that very shortly. Let's start with the track. Helpline now is a good for all across to made us that. I brought it an extra two for this week. Good for now issue. They attended twenty collectively. But it had no impact on these rights to run and look. I thought rice really failure. I'm not suggesting. I've got my hitter in the track did same to rice. Fairly you had a couple of points you wanted to mention just with natural ruler in the last rites with rocketing boy on maybe where the jockeys toward the part of the chocolates. He had the option account at Edward with rocketing blind elected to guy state of the middle some thinking that there was probably four lines in the middle of the track the jockeys really narrowing they focus on. That was the best granted. And yeah you automatically going to say are the fences off. The ball. came back on the inside back in the last hundred. Zd drift dad. Back into that sort of middle line may be. The riott wasn't applies to bay but the track rights fair and we would just be looking for excuses for horses. If we're looking now. I think that's a really good point. I think they'll go an extra two maters. I read broke day with a couple of group. Think he'll be at four maters next week. Let's start with rice. One be the rights of the day. It is the rise to follow differently. He benny quarter second. So i'd standard time. I only moderate tempo. Twenty two six four four hundred eleven four eight last two hundred best of the day boy. Incentivize has absolutely going through the roof. Six fifty in the photos hours fifty four dollars fifty saturday morning into three dollars. Twenty market just wanted to be all over these hoes and well we might have unearthed. These won't be this mommy. So's waiting for these holes. The two candidate in brisbane may be a mid wake. I was pretty came to back. And then i'll do the form set down. It's twenty two hundred back died in the right setup. it didn't really matter it didn't have anything else. While early in the rice that was caught wants anthony and it was a co two guy ford. Yeah because it wasn't haza tampa on the right side. Holden wouldn't have mattered in lead. He was on the road horse but he makes that decision no matter the horse the decision matt other
Kottke Ride Home
Why Unique People Are More Attractive
"Well this is good news for me. And i'd bet some of you listening. The bbc's says that unique and nonconformist people are more attractive. Bbc futures modern love column set out to learn whether there was one ideal trait one universal standard of beauty that humans select for and which is therefore become dominant over time. But the problem they quickly encountered is that even if a certain traits seems to be near universally desirable for example some researchers have looked back over time from five hundred bc two now and been able to identify the hourglass shape as an idealized figure for women the fact that not every human has those traits seems to work against the selection arguments so if not that then what gives jeanne beauvais and evolutionary biologist at northumbria university who conducted one of the studies on women's waist to hip ratios throughout history told the bbc quote that this preference arose simply because wider hips and a narrow waist communicate that a woman is of a reproductive age but not old and that she has given birth a fewer number of times. One thing that seems to really hold is that traits that are attractive in women are often queues of age and also parody. The number of times she has given birth says beauvais they are really closely related to attractiveness and quotes so attractive traits. At least like that one are not linked to genes and therefore not a form of sexual selection and thus why we don't look the same like some animals and this was backed up by two thousand. Fourteen study led by psychologists said the university of queensland that had straight men and women rate computer generated body shapes of the opposite gender with each body varying slightly in twenty four different areas like hip ratio height shoulder width etc. According to bbc for men choosing women body mass was the first priority with men choosing smaller women. It took a long time. Though for traits we commonly think of as important like breast size to matter at all and like wise waist to hip ratio was only really later
Three Wide No Cover
"queensland" Discussed on Three Wide No Cover
"Create williams abort coker reuter win on a last. Stop a stroke of luck i. She's had seven. She got plenty of malls in a legs. Chris for the twenty two. Don't think that that's important Providing students with former all swamps that training. Off the good to anybody. He had just just what i do. A lot of work. Between the dies it real hot gala solomon goal. it's more just maintenance and just keeping them happy horse for sure. As far as number five chris ten stats for the three wins. This time in had the stats for the to win. She hit the front in the rises when foles behind only woods. Tricky guy wants a guy comes up at a fifteen dollar chance. Is there much between her and only woods in your opinion nor really good example thing are in full she wants three starts guy from pool to run since of being bad drawers set. It is peter feeder and she suspect distant. She vowed distance the knox authority around. Last was was fairly good. Considering the war drool so gang just little with a lot from the white guy ford horse switch off toward the in behind so highly something to our at saw that marches. We often look can switch off for the but no look between them. But i'm tricky. Got great opportunity. Look ditman the with you. Chris studies for sure number seeks crisis and hominy said the stick six dollars for the three. We she's really law they rise now. The full stotts This preparation one on the truck. Did she just get to five back. Lost out in the rises because it was a bond stolen finish. It was a tricky rice wardrobe. We went back for couldn't find it. She's not going back to las sheet to cover a lot of ground and she just picked hundred out so head she join guy lost out on. She'll she rows talk three. If not the rice. She's come through it. Well she'd be among more straight guy guide much pure. She's going to get the perfect excuse for greis in how many they upon is. Okay here we got ta. She's at the nonstop for the win. But chris she comes across the second in the new zealand oaks. I stop for you g. She was mardi good up on speed there. In the rises of all say of marched up short in terms that having the one run since being here she would have had an easy time. Since the new zealand arch would run two weeks ago and as she makes that natural improvements. Which you'd expected to. She said the run over. Twenty four hundred and you zealand seeking and the action from memory philly that betas donald the five really sydney. So obviously the the pundits talk perform one over till and standing there chums style ready to pay for chris. To what have you learned from her. And just a short time with their she's issue nat nat stike. Chris still learning abandoned. Doesn't us a long time. But she obviously iams on day. Just look off on comedy improve horse like that that quickly but you can just might to the mike them. Happy what can change. she's eighteen. Which is a big key horses coming out with. Zeal coming from our cities That's bad they class and you touched on before trip to queens and really l. successful. She looks like this off to mate. She's sharks as drawn six dollars. Fifty dollars push from chris chums stab zoro senior. Nira a starts to full runs. Four runs these tom increase. She's more blood. As a matter of fact. I'd lock to be running her because i went back and had to go car. And she was terrific from well back mike and grand and in the rises. She had no luck whatsoever issue biggest blowout he. She's certainly among the talks. Three sure I'll probably might a mistake. She ran the sydney. Are darn thing. She needed to go She was one. Feis around is terrific Subsequently she's gone the demon rises around feeling. Well she's probably ready for the stained but the she hasn't missed they she hasn't gone offer in debt but she was really lost dot midsayap. She's ready again on saturday night. The big tranquil sir. There's a few negatives flying from the jockeys last week sign that some hold sustained league pham beat of and others but to me. She's looking for big track and we'll talk twenty two hundred leader talk so she's gonna walk profile for what she's looking for. Twenty two kill a lot. She's the one on one be rotting from seven. They chris sixteen bucks. Thank you rick. The statue of you river who happens to get up one hundred one dollars a day. Go chris scott lang slot stop lakes improve We're hoping for withdraw the reason she's running coupon ride loss dot and he should have no problems with the distance said based on that He is not a reason why you shouldn't run. Her would have been lost to get a real jewel So we decided for a cheap saw magic and a great one right sir. She's not a worst Just mentioned for say chris. Thanks for joining us. Thanks everybody brilliant is the only place you say chris. Walla leading up to group action this weight gain on three while i know and the thing that i took it out of that interview was lift. Show to the picture of himself with the queen on the war. You just say that you just boston. I both putting that out standing. wasn't it. yeah it's something that won't be doing this for sure but would you take out of it it just just to tap into the mindset of chriswell and how he doi six eight tries to have him ready a main. Take out of it. What you will but a lot of these horses being set for the rice. He's a top three modern. And i think we've got old glee only woods graceful grayson harmony chom style and seen near up maltby the question mark but he's armed and dangerous and ready to go. He gave a fair bit. It wasn't just your milan-san was not nice. So out of all of those runners you got something out of it. If you're gonna have a have a bid on any of those is the grandfather was fifteen. Group wants this season just absolutely monitoring the rest things especially for for the china's also just those gates when they draw bad it seems to be he always wants to go back. He's jokey seems to be. Oh we're going to be negative mutual. I think that's important going forward. Just answer out of this week. S to swallow three wadden cava around the country up next crypto currency in full flawed edging away from exalted fire don't dismiss.
Three Wide No Cover
"queensland" Discussed on Three Wide No Cover
"Twenty six jim of scotland twenty-six perfect deal thirty four and carry because seventy-one again not huge emancipating. Good health row forward. I think fabric probably seats goes forward and then a few days probably go back was rock drum wide knowledge. I think they have to go back from the embarrass. Amok default does fifty. I think four or five minutes either. Good winning changes. But they're all still a similar type of horses are not enough have much progression hazing. Good health winning art not only winning demolishing field over went to maters blinkers. We're on first time and at over rice a little bit full ali but it's still absolutely put a hole in the rest of the maze when they start start winning form they can be mardi hard to stop. This horse did win a heavily. Seven eight hundred meters. I think a couple of springs. I'm happy to play with just off the map. I think she gets the best running trains. It should be onstage. Might be hard to run. Dan in a really tricky rice. She does gills. But this is this is equal level. White t fifty seven. So i got back to. Who is the best horse. But the best fitness moorefield and can run them. It's the jewish group. One win in the toy toyota. If she if she's and the chaos to gallup's sabine taught tracks and tricky tracks. She gets to eagle pham and she's drawing live. She watches it all on followed yamazaki. She can follow polygraph. She can follow dropping back from the mall and a quarter fabric. She can follow. All of these horses are gonna let are at some stage where she's got to be able to warned up and she needs to get to the ad saw which he does look not rock. O'clock fifty seven key allies cochet at sprint anatolia. Getting back on. I think she's the class run up. So i'm sticking with you and you always get across with natalia boys rice's five six and non coming up after the break and not far away. Is the one on one with chris. Walla back to three wide getting the rice number five on the candidate and sling. Ticks is the fiber won the group three hallmark of twelve hundred metres. Did nine match for eight wild. I last two dulles seventy vodka huge finished arroyo kayla's at doom and has a good up record four dollars sixteen from four eighty the astrologist beaten by stop to get along way back die stroller. Just fifty sold bowl is best explained over twelve hundred nine dollars. Skull panini brilliant a rapport skull opinion. They call it the potato grenade but that is twelve dollars. Solely in the market stamp or stamp is eighteen into twelve. So i some good wisdom aboard. A thirteen is for the and special award eighteen. Good when he's gay. Oregon allison couldn't even think i know much space links between texts roles forward so that what really goes for. Maybe we used to move water bowl a year. I can sit on speed as well but again. I don't think it's gonna be huge. Tim pug really interesting. Rice win. takes obviously went to the group. One last didn't miss stay up the stop programme. We're gonna really joy. Tracker was a outstanding rent. A fee i think he can get back to that level. Get back to that level. With the way i think this rice maps. I think it's the winner. I think the only other horse that really scares me in the rice is varga who ran a huge rice last. But it's going to be out of repeat that again and maybe it'll just come off slowly and if it comes off slightly spleen takes his guy to be in the position. Josh park controls the rice. I think he wins. When takes familiar day. It is a tricky rice. Josie because there is a lack of spayed this right so we'll be controlled on the tempo special reward. Wisdom of water can come across. Mike design the astrologists guy. Back spleen takes gets the best run in the rice jewel box. Eight so maybe just asks them the work on the right shoulder in case the fence to control it do veteran the rice ivonne was sensational screaming and the ad saw dot drops half the key. Light a fifty three and a half these four year now has to take the twelve hundred bucks but you know what on willing to sit on the souls. If i'm karen mcevoy all day and just doesn't have to do any work on the fence. Ken fall spleen. Takes the let let him at stamping to let him out wisdom award eleni matt and used that turn of foot hold it till the three hundred and bang with a lot wider fifty three and a half about as the wholesome shot stuff for the boys. Let's get into right number six fifteen hundred meters and grants well as you have good market early support as well in three into three dollars. Thirty one gal. Fifteen hundred murders for a win charlotte. He's really good. If in the italian job. I love the fact that she was really good actress in that one but in this one brought him at rise zealand a benchmark seventy two could have won by more. Seventy lavar is six fifty in the six dollars. Rising well with that. Winning is well goldie. Foxx non solar that mark at first. Stop the taibbi. Trent edmonds from tiny golan lizzy dollars. Solid fleischer is a and moral labs sixteen east asia. Sixteen lobby lucy seventeen. Let's still is twenty. Three fort wayne forty-six sokoto eighty one with do mega scratched so much flesh as performance. Every day as a maid is the last two hundred minutes. Don't say that too often mini way. That's doors digressing spayed. Matt grants well goes forward again. I don't think there's a lotta speeding these rights on paper. I'm let's go.
The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove
"queensland" Discussed on The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove
"Supporting other states verse. Because you knew. Queensland will never pioneer anything and then being able to the must be something pioneer. You think of anything six gerald commission but that was because we probably had a terrible the whist corrupt system to begin with. I've had inquiries into police corruption and other states..
AP News Radio
111-Year-Old Australian Recommends Eating Chicken Brains
"Australia's oldest ever man shares some secrets prolong life dexter Kruger is a retired cattle rancher and lives in the Pinnaroo aged care centre in Queensland he's probably one of the sharpest residents here his memory is amazing for a hundred and eleven year olds Melanie Calvert works at the center dexter Kruger told Australian broadcasting a weekly poultry delicacy has contributed to his longevity chicken Brian's yeah they are chickens have ahead and in there there's a variety as I have delicious little things as anyone ever bought Kruger is writing his autobiography have written three hundred stories and they're all packed in my mind gather gathered over a hundred years the oldest ever woman in Australia lived until she was one hundred fourteen I'm at Donahue
The Science Show
Proposed Tariff a Disincentive for Household Renewable Energy
"Scheme has been mooted to make us pay to put our excess energy into the grid as sola peaks in household systems. And we have spare. Is this a good idea. He alison crook a former australian businesswoman of the year. I have talked on. Previous science shows about our social enterprise in other community energy. Australia's first community owned energy retailer and about a vision for self sustaining. Resilient communities in which power is generated stored and shade locally. No one is left behind in the shift to renewables. Jobs are created locally and money is kept circulating in communities in our is now almost five years old and we have much to celebrate. We now service. The whole of new south wales and have just moved into southeast queensland whereabout to install efforts community sized battery athas social impact solar garden for community groups and low income households is operating. And we'll be reporting soon. Unauthorised pilot micro agreed fifty percent. Our profits will go back to the communities of customers and already through the generosity of customers. We've been able to provide sizeable sums to groups such as the black guy liberation ladder and the bushfire relief if it's ablaze. Eight and red cross during covid. Nineteen in twenty twenty. Some of our wonderful customers even made the solar credits on bills available to pay for the energy of households that were struggling working with community groups around the country where on the way to proving that energy companies can operate at community level and be hugely beneficial while doing so. But today i'm here to talk about a recent draft ruling by the australian energy market commission. The emc on excess pricing and incentive arrangements for distributed energy resources or as the headline news has it attacks on solar. What's to be clear. The ruling declared that the export of energy from households and other small providers by distributors. That's the polls and was is a service and it permits the distributors to charge for this service in the same way that we're currently charged by distributors to bring energy to us. The ruling has been made because agreed was constructed for one way energy flows and it is gradually becoming incapable of supporting the two way energy flows involved in twenty-first-century energy system with its massive amounts of domestic and business solo and storage already twenty percent of customers in the national electricity market have rooftop solar and this conservatively expected to double or even triple by twenty forty and all would expect to be able to export any excess energy to the
Drive with Rafael Epstein
Did Australia Get Its Vaccine Strategy Right?
"Government government was was thinking thinking about about spending spending as as much much as as $130 billion on job caper. Turns out they did not end up needing to spend that much by the parameters they had set themselves. But in that context $130 billion. It's a massive program never spent that much. At the same time in the middle of last year. There are obviously contemplating how much to spend on a vaccine. We end up spending about $3.3 billion right now, we don't have the vaccines that we would like to have in the rollout has Bean slowed. Is this hindsight? Or is it pertinent criticism during government today Announcing $50 million a lot less 50 million, as opposed to billions to help potentially make an Emory in a vaccine here. We didn't spend money on making those here. Last year. In announcing that money today, the acting premier James Molina, was pretty pointed He was essentially saying the federal government should have done this 12 months ago. Side said. I'm very placed two unanswered. The injuries government will be providing $50 million to kick start the establishment off on shore manufacturing off Marina vaccine right here in Victoria. 12 months ago would have been the best time to have done this. The next best time is right now. Right now, we need to do this. This time would have been 12 months ago, according to the state labor government. We picked four vaccines. One of them fell over. That was the one of the University of Queensland. We picked one to make here. That was the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. That's kind of you, mate and he's being made by CSL. Should we have been preparing to make another one here? The government argues that the CSL vaccine the one they're going to make the Oxford AstraZeneca was further down the line. It had been used our bit. It's on the basis. It's technology is the basis for any bowl of accent. I think it's technology has also been used. To vaccinate wild animals against righties. The federal government's argument has always been that the Marine a vaccines like flies is one he's and was more experimental. They'd wait the
Coronacast
What makes a variant a variant of concern?
"Hello this is corona cost a daily podcast all about the coronavirus. I'm health reported teigen tyler. An opposition and journalists culture. Norman swan friday the fifth of march and give it into the second year of corona caster. But it gives you the year it's two thousand and twenty one. It still hasn't anyone even though time is both flying and travelling at a snail's pace but normally one of the things that we keep hearing about over the past few weeks and months is variant. So we we were all very critical of donald trump when he was talking about the china virus and the wuhan virus. But then since then we've been talking about the uk strain in the south african strain. And then yesterday all this week we've been hearing about a russian variant. That's popped up in queensland. So firstly what does it even mean and secondly doing it a better way of naming these virus variance where we're gonna way of naming them. It's just pretty obscure so. The russian variance so called is has the numbers three one seven at the end of it and it is a bit unfair naming them according to where they were i noticed or discovered so britain said africa brazil. New york california russia. It's not very helpful at all because it just sparks. Fear yet. A new variant. What does it actually mean. There's lots and lots of variance. And if i can take us back. Just a little less than a year is that even then there were variants developing and people panicking about them at that point and the bedford lab. Which was really one of the first labs to get into sequencing the variance in tracking them. Globally they found that in fact there was very little change in behavior between the variants. It was more. The people change their behavior but not the virus and that's only recently changed and it's only changed with two or three variants so it's changed with the south african variants. It seems to probably be more Contagious and certainly more vaccine resistant. The brazilian variant. We still don't know enough about that but that looks as if it's more contagious. And certainly also look. Civic could be vaccine partly packed vaccine resistant. The uk one. It's more about contagious. Nece and the american ones so far just not sure what their behavioral changes so more and more. We're seeing various but for every one of these variants you're seeing that are lots and lots of other ones which simply track the evolution of the virus and don't really mean anything and reportedly this variant which is three one seven being called the russian variant. Just seems to be one of these variants which has been thrown off by the virus through replication. And probably doesn't mean very much at all so one of the other pieces of lingo that we've been hearing this idea variant of concern and some of the naming conventions have the are see in them as well as like there's the be one one seven top naming convention and then this other naming conventions which just makes it even more confusing. What makes a variant of very of concern versus just add variant of not concerned. Just curiosity is. I'm sure that that is actually standardized internationally but it would just mean that. There is evidence that it's transmitting more than other viruses muscling other viruses out the ways so for example. The uk barely has muscled other variance out of the way. It's presumed to be more contagious. But probably less contagious than we originally thought the brazilian very. We've talked about it on a corona cast. It seems to be infecting people who were previously infected with the let's call it the wuhan variant which is really the regional virus to come out of china and the south african variants is also almost certainly able to reinfect from the previous one which also and there is evidence of reduced vaccine. Efficacy is gets this concern label when there's evidence that it is behaving differently and potentially dangerously
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What happens if you get the wrong dose?
"And so norman vaccine relative happening the government indicated earlier this week. That in the role that they were going to be mistakes made and we saw one of your day. We saw an idea year old man and a ninety four year old woman in brisbane though given the incorrect dose of the five vaccine and they're not sure it's all under investigation at the moment. They may have been given up to four times the amount of vaccine. So can you guys on a vaccine is it. Is it a safety problem. And what have health authorities done right and wrong in this situation. Well the first thing i want to do is give a huge shy type on this to both the commonwealth and queensland health because this is the textbook way so if you are feeling a corpus are unsettled about this in terms of the rollout of the vaccine i on the other hand find this reassuring hugely reassuring because what happened here was. Let's just go through it. There was a mistake. Made the nurse notice it and called it out and the authorities have not hidden it. They've been transparent about it and there's going to be an investigation and we'll learn from it. That's exactly the way safety and quality should work in healthcare. Mistakes will occur all the time. This just not happen more than once. It's unfortunate for the people who experienced them but human error is inevitable but the way to deal with it. Is that anybody who sees a mistake. Be able to call it out so for example if you're a daughter scrub nursing theater and you see a senior surgeon to making a mistake you call them out on and you are transparent about it. You don't hide it and so nothing has been hidden here since gives me huge confidence that the system is going to be safe and protect against human error. So i'm i'm reassured. By second thing is what about the man and the woman who were immunized. Is this a risk for them. The have been trials of the pfizer vaccine where they have tried out higher doses and my understanding is that those higher doses where safe did not produce side effects. And i think what's happened probably over. The course of the trial is to preserve the vaccine. They've tried to fight the lowest does. That's most effective and that'll be the does that's being administered. Not in theory. You could possibly get out of over reaction in the immune system. That's possible particularly with these mini vaccines but the fact that these people are elderly. They've got reduced immunity in the first place. And it's unlikely you're going to get that problem so you can have problems with too much vaccine. But hopefully they will be fine
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Latest Melbourne hotel quarantine leak proves 'we're not learning'
"Happened in melbourne's melbourne's now in a five day down because of a hotel quarantine skype and we need your wisdom on it. Nominee basically. What we've seen is there was an escape from high to- quarantine that's a couple of times in the last few weeks and months all ever ustralia but unlike what happened in western australia and queensland they it's lead to more cases than just one or two zero so over the weekend we've seen another cases come out A few more exposure sites being recommended that people who were they're going get tested and isolate so the question is is five days going to be enough for victoria to bring these quarantine lake under control from reports. Seems clear that for a short period of time the contact tracing hesitate to use words Lost the plot but the behind it could be because it's a variant purdue could've conceivably happened with the wuhan virus as well is it's very infectious foreigners anyway and you've had a bit of escape and that's the problem that they're chasing a bit in melbourne and i think the the tracing commander in victoria does excellent work probably was prematurely the other day when he said they're on top of it you know i don't think they wear on top of that day and it's just got a beat out in the question is how much virus there is out there. There's positive sewage from various places including cobra. Where interestingly the was this private event where there's it seems to have been a bit of a spreading events how much spreading event we've remains to be seen and yet again we see with his forest that it's cluster-based that you get clusters so you're gonna cost situation in the holiday inn and then goes to other areas where you can get further sub clusters if you like developing the question is just to what extent you've got other clusters going and the extent to which they're tying them dina what's really good. News is a lot of victorians are coming forward for testing. The now seem to be on top of the contact tracing at least according to the press conference yesterday and they're the people who are becoming positive already in quarantine which is really good news artan about although it's relatively recent moved into quarantine see don't know backtracking the extent to which they were spreading the virus before they became positive. So my guess is the. I can't really guess because no inside information but what to watch for is just. How many new cases develop each states. If you remember from western australia queensland particularly when they went to short shot lockdowns zero cases each day's me say well. Why did they bother doing it here. There are not zero cases each day but now cases coming forward questions what happens today but if there are more cases each day particularly new venues than they are going to be a bit anxious about letting this go on wednesday so we'll just need to wait and see. unfortunately there's no crystal ball gazing. You mentioned just now this idea of a short short incubation period which is something that we've sort of his that it's language that's been used almost every time this being an outbreak so we heard it in south australia and in sydney last year as well. Is there any evidence that this time. They truly is a shorter incubation period. Looking at national evidence. No it's more that you the you're much more likely to spread it to other people are not the reproduction number is more like three point. Four and two point five with the wuhan version of the virus. The number of people that you're likely to infect if it was going on chick to live in faith but which is an artificial number because if you look at say the crossroads motel they are not there. I don't know guessing. But fifteen maybe fifteen people or something like that because it spreads and clusters the are not as average when you can get into super spanning the are not becomes really quite large and scary and with this new variant presumably even larger and scarier. And then you get people emerging probably with a lot of virus on board early on who helped the super spreading to a car and that makes it looks as the incubation period is shorter. It's just i think they've got a viral load. That develops faster rather than the the condition period being shorter luck with other times that we've seen a short shop look down as the company to fly over this idea of a five day quarantine. Is it an overreaction. I don't believe it is controlled. Every time i say it but the fact is you've got this new variant around. There's increasing information from britain that it's more virulent that there may be hospitalization and maybe even har- death rate with it still uncertain so i don't think it is and i think it's just a question of getting things under control and letting the contact tracers get on top of it really quickly and not really damaging and it's been damaging weekend for the restaurant trades in victoria with valentine's day we can also the lunar new year but it's an important thing to do and you if you go back to the middle of last year. If tornado had done this kind of thing probably for about two weeks just says it was spreading in the northwest corridor. They wouldn't almost certainly have had a lockdown lasting well over hundred
Coronacast
What's going on in Melbourne's quarantine hotels?
"So we'll let start today with a chat about melvin quarantine hotel situation because they've had a few cases that have. They're all sort of clustered around this one hotel there year the holiday inn at melbourne airport. It's been several cases that have come from it now. And it's clearly wired the victorian government enough for them to close it down. Move everyone from it. For a deep clean as the premier daniel andrews explained yesterday. They were several cases. I suppose we can refer to them. One was the the authorized officer. The other one was a food and beverage attendant and then the third case was a hotel resident and all of them they think are linked back to the theory that that going and calling it the moment. Cold the nebulizer theory. So that sounds intriguing. And we'll unpack that in a little bit but to save vilnai from speculating for completely unqualified physicians. We brought in an actual expert today. Dr kirsty short. Who's a just from the university of queensland. Welcome kisdi high so kirsty. This theory the nebulizer theories based on this idea that someone in the hotel was using and as in one of those medical devices that can help deliver a medicine to someone that can also create aerosols. Does this add more to our knowledge. About how corona virus does doesn't transmit through the air while look. I think there's been a lot of debate about this throughout the pandemic and other role gist. You know i've never seen this as a black and white issue because you never going to have a virus that is hundred percent aircel and you never going to have a mars. That's hundred percent droplet. You're just going to have in some circumstances it's arizo transmission and in some circumstances it's droplet transmission so we've always sort of suspected in high risk procedures like integration of patients with curved That that could be an aerosol generating procedure. And i suspect probably what's happening in these toe quarantine situations is. We are getting rather unfortunate string or unlucky string of events whereby you on maybe having aerosols generated in the room for whatever reason be nebulizer others. And then what you've got to remember. Is that in facilities way. You where. I work in the laboratory where you work with the actual vars. It's all negative pressure. So that means that when you open daw- the epcot come out and it stays in the room but these hotels onto signed as quarantine facilities. Sorry theoretically what could happen is an individual. There could be lots of ours. Air sliced in the room and individual could open the door. And then somebody who is walking past or the virus could stay in the f. x. amount of time as the was drawn into the corridor with the door being arpan. Sorry these all sound. Like very pedantic risks i guess but when when leukaemia detect every single case of infection they are really really
Coronacast
When might we see more cases in WA's outbreak?
"Hello welcome to khurana. Cost a daily podcast. All about the coronavirus. I'm health reported taken tyler physician and journalist alter norman swan. It's tuesday the second february. That's right and the second day of perth and surrounds his five die lockdown which they've gone into because arto quarantine worker has tested positive for. What's now being confirmed to be the strain of coronavirus. That's being called the uk strain and so norman. Seeing a five looked down. We know that it takes longer than five days for the virus to incubate in. Someone's body so i can. We talk about what you do when you're trying to control of virus in its very early stages where you'd have to say first of all five days. He's actually at the lower end of the of the incubation period. So it's almost one incubation period. Not quite so. The there are key elements of control. I is social. Distancing and lockdown is an extreme form of social distancing where you don't know where the viruses remember. This farce is not spread evenly. Eighty percent of people don't spread the virus twenty percent do and they do through clusters so this man has been all over paris. he's been may lands. Which is where he lives. He's been joondalup far north. He's been in the city and so at any one of the so he might not be a superspreader himself but he might have spread to other people who then pass it on a super spreading environment like we saw in sydney. So that's that's the problem is that you get these clusters. And the classics stay underground for a while before they burst out and reveal themselves. And that's the prospect so what they're doing here is the right thing is that they're clamping down on social distancing so the virus cannot spread any further than it already has or you minimize that so. That's one element. The second element is testing and testing has got to be in really large numbers of west australian tens of thousands. So that just in case you there's a case out there that you're not finding you just want to be sure that you're really massively testing in chance that something is out there in a random way and people have caught it where we're at surprise not just in the contact areas where you might have been in coz in mayland or or wherever so. He's talking about testing nine omen but we have seen a lot of testing and they haven't been any more cases least as of yesterday. And i think that this man might have been infected around the twenty-fifth so we're may be getting into a timeframe where we could be saying positives. Yes but the testing rates are just gathering in numbers so the weren't that many tests yesterday for a city of six million people so it got really multiply to maybe ten times that number of tests. I think there were three thousand or tests reported overnight. So that's that was only in half a day so the numbers of just got to ramp up. Then the next thing is that which is about contact tracing so the already got onto the contact tracing identified sixty or seventy people so far context. Those people have got to be quarantined regardless of their status. Because they're the most likely people who are going to become positive and in the northern beaches of sydney a very significant. I can't coach the numbers. But a very significant percentage of people who became positive in that in the clusters that remarriage from the northern beaches positive in quarantine. They were already isolated for fourteen days. So you don't want people becoming positive and about you wanted to become positive when they're home in quarantine or hotel quarantine so those are the elements of control and if it goes size the strategy or queensland then there won't be any more cases they'll have identified them under control and it may not be necessary to go the full five days but it just allows you to get things under control contact tracers to get on top of it and five days is much better than a grumbling. Thing which you really paralyzes the city for for days and days and days if not weeks which is what happened in was the under control done a great job but it lasted a long time and right through christmas so it is looked down. When are we gonna have good indication of whether we're good or whether it's more of an outbreak large testing numbers. Not finding anybody. So let's take some questions from our audience This person saying they've heard that a vaccinated senator in the us has been infected with covid after getting shot. And we know that there's a proportion of people who become infected that have ongoing health issues. Do we know whether someone who's had the coronavirus vaccine is more or less or the same amount likely to get long term health problems from covid. We don't know that yet. there is an right. There is a relationship between severity infection in vancouver but people who get mild infection do get it as well so we don't know the answer to that question. We'll only know as the months go by often when people get infected is after the first does the second does. And that's been the situation in israel as well so you do get partial protection but not for protection so that we don't we just don't know the answer to that question
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Is WA overreacting by locking down so much?
"Hello this is. Corona cast a daily podcast. All about the coronavirus. I'm health reported teigen. Tulloch position journalist alter norman swan. It's monday the first of february. That's right and yesterday. We were mocking the longest stretch. Nationwide without any luck transmission since february last year was fourteen consecutive days. But we've seen that stretch broken With a case announced in western australia yesterday norman male cortel quarantine security guard in his twenties. Who was working at the sheraton four points quarantine hotel and w i has not surprisingly jumped really hot on the web announced a really tough five lockdown basically. No one's going anywhere for five days until they figure out what's going on so one case and a really tough five day lockdown. Is this an overreaction. Or is this the right level of reaction. No i think it's the right level of reaction and the mandatory masks as well and they've just done everything to get this under control. It's one person but this person's been to a lot of different areas potentially a lot of contacts. Luckily so far his flatmates were are negative and they would be the people most at risk so the may well be very little if any spread here. But you just don't know and it's possible that he's got the uk variant of the virus since the uk very was on. That was on the floor of the people. He was speaking after him so one of the things they're doing is they're canceling weddings for the next five days like you say this Mosques are expected to be in place and a lot of other measures that have been put into place in norman. You've said basically since the very start of this podcast. If people can bear the cost him on set far back that the way to get on top of these fires is to go in hard into going to ease their limit to the hardness and early. Nece that you are prepared to endorse. This is still within your your realm if you want to control this virus. There's only one thing that works when you really when you when you don't know where the virus is and that is a longtime which stops people coming in contact with each other and running the risk of spreading the virus. You got to keep the virus away from other people. So the lockdown is what works now. There's no question. As new south wales has shown that guerrilla good contact tracing high testing ritz contact tracing. An isolationist required does make a difference and can get under control. But that's taken weeks in new south wales when there's been no uk variant the uk variant as people listening to chronic will know eddie homes on from the university of sydney a little while ago. Is that the wuhan. Virus spreads from one person to about two point five the uk variant spreads from one person to about three point four. That's probably the best way of thinking about it. Robin the percentage is a fifty percent or seventy percent more contagious so it is a lot more contagious and remember. This is a virus that spreads in clusters rather than evenly spread through the community. That's why these venues are so important to come to actually pin down get tested. Who were at those venues at those times published by the west australian government so it could be like southeasterly korea and queensland where it turned out to be a fisher on nice vizner to have and they're able to lift the lockdown early and that's great but a three four or five day locked on is much better than some stopping and starting not controlling the the virus which is what they've done and look what happens and the other problem and w. unlike new south wales and unlike victoria is they haven't had any community spread for ages knives since early be early last year and so people had returned to normal soon. Can't expect them to kind of do half of a social isolation process. You've really got to pull the whole population back. And then just your sees it up for five days and the you know the good news is likely to be that there hasn't spread but it's possible has in which case just got to give under
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Global Gilmour Space completes successful hybrid rocket engine test
"Doco space rocket competent gilmore's space of caridad a successful engine to spur of the new hybrid rocket. Motor the hot five. Verification tests are what is the world's largest single port hybrid rocket engine lasted ten seconds producing record ninety-one killer newton's nine tonnes force thrust the queensland based companies developing a three stage launch vehicle capable of carrying small satellites into low-earth orbit and the rocket murray. Yes for this test is the same design. That will be pairing. The first and second stages of the company's new aries vehicle engineers now going through the results with plans to undertake duration and higher thrust tests in the next few weeks. This space time.