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  1. coljones
    Bland in the middle works for me. The least hated person in the room is usually the do-er and can work with all comers.
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    Send an email to the CEO. There is also the Senate, proportional representation, method where in this case you only need 16% of the vote, the multiple preferential where your first 5 votes all have equal value and prefs are only used if 1 of your first 5 are knocked out or repeated application of the preferential ballot eliminating successful candidates and re-allocating the voters next preference until 5 are elected. The last 2 methods elects people most preferred by everyone so it is possible that a dominant group of electors can determine 100% of those elected - but majority rules (hmm! Those pesky Qlanders could dominate) but you could avoid fringe candidates. Proportional voting does allow for minor to have a say in the election and outcome in proportion to their strength. These election methods are all supported by the AEC. You might find them in the industrial elections section of their website.
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    Rod has only been here since the beginning of August (unless he had a previous life). While his presence here would be welcome, that alone should not be the sole determinant.
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    There should be a greater award for this other than "Winner". Rapier skewering of the hot air balloons set afloat by the supporters of the old world order deserves, at least, a "Skewerer suprememo" award.
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    He wasn't much chop as president either.
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    Controlled airspace access requires additional training, examination and testing. No-one on an RAA cert gets it unless they qualify, at the moment by doing a PPL or an RPL with the CTA Endo. In future if RAA Certs are permitted CTA access they will in all probability also need a CTA Endo. If an RAA person just wants to fly around the local area by themselves they don't need an RAA Pax or XC Endo.
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    You're thinking about the township of Jabiru, not the plane. Jabiru the town has a high summer temp of 33c. Both the Foxbat and Jabiru are rated at 38c max, probably due to the resins used in construction. I'm not sure about the density altitude effects of both planes. I haven't flown the Foxbat on stinking hot days but the Jab was OK. Beer to beer the Jabiru is much better.
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    What do the plastics get, and at what cost to RAA, that the rag and tube don't get. When plane flew higher than 300 feet and over the fence they entered into a whole new world and its costs and complications.
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    Why should/would a Drifter certificate cost less than a Sling. I can't see that RAA incurs greater costs per unit for a Sling compared to a Drifter. Same with controlled airspace - what additional costs accrue except the endorsement done by an external examiner at the pilot's cost - as with any endorsement.
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    You wouldn't want us to talk about aeroplanes would you? It would just descend into name calling and slagging off at the Rotax owners.
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    I wouldn't want to win something with a Rotax engine in it - I might end up becoming smug and sanctimonious.
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    The world currently has a lot of "sharia" law in place. In the Australian context it is "Judeo-Christian" canon law. It is gradually getting whittled down. I can remember Sundays in the country where not even a leaf was permitted to move because of the Sunday Observance Act. An eye for an eye was straight out of the Bible and the devine right of kings (just like a mediaeval mafia) was a perversion of the rules of religion. Been garrotted or had your eyes gouged out recently?
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    This would increase the reluctance to lift the US minimum wage rate way beyond its current miserable less than $5/hr rate. If the minimum wage rate was raised to, say $15p/h, the low paid would be a hell of a lot better off even if they had to pay tax. McDonalds makes a very good profit in Australia despite the wage rate being 3xUS and the big Mac the same price. (but does maccas actually pay Oz taxes?)
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    Don, I understand the red room, which contains members elected in proportion to their support from the populace unlike the green room which is elected in a form of winner take all (although not as bad as the UK). One might even say that the country party, full of xenophobes and unrepresentative swill, are the wackos holding the balance of power, skewering Turnbull and the liberals on quite a few rational and progressive policies. I suggest you chuck some nasturtiums over your right shoulder to give yourself a little balance. Keep well!!!
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    Jab230
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    The swill in the red room are a hell of a lot more representative than the gerrymanders in the green. I'm not sure who George Christiansen is actually representative of - certainly not decent people with a sense of fair go nor of the Danish people living in Australia. He must have come over with Joe Bjelke-Petersen from New Zealand.
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    You mean cojones¿
  19. coljones
    Doesn't count. Can't be registered RAA.
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    The future fund is for my super not your pension. If I went out and flogged off the family silver, the house, the car, the kayak, the pushbikes and my coin collection I too could deliver 10 years of surpluses which, by and large, was how Howard and Costello achieved theirs. If you cast your mind back to the early 80s Howard was a leper as a treasurer. Keep well.
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    Is anyone putting their hand up for the election or will it fall to the old guard due to lack of interest?
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    The rules are designed to be driven through. No-one seems to be actively monitoring or enforcing the rules on foreign ownership. Nor things like lazy rule setting and cynical water acquisition such as at Cubby Station.
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    I don't take sport seriously at all (except Hockey, handball and Hurling - it has to 'ave an aich - 'orse racing is just a commercial ripoff)
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    Hoxton Park is what I typed before auto-spell turned it into Horton Park:sad angel:
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    If you get a Sydney VTC it comes with a supplement of the various lanes around Sydney (Sydney General Flying Guide). The VTC also includes all the area and ctafs you need. You say you don't want to go to the west does that mean to the west of Camden or to the west of Katoomba. If you don't want to overfly Cambelltown then I would come down the lane from Brooklyn Bridge to Prospect @ 2500ft. Veer right to the Camden (Mayfield) reporting point @ 4500ft and then track via Mittagong to the south. Take care between Bankstown and Wallachia as this is the Bankstown training area. South of the Oaks is the Oaks training area. If you can overfly Cambelltown fly from Prospect to Horton Park (alongside the M7 - and marvel how a perfectly useful Airstrip can be turned into a mega warehouse) and the join to lane south to Cambelltown CBD. Then track to Picton and Mittagong. You could overfly Camden but the gliding fraternity seem to like pulling circling high rate climbs over the strip so flying high over reporting points seems like a better deal. The Sydney Flying Guide may be available on the CASA or Airsevices website. Enjoy.
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