• fenrasulfr
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    I am surprised that their country isn’t mostly working on Solar considering the sun hours they get and the available space.

    • Pappabosley
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      Don’t get me started, we could be world leaders in renewables, if our politicians weren’t funded by mining billionaires and our media wasn’t heavily controlled by Murdoch

      • BeMoreCareful
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        Former colony blues. It wasn’t just the criminals we sent to Australia or the religious wackos exported to the Americas. We also sent people to exploit them and I guess old habits die hard.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      As Donald Horne pointed out in 1964, we are country of happy go lucky fools, electing mostly idiots. Nothing much has changed.