August 2013 – troutish.net

Episode 7 of the (un) Common Sense Podcast is now available!

This episode of the podcast includes:

Housing affordability TOP election issue (especially Canning electorate)
G4S & Serco both under serious fraud investigation regarding ‘prisoner tagging‘ scandal
Radioactive water still leaking into ocean at Fukushima
Pete Ashdown of Xmission, the NSA’s little box & profitable monitoring
Military judge finds Bradley Manning guilty of ‘espionage’ but not ‘aiding enemy’
US heats up rhetoric with Russia over Snowden
Daily Telegraph open bias against Kevin Rudd & ALP
Rinehart subpoena on Steve Pennells dismissed

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Continue reading Podcast EP7 – Housing Affordability, Edward Snowden and the Manning Trial

The Liberal Party of Western Australia are misusing the West Australian government’s budget in many ways. I only want to focus on 3 of them for now.

Solar Cuts – Solar feed-in rebate to be slashed in half, despite 10 year contracts.
Paid Parking – Free parking at train stations to be abolished as of July 1, 2014.
Wasteful Spending – $20bn+ on Elizabeth Quay and $1bn+ on sports stadium.

One of the most controversial decision in the August 8 state budget are the “Solar Cuts” (see #SolarCuts). These will see the solar energy feed-in tariff literally halved, despite electricity prices having risen by more than 70% in recent years.

Existing customers currently receive 40c per unit sold, this will be reduced to 20c.

Continue reading Solar Cuts, Paid Parking and the Liberal Party’s budget