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WA polls indicating change in WA Gov show Albo risks being one term PM

I blogged a month ago “Voice campaign polls tightening says ABC”
www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=7153
and has that ever been borne out yeeha.
Since then National polls have showed gains by those intending to vote NO and recently even NSW polls have indicated a majority for NO.
All this has raised the possibility that the referendums could fail which might contribute to Albo being a one term PM.
New WA Gov. laws around intrusion of Indigenous rights onto your “freehold land” have increasingly raised landholder concerns in that State in recent months since the retirement of the popular Premier McGowan. And of course all Australians should assume that their State or Territory Govs. have similar impositions on freehold property being planned deep in their GreenLeft bureaucracies.
In the last few days polls in WA have indicated an earthquake in voting intentions to the extent that the election of a new LNP State Gov is indicated if an election were held.
Poll shows Libby Mettam’s Liberals hold 54-46 two-party preferred lead over Labor with Roger Cook as Premier 23Jul23
thewest.com.au/news/wa/poll-shows-libby-mettams-liberals-hold-54-46-two-party-preferred-lead-over-labor-with-roger-cook-as-premier-c-11360597
Quote [The WA Liberals would win an election held today, according to remarkable new polling that reveals dramatic upheaval in the State’s political landscape.
Mark McGowan’s shock departure, coupled with deeply unpopular Aboriginal heritage laws — which the government has battled to explain — appear to have critically damaged Labor’s prospects in the two short months since Roger Cook took over as Premier.]
It is a long while yet to the referendum vote and if polling continues to indicate a loss for the Yes Vote then I suppose Albo could call off the referendum and just legislate for a Voice; which I recall he has previously threatened to do. I also expect the AEC to act very biassed in favour of a Yes Vote plus the upcoming Govt legislation on disinformation and misinformation has great potential to be used to attack the No Voters side.
Looking further ahead to the 2025 Federal Election the next two summers are a danger time in terms of power price spikes caused by weather and outages that could pressure Govt. energy policy. All factors that could work against Labor in 2025.

Huge Chinese Consulate in Adelaide – are they spying

Is China spying on our various defence related projects. Could be a centre for spying on Woomera and the new Oz Space Industry HQ and operations – not to mention submarine and RAN ship building, Jindalee (JORN) “over the horizon radar network” at Edinburgh – Jindalee Operational Radar Network
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Network
RAAF reconnaissance operations out of Edinburgh Air base. The Consulate is probably the closest Chinese facility to Pine Gap. Not to mention ~mid-way between China and Antarctica. Hoping readers can add info. Could Australia jam the Sino’s if they are listening to our radio emissions?
New Adelaide Chinese consulate attracts angry protest after complaints about size, human rights abuses 30Mar2021
www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-30/protest-at-opening-of-new-adelaide-chinese-consulate/100037766
Australia monitors new Chinese consulate 25Mar2021
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Frances Adamson says she understands concerns about a new Chinese consulate in Adelaide.
7news.com.au/politics/australia-monitors-new-chinese-consulate-c-2433681

UKMO BoM Weather Observation Website going nowhere

Summary of UKMO BoM WOW pages
bom-wow.metoffice.gov.uk/
they say “Welcome to the Bureau of Meteorology Weather Observation Website The Bureau of Meteorology has collaborated with the UK Met Office so Australians may easily lodge and share weather observations, information and photos. Find out more about WOW and read the Bureau’s Disclaimer. For official Australian data, forecasts and warnings, go to www.bom.gov.au.”
There is a Blog or as they say a Forum.
groups.google.com/g/met-office-wow
And we find the first posts to the Forum were ~Aug 2013 and there were 111 posts and last post was in Oct 2018. So the public seems to have given up on WOW. I think it is clear from the URL that WOW was originally a UKMO idea – I guess BoM jumped on board and apart from the map of real time temperatures it all looks a bit like an unloved project now. Remember Climategate started in Nov 2009 so WOW was initiated by UKMO not long after dust was settling from Climategate which was a disaster for many many IPCC compliant National Met Office Orgs like UKMO and BoM.
A personal note here – WOW went under my radar till I heard about it in the last week or so on a sceptics email forum.

The Stone Age a taboo subject re The Voice

It is fascinating in the context of publicity and propaganda here by the GreenLeft/Albo/Govt around The Voice that nobody mentions(not that I have seen) that the arrival of the British First Fleet here in Jan 1788 tolled the bell for the end of The Stone Age lingering on across the wide brown great southern land and named New South Wales by the new settlers, now known as Australia.
The Stone Age and associated violence, horrors and hardships across the wide brown great southern land ended the day the British First Fleet landed here and started establishing a new society. Indigenous people could look forward to an improving standard of living and increased life expectancy as they participated in the development of the NSW Colony. The huge and globally historic improvements in living standards and life expectancy that emerged from the industrial revolution in Britain inevitably flowed through to the Colony of NSW.

Big Autumn cooling hits Sydney says Weatherzone

Weatherzone has a good story in their News section headlined “Sydney struck by big autumn cooling 13May23”
www.weatherzone.com.au/news/sydney-struck-by-big-autumn-cooling/1268201
Thats Sydney Australia downunder.
But of course as usual Weatherzone never fail to ignore saying this cooling is in the face of the largest urban heat island (UHI) on Wide Brown Land.

Note too Chris Gillham’s charts showing the cool Australian summer is carrying on.
Despite BoM’s frantic media about “Heatwaves”.
www.waclimate.net/australia-cooling.html

Australian cool summer sparks massive headlines

Chris Gillham has updated his chart (Mar 2012 to Feb 2023) of ACORN V2.3 mean t(Aussie land stations many affected by UHI now stroked & tweaked by BoM) vs NASA UAH lower troposphere temps from satellites. His page is headed – Australian climate plateau since 2012 – Datasets show no warming for more than a decade
www.waclimate.net/australia-cooling.html
BoM three-monthly mean temperature anomaly for Australia 1Dec2022 to 28Feb2023
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=meananom&period=3month&area=nat
At this BoM page you can also easily checkout the max anomaly (Daytime) and Min anomaly (Night time) maps.
This summer has been marked by amazing BoM publicity about heatwaves – perhaps readers can report their experience of heatwaves this summer – thanks.
In a few days the UAH Global map of lower troposphere T anomalies for Feb should appear at link below.
www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/

Our hottest ever day 50.7 degrees at Oodnadatta tweaked hotter by BoM’s ACORN series

BoM says, our National daily max temperature record is SA, 50.7, 2 January 1960 Oodnadatta Airport 17043
www.bom.gov.au/climate/extreme/records.shtml
Just over a year ago Onslow in WA equalled the 50.7 see my blog – “BoM equal record hot day at Onslow a nothing-burger 14Jan2022” www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=6850
My table comparing four versions of Oodnadatta daily max from 17Dec1959 to 17Jan1960 shows 4 columns of daily max – CDO (Climate Data Online) referred to be some as Raw, the original ACORN from 2009 which shows no changes from CDO, Acorn V2 from 2018 and ACORN V2.3 from Oct 2022. There are two columns of differences, the first is ACORN V2 minus ACORN 2009, the second is ACORN V2.3 minus ACORN V2.
I have marked with red asterisks the five days in 1959 where ACORN V2.3 is different to ACORN V2.
www.warwickhughes.com/agri16/oodna-various-acorns.jpg
What a debt of gratitude we owe BoM for the $multi-millions of dollars they spend correcting for the poor eyesight of the Oodnadatta weather station custodian in 1959-1960.

Bustard Head Lighthouse weather station an example of nobody cared enough

The ABC have a story – Bustard Head Lighthouse near Agnes Water a relaxing place for volunteers to house-sit 31Dec22
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-31/agnes-water-lighthouse-volunteer-caretakers/101801360
When I check on BoM Climate Data Online (CDO) rainfall data for Bustard Head Lighthouse #39018 starts at 1885 and looks mostly complete to 1985 (when it was automated) then a big gap to 2003 then it is riddled with gaps to the present as is much weather data from the wide brown land. www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/?ref=ftr
Temperature shows in two blocks – 1913 to 1938 then 1953 to 1986. So we can record rainfall in recent decades but temperature is beyond the capacity of Australia, yet the photo in the ABC article shows a Stevenson screen.
In 2014 there was another media story – Lighthouse of horror: The disturbing history of Queensland’s Bustard Head lightstation Sam Clench 23May2014 www.news.com.au/travel/lighthouse-of-horror-the-disturbing-history-of-queenslands-bustard-head-lightstation/news-story/e44d619f78bcfa4dd275dafb04870968
I also blogged on the subject in 2015 – Was the automating of Australian lighthouses in the 1990’s a policy stupidity ?
www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=3886

JFK was assassinated in Dallas 59 years ago

Jack Ruby’s execution of Lee Harvey Oswald among dozens of Dallas cops lead many of us over decades to conclude that the Warren Commission aided & abetted by FBI-CIA-Secret Service-Dallas & Texas cops was the greatest witness bullying & evidence tampering org in US history. Much has been done over decades by US Congressional orgs to search for the truth and nail down lies about events relative to the assassination of JFK 59 years ago tomorrow.

In 2017-2018 there has been ~55,000 JFK assassination related files released by US Archives – anyone can download a 5Mb xlsx file – so we are in another world now where people and orgs loyal to the Warren Commission process have fewer places to hide.

There was a 2017-2018 2 DVD movie set “JFK Declassified Tracking Oswald” produced by the History Channel featuring presenter ex CIA Agent Bob Baer. I do not know if any CIA pers. ever become “ex” but Bob is worth hearing out in the last 2 or 3 epidodes on DVD 2 as he strains to keep faith with Warren that Oswald was the lone assassin while finding evidence he had anti-Castro Cuban helpers.

Oliver Stone released an updated movie last year “JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass” which systematically destroys key pillars of Warren. Buy beg or borrow this as the quickest route to updating with modern information from many researchers plus the 2017-2018 files releases.

We should not forget the amazing efforts by pioneer JFK researcher & lawyer the late Mark Lane who in ~1963-1968 interviewed dozens and dozens of JFK assassination witnesses – filming many – giving those brave people a chance to leave their observations for posterity. Most of Mark Lane’s 1960’s research is in his book and movie “Rush to Judgment”. There is a great 1.7Mb pdf of the 1992 edition of “Rush to Judgment” by Thunder’s Mouth Press – that I have for download.