If the ports don't get knocked out because of a cyber attack they are usually shutdown as the Dockers Union tries to extract even more money for doing f-all.

The Painters and Dockers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Ship_Painters_and_Dockers_Union] was involved in organised crime and even murder for decades before it disappeared. During WW2 the thievery and refusal to work was so bad the US Military took over ship unloading and threatened to shoot them.

Woody Nook Winery in Margaret River in Western Australia makes an outstanding Tawny Port. Restaurant is good as well.

I very much doubt that is an option in Australia. Any time I have been in any kind of retail outlet, if the card readers comms is out, it's cash or nothing. POS systems won't allow it either

Australia really has become a cashless society - I have zero cash in my wallet right now and haven't had any in it for months. Needless to say I will correct that now.

I live in a place where the electricity distribution network [and retail] is 100% Govt owned - plus there is another utility for a separate geographical area which generates/distributes/owns - again 100% Govt owned.

Whilst prices are cheaper than other areas, the reasons are due to a number of factors [being 100% Govt owned is not the major one] including supply sources. Investment is difficult as the Utility needs to get their investment plan approved years in advance and which can work against technical improvements as the technology changes so fast plus the regulatory environment may be changing the wrong way compared to what you planned for. In effect this slows down changes which often need to occur much faster plus the organisation becomes risk-averse from a commercial point of view. Whilst this is laudable in most cases it does mean that customer-focus and flexibility to meet changing demands and challenges is lost.

As for Governance, you really need a good board with industry experts and those of appropriate experience. Putting bums on seats because they are connected or politicians is a disaster in a business where long-term planning is key.

You must have been very selective than as having lived in the UK and Australia for 50 years it's very, very common to have order your food and meal at the bar in both countries.

Gaza is not a Ghetto - the place is full of new cars and people stuck there who visited from the UK, Australia, US etc. to visit relatives.

Any comparison to the Warsaw Ghetto is wrong and offensive.

Scottish Power are a electricity and gas retailer and come from the old Central Scotland Electricity generator and supplier. They had tie-ups with Universities for Electrical Engineering as they also run a distribution network.

Those people stealing to then fence are guaranteed strangers to work and being paid a wage.

Look it's just as well they cancelled it out of precaution.

Imagine someone has mis-gendered someone or used the wrong pronoun or god forbid, used someone's dead name. The horror would have been unimaginable.

Believe me the current Australian Government doesn't give tuppence for your civil rights and neither do the State Governments.

Unless you identify as Aboriginal of course [but that doesn't apply if you are Aboriginal and live in the bush as life is just as bad as always despite the multiple billions of dollars ploughed into the Aboriginal Community, precious little of which actually gets near those who need it. Top of the Range Landcruisers for the "Agencies" aren't cheap you know].

The UK has imported a high percentage of its food since the beginning of the 20th Century. Submarines came close to starving the country out in WW1 and WW2.

Ironically that bastion of European inclusiveness was starving by the end of WW1.

Interesting as instructing Barristers etc. at the High Court costs very large sums of money indeed and they don't work on a "no win, no fee" basis unless a litigation fund bankrolls it.

Someone has very deep pockets.

For Fucks Sake STOP PUBLISHING ARTICLES THAT ARE BEHIND PAYWALLS!

It's not Rocket Science ironically.

If the article is behind a paywall don't accept it.

Facebook is not a public radio or TV broadcaster nor a Government Organisation.

It is under no obligation to share anything.

Sounds likes Trudeau is trying to divert the peoples attention by pointing towards a big, bad private company so they don't see the failings of the State,