Let's talk Ports! Part 3

[Doctor Feel]

You don't enjoy the tit-for-tat sanctimonious postings of the BloodyStrayaMate vs AlwaysWasNeverCeded crowds?

No

 

[Duck Farmer]

"The Board, staff and players of the Port Adelaide Football Club support changing the date."

.. to the last Saturday in September when we can chill and relax because we know we won't be doing anything else.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Darren Cahill coached Janik Sinner currently destroying Djokovic

What Italian multinational can we seduce ?

Ferrari
Prada
Armani

 

[edgie]

"The Board, staff and players of the Port Adelaide Football Club support changing the date."

Will be humorous next year when they copy and paste this statement again knowing for sure that at least one board member does not support this and therefore the above statement is a lie.

Wasn't that like preceded by something like 'people at Port Adelaide have their own beliefs and opinions about things'

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[Duck Farmer]

Darren Cahill coached Janik Sinner currently destroying Djokovic

What Italian multinational can we seduce ?

Ferrari
Prada
Armani

We've already had Parmalat.

 

[StrappingTape]

Wasn't that like preceded by something like 'people at Port Adelaide have their own beliefs and opinions about things'

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Doubling down this year after the voice epic loss now everyone at port Adelaide fc is of one single mind. We all know in reality at the club the majority will love it some will hate it and the football club should stay out of it, just continuing to alienate everyone.

 

[VineValerian]

Darren Cahill coached Janik Sinner currently destroying Djokovic

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Was good to see Killer Cahill in the teal windcheater and black and white cap.

 

[tribey]

Was good to see Killer Cahill in the teal windcheater and black and white cap.

Cahill, Snowden and Tredrea would be a formidable bloc, wouldn’t they

 

[PowerLil]

Cahill, Snowden and Tredrea would be a formidable bloc, wouldn’t they

Snowden was there last year. He was on the football committee that recommended extending that a*se clown.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Was good to see Killer Cahill in the teal windcheater and black and white cap.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

#portlife

 

[Doctor Feel]

#portlife

Imagine being 'that' parent.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[Grave Danger]

#portlife

He wants to marry Sachi Syme

 

[chiwigi]

No

I kind of agree and disagree; the whole culture wars is a conservative attempt to deflect from the shit show that neo-liberalism has produced, so it annoys me from that aspect. However, we will always find something to argue about, so it may as well be something so minor in the grand scheme of things, and it raises awareness of indigenous issues annually.

 

[TazD]

He wants to marry Sachi Syme

Valid

 

[Alberton Proud]

Port Bashing Incoming

Handouts !

Welfare !!

 

[chiwigi]

Port Bashing Incoming

Handouts !

Welfare !!

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They should be worried as they’ve just announced shut down the steelworks in Port Talbot in South Wales, losing 3000 jobs.

Not having a steelworks is almost as stupid and counter productive as not having car manufacturing. It’s needs subsidising.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Port Bashing Incoming

Handouts !

Welfare !!

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Its the start of many go green handouts from the Albanese government to steel makers, aluminium smelters, cement producers etc to reduce their carbon output.

No need to get defensive about it, especially when it produces new jobs. Alcoa 2 weeks ago said it was shutting its alumina refinery that it opened in Kwinana, 40 minutes south of Perth in 1963. Government couldn't save that one.

The aluminium giant announced yesterday it would shut the plant, which is located south of Perth and was commissioned in 1963. The planned closure is expected to see 750 jobs axed and another few hundred contractors also lose employment by late 2025.

Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre director Alan Duncan said losing that revenue would be significant not just for the immediate area, but for the wider WA economy. "Western Australia overall is one of the largest export contributors in the world when it comes to aluminium," Professor Duncan said.


Minister for Industry, Ed Husic's joint press release

https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/husic/media-releases/200-million-help-future-proof-regional-steel-manufacturing

Joint media release with the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, The Hon Chris Bowen MP, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, The Hon Stephen Jones MP, and Alison Byrnes MP, Member for Cunningham.

The Albanese Government is helping to secure the future of Australian steelmaking with $200 million in grant funding to deliver the energy transformation and help keep our producers competitive on a global scale.

The first round of the Powering the Regions Fund (PRF) will provide funding to BlueScope Steel Limited and Liberty Steel Australia to progress projects at their respective operations in New South Wales and South Australia.

BlueScope has been awarded $136.8 million towards the reline and upgrade of its No. 6 Blast Furnace at the Port Kembla Steelworks. This project will maintain domestic production, reduce emissions, and support pathways to producing even lower-emissions steel in the future.

LIBERTY has also been awarded $63.2 million towards the purchase and commission of a low carbon electric arc furnace (EAF) to replace the existing traditional blast furnace at the Whyalla Steelworks. The new state of the art EAF will support the manufacturing of green steel and help achieve LIBERTY’s aim of carbon neutrality by 2030.

The BlueScope project will employ approximately 250 additional workers on site during the upgrade and reline of the blast furnace and will help secure the local workforce over the long term, including the thousands of jobs at the Port Kembla Steelworks. LIBERTY’s shift to green iron and steel will increase its workforce by around 24% over 5 years and help provide retraining and opportunities to learn new skills for a substantial number of existing employees.

These grants are the first to be delivered under the PRF through its Critical Inputs to Clean Energy Industries program, which supports hard-to-abate sectors like steel so Australia can keep making the things that are vital to the energy transition, including electricity and rail infrastructure, like wind towers, solar farms and energy transmission, and the construction of energy efficient buildings.

The Albanese Government has also committed $200 million in grant funding for the hard-to-abate cement and lime and alumina and aluminium sectors, with successful projects to be announced in the coming months.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Tries to be funny

Schooled by REH and the Welshman

Ooof

 

[Steve Dore]

Swedish sailor Ludvig Lindqvist wore his PAFC cap in all of his races at the ILCA 7 Men's Worlds at the Adelaide Sailing Club which finished yesterday. I spoke to him on the beach and told him he had a good hat. He said he liked to support the local team.

 

[edgie]

They should be worried as they’ve just announced shut down the steelworks in Port Talbot in South Wales, losing 3000 jobs.

Not having a steelworks is almost as stupid and counter productive as not having car manufacturing. It’s needs subsidising.

Except we still subsidise cars heaps, but without the added benefit of any of them being locally made.

Hate all the monster utes on our streets? Your tax dollars helped pay for them

Take to the roads, any road, any time, and you’ll quickly see bad tax policy at work.

www.smh.com.au

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[1954]

Except we still subsidise cars heaps, but without the added benefit of any of them being locally made.

Hate all the monster utes on our streets? Your tax dollars helped pay for them

Take to the roads, any road, any time, and you’ll quickly see bad tax policy at work.

www.smh.com.au

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Agreed tax subsidies at the expense of locally built vehicles is ridiculous, and the proliferation of often poorly driven and incorrectly parked (particularly in busy shopping centres) monster utes and the larger 4 wheel drive vehicles where the bays are barely wide enough to accommodate an average size sedan is bad enough here, but it must be a nightmare in the narrow streets and shopping centres of the inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney.

Paul Keating was right on the money when in an interview on the ABC a few years back, and well before the arrival of monster utes, when he said something along the lines that if he was still Prime Minister he would tax the drivers of `those silly vehicles' until it hurt.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Tries to be funny

Schooled by REH and the Welshman

Ooof

Nah, you only have to casually peruse social media to know your assessment of anticipated commentary was accurate.