Correct use of sign

I saw someone here say this and now can’t find it, so with apologies to them for paraphrasing from memory:

Let me get this right: a person riding a bike costing say $2K is an elite while someone driving a huge truck worth $80k is hard done by in the world. How’d I go?

Car strikes pedestrians outside busy comic convention A pedestrian is dead and another is clinging to life after a car mounted a footbath and struck the pair outside a busy comic convention.

Someone drives their car onto a footpath, killing one person walking and seriously injuring another.

There, fixed the headline for them.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/v...

Searching for the ‘Smoking Gun’ in US Pedestrian Deaths Why did American streets get so deadly for those on foot or bikes? A leading transportation safety researcher sees some surprising factors behind the crisis.

Same in Australia - increasing fatalities of people walking or biking are mainly down to road designed to privilege cars, then car “bloating” via huge SUVs, distracted drivers… and suburbanising poverty… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Even on a rainy day, one of my favourite views of Brisbane.

The ageing of power – and the coming political youthification A generational handover of power is coming in Australia and politics may begin to look more like practical problem-solving again.

Sooner the better I reckon!

“generational handover is coming… When that moment arrives, politics may begin to look less like ideological trench warfare & more like practical problem-solving again.”

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...

Nothing to do and all day to do it in. That’s my sort of day!

The New Daily on how Australia has mismanaged its use of fossil fuels over the last decade and the opposition continues to act contrarily:

Two Melbourne classics: a Brunetti cafe in front of Council House 2, the pioneering sustainable building.

I have long been a fan of Andy Singer’s incisive cartoons. This one helps skewer the false narrative that car driving isn’t subsided and therefore should be privileged over public transport. What a crock of cockamamie tomfoolery that is.

The regime change we need? Remove the global threat in Washington Until recently, Donald Trump merely said the US would no longer guarantee anyone's security. Now he's actively vandalising the global economy. The world urgently needs his removal.

Whole the phrase regime change isnin the air, lets talk about where it mihht best happen:
www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/01/r...

Lessons for countries with abundant sunshine and wind. Like, maybe, Australia!

Reclaiming the city: a step by step guide to the six key wins.

(Based on the work of George Hazel & Robin Tyne, via Remco Deelstra on LinkedIn.)

People don’t seem to realise what a great city Brisbane is until they come here and experience it. My son was just telling me of a business colleague who was up from Sydney and blown away by how great it is!

Brisbane in autumn. Sensational day for a loop around its distinctive river ride. And coffee afterwards of course.

I left Twitter soon after it was sold and am very happy I did so.

The false narrative that you can’t have density and trees, deconstructed.

Psychedelic!

Let’s hear it for parks under bridges! This is Captain Burke Park under Brisbane’s Story Bridge.

Popped into the city for 50c on the bus to start a new mentoring gig. Then a quick coffee at one of my former regular third places, before the bus home. This is living!

Yeah, that’ll do it too!

My all time favourite climate change commentary!

Dogs are the ultimate ice breaker for conversations with others you don’t know.

Discuss!

Walked to a couple of third places this morning - a local cafe and a local market - and struck up lovely conversations with others there.

'Elevates the mood': Third places providing a space away from work and home In an increasingly digital world, Brisbane residents are still heading out to enjoy third places to take a break, enjoy life, and expose themselves to new ideas.

On the importance of third places:

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Today’s Daily Peanut:
She stands alert at my local cafe on the lookout for dogs to bark and yip at.

Brisbane has some great creekside walks, like this one along Enoggera Creek.

Apart for it being illegal to park across the footpath, this is so inconsiderate to completely block the foot path, particularly when there is a parking space right out front.

Was at Cabarita Beach in northern NSW on the weekend. The locals trying to claim it for their use only through this message on the rocks have been overtaken by visitors (who don’t spell very well!).

But nearby the streets are relied and lovely.