Stupid question... Do politicians actually *live* here?
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Following the news of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price defecting from the Nationals party room to the Liberal party room, just sharing a couple of interesting old quotes from her talking about her history with hip-hop (2013) and views on environmentalism (2017)
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Are there any other cities like Auckland, New Zealand that have 2 different coastlines on 2 distinct, unconnected bodies of water?
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How strong is the case for high-speed rail between the 4 large cities in the southeast of Australia?
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Re: David Pocock's result in the ACT Senate race, when was the last time that the first party/candidate to reach a Senate quota for a state/territory was neither Labor nor Liberal/Coalition?
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Re: David Pocock's result in the ACT Senate race, when was the last time that the first party/candidate to reach a Senate quota for a state/territory was neither Labor nor Liberal/Coalition?
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Re: David Pocock's result in the ACT Senate race, when was the last time that the first party/candidate to reach a Senate quota for a state/territory was neither Labor nor Liberal/Coalition?
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Why do flight carbon calculators vary so much? How do we know which is the most "accurate"? (P.S. I know it's better not to fly at all, I'm asking more out of interest to see how much of a difference it would make to break up shorter flights with overland legs vs just 1-2 longer flights)
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Folks in the travel subreddit haven't been keen to answer this question so far (one commenter dismissed it as virtue signaling), so I thought maybe this community might be more interested in helping me solve this travel challenge? Could even be a fun idea for a future JLTG season! :)
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Could anyone help work out the least emissions-intensive way to travel between Australia and Europe?
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Could anyone help work out the least emissions-intensive way to travel between Australia and Europe?
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Would it make more sense for the prime meridian to be somewhere other than Greenwich? How would you design a new system for longitude coordinates?
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TIL the President of Madagascar didn't know about the DreamWorks film until a few months before its release date. After the head of a conservation group ran into an American tourist whose son worked on the film, he called DW CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, who then flew to the country and met the President.
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Out of 145 federal electorates in mainland Australia, 7 of them take up 85% of the area
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Who was the first person recorded to have visited two (roughly) antipodal points on Earth?
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Pierre Novellie (Phil Wang's BudPod co-host, panellist on Between the Covers & Pointless Celebrities) on Game Changer: "I can’t not recommend it. The Americans will always do two things better than the rest of the world: improv and game shows. Sam Reich embodies both"
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Why did it take the Dutch 10 years to go from reaching Indonesia to reaching Australia, when the Portuguese had already been in Indonesia for 80 years without reaching Australia?
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Apart from Sydney, Australia, do any other cities have a mode of public transport with reversible seats?
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Why do the Dead Sea (and nearby areas) have a much lower elevation than anywhere else on land, despite being so close to the coast?
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How common is it for the head of government in a parliamentary system to not have a seat in parliament?
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Did you know there is a Disney Scrooge McDuck comic where he visits Kalgoorlie in the 1890s?
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How common is it for the head of government in a parliamentary system to not have a seat in parliament?
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