If we're so concerned about the South China Sea, we can give Taiwan or Japan diesel subs. It's not like the nuclear subs would be of much use to us anyway if they're on the other side of Indonesia.

Although I can't imagine an Internal Combusion Engine sub being at all stealthy, so I'd hope there's some kind of third option.

They couped Whitlam and Rudd for trying to tax the mining corpos, can you imagine if Albanese tried to shut down Pine Gap.

The accounting newsletter my uni made me sign up to had an article criticizing this from the SMSF association.

Their key complaint is "unrealized capital gains" which is ... real estate basically. You can tax shares and they can just sell a few, "unrealized capital gains" only makes sense if you're using your super fund to evade income tax as a property investor. These elites, even the obscure accounting newsletter elites, know full-well what they're doing.

Sure, privatize the railroads. That going well is the norm, not the exception. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis

You're not 100% wrong. Zero_gravitas answered my comment about the apsis with a comment about the seasons, and I called them wrong even though technically they were just referring to the wrong topic. I was right though, the perihelion occurs in January and the anhelion occurs in July, and that this means the sun is closer to earth during Australian summer than it is during American summer.

No, it's not the angle. The sun's orbit isn't exactly symetrical, it's a bit lopsided. In January the sun is about 5% closer to earth.

In the Northern hemisphere this is during winter, so it's the best of both worlds. In Australia though it's the reverse. We get extra dim winters and extra bright summers.

Be careful of the summer sun.

The sun isn't always a fixed distance from earth. It's closest in January, which is winter in America but in Australia that's summer. So they should be ready for hot summers with a high risk of skin cancer.

There's probably more to worry about in the tropics (invasive species like kane toads and fire ants especially) but I don't live in the tropics so I'll leave that to someone else.

Problem with that is that it would shift the overton window.