Highlights IMO are an amusingly ironic bit of tram signage at 7:20 and a very well timed song at 29:40.
Disappointingly I only saw two clips from Canberra but luckily both involved roundabouts (or faux-abouts) so at least the reputation of the city is intact.
I am impressed the shark got it out again and didn't end up with a permanent internal echidna spine collection.
British white people have never
As long as you forget about the Irish, the Welsh, and (to a lesser extent IIRC) the Scots - all of whom are white and British.
Quite a lot of people nowadays - at least not at a fluent level. I know I've gotten worse at it over time due to rarely requiring to read much of other people's handwriting or handwrite myself, to the point where even in the reasonably clear example in the article I had to stop and consider a few words. Without experience reading cursive it's noticeably harder to comprehend compared to printed text, and we've now had a whole generation grow up in a world where pretty much everything they read was printed (and usually on a screen at that) rather than handwritten.
I would say most do but some don't, and with those that do the level of uniform required varies.
My primary school didn't require uniforms for regular days, though they did have what was called the sports uniform shirt which they preferred kids to wear if away from the school (generally used for sports carnivals with other local schools).
My high school did require uniforms but only really cared about enforcing the uniform shirt and some variety of closed shoe.
The school my youngest sister did years 11-12 at didn't require uniforms at all, though they probably did care about closed shoes due to safety in science classes etc.
I was vaguely interested in the Matildas for a hot minute when there was a chance of that resulting in a public holiday, I'm sure I could get at least a little bit invested in other sports if public holidays are involved.
The first two and last bullet points might apply to motor vehicles, but the third and fourth certainly do not
They certainly do. It's a fact that most cars and motorbikes are designed to be able to travel safely at speeds greater than our highway limits, and it can indeed be awkward to do low speed limits in a motor vehicle. For example my VTR runs faster than 20km/h at idle in first gear, which makes travelling in 20km/h zones annoying because I have to be on the clutch constantly. I could also claim that it's unsafe to go that slow on a motorcycle due to instability, but really that's just as true as saying 10km/h is too slow for stability on a bicycle - there is an element of truth in it but we both know it's perfectly doable for anyone who's been riding for a while.
Seems to be a case of low speed limits are good for other people but not him, which I do find a little amusing. Overly low speed limits are a bugbear of mine so I do sympathise with the feeling but since he's a 'huge advocate' for 30km/h zones in a car it's pretty ironic. After all the same reasons for 30km/h zones (e.g. people might be on the road and slower moving vehicles means less risk of injury) do also apply to riding a bike over a busy bridge where there's basically guaranteed to be people in the way. I do like the mention of bicycles being designed to travel at higher speeds considering that's a common sentiment for those of us in cars and motorbikes as well.
I kind of like the idea of reducing fines based on mass though, us motorbike riders would support that...
Yes,that was a concerning scenario - all it'd take is changing the radio station or something interesting on the side of the road and you'd likely not have enough time left to swerve.
NSW already does this and it doesn't seem to have reduced the rise of larger vehicles, though admittedly the price difference isn't massive for most cars (e.g. a Camry would fall into the $330 category while a Hilux would be $505).
I would certainly have appreciated that last month - did a ~1000k run up the coast (and back a couple of weeks later) with the vast majority of that on dual carriageway highways that could have been driven at much higher speeds without compromising safety. As it was I just stuck at a true 115 most of the way, but shaving a couple of hours off that trip would have been nice.
I've tried this to good effect before when I got my current motorbike helmet headset - the voice commands on default settings worked much better when hamming it up with an American accent like one was trying to audition for a part in a Western. Luckily though I ended up finding out that Cardo also trained a British accent option in the settings, and that works a lot better if you want to talk like a normal person.