Want to be an AFL media personality? It's easy — just follow the four-step Kane Cornes plan.
Look up which teams that lost on the weekend.
For each of the teams, come up with a reason why either:
a) It's the players' fault. They're too lazy. Don't train hard enough. Don't put in enough effort!
b) It's the players' fault. They're not skilled enough!
c) It's the coach's fault. Bad tactics. Bad strategy. He's allowing those players to be lazy!
d) It's the recruiter's fault. They picked/traded for the wrong players!
Get your producers to find a passage of play, interview, or press conference you can say backs up your claim.
Go on TV or radio and say what you think confidently, as if you're really pissed off about it.
Yeah, the older Richmond players didn't show enough effort. You really don't care — you used to play for Port Adelaide after all.
But you pretend you do on TV and the radio, because it makes great content.
"#SouthAustralia and #California signed a letter of cooperation on Thursday, to advance their “shared leadership” in renewable energy and clean hydrogen technology.
The two states will also work together on strategies to advance electrification, grid flexibility, demand response, and vehicle-to-grid technologies, all of which are considered crucial to make the best use of distributed energy resources including rooftop solar and batteries in homes and electric vehicles."
Aurora Australis, from Shelly Beach at Port MacDonnell, South Australia. Cheeky five hour drive to catch this and so worth it - absolutely breathtaking to see those beams towering over me. Experience of a lifetime.
After 2.5 hrs of The Taste of Things yesterday, we spent 3.5 hours today with a "Forager" menu (like a degustation, mostly plant based) at Topiary. It was incredible, and 200% better than the last time we did this, 18 months ago. Then it was great, and we loved it. Today it was out of this world and a memorable meal. Many of the dishes were off-menu and extremely terrific.
@sister_ratched You would love this! Veggies galore.
Our account proved that by curating a topic like compost, we were able to reach out to the #Fediverse and provide a tool that can be a solution to fixing the #Climate.
We need to understand that by changing our habits and asking ourselves every day: what can I do for the climate today? We can be the change we want to see.
And by sharing our practices on #Compostodon we can inspire others to do the same.
"Will a grid based around #wind and #solar kill manufacturing and industry? It’s what the naysayers – the Coalition and conservative agitators – want you to believe, but the experience in #SouthAustralia, which leads the world in the uptake of wind and solar, proves the opposite."
My banner picture has been up for quite a while but I should maybe tell the #story behind it.
It was Christmas 2004. Newly arrived to live in #SouthAustralia Got our tent and a couple of #seakayaks and set off exploring the #Fleurieu penninsula. On the night/day of the southeast Asia Boxing Day tsunami we were camped in a tiny cove with no other access but by sea. Vertical rock cliffs behind us.
It is very fortunate this was on the opposite side of Australia, we were unaware and unaffected. Only later we learned what had happened that weekend and how many people had lost their lives or livlihoods 😢
#AdelaideStory An Adelaide man, Alexander Dowie, once led 1000s of his followers to America to establish a strictly Christian utopia. They founded the city of Zion which still exists today.
An ordained minister, Dowie baptised dozens of devotees in the old City Baths on King William Street.
Photography in Australia began in 1841 in Sydney as an indirect result of the failed expedition of the French ship Oriental-Hydrographe. What happened to that first Daguerreotype in Australia?
Who was South Australia's first photographer? Previous authorities haven't harmonised.
Revealed: A poster in a shop window changes the history of photography in Australia.
This is history redone and made possible by digitised newspapers.
I'm spending the next couple days south on the Fleurieu Peninsula and I thought I'd share some photos of the history (and geography) of the region. I hope you enjoy the thread!
The well named "Blue Lake" at Mt Gambier, South Australia.
Apparently we're turned up at the best time. It turns blue in late November / early December and then slowly reverts to its normal grey by late summer.
A 70 metre (230 foot) deep 4,500-year-old volcano crater, it would be amazing to dive. Unfortunately, as it's the water supply for My Gambier, no swimming or boating is allowed.
"Negative prices are now happening more often, and in the middle of the day, because of the sheer scale of output from #RooftopSolar, which is absorbing half of all demand in big states like #NewSouthWales (NSW), and occasionally all of demand in smaller states such as #SouthAustralia."
Note: There were no new COVID-19 deaths notified to the Department for Health and Wellbeing. Please note, Births, Deaths and Marriages data is currently received on a monthly basis.
I'm probably a bit late on this one (#SouthAustralia doesn't occupy much space in my brain) but holy hell, there is not an interchange between the 3 southern #adelaide metro #train lines and the glenelg #tram line.
The red and white line on the attached map goes DIRECTLY PAST Goodwood Station but does not stop. Talk about a missed opportunity!
Any plans to rebuilt the tram overpass and station or has everyone just accepted this is how it is?
I did a day trip to Clare Valley yesterday. To celebrate the last day of my holidays, and to keep my mind off of work. it is such an easy drive these days, with the freeways and the new road from the freeway, but I do miss the drive through Hamley Bridge - a gorgeous old town.
I like to stop in Auburn for a quick walk - it is like Gawler used to be (but smaller) about 20 or 25 years ago. Picturesque, beautiful old houses, gorgeous gardens. I picked some fennel hanging over a fence, for the soup last night.
The damage to the vines from the freezing night recently was very evident, although inconsistent through the valley.
A couple of observations: Unlike the Barossa, the vines in the Clare Valley are not as evident along the main roads, or are hidden behind huge pine trees (ugh) or olive trees. The Barossa's main roads are beautiful, planted with roses and bottlebrush amongst the vines. Clare Valley, not so much.
Some of the lovely cafes along the main road through the valley have gone. In fact, the whole valley seemed very quiet for a Sunday. What has happened? Did Covid decimate it and it hasn't recovered?
I had lunch at Paulette's, a beautiful winery with a huge balcony dining area overlooking parts of the valley. They throw salt bush and other native ingredients around with abandon. It also features a native produce "veggie" garden, but it is not well maintained.
The only veggie main course offering was pappardelle with salt bush, goat cheese, 4 "peas" and pangrattato. A lovely spring offering and a step up from Skilly which has roast pumpkin as its only veg offering.
The four peas were broad beans, peas-in-a-pod and 2 small types of peas. The dish would have been MUCH better if the broad beans had been peeled - not nice chewing on leathery skins - and if the pea pods had their strings removed - chewing on pea pod strings is not nice. But overall the dish was Ok. (The coffee was terrible.)
While I was up there I researched the Watervale Hotel, which runs a small farm from which it sources its produce. I had high hopes for something decently vegetarian, but disappointment ensued. The farm is for meat, meat and more meat, it seems. The ONLY veg offering (from a FARM) was risotto (ugh) amongst 15 different non-vegetarian dishes - and even some of the veg sides included bits of meat in various forms.
I was doubly disappointed because the farm is located on a place that used to be run by bee-keepers to sell honey, eggs and the best ever organic veg. They would pick the veg from the garden as you ordered it - the freshest ever, and I often would often do a Sunday afternoon drive to get a box of veg from them. Sad to see it now used as a primarily-meat farm.
So overall I am disappointed by South Australia's rural food scene - it seems we haven't moved from the 1950's and can't do anything that doesn't involve meat. Where do we train our chefs? Uninspired, lazy, unaware.
This week, #SouthAustralia "reached a stunning new peak of 264 per cent “potential” wind and solar, the combination of #RenewableEnergy actually produced, and the renewable energy #curtailed by the lack of a market.
On Sunday, the state announced its preferred partners for a state owned 250MW #electrolyser and a 200MW green #hydrogen power plant, both the largest of their type in the world, and which will play a key role in reaching a “net” 100 per cent renewable grid."