I don't understand it. If I was a politician right now, I would not, under any circumstances, hitch my political wagon to the shitshow that is going on in the US. But Dutton and that "Trumpet of Patriots" crowd - bless their 1950's White Australia hearts - are all for it.
Labor would be wise to stall the election for a month or two, just to let things unfold a bit more over there.
It doesn't have to be "buy local", per se, it just has to be "buy non-US". But there are few tangible things I actually buy from the US. I don't mind stuff from the EU, it's a little pricey due to our exchange rate, but for the things I buy it's generally OK.
There are heaps of services that are bought from the US though - just about every streaming service, Google/Apple, Starlink, and so on. Those can fuck right off , if possible. Sometimes that's not practical (eg google/apple's ecosystem), but at least have a look for alternatives.
They aim to actively deorbit starlink sats.
(Edit: they keep a small amount of propellant in reserve for the initial deorbit burn, and then position the solar array to give maximum drag which hastens things considerably)
As far as I know, apart from the first few batches, the "production run" of sats has a pretty low failure rate and are proactively sent to their demise.
Looks like it might make landfall a bit south of the sunshine coast, which means that Brisbane will cop the strongest winds.
Seeing that a) modern houses in non-cyclone areas are typically made out of cardboard and sticky tape and b) Brisbane hasn't seen a decent cyclone since the '70s, this could be an interesting week.
I don't expect the power to stay on after about Thursday morning, there's a lot of trees out there that have never seen 24 hours of gale force winds.
It's because the two most important metrics of EVs , range + performance, aren't visible.
And - let's be honest here - those metrics are mostly the same across manufacturers due to battery limitations.
So they have to overcompensate with style to stand out from that other EV that uses the same base platform and the same battery chemistry and the same charging system and etc etc.
Everything else is rarely equal though. As can be evidenced by decades of >5% rates.
Currently interest rates affect QOL so much because everyone is mortgaged up to their eyeballs. That isn't normal but unfortunately the policies that have promoted that are beyond the RBAs scope.
So yes , lower interest rates help QOL but they also promote inflation and that's a much harder beast to reign in once it gets up and rolling - for example, we're never going to get back the cumulative 25% increase in the cost of living we've been hit with in the last 4 years or so.
And calling the RBAs response "bizarre" - when we are in a period where caution might be a good idea due to contradictory economic indicators - just seems a bit hyperbolic.
There is an empirical way of doing it - best one I've seen online so far is this:
AN186 - Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor Connections