Gil Greening

@gilgreen.bsky.social

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retired scientist, kiwi in Oz - Ngunnawal Country, avatar from Iceland, aurora australis from sister in Dunedin. #nzpol Vaxxed to the max. Greenie moll. Mostly just a lazy reposter.

Tray of croissants made using recipe from the Lune cookbook.
By 2006, the move to a 50 km/h speed limit was estimated to have led to financial savings nationally of over $1.5 billion per year, in addition to the societal benefits from major reductions in death and disability from road crashes. RARU’s research also led to reductions in the speed limit of rural roads in South Australia and other states from 110 km/h to 100 km/h, with a resultant reduction of casualty crashes of about 20%.
A Bigger Grand Canyon by David Hockney. National Gallery of Australia.
Graph showing hourly pay in 1968 - $25.14 and 2024 - $36.49, and hourly pay - $431.80 if it had risen as much as CEO pay over this time.
Annual number of days in state of emergency due to weather events in AoNZ per year from 2002 to 2026.
Squeeze consumers through taxation and inflation, make housing very scarce by limiting construction, force wives and mothers to work outside the home to offset the inadequacy of male wages, yet provide few childcare facilities; encourage migration to the city by paying low wages in the country and providing few rural jobs; increase congestion in cities by starving the transit system; increase personal insecurity by encouraging conditions that produce unemployment and haphazard political arrest.
Graph showingav. wealth by wealth group in Australia.
Ceramic Canberra bus shelter.
bunch of mixed cables
Promo poster for movie The Navigator.
Well, I guess this is really a cream bun...
Aerial photo of Canberra, Australia. from wikipedia.
The Skywhale shortly before take off on its second flight over Canberra in May 2013. from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skywhale There's a Skywhalepapa too.
Poster for movie 2001 a space odyssey
Four ceramic dinner plates with first dog on the moon cartoons inscribed on them, made by Bronte Lee.
The Lost Thing, from a book by Shaun Tan
Carrefour reusable shopping bag.
Most of the Canberra march for Palestine Sun 25 Aug. Stretches from mid Commonwealth bridge to Parkes Way overpass, not quite 1 km. Approx. 10,000 people.
Map showing gross state product for Australian states and territories for 2023-2024.
Tilly Devine was an English Australian organised crime boss.
mmSLE water loss 2003-2013