Wonderful news from the national capital now that Canberra’s government has signed the statement coming out of the United Nations’ recent Glasgow Conference of Parties (COP) climate summit promising to accelerate the introduction of emission-free motor vehicles in the territory by making them affordable by 2030, converting cars and vans to be emission free by 2035 and selling only emission free new cars by 2040.
Congratulations all round and something worth achieving as the future unfolds.
One small comment in the Government’s notice of its plan however saw PS-sssst! scratching its well-scratched head when the Minister explaining the plan chose to put the ultimate of opposites next to each other to make his albeit welcome point welcome.
“The ACT Government has signed onto the COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission vehicles,” the delighted Minister declared.
“How can you have 100% of zero” a puzzled PS-sssst! pondered.
Is there an answer?
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Nutting for the future
To Queensland now where at least one Department and an army of considerate citizens are more than happy to welcome more nuts into the State!
Led by Queensland’s Rural and Industry Development Authority, the community’s arms are wide open to have nuts as their neighbours, even to the tune of giving them a warm honour for electing to make Queensland home.
In stating its formal position, the Department made their newcomers’ presence perfectly clear, choosing an undoubtable ‘nutty’ preference in an official headline used to announce their official appearance.
“Macadamia growers off to a cracking start” was the way the department announced the nuts’ influx, a headline that certainly makes its position clear.
PS-sssst! could call it a ‘hard shell’ for the nuts’ arrival!
Road scholars?
And now to NSW where the Ambulance Service has congratulated newcomers for completing a 4-week training course, delivering officers who can step in and back up other staff members who have been working tirelessly on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the newly trained recruits celebrated the end of their initial training, the official welcome and congratulations painted an image of the new personnel, but in what seems to be less than useful for the Service.
Officially announcing the end of their studies, the Ambulances’ powers that be issued the following statement: “Nearly 130 paramedic interns hit the road last month following a graduation ceremony held at Sydney Olympic Park.”
PS-sssst! wonders how much use they will be for the Ambulance Service after they’ve ‘“Hit the road”.
Maybe they’ll be put to work testing how effectively the ambulances can salvage members who have been on the roads!
Booking for uncertainty
To our revered Rama now and her latest challenging giveaway book game which this week offers Arash Arabi’s The Wise Enterprise which reveals the secrets of reshaping an organisation for the upcoming age of uncertainty.
To emerge as proud owner of the book at no cost, all a reader had to do was answer Rama’s quiz question asking what Arabi says organisations need to do to thrive in business.
The answer was to be more challenging than ever since it will be the wiser decisions that organisations will need to thrive.
And the two wise readers with the correct answer and whose entrants scurried out of the PS News Barrel of Booty first were from Suzanna A from the Australian Border Force and Gwen T from the Queensland Department of Resources.
Congratulations to Suzanna and Gwen, your excellent new book will be on its way very soon and a big thankyou to everyone who took part.
For another chance to be another winner and win another free prize (or two) from the same Rama, simply tune into her reviews of the Book The Power to Change at this PS News link and/or her other possible freebie DVD Silent Night at this link and give it or them your best shot.
Just follow the instructions and you too could be among the winners.
Good luck to all who do!
Needled
And finally, a handful of Yuk Yuk now as the Premier of South Australia has announced that COVID-19 booster shots are to be made available from 1 December to all people aged 18 years and over who had received their second dose at least six months ago.
In a strong statement to do some ‘boosting’ of his own the Premier went on to say that his State had decided to make the third shot available was part of an effort “to further arm the community against the virus”.
How clever!
No arm done? … or a case of no arm not being done?
Till next week…….
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