⁣Why Does Indonesia Have a 350 km/h Fast Train While Australia Still Struggles With Average-Speed Rail?

One of the biggest surprises of my recent visit to Indonesia wasn’t the new capital city of Nusantara or Jakarta’s relentless pace. It was boarding the Whoosh high-speed train between Jakarta and Bandung.

The experience was extraordinary.

In just around 30 minutes, we travelled between two major cities at speeds reaching approximately 350 km/h. The journey was smooth, quiet and every bit as impressive as the high-speed rail systems I’ve

experienced elsewhere in Asia.

What struck me wasn’t simply Indonesia’s achievement.

It was Australia’s failure.

Indonesia is still commonly described as a developing nation, yet it has managed to build one of Southeast Asia’s most advanced transport systems while Australia, one of the wealthiest countries in the

world on a per capita basis, still cannot deliver even ordinary passenger rail between many of its major population centres.

Perhaps before politicians start talking about futuristic high-speed rail, Australia should first learn how to build an average-speed train.

Take the Brisbane to Gold Coast corridor.

The two cities are only around 70 kilometres apart.

An ordinary modern passenger train travelling at about 120 km/h could complete much of that journey in around 30 to 40 minutes, transforming daily commuting for hundreds of thousands of people.

Instead, commuters often spend 70 to 90 minutes on today’s rail services, and considerably longer if travelling by car during peak-hour gridlock.

That isn’t simply inconvenient.

It is an enormous drag on productivity, quality of life and economic growth.

Every extra hour spent sitting in traffic is an hour not spent with family, running a business or contributing to the economy.

Meanwhile, Indonesia has leapfrogged into the future.

The country’s Whoosh high-speed railway demonstrates what can be achieved when governments decide that modern infrastructure is an investment rather than merely another political announcement.

Australia has spent decades discussing high-speed rail.

We’ve commissioned study after study, produced glossy reports and made election promises.

Yet little changes.

Australians deserve to ask an uncomfortable question.

How can Indonesia build a 350 km/h railway while Australia still struggles to provide reliable, average-speed rail between nearby cities?

Infrastructure should not be viewed through a political lens.

It should be viewed through an economic one.

-Faster transport means higher productivity.
-It expands labour markets.
-It reduces congestion.
-It increases property values around transport hubs.
-It attracts investment.
-It improves tourism.

Most importantly, it gives people back something increasingly valuable: time.

Australia has the engineering expertise.

It has the financial capacity.

What appears to be missing is the political will.

Watching Indonesia’s sleek high-speed train glide effortlessly across Java was inspiring.

It also served as a reminder that Australia’s infrastructure ambitions have become far too modest.

Perhaps it’s time to stop debating whether Australia can build world-class rail and instead start asking why nations with fewer resources are already doing it.

Until then, Australians will continue watching other countries race ahead while we remain stuck in traffic.

Source: https://x.com/jamiemcintyre21/....status/2070407794503

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⁣Netanyahu Just Anounced he will Pass a Law to Revoke the Citizenship of Israelis that will Say the Truth about the Israeli Army

“We will revoke the citizenship of those who defame IDF soldiers, and we will hit them financially.”

The comments come amid fierce backlash over the Gaza documentary NAZA, whose Israeli directors have been accused by Netanyahu and other officials of smearing the military.

As you can see there is no freedom of speech in the supposedly ‘only democracy in the Middle East’.

Is anyone surprised?

Source: https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel/88612

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⁣Indonesia's New Capital City - NUSANTARA IKN Highlights - pt1

⁣Canada and Ukraine have Signed a 100-year Partnership Agreement Covering Defence, Energy and Trade

The agreement was signed by Mark Carney and Zelenskyy in Calgary. Under the deal, Canada will expand its domestic drone production capabilities and provide Ukraine with one-third of the drones produced.

Carney said the partnership will strengthen Canada's sovereign defence capabilities and further deepen cooperation with Ukraine.

Source: https://t.me/AussieCossack/51561

⁣Zelensky:

When Russia has money, it always says no, no to diplomacy.

So is he indirectly asking for more money for himself so he can talk about diplomacy?

Source: https://t.me/AussieCossack/51920

⁣Breaking: Russian Drone Strikes Rail Line Minutes After European Dignitaries Pass

A Russian drone struck the locomotive of an evacuated passenger train near the Yagodyn–Dorohusk crossing, just 2 km from the Polish border, shortly after another train carrying European dignitaries passed through the same area.

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, who was returning from the YES summit in Kiev, confirmed just how close the timing was:

“This wasn’t our train, but the one just minutes after us.”

Boris Johnson, German Chancellor Merz’s security adviser Günter Sautter and numerous other Western officials were also in Kiev for the summit, although there is currently no confirmation Johnson was aboard Bildt’s train.

Message received?

Source: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/193398

⁣Holocaust: The Untold Truth Christian Genocide

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⁣Elon Musk's Next Trillion Dollars is Riding on This One Hallway Walk

The clip opens with Optimus Gen 2.5, Tesla's current-generation unit already deployed in a handful of pilot roles. Black-and-gold shell, glossy visor head, the same silhouette the world's seen since its reveal. It walks fine. It moves the way robots have moved for the last few years, functional, a little mechanical, joints doing their job without pretending to be anything else.

Then the video cuts to Optimus 3, and the difference isn't subtle.

The arm swing has natural counter-rotation now, the kind a human does without thinking about it while walking. Shoulder movement isn't locked to a single plane anymore. Hand gestures carry actual weight distribution, fingers curling and settling instead of snapping between fixed poses. It's a shift from "robot performing human motion" to something that reads, at a glance, as a person standing in a hallway.

Numbers behind that jump: Optimus 3 is reportedly targeting over 40 degrees of freedom in each hand alone, up from roughly half that on earlier generations, and Tesla's stated goal for the platform is 22 degrees of freedom in the actuated joints of the whole body working in tighter coordination, not just more motors, better sequencing between them. Production cost per unit is aimed at under $20,000 at scale, down from estimates north of $50,000 for early Gen 2 builds, the gap that has to close before 1,000,000 units a year is even mathematically possible.

That number matters because it's not marketing filler. It's one of the milestones tied directly to Musk's $1 trillion pay package approved by shareholders in November 2025. Gen 2.5 proved Optimus could stand upright in public without falling over. Optimus 3 is the version that has to prove it can move through a normal room without anyone doing a double take.

The hallway in this video isn't a stage. It's the actual test.

Source: https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel/88530

⁣South Pole Station Whistleblower Reveals Some Incredible Truths about DEWs and how the Technology to Create Earthquakes Exists and has been Used.

⁣Araghchi accuses Netanyahu of ‘SUCKERING’ the US into war with Iran.

Iran's FM said Netanyahu ‘openly boasted’ in Hebrew about influencing America through ‘1,000 hours of airtime’ on US networks.

Source: https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel/87907

⁣Trump Administration Moves to Pay Parents to Stay Home

A new proposal would allow qualifying married families to receive federal child-care subsidies when one parent stays home to raise their children, potentially worth around $9,000 per child per year.

Source: https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel/88181

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⁣DeSantis: "We believe in education not indoctrination."

Along with hitting Disney today, he signed a bill that ends the woke indoctrination in schools and workplaces.


⁣https://www.australiannational....review.com/state-of-

⁣Meanwhile In Australia the conditioning for the sheeple to eat bugs begins .....


⁣https://www.australiannational....review.com/lifestyle

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