For me there’s a few reasons:

• I needed a small device so I could easily bring it with me on the motorbikes (particularly necessary on the road bike as race leathers don’t have big pockets) and when hiking.
• The SOS function like offered by the Inreach was a big reason why I wanted a satellite communicator - there’d been a few times riding in tougher stuff out in the bush where I’d thought about the lack of mobile reception and how unlikely it was for anyone else to come along where I was riding if things went pear shaped. I was considering an EPIRB but being able to send messages to reassure or solve a problem in my own circle instead of just calling in the cavalry swung the choice for me.
• A reasonably shockproof/waterproof device is a real benefit for my use case.
• I wanted to keep costs low and $20 a month is noticeably cheaper than Starlink’s offerings.

Good to see this idea making its way over here, it’s still very easy to get out of mobile reception so satellite messaging is a useful backup.

Note that the novelty here is satellite messaging from a normal phone, for those who want satellite messaging right now you can get it easily with a specialised device (e.g. I have an Inreach Mini for backup/emergency comms). Putting it in the device you already have with you is a solid step forward though.

I’d probably run with a small amount of white lithium grease - that should last for a good while.

If they had a disability permit it’d be fine, the yellow lines are there for extra space. The permit should have been displayed somewhere visible though (typically the windscreen but I don’t know if that’s a requirement).

If it were a council carpark you could report non-permitted use to the local council, being Bunnings it’s probably private land though so you’d have to find out whose responsible for their parking enforcement.

The same argument that won the gay marriage plebiscite - people should be equal under the law and, by extension, our constitution.

Last year, Australia showed how unengaged and racist this country remains by refusing to insert an Indigenous advisory voice

Convenient that the author forgot to mention that the very person they’re writing about was a vocal No voter. You can say many things about Lydia Thorpe but politically unengaged is not one of them, and while she might be a little bit racist it’s definitely not against Indigenous people.

I’ll also note that the Tent Embassy had a giant banner hung up urging people to vote No, guess they’re all politically unengaged and racist…