This underscores what's wrong with modern politics - the job of politics is not to govern, but to get elected - and the news cycle and highly polarised media have entirely uncoupled electability and fitness to govern.

Funding hasn't increased meaningfully, or even kept pace with inflation, for more than 20 years.
This isn't the work of one government or party, but an acknowledgement that the Australian public doesn't care enough about science funding for it to become an election issue and force an increase

No - they won't. If the general public cared at all about this issue, then science funding would be an election issue. It isn't.

Needle-tailed? A tailor swift?

Albo stepped in to reverse the decision

What is pumpkin spice

Is it cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves?

Special Weapons Dalek!

Topsy might disagree with holding Edison in high regard

Such inaccuracy

The figure ignores the elephants and turtle

I preferred it when the TARDIS had a full crew

Also - any chance of including farming/mining/manufacturing limits? These make a huge difference in controlling the economic flow in a sim.

Terrian sculping will be awesome - but are there plans for real terraforming (atmospheric engineering and moving outside domes)?

Just watched ep 1 & 2 - will not spoil (but loved both episodes)

High agency is such a great euphemism for entitled.

It's going on my list of veiled insults immediately.

Prove gaslighting with rigorously obtained statistics, or accept that public perception isn't a good measure on which to base investment in crime prevention.
Claiming gaslighting is as unhelpful as presuming the public are stupid (rather than misled)

If the crime statistics are falling, either 1) they are, or 2) the numbers are being fudged. Are you claiming that the statistics are untrue? Because it's only gaslighting if that's the case. Public perception of crime is coloured by many things, including disingenuous reporting.

Within the tiny domain of Eukaryia