Posts tagged…Victoria
Evidence on State hospital administration
Thu, Apr 15 2010Adam Cresswell in The Aus. offers us the data instead of spin. The impression of 'excellence' in Victoria fades in the light of the evidence.
"...[H]ealth experts say official comparisons show no evidence that Victoria's system is any better: whether cheaper or, the more important question, whether patients emerge healthier on the other side" Extract from Diagnosis: state of mediocrity | The…
Read more…Motor vehicle subsidies wasted on Ford
Thu, Mar 18 2010
Ford Australia made just over a quarter (60,000) of all the cars made in Australia last year and less than one-fifth of all the new cars+light trucks registered in Australia in 2009 (a total of 302,400: see the ABS Motor Vehicle Census)
Ford is not going to be a profit center for its global parent any time soon.
'As soon as choices have to be made, Ford is the next Mitsubishi,' said John…
Century trends in Victorian temperatures
Mon, Aug 17 2009
There are a dozen or so rural Victorian weather stations, of the 255 listed as reporting maximum temperature data to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, that have records stretching back to years before 1900. I have found them by skimming through the listings on this page at the BOM website. It has a helpful graphic that dynamically displays the record length.
I thought it might be interesting…
Temperatures for June in Victoria
Tue, Jul 14 2009
June 2009 was not as warm as June 2008, but still 0.8° C above the average for 1961-1990, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. There have been ten hotter Junes since 1950.
Temperatures for May in Victoria
Sun, Jun 14 2009
Temperatures in May 2009 were 0.52° C above the historical average.
58 years of Victorian temperatures
Mon, Mar 23 2009
A small experiment with the Bureau of Met's record of mean temperature anomalies for Victoria using Hadley Wickham's 'ggplot' library for R. There are 696 observations of monthly means between 1950 and 2008. The Bureau provides 'anomalies' from the monthly 1961-1990 means. How are these anomalies distributed? Are they skewed toward the upper 'tail' of the distribution, pointing to an alarming…
Feb 09 Temperature in Victoria
Thu, Mar 12 2009
About 1 degree above the average 1960-1991 February temperature, but only the fourth hottest February this decade (despite the cruel record temperatures of 'Black Saturday'). Well below the records in the mid-1950s, the mid-1960s and the early 1980s.
The last time it reached 115°
Sat, Feb 07 2009
Update: High winds, record temperatures and fire have created a horrible reprise of the 1939 disaster: possibly 40…
Victorian temperature fell in 2008
Thu, Jan 29 2009
The updated Bureau of Meteorology data for 2008 show that the 'anomaly' has fallen back to just over 0.3 of a degree. This graph (click the thumbnail) has been created from BOM data using the R code from this post.
How hot has it been in Victoria?
Sun, Nov 16 2008
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology claims that 2007 was the hottest year on record for Victoria
"The year 2007 was Victoria's warmest year on record with a mean annual temperature 1.18°C above the long term norm. This is 0.37°C above the previous record, set in 1988" BOMBut, if so, Victoria must have had a dramatically different year from the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, whose…
International impact on food regulations
Sat, Feb 10 2007
Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission engaged Inquit to survey the costs that obligations under international agreements and the requirements of trading partners impose on food producers, processors and wholesalers in the state of Victoria. More than two-thirds of Victorian food production is for the export market.
We found that the regulations that impose costs are Australian…