Reading this yesterday

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-29/wa-struggles-to-implement-pledge-to-track-repeat-dv-offenders/105223886

The main argument about not attaching tracking beacons to crims on parole is that they're in "an area beyond GPS reception, in a remote or regional area where it does not work"?

It would appear that the WA Premier has stuffed up ( ) & he actually meant to say that the do-bads are in an area where there's no 4G signal, so the trackers can't report back to base!

But it made me wonder

Has anybody ever found a spot in Oz (apart from the various CBDs, deep canyons, tunnels, very dense jungle, or underwater!), where GPS won't work

I know that it's a thing in the US, where they block GPS around military bases, because I know 2 separate  people who have gotten lost that way & actually drove up to the main gates of said Bases!

@Fizzie, it looks  like 101 Qld plumbing, with 1/2” garden taps their specialty. The plumber should have used a 15BP (back plate) brass fitting screwed to the frame and a brass long thread through the brick wall.

Doing an apprenticeship in NSW Public Works 40 plus years ago we learnt to ensure any external tap was vandal proof and your example was certainly not.

Does outside of the house count

Late Saturday arvo I took some stuff out to the bin & there was a wet patch on the path near the front tap. Thought the tap couldn't have been turned off properly, so the hose has dribbled, gave the tap handle a twist & didn't think any more about it.

Sunday arvo, Leafz comes rushing in after doing the same thing, to say there's water running out of the wall! Have a look & yep, there's water apparently coming out of the base of the tap, where it joins the actual pipe inside the brick wall, then running down the wall & dribbling out the weep holes! Not hard though - only ~1l/5 minutes. Turned the water off at the meter to stop it as we don't know what it's doing down inside the wall (Van water tanks were still full from Alfred though, so we've got lots available )

Got on to our usual plumber first thing Monday morning but he's in Coffs atm, cleaning out a house after his Dad died a little while ago He'll be back up on Wednesday & will come out then, but also said that that small an amount wouldn't be enough to do any damage over the next few days

Decided that we'd take a brick out from around the the tap, as he'd need to get in there anyway, & found the problem! #1

But having a closer look, it shows a very interesting example of work from ~44 years ago! #2
Now, I'm not a plumber, but I don't think copper pipe is supposed to be kinked like that! Probably explains why we've never had decent water pressure in that tap, from the day we moved in here!

Mildura for three nights !

Nice region... so much you can see and do around there

Camp Gregory Veterans Retreat



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