Well, good morning and welcome everyone to the session on Australia's Accelerating Green Energy Transition. I hope everyone can hear and see everything okay at the moment. And I'd like to now just start off by acknowledging the traditional owners on the lands where the ANU resides. That is the Ngunnawal people and also the traditional owners on the land on which you are joining us at this meeting. My name is Professor Ken Baldwin. I am Director of the ANU Grand Challenge Zero Carbon Energy for the Asia Pacific. And it's my pleasure today to be chairing this session where we'll look at Australia's Accelerating Green Energy Transition and the implications that has for the economy and society over the coming years. The program today is that we will be, first of all, starting with a panel discussion with our panelists, followed by some questions amongst the panel. I'd also like to welcome any members of the media that have joined us today and to remind you that if you'd like to join the discussion on Twitter, then please use hashtag ACL forum as the handle. So now I'd like to introduce our panel and let me start with the first of our speakers today, Leanne Bond. Leanne has a background in engineering and is interested in the transition to low carbon energy sources. She's an independent non-executive chair of Mining 3 and a non-executive director of Snowy Hydro, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Oricon Group, Synotech Corporation and the Kwaido Group. She's also engaged with the ANU in the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program and is on the advisory board of the Master of Sustainable Energy at the University of Queensland. So welcome, Leanne. Next we have Deep Ma Tuvio. Deep Ma is science director at CSIRO where he heads the energy business unit and he has working with him a team of scientists, engineers, economists and business professionals in a multidisciplinary team that is looking at the challenges of the energy transition. Prior to this, Deep Ma was the director of the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute or Astri. And then finally our panel member from Pollination, Martin Wilder. He is the founding director of Pollination, which is a global climate advisory and investment firm that's focused on developing innovative policies, ideas and investments that enable our economies to rapidly transition to net zero whilst preserving natural ecosystems. So Martin has a background in the sector, particularly in his association with the ANU, where he's adjunct professor of international climate change law. And he's also a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. So welcome, Martin. So now what I'd like to do is to offer each of our panelists the opportunity to speak for a few minutes on some of the key issues that they see in accelerating the green energy transition. And we will then follow that with some questions amongst panel members. So that after that, please get ready to put your own questions, which you can do, as I said before, by using the raise hand function in the toolbar at the bottom of your screen. So now what I'd like to do is to invite Leanne Bond to give us her perspective on what she believes to be the important aspects of the energy transition. Over to you, Leanne. Thank you, Ken. I'm coming to you here from Brisbane, which is the Agra and Turbo people and acknowledge the oldest past president emerging. I, as you've heard with my portfolio, enjoy a lot of different perspectives on this topic. I'm an engineer, a chemical engineer by background and started in the on and gas industry, the energy industry, and have really moved with this emerging topic. The first time I came across the concept of climate change was I was doing some environmental management study, probably in the 90s. And to be honest, I just thought it will be done. There's low hanging fruit. We'll work this through. I had seen the hole in the ozone layer in the 80s be closed because we banned CFCs. And I just thought that would happen. And I suppose I was a bit surprised later years later when I came back to the topic that we hadn't really done even energy efficiency. So it's interesting now that we're really focusing on technology as an engineer. I do think we can solve problems. So I'm intersecting with it I suppose through research, education, policy, technology and investment, which gives me a very interesting perspective on different ways of looking at this. All my comments today are personal but informed by my portfolio. So I think I was really heartened to hear yesterday from Joe Evans and from our treasurer. But Joe said, you know, this is all fact, no room here for belief. And I think that's a big, a big change that has happened in the last year or two. I think people do accept that there is an issue and anyone that saw the IPCC report presentation yesterday would understand. So what needs to happen? Well, if I just describe very briefly some of the things I'm involved in. So arena and CFC obviously drove a lot of funding in the early days for renewables and continue to do that. But now I'm moving on to strengthening the grid, supporting transmission and decarbonising other sectors, property transfer, transport, agriculture, looking to how do we bring in electric vehicles and hydrogen. So a lot of these things, it's a financing challenge. In the beginning solar and wind, the business payback wasn't clear. So there was a role there. Now banks are more able to fund. But a lot of the emerging solutions don't yet have markets and hydrogen. There was a comment yesterday about supply chain for hydrogen. It just doesn't exist yet. So it needs to be built. Snowy is obviously heavily involved in also firming the NEM through building the Snowy 2.0 project additional pump storage and already plays that role with its current portfolio, supporting the NEM when it needs firming. We're also building the heart of power project for gas peaking to fill that gap as well. Our economy and synodic are probably looking at it from an internal perspective, but also how to assess clients. All of the listed companies are now realising that they need for their investors and their staff to make commitments to transitioning and also for their risk profile. So there's a big role there in both developing solutions and applying existing solutions, but also developing new technologies. In my role as chair of mining 3, we spend a lot of time thinking about sustainability of the mining industry and how to have a smaller footprint, but also be there to develop the critical minerals that we will need for this. And you know, through the University Queensland, we're training the next generation of people who are going to solve these problems. So the Master of Sustainable Energy takes people who are already in an industry of some sort and gives them the skills and the thinking that they need to be able to engage with this topic and solve some of these problems. And the Battery Storage Grid Integration project is more into the deep research that we need. So I really get that there's a lot of different things we have to do, not just one thing. And I think really the people who first caught onto the need to reimagine our energy and our carbon footprint was really insurers. Now investors, staff, customers, everyone is engaged in this topic. So I think I might leave it there. There's definitely a pace at which people are engaging with this topic, and I'm looking forward to this discussion. Thank you very much, Leanne. Now I'd like to call on Deepa Turbier to say a few words on the topic. Thank you, Deepa. Yeah, thank you very much, Ken. And I would also like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land I'm calling in from. I'm on the monoclonal peninsula south of Melbourne. And the traditional owners are the Boon Warring people of the Kulin Nation and pay my respect to their eldest past, present and emerging. As you can probably tell from my accent, I'm not Australian, I'm German, and I moved to Australia three years ago. And before I joined here, I actually had 20 years at GE developing technology in the energy space. So I'm very happy to see that Australia is choosing a technology path. And as you can imagine the CSIRO, we're right in the middle of that. A lot of what Leanne just said earlier resonated with what I'd like to say, the transition that the whole world is going through, not just Australia, towards net zero emission energy is a large undertaking. And it's not a one size fits all and one silver bullet will solve the problems or the challenges that we have. That's not problem problems. So at CSIRO, we're looking at this at multiple areas that are connected, but often discussed in isolation. And what we hear often about, talked about is the electricity transition. And I think most of what we've heard recently yesterday as well and what we are hearing today is focusing around how do we change the electricity sector towards net zero. And we shouldn't forget that the electricity sector is just a part of what the energy overall energy segment is. So at CSIRO, we're looking at the electricity transition, of course, but we're also looking at transport transition and the industry transition. And what is the shift that needs to be done in terms of technology development to get us through that transition? And one of the things I keep reminding people of is that the transition of the industry and also the transport will have an effect on electricity. If all the energy we're providing to our industry and also through transport is either electric or through hydrogen or through alternative fuels, ultimately it boils down to having more electricity that's needed. And I think can our discussion today will go in that direction. So in order to accelerate that, the scale of the transition is going to become an important issue that needs to be addressed. And the fourth area, which for Australia is one of the big areas, is of course export. Today, Australia exports a lot of energy. Also the energy we produce, we export. How do we transition an export sector to a net zero energy sector? And that's going to be the vast, the largest challenge that Australia is going to have and that we need to focus on. And not to forget, we do have a fifth area and that is the environment and the community engagement. So whatever technology solution we come up with, whatever technology solution we finance, we put into the system, we shouldn't forget to bring the community along. And for me, that is one of the challenges also we see in Australia. And it's not only land use of PV systems, but it's also job changes. Jobs will change from fossil energy over to renewable energy. And yes, I do believe there will be more jobs needed in aggregate. The jobs will be different. So we need to make sure that we don't forget our social sciences, which is also part of science and the technology as well. And I do like also what Leanne said earlier. A big change to me growing up in Germany 20, 30 years ago, where there was a big challenge for the energy vendor that officially was launched I think 11 years ago. It was not an accepted fact yet that there is a climate change, that has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. So the world is moving to accepting it as a fact that we do have to change. And another big change is the cost of photovoltaics, for example. I started working in photovoltaics in the 80s. And I think they were a factor of 200 or 300 more expensive than today. And everybody was saying they will never get below fossil fuels. And look where we are today. And I think we're not, we haven't hit bottom yet. They're still a long way to go. And that's where I think from CSRO, where technology development is still critical for us. Can we solve the challenges today with technology? Yes, we can. We have the technologies available to make that transition. It'll take time to get us there and it'll cost a lot of money. So we shouldn't forget the economic factor here. And that's where new technology is going to be needed to get a more economical solution for this transition. So as Leanne was saying earlier, there's a lot of things that need to be done. It's not a one thing that needs to be resolved. So at CSRO we do work on various different technology just mostly driven to getting better efficiencies, getting lower costs. And that goes across the spectrum from new PV cells to better hydrogen production, better hydrogen storage, better transport, hydrogen carriers. But it also goes to cleaner fossil fuels. Because one of the things I do want to bring up, this transition is not going to happen overnight. It's going to happen over a couple of decades. So there's going to be a phase out of our fossil fuels. It's not going to be stopping fossil fuels. So we need to find also ways to help that, through that phase of the transition for our fossil fuel to be cleaner. And that does include, in my opinion, things like carbon capture and storage as well. It may be a transition solution, but that transition takes a while. So it's not a short or very short term solution. And the other thing, yes, we need to remember that this is not a refilled, and I think that goes along with that phase out. We're not starting from scratch. We do have an energy system today. And the big challenge for us in Australia is going to be to take where we are today and move that as quickly as possible to the end state that we're all striving for. And that transition will impact a lot of people's lives, a lot of people's jobs, because it's going to take a couple of decades. And so that is what, in my opinion, is the largest challenge that we have here. I can live it at that in that passive appeal. Terrific. Thank you very much, Editha. So now I'd like to call on Martin Wilder to provide his perspective on the transition. Thank you, Martin. Thanks very much, Ken. And I think, likely, Anne, I come from a broad background, both looking at this at the moment from an investment perspective, both here and overseas, and also for many years, chaired Low Carbon Australia, which was the precursor to CFC, was on the board of that, and then chaired Arena for quite some time. So we've seen over that period a rapid change. I guess I just wanted to reflect on a couple of things that have partly been brought up, but just from a slightly, so a different perspective. So the first is around technology. So we often talk about the technology being now. I think in Australia, we often get to see a lot of the international technologies last. So there's a lot of things that are emerging all the time around the world on energy transition technology. We are probably at the moment seeing five to 10 incredible innovations a week, of which probably 70% will never work, but 30% are actually leapfrogging ahead of what is going on. So I think one of the interesting things there is just the speed at which the technology is moving. I think one of the real challenges with that technology, though, is integration and how do you integrate that into an existing and evolving system and also the issue of risk mitigation. So when you're looking at a new technology and incorporating that into an existing facility or into a new process, how do you actually, who bears the risk of that? And that has been one of the barriers which we've seen today, and that's a role that the government can probably play more of a role in. Secondly, I think this is all about systems change. It's not just about the change of putting a new wind farm or putting in a new solar farm or a new battery system. This is about, we have to look at this through the entire system being transformed, and a lot of the work I think that's going on in Europe at the moment is about how do you actually move an entire car manufacturing system away from petrol to electric. And when you look at what's happening with the number of battery gigafactories in Europe that have emerged in the last 12 months, the rate of change is phenomenal. And so when we look at this issue, we have to look at it at a more, at a broader level, which is everything from as Leanne was talking about, the minerals that we take out of the ground, all the way through to, through creating the technologies all the way through to recycling what comes out the other end, wind farms and solar panels, etc. And so that is a whole of an economic change. It's about building new manufacturing sectors. It's about doing all of that, and it's really important that we look at this energy transition through more of a systemic view. The next point is when we look at a lot of industrial decarbonisation, that's also an area that is challenging. And I think people often think, oh well, we'll just tell an aluminium smelter to change. But when you look at what happened with Portland, there are multiple parties involved in changing or in transitioning a large energy user there. And rather than just having the status quo, it actually requires everybody working together. So it requires government, the plant owners, the workforce, the technology providers, the alternatives to come up and think together in a package. And it's like doing a large sort of project in effect. It's not, you can't just anticipate that the time ago, somebody else will just change. It actually requires a team of people within the ecosystem to actually work through how that is going to happen over a long period. And then again, coming back to this issue of how you manage the transition risk. Another key point then is also the issue around finance. So I think at the moment, there is a huge amount of money that's in the system, private money being being pushed towards technology and towards this energy transition. But one of the challenges is the very large super funds really are wanting to write checks of up to a billion to two to three billion dollars for a lot of the investments they make. And a lot of the a lot of the energy technologies we see are actually require much smaller funding. So one of the challenges is how do you actually fund the ideas that need to come through the system? And I think there's a tremendous amount of money for, well, there's money for VC emerging, there's quite a lot for PE and there's a lot of super fund money, but there's a very limited amount of money to actually develop the transition changes that we need. And I think that's an area where, and this is even pre- arena sort of type funding. This is very early stage. And at the moment where you've probably seen a lot of the large investors and the institutional investors starting to come further down the chain. So they're coming from large scale investing to PE. But this idea of needing to fund the development of ideas and how to transition economies, which is a role that people like the CSRO and universities and others can take and government itself, that is where the big gap is at the moment. And so we're seeing that more overseas in Australia, but we actually need to have more of that focus on how do we actually work out how we're going to transition the entire sector and rebuild manufacturing, for example, in Australia. So when the state government in use of oil says we want 8,000 electric buses, the thinking should be okay, well rather than just buying those buses from overseas, how do we actually, from the ground up, build an entire sector that's based on renewable energy to really, to include bus manufacturing and drive that at scale very fast and then make that an export industry. The other point I just wanted to make was also around, around what are some of the other drivers here. So there are two. One is, is the legal driver. There are currently 18 pieces of litigation going on in Australia against, against major banks and other investors for investing in fossil fuels. Whether or not you agree with that, those, that litigation, one of the impacts that it's having is many of the banks and financial institutions are no longer going to fund, I guess, fossil fuels are already withdrawing from that. They're already a bit scared to fund gas and so the cost of capital and the availability of capital is fundamentally shifting. And it's happening at speed and it's happening very quickly. And I think the change that you've seen over the last six months is quite dramatic. But the, but the challenge with this is that this litigation does have an impact on timing, on investing and on the willingness of investors to put money into various areas. So as Leanne and Dipma were talking about shareholders, I mean, we are seeing this pressure really play out in the finance sector. And I think people probably underestimate that. And then finally, the other issue is geopolitics. So as we see a lot of the, as we see China pushing more into getting rare earths and other minerals from areas like like Africa, a lot of talk about them trying to access it from Afghanistan. What opportunities are there for Australia in the shifting geopolitics in terms of of taking our base of rare earths and our base of other minerals to be using those and strategically positioning ourselves in this sort of change in geopolitics. I think there's huge opportunity for Australia across the entire value chain of energy, all the way through digging up minerals, all the way through recycling. We need to look at it in a more holistic way. And I think that's where the massive opportunity for us sits. And a key player in that is transmission. And then the final point I'll just make is that a lot of this is difficult. A lot of this hasn't been done before. I think people often think that this is easy. And some of the technologies that we're talking through, even how do you integrate solar on your roof to cars to bring back into the grid is pretty straightforward. But it's something that even that is still evolving. So a lot of things that I think we sometimes take for granted that are easy to do, I still have to be done. But it's I think there's a huge opportunity for us. And and we just have to make sure that we play it properly. Thank you very much, Martin. So now that we've heard from all three panelists today, we'll now just have a quick discussion amongst the group and and invite you while we're doing that to think of questions that you might wish to ask the panel. And you can then do that by using the raise hand function on the tablet bottom of your screen. So one of the things I think that's not widely recognised by not only people overseas, but people in Australia is that despite the fact that we've had, you know, essentially policy chaos in this country over the last decade or more in the in the climate and energy space, that Australia is actually now leading the world in the transition of the electricity sector. We're installing solar and wind generating capacity at a faster rate per person than any other country. In fact, 10 times faster than the world average. So our electricity sector is leading the charge, if you like, internationally in terms of the transition that is being undertaken. And this by and large is driven mainly by the sheer economics of the price structure for solar and wind. And as Steve Myers mentioned, the cost of solar panels now is factors of several hundred less than it was back in the 80s. And it's very hard to imagine any other technology that has undergone such a rapid reduction. So my question to the panel is, while we're world leaders at the moment and we can see our way maybe over the next couple of years to reaching 50 percent of renewable electricity by the mid-2020s or approaching 100 percent in the 2030s, perhaps, what are the bottlenecks? What are the barriers that might get in the way of this happening? As Leanne said earlier, she thought back in the day when the ozone layer had been closed that the same could be done for climate change and global warming. Well, we're now moving rapidly down the path in terms of the adoption of renewables by the private sector. What can get in the way of completing this process and extending this to other sectors? I'd like to hear the panel's views on that. Leanne, would you like to say something? Just unmuting. Yes. So there's lots of things that could get in the way, but I think the reference to the system and the system we are built on for our electricity sector was designed in a very different way. I think initially a lot of engineers were saying this can't be done, but now it is happening and so now it's how do we do it? I think there's a lot of decisions being made about how to strengthen our grid. There are requirements for transmission so that we can move energy to where it's needed and it's the intermittent nature. So there's again a framework that's got to be developed to allow people to invest and there are investments happening, but for instance, the Snowy 2 project, we have the backing of government, so I'm not sure whether a private company could have made that decision, but I think those models of how do we actually present a framework for a private investment to carry the heavy load is one of those. Yes and perhaps Martin, going back to your earlier question about unlocking investment, is there a role for government in this? I mean what we're seeing is a charge being led by and large by industry at the moment and as I said previously, it's been done in the background of policy chaos, at least in the federal system here in Australia. So what is your view in terms of unlocking the investment that's needed from a government perspective? Yeah, I think I think there are probably two key things that are required. The first is that unfortunately at the moment the states don't view energy policy or the way they approach energy as an issue that's what's best for the system, it's more what's best for the state. So one of the big issues was we need it and we're now getting transmission lines between different states, but for a long time the focus was on in Queensland we're going to build this energy in New South Wales, we're going to build this, we're going to build these renewable energy zones without necessarily too much thought as to what that means for an interconnected system. I think the first thing we need to do is having the states work together, particularly where there's disagreements for the federal government. So thinking about what's best for the NEM as opposed to what's just best for their state and that ultimately then means what's best for Australia because if you're trying to build a manufacturing industry on hydrogen for example how do you coordinate that at a country level as opposed to state level? I think the other the second key issue is risk and risk mitigation. So you know you need to one of the challenges with the renewable energy zones and with some of the rules is that around the senior rules was obviously you have the challenge that the generation won't come to the transmission is guaranteed, the transition won't come to the generations there. So you need to there's been a lot of work around this but where someone's either coming into building new technologies they need to know that they can put it on the ground that can be financed and they can therefore get the finance. So the governments can play a really important role there in terms of underwriting new assets into the system or underwriting the risk and at the end of the day when we did the large-scale solar funding round at arena everybody said that wasn't feasible it wasn't going to be possible. We didn't have people in Australia who knew how to build those solar farms, we didn't have banks and you had to finance them and but going through that process that basically de-risked the process and at the end result was that the cost came down and you've found ways to make that happen. So I think government can play a very important role in short-term risk mitigation which ultimately I don't think there really is much risk because if it's done properly people will find solutions to make it work. Thank you Martin and Dima from the perspective of moving beyond the electricity sector we see that this is accounting for roughly a third of our emissions and a similar sort of fraction of our total energy use. What about the other sectors in the economy and as you mentioned earlier what about the export sectors that are beckoning in terms of shift from fossil fuel exports to renewable energy exports? Yeah that's a tricky one Ken. Before you go there I want to respond to something Leanne said about the need for the system to be strengthened. There could be a barrier. I want to make sure we don't forget that when we do transition all the sectors simultaneously the transport sector will require another 70 to 100 gigawatts electricity that we don't have today. So when we design the system for transmission distribution and storage at the right spaces we need to make sure we have the future development of the entire system in mind and not just solve the problems that we're seeing today. So we need to solve the problems that will occur in the next couple of decades. So I want to make sure that we keep that in mind. And I'm confounded with that the export sector as you mentioned when you look at the energy flow in Australia the export sector is about 20 times the amount of energy that we actually use domestically. So there are a couple of ways to solve that challenge. One of it is to export the same amount of energy but as renewable energy. I don't think that's feasible. I think that it's first of all the world will probably not import that much energy when it's renewable energy. And second of all it's probably not feasible for Australia to build an industry that generates 20 times the amount of energy that we have today in Australia in terms of renewable energy. That's just going to be a big challenge for us to do. So another way to solve that is think about shifting our export products into more value added products. Putting energy into products that we then export rather than exporting directly the energy. So it will be a mix. We will still in the future export some energy some form of green energy in terms of either hydrogen itself or in terms of HVDC lines into Polynesia. And so that will be part of it. But at the end of the day for us to continue to export that form of energy I think it will be important to embed that into more value added products that could be sub-products of N solutions. For example it could be parts of an overall car or it could be pre-processed or it could be or pre-processed any other minerals rather than shipping the raw minerals. So the solution for us in the export sector to still continue having a big export market is to think about partly exporting the clean energy but also partly exporting green products that are produced in Australia with green energy. Yes, indeed. Good. I think we might now wrap up the session. We're getting close to the closing time. So I think we've had a very good discussion here about Australia's energy transition and some of the challenges and some of the opportunities as well that we face. And I think that one of the key points that has come out of this is that there are not only many things need to be done but there are also many players and many drivers that will make this happen. It's not just up to one sector of the community or one sector of the economy that will make this transition work. It's really across the entire range. And I'd like to just wrap up by thanking our panelists again. Thank you to Leanne Bond. Thank you to Martin Wilder and thank you to Dick Martuvie for providing their insightful perspectives today. Thank you again to the audience for your participation and your questions. We keep an eye on the chat function. So if you have other questions that we haven't answered, perhaps we can answer those online for you. And we again thank the Crawford Leadership Forum for the opportunity to talk about these really important issues with you here this morning. So thank you everyone and we look forward to seeing you at subsequent events. Thank you very much.


The Great Father is the UK's first ever consumer owned wind farm, so this means that the people that own it actually get supplied with the low cost green electricity that it generates and as a result they get savings off their electricity bill for its 25 year life time. Scotland is expected to get nearly 20% of its energy from the solar farm. Through the summer months it will provide a large proportion of the energy required but even in the winter months we've already achieved 55 hours where we haven't required any energy from the national grid. It's really lovely to be here at the first solar farm to be run by a health board in Wales, a project which has been particularly supported by the Welsh Government Energy Service programme, a programme that's been making an impact across Wales for some time, supporting the collective ambition of the public sector to decarbonise by 2030 and this is a brilliant example of its day. I love these electric vans, they're so quick, so clean, so quiet and they're lovely to drive. And I'm using way less energy so I can tell the grandkids I'm helping to save the planet.


Some people in some video has asked me what do I actually do in KDE is to call myself a developer And that's actually a fair question And it's pretty important because when I'm giving my opinion my opinion is based on what I actually do in KDE so you should know too and This video I'm going to explain it So the first community because you know KDE is a community and then it has like sub communities inside of it Like groups the first group let's say group. I'm in is the VDG which is the visual design now What does the visual design and answer is a lot of things actually if you go into the chat of the VDG? It's about a lot of things like it is about the design But we often also talk about the actual how things are implemented It's mostly about projects that are either like KDE Plasma the desktops the shawls or applications that are especially the new ones done in KML and in Kuri Gami because Applications like ocular have their own group working on it So VDG doesn't quite work on those applications specifically However, it is still about visual design. So often there is changes to that application as well Generally speaking the VDG is about Knowing what we want KDE Plasma to look sorry Knowing what we want KDE in general to look like so KDE Plasma and the applications and We've got something like the human interface interface guidelines But also the bridge team and there's a lot of mocaps Most of the big I mean all of the people doing mocaps as far as I know are in the VDG Breeze as a theme is very much maintained by VDG people this kind of things Me personally inside of the VDG Well, but it starts as well from giving feedback to others like if others come and say What do you think of something I give my feedback and that's actually already a start I think in contributing to KDE, but also me personally I changed a bit of the Plasma theme Breeze theme the Plasma Breeze theme, sorry Which is the actual Plasma one so the panel the kickoff and in particular I've changed the shadows I've added the header in the outlets and the transparency now It's more transparent and it has more blur behind it So those are the things are I know the best usually I work on KDE Plasma desktop That's what I do most work in but then I'm also in the promo chat in the promo group Now what does promo do is about managing the social media Generally speaking I do have access to KDE social media Which is pretty cool because because when I log into Facebook as an example and I see posts Technically I could reply as KDE as a whole And luckily I cannot do that without discussion in the promo chat, but you know it still sounds pretty cool Now more seriously there are things about writing announcements for the releases doing Videos or animations. I have worked as an example on the animation of the 5.24 I think Announcement or maybe 5.23 then remember 23, 23 Also in general the wording of the tweets also organizing the April Fools I did give a hand in organizing the joint April Fools about Gnome with the Gnome community That was super cool and then also I am the leader Coldkeeper it's actually called of the consistency goal and what is consistency? Well at this point I've got a lot of talks about it So if you want to go like in depth about this you can go see the academic talk I given the last two Generally speaking it's about making sure that everything looks like just the same of everything else Which is literally literally the worst way to put it now more seriously It's about making sure that a component when the user actually learns about how it's made and how it works That component is used Consistently throughout the interface as an example if you have the context menu which looks like something and behaves like something in one Application it has to look and behave in the same way in another application as well It's not really acceptable to have something that is just one component that the user expects to work in the same way Throughout the interface to wave differently and this also translates like Under the hood in the code because if you hard code in each application something different It's going to be super super hard to actually improve anything because all of the changes will have to be Reimplemented in all of different places now. Let's actually give a look to my GitLab page and the merge request so I can actually talk about the actual things I'm doing Let's see all of the merge requests that are Authorized by me and we are talking about 70. It's actually more because We switched to GitLab recently before that the work fabricator Merit requests, but still the one that I've done is I'm currently working on as I've said Completely rewriting the panel containment So it's a nice refactor with a lot of code being thrown out of the window. It's not floating Okay, now it's loading as you can see all of the red stuff is stopped that it's disappearing so a lot of it I'm implementing panel support like this one. It's actually here You can see screenshots to actually make the panel floating with some catches like there's no shadow Nonetheless, I think it's pretty cool. I am working although this comes from eights month Eight months ago, and I haven't been able to kind of make this work yet making Uplets fluid as well as you can see in this screenshot. I think this one looks particularly cool I've done a bunch of backfixes in general and then another very important thing I've done. Let's see if I'm actually able to find the Merge request is this one the margin areas, which is This video is beautiful. I cannot see anything. That's actually take this one I've done a video just talking about the margin areas But the idea is that you when in edit mode You actually see the margin of the panel and you can add this component Which is called the margin separator Which changes the size from being big to being a bit smaller now It's not very well seen here because this patch this video is actually filmed before I implemented the highlight for the margin But if you have default KDA Plasma Theme and you go into edit mode, you can see the margin and at a certain point it changes That's the margin areas. Another important thing I've done is adaptive transparency Which is not completely done by me actually there was significant help But still I did implement part of it and the idea is that when a window is maximized Then the panels become opaque when it's the maximized Maximized it's no longer opaque and that actually allowed this that also applied to Kickoff as well. So kickoff when there was a maximized window is opaque when it's not it's not big That allowed to use more transparency and that was actually pretty important now if use KDA Plasma There is blur and transparency and I'm a big fan. So to summarize I work on KDA Plasma Desktop usually the panel the uplets the shadows the Plasma theme both in regards of visual design but also promotion actually promoting the changes to the people and Also consistency in general, although, you know, they are they are all Correlated correlated to each other now if you want to support me You can always do a donation through people and as I've said I think in three videos at this point All of the donation will go into improving the quality of the videos by buying a new camera because this one is good But we can do better and you know They as cool youtubers like I am say subscribe put likes bring the bell see you tomorrow


Hey Leo, how are you today? I'm good, I'm good. OK, so today we try to improve your breaststroke, OK? So I've never seen you swim on breaststroke. It's the first time I'm going to see your skill. And then we try to do some correction from there. So you have been teaching breaststroke last time? I learned it as well when I was a kid. So I've never had any other lessons other than when I was young. OK. Maybe you show me first how you swim your breaststroke and then we can start from there, OK? Let's go. Excellent. OK, not too bad. You have a default on your breaststroke, which is very, very common. A lot of people, they have this problem, is when you kick, in the same time, you open your hands to take a breath. And actually, the idea of the breaststroke is the opposite. When you kick, you need to stretch your arms to glide forward, not pulling the water with your hands to breathe up. So basically, when you kick, you want to be horizontal inside the water. OK? So you kick and stretch. After stretch, then you will pull. Don't kick and pull. Kick and stretch. And then pull after the stretch. OK, let me try. Sure. Better. That's better. So when you kick, your hands go forward. OK, that's a good thing. Now when you kick, put your head inside the water so you can blow bubbles looking at the ground. OK, kick and stretch. Kick and stretch, not too bad. OK, you still have the idea of kicking and opening too fast. Now I would like you to kick, keep your hands forward for maybe one second and a half or two seconds. Don't use your hands. Kick, glide on the surface for maybe two seconds. OK. OK?  Better. Kick and stretch. Yes, that's correct. Yes. Yes. OK. Do you feel the difference? I glide. Yes. So the idea of restock is gliding, OK? It's not like doing many movements and getting tired. Yeah.  When you breathe, you look up.   In the sky, show me. OK, both together, head down, head down. OK, you are like this.  You glide with your hands, OK?  That's the position.  That's no problem. Then you can pull with your hands, all right? We try one more time. I want you to kick and stretch with your hands under your arms, blowing bubbles. Yes, you put your head in.  When you kick, I don't want to see your head. OK, that's definitely better.  Nope, you need to go up when you pull. So you don't move your hand first and then move your head.    You don't pull and then look up after the pull. That's what you do now. So I pull and look up at the same time. Yes, you don't pull first and look up after.  All right, let's try to go this way. So kick and glide, look up and pull. Look up with your head a bit better. OK, kick and glide with your head down, pull. Kick and glide, pull. Yep. Yep. OK, stop. Much better.  You look up and you pull, kick and glide. Look up and pull, kick and glide. All right, and blow bubbles when you kick. Remember, the kick is strong. The power comes from the legs and the breaststroke. Let me go. Keeps the number to look down and glide as long as possible. How are you feeling? Good. It's good. I forgot about the sensation of gliding in the water. So it's great. Thanks. OK, so you see, you don't need much correction, actually. You just need to understand what is the idea, what posture you need to adopt, and what sensation you need to feel. Right? So when you feel the glide, then you're right. When you pull and breathe and then kick and then to glide, then you're good. OK? Right? It's a shame. All right, bye-bye. See you next time.


Welcome to Antean Nightly, I'm Humadi Mark, this edition's top stories. Government to improve conditions at the respiratory hospital as storing COVID-19 cases increase patient intake. A public-private partnership that benefits the youth of Foa Sho. And a caracom to pull resources to assist Haiti in the aftermath of two natural disasters. The government of St. Usha is actively working to improve capacity and conditions at the respiratory hospital. The Minister for Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs Hon. Moses Shabbatist recently informed of the government's plans to upgrade the primary COVID-19 care facility. The announcement comes as the nation grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases. Conditions at the Victoria Hospital are not acceptable. We are working with the administrator of the hospital and also Dr. Eugene, who is responsible for the clinical operations at the hospital. Additional staff is being mobilized, improvements to the oxygen supply system, installation of better communication equipment, assessment of and improvement to the supply of medicines, and an attempt to seamlessly connect the Victoria Hospital to the isolation operations in the field. Relatives of patients who are admitted to the Victoria Hospital speak of many gaps in the system, which we must help the administrator and staff to fill, and we are working to fill the gaps. Minister for Health and Wellness Hon. Moses Shabbatist. And with the number of active COVID-19 cases over 1100, the government of St. Lucia has revised the COVID-19 protocols. Cabinet approved the adjustments upon recommendations from the command centre. The changes to the protocols take effect from Friday, August 2021, until Tuesday, August 31, 2021. They include adjustments to the curfew. Monday to Thursday, from 9pm to 4am, with closure of businesses at 8pm, one hour before the commencement of the curfew. Friday and Saturdays, from 7pm to 4am, with closure of businesses at 6pm. Sundays, from 4pm to 4am, with closure of businesses at 3pm. Two, that public sector construction activities will be removed from the list of essential services. And three, that all other measures remain the same. Health Minister Hon. Moses Shabbatist. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs is implementing measures to ensure that vaccines are available to all who are eligible to receive them. Vaccination will continue at the various vaccination sites and wellness centres across the island, alongside the mobile vaccination drive in communities. In the coming weeks, vaccines will also become available at selected private sector health facilities. As of Monday, August 23, 2021, the Pfizer vaccine will be available at the vaccination sites for persons 12 years and older. Parents or guardians should accompany children under 18 years. Assistant Principal Nursing Officer Tecla Shabbatist says, vaccinating children will protect them from COVID-19 infection, particularly the Delta variant, which is known to cause serious infection in young people. The schedule for the vaccination sites are as follows. Grossly Human Resource Centre, Mondays and Fridays. The VG Sports Complex, Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The Bainfield Secondary School, until Thursday, August 26, 2021, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Suffer hospital grounds Mondays and Fridays. Dennery Mothers Preschool, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Jackmill Wellness Centre on Fridays and the People Discounts Pharmacy. On Tuesdays, on Victoria Street and Thursdays on St. Louis Street. Nurse Shabbatist says until widespread vaccination has been achieved, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, people need to be aware that the additional protective behaviors are required to control the pandemic. In other developments, the children of the Foasio community enrolled in the after-school program now have a new agricultural program to look forward to after receiving an in-kind donation from Mr. Ira Duvay for the use of a plot of land directly behind the community centre to commence a CASP backyard kitchen garden. The children from the Foasio community enrolled in the community after-school program CASP will now have a new agricultural elective to look forward to after receiving an in-kind donation from Mr. Ira Duvay from the Foasio community centre to commence a CASP backyard kitchen garden. The program was also gifted with a check of EC $3,500 from Sanders Foundation and EC $500 from the St. Lucia National Lottery for the plot preparation. The ceremony was held on Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at the Foasio Community Centre, Social Transformation Officer and backyard kitchen garden coordinator, Mrs. Fidora Alcindor. The green space component of the project arose from the realisation that children in the community have no outdoor space to learn, develop and play. Having the space where they can just step out of their home and go into this green space, we know the impact just being in the outdoors how beneficial it is for your mental health. So creating this avenue where the children can have the space to go out and to engage not only in play but in cultivating crops and seeing that crop germinate from a seed to an actual fruit and to be able to eat and provide for their homes because it's going to be a kitchen garden. So we're hoping that the produce that they will get from the garden it would go to helping to reduce the expenses in terms of what they buy in the market. Sanders Manager stated that the creation of this backyard kitchen garden project will strengthen community pride, foster a deeper sense of community spirit and provide a safe space for the children of the community to play and develop relevant skills in sustainable gardening. We identify with your objectives for these initiatives and as you say, these project promises to positively impact the community in several ways, namely encouraging community pride and fostering a deeper sense of community spirit and providing very importantly safe space for children of the community to play and grow. If this means that they will no longer use the main road as their playground while also developing relevant skills in sustainable gardening then we're happy to provide support and to move along with you. For the children of four and two, the hospital road served as a playground but now the green space will offer an alternative space for farming activities which would keep them away from the busy hospital road. The managing director has also pledged his support for the implementation of community after-school program backyard kitchen gardens in Marsha, Wilton's Yard and Chase Gardens. I believe from what I've just heard that you're also working in a number of other communities including Wilton Yard and others. I would like to share with you this morning that I'm pleased to hear that because these communities are very dear to our hearts because it brings us closer to children and we believe strongly that if we can give one child the opportunity for a better life that one child will be safe. I also understand that you're planning to work in Marsha Chase Garden this year. So first I want to wish you success with these projects and by extension I want to extend our full support also. Deputy Director in the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and People's Empowerment Mr. Jim Zavye welcomed this initiative. I'm extremely delighted because this is a demonstration of what community, the ministry and the private sector can do to elevate a community. So we are happy that Sanders has come on board and the project is going to be launched tomorrow actually and so we could have the green space and then they could start planting the items and taking care of it and getting that sort of social cohesion and community togetherness that is important for a project of that nature. Well the ministry has a broad mandate. One of it is to work with vulnerable communities to help them to improve the standard of living and the level of confidence and social being and this project speaks to a number of the mandates in terms of eradication of poverty, empowering people getting persons involved in their development and decisions affecting them so this is an excellent project. Through the Ministry of Agriculture, the region will obtain watermelons, tomatoes, honeydew and let you seedlens. Reporting from the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment I am Shevremarius. Conditions in Haiti post last Saturday's 7.2 magnitude earthquake and at this week's tropical storm Grace is occupying the attention of Karakam. The President of Suriname this week held discussions with the new Karakam Secretary General on assistance to Haiti. More from Kendall Morgan from Karakam News Time. The President of Suriname's Excellency, Chandrika Posad-Sintoki says Karakam must do what it can to assist Haiti to overcome the challenges it is facing. Speaking during the courtesy call on the new Karakam Secretary General or Excellency Carla Barnett at the Karakam Secretariat's Georgetown Guyana headquarters on Wednesday the President emphasized that Haiti must not be left behind. Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake last Saturday which has claimed around 2,000 lives and a tropical storm on Tuesday which hampered recovery activities. Presidents in Turkey said that Karakam must work with hemispheric and wider international partners to ensure that democracy, democratic institutions and the rule of law are maintained in Haiti. He expressed his country's full support to the integration movement and to the new Secretary General Dr. Barnett who took up the post on Monday. The President who was accompanied by Suriname Foreign Minister's Excellency Albert Ramden took the opportunity to invite Dr. Barnett to Suriname. Secretary General Barnett welcomed the President to the headquarters and agreed that Haiti was a priority for the community and described the situation there as very painful. The Secretary General informed the President that the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency CEDEMA was already engaged with its counterpart in Haiti to assist in the recovery. She also agreed with the other priorities which the President put on the table which included the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for vaccination, the pursuit of post-pandemic economic recovery and the climate change. Dr. Barnett indicated that the community recognized the importance of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 in the United Kingdom and was organizing to ensure that it would be well prepared for the negotiations. This is NTN Nightly. Primus Hutchinson is up next. Stay with us. The COVID-19 Vaccination Drive is mobile and coming to you. There, you can get the vaccine. It will protect you from developing severe outcomes of COVID-19 and make you less likely to spread the virus to others. It will also help you get your life back. Most of all, you will be doing your part to help St. Lucia bounce back from this pandemic. Visit the Ministry of Health and Human Services to learn more about COVID-19. Welcome back. We now join Primus Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvela Quio. Mr. Mélan, Department of Health and Human Services for the formation of this government. That's G-I-S. In the summer, we will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the vaccine. That's G-I-S. We will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the vaccine. Communication. That's G-I-S. We will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the vaccine. Remember the previous events. În French. We will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the прил換. After a month in Alabama, we will be taking the vaccine. We will be taking the vaccine. So it is necessary to address these nations when it comes to new marches. Who is in place? The cabinet has agreed to make a change with these changes. This is the question that has brought out the most professional. This change that has been going on for a long time, has been going on for a long time. With these changes, what is the answer? The first thing I said was that the cabinet has agreed to make a change. With all the businesses that have been doing it, we have agreed to make a change. This is what I have been saying before the cabinet has started. Last time, with Saturday, the cabinet has agreed to make a change. With businesses that have been doing it, we have agreed to make a change. This is what I have been saying before the cabinet has started. With businesses that have been doing it, we have agreed to make a change. With construction, we have agreed to make an essential service. With all the construction activities that have been going on, we have agreed to make a change. With all the businesses that have been doing it, we have agreed to make a change. The cabinet has agreed to make a change. With all the businesses that have been doing it, we have agreed to make a change. For example, the pandemic was training English people for their English and Spanish speakers. That is their only way to use it and this is a new trend here in Europe. by Gen Moun, Vaccine Fizer, also. Because we know that Gen Moun has been sick with COVID-19 here in Buisin. We know that everyone has a vaccine and we know that there are a lot of people in this community to follow this protocol with a vaccine to help us with COVID-19 so that we can improve this community so that we can follow this protocol. The government has decided to encourage people particularly in the coming years to play a more strong role in development in the state of West Coastal Ability, to ensure social equality. We have Joachim Henry, who said that he will not be humiliated by this diverse development that is being done in West Coastal Ability, but that he will encourage people to have more responsibility to do the same. We have a legislative parliament to support West Coastal Ability so that it is easy for people to engage in consultation with a lot of development that is being done in West Coastal Ability in all areas of this country. So it is important for us to govern this and encourage people to participate in this work. So, in a way, it is more comfortable to make decisions Mr. Minister, as a commission, I can't say that I am happy to be here, I can't say that I am happy to be here, but I can't say that I am happy to be here. So I can't say that I am happy to be here. It is a city office that is located in the city of Pepsimuna, in the city of Mun, with the same large economy, because there are thousands of people with difficulty in the whole world. But I have made I have made decisions every week to go beyond the four constituencies. On the other hand, I have been working for a long time. I have worked for six weeks I have worked for ten weeks Before, I have worked for four weeks It is a Plasmum that I am working for for the whole junior I am working for In 2019, the city was the second largest tourist destination in the world. The city was also registered as a tourist destination for the first time in 18,900 years. Dr. Hillet, the most famous tourist destination in the world, Christopher Gustav, was the captain of the American Airlines, named Dale Harrison, who was in charge of the image of the city. Dr. Hillet, congratulations on your service. For you to come here, welcome the foreigners and the citizens who came to the city. It was a very important and reliable destination for this city. It was also a tourist destination for the city, because it appreciated the visitation of this city. The Greek-Caribbean Airlines also appreciated the visitation of this city, because it was a good gymnasium that continued to pass through the city, and it was also the first to pass through the city, and it was also appreciated to take the visitation. The Caribbean Airlines was able to serve the whole week, and on Friday, they had to leave Fijiaco in 6 minutes after 10 am, and then go to the city of Dr. Hillet, which is located at 11 am. And that's it for today. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you for your invitation. I also want to say thank you very much for your time. I wish you all a good weekend. I hope that you all will be able to get to know the coronavirus, sanitize, wash your hands, and do all the necessary things to protect the people of the nation. And after that, I wish you all the best.