Pioupiou I like that you feel we are upwardly mobile grunt...

Pioupiou I like that you feel we are upwardly mobile grunt boffins
Applied to NRW it brings to mind for me a kind of Akexander the Great style army but the elephants are phalanxes of yellow trucks and diggers etc etc and rather than going over the alps the TBM’s are tunnelling through them and all that ‘grunt’ is directed by the clear light of intelligence .
Boffin:

1. a person engaged in scientific or technical research.
   "a computer boffin"
   • a person with knowledge or a skill considered to be complex, arcane, and difficult.
     "he had a reputation as a tax boffin, a learned lawyer"

..I also like that you may have coined an exquisitely oxymoronic new description which will come into greater and greater use as driverless technology takes over. ( perhaps not so directly applicable to NRW?)

For the record despite your point that in unstable conditions it is not much use to rely on P/E statistics as a guiding tool CommSec today has Monadelphus - MND -at P/E ratio of 19.1 and us at 18.98...
CBA and Maca are practically neck and neck at 12.71 and 12.26 respectively .
Paradoxically what seems to be a buyer’s market seems to also be a falling market for all these companies .

Also paradoxically I am posting this from Poipu Where there is an enormous population of feral bantams many with clutches of chicks