I'm feeling mildly confident of the Greens winning a bunch more inner-city and inner-west seats in the next Victorian election. The Greens always do well when Labor starts disappointing while in office - and that applies to the federal election next year too.
Jacinta Allan’s Labor faces trouble as the west gets wild
Housing prices today are absolute nuts; in 2003 our apartment cost less than half of the median unit price in Melbourne today. God knows how we'd buy a place nowadays on freelance incomes. Way past time for government to remove property investor tax incentives.
Australia property prices: Average household would struggle to buy average house
Peter Dutton has realised nobody is falling for his hype about Small Nuclear Reactors, so he's pivoted to large scale nuclear reactors.
The CSIRO has conclusively shown nuclear power is a dead-end technology — not fit for purpose in Australia — we need to accelerate our work with renewable energy such as wind and solar, and build more battery storage.
People should feel cheated, but the system is working exactly as designed.
Extract all the wealth pass it on to the richest keep wages down turn housing into a commodity and let the lower middle wealth brackets fight it out and blame each other and anyone else the rich say is the enemy.
Best case scenario they tax billionaires, properly address climate change, uphold the rights of trans, queer, disabled and first nations people and hold the bastards to account.
Worst case, weed is legalised and we feel a bit nice.
>>Europe is facing overwhelming losses and destruction from climate-related disasters.
"A piecemeal approach is no longer enough. EU’s substantial climate risks require reforming institutions, legal frameworks, across sectors and ministries, planning, fiscal, and sectoral strategies" explains Solene Dengler, a senior climate change adaptation specialist with the World Bank.<<
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton might have done us a favour, makes Labor's case that tax breaks for landlords ought to be restricted to those who build homes.
As part of his budget reply speech on Thursday night he promised to stop foreigners buying existing Australian homes.
He didn't only want to stop foreigners buying existing homes to live in, something they are able to do while here temporarily, as long as they they sell within three months of moving out.
He also wanted to stop them buying existing Australian homes to let to renters. He wanted to stop them being landlords. Not because landlords deprive us of homes to live in (they don't) but because they deprive us of homes to own.
Pt1/2 Trying to pin Angus Taylor down on subsidies for the nuclear reactor industry given the CSIRO has today reported on the high cost of building them. Trying to get out of it by throwing to Peter Dutton & Ted O'Brien. #auspol
Worst aspect of career criminals like Stuart Roberts and Angus Taylor is not the amount of wealth they siphoned from the govt to themselves and their families, but how obvious and stupidly easy the heists were
It'd be nice to think wealthy thieves are a bunch of sophisticated, genius arch-types. The reality of these boring, barley legible, old boys club members taking their anointed turn at the trough is depressingly mundane #auspol
"...Rinehart’s support for swimming has also been unusual in her direct-to-athlete funding, which only expanded after a falling out with the peak body.
"Through the “Hancock Swimmer Support Scheme”, Australia’s swimmers receive salary-like payments across three tiers: for top Olympians, those on the cusp of the national team and younger athletes with potential. Australia’s best swimmers reportedly received $32,000 directly from Rinehart in 2021. This would be supplemented by Swimming Australia funding and commercial endorsements."