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tbh there is a significant element of reactionary anti-development idiocy present in city and inner suburb greens which should be called out.
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Pickled Tink posted:School in Nauru detention centre to be closed gently caress you Australia. Just gently caress you.
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Gough Suppressant posted:tbh there is a significant element of reactionary anti-development idiocy present in city and inner suburb greens which should be called out. Never trust anyone who talks about development emotionally, they all have ulterior motives and they're all bad, whether it's retaining 1/2 acre blocks in the inner city or building post-war style tower blocks.
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Gough Suppressant posted:tbh there is a significant element of reactionary anti-development idiocy present in city and inner suburb greens which should be called out. In Sydney the 'tower in a park' style 60s/70s blocks full of tiny little flats did a lot of damage to people's acceptance of new developments. The 'natural' progression from dense terraces is probably taller terraced buildings that have a home per floor, and each home is roughly the same size as what it replaced in square meters. There's no reason density means we all have to try and raise a family in one or two bedroom flats, but that's all we seem to build these days - small flats or huge free standing homes. edit We have trouble transitioning suburbs - a lot of inner ring suburbs are entirely dominated by free standing homes but the councils prevent someone subdividing and building two terraced homes (each with the same floor space as the free standing home, but less grass). This means it's up to the state governments to create special planning rules which allow higher densities and inevitably they skip a generation of gradually increasing density and go straight to a large block of small flats - this increases people's NIMBYism even more (look at Ku-Ring-Gai for an example of this. The North Shore is full of cunts but this just gives them an excuse) cowboy beepboop fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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my stepdads beer posted:In Sydney the 'tower in a park' style 60s/70s blocks full of tiny little flats did a lot of damage to people's acceptance of new developments. The 'natural' progression from dense terraces is probably taller terraced buildings that have a home per floor, and each home is roughly the same size as what it replaced in square meters. There's no reason density means we all have to try and raise a family in one or two bedroom flats, but that's all we seem to build these days - small flats or huge free standing homes. Yeah, Le Corbusier style council flats have obvious problems in their implementation, as do the 70s brick 6pack apartments, but we absolutely loving need more housing diversity.
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Mar 31, 2015 00:09
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It's a shame there arent more brutalist housing blocks.
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More of this sort of thing imo e. https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/26439226/escort-claims-at-swanky-city-building-being-investigated/ CATTASTIC fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 31, 2015 00:13
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that honestly looks rad as gently caress. I think a half decent start would be you can only apply negative gearing to properties which you have developed to increase the number of dwellings on.
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QUACKTASTIC posted:More of this sort of thing imo The local rag, in the leadup to Central Park being built, would say how many of the building regulations were mysteriously waived. For instance, some huge proportion of the apartments receive less than the minimum required amount of sunlight - a big health hazard. The solution was to make them student accommodation. Also, they turned some of the intentionally zero sunlight commercial areas into more student housing. But yeah, green walls look cool.
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xPanda posted:The local rag, in the leadup to Central Park being built, would say how many of the building regulations were mysteriously waived. For instance, some huge proportion of the apartments receive less than the minimum required amount of sunlight - a big health hazard. The solution was to make them student accommodation. Also, they turned some of the intentionally zero sunlight commercial areas into more student housing. But yeah, green walls look cool. I'm not surprised, assuming that NSW's system is reasonably similar to victoria's the planning minister has near absolute authority to make decisions as they see fit, and developers can buy a lot of tables at fundraisers.
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It's got some pretty decent public spaces around the bottom too.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's got some pretty decent public spaces around the bottom too. They have, and I do actually quite like the development on the whole (if mostly for the burritos and Guzman y Gomez). But the whole planning shenanigans makes me wary, it's like density 101 to have good ventilation and sunlight. Lots of developments in inner Sydney don't have that, in suspicious defiance of planning laws. I feel like when TB gets there, it's going to be everywhere fast.
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TB? Like tuberculosis? e. you can't get much more ventialted than the wind-tunnel between the two residential buildings. It gets zero sun, but gale force winds.
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Mar 31, 2015 00:28
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QUACKTASTIC posted:More of this sort of thing imo Neo-brutalism? That looks terrible, slapping greenery on ugly concrete boxes doesn't stop them from being ugly concrete boxes.
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open24hours posted:Neo-brutalism? That looks terrible, slapping greenery on ugly concrete boxes doesn't stop them from being ugly concrete boxes. It's mostly glass (and balconies), I really wouldn't call it brutalism.
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Anybody got experience with NAB traveller card disputed transactions? An hour ago we discovered that the card got ripped off (in Vienna probably, from an ATM) and used in Bangkok and Indonesia from the 24th to the 30th (possibly today as well and hasn't just updated). There are tonnes of suspicious transactions (like 20 withdrawals at the same mini market in Indonesia in a single day) and I'm surprised they didn't catch it themselves. We called and blocked the card and got emailed a dispute claim letter but since its not a standard credit/debit card but a travellers card we are worried that there is some lovely fine print that means their insurance won't cover it because of lawyers. Her nab credit card got done a few years ago and they caught it immediately, blocked it, and sent her a tonne of SMSs to advise her (and they filled the dispute over the phone and had the money refunded before too long - no forms needed). Bit worried that this procedure is going differently. Total rip off for this is 4500 aud equivalent
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Anybody got experience with NAB traveller card disputed transactions? An hour ago we discovered that the card got ripped off (in Vienna probably, from an ATM) and used in Bangkok and Indonesia from the 24th to the 30th (possibly today as well and hasn't just updated). There are tonnes of suspicious transactions (like 20 withdrawals at the same mini market in Indonesia in a single day) and I'm surprised they didn't catch it themselves. We called and blocked the card and got emailed a dispute claim letter but since its not a standard credit/debit card but a travellers card we are worried that there is some lovely fine print that means their insurance won't cover it because of lawyers. Her nab credit card got done a few years ago and they caught it immediately, blocked it, and sent her a tonne of SMSs to advise her (and they filled the dispute over the phone and had the money refunded before too long - no forms needed). Bit worried that this procedure is going differently. Total rip off for this is 4500 aud equivalent my breasts
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open24hours posted:Neo-brutalism? That looks terrible, slapping greenery on ugly concrete boxes doesn't stop them from being ugly concrete boxes. It actually looks pretty nice
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Anybody got experience with NAB traveller card disputed transactions? An hour ago we discovered that the card got ripped off (in Vienna probably, from an ATM) and used in Bangkok and Indonesia from the 24th to the 30th (possibly today as well and hasn't just updated). There are tonnes of suspicious transactions (like 20 withdrawals at the same mini market in Indonesia in a single day) and I'm surprised they didn't catch it themselves. We called and blocked the card and got emailed a dispute claim letter but since its not a standard credit/debit card but a travellers card we are worried that there is some lovely fine print that means their insurance won't cover it because of lawyers. Her nab credit card got done a few years ago and they caught it immediately, blocked it, and sent her a tonne of SMSs to advise her (and they filled the dispute over the phone and had the money refunded before too long - no forms needed). Bit worried that this procedure is going differently. Total rip off for this is 4500 aud equivalent I think the big difference is that it's a Traveller card vs a Credit Card. You've just lost a bunch of your own money you put onto the traveller card. Whoops, sorry to hear that man, we'll get onto looking into that within 90 days, what, what do you mean lacklustre? If it was a credit card ripped off, that is the banks own money (with your name on it), they're on top of that like a pack of wild animals. It's why I keep my credit card separate from my transaction account. Oh, someone ripped all the money out of it? Well, file a form, we'll totally get onto that, for sure. Someone's taking unathorised credit money?  call out the specialists, we're breaking this bad boy down 
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Freudian Slip posted:"Exactly!! I left school in at 14, and Im pretty sure I run circles around most of the GP's and scieintists Ive ever speaked to." 
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quote:High levels of homophobia among teenage boys are harming the mental health of young gay people and putting them at risk of suicide, according to a study commissioned by beyondblue. Well, I'm glad a study was commissioned to discover that homophobia is damaging to homosexuals
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also the alp should stop stealing left wing votes from the greens
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Jacqui Lambie applies to register her own political party The Jacqui Lambie Network will focus on speaking up for Tasmanian issues but has kept open the option of running candidates in other states and territories The Tasmanian independent senator Jacqui Lambie is seeking to start her own political party, four months after she quit Palmer United. The Australian Electoral Commission announced on Tuesday that it had received an application to register the Jacqui Lambie Network. The party’s proposed constitution says the JLN aims to promote Tasmanian candidates to the House of Representatives or the Senate. It may also run candidates in Tasmanian state elections. The party will focus on speaking up for Tasmanian issues but it has kept open the option of running candidates in other states and territories. The constitution suggests parliamentary members of the party have the right “to vote according to their conscience”. The fact that Lambie is already in the Senate spares the party from having to prove it has at least 500 members to obtain registration. The membership requirement does not apply if a party has at least one member in the Commonwealth parliament. People can lodge objections to the party’s registration by 30 April. Grounds for objecting include the party not meeting the eligibility criteria, using a prohibited name or errors in the application. The JLN’s proposed constitution includes a rule requiring the party to be renamed if Lambie “ceases to be a member of the party, other than as a result of death or legal incapacity”. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/31/jacqui-lambie-applies-to-register-her-own-political-party
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Seagull posted:It actually looks pretty nice Actually it doesn't.
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Pretty sure that one and the ones like it are tongue in cheek. Could just be me giving them too much credit though.
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Yeah that's my thinking as well. The NAB traveller card thing also seems like a spinoff from the actual NAB company, somehow. Different domain name on emails etc, though everything still connects through NAB. Don't know whether they take it as seriously. We aren't hurting for money so badly that we can't wait a little while to get it back, but if they try the "we don't feel you have proved that these transactions weren't you" line and then stonewall us I'm going to blow a gasket. How do they not have a system that checks whether human beings can physically withdraw money from Rome and Indonesia using the same card on the same day?
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Anybody got experience with NAB traveller card disputed transactions? An hour ago we discovered that the card got ripped off (in Vienna probably, from an ATM) and used in Bangkok and Indonesia from the 24th to the 30th (possibly today as well and hasn't just updated). There are tonnes of suspicious transactions (like 20 withdrawals at the same mini market in Indonesia in a single day) and I'm surprised they didn't catch it themselves. We called and blocked the card and got emailed a dispute claim letter but since its not a standard credit/debit card but a travellers card we are worried that there is some lovely fine print that means their insurance won't cover it because of lawyers. Her nab credit card got done a few years ago and they caught it immediately, blocked it, and sent her a tonne of SMSs to advise her (and they filled the dispute over the phone and had the money refunded before too long - no forms needed). Bit worried that this procedure is going differently. Total rip off for this is 4500 aud equivalent
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Saw this on macrobusiness
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Murodese posted:Well, I'm glad a study was commissioned to discover that homophobia is damaging to homosexuals phew, now that we have scientific evidence surely those drat politicians will listen
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Jacqui Lambie applies to register her own political party Clive's only a dummy spit from a micro-party as well.
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Mar 31, 2015 01:21
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Registering a party as a Senator is very normal, since if you're an independent you get lumped in a random group on the voting ballot rather than being under a party heading.
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Mar 31, 2015 01:22
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Time will tell whether Lambie will have the chops to succeed.
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Graic Gabtar posted:OK then. Right wingers are as bad as trots. The lines between these microparties seem so small. "What is the most important issue to you. Fruitbats, dinosaurs, or brown ladies religion-hats"
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Mar 31, 2015 01:25
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QUACKTASTIC posted:More of this sort of thing imo
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Mar 31, 2015 01:28
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I want me to live there.
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Mar 31, 2015 01:32
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QUACKTASTIC posted:I want me to live there. I don't know what the apartments themselves are like but I'd definitely be happy living there wrt the location and facilities.
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Mar 31, 2015 01:38
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QUACKTASTIC posted:I want me to live there. Those gardens would be interesting to keep alive in Melbourne. I would bet that it would look just like every other apartment block in three years.
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Mar 31, 2015 01:38
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Anything smaller than a quarter acre block is Unaustralian.
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Graic Gabtar posted:No one is stopping you I guess. Imagine the strata fees for all that vertical gardening.
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