JBP posted:

The Herald Sun has spent two days filling the comments with criticism of some PC gone mad gender bender policy in Darebin, but I can't find a single loving article about it online and I want to know what they've read because it's extremely impressive that they're filling two pages of opinion with comments on something one can't even read about.

hooman posted:

Mark Latham continues to be insane.

https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/posts/1979812145393448

When do you think he's going to join PHON?

Solemn Sloth posted:

It’s loving dumb (the reaction not the policy) but also so is Darebin city council in general

Starshark posted:

Politics involves work which cuts into drinking time.

Dude McAwesome posted:

From the same team that brought you “undermining Alex Bhatal in the Batman byelection”.

Whitlam posted:

So has SHY's office just stopped giving a gently caress because she's not going to win pre-selection or what? https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/05/23/15/15/sarah-hanson-young-press-release-riddle-with-errors

Domain posted:

Holly Power and Alex Hart may be barely out of their teens but they’ve already bought a block of land to build a four-bedroom house on.

The Gold coast couple, aged 20 and 21, have been saving for a house since they were 16 and say that, for them, getting on to the property ladder was something they had always valued highly.

Alex, who works in solar power, and Holly, who works at Star Casino, were the first and (not surprisingly) youngest couple to sign a contract on a block of land at a new Urbex development on the northern Gold Coast recently.

“We wanted to get ahead in the property market [but] we were going to house inspections on the Gold Coast and finding a lot of investors were snapping up properties and offering prices we just couldn’t compete with,” Mr Hart says.

“There are a lot of investors coming from interstate and overseas who are buying land on the Gold Coast. It is hard to find a house on the Coast for under $500,000, especially for something you want and to yield positive gains.”

When the couple consulted a mortgage broker, it was suggested they consider building or buying new so they could take advantage of the state government’s First Home Owner’s Grant. It wasn’t something they’d considered before but quickly realised they could get into the market sooner with an extra $20,000 up their sleeve.

“That’s when we turned to land and house packages and realised we could get a really great and affordable house for around the $500,000-price range,” Ms Power says.

“With the help of the grant, property is very affordable for young people.”

But Mr Hart admits there are sacrifices that have to be made to get into the market.

“Without the First Home Owner’s Grant, Holly and I would have really struggled to pull together funding for a house deposit,” he says.

“It just made the whole process that much easier knowing we were eligible for the grant and had funds to put towards the house we wanted. You might have to be more strategic about where you buy, maybe it is a little further out or it is a three-bedroom house instead of a four.

“I honestly think a lot of people our age would struggle otherwise.”

Both living in Robina, the couple plan to build a four-bedroom home on their Oxenford block of land, live in it for a few years, then sell and use the equity to upgrade to something closer to the city.

“This house is the stepping stone for us and a way to get our foot into the property market,” Mr Hart says.

“Purchasing land and building allows us to live in a brand new house and add value through a pool and outdoor entertaining area. We can build equity on the house and use it to purchase another property.”

Blocks of land in the Harriet Lane estate start at $275,000 and range from 634 square metres to 1761 square metres.

Urbex sales consultant Stacey Scrutton says the interest from younger buyers is strong.

“We are seeing a lot of home buyers attracted to the development because of the current interest rate environment and the benefits of the grant,” Ms Scrutton says.

She says aside from the affordable prices, local schools, entertainment options, shopping centres and proximity to the M1 were drawing the younger demographic further out to new estates.

NTRabbit posted:

She is? Don't loving lie to me about this, is she really?!

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Kendrick Lamar, the US music star and Pulitzer prize winner, halted a recent gig to call out a white fan for rapping the "n-word" from his own lyrics. Rowan Dean on the use of the N-word by a white fan at a Kendrick Lamar show

quote:

Dan van Holst Pellekaan, the energy minister in the newly elected South Australia Liberal government, has vowed to continue the state’s dramatic energy transition and show other states “how it can be done”.

In a keynote speech to the Australian Energy Storage conference and exhibition in Adelaide on Wednesday, van Holst Pellekaan said expectations that the election of a Liberal government would be the end of clean energy in the state were false.

“We heard about the end of renewables and return to energy systems of the past,” van Holst Pellekaan said.

“The transition is underway, and the transition will continue. It is being driven by the fundamental economics of clean energy as the lowest cost new build energy source.

Senor Tron posted:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/sa-liberals-vow-to-continue-energy-transition-go-big-in-batteries-93367/

Is this the author misrepresenting, or are the SA Libs actually being smart about energy?

Dude McAwesome posted:

Knowing the Libs it’ll just be something insane like “coal is now classed as a renewable because we’re all going to die and in a couple of billion years we’ll all be coal and the cycle will continue”

hooman posted:

Mark Latham continues to be insane.

https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/posts/1979812145393448

When do you think he's going to join PHON?

Brown Paper Bag posted:

She won top spot in the Greens pre-selection for the next election.

thatbastardken posted:

By 3%, which is basiclly nothing.

Zenithe posted:

Always more, always worse:

https://twitter.com/Kon__K/status/999170942688358401

Zenithe posted:

Always more, always worse:

https://twitter.com/Kon__K/status/999170942688358401

Zenithe posted:

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/joshgnosis/status/999415406061223936?s=21

quote:

Pauline Hanson's decision to walk away from a deal with the Federal Government to cut the corporate tax rate has frustrated the Coalition, to put it mildly.
Her reversal struck a death knell for the Coalition's economic centrepiece, leaving the Government with a budget crafted around a policy that can't be realised.
It has also sparked chatter amongst some Coalition backbenchers wondering just what to do about the Senate impasse.
A controversial approach is being quietly discussed: splitting the election process and sending senators to the polls — but not members of the House of Representatives.

ewe2 posted:

Hmm where have we heard "white flight" before? Yes, we're copying the USA again! What a lovely legacy and it's bipartisan too! I'm sure JBP will have a rational explanation for this!

Brown Paper Bag posted:

quote:

Tony Abbott has taken a swipe at Lucy Turnbull after the prime minister's wife claimed Sydney was 'far from full' and could take more immigrants.

Abbott, who has a strained relationship with his successor Malcolm Turnbull, said he 'respectfully disagreed' with Mrs Turnbull's views.

'We're full and frankly we're fed up with not being given the infrastructure that even the existing population densities deserve, let alone the greater population densities that some people want us to have,' Abbott told Ben Fordham's Sydney Live.

The Liberal MP added that he believes 'cramming more people into Sydney' has a negative impact on people's quality of life, given that a growing population could also put a strain on services and city infrastructure.

It comes after One Nation leader Pauline Hanson slammed Mrs Turnbull's comments.

Speaking in a television interview on Tuesday night, Ms Hanson said the prime minister's wife had a standard of living and way of life many Australians don't.

Ms Hanson said Mrs Turnbull, head of the Greater Sydney Commission, was out of touch and unable to judge whether the city can accept more immigrants.

'I don't think she's in a position to say whether Sydney is full or not full,' Ms Hanson told Alan Jones on Sky News.

'For Lucy to say 'Oh, Sydney can take more people' you might have your standard of living Lucy ... she's got her way of life, many many Australians don't have that.'

Ms Hanson, who sensationally withdrew her support for the government's corporate tax plan earlier this week, said people were 'screaming' for immigration to be halted.

Mrs Turnbull, the former Lord Mayor of Sydney from 2003 to 2004, told The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday that the city was far from full, while discussing the commission's recommendations.

Social media users backed Ms Hanson's comments, bringing up Mrs Turnbull's multi-million dollar mansion in exclusive Sydney suburb of Point Piper.

'Lucy needs to venture out of that harbourside abode of hers and see what's happening in the real world,' said one Twitter user.

'Point Piper's not full. Plenty of room for a refugee camp,' said another.

Callers to talkback radio agreed, flooding an open line to slam Mrs Turnbull's comments on 2GB.

'With all due respect Mrs Turnbull, it mightn't be full at Point Piper, but come to south-west and western Sydney and you'll see it's more than full,' said one caller.

'But let me tell you, and it's an open invitation to you Lucy, I'll chauffeur you around.'

'I'll show you the explosion of many high-rise apartments, particularly in my area in north-western Sydney, which are unwanted,' said another.

Mr and Mrs Turnbull bought one harbourside property for $5.4million in 1994, and purchased a neighbouring home for $7.1million five years later.

They used the second purchase to expand the waterfrontage of the first property - now estimated to be worth tens of millions - and sold the rest for $13million.

Mr Turnbull's net worth was estimated to be more than $200million in 2015.

this broken hill posted:

the thing about anglo australia is that it is the most boring culture on earth. poo poo food, poo poo music, poo poo holidays, poo poo family dynamics, poo poo work ethic, poo poo language, poo poo everything you can possibly think of. why anyone would want to live in an enclave of that is completely beyond me