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The Lord Bude posted:I have a several of friends who quite like/liked living in Melbourne and Sydney and the defining characteristic of all of them was a lifestyle whereby they lived in the inner parts of the city and didn’t drive. In the case of Sydney on a train line, in the case of Melbourne within the area covered by trams. This is me but I think PT has also degraded. Melbourne's trains network is comprehensive but shockingly unreliable - there was a map going around a while ago showing how often the lines were replaced by buses up to the mid-point of 2023, and for some lines it was more than 50% of the time. Some of that is the necessary level crossing removal project but a lot of that is just decayed signals, jumpers on the tracks, etc. Road traffic has also gotten horribly congested and that affects trams. I moved here about 10 years ago and in that time the population has gone from 4 million to 5 million with no corresponding infrastructure boost. The new metro tunnel and West Gate expansion will have to be some level of improvement, but I feel like if you're going to increase a city's population by a full 20% you need a bit more than a new underground line and another Yarra road crossing.
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Steven Miles to be Queensland's next premier Queensland’s next premier will be Steven Miles after his opponent for the leadership Shannon Fentiman conceded she doesn’t have the numbers.
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Anidav posted:Steven Miles to be Queensland's next premier Don't forget the ABC photo!
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SecretOfSteel posted:Don't forget the ABC photo! Typical ABC fake news! They airbrushed out the knife.
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Eediot Jedi posted:Dutton rear end looking man ugh, i can see it and now i dont know if i can unsee it
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Having small councils works for the state government because it means none of them gather much political power comparable to the premier, and works for councillors because there’s a bunch more robes and chains to go round. Both state and federal government are as corrupt as each other imo. City of Melbourne is a liberal org because companies get a vote, otherwise it would be a den of commies like the state and federal electorates that make up the CBD. Brisbane seems a nice enough City but lol at living anywhere with such a high density of Queenslanders.
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tbh the density of qlders in the inner north of melbourne is probably about as high as brisbane, and i assume this is why nobody likes collingwood
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:tbh the density of qlders in the inner north of melbourne is probably about as high as brisbane, and i assume this is why nobody likes collingwood There’s a reason the Yarra exists and it’s largely to keep those people out
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Sydney is just an unaffordable mess for living in it. our entire PT network grinds to a halt if there is a dog on the train tracks or someone jumps in front of a train dude. it is not approaching Europe. and then when there is any hint of bad weather or maybe a train delay, everyone is on the roads, and they get choked. and yes, Inner City Sydney resident here, I e-bike or train/bus everywhere that isnt rideable and only drive should i be going somewhere outside of the PT network. Sydney absolutely sucks if you have to drive anywhere within it.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:ugh, i can see it and now i dont know if i can unsee it Hehehehe... turgid
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Solemn Sloth posted:Having small councils works for the state government because it means none of them gather much political power comparable to the premier, and works for councillors because there’s a bunch more robes and chains to go round. Both state and federal government are as corrupt as each other imo. Queenslanders are bad but my god no one ever mention COVID around a Melbumian because they’ll turn into a frothing anti-vaxxer who spouts off every LNP talking point from the last 3 years. Absolutely mental stuff and once again supports the Fortress Queensland and Premier Palaszczuk.
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Miles is my leader. If he says jump I will ask how far.
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Recoome posted:Queenslanders are bad but my god no one ever mention COVID around a Melbumian because they’ll turn into a frothing anti-vaxxer who spouts off every LNP talking point from the last 3 years. Absolutely mental stuff and once again supports the Fortress Queensland and Premier Palaszczuk. This is the opposite of what most people from Danistan do. Maybe you socialise in Queenslander friendly circles idk.
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JBP posted:This is the opposite of what most people from Danistan do. Maybe you socialise in Queenslander friendly circles idk. I saw two anti-vax/neo nazi marches, plus a bunch of swastikas painted on the pavement in tomato sauce when I was in Melbourne in June. is Victoria ok?
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GoldStandardConure posted:I saw two anti-vax/neo nazi marches, plus a bunch of swastikas painted on the pavement in tomato sauce when I was in Melbourne in June. Some people went around the twist because they got sacked. Two of my cousins from Geelong are still carrying the herald sun hatred but idk anyone else. One of them is a cop and the other is a libertarian musician. It touches particular people's brains. I think locking them up at home for too long was a problem. They went online and now we're stuck with them. E: well when I say "we're" I guess I mean tourists going to Swanston St because all this stuff may as well not exist in my life. I don't know anyone that thinks about covid at all outside of the current wave being a pain. EE: also we get all the international antivax superstars because our city is famous for being gulag JBP fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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JBP posted:This is the opposite of what most people from Danistan do. Maybe you socialise in Queenslander friendly circles idk. I heard that Dan can’t get out or get memberships because of the COVID thing. Thus is the burden of having a titanium spine
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Recoome posted:I heard that Dan can’t get out or get memberships because of the COVID thing. Isn't this a shock jock thing? I don't listen to talkback. I'm probably blissfully out of touch. E: he definitely got triple suplexed into the concrete by Lindsay Fox outside his place in Portsea for having sex with his granddaughter that's a fact
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JBP posted:E: he definitely got triple suplexed into the concrete by Lindsay Fox outside his place in Portsea for having sex with his granddaughter that's a fact holy poo poo is that what happened
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Eediot Jedi posted:Dutton rear end looking man
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Recoome posted:Queenslanders are bad but my god no one ever mention COVID around a Melbumian because they’ll turn into a frothing anti-vaxxer who spouts off every LNP talking point from the last 3 years. Absolutely mental stuff and once again supports the Fortress Queensland and Premier Palaszczuk. I guess this is why Dan Andrews lost the 2022 election in a campbellesque rout
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Honestly I think part of the reason we have a population of dedicated lunatics is that they’re so marginalised from mainstream politics that they decide getting mad and nude on the steps of parliament is their best shot. As mentioned above we also attract some international grifters because MoSt LoCkDoWnEd CiTy 
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Solemn Sloth posted:Honestly I think part of the reason we have a population of dedicated lunatics is that they’re so marginalised from mainstream politics that they decide getting mad and nude on the steps of parliament is their best shot. It's derro no-job lefty arts degree latte land
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Let's see what the head of the RBA has to say today.quote:Ms Bullock had some interesting things to say about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the Q&A portion of her speech. She also brought up the concept of getting the consumer to bear additional handling costs with regards to making cash transactions, carefully coaching it in terms of 'we think this would be a difficult sell' but also mentionoing such costs in the same breath as loving 'shrinkage'. quote:"Look, it is a good question. And the issue with cash has always been that businesses don't really understand, I think, the costs of cash in their business. They are at the moment, I think, understanding it a bit more, but in the past they haven't really. They have called "shrinkage" as their main cost, which basically means theft, but really, they haven't really internalised, if you like, the costs of processing. That'll be a great tax on the poor and unbanked!
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Breetai posted:Let's see what the head of the RBA has to say today. Hell yeah the cookers will start focusing on something other than “walkable neighbourhoods are totalitarian” for a while
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Eediot Jedi posted:Dutton rear end looking man All the ladies shady 'Bout a Dutton rear end Man
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freebooter posted:This is me but I think PT has also degraded. Melbourne's trains network is comprehensive but shockingly unreliable - there was a map going around a while ago showing how often the lines were replaced by buses up to the mid-point of 2023, and for some lines it was more than 50% of the time. Some of that is the necessary level crossing removal project but a lot of that is just decayed signals, jumpers on the tracks, etc. Road traffic has also gotten horribly congested and that affects trams. Ehhh, I wouldn't take any map like that as necessarily reliable. The PTV app has said my train is replaced by a bus for the last 5 months, but I've never had to take a bus. Which is a problem in itself, but definitely a different problem
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JBP posted:E: well when I say "we're" I guess I mean tourists going to Swanston St because all this stuff may as well not exist in my life. I don't know anyone that thinks about covid at all outside of the current wave being a pain. Yeah Victorians are identical to everyone else in Australia: they mostly think lockdowns/restrictions sucked but were necessary, are satisfied with their state government's response, and are more than happy to memory hole the whole period. WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Ehhh, I wouldn't take any map like that as necessarily reliable. The PTV app has said my train is replaced by a bus for the last 5 months, but I've never had to take a bus. Which is a problem in itself, but definitely a different problem I think it originated from a train subreddit so I took it to have been calculated with obsessive precision. For me personally it's gotten better in the back half of the year, but I live in the west and from January-June the constant closures and delays were driving me up the loving wall.
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On another note: what is everybody's opinion on immigration levels, particularly as it pertains to the housing crisis? I noticed Albanese's "crackdown" announcement came and went without comment. My personal take is that I am still an inner-city latte-sipping lefty who is instinctively suspicious of political talk around immigration, but am also beginning to think that a discussion around levels shouldn't be off the table during a rental crisis? Particularly since - and I'm not an economist - I've often wondered why Howard took such a hard line on refugees while also presiding over a massive, colourblind intake of legal migrants who met certain skills categories; and the answer as far as I can tell is that "immigration keeps the price of labour cheap and the Liberals hate the unions more than they hate foreigners." I personally don't give a gently caress whether migrants come from England or India, and prefer living in a multicultural society to what I imagine Australia was like in the '70s, but this goes back to what I said before about Melbourne going from 4 million to 5 million in a decade, and the infrastructure (let alone the availability of housing) not keeping up. I don't know. I am drifting from being instinctively pro-immigration to being agnostic, and wondering if my cosmopolitan sympathies have been exploited by neoliberals. (I am also vaguely aware that some kind of Protectionist/Free Trade argument played out along similar lines 100 years ago.)
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freebooter posted:On another note: what is everybody's opinion on immigration levels, particularly as it pertains to the housing crisis? I noticed Albanese's "crackdown" announcement came and went without comment.
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Non Compos Mentis posted:i dont think we should let the poms in Yeah, we don't need any TERFs. Edit: bring back the entrance exam, but the only question is if trans rights are human rights.
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also the building industry has been reliant for immigrant workers for as long as ive been an adult so if immigration was causing a demand surplus then lol we are hosed
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Captain Theron posted:Yeah, we don't need any TERFs. i will accept this amendment also dont let anyone in that voted for brexit
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I was born in brisbane and ive drank yarra water before ama
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freebooter posted:On another note: what is everybody's opinion on immigration levels, particularly as it pertains to the housing crisis? I noticed Albanese's "crackdown" announcement came and went without comment. the net immigration levels are mostly so high right now because we have a lot of international students, temporary workers etc. entering the country post-pandemic, but not the usual amount leaving (because there were far fewer in the country from 2020-2022). this should mostly return to normal before too long, but it has been a bit of a shock to the rental market because during the pandemic the number of people-per-dwelling decreased a fair bit because of the shift to working from home so there's less rentals available than there were pre-pandemic. we are actually still a little bit below the pre-pandemic trend in terms of population, so it's not as much about the infrastructure not being there, just the market changed due to the pandemic (more people living alone) meaning that immigration trying to return to normal has been disruptive.
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We probably shouldn’t import an entire population of the Gold Coast in 1 year if we aren’t building the houses to put them in. I am not a crank.
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Solemn Sloth posted:I guess this is why Dan Andrews lost the 2022 election in a campbellesque rout There’s an opposition party in Vic?
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Recoome posted:There’s an opposition party in Vic? Not since Dictator Dan made it illegal
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