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Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

Stupid question: Is there an ombudsman you can complain to about centrelink?

# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 08:51

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 03:19

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

The Deadly Hume posted:

1-2 seats in the lower house, seeing as the Greens who are far more politically savvy (at least in Victoria and Tasmania) still struggle to get that many.

What are the chances the Greens recent strategy of focusing on a few specific seats starts to yield some serious results soon? From memory they saw some good gains in the seats they targeted but are they close to taking those seats?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 09:03

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

Solemn Sloth posted:

So the Andrews government has announced three new policies targeting housing affordability:

1) First home owners will be exempt from stamp duty on a property $600,000 or less
Smart idea, but I'm not sure that the $600,000 really hits the mark for affordability.
In the South East, you're looking at Dandenong(30km from the CBD) and further to get median prices under $600k (Dandenong's median was $599,950 in the December 16 quarter, and realistically that's being suppressed somewhat by the dandenong brand)
In the East, you need to go out the Emerald(40km)
In the North, Thomastown and beyond (15km)
You need to go West of Sunshine West on the other side(15km)
e: Actually I just looked up the detail and there's a marginal concession offered up to $750k, so that's really good.

Given the stress already on both roads and public transport it's not really ideal. $700k would have included a lot more areas with decent services and accessability.

2) A tax on dwellings that sit unoccupied for more than 6 months of the year, valued at 1% of the capital improved value per year
This is good, there's a chunk of housing stock tied up by people just waiting to realise a capital gain which serves no use to anyone other than the speculator parasites that own them.

3) A pilot program for government co-ownership of houses. Funded for $50M initially, the government will take an equity share in the house of up to 25%, means tested on income ($95k for couples, $75k for singles), with the co-owner to provide at least 5% deposit. The government will realise it's investment upon the sale of the property.
I like this a lot, particularly as it may signal willingness to stop the retreat from investment in social housing.

I have been pleasantly surprised by the state labor government many times since their election, they are continuing to come out with smart and targeted policies. I hope that media hyperbole around the CFA and SkyRail and the loving grift of the scumfuck Speaker of the House doesn't let the Coalition get a look in to undo the good work next year.

Yeah, I pretty much agree. Vic Labor has been surprisingly good in pretty much every way. I'm pissed they sold the Port but apart from that and the kids in adult prisons stuff it's been mostly good with the bad being stuff blown out of proportion. The recent announcements seem to be part of their election campaign that will keep them positioned as a government that gets poo poo done. You'd have to think that they'll destroy the Libs in the upcoming election. The Libs didn't do poo poo when they were in power and haven't done anything in opposition either so they are playing catchup in every way.

I do question if the Stamp Duty exemption will do anything (people with more money will just spend it and drive up prices anyway), but as someone who will be eligible I'm not going to complain about a $17k discount.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 12:10

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

How about we just not buy expensive military boondoggles and instead buy things we actually need and will actively use?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 22:51

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

bowmore posted:

I didn't assign a gender to those signs

changing them is a waste of money and time that could be better spent elsewhere in that particular fight, like education?

The gender is implicit in the design of the figure. Ask yourself if it looks more like the male or female characters used on toilet doors.

Cirofren posted:

Yeah for fucks sake.

Why she gotta be wearing a dress?

How else would you make an easily identifiable silhouette of a female gendered person? The dress has nothing to do with trying to force women to wear dresses, but to make it easily identifiable to as many people as possible as being female. It's not perfect but no solution would be due to the vast array of differences people have.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 07:45

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

aejix posted:

Now can only hope WA Labor come through with some genuinely good socialist progress, starting with hiking up BHPs royalties and directing that revenue directly into public services.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 23:41

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

DancingShade posted:

Accounts receivable should just rip it back out of his salary in one go.

They have no shame but they sure as hell care about their wallets. Hit them where it matters.

gently caress that. Treat it as fraud/theft and charge the fucks. Then we all hope that the potential jail time when found guilty is over a year so they all get poo poo canned and never return.

Yes, I realise this will never happen and probably wouldn't work but that's what they should get. If any other employee did the same thing to their boss they'd get the same treatment.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 07:29

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

Except there'd be a lot higher number of dwellings in metro areas when compared to regional. The 4-9% in Melb metro could be a far greater total number of dwellings than the 18-23% found in some of the regional areas.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 01:44

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

ewe2 posted:

Get a lawyer, get assessment for damages, nail them to the wall. They're up poo poo creek and they hope you won't do your homework.

This. Make duplicates of the video tape and any documentation you have.

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 03:19

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Solemn Sloth posted:

Why is this necessary when power bills are at record lows due to Axing the Tax

Not to mention all the benefits privatisation has created!

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 07:44

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