Fairly or unfairly, this has coincided with a housing affordability crisis. Plenty of blame to go around.
We need to adopt policies that will unapologetically target housing unaffordability.
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Fairly or unfairly, this has coincided with a housing affordability crisis. Plenty of blame to go around.
We need to adopt policies that will unapologetically target housing unaffordability.
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This is decades of state and federal policy coming home to roost
It's not an issue at all unique to Victoria
Barak Beacon is the perfect example we have here though
Existing public housing that instead of keeping they want to evict people so a developer can then rebuild on the site
they then pretend the social housing is the same as the public housing (its not) and that the increased numbers are a good reason
they could infill the site with new public housing plus refurbish the existing housing
it would cost less, it woudln't involve evicting people that have nowhere to go and it would increase the public housing stock and government assets
but nope, gotta look after our property developer mates
It's not an issue at all unique to Victoria
Barak Beacon is the perfect example we have here though
Existing public housing that instead of keeping they want to evict people so a developer can then rebuild on the site
they then pretend the social housing is the same as the public housing (its not) and that the increased numbers are a good reason
they could infill the site with new public housing plus refurbish the existing housing
it would cost less, it woudln't involve evicting people that have nowhere to go and it would increase the public housing stock and government assets
but nope, gotta look after our property developer mates
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It is impossible to fathom. To answer the question what do you foresee happening to properties if landlords ceased to exist? There are something like 3.5 million residential investment properties in Australia. If you said the average value was $500K (I have no idea if that's reasonable or not), then you are talking about a portfolio worth $1.75 Trillion. Who do you suppose will buy landlords out? Governments? (with what money?) Superannuation funds? (they'd want a healthy return on investment, so you can count them out). This isn't a socialist country, and I cannot see any government willing to take on the burden of become property managers en-masse. Hell, governments can't manage garbage collection, health services or education without making a mess.
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let's make the assumption that a lot of them are still on mortgage, they'd go back the banks and they'd put them out on the market
jannissary
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the basics of economics! i remember year 11 fondly
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They would just have to settle for a price that regular mums and dads can afford to buy them.
rightly/wrongly, govts got swept up in the false promises offered by competition reform ...... govts saw competition policy as a means to dramatically reduce their overall welfare spend by offloading responsibility on to the pvt sector - public housing was not immune from this reform push
and here we are
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Sttew
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The "regular mum's and dads" are already landlords, or do you want them to own more than one?
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Most regular mums and dads are not landlords.
As such, the mums and dads that are landlords, aren’t regular.
Drove past works for Dans train set yesterday and apparently they are claiming it will take 600,000 car trips off the roads every day.
That’s a very interesting claim that 300,000 + people will dump their cars to go on the SRL every day…
That’s a very interesting claim that 300,000 + people will dump their cars to go on the SRL every day…
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remember eddie posting shit about a railway grade separation he had to admit not having been near for ages. par for the course.
Sttew
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What has become of this state that the government can literally and with full impunity attack the former head of IBAC to tarnish his reputation? In case anyone forgot, Robert Redlich was a Labor appointee.
“Labor MPs have launched an extraordinary attack on Victoria’s former corruption watchdog, months after a secret letter surfaced claiming government MPs had been told to dig up dirt to undermine the agency.
Former head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Robert Redlich was hit with a barrage of questions by Labor MPs over bullying claims and secret payouts when he appeared before the state’s integrity and oversight committee on Monday.
Mr Redlich had predicted the attack in a letter to parliament last December – obtained and revealed exclusively by the Herald Sun – alleging that government MPs had asked consultants to “dig up dirt” on Mr Redlich and IBAC to discredit the agency...”
www.smh.com.au
“Labor MPs have launched an extraordinary attack on Victoria’s former corruption watchdog, months after a secret letter surfaced claiming government MPs had been told to dig up dirt to undermine the agency.
Former head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Robert Redlich was hit with a barrage of questions by Labor MPs over bullying claims and secret payouts when he appeared before the state’s integrity and oversight committee on Monday.
Mr Redlich had predicted the attack in a letter to parliament last December – obtained and revealed exclusively by the Herald Sun – alleging that government MPs had asked consultants to “dig up dirt” on Mr Redlich and IBAC to discredit the agency...”
Anti-corruption boss says integrity committee acted without integrity
Robert Redlich suggested a lack of political oversight meant the state potentially had a “very serious problem” on its hands.
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The point being Robert Redlich is not going to go away & will keep Dans integrity front & centre in the Victorian media.
Former IBAC Commissioner criticises Dan Andrews' stance - ABC listen
"We've got to stop talking about this notion, as the premier does, that 'if there's no crime there's nothing to be seen here'."
www.abc.net.au
Whilst ABC radio has a crumbling listening audience, Redlichs commentary has no links to partisan politics, making it even more relevant.
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the point I was making is that when you quote from news articles you are meant to include a link to the article along with the quote under big footy terms and rulesThe point being Robert Redlich is not going to go away & will keep Dans integrity front & centre in the Victorian media.
Former IBAC Commissioner criticises Dan Andrews' stance - ABC listen
"We've got to stop talking about this notion, as the premier does, that 'if there's no crime there's nothing to be seen here'."
Whilst ABC radio has a crumbling listening audience, Redlichs commentary has no links to partisan politics, making it even more relevant.
I didn't make a single comment on what Redlich said Kwals
I was making comment on the language used around the quotes though and SMH/The Age it is
Indeed & I was reflecting on the issue itself.
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What has become of this state that the government can literally and with full impunity attack the former head of IBAC to tarnish his reputation? In case anyone forgot, Robert Redlich was a Labor appointee.
“Labor MPs have launched an extraordinary attack on Victoria’s former corruption watchdog, months after a secret letter surfaced claiming government MPs had been told to dig up dirt to undermine the agency.
Former head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Robert Redlich was hit with a barrage of questions by Labor MPs over bullying claims and secret payouts when he appeared before the state’s integrity and oversight committee on Monday.
Mr Redlich had predicted the attack in a letter to parliament last December – obtained and revealed exclusively by the Herald Sun – alleging that government MPs had asked consultants to “dig up dirt” on Mr Redlich and IBAC to discredit the agency...”
Anti-corruption boss says integrity committee acted without integrity
Robert Redlich suggested a lack of political oversight meant the state potentially had a “very serious problem” on its hands.
Digging up dirt on the former head of the corruption watchdog? That is pathetic from Vic Labor, they need to use their time more productively on stamping out rorting.
Dan has been in power for too long if he cannot read the room on this one.
Sttew
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Just listened to Robert Redlich on ABC Radio. A couple of key take aways. He maintains that the IBAC legislation is equipped to deal with misconduct in public office that results in a crime, but NOT misconduct where there is a failure to follow due process, but where a crime may not have been committed. He was highly critical of the Premier's dismissal of Operation Daintree and in saying "there was no crime, so nothing to see folks". In Redlich's words, how improper influence compromised the procurement process for a $1.2m contract awarded to a union-established training group, and compromised the management of the contract was corruption at its worst in public office. And unless IBAC is properly reformed the grey corruption will continue.
Redlich was asked about direct references to Dan Andrews in the Operation Sandon report being removed between Draft and Final Report. He said his tenure as Commissioner of IBAC had ended before the final report was issued. Make of that what you want
Redlich was asked about direct references to Dan Andrews in the Operation Sandon report being removed between Draft and Final Report. He said his tenure as Commissioner of IBAC had ended before the final report was issued. Make of that what you want
& with NO Opposition .....
Gee i must be the luckiest person around renting. I am in a 2nd rental, and both my landlords have been great.
A different times my first landlord would put a freeze on rent for a two year period i was there for 15 years, and when he did increase it was the minimum number, and never hesitated to fix things if we asked.
Current rental moved in 2021, about to have our first increase since moving in and it's 20 bucks a week, for first year did not increase the rent at all. She actually sacked the real estate she was using recently as they wanted to increase the rent by a lot more for the new lease, by sacking them she could keep the raise to absolute minimum.
i guess i'm just lucky.
A different times my first landlord would put a freeze on rent for a two year period i was there for 15 years, and when he did increase it was the minimum number, and never hesitated to fix things if we asked.
Current rental moved in 2021, about to have our first increase since moving in and it's 20 bucks a week, for first year did not increase the rent at all. She actually sacked the real estate she was using recently as they wanted to increase the rent by a lot more for the new lease, by sacking them she could keep the raise to absolute minimum.
i guess i'm just lucky.
As I said earlier mine was good like that too. They fixed the few things I asked for and even did some renovations I didn’t which were good.
Only thing was they were sometimes a little slow to respond to requests which isn’t ideal when you’ve got roof tiles displaced and it’s forecast to rain…
But thankfully for me no more landlords for a while
