The CFA isn't the only fire service... there's another one that has been well looked after recently
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The CFA isn't the only fire service... there's another one that has been well looked after recently
If you listen to the union they get nothing!!!!
Although they did go at least $300 million over their budget last year, mostly in overtime…
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The HUN is reporting such is the angst amongst cabinet ministers that the government has appointed the same firm of lawyers who gave the initial tick of approval for SRL to urgently review the project and determine the cost and ramification of cancelling.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/v...p/news-story/870ede0b9e9ee4c80a514e97c6f256fc">https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/v...p/news-story/870ede0b9e9ee4c80a514e97c6f256fc
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It's like Jacinta and Labor at large keep tripping over, failing to realise that their shoelaces are tied together.
I'd almost consider Matthew Guy for the 566764533445567765334th time
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With inflation rates likely to drop back to "normal" levels in about a years' time. They'll probably save money by delaying it, even if it costs them penalties up front.
Every big project makes a lot more sense at 4% than 7%.
It has to be done. It's the wrong project at the wrong time.
Head of Stockland is saying they can't make building apartments stack up in the CBDs, how could they possibly stack up in Clayton? Yet that's what the SRL Business Case is based on. Incredibly high levels of density on top of the stations being built very soon after opening.
Every big project makes a lot more sense at 4% than 7%.
It has to be done. It's the wrong project at the wrong time.
Head of Stockland is saying they can't make building apartments stack up in the CBDs, how could they possibly stack up in Clayton? Yet that's what the SRL Business Case is based on. Incredibly high levels of density on top of the stations being built very soon after opening.
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The biggest problem with apartments being built now is they're built shit and they're basically dogboxes.
Build good quality and people will buy them.
Something will have to give though. Can't have the inner to middle suburbs be reliant on buses and roads.
For what it's worth the North East Link is 25 plus billion dollars. No one seems to be crying over that.
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TBH most houses in Victoria are terribly built.
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I reckon you're right but I am just commenting especially in Victoria.
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It is.
Standards aren't being followed and the people in charge of enforcement are doing SFA
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Maybe but our state planning laws are appalling. No requirement to provide car parking for all apartments and apartment sizes can be ridiculously small. A block was planned opposite where we live in a tiny street with six street parking bays. The proposed block was going to be 10 storeys, 40+ apartments, with only 20 car parking bays. Luckily VCAT rejected it. But with the state stripping councils of planning veto you just wonder what will get past the keeper now.
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what your complaining about is not the issues we have with build quality and enforcement of it
car parks require a lot of space, develops are never going to want to provide them because they cant make as much money off them as housing
street parking is a limited resource also and in some places non existent
the other issue apart from developer greed and the logistics of car parking is just the fact that its too hard to get around without a car
if you want to increase housing density you need the supporting infrastructure but we live in a world where nobody wants to pay for it
there is a new estate near me with a train line running along the side of it
they wanted a station in the estate but nobody wanted to pay for it so there isn't one, but there is 7000 new houses that now have to find their way to the stations on either side on roads that have not been expanded and no new bus routes or anything either
again, that is not a Victorian issue, that is what happens when you make everything about profit, nobody will pay for services
NSW let new developments build half roads around the border of estates because the other half of the road is on adjoining land which is ridiculous
Planning schemes include minimum car parking requirements for a variety of uses, including residential dwellings. It's likely that a permit was required if the intended provision was lower than what the scheme says, meaning that it was probably a Council decision rather than being based upon law.
Parking is a very contentious issue in the planning space.
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It was a Council decision. In The Age today there is a report on the state government ‘s overhaul of planning laws that will “severely curtail” residents rights to challenge developments. Out goes ‘neighbourhood character’ as a basis to challenge planning.
Melbourne is going to become a big ugly Asian style city with high rise apartment towers dominating the landscape.
is this extra money ?
In a statement, Commonwealth Games Scotland (CGS) boasted that “£100m-plus of the Victorian government’s money” – or about $194m – would cover almost the entire cost.
It has estimated that the event will cost £114m – about $220m – in total, with Victorian taxpayers forking out millions for city-shaping infrastructure 17,000 km away.
In a statement, Commonwealth Games Scotland (CGS) boasted that “£100m-plus of the Victorian government’s money” – or about $194m – would cover almost the entire cost.
It has estimated that the event will cost £114m – about $220m – in total, with Victorian taxpayers forking out millions for city-shaping infrastructure 17,000 km away.
It would be part of Dan and Jacinta's existing taxpayer funded waste of money just to win a few regional marginals in what was already a safe election overall. Still I am sure a few of Dan's donors got some nice contracts out of it
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Amazing how cheaply a competent government willing to make tough decisions and negotiate effectively can run the games unlike Dan & Jacinta who only cared about spin and donors.What a shit show this government is at the moment
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Yes, the SRL business case is built on high rise apartments being built all around them.
City of Melbourne doesn't have minimum car spaces, it has maximums. They try to restrict the number of car spaces which can be included.
If you live near a rail line within 15-20km of the city, expect to see 10-20+ storey apartments soon. That's essentially been in every Govt planning document for the last decade.
Victoria’s health minister sought an urgent $422 million cash bailout for the state’s hospitals, bypassing cabinet to ensure health services could pay their staff and suppliers, documents reveal.
The dire financial state of health services last year has been exposed in a flurry of correspondence showing the state government went within days of being unable to pay the bills.
A ministerial brief, released under freedom of information laws, identified more than 20 health services that were forecast to finish the 2022-23 financial year in the red.
The brief, dated June 9, warned that without additional funding, the hospitals would be unable to make payroll payments and would have insufficient operating cash to pay creditors.
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The dire financial state of health services last year has been exposed in a flurry of correspondence showing the state government went within days of being unable to pay the bills.
A ministerial brief, released under freedom of information laws, identified more than 20 health services that were forecast to finish the 2022-23 financial year in the red.
The brief, dated June 9, warned that without additional funding, the hospitals would be unable to make payroll payments and would have insufficient operating cash to pay creditors.
The health minister’s scramble to secure a $422 million hospital bailout
The dire financial state of health services last year has been exposed in correspondence showing the state government went within days of being unable to pay the bills.
I wonder if they are cutting the record number of senior execs and media staff in the health department or as usual front line services suffer to protect senior crats.Victoria’s health minister sought an urgent $422 million cash bailout for the state’s hospitals, bypassing cabinet to ensure health services could pay their staff and suppliers, documents reveal.
The dire financial state of health services last year has been exposed in a flurry of correspondence showing the state government went within days of being unable to pay the bills.
A ministerial brief, released under freedom of information laws, identified more than 20 health services that were forecast to finish the 2022-23 financial year in the red.
The brief, dated June 9, warned that without additional funding, the hospitals would be unable to make payroll payments and would have insufficient operating cash to pay creditors.
The health minister’s scramble to secure a $422 million hospital bailout
The dire financial state of health services last year has been exposed in correspondence showing the state government went within days of being unable to pay the bills.
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