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4·3 days agoThat’d rely on tenants reporting their evictions to the tentants’ union, and most people aren’t engaged with the tenants’ union, and even among those who are, relying on tenants reporting would probably be a bit spotty.
If the government is serious about enforcement, I think the logical thing would be for the bond authority to track it. They could be required to log the reason when the bond is claimed, and then their system would flag it if another bond was lodged for the address within the specified period.
If the government doesn’t implement a real system for enforcement, though, then yeah, some system through the tenants’ union would be better than nothing.
In Victoria, renters can challenge a rent increase “if they believe the increase is higher than the market range”
I assume, like with many renter protections, it’s a pain in the arse to actually do in practice, but it’s there, so they can’t just double your rent in one go to force you out.
Also, rent can only be increased once every 12 months in Vic, so landleeches may need to wait months before they can increase the rent by any amount at all.
Not that I doubt there will be some dodgy workarounds. I suspect landlords might try to abuse the “if the owner is moving back in” exemption, because even if there’s strong provisions - e.g. the property can’t be advertised again for at least 12 months - it still requires someone to be paying enough attention to notice and report any violations.
She explained Sturgeon had “somewhat unconventional and unorthodox views”, but had not been diagnosed with or hospitalised for mental health conditions, and no psychological report was presented.
Yeah, I think the court should have ordered some kind of evaluation…
Coles’ answer to that question was hiring Palantir
Power to them, I hope people support them however they can!
Ridiculous that this trainee stuff is still going on with Grill’d specifically - they’ve been in the news media for it since at least 2016 (earliest story I can find).
What this SBS article doesn’t mention is that Grill’d has been known to drag their feet on progressing a trainee, to just keep them on the lower rate indefinitely.
5·15 days agoThe Coalition voted for the anti-CFMEU legislation too, but I guess people could preference Coalition above Labor just to hurt Labor in the 2PP figures.
I’m not sure it’d send any clearer a message, though, than just preferencing Greens and socialists above Labor but still putting Labor above Coalition. Seems like a Labor government would be more likely to repeal the laws than a Coalition one, under pressure from a bolstered Greens bloc.
You mean changes to negative gearing? That’s not the only thing they could do.
Yeah, it’s a bit overblown, but…
the bloke who is in the highest position you can possibly be in can’t buy a nice place to live?
He’s not buying it to live in because an MP has to live in their electorate. So unless he’s retiring - and he says he’s not - it’s either an investment or a holiday house.
But the reason it’s news isn’t because some guy bought a nice spare house. It’s because, as you’ve identified, he’s the guy in the top job, who is currently doing fuck all to address the housing crisis.
Crisafulli said he would also aim to change the full preferential voting system, which he labelled “corrupt”, back to optional preferential voting.
Under the current system, it is compulsory for voters to number all boxes on the ballot paper in order of their preference or their vote is not counted.
“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.
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Up to $600 million in Australian federal funding over 10 years would go towards setting up the franchise, player development, education and community outreach programs.
I imagine they’ll be spending a fair chunk of money on flights, and maybe some stadium facility upgrades, too? I have no idea what the expenditure of an NRL club generally looks like.
3·19 days agoThe initial Israeli evacuation area was within 2 kilometres of the border with Lebanon. There seem to have been some expansion of evacuations since, but I believe it’s still only within a few kilometers of the border. Estimates in March were that about 60,000 Israeli citizens remain evacuated (source: AP).
The IDF camp in this article is around 55 kilometres from the Lebanese border, and about 30 kilometres south of Haifa (a city which is not evacuated) (source: ABC News (AU)).
Until we build actual grassroots power, we’ll remain screwed.
Geez that’s scummy. So transparently self-serving.
6·26 days agoWow, I had missed that: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-03/fat-bear-week-returns-2024/104319754
The competitors were due to be revealed on Monday, but were delayed after a deadly attack was caught on one of the park’s live feeds.
469, an adult male bear also known as Patches, was seen approaching an older female, 402 in the Brooks River on Monday.
He then attacked and killed her.
“National parks like Katmai protect not only the wonders of nature, but also the harsh realities,” park officials said in a statement after bear 402’s death.
“Each bear seen on the webcams is competing with others to survive.”
Mike Fritz, a resident naturalist at Explore.org which hosts the live stream, said 402 “likely died by drowning”.
“We love to celebrate the success of bears with full stomachs and ample body fat,” he said.
“But the ferocity of bears is real, the risks that they face are real, their lives can be hard and their deaths can be painful.”
However, simply voting socialist and Greens is not enough.
The type of working-class political alternative we need must be able to help build the movements in our communities, campuses and workplaces. It has to be campaigning every day for progressive change, not just at elections.
This is the key, we’ve got to build the grass-roots power of unions and activist groups. It’s extremely hard, though, to convince people to do anything other than vote.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) and The Cabin in the Woods (2012) (go in spoiler-free with this one) are both good comedy horror.
You need it to not be cloudy, for starters 😆
But even if it’s not cloudy, light pollution can also be an issue, so it might help to head further out of the city (see: https://darksitefinder.com/map/?i=/%234/-37.84/144.94)
Basically, if you can’t see the stars, you can’t see the aurora.
The only equipment that can help you ‘see’ it better would be taking a long exposure with a camera.
EDIT: Apparently you’re going to want to see some red on the map here: https://seetheaurora.com/live-data
3·1 month ago
Haha, holy shit, what a damning excerpt! Thanks for saving me some time.