norp posted:

In case you didn't realise already the goal is to make miserable not improve their lives.

DancingShade posted:

You know those obvious "buy property at the height of the bubble" home investment propaganda pieces?

ABC is getting in on the act http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-02/brickx-startup-selling-shares-in-sydney-melbourne-properties/8487790

It reads more like an advertorial for a startup.

Anidav posted:

Oh my God what is the ABC doing shilling BrickX?

You're better off putting it in crypto Lmao.

open24hours posted:

Is there anything novel about that company? It just looks like a very small real estate fund? Wouldn't you be better off buying shares in an ETF that's listed somewhere and which you can sell easily?

Bogan King posted:

This is pretty interesting. Imagine being the monopoly airport and not wanting to control what will amount to the competition. Something messed up going on here.

https://twitter.com/abcsydney/status/859177337274814464

iajanus posted:

Again, I love how apparently the solution for new home buyers not being able to afford to buy a home is buying tiny shares in properties they don't get to live in. This is totally helping, guys!

Bonus points for the photo of the lady who owns 20 bricks looking at a kitchen like she's just dropped in from another galaxy and it's a new and amazing thing to her.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

It's sad how hateful people are.

DancingShade posted:

It's your ABC.

*camera pans around to reveal room full of right wing conservatives*

Bogan King posted:

This is pretty interesting. Imagine being the monopoly airport and not wanting to control what will amount to the competition. Something messed up going on here.

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Coal vs. hydro-electric — governments at odds over north Queensland power supply By Andree Withey Updated 31 minutes ago

Mr Canavan said a hydro-electric scheme would be too small to offer power security. Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan wants a new coal-fired power station built in Queensland, despite the state's insistence it would prefer greener solutions. Mr Canavan said there was no base-load power generated north of Rockhampton, in central Queensland, and the power and economic needs of the north needed to be secured. Flagged sites included the mouth of the Galilee basin or at the now idle Collinsville power station. Mr Canavan said it was hypocritical for Queensland to be opposed to be coal-fired stations, considering its exports.(Bait and switch/chicken<-> egg) "The Queensland government is happy to export coal and make billions of dollars for their budget from royalties for coal," he said. "It's okay to burn that coal in other countries but not here apparently in Queensland. That is absurd. Why would we send a valuable economic resource to another country to use but not even consider using it ourselves?

"I think the people of north Queensland want the same kind of benefits people in southern Australia get from having base-load power." Mr Canavan said the region's economic future was dependent on the generation of the station, adding it could also help Clive Palmer's Yabulu refinery re-open. "At least Clive only wrecked one refinery in Townsville, there are six other refineries and smelters that need cheap power to stay alive and local is the answer there." Mr Canavan said state plans — announced on the weekend — to build a hydro-electric power station in the Burdekin Falls Dam, south of Townsville, would not be enough. "It is a tiny power station," Mr Canavan said. Queensland's Energy Minister Mark Bailey said a new coal fired power station in the north would be expensive, bad for the reef and climate change. He said Queensland was opposed to any new coal power, and the focus was on clean energy sources. Solar farms were to be built in Townsville, the Darling Downs, Oakey and Longreach. Mr Bailey said solar is reliable in north Queensland and baseload demand can be run off that. Furthermore, battery technology is becoming more economical - costs are dropping 7 per cent a year. "The Federal Government is] out of touch and don't care enough about climate change nor the economics of large scale renewables being cheaper now to build than new power stations," Mr Bailey said. "What they need to be doing is getting behind the clean energy movement in Queensland — that's the future. The last thing we need though is a new coal power station which will lock in high carbon emissions for a generation and a half cooking the reef."

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Cartoon posted:

But it did give the presenters plenty of scope to 'mention' the 'fabulous new facilities at Canberra Airport' a fact that Capital Property Finance Pty Ltd must be overjoyed about.

Anidav posted:

Oh my God what is the ABC doing shilling BrickX?

You're better off putting it in crypto Lmao.

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/859236212996845568

The Before Times posted:

gently caress


like I knew I'd need to start paying HECS next year when I finish my grad year and get promoted (which I don't mind doing considering my degrees got me into a great job) but it'd be super awesome if the HECS increase didn't entirely negate the pay increase.

Bogan King posted:

Congratulations then it doesn't completely negate it you just get 3c extra money to spend for every $1 extra you get paid. As we no longer have anything smaller than 5c you can round up and be assured of a red frog for that pay bump.

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Anidav posted:

Surely the ALP doesnt support this

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A 3.25 per cent efficiency dividend, originally proposed by Labor, would reduce university funding by approximately $900 million over four years.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Lol

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Lol

News posted:

LABOR is pledging to block a $2.8b funding cut to the higher education sector which will force students to pay off loans earlier and make degrees more expensive. Shadow Education Minister Tanya Plibersek hasn’t ruled out blocking all of the reforms though. Speaking to reporters in Sydney this morning, she said Labor would examine the detail of the Turnbull Government’s proposal to see if there were measures the party would support.

Ms Plibersek rejected suggestions the increased fees were not that large an impost on students.

“Students in Australia are already among the highest contributors to the cost of their own university education, so adding thousands of dollars to the cost of the degree is unfair,” she said. "We also know that those students are repaying back debt at the same time as every other expense is hitting them, they’re starting a family, trying to buy a house. If students do well from their university education, if they become highly paid professionals, they will make a contribution through the tax system on top of repaying their HECS debt, for the rest of their lives.”

Under the planned changes, announced by Education Minister Simon Birmingham last night, students studying a four-year bachelor degree will pay between $2000 and $3600 more over the duration, and all can be deferred on the income-contingent HECS-HELP loan scheme. Students will also have to replay loans earlier once they start earning. The repayment threshold for their loans will kick in at $42,000 from mid-2018 — a substantial drop from the current $55,000 threshold.

The Government will also impose a two- year efficiency dividend on teaching funding. Labor also announced an efficiency dividend of 2 per cent during the Gillard Government, which would have cut $2.3 billion from its spending on higher education to fund the Gonski school reforms.

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Opposition leader Bill Shorten said the Turnbull Government should be finding money in the budget by not going ahead with corporate tax cuts rather than making university students pay more to go to university. Shadow Education Minister Tanya Plibersek also slammed the proposed efficiency measures. The government should not be “slashing” money from education to repair the budget, Ms Plibersek said.

She also questioned the Deloitte report’s credibility.

“Isn’t it surprising that when the government commissions a company to do a report to justify cuts to university funding and increases to student costs that the report comes out saying we should cut university funding and increase student costs,” she said. Ms Plibersek also laughed off suggestions Labor had promised similar efficiency measures, saying funding for education had nearly doubled to $14 billion under the Rudd and Gillard governments.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

I feel like back in 2014 I'd already received emails from the VC that things were going to be fine, we'll work through it, blah blah but nothing so far with these announced cuts.

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The Press Council considered whether its Standards of Practice were breached by the publication of an article on news.com.au on 10 January 2017, headed “Woman accused of terrifying 7-Eleven axe attack is transgender unionist once known as Karl”.
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The Council considers the publication took reasonable steps to avoid causing or contributing materially to substantial offence, distress or prejudice, or risk to health or safety. The public interest also justified reporting on her request for hormone therapy drugs. Accordingly, General Principle 6 was not breached in this respect.

Anidav posted:

It's almost as if ALP policy is 'checks notes'

Anidav posted:

It's almost as if ALP policy is a tad more balanced than it was under Gillard and the Shadowmen