I too am unable to get anything above 50. Old building only 10 mins from the CBD.
Conservatisms goal was to create a class divide in QoS and QoL, and they succeeded… because obviously someone has to suffer, even if it costs double! That’s how they get off.
Yep. It was infuriating to know in Feb that everything was gonna shutdown and watching the Libs drag their feet for weeks. They waited until everyone who could voluntarily isolate already was, and reasserted that Conservatism is too selfishly incompetent to ever make tough decisions and lead anything or anyone. It’s a miracle we didn’t have a domestic outbreak like Italy; thousands of boomers and up would’ve been fucked.
I imagine any 4 digit pin could be acquired with a digital camera, zoom lens, and a few hours.
Rate cuts are in the wind and, while they’ll certainly improve housing affordability …
This kind of neoliberal rhetoric is what needs to end. Rate cuts DO NOT increase housing affordability; they do the opposite. They make it easiest for the wealthiest to borrow even more cash, and buy another property, which increases demand, drives up the price, and ultimately reduces affordability. The “benefits” to non-owners grows more and more fleeting EVERY SINGLE TIME.
It’s the same deal with the “first home buyer” schemes. I have yet to see one that isn’t neoliberal economics marketed to sound like it’s a benefit to the working class, while it does little more to drive up prices at the bottom end of the market, again reducing housing affordability.
The only things that will stop the cycle is all of the things that will literally reduce the cost of housing, and is bad for every single homeowner/investor who doesn’t plan on holding onto it for the long-term — hard limits on the volume of property any individual can own (like 2, MAX), completely banning any company from owning residential property, a massive investment in public, at-cost housing, and a dozen other significant regulations that transform the entire concept of housing from being an “investment”, to being for a basic human right, and necessity for both physical and mental health.
I am shocked, beyond all recognition, that the psychopath monarch who dismembered an anti-fascist journalist with bone saws could show such a lack of empathy for the Palestinian people. My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
All of our “democracies” are ruled by sociopathic criminals who only worship the almighty dollar. The sooner everyone accepts that, the sooner we can oppose authoritarian dictatorships and genocidal ethnostates, instead of kissing their ass.
If that were the case, which I hard doubt, then the solution would be to target suppliers with enhanced consumer and business laws that make it illegal to charge different prices for the same product and volume; they should ultimately require absolute transparency for pricing up the entire supply chain, too. Shine light on everywhere the price gouging and exploitation are taking place.
I believe it’s not currently illegal for retailers to advertise and charge 2 different customers 2 different sets of targeted prices, and it should be, as retailers are nearing the capability to alter the shelf price based on the customer standing in front of it. This exploitation attack vector should be cut off before they try to get away with it (probably already are).