Andrei Charrett

I guess Trump must be Caligula?

I'm in a similar situation. But... if I had just bought my first home with 90% LVR I would be pretty worried about devaluation. Negative equity adds a whole new level of stress to daily life.

Sounds fine and a worthy idea. I'm just doubtful we can engineer a controlled change (static pricing or slight devaluing). I think the fear it might be uncontrolled (crash) limits policy ambition.

And you think that will ever happen? Developers would get lower profits in this scenario so they will just reduce supply. No developer will ever build at a rate that causes profits to fall or they will go bust.

Everyone has an opinion on how to achieve this but in the end to make housing "more affordable" means implementing policy that will devalue everyone's house (for house owners). Until we can collectively face that reality it will never happen.

To be honest, I like variety in test wickets. I really enjoy 1 super spicy seaming wicket a series, 1 road, 1 spinning track, and 2 in-between. Not all pitches should be the same.

Some truth in that, but this is doing heaps. One replay showed difference between no seam movement (hitting middle of bat) and seam movement (hit the edge perfectly). Not much you can do about that. Imagine facing 80s/90s Windies on this! Results would be even worse

Maybe not a “minefield” (it’s not unsafe). But the pitch is doing a lot. Check the seam movement. Don’t think it’s good for test cricket in Australia to have 2 pitches in a 5 test series this difficult.

It's insane but it's egged on by media with 0 network knowledge hyperventilating mis-characterising almost every outage.

To be honest, there are a lot more important issues to be upset about with this government. There's just something about seeing an open goal and watching them kick the ball away when it's such an easy goal. It's utterly infuriating.

This is a total WTF moment for this government. They have the recommendation. They have overwhelming popular support. If I lived in a Labor electorate this is it. This is the thing that would mobilise me to join the local independent movement.

everyone knows AI is gonna crash the economy and is just kinda standing around watching it happen. i wonder if there’s any visual stand-in for that kind of thing going on right now

Even 62% is a BS target from Labor because they will use dodgy land use accounting tricks to meet that instead of reducing emissions. If you get rid of dodgy accounting tricks we are hardly reducing emissions at all. Fix the emissions accounting method and get some real targets please

None of this is normal

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Great article. There is something deeply unnerving about the way “we” are just accepting the current state of affairs as normal.

Can you elaborate on the issue? NBN is slowly but surely fixing the result of the coalition’s Frankenstein multi-technology-mix. Internet connectivity is pretty damn good for most people.

Lol. "Moderate"

If they choose to move, who will buy a house with an annual insurance premium of 28k? I have often said to friends and family that in Australia, one of the things that will make climate change real is the dropping value of housing in some areas.

We have a small chance for the funniest outcome ever. Goldstein gets close enough for recount, then gets overturned.

Yep. A very good batch of declaration prepolls. I rate Nicolette Boele's chances much higher now than yesterday.

Ah. I think this result may depend on whether the remaining declaration prepolls are "good" or "bad" to Boele and how many postals trickle in which will likely favour her. Still some chance to embarrass people that have called it already.

Do you know if declaration prepolls skew more progressive in later batch counts like postals? Might be wishful thinking, but I think this seat is still live.

Don't give up hope yet. Still a realistic chance Boele wins.

I think they have called this victory way too early. I think there is a very realistic chance Nicolette Boele wins. If another 500 postals arrive by end of week chances are even better for Boele

They will have a mandate when they control the senate and HoR. Simple as that. Everything else is bollocks.

Who could've imagined 4 years ago an electorate that twice gave Bronwyn Bishop over 60% vote 🤮 would go independent.

Yes. Yes they were...

Cross benchers should just agree to abstain from confidence and supply motions. No negotiation is required. Party or coalition of parties with most seats forms government. I wish we could adopt this convention and just stop with this hung parliament BS.

Sure, describe as you see fit.

I would say "hung parliament" does have negative connotations. It is used very frequently in negative advertising. "Minority government" is also a well established and frequently used term that is more neutral. But I guess up to you how to do your reporting!