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[Mowman]

Bought my first home today

Well done George great stuff

 

[Pardon me]

Bought my first home today

That deserves a beer George!! Bloody well done mate!

 

[George]

Well done. What area? Did you buy it off pictures. That’s courageous if yes

Armadale. Paid out the siblings, too good an area to move out of

 

[plugger66]

Armadale. Paid out the siblings, too good an area to move out of

Not east Bentleigh but it will do.

 

[StCicatriz]

Bought my first home today

great stuff mate!

 

[mighty_sainters]

Does this add come up for anyone else or is it just me, every single thread, every single page lol.

 

[pebblesofsand]

Does this add come up for anyone else or is it just me, every single thread, every single page lol.View attachment 979222

Looks like I'm missing out on some quality ad's on Bigfooty - perhaps I need to remove this

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then again - no thanks!!!

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Does this add come up for anyone else or is it just me, every single thread, every single page lol.View attachment 979222

It's targeted , i bought my son a gaming monitor for his birthday and now all i get is adds for computer montors.
Anyway, what you've been buying on the internet is none of our business.

 

[Stewart66]

They are good economic managers, don't worry about it

Achievements of the Coalition Government

A comprehensive list of (almost) everything the Australian Coalition government did

www.mdavis.xyz

Its not just Liberal vs Labor .
For 30 years the total focus of Australia , USA , UK and Western Governments all about squabbling,
Wars , shifting money meanwhile countries like China / India have exploded in manufacturing .
The difference with China is a vision & plan been lucky enough to see it first hand , amazingly good
operators because of respect .

 

[Stewart66]

Achievements of the Coalition Government

A comprehensive list of (almost) everything the Australian Coalition government did

www.mdavis.xyz

Its not just Liberal vs Labor .
For 30 years the total focus of Australia , USA , UK and Western Governments all about squabbling,
Wars , shifting money meanwhile countries like China / India have exploded in manufacturing .
The difference with China is a vision & plan been lucky enough to see it first hand , amazingly good
operators because of respect .

South Korea’s Green New Deal shows the world what a smart economic recovery looks like

With a bit of political vision, risk-taking and a national strategy led by government, Australia too can kickstart investment in the post-COVID recovery.

theconversation.com

 

[SaintsSeptember]

South Korea’s Green New Deal shows the world what a smart economic recovery looks like

With a bit of political vision, risk-taking and a national strategy led by government, Australia too can kickstart investment in the post-COVID recovery.

theconversation.com

South Korea...Install Solar Panels on public buildings. Hardly a long term thing.
Install Smart meters. Already done in Australia.
Invest in electric vehicles...Oh they have an Automotive industry. ( Aust gov paid for Toyota to assemble hybrid cars they had already developed. No expertise came to Australia out of that action ).
Improvement of energy use in Factories. Yes they have lots of factories.

More grey than green?
Critics have cast the K-New Deal as more grey than green. For example, they argue while the dirtiest fossil fuels, such as coal, are being phased out, they’ve been replaced with ‘cleaner’ fossil fuels such as liquified natural gas, or LNG.

 

[Stewart66]

South Korea’s Green New Deal shows the world what a smart economic recovery looks like

With a bit of political vision, risk-taking and a national strategy led by government, Australia too can kickstart investment in the post-COVID recovery.

theconversation.com

This article early in the year describing it better than most.

Home Public

www.nteu.org.au

 

[SaintsSeptember]

This article early in the year describing it better than most.

Home Public

www.nteu.org.au

 

[Stewart66]

Honestly don’t care , my working days are done

Home Public

www.nteu.org.au

Agree with the article analogy , the Business World of West is full of spivs , Lobbyists , corporations,
and financial institutions producing very little other than shifting money in financial trickery.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Honestly don’t care , my working days are done

Home Public

www.nteu.org.au

Agree with the article analogy , the Business World of West is full of spivs , Lobbyists , corporations,
and financial institutions producing very little other than shifting money in financial trickery.

In the hitchhikers guide, ( above ) they told all the useless people that they were the lead ship in a mission to colonise a new planet. In reality they were the only ship the rest of the "useful " population just stayed home.
The irony was that the planet that was colonised by the "Hairdressers, Telephone sanitisers....etc " was the Earth.

 

[pebblesofsand]

South Korea...Install Solar Panels on public buildings. Hardly a long term thing.
Install Smart meters. Already done in Australia.
Invest in electric vehicles...Oh they have an Automotive industry. ( Aust gov paid for Toyota to assemble hybrid cars they had already developed. No expertise came to Australia out of that action ).
Improvement of energy use in Factories. Yes they have lots of factories.

More grey than green?
Critics have cast the K-New Deal as more grey than green. For example, they argue while the dirtiest fossil fuels, such as coal, are being phased out, they’ve been replaced with ‘cleaner’ fossil fuels such as liquified natural gas, or LNG.

to complete the quote from the article

"LNG will be used to provide baseload power, but it is intended only as a “bridging fuel”. Importantly, unlike Australia, the Korean government has set an end date to the use of fossil fuels, aiming for zero net emissions by 2050. Korea has already gone far towards meeting its renewables targets of 20% by 2030 and 30-35% by 2040."

 

[Stewart66]

Ahh lets get ready for another LNP budget.

Wonder what to expect - I'm thinking tax cuts for the wealthy which will further consolidate their wealth and further decrease the ongoing revenue to Govt.

Think about this: despite a rocketing budget deficit, Scott Morrison is planning to press on with, and even bring forward, highly expensive tax cuts for high income-earners at just the time we're realising that the 40-year pursuit of Smaller Government has been a disastrous failure.

Smaller government has failed, but let's cut taxes anyway

Contracting out the provision of public services to private operators cuts costs at the expense of quality.

www.theage.com.au

System has been rigged that way for a while we do what USA do

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomsky-looks-at-how-the-system-is-rigged-to-ensure-that-corporations-always-win/

 

[gringo2011]

Honestly don’t care , my working days are done

Home Public

www.nteu.org.au

Agree with the article analogy , the Business World of West is full of spivs , Lobbyists , corporations,
and financial institutions producing very little other than shifting money in financial trickery.

And the US model of asset stripping companies like a parasitic organism for financial gain. The western market driven model is ****ed it literally is predatory and has become so corrupted that it's flipped to how the third world ended up so ****ed in the past.

Watching Secrets of Silicone Valley, there will be no jobs anyway. We are going to be unemployed consumers who never get more than drip fed to get access to a spot in the trough.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

to complete the quote from the article

"LNG will be used to provide baseload power, but it is intended only as a “bridging fuel”. Importantly, unlike Australia, the Korean government has set an end date to the use of fossil fuels, aiming for zero net emissions by 2050. Korea has already gone far towards meeting its renewables targets of 20% by 2030 and 30-35% by 2040."

If you think an end date set by a politician in 2020 makes any difference to what happens in 2030, 40, 50 get all excited by that.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

And the US model of asset stripping companies like a parasitic organism for financial gain. The western market driven model is f’ed it literally is predatory and has become so corrupted that it's flipped to how the third world ended up so f’ed in the past.

Watching Secrets of Silicone Valley, there will be no jobs anyway. We are going to be unemployed consumers who never get more than drip fed to get access to a spot in the trough.

I can tell you what its like working in a corporation that's been purchased by a investment equity company.
They decide what you are worth when they buy you, but then they make you service the loan no matter what.

Imagine you mow the lawns for a company owned by some old bloke, its paying your wages , buying new mowers, and giving him back a bit.
Then someone decides its worth a million dollars and buys it off him.
Suddenly you need to pay the interest on the million dollar loan they took out ( that's right, you get to buy a business without any money ) and stiff shit if you can't pay your wages or buy new equipment.

Shitful.

 

[Stewart66]

And the US model of asset stripping companies like a parasitic organism for financial gain. The western market driven model is f’ed it literally is predatory and has become so corrupted that it's flipped to how the third world ended up so f’ed in the past.

Watching Secrets of Silicone Valley, there will be no jobs anyway. We are going to be unemployed consumers who never get more than drip fed to get access to a spot in the trough.

Keep working hard paying your taxes mate .

Go Saints .

 

[gringo2011]

Keep working hard paying your taxes mate .

Go Saints .

Not much more you can do unfortunately.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Bought my first home today

Congrats.

Armadale. Paid out the siblings, too good an area to move out of

Indeed. Good transport, close to town, not far from shops. Only downside it's pricey area. Well outside of my budget. I'd be lucky to get a dilapidated shack in Pakenham with my wage.

 

[George]

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Also aged care still took the brunt of it which is federal, they were still not providing training and PPE right in in the middle of the crisis. The media never make the link. Lots of people worked in multiple roles across several homes etc. It's a very insecure industry so people were taking it to other businesses because they were working multiple low paid jobs.

Aged care is mostly "privately owned" , "federally funded ".
The feds give them the funding based on them passing audits involving "standard of care", which may be an issue but is probably not related to anything Covid.
It was never a case of "oh that's a Federal Government facility , Victoria has no jurisdiction.
Victoria has the same rights over them as any other private business.