Australia
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A little history?
www.abc.net.au Everybody goes bananas, then nothing happens: The flawed truth about the latest negative gearing outrageNews that Treasury was looking at modelling changes to negative gearing was treated as a scandal. But when it comes to Australia's housing affordability problem, wouldn't the real scandal be if Treasury officials WEREN'T examining every possible pullable lever?
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Can this be useful for Australian Housing Crisis
www.engadget.com A robotics company has 3D printed nearly a hundred homes in TexasICON's 3D printer can build the main structure of a three or four-bedroom home in three weeks.
100 homes in 2 years is a good rate. Australia should be doing this.
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Pink Enchanted Forest/Unicorn Folder For Sale On Etsy, Based In NSW
A Folder that is hand-painted with an enchanted forest/unicorn in pink motif
Original and one of a kind
Sprayed with a matte varnish to protect the painted side from wear and tear
The Inside is painted too in a splatter-effect and varnished with the same matte spray, so all angles of the folder are painted!
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I'm trying to find clips from a comedian.
Years ago I saw some funny clips of an Australian, or maybe New Zealand comedian. He had one episode were he spoke to people trying to shoot a golf ball into a hole on a small platform.
In another sketch he was going undercover spying on some super market to figure out some obscure conspiracy.
I'm not able to find the guy again. Searching on YouTube has become hopeless. Anyone got a clue?
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EV owners: what cables are standard at charging stations?
We're just in the market for a new car and looking to get an EV.
One of the optional extras is a very expensive 6m Mode 3 Type 2 400V 16A 11kW IEC 3P cable "for public charging stations".
I assumed the cables were already there are the charging stations, like the hoses at the petrol bowser?
Should we purchase this cable, or is it unnecessary? We don't have a fast charger at home so, for the time being, we're just planning to charge off the (included) 240V 10A cable at home.
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Do we have something similar to this to limit rent increase?
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For context, I am specific about the part of this story where some developments/investors are highly subsided by the government. This allows the people to hold the government accountable and also transitively the investors that each dollar spent should benefiting the public.
This news is of course in the context of the US. Yet, aren't some of our builders here also received government aids during covid (before and after). Are there any existing plan to start the rent control in Australia in similar manner? Starting off with those investors who received helps from the government first?
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‘People are simply not buying them’: That’s a wrap for Fantales
Fantales, the famously chewy caramel chocolates once synonymous with an afternoon at the movies, are about to be no more.
Manufacturer Nestle announced the “sad news” on Tuesday, saying people weren’t buying them as much as they used to and the equipment used to make the sweets is breaking down.
- www.theguardian.com Victorian Greens threaten to block planning changes unless housing demands met
Leader Samantha Ratnam says half of all dwellings in new projects should be public or affordable housing
The Victorian Greens are threatening to block upcoming changes to the state’s planning laws unless they include a requirement for half of all dwellings in new developments to be either public or affordable housing.
- www.theguardian.com David Van: former Liberal senator Amanda Stoker accuses colleague of ‘inappropriate’ touching
Following allegations made in the Senate by Lidia Thorpe, Stoker alleges Van twice squeezed her bottom at a social event in 2020
Everyone's having ago, I really feel like I'm missing out.
- www.theguardian.com Australia’s unemployment falls to 3.6% as the economy adds 76,000 jobs in May
Employers expand workforces even as growth slows, surprising economists
Australia’s economy added 76,000 jobs last month as employers defied signs of slowing demand to expand the national workforce beyond 14m for the first time. The drop in the unemployment rate came even as the participation rate rose to a record 66.9%, meaning more people were looking for work.
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We need more than a 15% pay rise to beat the 3 stigmas turning people off aged care jobs
theconversation.com We need more than a 15% pay rise to beat the 3 stigmas turning people off aged care jobsOur research shows that aged care work is still stigmatised by other health professionals as dirty, difficult and low-status – more than most other jobs.
Our research shows that aged care work is burdened by three types of stigma – physical, social and moral.
Physical stigma refers to work performed under particularly dangerous conditions, or being exposed to dirt, bodily fluids and death. Examples of jobs with high physical stigma include firefighting, working with sewage and being an undertaker.
Social stigma is associated with work seen as low-status, because it involves being in a servile relationship and working with people belonging to marginalised group – in this case, older people.
Moral stigma involves work that is viewed as deceptive or unethical. Examples include used car salespeople and loan sharks. Our findings point to a moral stigma around aged care work, which is reinforced by media coverage of elder abuse and neglect.
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Neumann Drive
www.abc.net.au Does this box contain the answer to the problem of space junk?Space junk is made of hundreds of millions of fragments orbiting Earth — and while it isn't a giant space bin, a small high-tech cube could be used to help hoover up some of the debris.
The Neumann Drive will be used by space companies in the US which carry devices on their satellites such as nets or robotic arms to capture orbital waste.
The thruster would then enable those satellites to return to Earth with the waste to be melted down into more fuel.
"It helps the satellites to de-orbit when the lifetime is complete, it could be after three years or five years, so we're helping de-orbiting or reducing space junk," Mr Baig said.
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If Trump dismantles American democracy, Australia faces an existential question
www.theguardian.com If Trump dismantles American democracy, Australia faces an existential question | Bruce WolpeAustralia’s alliance is with the US, a country that stands for freedom, democracy, liberty and civil rights. Under Trump, that could be destroyed
Well nothig really, since our beloved media are run by the same Americans anyway...