What is the message here? The LNP left us better off than the rest of the world? Casualisation of Labor hasn’t hurt us it’s given us more play time? That Australians are better off than most other countries our form of Capitalism works? Shut up and stop whining? The poor are better off here than elsewhere?
A global comparison isn’t a measure of how you feel. Do we feel better now than we did after a decade of LNP government? We need to slice and dice the very diverse Australian population to find that out and a global comparison of a cup of coffee won’t help answer that.
But while Aussie shoppers are suffering, CommSec’s chief economist Craig James, says our cost of living pales in comparison with some other nations. “I don’t believe cost of living is worse here,” says James. “The standard of living must be equated with the cost of living and Aussies have a very high standard of living and costs, in comparison, are relatively cheap.”
Source: Australia’s cost of living crisis pales in comparison to UK, Singapore and around the globe
72-year-old grandfather and amateur chess enthusiast Gavin Frampton said inserting a vibrating sex toy up his anus has not improved his win rate, despite chess prodigy Hans Niemann seemingly having success with the technique.
“I put the beads in, played 1.e4 as usual, and then waited for the magic to happen,” Frampton explained. “But after five minutes, it had had absolutely no impact. On the chess game,” Frampton explained.
Source: Local man surprised after anal beads fail to improve chess game | The Shovel
I’ve got an idea about what it might
look like. Imagine a system where, for every year that you rented a
place, you got a 3% stake in that property, in recognition of the fact
that you are the one paying off the mortgage. There could be a central
housing fund that manages that equity, essentially on paper, allowing
renters to use it as collateral against buying their own place.
Over the course of 30 years of renting, renters would become homeowners.
If that were law, then I’m sure there
would be far less resentment about the political protection racket that
housing now enjoys because everyone would be on the same path towards
enjoying the benefits of that protection racket.
I mean, a “rent freeze” would be fun,
but “widespread home ownership and the elimination of the entire
investment property class within a single generation”, would be so much
more fun.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is lying and deceiving the Australian
public regarding the percentage of public hearings the NSW ICAC has in
an attempt to justify secret hearings at the National Anti-Corruption
Commission […]
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus cooks the books to justify secret
hearings at the National Anti-Corruption Commission and video you won’t
see at a Federal ICAC
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I’m glad I waited a week to write about the Optus ‘hack’. Enough time
has passed since the catastrophic data breach to be confident that it
wasn’t a sophisticated hack by an advanced persistent threat-actor, like
Optus would have us believe. It was just a cock up.
Source: Lazy, stupid and incompetent? – by John Birmingham
Australian FinTech companies collect your bank customer
registration number and your password to access your bank accounts; and
they keep that access even if you no longer use their services. Cyber
security expert Manal al-Sharif explores privacy rorts.
Source: Optus Hack just tip of the iceberg. FinTechs harvest bank details and passwords, can sell them too
I’ve got an idea about what it might look like. Imagine a system where, for every year that you rented a place, you got a 3% stake in that property, in recognition of the fact that you are the one paying off the mortgage. There could be a central housing fund that manages that equity, essentially on paper, allowing renters to use it as collateral against buying their own place.
Over the course of 30 years of renting, renters would become homeowners.
If that were law, then I’m sure there would be far less resentment about the political protection racket that housing now enjoys because everyone would be on the same path towards enjoying the benefits of that protection racket.
I mean, a “rent freeze” would be fun, but “widespread home ownership and the elimination of the entire investment property class within a single generation”, would be so much more fun.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is lying and deceiving the Australian public regarding the percentage of public hearings the NSW ICAC has in an attempt to justify secret hearings at the National Anti-Corruption Commission […]
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus cooks the books to justify secret hearings at the National Anti-Corruption Commission and video you won’t see at a Federal ICAC
By on • ( Leave a comment )
I’m glad I waited a week to write about the Optus ‘hack’. Enough time has passed since the catastrophic data breach to be confident that it wasn’t a sophisticated hack by an advanced persistent threat-actor, like Optus would have us believe. It was just a cock up.
Source: Lazy, stupid and incompetent? – by John Birmingham
Australian FinTech companies collect your bank customer registration number and your password to access your bank accounts; and they keep that access even if you no longer use their services. Cyber security expert Manal al-Sharif explores privacy rorts.
Source: Optus Hack just tip of the iceberg. FinTechs harvest bank details and passwords, can sell them too
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