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That's on a broad scope that does not take into account local stakeholders. Senates are terrible because the people you're often electing don't represent communities, they represent topics. Just because 12% of Australia is duped into thinking the greens have any actionable policies on climate change doesn't change the fact most of those people are clustered in major cities.
Similarly, people who don't want action on climate change and believe covid vaccines are dangerous are often clustered in dense regional centres. Not necessarily major cities, but in combination they're large enough to take notice. Combined, these conspiracy theorists can get Malcom Roberts and Gerard Rennick elected despite the fact their fringe ideas would never win a seat RE: Craig Kelly losing his seat.
Yea, it isn't super representative but it allows the government to push through their agenda. Now that agenda could also be representative of what 51% of the population want, or maybe it's niche and only 5% support that decision. Because there's no senate to temper the legislation, it gets pushed through and the party is guaranteed a loss at the next election.
That's how Queensland LNP managed to smash labor to 7 seats and then lost the next election to leave Labor in a minority government. It genuinely works better than the bicameral legislature.
That is not a useful comparison, because the Nats only contest a small number of seats
Why is representing communities more important than representing topics? I don't think people necessarily vote based on specific local policies.
I think a system with multi-member equally sized electorates with proportional representation would address both concerns, giving communities representation, while also representing the interests of the nation as a whole more closely.
Guaranteed a loss? If only people voted purely based on rationality and policy! But anyone involved with an election campaign knows how much marketing wins elections.
It's exact the comparison to make. Doesn't matter how many seats they contest.
Because topics can have fringe support meanwhile communities have targeted requests. If 5% of Australia want a representative to talk about how evil covid vaccination is, they can vote for that moron. However those fringe morons aren't likely to win a seat.
Senates serve to slow down actual democratic processes. Abolish the senate.
It does matter. If the Nats contested more seats, they'd get more votes.
Hi, I’m from Singapore & I’ll be moving to NSW soon to attend my university there. I have a Class 3A (Car) & Class 2B (Bike) license from Singapore. I heard that visitors overseas are able to drive there for up to 3 months before you need to get an NSW license. Any idea under what type of license should I be applying under? (I’m gonna be there for at least 4 years) Is it just a conversion or do I have to go through driving lessons all over again?
If you have a full licence for a number of years probably just a knowledge test and some fees. What you want is a Class C licence, the one for passenger cars. Not sure about motor bikes.
Go here and answer some questions, see what your licence converts to.
https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/driver-and-rider-licences/visiting-or-moving-to-nsw/moving-overseas-licence
As the person linked. Singapore will fall under a certain category and that will determine whether you can convert or have to do testing.
Good luck
thank you! appreciate it
It's class R for the motorbike.
Where are we meant to build homes if infill and higher density in the city is heavily opposed? Sydney is growing by 80k people a year.
Greens lose their shit when someone tries to build apartments in the city and the inevitable result is the only place to build is greenfields on the urban fringe.
Labour MP's actively oppose new housing on top of metro train lines in their electorates.
The people who decry habitat loss need to have an honest conversation about where housing should go instead, because these wildlife areas have very little opposition compared to Balmain or Crows Nest.
You can't have it both ways.
So the fence is damaged, they claim they are waiting on parts.
People claiming that koalas are dying left right and centre.
I find both sides are exaggerating the issue
You got me mate. Why dont Greens want apartments built in the city? I thought they were vocal advocates for yimbyism and higher density urban living?
Koalas have been dying at awfully excessive rates in this state over a number of years, to the point where their once unthinkable extinction has become pretty much a forgone conclusion.
The death rate has probably dropped off somewhat recently only because there are now far fewer koalas left in the wild to be killed.
> It happens on massive projects, such as the redevelopment of Blackwattle Bay once the Sydney Fish Market moves down the road. On a prime site a kilometre or so from Town Hall, the government has lowered the maximum height of planned towers from 45 storeys to 35 storeys, and cut the number of apartments by 20 per cent, after a campaign led by Greens MP Jamie Parker
> In Balmain, Parker and his successor as Greens candidate, Kobi Shetty, also organised against an “overdevelopment” on Darling Street in Balmain which would have replaced a shed with six apartments, three of them designated as affordable housing.
> Councillors, led by Labor Mayor Darcy Byrne, ordered all work on the new LEP to halt following a major backlash to a proposal to rezone parts of Marrickville, Dulwich Hill and North Ashfield for apartment blocks of six to eight storeys. Two of those suburbs will soon have metro stations.
> In Crows Nest on the north shore, the government has already agreed to halve the number of apartments to be built directly on top of the forthcoming metro station
Tripartisan opposition in NSW to development around public transport hubs :/
And Max Chandler-Mather, the Federal Greens housings spokesperson:
> Chandler-Mather’s own attempts to stymie the development of some 1300 new homes in his own electorate is like adding a handful of dry kindling to an adjacent inferno.
>
> Chandler-Mather’s seat of Griffith, home to some of Brisbane’s wealthiest residents, should be the perfect candidate for higher-density housing, given it is serviced by ferries, trains, buses and major road networks, just south of the CBD. Alas, NIMBYism is as strong there as it is in most of the country’s more desirable locales.
>
> Residents have a willing advocate in their newly elected Green MP, his housing and homelessness portfolio and oft-avowed concern for renters grappling with a 1 per cent vacancy rate notwithstanding. Plans to redevelop an old barracks and an industrial site into “luxury” units and apartments have in both cases met with Chandler-Mather’s fierce opposition.
>
> At Tugulawa Park, his website details in glowing terms the installation of a new yet instantly “much-loved” community garden where an access road is planned for 855 new low- to medium-density riverfront homes.
>
> “I’m spending a lot of my time right now pushing the federal government to invest in public and affordable housing,” Chandler-Mather states, before outlining his many objections to this specific proposal, which include concerns about flooding and traffic, as well as over that new road.
>
> He wants the entire site purchased by the federal government for public parkland, community facilities and “a small portion of affordable housing”.
>
> Meanwhile, on the other side of his electorate, plans for the construction of two 26-story towers on what is currently an industrial site have also met with opposition, despite the 470 new homes contained therein. The plan, the Greens MP states, will create “further congestion” and “misses a fantastic opportunity” to use the site to instead expand the neighbouring park. Seriously. And Chandler-Mather insists it is Labor that doesn’t get the scale of the housing emergency.
They are hypocrites plain and simple. Labor and the Greens have shared power in the ACT for 15 years now controlling both the state and local planning functions, they also have the highest prices/rents in the country. Canberra isn't running out of space or overdeveloped, it's fucking paddocks. How can anyone look at this any more than lipservice?
Anybody else applying or applied for the nsw back grant found its quite difficult to apply for ?
Photographs don't seem to be enough
Invoices don't seem to be enough
Real estate reports don't seem to be enough
No matter what they ask for, after its been supplied they ask for something new ?
Back Home grant, supplied via service nsw
The what?
I'm applying for rentals for the first time in a decade. The first response I've gotten is asking for me to provide 3 months bank statements. Do I need to do this? Can I black out anything that isn't my pay and rent payments ?
If you do supply it to them, I'd black out everything except your wages deposits, including your balance. That's all the information they need. You have an income to cover your rent
Can’t you just filter on transactions and show only salary coming in?
All they need to see is a proof of balance (ideally showing savings) and maybe payslips. No property manager needs to see full bank statements, that’s a red flag.
Not really an answer to your question...
u/Taleya posted this link the other day...
https://tenantsvic.org.au/advice/landlord-problems/complaints-about-rental-providers-and-agents/
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This has me second-guessing the authenticity of the picture. Damn you AI art!
Love some WW1 photos of our boys, really interesting part of history
Hell yeah!
Almost 69,000 dead Australians from WW1, 154,000 wounded.
Staggering figures from a nation of under 5 million at the time.
The hands are normal. We’re good.
A simple Google lens search shows it is likely authentic: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C322766
Head off to the Australian War memorial website: https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search
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So basically 2 of my friends (14yrs & 13yrs) were trying to get on a bus and one of them forgot their opal card at home. The other one tapped on and the bus driver kicked them both off. This has never happened before and we were under the assumption that it was illegal due to the no-child-left-behind policy. If anyone can inform me of what we can do to maybe report the bus driver or any other information regarding this law applying to our situation in general it would be much appreciated.
The bus (and driver) will be linked to the person who tapped on. If you make a complaint it will be linked.
If what you said is correct, the one who tapped on should have stayed, but the others should have gone. Maybe the driver didn't see that... I dunno.
In reality, you were guilty by association. In the same way when a group at school plays up, everyone gets in trouble.
I think you should drop the complaint idea, and remind your friends to be more organised.
If you feel unsafe, you knock on a house and ask them to call the police.
Closing the thread because it's turned into a shit fight
Funny, the "no child left behind" policy in England means that all children should be able to receive a decent education.
Mate the No child left behind is a Queensland thing mainly. And it is NOT law no matter how much eshays wish it was.
they didnt tap on, thats against the law.
The no-child left behind stuff is not law, it's simply a policy that most bus companies have.
Depending on how it is worded you might have luck, but I doubt it because it usually only applies to leaving a sole child at a bus stop by themselves. This was neither. Try your luck, I doubt they'll give a shit as your friend was trying to fare evade (Which, ironically, is the only crime in this situation).
And if you want to know how to report the issue I would first not go to reddit to have a whine and use a bloody search engine. Not very hard.
“report the bus driver”. Persons just doing their job and you are fare evading.
Kids these days. I did the wrong thing or my friend did but I should be entitled to compensation and apologies. Not how the world works kiddo!
If you tried to enter a football game or concert without paying, would you complain about being kicked out?
You don't pay for public transport, you don't get to use it. Simple.

That's on a broad scope that does not take into account local stakeholders. Senates are terrible because the people you're often electing don't represent communities, they represent topics. Just because 12% of Australia is duped into thinking the greens have any actionable policies on climate change doesn't change the fact most of those people are clustered in major cities.

Similarly, people who don't want action on climate change and believe covid vaccines are dangerous are often clustered in dense regional centres. Not necessarily major cities, but in combination they're large enough to take notice. Combined, these conspiracy theorists can get Malcom Roberts and Gerard Rennick elected despite the fact their fringe ideas would never win a seat RE: Craig Kelly losing his seat.

Yea, it isn't super representative but it allows the government to push through their agenda. Now that agenda could also be representative of what 51% of the population want, or maybe it's niche and only 5% support that decision. Because there's no senate to temper the legislation, it gets pushed through and the party is guaranteed a loss at the next election.

That's how Queensland LNP managed to smash labor to 7 seats and then lost the next election to leave Labor in a minority government. It genuinely works better than the bicameral legislature.

That is not a useful comparison, because the Nats only contest a small number of seats

Why is representing communities more important than representing topics? I don't think people necessarily vote based on specific local policies.

I think a system with multi-member equally sized electorates with proportional representation would address both concerns, giving communities representation, while also representing the interests of the nation as a whole more closely.

Guaranteed a loss? If only people voted purely based on rationality and policy! But anyone involved with an election campaign knows how much marketing wins elections.

It's exact the comparison to make. Doesn't matter how many seats they contest.

Because topics can have fringe support meanwhile communities have targeted requests. If 5% of Australia want a representative to talk about how evil covid vaccination is, they can vote for that moron. However those fringe morons aren't likely to win a seat.

Senates serve to slow down actual democratic processes. Abolish the senate.

It does matter. If the Nats contested more seats, they'd get more votes.

Hi, I’m from Singapore & I’ll be moving to NSW soon to attend my university there. I have a Class 3A (Car) & Class 2B (Bike) license from Singapore. I heard that visitors overseas are able to drive there for up to 3 months before you need to get an NSW license. Any idea under what type of license should I be applying under? (I’m gonna be there for at least 4 years) Is it just a conversion or do I have to go through driving lessons all over again?

If you have a full licence for a number of years probably just a knowledge test and some fees. What you want is a Class C licence, the one for passenger cars. Not sure about motor bikes.

Go here and answer some questions, see what your licence converts to.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/driver-and-rider-licences/visiting-or-moving-to-nsw/moving-overseas-licence

As the person linked. Singapore will fall under a certain category and that will determine whether you can convert or have to do testing.

Good luck

thank you! appreciate it

It's class R for the motorbike.

Where are we meant to build homes if infill and higher density in the city is heavily opposed? Sydney is growing by 80k people a year.

Greens lose their shit when someone tries to build apartments in the city and the inevitable result is the only place to build is greenfields on the urban fringe.

Labour MP's actively oppose new housing on top of metro train lines in their electorates.

The people who decry habitat loss need to have an honest conversation about where housing should go instead, because these wildlife areas have very little opposition compared to Balmain or Crows Nest.

You can't have it both ways.

So the fence is damaged, they claim they are waiting on parts.

People claiming that koalas are dying left right and centre.

I find both sides are exaggerating the issue

You got me mate. Why dont Greens want apartments built in the city? I thought they were vocal advocates for yimbyism and higher density urban living?

Koalas have been dying at awfully excessive rates in this state over a number of years, to the point where their once unthinkable extinction has become pretty much a forgone conclusion.

The death rate has probably dropped off somewhat recently only because there are now far fewer koalas left in the wild to be killed.

> It happens on massive projects, such as the redevelopment of Blackwattle Bay once the Sydney Fish Market moves down the road. On a prime site a kilometre or so from Town Hall, the government has lowered the maximum height of planned towers from 45 storeys to 35 storeys, and cut the number of apartments by 20 per cent, after a campaign led by Greens MP Jamie Parker

> In Balmain, Parker and his successor as Greens candidate, Kobi Shetty, also organised against an “overdevelopment” on Darling Street in Balmain which would have replaced a shed with six apartments, three of them designated as affordable housing.

> Councillors, led by Labor Mayor Darcy Byrne, ordered all work on the new LEP to halt following a major backlash to a proposal to rezone parts of Marrickville, Dulwich Hill and North Ashfield for apartment blocks of six to eight storeys. Two of those suburbs will soon have metro stations.

> In Crows Nest on the north shore, the government has already agreed to halve the number of apartments to be built directly on top of the forthcoming metro station

Tripartisan opposition in NSW to development around public transport hubs :/

And Max Chandler-Mather, the Federal Greens housings spokesperson:

> Chandler-Mather’s own attempts to stymie the development of some 1300 new homes in his own electorate is like adding a handful of dry kindling to an adjacent inferno.

>

> Chandler-Mather’s seat of Griffith, home to some of Brisbane’s wealthiest residents, should be the perfect candidate for higher-density housing, given it is serviced by ferries, trains, buses and major road networks, just south of the CBD. Alas, NIMBYism is as strong there as it is in most of the country’s more desirable locales.

>

> Residents have a willing advocate in their newly elected Green MP, his housing and homelessness portfolio and oft-avowed concern for renters grappling with a 1 per cent vacancy rate notwithstanding. Plans to redevelop an old barracks and an industrial site into “luxury” units and apartments have in both cases met with Chandler-Mather’s fierce opposition.

>

> At Tugulawa Park, his website details in glowing terms the installation of a new yet instantly “much-loved” community garden where an access road is planned for 855 new low- to medium-density riverfront homes.

>

> “I’m spending a lot of my time right now pushing the federal government to invest in public and affordable housing,” Chandler-Mather states, before outlining his many objections to this specific proposal, which include concerns about flooding and traffic, as well as over that new road.

>

> He wants the entire site purchased by the federal government for public parkland, community facilities and “a small portion of affordable housing”.

>

> Meanwhile, on the other side of his electorate, plans for the construction of two 26-story towers on what is currently an industrial site have also met with opposition, despite the 470 new homes contained therein. The plan, the Greens MP states, will create “further congestion” and “misses a fantastic opportunity” to use the site to instead expand the neighbouring park. Seriously. And Chandler-Mather insists it is Labor that doesn’t get the scale of the housing emergency.

They are hypocrites plain and simple. Labor and the Greens have shared power in the ACT for 15 years now controlling both the state and local planning functions, they also have the highest prices/rents in the country. Canberra isn't running out of space or overdeveloped, it's fucking paddocks. How can anyone look at this any more than lipservice?

Anybody else applying or applied for the nsw back grant found its quite difficult to apply for ?

Photographs don't seem to be enough

Invoices don't seem to be enough

Real estate reports don't seem to be enough

No matter what they ask for, after its been supplied they ask for something new ?

Back Home grant, supplied via service nsw

The what?

I'm applying for rentals for the first time in a decade. The first response I've gotten is asking for me to provide 3 months bank statements. Do I need to do this? Can I black out anything that isn't my pay and rent payments ?

If you do supply it to them, I'd black out everything except your wages deposits, including your balance. That's all the information they need. You have an income to cover your rent

Can’t you just filter on transactions and show only salary coming in?

All they need to see is a proof of balance (ideally showing savings) and maybe payslips. No property manager needs to see full bank statements, that’s a red flag.

Not really an answer to your question...

u/Taleya posted this link the other day...

https://tenantsvic.org.au/advice/landlord-problems/complaints-about-rental-providers-and-agents/

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On the nab app you can get a proof of balance statement which is what we usually use and have had no issues

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This has me second-guessing the authenticity of the picture. Damn you AI art!

Love some WW1 photos of our boys, really interesting part of history

Hell yeah!

Almost 69,000 dead Australians from WW1, 154,000 wounded.

Staggering figures from a nation of under 5 million at the time.

The hands are normal. We’re good.

A simple Google lens search shows it is likely authentic: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C322766

Head off to the Australian War memorial website: https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search

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So basically 2 of my friends (14yrs & 13yrs) were trying to get on a bus and one of them forgot their opal card at home. The other one tapped on and the bus driver kicked them both off. This has never happened before and we were under the assumption that it was illegal due to the no-child-left-behind policy. If anyone can inform me of what we can do to maybe report the bus driver or any other information regarding this law applying to our situation in general it would be much appreciated.

The bus (and driver) will be linked to the person who tapped on. If you make a complaint it will be linked.

If what you said is correct, the one who tapped on should have stayed, but the others should have gone. Maybe the driver didn't see that... I dunno.

In reality, you were guilty by association. In the same way when a group at school plays up, everyone gets in trouble.

I think you should drop the complaint idea, and remind your friends to be more organised.

If you feel unsafe, you knock on a house and ask them to call the police.

Closing the thread because it's turned into a shit fight

Funny, the "no child left behind" policy in England means that all children should be able to receive a decent education.

Mate the No child left behind is a Queensland thing mainly. And it is NOT law no matter how much eshays wish it was.

they didnt tap on, thats against the law.

The no-child left behind stuff is not law, it's simply a policy that most bus companies have.

Depending on how it is worded you might have luck, but I doubt it because it usually only applies to leaving a sole child at a bus stop by themselves. This was neither. Try your luck, I doubt they'll give a shit as your friend was trying to fare evade (Which, ironically, is the only crime in this situation).

And if you want to know how to report the issue I would first not go to reddit to have a whine and use a bloody search engine. Not very hard.

“report the bus driver”. Persons just doing their job and you are fare evading.

Kids these days. I did the wrong thing or my friend did but I should be entitled to compensation and apologies. Not how the world works kiddo!

If you tried to enter a football game or concert without paying, would you complain about being kicked out?

You don't pay for public transport, you don't get to use it. Simple.