The Wasteland II, Jeffrey Smart, 1945, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro & Markets
- Not just China: why the global economy needs Beijing’s stimulus measures to boost growth – SCMP
- China says has made plans with U.S. for face-to-face trade meeting in January – Reuters
- This is not a time for investors to think long term – FT.com
Asia
- China’s industrial profits drop for first time in three years due to trade war impact – SCMP
- China has US$17.41 trillion of financial resources to offset external risks, Beijing think tank says – SCMP
- China uses Taiwan as R&D lab to disrupt democracies – Nikkei Asian Review
- Xi pushes back agenda-setting meeting as economy fades – Nikkei Asian Review
- China Heads Into Trade Talks Bracing for More U.S. Demands – Bloomberg
- Vietnam Economy Remains Outperformer as Growth Tops 7% Mark – Bloomberg
- How China is finding new ways to use red tape to tie up US firms during the trade war – SCMP
- India Curbs Power of Amazon and Walmart to Sell Products Online – NY Times
Americas
- Oil output goes AWOL in Venezuela as soldiers run PDVSA – Reuters
- Trump praises Treasury Secretary Mnuchin but hits Fed again on rate rises – Reuters
- Fed chair’s job is not in jeopardy, White House economic adviser says – Reuters
- White House said to mull new year executive order to bar Huawei, ZTE purchases – SCMP
- ‘Ideological soul mates’: how China sceptic Robert Lighthizer sold Donald Trump on a trade war – SCMP
- Trump’s Trade War Comes With an Unexpected Bonus: More Trade – Bloomberg
- Trump Is a Test of the Economy’s Breaking Point – Bloomberg
- US tariffs will hit China harder next year, analysts say – CNBC
- The Government Shutdown Is Going to Hurt More People Each Day It Continues – Slate
- The Rich Can Afford Higher Ground in Miami. What’s Going to Happen to the Poor? – Slate
Europe
- Germany Closes Its Last Black Coal Mine – NY Times
- Shares in Carige fail to trade after key cash call blocked – CNBC
- Selling Real Estate in Russia? Are You Crazy? – NY Times…selling RE in Russia can be an incredibly traumatic experience. The sanity certificate is a genuine requirement…
- French economy to temporarily overtake UK after Brexit – RTE
- Ireland well on the way to becoming a nation of renters – Irish Independent
Terra Heatwavus
- ‘Huge pressure’: Developers cutting costs are root cause of defects – Nine
- Newspoll fails to bring Christmas cheer to Coalition as grey voters desert Morrison – Guardian
- PM’s office had known for weeks about ‘sugar daddy’ Andrew Broad – Nine
- ANZ chief faces criminal prosecution – Michael West
- Sydney’s dodgy buildings due to 17 years of inaction – Nine
- Treacherous path to election could erase memento Morrison – Nine…ScoMo is going to be roasted alive…
…and furthermore…
- The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology – Aeon
- Diseases through the decades – here’s what to look out for in your 40s, 60s, 80s and beyond – The Conversation
- Cancer may no longer be deadly in future, say British researchers announcing breakthrough – National Post
- Russia is poised to add a new hypersonic nuclear warhead to its arsenal – Washington Post
- The salacious Middle Ages – Aeon
Gunnamatta
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(shame my handle isn’t treyito)
Early.
Do you think the designers were aiming for this?
http://images.lacarmina.com/130102_mesa_arizona_murals_street_art_phoenix_miffy_clothing_john_fluevog_shoes_2.jpg
A kind of post-auction-banksy-modern-art experience.
Spent a lot of my youth around Mesa, the heat does the same to the roads, blows out windscreens on cars and the occasional bike tire can be heard blowing up.
I liked AZ. Checked out the climate as a lot of Arthritics move to the metropolis of Phoenix for the hot/dry. Here, similar specs are found inland of Silverton, Carnarvon & Thargomindah…….. : (
Damn, these links are up early. Wish there was something I could annualise to stir up some reactions.
Here you go. Annualise this one.
https://www.realestate.com.au/auction-results/wa
Nice result!
That Freo property is nice.
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-east+fremantle-130032762
Till I looked at the price… $1.35M no thanks.
This property is 20mins to Perth CBD
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-balga-130019998
809sqm and $345k seems like a bargain compared to East Coast prices and still didn’t sell. 🙂
Gav that’s Balga. High School has bars on the windows. Not sure if it’s to keep people out, or in.
Very rough area.
That’s odd. On the windows? It must make it very difficult for staff to serve drinks and clear the empties.
That Glyde Street property sold for pretty much the same price 6 years ago, and no way they will get it now.
Ouch ?.
– Edwin Almeida and Martin North discuss the recent “problems” with that “sick building” called Opal tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fOz97vHtg
Righto, so although I agree with some of the sentiments here to throw out broad statements suggesting our building codes are out of date is factually incorrect. The concrete code AS3600 Concrete Structures was comprehensively updated in 2018!
I don’t know why people throw in silly claims like this, they deligitimise their entire broader argument.
My heart bleeds for the Opal Tower owners:- who the hell would pay those prices for a dogbox that can be replicated in perpetuity. There is no practical limit to the number of units that can be built so from where do they derive their value?
Two words: natural selection. Fvck em
My heart bleeds → fvck em.
Haha, that escalated quickly.
The take on why there are more massage parlors, tattoo shops in shopping malls from an investment management seminar is that the said managers are cognisant of the impact Amazon et al are having on retail and will have more so. Therefore his company looks to help clothes (especially) and toy etc retailers to move out of their centres and they replace them with coffee shops, massage parlours, tattoo shops. These they believe will be able to survive the changes taking place in the retail industry and also maintain a healthy return on equity for their investors.
so its a race to the bottom?
Tattoo wise maybe, mate has one of a fox chasing a rabbit up his ass, yes country boy
@8mill
I fail to see under what circumstances that tattoo might even come up as a subject for discussion let alone for bragging-rights
8mill, I’ve seen similar but with the whole redcoat/jodhpurs/beagle hunting scene….. & a dotted line down to just the fox’s tail. All he did was run around showing everyone his foxhole…. I never really understood.
I fail to see under what circumstances that tattoo might even come up as a subject for discussion let alone for bragging-rights
You need to hang around with more yobbos, mate.
Guaranteed that gets aired (*cough*) to a willing audience of pissed bogans regularly.
Tattoo removal shops to follow in the future.
The only business I’ve ever wanted to get into tattoo removal. Something decent, and affordable.
Funny business. Tattoo removal and funny business.
This mall sounds a lot like the Starbucks inside Costco in Idiocracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs4mtbTsaL4
As a cricket tragic one of the years highlights is to relax after Christmas to watch the Boxing Day Test. But it seems CA want to kill test cricket by rolling out a dead pitch and two totally unlikeable teams. Couldn’t watch it.
I aint a tragic but I enjoyed the Burmahs spell late… Off a short run up .. he was slinging em down with swing and bounce.
Harris had no idea and wore one in the head.
It was entertaining.
Also watched the 20/20. Who’d have thought spin bowlers would be the strike weapon in the limited over game.
I can’t cop that Jim Wilson in the commentary. Total Knob Jockey.
I secretly enjoy the knowledge that this poxed CA setup will never raise a Bumrah, not ever.
tryhards with a textbook coaching manual will butcher any talent like Bumrah.
You’re forgetting Australia’s inevitable collapse.
CA dont prepare the pitch, the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) does
You don’t need to tell me.
At it already. Two down!
You are a prophet Harry.
3 for 59
Marsh , Head and Marsh to save us from the follow on ?
Well, I hardly needed to be Nostrildamous.
Who nose what the future holds?
Snot something I want to have to contemplate.
As a fellow cricket tragic I am perplexed as to why Cameron would want to flaunt more of his character deficiencies .
We already knew he was a liar and a cheat and a weakling, being easily influenced, so why add Dobber to the list ?
I thought cricket was a character building game, so why would he be selected ?
I hope he never play’s for Australia again.
It’s symptomatic of the quality of kids we’re raising these days: pampered and entitled.
more fun at the ground
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/25629483/mcg-spectators-warned-racist-taunts
A couple of questions spring from my reading of that piece…
Is ‘show us your visa’ a racist chant?
and if they are booing Marsh and Kohli is it race they are booing or something else?
Either way I suspect Australia’s discredited cricket administrators will find themselves bowing to commercial imperatives, and the game itself which I pretty much gave away as the plaything of oligarchs a decade ago, will shed more interest.
Mike Janda capitulated: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/why-this-gen-y-caved-in-and-decided-to-buy-a-house-in-sydney/10621156
I’ve finally accepted that reality and that’s why I’m sleeping soundly in my new home.”
Seems to go predictably with:
“Wave 5 is the final leg in the direction of the dominant trend. Unfortunately, this is when many average investors finally buy in, right before the top. Volume is often lower in wave five than in wave three, and many momentum indicators start to show divergences (prices reach a new high but the indicators do not reach a new peak).”
Maybe janet – but this is much more telling
He talks of massive debt, forced sales, crippling unemployment – but none of that matters because….
The Irish housing crash is a textbook case study of this……………………………………………………………..However, Australia isn’t Ireland.
Wow – why is that champ ?
The Reserve Bank has already effectively said it will do whatever it takes to prop up the economy — even printing money — if Australia looks like heading into recession.
So you’ve got a lot of confidence that the market is going to stop falling ?
Sydney-based buyers’ agent Nick Viner recently told me that, from his observations of the market, if the peak-to-trough fall ends up being 15 per cent then the market is almost there already.
Face palm. A real estate agent told you it was already at the bottom……
What about other analysts think ?
Most analysts are predicting that prices will fall at least another 5-10 per cent in Sydney and Melbourne
Really ? Most are openly predicting a MINIMUM of another 20% – with most privately predicting a 40% crash from here.
Never in my life will I enjoy shoving something in someones face with the epicaricacy this deserves.
Yes – Epicaricacy.
Yes TR I had a good chuckle that a presumably highly qualified, successful business reporter with a profile accepts wisdom from an agent who most likely did a two week real estate course. Quickly followed by another when he suggests the RBA will do (successfully) anything it possibly can to prop up the economy – those other countries are all run by incompetent aliens without hearts apparently.
Epicaricacy too hard to say.. doesn’t roll off the tongue the way schaudenfreude does..
Noun. epicaricacy (uncountable) (rare) Rejoicing at or deriving pleasure from the misfortunes of others.
(I’m guessing I’m not the only one who needs to look it up.)
He bought for good reasons. And he’s buying a house to live in, not to speculate with. His article highlights the dilemma facing Australia’s youth (many, like Michael, on the verge of no longer being young). It’s the need for a place to call home. He knows the market better than most, and that the likelihood is that it will keep dropping. But quite understandably he and his partner want their own place after 15 years of renting in our dysfunctional property market.
epicaricacy
Noun
(uncountable)
(rare) Rejoicing at or derivation of pleasure from the misfortunes of others.
Usage notes
The word is mentioned in some early dictionaries, but there is little or no evidence of actual usage until it was picked up by various “interesting word” websites around the turn of the twenty-first century.
“there is little or no evidence of actual usage until it was picked up by various “interesting word” websites”
@Chuck Norris
You show off.
Michael Janda illustrates a great dilemma faced by young adults. They reasonably aspire to home ownership – for the secutity privacy and freedom this brings. Even a rational player with superb access to the data like Michael can be overwhelmed by the instinct to own and the distress of his partner at being a mendicant in a ‘land of sweeping plains’
He may come to regret his emotional decision, for as he says, he has mortgaged his entire future working life. Who can say what challenges and risks lie ahead.
The pioneer Australians were determined to escape the landlordism of Britain with freehold, Torrens title and liberal subdivision laws. These qualities have all been turned against citizen homeowners. Correcting these errors will be, ahem, difficult and painful. I choose to sit it out.
Don’t Buy Now!
Only thing i can say in Janda’s defence is he may (maybe) have scored himself something at a huge discount that means he is still looking good if the market falls another 20%. He slightly hints at this as one reason to buy in the article.
You don’t buy a median house, you buy your house, and it is possible to score well below market if you negotiate well. Who knows. Good luck to him.
I can fully understand why he bought, which is fine, he seems very clued up, though I think he’s only looked at facts that suit his case, just like most people. Her mention Ireland 50% falls but doesn’t consider Japan, or either of the drivers that have allowed Irish prices to recover but not Japans. Likewise her says her RBA will not let prices drop bout doesn’t consider the banks lawyers that are unlikely till allow them to lend recklessly, it’s a structural change, unlike Ireland.
Also has he considered that whatever $ drop from here occurs he will pay about 2x that over the life of a as he will pay interest. If he’s happy with that potential loss, then fine. Personally I would have waited another year at least as that could have been some serious money saved
You know what I hate?
When your staff keep things from you.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pm-s-office-had-known-for-weeks-about-sugar-daddy-andrew-broad-20181227-p50ofw.html
Oh – you mean like the Beetrooter bonking that heffer and getting her pregnant?
Yeah, why o why didn’t someone tell muppet?
Thats precisely what ScoMo’s staff are paid for…..
To know the foibles of as many people in the LNP (and beyond if it serves LNP purposes) as possible, but to allow ScoMo to look the news cameras in the eye and declare he ‘didnt know’
Thats the way the political process works
“Thats the way the political process works”
Leverage.
Hey when are we getting a dump on Opal from HnH.
I rode past on the way to work this morning and there was a gaggle of hi-vis orange waiting around the back entrance at 6.50.
No need to worry, until they change into hi-viz yellows….
No shortage of bricks and broken building materials laying about either!
Hope they’re getting danger money.
That’s only for a unionised workforce.
The owners of the units there will know what it’s like to have something loitering in their back entrance i.e. something large that resembles a pineapple.
😂
Icon have another one at Macquarie Park, barely out of the ground. How worried would you be if you bought off the plan there?
http://www.parkonesydney.com/design
Well built website does not equal well built building.
How US trade war could leave Chinese private firms at risk of being ‘taxed to death’ | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2179666/how-us-trade-war-could-leave-chinese-private-firms-risk-being
US tariffs will hit China harder next year, analysts say … CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/27/us-tariffs-will-hit-china-harder-next-year-analysts-say.html
China’s industrial profits suffer first drop in three years, piles pressure on economy | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-industrial-profits/chinas-industrial-profits-suffer-first-drop-in-three-years-piles-pressure-on-economy-idUSKCN1OQ03J
Holey dooley, Herald commentors are off the reservation!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/inter-racial-brawl-outside-st-albans-cafe-stirs-fears-of-more-violence-20181227-p50ogj.html
I live large off the reservation
Feel the vibrancy in those comments.
Turns out that some Melbournians are indeed afraid to go out to restaurants. Whodathunkit. When does Dutton get his apology?
Wow, Fairfax are on a roll! The PC Police must all be holidays, and the journos are running riot, along with the Africans. https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/beachgoers-attacked-at-chelsea-as-teenagers-run-riot-20181228-p50oje.html
I seem to recall one other time in the last 12 months ?Easter holidays? where the censors were asleep and you could get the most outrageous stuff posted in the comments section on DomainFax.
reply post not getting through
tried to add another age article kiwikaryn .. maybe that’s why was blocked …. might also have been because I referenced when these hyenas were first imported into the country …. hope all the people responsible are proud of themselves ..
Lol Labor should drop the refugee intake line heading to the next election if thry think people want more of this nonsense..
australia is stuffed, as the major parties have the policy of importing…
MORE AND MORE THIRD WORLD IMMIGRATION
it wont stop
There was an ‘incident’ last night at Torquay too.
About a dozen men (late teenagers or early 20s) ‘of African appearance’ set upon two men going back to the foreshore camp zone after they had declined to give them their mobiles.
Another batch of cops has come down to Torquay this morning from somewhere in Melbourne. A lot of people who probably are sympathetic to taking refugees are going to be getting pissed off if it means they can stroll about beachside without fear of being assaulted.
‘A lot of people who probably are sympathetic to taking refugees are going to be getting pissed off if it means they can stroll about beachside without fear of being assaulted.’
Can idiots hold off on exhorting violence on anyone, or they will get expunged. For all your spam management queries [email protected] is the way to go
Serves them right for leaving their inner eastern leafy bubble world.
No exhorting violence eh Spammie?
Does that include calling for tumbrils, guillotines, flamethrowers and hanging from lampposts for our politicians?
All those are a step removed from calling for a section of society to be beaten up (I’ve forgotten the precise words he used) just because they were sympathetic to refugees. I understand that people are unhappy, but would rather the comments section was a touch more cerebral about its response. For all your spam management queries [email protected] is the way to go
What is the stance on cripple nipples, chinese burns or crow pecks?
I’ve never heard of anyone being nipple crippled or chinese burned to death. For all your violence classification queries [email protected] is the way to go
Why do I think MB Spambot and Gunna are the same person? 😛
*Double Post* – Spambot is acting crazy..
@Gav no way, Spambot never runs to more than a paragraph 😉
“What is the stance on cripple nipples”
WTF is a “Cripple Nipple” Harry?! ,….its called a “Nipple Cripple”!
If you can’t assimilate enough to get THAT right,…then you should be immediately deported back to whatever “Wogland” you come from!
Give you a cripple nipple b1tch.
I’m suspicious that this sudden burst of reporting on African gang violence is not an attempt to divert attention from the catastrophic state of the building industry bought into the open by the Opal tower.
It feels too much like manipulation to me. Remember that Fairfax is now owned by the powers behind 9.
I think it’s a distraction from the cricket debacle , on and off the pitch.
The Daily Mail report is more detailed and less PC.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6529223/Vietnamese-community-rallies-fight-against-Sudanese-gangs-terrorising-shops.html
One Vietnamese woman said she had been at the restaurant with her young son during the fight.
‘It’s sad to feel unsafe in your homeland. The Vietnamese community stuck together and defended themselves,’ she said.
The woman claimed the men of African appearance did not ‘deserve’ to be in Australia, and claimed her immigrant community had done a better job of assimilating than the one the alleged attackers belonged to.
‘Why we let them in, feed them and give them money for making trouble to us, what is the Australia law?’ she wrote.
‘It’s not fair – we are working hard, paying tax and support these mother f***ers.
Haha beautiful, simply beautiful and cannot be called “rashist” for it. Since they have their own bubble of protection / halo around them, since they are Jimmy Grants themselves.
https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html
Average IQ Vietnam: 95
Average IQ Sudan: 71
This is why one group integrates and the other does not. Both have traumatic war backgrounds. Bringing in low-IQ migrants to the West results in endless burden for the host society which can only be resolved by ending the Welfare state or sending them all back. Compulsory birth control in order to receive welfare is another option.
The IQ test causes a lot of unease… even for Jordan Peterson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m91vhePuzdo
I found his response very well measured.
the only thing that an IQ test measures is how good/bad/average a person is at IQ tests.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fundamentally-flawed-and-using-them-alone-to-measure-intelligence-is-a-fallacy-study-8425911.html
My, you’re an odious weasel.
Just shows how little you know about IQ tests …
@Gav: didn’t you know that watching Jordan Peterson on YouTube is considered a hate crime in this country?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121155220.htm
And from links the other day:
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1076845397795065856
@rage et al- first of all Ron is correct with respect to the immigration program,, we are bringing in massive numbers of the wrong immigrants, second, it’s called free speech
Shutting down debate on the Australian immigration program since the early 1970’s, is why we are, where we are today.
Extract Graeme Campbell from Immigration and Consensus 1992;
‘It was known by the “elites” that the general public was not happy with both the composition of the immigration intake and the policy of multiculturalism, but the general public was easy to handle as long as it had no focus and was not organised All the elites, including crucially the great bulk of the media were in agreement that these two issues should not be publicly discussed, or, if discussed, in such a way as to discredit those who questioned them.’
lol
Vietnamese refugees came over before the 457 visa was created – so it was much easier to get a job.
There were hardly any foreign “students” before 2000, wages have been shrinking for 10 years, and foreign “students” are happy to work full time for $10/hour.
Did most of the Vietnamese refugees come here by boat? If so, that is selection bias – we got the ones who were smart enough to convert the currency to gold before the communists abolished the currency.
Having said that, I do not know why teenage criminals are not in school and getting youth allowance. Are they denied youth allowance payments or are they greedy? Give them a UBI so they need not be bandits – the fake Greens are busy giving the jobs to foreign “students” anyway – and put them in jail if they get greedy.
Looks like posts are being disappeared again. Test.
LOL. It’s great the way some people roll out “free speech” as if it’s some sort of magic shield.
“Free speech” – in as much as it exists past the colloquialism – means you get to say pretty much anything you want without the Government coming after you.
It does not mean
* anyone has to listen to what you say
* anyone has to agree with what you say
* what you say is immune from criticism
Ron – others have taken the time to skewer your bile. My apologies for not contributing to that skewering in a constructive manner.
Patrick – that’s not what Ron said, please stop being intellectually dishonest. Graeme Campbell eh? The WA ALP maverick? The one described by Keating in Parliament as (paraphrasing) ‘every party has their f’wit, he’s ours over there’? I have not read the source yet but a quick skim shows it is sprinkled with errors of fact and riddled with f’witery. Here it is for anyone with more patience than me https://www.ironbarkresources.com/articles/campbell1992consensus.htm
@rage – Keating is a traitor, a failure, an Asianist, one of the many in the Hawke/Keating Labor government. So, no surprise when Keating spits the dummy, spewing a vicious verbal assault on anyone that dare challenges his Asianisation ideology.
Extract Graeme Campbell Immigration and Consensus 1992;
‘The Hawke Government began to pursue a deliberate policy of Asianisation, though publicly denied it was doing so. As Stephen Rimmer has pointed out, “the policy of Asianisation, while linked and allied with the multicultural lobby” has a number of philosophical differences and rejects the idea that all cultures are of equal value to Australia. It gives primacy to Asian countries and cultures. The proponents of Asianisation view “multiculturalism as useful for engineering social change and silencing public debate” and so actively support the policy.
One of the strong influences behind Asianisation is a former Ambassador to China, Professor Ross Garnaut who used to be one of Mr Hawke’s close circle of personal advisers, derisively dubbed “the Manchu Court” by Paul Keating, while he was Treasurer.
However, Mr Keating since he has become Prime Minister, for all his talk of nationalism has embraced the essentials of the Hawke position. Mr Keating uses Britain and British connections as a convenient straw man. Britain offers no threat to our national sovereignty or unity, but Mr Keating’s attacks give the illusion of independence. At one and the same time he advocates “integration” – in other words dependency – in Asia’
You and smithy et al, should read all of Immigration and Consensus … but then you may be confronted with inconvenient truths … alas for apologists
Any chance my comment will be posted?
@smithy, NNT doesn’t prove what you want him to, a couple of quotes from the thread…
“11- A robust use of “IQ” is for low scores for special needs pple. But then practically ANY measure would work to detect problem & improvement.”
“16- So Far: “IQ” isn’t a measure of “intelligence” but “unintelligence”; it loses its precision as you move away from 70 (left tail).”
Also lol at you referencing a bloke who’s main criticism of IQ is due to it not putting businessmen at the top.
NNT doesn’t prove what you want him to […]
Which is what, you think ?
@ron
communists normally do schooling well, that probably explains tar difference (while there will be some some culture, physical related differences, not to mention developmental delays caused by health, nutrition etc the differences are not about race but other factors. For example differences of around 20 points have been recorded in western nations just due to class & that’s doing tests designed by western European college students eg https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/a-social-divide-based-on-merit-there-is-a-demonstrable-link-between-class-and-intelligence-argues-1444881.html )
Back in the nineties Vietnamese gangs were causing the angst.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Former_Committees/acc/completed_inquiries/pre1996/ncaaoc/report/c05
yes they were 50’s …….. but unlike the ‘Africans’ (overwhelmingly Sudanese & Somalis), they kept it – the violence to their own community to themselves – they did not rampage through the middle of the CBD nor did they cruise affluent areas looking for the best home to invade ..
their home invasions were targeted to their own community members (which includes ethnic Chinese as well) – mostly people who were known to have gold, jewellery, cash stashed in the house ………. this is based mostly on my experience when in legal practice in Brisbane
and further to my reply to kiwikaryn above that was deleted …. In the US the same problems are entrenched part by elements of the ‘hood’ community and specifically also from the same ethnic groups that were imported under the same misguided multicultural/refugee policies ……. given that the ‘n’ word is now forbidden to those with paler complexion, substitute ‘hyenas’ instead …….. think about the behaviour and you will see the similarity with the animal world …
The big discussion on Reddit is what constitutes a gang…
If you want to be in my gang, stand up with me … https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAB0epkMXs
lol
BBSW up again today to 2.093% (2.0871% yesterday)
End quarter related right? Will drop in Jan.
I’m hoping it will HODL till early Feb. Then I’m cashing out..
Bought a few (very few) on the dip after last feb’s plunge… need 12 months for CGT discount… feb 2019 sell!
Only 2 poles ’til Mitchmas!
One wicket ’til Mitchell saves Australia!
Love this comment from cricinfo commentary.
Was listening to abc cricket this morning and they were praising Mitch marsh for his bowling. I wish I got praise every time I didnt take a wicket…
No pressure Mitch.
Oh. I see.
Jadeja to MR Marsh, OUT,
MR Marsh c Rahane b Jadeja 9 (36b 1×4 0x6) SR: 25.00
Oh no Mitchy! Hey he almost got to double figures 🙂 an inspired batting display showing his considerable talent!
The problem isn’t Mitch Marsh, the problem is the Australian top order can’t bat well enough for long enough.
The way they are going, they might do better, selecting a starting eleven consisting of bowlers!
Yes, it would be a lot easier for the middle order if the top order piled runs on like they used to.
Can everyone keep an eye out for a man in Surry Hills?
Surry Hills Police Area Command is appealing for public assistance to find the man.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-bus-driver-sprayed-in-face-with-chemical-police-20181228-p50ok6.html
seems a bit reactionary guessing “his” gender preference from casual observation?
Mmm,…good point Johny
With all our CCTV we should be able to get this guy tonight.
I predict the drugs and mental illness defence rather than the entitled expat wanker defence.
Bus driver is lucky he still has a job after using such foul exclusionary language. People in those parts don’t take kindly to those words:
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Capture-89.png
Taibbi on the idea of another presidential run by Bernie Sanders.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/yes-bernie-should-run-771260/
Yeah nah, Bernie is as much the future of liberalism in the US as Shawn is the future of Australian cricket. Enough with the geriatric “Democrats”, Pelosi, Biden, Hilliary, and Bernie, hanging around on the basis that they haven’t had their turn yet. Time for the baby boomers to step away. Marcron and Trudeau and Ardern don’t have the answers and will probably stuff up but it is time for their generations to carry the load and mould the future.
testing as my response went into a dark hole.
I haven’t read the article yet but this is how I see BS.
Based on his tweets and yes he tweets more than Trump..
He pretends to care about inequality and the environment but flies in a private jet.
He does not go on about Russia of late but not calling it enough so still encourages the crowed to revolt over nothing.
He still thinks R Mueller is doing great job and ignores that R Mueller wiped Strzok’s and Page’s mobiles so no one can see all the messages. And forgets this is same Mueller that lied about Saddam’s WMD that led to Iraq invasion.
He argues about senseless wars but attacks Trump for withdrawing from Syria. To remind everyone that US is not invited to fight IS so they basically occupied parts of Syrian territory.
The again, I a happy to be proven wrong so let’s start reading..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CfAh2PJ6k
Ah Bernie Sanders. Duel Israel-US citizen. We all know what will happen to US foreign policy if he’s elected.
That and the fact he owns multiple properties, so he’d fit right in down here.
https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/the-missing-girls-never-born-in-australia-20180811-p4zwxr.html
“In findings researchers say indicate “systematic discrimination against females starts in the womb”, mothers within some key migrant communities are recording sons at rates of 122 and 125 for every 100 daughters in later pregnancies.
Lead researcher Dr Kristina Edvardsson from Melbourne’s La Trobe University said it showed gender bias persisted in Victoria, despite laws banning people from choosing the sex of their child, other than for medical reasons.
“We believe that some women may be terminating pregnancies after discovering they are expecting a girl and in other cases are travelling overseas to access non-medical sex selection services through assisted reproduction,” she said.
Always wondered why all the !ndian families had only sons… this explains it.
We should insist on minimum 52% female immigration from all countries on all visas (including student visas) in order to rectify this situation. We are not in pre-modern times when excess males would be killed off by war and disease.
No, we just need a complete cut across the board. Students, family reunions, 482’s and the rest then the rest will take care of itself.
This cultish belief in Australia that immigration is always a good thing and you can’t question it is akin to any kind of religious zealotry. It’s the same with mutliculturalism and of course property.
Thought they were being a little coy with the names on SMH.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/bail-granted-after-accidental-rifle-death/10671606
3 men and 5 children (what odds that they’re all boys) drive from SW Sydney for 5 hours so go shooting… wonder what else the police find at the camp site
The Indian quicks are doing well. With the SA and NZ bowlers also currently cleaning up opponents we the Australian bowlers may start to lose their reputation as the best in the business.
That was lost when McGrath retired and the sandpaper came out
oz bowlers are mediocre goat and cummins aside. hazlewood is the most overrated
hazelwood is cooked
The MCG curators were given a right belting for producing this dreadful flat track pitch that India some how could both bat and bowl on while Australia could do neither.
Don’t I now look the fool.
India are 5/47 from 26 overs.
Paine’s banter has been gold. Asking Pant to babysit for him. Lol.
alas, Mitchmas was over all too quickly. sigh. ohwell, at this rate we’ll get to celebrate mitchmas again possibly later today or at the latest tomorrow.
I wish it could be Mitchmas every day!
Another test, another Marsh failure. How tedious. How much longer will this continue?
for as long as selection is based on being a “good bloke” and “team fit”, rather than form and ability
all this summer for sure
One positive, about all this match fixing stuff, is that Mitch can’t get to his phone right now.
Latest Martin North video. Something interesting in this video that I wasn’t aware of. At 31:18 “you can’t legally walk away from your deposit… the developer can come after you for any further losses”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lixp0OYR0U
Yes, but difficult when those folks are in China..
I have previously mentioned that Chinese nationals effectively have non-recourse loans. They can leverage up as much as possible and if it turns badly they can return to China.
“return” to china ?
Don’t forget with absentee owners the remediation charges/strata special levies will not be paid. It will fall disproportionately on the domestic owners.
This was a problem in the US with condos – because the fees were not paid (banks in mortgagee possession) nothing was maintained in the complex. As the place got more and more broken down and dishevelled, the value of the apartments declined even further. Vicious circle.
You can declare bankruptcy, its only for three years. If you’re smart all your other property is in a SMSF and any other investments are in a trust or your partners name. The banks can swing for it.
Only 3 spruiking days left in 2018 and doesn’t it show:
https://www.allhomes.com.au/news/where-to-buy-on-the-south-coast-791744/
Is it still counted as vibrancy if the offence is committed whilst on a tourist or student visa?
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/get-in-quickly-commit-large-amount-of-crime-and-leave-how-chilean-gang-operated-20181228-p50okw.html
I seem to recall that the Domainfax/Fake Left vibrancy index is based on permanent arrivals only?
There was a Colombian group in Melbourne doing similar a few months ago. Easy to go undetected with the volume of student visas and lack of resources of enforcement.
South American pickpockets etc have been doing summer trips to Spain, Italy etc for decades. Work the tourist crowds and go home again. How nice that we aren’t being left out. I reckon it doesn’t count as vibrancy, just thieves travelling.
Hang on! Is this a sneaky little nobody could have seen this c0ming moment?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/opal-tower-evacuation-and-crack-sparks-questions-for-industry/10671788
Yes, a very very strange piece indeed from the ABC. Particularly the following:
“As the experts will attest, this is a country with stringent building codes and strong checks and balances for new developments.”
Are they are taking the p*ss? Anyone who has been following this saga will be well aware of the failure of private certification and the complete absence of checks and balances. What on earth is going on at the ABC to be producing articles like this?
Shame ABC shame!
Strong checks and balances. Yessss…
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/opal-tower-certifier-was-previously-disciplined-by-building-watchdog/news-story/8252377b84e0a4cd076874565dcbee73
What on earth is going on at the ABC to be producing articles like this?
Aunty was captured in the Howard years. The bits of it that aren’t controlled through the appointment of the right kind of people, are kept in line through constant de-funding threats (and actions).
Anything that casually questions articles of faith like self-regulation is verboten.
Health and Lifestyle
I just finished Michael Mosley’s book on exercise, Fast Exercise. There were enough studies referenced and medical terms I could barely pronounce to convince me to give it a go. Ten minutes, three times a week for improved strength, weight loss and other benefits I’ve already forgotten the details for. At the back of the book was a list of exercises with recommended work/rest times. Thankfully, someone developed an app for it. Downloaded and exercises done in about 10 minutes. No cost and no need to leave the house or buy equipment. It can be done in motels when I go into the country for work. I think this could be the routine I stick with. If I can also introduce the intermittent fasting that also have a great reputation I could be fit again.
Speaking of work, how’d you go with the car purchase ?
I’ve snaffled a place where it isn’t necessary. So I’ve put that on the back burner. I’m actually starting to prefer the idea of a motorbike. Something to run chores on and just poke my nose about with.
+1 for a bike.
Be warned they can become addictive though.
(That said, mine hasn’t turned a wheel for 6+ months now – neither has the pushie – just don’t have the time for leisure riding and the new place is directly across the road from a train station so don’t need it for commuting either.)
Seconded. In real-life and real-time.
Being a lazy-pr1ck who enjoys suffering, I can vouch for f’all exercise a few times a week (as long as they hurt), combined with less than 3 meals a day, works. No brainer really. It’s interesting seeing the science coming out in the last few years to support all of that… otherwise the ridicule factor would be too high to mention this, even here.
Full disclosure, having an undiagnosed food intolerance does help the whole ‘not feeling like you’re starving to death if you miss a meal’ thing. (processed corn-starch allergy). One learns to not force food down gob just because the clock says it’s time to (when it makes one feel like sh1t and one hasn’t figured out why yet) pretty quickly.
It’s in f’ing everything btw.
Right… one ode to modbot epic on its way to a random thread near you (complimentary in case anyone was wondering).
More to come…
I met Dr Mosley last week to take photos of him. Seems like a very genuine bloke. I’d take his advice any day over many others. I do think though that you need much more exercise than he suggests.
“Glamour” photos?
How much does he recommend per week? I vaguely recall seeing him on SBS Insight a little while ago, and he mentioned how much exercise, and I recall it didn’t seem like much at all.
The science behind this is beyond my scope, but personal anecdata wise I find that this approach or similar (I got onto Tim Ferris’ methods a while back) very effective.
Have started on The Obesity Code which is interesting
What is the name of the app? I am intrigued.
Here’s a link to it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.popularapp.sevenmins
thanks footy – saw the original programs on SBS. Got the link on my phone now and will try it out as an alternative/adjustment to my regular workout ……….. arthritis is significantly helped by keeping fit (diet as well as exercising)
No problem. Even Lady footsore has approves of this one. Previous talk of exercise have been met with the response normally reserved for a particularly funny Dylan Moran stand up piece.
That once great British Range Rover status will now be decided in Mumbai ………perhaps George VII will be getting around in a BMW too ….,.just like PM Bill ..,,,how the world turns …..
https://www.caradvice.com.au/714480/tata-still-committed-to-jaguar-land-rover-despite-losses/
https://www.caradvice.com.au/714480/tata-still-committed-to-jaguar-land-rover-despite-losses/
Until Reusa makes it to the list I’ll be happy if my grandchildren are called Emma , Charlotte , George or even Victoria …..tragic …I Know
…,.https://apple.news/AM5rZCunjQXaxI6H5Pway2A
I dont think I have come across a single kid called Garry in my 11 years as a parent, yet when I was a kid there was many I can remember.
Its has become so rare a name that my kids and I have decided to name our next dog Gary.
To waffle on further about such things, I observe that my name, Scott, is also nonexistent in my childrens playground and yet Angus, my boys name, is now very common with at least 1 in every year!
I never even meet an Angus untill I was in my 20s,…an unheard name in my childhood other than Angus Young of cource.
If my daughter had been a boy, he would have been called Adam Angus Oscar, lucky kid.
(Gilly, ACCADACCA, Wilde)
Now we get to guess Harry’s daughter’s name, based on females he admires. Anyone?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Matilda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fennell
Another lucky kid!
Also, can’t think of a funny thing. so won’t be first tonight, regrettably.
Best of luck to all!
I thought it seemed a bit easy…
Nice names above.
“Also, can’t think of a funny thing. ” that in itself is a first by my reckoning Harry. 🙂
Ok, got the Favero Assioma power pedals. I’ve just fit them, and I’m testing them inside for now to get a feel (new cleats) and to compare how they read against my trainer’s power.
I really need to work out my cleat positioning wrt float and the tension settings. Last thing I want to do is go outside riding, then fail to unclip at traffic lights and fall over with my bike still attached to my feet.
They use Xpedo branded Look Keo compatible cleats. I ditched the Xpedo cleats in favour of the proper Look ones (grey, 4.5 degree float) — which seemed to be recommended by a few people. I’m still finding though when I go to unclip my right foot (keeping my left foot clipped in for pushing off after stopping), it’s a bit tricky.
Dear God I don’t want to clip stack. I’ve done this a couple of times before and it’s highly embarrassing falling over on the road at lights with the bike still attached to your feet, and drivers just looking at you..