Likes urban spaces, nightlife, sustainable transport, affordable housing. Hates housing supply imbalance between West and East Sydney.

Sydney
Joined December 2010
My backstory for anyone interested - when I started supporting more density so more inner city neighbourhoods would be buzzy and interesting like Kings Cross - a detached house in middle Sydney was $350k.
Replying to @pfh007
Im an urbanist (aka yimby) but it has to be part of a coordinated approach of supply AND demand measures to result in housing affordability. I became interested in urbanism because I wanted lively neighbourhoods, not because I thought density alone would sufficiently reduce cost
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People that maxxed out their borrowing capacity to secure PPOR above asking also contributed to worsening housing affordability
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And now they have the gall to complain about interest rates returning to *normal levels*? I'm not sure if worse than boomers tbh
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Why do migrants to the west love these ignorant and disrespectful posts? I can't fathom moving to another country and calling its citizens idiots etc Unbelievable arrogance most westerners don't have.
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Let's look at the top comments on this now that is again going viral. Ah yes, all those neurologists that "speak no English". Theyre everywhere!
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Addressing cause of sliding social cohesion and increasing radicalisation for the safety of all Australians ❌ Additional security for MPs who refuse to do the above ✅
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Remember when you used to be able walk on the grass roof of Parliament House in Canberra? Stopping that should have been a major red flag....
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Well, they should have built Green Square Town Centre when the market was hot... Time to lift their land tax.
'Property developer Mirvac has become the latest victim of the residential housing slump with sales of new homes plunging as the fallout from shock budget property tax changes and rising interest rates hit demand' 'Property prices fell at the fastest pace on record over the September quarter, down 4.7 per cent, with the downturn resulting in all capital cities falling in unison for the first time in 15 years' #ausbiz #housing #RBA theaustralian.com.au/busines…
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Oh god, a neighbour has put up notices in our lobby to object to .... *Internal* alteration and refit works on the commercial podium of the building next door That's a whole nother fkn level of NIMB.
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Musing of the morning: funny that adults are full of excuses why they won't take public transport to their 9-5 yet ship their children off to the bus stop to the station to get to school and they manage fine 🤷
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How long until progressives spin this as just bringing international diversity and talent into the business... ? They're already the useful idiots for corporate interests on most other topics.
'NAB cultivates tech talent in Vietnam, India as Australian jobs axed' 'The cost savings for NAB are immediate. A junior software engineer in Vietnam might cost the bank around $20,000 a year, compared to $80,000 or more to hire an equivalent Australian worker' (20% NAB workforce is already foreign based) 1/2 #ausbiz #NAB
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Electrifying Kiama to Bomaderry before south of Macarthur? Are we building 10,000 houses in Gerringong and Berry? Hmm....
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Ok google, old BOM Sydney radar
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This is fabulous. Love that this guy has the courage to say this against a torrent of emotional idiocy
“200,000 students coming in, in February… it's far too much.” Joel Jammal on immigration in the SBS The Feed debate. #auspol
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Nothing makes people more anti-democratic as the topic of immigration and population. These hacks can't handle restricting immigration has majority support and would clear a referendum easily.
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Can guarantee drunk bogan Aussies in Bali don't lecture Indonesians on their politics either. Like brb moving to Chile and calling all Chileans racist fascists because of their politics despite being fresh to the country. Major ick.
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It's giving the lefts view of the working class. One minute theyre poor battlers struggling on welfare. The next minute theyre racist drunk junkie Centrelink bogans. It really reveals people's true colours.
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Where are the videos of the WSI food and beverage options, the autists need to hurry and be the first one to upload for views 🤣
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Usual 15 minute weekend frequency today on T1 Western Line when everyone from T2/5 has to board these trains as well due to trackwork... It struggles when there isn't trackwork on as it is ffs. One line pulling the weight of what is three seperate lines on a weekday
Western Line needs a 7 minute frequency on weekends or Harris Park to Lidcombe removed from the stopping pattern, excl Granville for transfers. Way too overcrowded and been this way for years. T2/3 trains are dead by comparison.
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Meanwhile T8 whinge line has plenty of weekend capacity compared to T1/4.
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Losing time dwelling due to overcrowding too 🙄
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