I knew it was my lucky day. Returning home from a walk this afternoon I removed the clutter of advertising material from my letter box. A rather subdued, tasteful card caught my eye as I shuffled through the assortment of catalogues and lost kitten notices. I noted the heading on a sage green coloured card - "Halcyon Close" - featuring a double storey, apparently newly built, modern styled townhouse complex.
A fundamentally flawed proposal to bust open super for first home buyers housing deposits could hike the nation’s five major capital city median property prices by between 8-16%, preliminary analysis from Industry Super Australia shows.
On the nights of February 11, 12 and 13, 2020, the ABC has shown three related 15 minute pieces in its 7.30 Reports, on the subject of housing. These segments have stressed the cost of housing and the gulf that exists between those who are able to afford or who own their house, comparing the situation of people who cannot afford a house, and who are thus obliged to rent.
Add up all the neglected costs of downsizing and retirees have good reason to be wary of making the move. It’s time to debunk the myth of zero housing costs in retirement if we want to understand why retirees resist downsizing. Retirees have at least five reasons to be wary of the costs of downsizing.
Josh Frydenburgh, the minister for Energy and the Environment has belatedly released the greenhouse gas pollution data for the period up till the end of 2016. According to the report there has been a considerable improvement in the way the data is recorded allowing them to give more accurate estimates from individual sectors.
During a recent conversation with a rather misguided friend, he remarked on the pleasure he claimed to experience at a glimpse via the window of a magpie feeding its young in his backyard. I have never actually seen his house but he described it as a wide bungalow running east-west along his outer suburban property, designed to catch the north sun. He also admitted to owning vacant bush land with wildlife on either side of his house.
We are all here for a limited time, but when we have to work harder and harder to stay in one place, that is not really living. Who is stealing our time? Were it not for the cost of housing, Australians would need to work only half the hours they have to and manufacturers would halve their costs!
Public housing’s operating model is unsustainable. Costs are outstripping rental income and the division is forecast to be in deficit in 2012–13. Full report here.
Republished here to give background to Sheila Newman's remarks in her debate with Steve Bracks on the Jon Faine show 19-4-2010.
Full text of this submission may be downloaded here in a pdf file 293.43kb.
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Submission by Jill Quirk, headlines and teaser by Admin, candobetter
The Victorian Premier Brumby's Royal Commission into the January-February 2009 bushfires is a mere incident review.
The National Human Rights Consultation is seeking views about human rights in Australia on the following:
1. Which human rights and responsibilities should be protected and promoted?
2. Are these human rights currently sufficiently protected and promoted?
3. How could Australia better protect and promote human rights?
On the outskirts of a north eastern Victorian town there is a nursing home nestled beside a golf course which is framed by ancient eucalypts.
The nursing home is quite expensive and even more so if your room looks out on a restful view of the golf course.
[The original title was "With governments like this, who needs enemies" - changed for a more indicative one.]
Low birth rate, its dangers and remedies
This doesn't mean the same thing in France as it would in the US or Australia. France has no major dependency on the housing market. It is not an economy geared to growth in population and rapid turnover. Land speculation is severely taxed and so are inheritances outside direct family. In Paris there are unclaimed buildings because those who would inherit them do not want to pay accumulated taxes. This is a far better system than the one that the Anglophone countries share versions of.
According to the Bayside Bulletin Newspaper (see below), the vote of two councillors who had formerly favoured approving the expansion of the existing Mount Cotton Quarry into a rainforest-destroying superquarry, may change in response to concerted community oppostion. Nevertheless it is still important that the pressure be maintained.
Protest outside Redland Shire Council chambers against plans to destroy Rainforest and Mount Cotton community with a giant quarry.
Where: Redland Shire Council Chambers, Bloomfield St., Cleveland
When: 9.00AM Wed 8 Aug 2007
Also please attend the protest on Sunday 12 August.
For further information see candobetter.org/SaveMountCotton or visit www.superquarry.com.au
A QUARRY company has suffered a setback over its controversial expansion plans at Mount Cotton, with most Redland councillors looking likely to vote against the proposal.
Redland Shire Council appears set to block the so-called "super quarry" project, with seven out of 11 councillors saying they either oppose the development or are inclined to vote against it.
The news comes after nearly 1000 people sent submissions to the council last month and follows vocal objections from a protest group.
But the Barro Group, which wants to quarry hard rock from a new part of its Mount Cotton property, has urged councillors to consider the application on its merits.
The company has already mined about 18 hectares of its 241ha site and wants to quarry another 47ha over the next 60 years in a key koala area.
While critics have raised environmental, health and traffic concerns over the proposal, the quarry operator has argued that hard rock is needed for local construction work and 72 per cent of the site will be
conserved.
Councillors Toni Bowler, Craig Ogilvie, Debra Henry, Karen Williams and Helen Murray have told the Bayside Bulletin they oppose the quarry, while Cr Alan Beard and Deputy Mayor Peter Dowling said they were
leaning towards voting against it.
"I don't believe I can support it," Cr Dowling said, citing residents' concerns.
Mayor Don Seccombe and Crs Alan Barker, John Burns and Murray Elliott said they would wait for council officers to prepare their assessment report before committing to a position.
It may be months before the council votes on the proposal and council officers have not yet made a recommendation but the Barro Group could launch legal action if its application is rejected.
Meanwhile the State Government, which listed the site as a keyresource area in its planning policy on quarries, has the power to override council decisions.
"Despite the fact that the council may not have legal grounds to reject this application, I feel the only right course of action is to represent my constituents and for me to vote 'no' to the super quarry," Cr Williams said.
Cr Bowler, who has been campaigning against the proposal for years, cautiously welcomed the councillors' comments but said the community should remain vigilant as it was the vote on the day that counted.
Barro Group Queensland general manager Ian Ridoutt said he was confident the council would "carefully consider the officers' report when it becomes available to weigh the merits of our proposal".
Where do they sit?
THE Bayside Bulletin asked each councillor for their position on the Barro Group's quarry application at Mount Cotton:
OPPOSED: Toni Bowler (Div. 6), Craig Ogilvie (Div. 2), Debra Henry (Div. 3), Karen Williams (Div. 9) and Helen Murray (Div. 10).
LEANING TOWARDS OPPOSED: Deputy Mayor Peter Dowling and Alan Beard (Div. 8).
UNDECIDED: Mayor Don Seccombe, Crs Alan Barker (Div. 1), John Burns (Div. 5) and Murray Elliott (Div. 7).
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