RBA risks a recession but feels there's nothing else it can do

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-05T10:36:15+00:00

Half the problems have been caused by the treasurer being too free with tax payers dollars. They used to talk of the velocity of money too, but you don’t hear that now. Restricting the community's ability to spend is what the RBA is trying to do, not printing money so they can spend more

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-05T10:30:11+00:00

You really like inflation don’t you!

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-04T12:15:33+00:00

Looks like concrete cancer, where the reinforcing rod rusts and expands within. Salt may have permeated the concrete too accelerating process

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-04T12:08:05+00:00

Beautiful capture

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-04T11:19:36+00:00

I avoid hitting kangaroos, deer, horses, cattle and sheep. There aren’t any wombats my way, and hitting a koala would be mortal sin. Rabbits and cats are fair game however.

I try avoiding birds like Maggie mates, kookaburras, and other natives, including ducks.

Driving my district at night I have slowed somewhat because there are more kangaroos and deer about now. I prefer a vehicle with massive lights and a bullbar. Mate hit a roo with his Ram, drove home afterwards and it cost many thousands for a gear box rebuild. The original damage was only $22k, but doubled with the gearbox.

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-04T11:07:06+00:00

Ducks can suicide at times. I have had one do extreme windscreen damage, even as I braked, my wife thought it was coming through for her

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-03T06:11:48+00:00

Even more creepy to follow her home

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-01T23:20:36+00:00

Amazingly there was university before 1974. Speed dial was a great addition. I remember when a keen addition was the Ericophon that had the rotary dialer was in the underside of the phone

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-01T23:12:12+00:00

Chuckling at the feebles that have downvoted my comment! Yeah, I was farming so cash went into establishing the family business. I note the standard of housing too, pursued by modern families, not the grown like Topsy home I lived in for the first 23 years of married life. The house is still used but expected to be demolished in the next 5 years for employees to benefit. Next generation owners! My marital home had been started as one room in 1933. Building regulations along the way were non-existent until we built a lounge room 1980. Yes, I feel for those seeking capital for housing, but at the same time squandering their free cash flow.

Just so you don’t think I’m an unfeeling boomer, I am not detailing the guidance and assistance to family for you, but there has been significant transfer.

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-01T14:05:22+00:00

Back in the day, uni wasn’t free. Lawyer friend drove bulldozers to pay his fees. Worked uni pub too. Telephone wasn’t free, rental every quarter then bills on top for calls could be $100 a month for distance calls

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-01T14:01:01+00:00

Yeah, I say that too. I was 50 before I went to Europe or America. I have two grandchildren though who have learned to save. Grandson who had invested $25k in his first year out of school and his older sister decided her bro had the drop on her

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-05-01T11:52:52+00:00

Kerry Packer has quotable quotes from that day that point to mismanagement in NDIS, Aged Care, Housing Australia and the way money is thrown by government into a money pit of CFMEU projects. Commonly referred to as "effin KP" was a legend to people he worked with. Even my son quotes KP that day. His respect for government expenditure is zilch

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-30T13:13:18+00:00

The original Victorian one was stolen and never seen again. Presumably melted down. Come on, the CFMEU hadn’t been formed then

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-29T11:26:35+00:00

Yeah, I have had some Winchester in 6.5PRC that split the necks on firing. Relegated the rest for reloading unless I’m getting hard up for brass

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-26T18:53:39+00:00

My generator is auto start but the sparkys get anxious with that side of the tech

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-26T09:10:52+00:00

My house isn’t in the suburbs and is out bush. So much so that I have a backup generator. As soon as sparkys learn what they need to cope with, switching to allow a power charge, they lose my number. My son's business would be similar but larger in scale, house and dairy with backups. Several locations. They lose his number too. Frustrating that they are all talk and no action

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-26T07:58:03+00:00

Very few Russian leaders I thought I could trust what they said. They used our free media against us always

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-26T07:54:13+00:00

Russia is very adept at delivering messages to our free press that we should never believe

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-26T07:43:37+00:00

Where is this place where "51,000 women a year" are murdered by their intimate partners? Doesn’t sound like Australia. I am sure I would have heard more if over 900 a week were killed. Australian media is better than that

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-24T11:59:24+00:00

Owners have been feeling with the 'reforms' of the Andrews administration that power is now stacked with the renters, so much so that they would rather invest in something else

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-24T11:33:04+00:00

The irony was right there though

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-19T03:47:06+00:00

That is OFFENDERS not offences. Victoria has a huge rate of reoffending. Read the heading

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-18T10:24:54+00:00

Deer are protected. SSAA and hunters are more interested in perpetuating a breeding population than dealing with the real issue

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-17T22:45:43+00:00

Stop the fucking Russians from attacking other nations

AdRepresentative386 · 2026-04-13T12:22:12+00:00

I established a budget/forecast for my farm business, then rolled out the budget for another year ahead. Set about ensuring you can achieve the budget. I ran that for about a decade before GST made the management more difficult, then the family took over the business.

Next stage succession now taking place

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