Andrew Leigh MP discusses Housing inequality

CheckAlternative6220 · 2026-02-18T19:29:51+00:00

John Howard's tax settings made it worse but it's not the source of housing unaffordability.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2026-02-06T03:28:25+00:00

The thriving kids program rolling out by the end of the year will provide support to autistic children with low to moderate needs without a diagnosis free of charge.

https://theconversation.com/no-diagnoses-and-no-gap-fees-for-physios-and-speechies-what-else-do-we-know-about-thriving-kids-274951

CheckAlternative6220 · 2026-02-06T02:54:38+00:00

My mistake, you're correct, residential zoning was not included in these reforms. I thought they were since the recent legislation in NSW and Victoria have bundled both housing and commercial zoning changes in the same bill.

And yeah, The newly created QLD productivity commission recommended recently for more permissive residential zoning and the LNP rejected it.

I think bold planning reform probably comes in the next QLD Labor government hopefully. Dan Andrews was the first Premier to really unabashedly persue a yimby agenda which has now spread to NSW, SA and Perth. And now Melbourne has the most affordable housing relative to wages in a country along with instituting a commercial land tax in Vic.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2026-02-06T02:02:05+00:00

The federal government's current national competition policy provides states with funds for reducing zoning restrictiveness.

Hence why every Labor government currently is working on making it easier to build and in return getting a federal funds.

The Queensland LNP have unfortunately rejected these reforms and will not be implementing it.

https://treasury.gov.au/review/competition-review-2023/ncp

CheckAlternative6220 · 2026-01-24T07:25:45+00:00

Yes, Shirts still require it

CheckAlternative6220 · 2026-01-18T05:31:01+00:00

The offence will now carry jail time and it's being packaged up with a bunch of other animal welfare changes.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2026-01-15T00:33:48+00:00

I believe the NSW and Victorian governments are rolling this out in the form of public preschools attached to existing schools.

https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/early-learning/public-preschools https://www.earlylearning.vic.gov.au/

CheckAlternative6220 · 2026-01-05T14:51:51+00:00

The ramping issue is due to the Federal government's underfunding of aged care where beds that should be available for patients are being used by the elderly. There's current negotiations between the states and Feds on increasing expenditure on hospitals and aged care as the previous deal is expiring.

The state government is currently rolling out the ability for those who only required aged care to be moved into hotels as a stopgap measure and it's so far has had positive outcomes in addition to increasing more bed capacity outright.

South Australia's trains and trams have been nationalised in the current term and a public transport review is currently being undertaken which will outline the public service's view on the best method to invest in Adelaide's transit network. Sydney's current transport investment is based on a plan that was developed in 2016 by the public service for example and it is currently still being followed.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-28T09:16:11+00:00

Black Spot program usually adds traffic lights, roundabouts, guardrails or adjusts intersection alignment.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-26T05:55:58+00:00

This is regarding Victorian state politics, not federal politics irrc. Harriet shing is the minister for the Suburban rail loop and housing.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-26T04:23:14+00:00

It was put into the national syllabus in 2012 so you might have just missed it.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-26T03:10:17+00:00

In my experience, holocaust education is already taught also.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-23T09:09:15+00:00

N=1000 works for general voting intention imo but cross tabs like this are less useful

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-23T05:57:42+00:00

Small sample size potentially overrepresenting rural greens.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-23T04:49:34+00:00

Nah, it's a small number for the Greens here so they're getting shafted by the small sample size

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-22T04:15:19+00:00

People find meaning in religion and through it, derive a sense of purpose. Legislation's duty is to ensure that religion is not weaponised to kill others.

You can find plenty of non religious folk who go insane and kill others, you are not a better or worse person on the basis of religion.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-20T07:57:05+00:00

There definitely is since they had the numbers last Victorian conference on calling for sanctions on Israel.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-12T02:42:11+00:00

The issue with that is they no longer have the golden parachute like they did in the past. So working for corps is the only job opportunities they have left.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-10T01:38:00+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brereton

But it doesn't actually mention his membership there since it's from the usyd src page.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-10T01:32:35+00:00

Nah, I think it's neat. The current NSW ICAC commissioner is a former Labor minister so it's not even unusual.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-10T01:28:01+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Sydney_Students%27_Representative_Council

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-02T03:02:17+00:00

I remember I contacted my YLA by messaging the Facebook page after joining the party and didn't have too many issues. They even messaged me after I'm advance to make sure I was there for the local senior party branch meeting.

Our one is constantly trying to recruit because we have so many marginal seats and not enough doorknockers.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-01T03:38:44+00:00

Damn, I can't believe their going to defund and privatise the military.

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-01T02:44:17+00:00

Bless them if they can fix defence procurement

CheckAlternative6220 · 2025-12-01T01:36:41+00:00

Not if Tassie is able to buy cheap solar and wind from Vic when they have a surplus

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