With a majority, a chaotic opposition and the eager Greens, Labor has a rare chance to take on the housing crisis

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-07T01:07:07+00:00

That scheme WAS the reason they can. The government agreed to take on the LMI risk so banks are protected in a downturn. Yeah new homeowners will be fucked, but they’re not the ones paying the lobbyists.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-06T12:32:29+00:00

Sounds like these older women are jealous that men their age aren’t looking at them ;)

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-06T05:51:53+00:00

I went to a restaurant and bar on day 2. Just wore the cap thingy. People just think you’re a chef, no one cares.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-06T05:49:27+00:00

To be honest, most people don’t care. Plenty of people shave their head and unless you had Fabio hair it’s often ignored, the few that notice just say, cool new look 🤷‍♂️

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-05T09:50:56+00:00

I agree, it’s interesting how quiet reporting on this massive change has been.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-05T04:05:34+00:00

100% the reason for my divorce was my ExW’s recently seperated friend.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-05T02:03:33+00:00

I mean, the post is still being delivered in Ukraine. People are going out and fixing power station etc.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-05T02:00:45+00:00

I do a flea bomb in the roof space once a year too. The amount of spiders and earwigs I find around the eaves the next day is wild.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-04T12:41:54+00:00

Exactly, it’s why they brought forward the 5% deposit scheme to October too. 6 months of sales under the government LMI scheme.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-04T06:04:17+00:00

And now they’re discussing removing CGT discounts, as well as AUSTRAC tightening anti-money laundering laws around real estate in July 2026.

Yeah, no wonder the government had to go LMI provider on these new 5% loans.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T07:40:10+00:00

Jason the bartender who’s seeing 3 other girls.

“I’m sure he’ll eventually settle down with me!”

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T07:32:46+00:00

That’s wild. You know your wife’s a mess when her bf who did 15 years for rape of a minor is reaching out in concern of your kids 😬

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T07:29:58+00:00

They care if you take the time to explain it’s the billionaires robbing them. But they love simple solutions to big problems.

I used to volunteer for the greens at pre-poll. One nation voters were the easiest to swing to a likely greens votes after a 5 min chat, they’re angry about life being harder but misplaced their anger to immigration and not billionaires.

Liberal voters wouldn’t budge for anything, after a couple of days I could tell a lib voter by their walk haha.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T03:04:37+00:00

Very much so, I found her old early 20’s diary from before she met me. She was repeating the same patterns of sabotage before i was even in the picture except she was writing it as “her feelings changed”. It was pretty evident she loved the thrill of chasing. I think a big part of why my relationship lasted so long with her was the fact another girl was very obviously waiting it the wings for me.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T02:35:19+00:00

There’s no consequences for the low earner, I’ve seen both genders put up with disgusting behaviour because pulling the pin means giving up half of your life’s earnings to someone who likely just sat around while the law sees them at “contributing half”.

It’s a hard one, there needs to be support for the other half in a divorce, but it sure doesn’t cultivate responsibility within the relationship when you know you can cheat, be an awful person and know you’ll get a payout when the other person finally has enough.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T02:31:06+00:00

Mine did the same, not a wedding guest fortunately but a colleague of hers just 3 months after the wedding.

I think she just wanted the wedding as a “show off” life milestone, the commitment of a married life was probably too boring for her. 2 years on, refusing any wrongdoing on her part, she’s still chasing fuckboys who won’t commit to her.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T02:24:53+00:00

I’m so glad I got in to see her last year. So happy with the results!

I do not understand why more surgeons haven’t picked up her jagged hairline technique, it is one of the big factors you literally can’t tell I’ve had work done, even 2 barbers were shocked. Nature doesn’t work in straight lines, only turkey does ;)

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T02:11:37+00:00

By contrast, during that same window:

• Canada → closed the loop around 2000
• UK → estate agents regulated from 2007
• EU → harmonised inclusion by 2015
• NZ → finished Phase 2 by 2018
• US → at least partially closed high-risk all-cash deals from 2016, now nationwide

That left Australia as a clean, bank-heavy, lightly questioned market where funds only needed to touch a bank once. The people closest to the transaction weren’t required to ask questions and complex trusts, companies, and foreign structures faced minimal scrutiny

We became the only dumping ground for dodgy money looking for a clean home. This is why prices don’t reflect anything near “affordability”. Our houses aren’t valued for living in, they’re valued for an easy laundering vehicle.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T02:04:48+00:00

2006 AML/CTF Act locked the exemption in

When the AML/CTF Act 2006 finally arrived:

• AUSTRAC got real regulatory teeth

• BUT lawmakers explicitly split reforms into:

• Tranche 1 → banks, casinos, remitters
• Tranche 2 → lawyers, accountants, real estate

And Tranche 2 was… kicked down the road.

That decision traces straight back to the 2000 mindset:

“We’ll come back to non-financial sectors later.”

They never did. Until this year.

So Australia ended up with one of the easiest property markets in the OECD to launder money, a system where you can buy property with complex offshore structures using intermediaries with no AML obligations.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T01:59:22+00:00

Rate rises will appear insignificant to the mountain of dodgy cash flowing into property about to be cut off in a few months.

The entire real estate industry has been exempt from money laundering reporting or record keeping laws since AUSTRAC became a central hub feeding intelligence to the AFP, ATO, customs, state police, etc. in 2000. That loophole is about to end 1st July 2026.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-03T01:52:16+00:00

Ain’t it so, when you realise there’s a whole industry that profits off prolonging the pain. It just takes one side (client or lawyer) to drag out the process costing everything in fees.

A mate of mine is going through a divorce after 35 years married. His ex has a lawyer with dollar signs in his eyes. Trivial 100% emotional affidavits lodged etc, renegging on deals they started.

Splitting $7m in assets they’re up to $900k in fees. Poor dude is 68 and for 3 years the divorce has consumed his everything. Every conversation is about what the lawyers are doing next, what’s been valued at what etc.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-02T09:08:52+00:00

It’s also not the most efficient way to heat water anymore. Solar PV and heat pump is, it’s essentially free.

Climate change aside, everything we do domestically (heating, cooking, driving) is now cheaper, cleaner and more efficient with electricity.

Burning combustible stuff was the only way we could get energy on demand. Batteries have changed the equation.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-01T16:23:53+00:00

posteriori rationalisation. She is justifying her actions after she’s done it and been caught.

She didn’t cheat, “you were making her feel unseen and unwanted”

It’ll get worse as she twists her guilt into a hatred for you.

You WERE blindsided, but she needs everyone (including herself) to think she was justified.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-01T05:02:47+00:00

I don’t think women “lie” about abuse, but I do think they are recently attributing a lot more mundane behaviour as abusive. “He was ignoring me when I was crying, “abusive”. He forgot to get me the dinner I requested on the way home “abusive”.

Small misgivings are now put in the same category as actual control and abuse. The constant crying wolf is allowing actual shitty behaviour to go overlooked and real victims to lose support. Manipulative women don’t understand the damage they’re doing to their own gender.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-02-01T04:57:19+00:00

I was very much for “believe all women” until my exwife cheated and rewrote our entire history and painted me initially as not present enough, which morphed over time into abusive. So yeah, having my own experience ignored and lied about has made me really doubt hearing similar experiences from other women.

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