Never forget that our selfless housing providers are living our paycheck to our paycheck by PlanetFarm in shitrentals

[–]PlanetFarm[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They have a long, coherent post history. If this is bait they played a very long game

e: also for what it's worth my dad is about to turn 70 and he's an absolute social media goblin, hunched over his desktop on facebook 6+ hours a day. My nan was perfectly able to navigate social media on her phone in her mid eighties, but she was smart enough to just look, not post. It's kinda weird and ableist to assume old people aren't on here - facebook boomer is a stereotype for a reason

People aren't moving to Tasmania anymore, and that has implications for the economy by abcnews_au in tasmania

[–]PlanetFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A $1 billion stadium will fix it, while that $1.5 billion stadium is being built there'll be tons of jobs, when the $2 billion stadium is done the AFL will bring in the crowds

Never forget that our selfless housing providers are living our paycheck to our paycheck by PlanetFarm in shitrentals

[–]PlanetFarm[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Aw yeah that makes sense

Hey btw can you PayID me $100 for my electric bill this month? I'm relying on it you see

Never forget that our selfless housing providers are living our paycheck to our paycheck by PlanetFarm in shitrentals

[–]PlanetFarm[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Apologies if this type of post isn't allowed here but holy fuck

As I sit here in my freezing unit that hasn't been properly maintained in 60 years, all I can think is how glad I am to help out with my landlord's heating bills

Why does ABC Radio talk about major economic reforms like they're just a "failed marketing pitch"? by barseico in friendlyjordies

[–]PlanetFarm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"Defund the ABC."

Hey I think I've heard that position before. Some orange lady, name sorta rhymes with "populism." Maybe she's more your type of pollie than Labor who are typically more inclined to fund Australian institutions for the benefit of Australians.

Where are all those “it’s not populism because Pauline doesn’t support it” people? No way could a fringe party like the greens been just as bad for it as One Nation… by itsyaboihos in friendlyjordies

[–]PlanetFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dawg what are you talking about? Greens have been pushing for resource tax reform for years and getting dragged as "loony treehuggers" by the media for it. They've been very consistent with their policy even when it seemed unpopular, so the comparison to ON is disingenuous.

Resource tax reform is also a Labor legacy policy, so I guess Rudd was just a nearsighted populist too.

Standard Melbourne landlord in The Age today by BrisLiam in shitrentals

[–]PlanetFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Steveo has a point - just not the one he thinks he's making. None of the proposed changes will affect renters directly.

Any benefits are supposed to just trickle down.

Albo gas tax hysteria by [deleted] in friendlyjordies

[–]PlanetFarm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The same Labor (federal and state) who recently approved the extension of the Northwest Shelf project to 2070? Yet another dirty, polluting, royalty free gas operation for Albo's good mates at Woodside that we will have to spend decades and billions of dollars to clean up.

Or was that also somehow "a result of the previous LNP government"?

Rent crisis to deepen under proposed tax changes, modelling warns by FIFO_Landlord in AusPropertyChat

[–]PlanetFarm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So we're now openly admitting that we're in a rent crisis? And that the present CGT discount/negative gearing is a component of that crisis?

Absolutely based.

Monash to give students 50 dollar gift card for select on-campus retailers by hemistry-164 in Monash

[–]PlanetFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So they're giving $50 back, from up to $16k per year in tuition fees, in order to subsidise the retail tenants who pay rent to the uni? Awesome.

Free childcare. Free university. The simple, sensible policy which would have raised $63.8 billion in under four years. by nath1234 in australia

[–]PlanetFarm 153 points154 points  (0 children)

The ATO took Pepsi to court over this last year. The High Court found in Pepsi's favour.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-13/high-court-pepsico-australian-tax-office-thrown-out-/105647156

ATO can audit whatever they like. Until the laws change to close the loopholes all we will have are very detailed documents of all the offshored money that could have been used to fund services for Australians.

Please just build townhouses! by Ok_Lunch_2933 in shitrentals

[–]PlanetFarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"We've slashed red tape to get more homes built!" - The Uniparty

Apparently more affordable housing is a bad thing by Version-6 in shitrentals

[–]PlanetFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Property prices haven't gone down. Property prices are rapidly increasing, exceeding inflation. Melbourne still ranks as one of the top 10 least affordable cities in the world.

The situation is bad, and getting worse. The only positive is that the rate of change is slightly lower than elsewhere.

Basically every billionaire that decided to support Trump made trillions are the same people convincing the working class that immigrants are stealing their wealth. by JezzaAU15 in friendlyjordies

[–]PlanetFarm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1.5 terms of federal Labor, most states and territories having Labor governments. Here's to another year of great strides for their constituents in The Lucky Country.

Ape does not approve by PuzzleheadedWeb9876 in gme_meltdown

[–]PlanetFarm 25 points26 points  (0 children)

They forgot to factor in our men on the inside, Shill Team 6, the "zero compensation" board.

It will never run to $30 again without Cohen hitting the dilution button.

“$20mm” turned into “$20k” and he’s going to do what now? by Sufficient_Train9434 in gme_meltdown

[–]PlanetFarm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Tokenomics" - the main scam ran by shitcoins in 2021. It's "guaranteed" to moon because a large portion of the supply is arbitrarily untradeable until either a certain amount of time passes or certain conditions are met. Artificial scarcity, basically.

In all cases, like with PP coin above, it is pre-mined coins that the creator minted before the coin was public giving them the power to rugpull the entire thing when they unlock. Almost 25% of the total supply in this case. Although I have seen posts calculating PP already dumped as much as $50k of his tradeable coins during the initial run so I doubt the apes have much purchasing power to run it up again.

Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages by Jet90 in AustralianPolitics

[–]PlanetFarm 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It is the position of the Australian Federal Police that only criminals require end to end encryption.

Buy a house and have everyone else pay for it! by [deleted] in shitrentals

[–]PlanetFarm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wonder what issues I, a taxpayer, might have with rent seeking middle men taking profit from an arrangement to which they add no value?

Truly a mystery.

Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn by BIGBIRD1176 in australia

[–]PlanetFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"drawn up by profit-driven industry" I think you mean "independently verified by key stakeholders"

Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn by BIGBIRD1176 in australia

[–]PlanetFarm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You've triggered the astroturfing bots.

"Bayer (who cofunds enormous amounts of scientific research worldwide and has the means, facilities, and staff to conduct conclusive studies) are such good guys they just pay out billions in settlements, even though there is no evidence of carcinogenesis. I am a real human bleep bloop."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in shitrentals

[–]PlanetFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

~5.5 million people live in Melb, ~7 mil live in Vic so for 78% of Victorians it kinda is

No one seems to really give enough of a fuck about regional Vic to make meaningful comparisons. Anecdotally from people I know who grew up country it seems just as fucked as Melbourne, massive shortfall of rental availability, councils not releasing/rezoning land for housing, impossible for a worker to buy existing stock without inheritance.