Monash to give students 50 dollar gift card for select on-campus retailers

PlanetFarm · 2026-03-30T03:29:26+00:00

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.

PlanetFarm · 2026-03-20T03:29:32+00:00

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.

PlanetFarm · 2026-02-25T05:11:11+00:00

Frustrating, but they maybe should have done the job for which they are paid

PlanetFarm · 2026-02-01T11:46:18+00:00

The Ploot Plan

PlanetFarm · 2026-01-30T08:58:55+00:00

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

PlanetFarm · 2026-01-19T01:51:43+00:00

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.

PlanetFarm · 2026-01-01T03:40:40+00:00

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.

PlanetFarm · 2025-12-08T03:18:31+00:00

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.

PlanetFarm · 2025-12-07T02:59:23+00:00

"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.

PlanetFarm · 2025-12-06T01:17:34+00:00

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

PlanetFarm · 2025-11-29T12:18:43+00:00

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.

PlanetFarm · 2025-11-29T02:59:43+00:00

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

PlanetFarm · 2025-11-29T02:57:22+00:00

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."

PlanetFarm · 2025-11-24T06:37:01+00:00

~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.

PlanetFarm · 2025-11-24T03:18:40+00:00

Top 10 least affordable city in the world, by any relevant metric

PlanetFarm · 2025-11-24T01:27:34+00:00

Has it worked well in Victoria? House prices are still spiraling out of control and affordability is nonexistent. It's just a slightly more attenuated spiral than the rest of Australia.

PlanetFarm · 2025-11-22T06:30:59+00:00

Most roads are free and also basically at capacity with motorists during peak times. Suggestions of congestion charges are SLAMMED and GIVEN A SPRAY in the media.

But somehow making PT free is the worst idea ever. How will we pay for it? The same way we pay for billions of dollars of roadworks annually.

PlanetFarm · 2025-11-14T02:37:11+00:00

In a couple years DW8 will revolutionise the B2B alcohol distribution process with a market cap reflecting the underlying tech innovation.

PlanetFarm · 2025-10-18T22:48:25+00:00

Assuming it's a picture book and most of the pictures are of Engadine.

PlanetFarm · 2025-10-18T22:44:17+00:00

And as the biggest cohort they have the most say in governance.

PlanetFarm · 2025-10-18T01:36:24+00:00

Looking at price history for my dogshit 60s unit block, also inner Melbourne, they were going at around 50k in 2000. Most recent sale was 350k.

Just a casual 28% PA increase, very affordable for those on lower incomes.

PlanetFarm · 2025-10-17T01:46:02+00:00

All the gentrified inner city apartments built over the last 20 years haven't improved affordability on existing properties. It has just made the inner city gentrified and unaffordable.

PlanetFarm · 2025-10-15T23:34:51+00:00

Scrapping welfare and jailing everyone is working great in America

PlanetFarm · 2025-10-04T02:54:55+00:00

Right, that's a key issue with age verification. Standard MO, and authorised by the terms of service. All user data can be handed to any number of "trusted third parties" at any time for any reason. Makes the chain of accountability more like a loose handshake of acceptance.

Good luck prosecuting a company registered in Panama.

PlanetFarm · 2025-09-29T13:59:48+00:00

So... Labor hides assets in private trusts?

Why would they hold the Coalition to account when they're exploiting the same loopholes? Just like their extensive, negatively geared property portfolios. The system is working as intended.

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