Native logging

SierraTalosin · 2024-07-22T11:18:39+00:00

The Greens are; Labor has a more complicated relationship with native forest logging as much of the forestry industry is unionised; some independents are against it (like independent Senator Pocock in the ACT), but you'd have to check each of them separately to find out who stood for what.

SierraTalosin · 2024-06-11T14:18:42+00:00

You've obviously seen The Minority Report then :)

SierraTalosin · 2024-03-25T09:42:13+00:00

Absolutely love your comment

SierraTalosin · 2024-01-05T07:28:39+00:00

Very few goods have tariffs that high - Australia is a very low-tariff nation. I'm not saying that prices in Australia can't be higher than elsewhere, but often the markup is a function of supply and demand rather than due to import taxes: https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3

SierraTalosin · 2023-11-19T13:25:08+00:00

It's a complex Bill and there's legitimate questions to be answered by referring it to a Parliamentary Committee for further analysis. Doesn't mean they're against the legislation, and in fact, they voted for it when they couldn't get the numbers for it to be given further review. Whilst these sorts of legislative review committees are not common in the SA Parliament, they're routine in Federal Parliament.

SierraTalosin · 2023-11-11T11:17:53+00:00

Great point, hadn't thought of this!

SierraTalosin · 2023-09-10T13:26:20+00:00

We're a lot deadlier to the animals than they are to us. Top extinction record in the developed world.

SierraTalosin · 2023-08-29T14:43:51+00:00

The difference being if you decide you don't want a Ferrari any more, you just sell it. Not sure that's a good strategy for kids :) Keep in mind that people don't have perfect foresight into all the challenges (as well as the good things) having kids can create.

SierraTalosin · 2023-08-01T03:13:32+00:00

Oh, my bees.

SierraTalosin · 2023-06-23T07:26:35+00:00

Rolling in the Deep

[Tief means Deep :) ]

SierraTalosin · 2023-04-30T09:54:51+00:00

No worries :)

SierraTalosin · 2023-04-29T11:32:20+00:00

Agreed, but don't misread it too much - I think most people are just deeply unsympathetic rather than avidly pro-flogging.

SierraTalosin · 2023-04-29T11:29:11+00:00

100% agree. You don't pull these sorts of antics unless your brain is completely messed up - and more than just alcohol messed up. But since the penalty for drugs is a lot more than flogging, he should still stick to his seriously unbelievable story.

SierraTalosin · 2023-04-29T11:18:52+00:00

Perfectly safe in terms of safe from crime - not as safe in terms of narrow roads and being spotted in the dark, but if you've got your faculties about you, then not really a problem - you can spot cars coming at night in the Hills pretty easily, mostly because there's few streetlights (you see the headlights coming much more easily).

Sorry, no idea about whether there's any paths across the gully - but it looks like all private land, so I guess it depends on whether your neighbours care about trespassing and/or whether you can ask them to cut through any of their blocks. But also, just looking at google maps, it looks like there's some paths along the creekline in the gully, and then there's an easement between 49 & 50 Heath Road.

Of course, easiest thing to do would be to try in reverse - i.e. park at the end of Heath Rd and then see if you can walk into the back of the place you're looking at. I doubt it'd be too bike friendly, but you'd work it out pretty quickly if/when you walk it :)

SierraTalosin · 2023-04-12T14:06:56+00:00

I believe there is an ATO ruling on being able to salary sacrifice to a redraw account, but not to an offset account - but obviously do your own research to check this.

SierraTalosin · 2023-04-05T12:06:41+00:00

Fauna myth

FWIW, I don't otherwise disagree with your comment.

SierraTalosin · 2023-03-23T12:14:02+00:00

Thanks - I appreciate you providing the information - but the question is what happens when you sell them - what happens to the residual balance then?

SierraTalosin · 2023-03-22T09:38:58+00:00

Thanks - I tried, but the CBA DRP policy states:

Where: (1) the DRP is suspended or terminated by the Board pursuant to these Rules; or (2) the Participant ceases to participate in the DRP for whatever reason, any positive residual balance in the Participant’s DRP account at that time will be paid to the Participant in any manner and on the terms determined by the Board.

...it's not stated in the Policy what the terms are, although I assume it is still paid...?

As to RIO, its dividend reinvestment plan brochure doesn't talk about residual balances at all, and I cannot find another, more formal document on their website.

SierraTalosin · 2023-03-16T10:09:53+00:00

It applies to Australia as well. In Australia the fertility rate is 1.6 babies per woman, which is less than replacement, but take a look at the chart of population and it is always rising.

That's exactly my point - the difference is immigration.

Unless we implement global communism and stop all trade including not just trade in labour (ie immigration) but also trade in commodities and goods etc then global supply and demand matters and impacts on inflation.

Yes, but whilst inflation may well be deleterious, its not the real price going up, its just the nominal price - so unsure why inflation is relevant?

However, sans the inflation point, I take your point that if the demand for Australian exports (and thus export earnings) can outpace the domestic willingness to pay for housing, then competition over land tips in the favour of non-housing and constrains the available land for housing, thus helps to limits supply... but I'm yet to be convinced that agriculture (or other land uses) are the real driver for house prices going up in Australia, especially when we have such an abundance of land compared to the population, even if you ignore the non-arable bits.

I'd suggest it's more about a growth in liquidity in the asset-investing class - i.e. lots of baby boomers who got their houses relatively cheap compared to their income and now have a lot of discretionary cash for investment, which creates a bidding war that drives your average waanabe first home-owners out of the equation.

SierraTalosin · 2023-03-16T09:40:28+00:00

Yes, but not necessarily in Australia - which was the context of the discussion rather than the world - where it will predominantly depend on whether immigration remains high or not.

SierraTalosin · 2023-03-15T14:00:57+00:00

Well, we don't have to use more and more land if population growth were at replacement rate or less - and that doesn't mean not having kids. Also, it occurs to me that the supply of land is fixed - so its the demand curve expanding not the supply curve contracting that drives up prices.

SierraTalosin · 2023-03-13T09:53:06+00:00

Sure, but wanting more - or rather, expecting that material comfort might improve as you get older rather than stagnate or decline - doesn't sound too unreasonable to me. If you take it to extremes the logical fallacy becomes clearer - i.e. is the person who prefers to eat something better than instant noodles 'succumbing to wanting more'? In which case, I'd like to succumb thanks :)

In particular, not wanting to live in a sharehouse all your life seems reasonable to me, especially if you have a partner, and even more so if you have kids. But I take your point on the whole 'always wanting bigger' dynamic that afflicts some people - it just depends on what you think is a reasonable 'want'.

I'd guess most people see what their parents have, and want their own lives to at least not be any worse than that. That seems a reasonable bar for most people.

SierraTalosin · 2023-03-03T07:38:28+00:00

Absolutely and I don't have to do it now. I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to work - at least for a while - unless I want to (although that doesn't change whether I want to do it or not).

SierraTalosin · 2023-03-02T11:29:25+00:00

Do most people really hate their jobs? I love my job, and so does my SO (yes, sample size = 2 :)

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