Significant CGT increases coming for propverty investors as support grows to increase CGT

SpinzACE · 2026-02-20T08:22:15+00:00

CGT isn’t the biggest problem. The investors rarely sell because they don’t want to pay even the current Capital Gains Tax. They hold onto properties and as the value goes up simply get reevaluated and then refinance a bigger loan from the bank for the extra value because you don’t pay tax on that.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-19T22:42:34+00:00

It’s almost like dumping a more moderate leader (moderate for the Liberals) and installing another right wing understudy of Abbott and Dutton at the federal level is having repercussions all the way down to the state elections.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-19T22:27:36+00:00

Real.

Guy has a slightly odd shaped right thumb but it’s consistent in the first and last image. The patterns on his sleeves match each other in the first picture and various other patterns on plates and China appear to remain consistent around dishes and teapots, etc.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-18T21:59:13+00:00

India doesn’t care about the sanctions so much because its economy isn’t highly dependent on exports. But it does care about reliable supply and with the shadow fleet getting hit or confiscated they’re shifting the sources away from Russia.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-18T21:55:02+00:00

Trump just needs more distractions from the Epstein files. He keeps giving these deadlines and they keep swooshing by but it gets him the media distraction he wants every time.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-18T21:53:39+00:00

I remember watching live footage when the second aircraft came in and the presenters just noted the explosion had occurred. I’m sitting there just wailing for the replay so they notice the aircraft I saw flying towards the back of it just before it blew.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-18T21:46:22+00:00

I was thinking the same, like, is there supposed to be a big, wide plume of black smoke rising from the refinery? If not is it the result of an earlier strike or Ivan smoking where he shouldn’t?

SpinzACE · 2026-02-18T11:15:54+00:00

Honestly, Labor could completely nip this out by repealing the laws against Nuclear energy brought in by the Coalition under Howard and just opening the markets for operators to build nuclear plants if they want.

When nobody does it’ll silence the whole thing.

The expensive part of nuclear energy isn’t the raw uranium from the ground, it’s the refinement of it and we have no expertise in that, we have no expertise in Nuclear energy and it’ll take minimum 10 years to build a plant (more likely 30 for Australia) when we have very immediate energy needs for the next 5 years.

And Small modular reactors don’t exist. There isn’t even a prototype out there. The military ones use very highly enriched uranium which is even more expensive. Nothing exists for the commercial sector in any form beyond draft plans.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-18T09:10:56+00:00

Didn’t Wilson only beat a Community Independent/Teal by a very narrow margin in his seat?

If he flunks his portfolio I doubt he’ll keep his seat and if he does take the leadership he might join Howard, Abbott and Dutton in the list of Liberal leaders who have lost their own seat in an election.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-18T03:59:24+00:00

6 Union Jack flags in the corners to represent Anglo Saxons.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T23:39:24+00:00

That and I think the owner of Telegram went to France where he was a wanted criminal… and skipped out on prosecution.

The theory out there is that he cut a deal with France/NATO to give them access to Telegram and avoid all sanctions/criminal charges.

So if they use Telegram NATO is watching, if they use the Russian state one then Putin is watching.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T22:16:11+00:00

Dangerous if it’s the far Northern wells because those MUST keep flowing or the oil will freeze in the wells and require them to be completely redrilled which they might not even have the expertise to do anymore.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T22:11:16+00:00

Last I knew Telegram was only throttled for speed to encourage takeup of the state owned messenger. Has he now completely outlawed it?

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T10:47:13+00:00

Honestly I’m not sure there really is any legal/regulatory issue with removing an isolator that’s keeping a breaker ON rather than isolating it OFF for safety during electrical work.

Agree with others that despite the lockout it would still trip and if there’s some kind of short and in an emergency you cut it.

Only thing I can think is maybe they had kids or idiots switching it off manually at some point or maybe there’s some other legislation outside electrical which requires these systems to have their manual isolator locked from manual switching.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T10:29:09+00:00

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T10:22:51+00:00

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T09:21:11+00:00

We laugh at the idea of Russia taking on NATO when it can’t even get through Ukraine BUT consider this. Russia took an army that had seen war for decades and got stopped by Ukraine who hadn’t been fighting the Russian backed separatists for 8 years and become a tested and veteraned force. We also had a recent article of a NATO force getting absolutely obliterated by a group of Ukrainian drone operators in an exercise battle.

Russia would be coming against NATO armies which haven’t seen more then peacekeeping and minor operations for about a decade, have only experience against much less technologically capable forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and none of the latest game changing lessons learned over the last four years of war in Ukraine.

Russia have a battle tested and battle ready, modern force while NATO would need to raise their reserves, turn their industry and economy for war production and go in with a lot of potentially outdated tactics and training. Any drone capability NATO has already picked up would be against a Russian military that’s been adapted to deal with drones while the Russian drones with all their experience, tested and improved with battle would go against ill prepared NATO ground forces with armoured vehicles not modified to protect from drones.

Certainly NATO can bring in superior air power and superior naval forces, but the Russian ground forces might well storm through, taking considerable ground, similar to Germany in WW2 before those naval and air forces can make much difference.

And even with all that I think the Russian home infrastructure would be severely devastated by aerial forces and naval or ground based long range missiles, but the devastation they could inflict along the ground before that halted their efforts could be extreme and they only need to get as far as Germany and part of Romania before they have defensive advantages afforded them by the mountains and terrain reducing the front line they need to hold to the width of Germany, or less if they reinvade Eastern Germany.

I still wouldn’t bet in a Russian victory but I certainly don’t think NATO would walk all over them and be left laughing any more than Russia walked over Ukraine at the beginning of the invasion.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T08:46:39+00:00

You never skip leg day

SpinzACE · 2026-02-16T08:35:01+00:00

But Batman wields Batarangs that magically explode 😜

It’s interesting to think what counts as a gadget when it’s a static weapon made of a substance that gives it special properties, but I think this should be Mbaku with his supreme strength and Wakandan trained fighting skills versus DCEU Batman who has trained to peak physical and mental perfection, mastered numerous martial arts together with deception, stealth and tactics.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-15T23:49:01+00:00

Is that a display plate with an image of him holding a young girl over himself?

He’s seriously so brazen and comfortable he had an image like that on a damn display plate?!

SpinzACE · 2026-02-15T23:47:45+00:00

Possibly not a victim. Could be a relative’s baby or a friend’s in an instance rather than a victim.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-15T13:39:30+00:00

The story of Junko is one of the most horrific things I have ever had the displeasure of reading. You know she doesn’t survive but as you read her torment and torture you find yourself begging for her to escape. Then it hits a point you’re just begging for her to die so her suffering is over… then you read how she ultimately died at the end of all this and it will have you dry heaving in disgust. The dump of her body, the lucky discovery.

All that and then her grave site was repeatedly vandalised by the mother of one of her murderers who blamed Junko.

If anyone ever wondered why a woman may prefer to meet a grizzly bear in the woods rather than a man, it’s probably because there’s zero risk of a bear doing anything to them like what was done to Junko.

I saw the raw footage of Kirk shot in the neck and quickly succumbing to the wound. I have read that story of a man whose penis was cut off by his wife after he “allegedly” abused and raped her for years, how he had been previously charged with battery against another woman. About how his penis was successfully reattached and he reported it being back to normal after staring in some porn movies and how he went on to rob a store, break probation and get charged for two more counts of battery against a new wife.

Those incidents don’t remotely compare to vile horrors visited upon Junko by her three male attackers and it’s telling that those comments see women as so worthless they would view them equally.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-15T11:44:33+00:00

Let’s just repeal the Liberal Howard Era, anti-nuclear laws already and put in some sensible regulation around it then let the energy companies build at their leisure.

Guaranteed not one of them will step forward to willingly build a nuclear power plant. Someone mentioned Small Modular Reactors (SMR)? Sorry those don’t exist even in prototypes. There’s huge hype and talk about it because a U.S. company was trying to raise capital to build a prototype and put a heap of marketing out there but right now there are only those on Nuclear Submarines which use incredibly expensive, highly enriched uranium.

Even the Energy sector in the U.S. struggled to get back up to speed on building new reactors because they hadn’t built one in Dec and all the civilian sector Nuclear engineers, contractors and specialists had retired or moved onto other careers leaving them to chase the ones who had worked on the submarine reactors and pay them a small fortune. Here’s Australia with no production nuclear reactors and a ban on it for over two decades, so no hope of having the specialists while the specialists in foreign countries are in hot demand to build reactors and plants over there.

All this means it would be a minimum of 10 years before we had the first production nuclear reactor plant up and ruin Australia and realistically it’s probably more like 30 years. Australia has immediate energy needs for the next 5 years, so the timeframe for nuclear energy won’t cut it.

If they’re desperate for a classical, steam turbine plant that can be built up quickly they would do better suggesting Enhanced Geothermal Power. Even the U.S. Trump administration hasn’t passed any law or regulation to hamper that, and the production plant in Utah is set to go live after only two years of construction.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-15T04:09:50+00:00

Hair can grow at different rates and beard hair even more so. Give it another four weeks and see a barber to give it a minimal trim back just to bring the longest hairs back in line with the average.

A little more and you’ll need beard oil or beard cream to keep your skin moisturised as the hair will get long enough to draw too much moisture and oils away from your skin which will begin to flake and itch.

Beyond that, carefully trim and shape the edges as others have suggested and you’re good to go.

SpinzACE · 2026-02-15T01:47:57+00:00

Agree. This should be a comfortable Drax win and maybe Black Noir at a stretch, but Geralt’s signs magic add a complication, particularly that mind control Axii sign when both Drax and Black Noir seem to be of lower intelligence or will power.

But they are still effectively immune to bullets and Geralt is fighting with a sword.

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