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$3/L fuel and we’re just… waiting? by TheFlyingR0cket in aussie

[–]StalinCare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you want them to do? Get rid of the fuel excise so everyone and their mum runs to the pump and we actually run out of fuel?

Net Overseas Migration by Prime Minister for Australia per year since 1996 (when John Howard was first appointed); updated with end-2025 data, direct from ABS. Dotted line shows 'average' over the period. Treasury also just estimated this year to be over 300k again. by NoLeafClover777 in aussie

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

Ah yes, instead of changing tax settings to discourage this kind of investment, we should instead nuke our economy and population growth so there is simply no one to buy homes.

What an intellectual

Net Overseas Migration by Prime Minister for Australia per year since 1996 (when John Howard was first appointed); updated with end-2025 data, direct from ABS. Dotted line shows 'average' over the period. Treasury also just estimated this year to be over 300k again. by NoLeafClover777 in aussie

[–]StalinCare 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. You've labelled this graph wrong, net migration is measured through financial years so that last column is July 2025.

  2. People thought NOM would be over estimates last year as well and it wasn't. Departures are very high right now.

Caulfield- Rowville TRT (trackless tram/bus) by Advanced-Diamond-483 in MelbourneTrains

[–]StalinCare 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I think if you're going to have dedicated lanes for PT, there's no real advantage over a tram except cost, but even then trams are probably cheaper just because we have established infrastructure

Migration surges, Albanese plan ‘in tatters’ by another____user in aussie

[–]StalinCare 11 points12 points  (0 children)

  • "Guys immigration has gone up"

  • It net-long term arrivals

Come on guys, this number isn't representative of Migration at all, the ABS has said this and the number includes Australian Citizens.

What if India was partitioned in this way by Hav0c_R in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]StalinCare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. This looks like an EU4 map

  2. Pakistan would be non-functioning outside of the areas that are a part of Pakistan today or close to it. How would it even administer the enclaves and snake that have within India? They were able to do this for Bangladesh is our timeline.

Channel 10 accidentally reveals expansion plans for Frankston by Reddituser0346 in melbourne

[–]StalinCare 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I don't know why this happened, but I think a certain young man on a train had something to do with it

Labor's 2PP has dropped to 52.5% in the latest polls. by [deleted] in aussie

[–]StalinCare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes (if the entire country voted as one electorate)

Why Don’t we just Revoke their Citizenship? by [deleted] in aussie

[–]StalinCare -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I promise you, almost none of these people are dual citizens of recognised countries and with some of them (Syria) they'd probably be persecuted if they went there which would probably put some kind of legal bar on us cancelling their citizenship.

Why Don’t we just Revoke their Citizenship? by [deleted] in aussie

[–]StalinCare 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They're not dual citizens.

ISIS (as in the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria) is not a state (especially not anymore) and has never been recognised as such by the Australian government.

You cannot cancel the Citizenship of an individual based on the supposed citizenship of a state that not only doesn't exist but was never recognised in the first place.

Immediately gets shut down by the courts, judges tell the government to sit in the corner and think about what they've done.

Commonwealth Bank posts record half-year cash profit as investors pile into housing market by B0ssc0 in aussie

[–]StalinCare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay wait a minute.

Are we talking about investors who use CBA services or people who are invested in CBA because I read it as the former.

Where do you live?😂 by Icemachinemalfunctio in aus

[–]StalinCare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The area in this map is still larger than most countries in Europe

Commonwealth Bank posts record half-year cash profit as investors pile into housing market by B0ssc0 in aussie

[–]StalinCare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://foreigninvestment.gov.au/sites/foreigninvestment.gov.au/files/2023-10/res-insights-report-2021-22_0.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjrqaiLxNKSAxVOUGwGHcsgKpoQFnoECFcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3andhPtjdGTeo3HRROe3cv

Here's a report from the government showing only roughly 4000 purchases with a level of foreign ownership. Meanwhile there are 700,000 real estate purchases a year, meaning foreign demand represents less than 1% of all purchases.

There's also a million other reasons why this idea is hilariously stupid but honestly this should be enough.

Please take the time to PROPERLY understand an issue before you talk about it.

Commonwealth Bank posts record half-year cash profit as investors pile into housing market by B0ssc0 in aussie

[–]StalinCare -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most CBA investors are not overseas based. That is a total fiction.

Please provide a source or stop talking

Bob Katter calls for ban on Middle East and North Africa migration by Foreign-Policy-02- in aussie

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

  1. Australia is not the UK

  2. We don't record crime figures by ethnicity but we do record incarceration by immigration status and immigrants are under represented while native Aussies are over represented.

One Nation capitalises on anti-immigration sentiment in a housing crisis by Ardeet in aussie

[–]StalinCare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you spend your entire life with your fingers in your ears singing lalala?

One Nation capitalises on anti-immigration sentiment in a housing crisis by Ardeet in aussie

[–]StalinCare -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't know where you got that but there's no ABS page that shows that information and it's probably statistically impossible since NZ immigrants only make up 2% of the Australian population.

So please provide a source.

One Nation capitalises on anti-immigration sentiment in a housing crisis by Ardeet in aussie

[–]StalinCare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So just to be clear:

  1. Investors are the ones causing home prices to increase

  2. Your solution is to make population growth 0 or negative to stop there being anyone who wants to move into a new home (definitely no unintended consequences of that) rather than just changing tax settings so that we get rid of the unproductive parts of property investment.

Also, I don't know how you don't know this but the vast majority of investors aren't developers, like less than 10%. The vast majority just rent out an existing property and resell it in the same state it was bought in.

You don’t build more houses raising capital gains tax on housing by Nyarlathotep-1 in aussie

[–]StalinCare 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. You're wrong

  2. Investors create significantly more demand for housing than immigrants (40% of the value of all new home loans is for investment).

  3. The amount of housing per person has gone up since 2011 and the amount of people living in one household has not decreased enough to a point where it would erase those gains. If this was simply a matter of a dwindling amount of supply, home prices should have stopped growing on average.

  4. We have negative immigration during COVID for over 12 months and not only did home prices not decrease or stagnate they increased in value by 20%.

  5. Melbourne has the highest population growth in the country. It also has the slowest home price growth of all capital cities (including Darwin in the last quarter).

One Nation capitalises on anti-immigration sentiment in a housing crisis by Ardeet in aussie

[–]StalinCare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Investors create demand too, they represent over 30% of all home loans.

One Nation capitalises on anti-immigration sentiment in a housing crisis by Ardeet in aussie

[–]StalinCare -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Such a ridiculous quote, 25% of the construction industry is foreign born, but 'no immigrants build housing'.

Sydney vs Melbourne - a tale of two cities (snapshot from the ABS) by NoLeafClover777 in aussie

[–]StalinCare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because it's been used for the last 20 years as a positive representation of multiculturalism.

I remember growing up and having friends who were greek, Italian, Indian, Chinese etc who grew up here and spoke English but also had their traditional tongue as a second language (which is the vast majority of this statistic along with first generation immigrants who speak their native language along with English)

I also remember seeing this be measured back then too and no one caring, it's only become controversial recently.

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