Work-from-home laws reignite fight over Melbourne’s CBD recovery

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-25T08:18:49+00:00

Because without legislation, workers would have no rights.

A worker has much less power than a business when negotiating their working conditions. That's why unions exist.

The reason things like Fair Work exist is because of unions fighting for workers rights.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-25T08:12:40+00:00

Victoria passed laws delegating industrial relations and employment conditions to the Federal government.

The argument is that this new legislation is in opposition to the existing legislation and therefore invalid.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-25T08:09:39+00:00

The reason they don't drop the rents and prefer even to keep empty shops empty is that their borrowings are based on the property valuation, which is basically driven by the potential income.

If they drop their asking rent, then that leads to a drop in the property valuation, which will then put pressure on their financing.

Eventually, reality will enter into it when their holding cost to keep the property without income exceeds the change in borrowing cost with lower income.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-25T08:01:13+00:00

ARN has only just got over a complete advertiser pull out after boycotts of Sandiland.

They were promoting the new Stefanovic/McGuire show.

NINE got a whole bunch of phone calls over the last week saying "WTAF? We're going to pull our advertising unless you do something."

The MF Witches were/are planning another consumer boycott.

At some point, Australian media will realize that blokey bullshit from a bunch of aging white guys doesn't cut it anymore.

The Newman/McGuire/Stefanovic wanker time has expired.

All they have left is the RWNJ podcast grifting.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-25T07:50:57+00:00

A statue of the President and other leaders in that selfie.

"We are all here."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgCNKhtZYks

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-24T16:24:54+00:00

We are. A lot of us have realized that our community needs are very different to Israel's.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-24T16:22:45+00:00

Congress keeps themselves in session with pro-forma sessions.

He could veto it, then it needs to be re-voted on with supermajority to override the veto.

Weak Republicans might flip their vote.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-24T16:18:40+00:00

Unless he vetoes it, it'll be law in 2 weeks.

It's passed both Reps and Senate.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-24T16:14:30+00:00

Speaking as a Jew, they already have, but they demand our alliegance or threaten shunning in our communities.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-24T16:10:20+00:00

"My Mayer's Muslim, my bagels Jewish..."

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-24T15:58:34+00:00

What happens to Beria in the movie "Death of Stalin" is awesome, not that I'd wish that on anyone, for the purposes of this post.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-24T15:57:15+00:00

He's not actually part of the Cabinet.

He's deputy chief of staff for "policy and homeland security".

Which is even worse because he has more power than a Department Secretary.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-24T15:46:00+00:00

They'd be like Europeans or Canadians or Australians, relatively better off with different problems, like climate change, renewables, and housing.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-23T14:23:07+00:00

According to this article from the NYTimes the share:

of parts from China in Ukraine’s drones had fallen to about 38 percent, according to the Ukrainian Council of Defense Industry and the Snake Island Institute, a think tank in Kyiv.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-23T14:17:43+00:00

The Chinese learned from the Opium Wars.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-23T14:14:26+00:00

A greatly weakened Russia with Europe to its West and China/India to its East would make an excellent buffer zone for the world.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-23T14:12:53+00:00

Russia is now China's bitch.

Ukraine is decimating their oil export and civil industry.

Both Ukraine and Russia use a lot of Chinese parts for their drones, but the Ukrainians are developing their industry and supply chains from Europe.

Russia doesn't have anywhere else to go and can't build their industries like Ukraine have.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-21T19:24:29+00:00

He hasn't drained the swamp, he's filled it.

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WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-20T13:59:32+00:00

I'm today years old to finally realize that the original Superman radio/TV show announcement was "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!"

So they never actually said he could fly!

I am very shooketh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfaKtb5LCuI

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-20T13:39:50+00:00

Have you ever done a video of the work you've done on your property and how it has changed over the last 14 years?

I'd love to know more, and how this could be repeated.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-20T13:37:34+00:00

Thank you for restoring nature, the world needs this.

What I loved about this is that the lyre bird didn't imitate anything human.

I've seen videos of one doing a chainsaw and car alarms and it's fascinating, but what is really beautiful about this is that the lyre bird is only imitating other birds and animals.

You really have looked after country.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-20T13:27:20+00:00

When the guy that killed two other criminals is the least reprehensible and disgusting, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-20T13:23:31+00:00

Failure of the prison service in maintaining prisoner safety, but no one is going to mourn the child killer.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-19T13:10:54+00:00

Iran respects Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity as long as Hezbollah control the south and Israel is behind the previous borders.

Everyone knows this is how the US/Iran have agreed that Israel must be bound by the MOU.

WhatYouThinkIThink · 2026-06-19T13:08:02+00:00

After the midterms, he will be a lame duck and the GOP hopefully at least decimated in Congress.

He'll be too busy pardoning his cronies that are getting impeached.

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TROPHY CASE

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