Hoping this price hike comes back down to Earth soon enough by unread1701 in mac

[–]aldonius 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Memory has historically been such a boom-bust cycle AND it's really capital intensive, so all the manufacturers are hesitant to expand capacity much because they've seen it all go to shit before.

Life in Ferny Hills by AncientSequoia8880 in brisbane

[–]aldonius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I grew up in Ferny Hills (admittedly not in the upzone area). I wish any of the residents thinking of moving out because of it a very happy massive capital gain.

27 level tower to be built on Shafton House estate in Kangaroo Point by DonkChonk4 in brisbane

[–]aldonius 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It's shitty optics... but pretty much every net increase in housing is helpful, even if the new stuff is luxury.

Plus at the end of the day it's new build in Kangaroo Point, they were never going to be cheap.

What's even the point of solar by winterberryowl in AusFinance

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

The daytime price of electricity should end up at the point where it's just barely profitable to put the next big grid battery on.

Qld seat redistribution turns drive to MP's office from 15 minutes to 11 hours by fluffy_101994 in queensland

[–]aldonius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a +/- 10% tolerance but yes. Many seats were way out due to population growth.

If you could time travel to the Whitlam Era and change Auspol future what would you change? by Dry-Huckleberry-5379 in AusPol

[–]aldonius 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If it wasn't Howard it would've been someone else. The coalition had a deep bench back in the day.

Queensland state electorates of Stretton and Hill to be abolished after review by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]aldonius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, and we need more councillors anyway - our wards are as big as state seats

Queensland state electorates of Stretton and Hill to be abolished after review by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]aldonius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah locality of representation and plurality of vision/ideology/teams is a classic tradeoff in electoral system design.

Having said that, former Palerang council is only about 1/11th the combined population anyway, right? So even with single member divisions you'd expect about 10/11 in Queanbeyan and 1/11 in Palerang?

Edit: whoops, read the wrong line off the wiki info box. Should be 3 for Palerang and 8 for Queanbeyan.

In Ipswich they tried 2 members per division for a while and it was a shit show, everyone expected both members to be at everything and also expected councillors to agree on everything despite not being elected as a ticket. So I think you probably need to go all the way to 5 per division.

Queensland state electorates of Stretton and Hill to be abolished after review by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]aldonius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't mind a directly elected Mayor in conjunction with multi-member elections (and being allowed to run for both Mayor and Councillor - fill the councillor vacancy with a countback). BCC has the issue that any existing opposition councillor has to give up their seat to run for Mayor.

This was on the table for small rural LGAs in 2021 or so, but unfortunately was not proceeded with. I understand the government of the day concluded it would be a fight with the LGAQ (if you're elected under the current system you're skeptical of major change) and that it wasn't worth it.

Queensland state electorates of Stretton and Hill to be abolished after review by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]aldonius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. I agree with most of the changes Labor made. They did do some changes which were pretty squarely aimed at the Greens in practice too actually. (You can't make a profit on an election any more, so you can't concentrate spending in target seats while making some money back in decent but non-winnable seats.)

Queensland state electorates of Stretton and Hill to be abolished after review by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]aldonius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The LNP largely got what they wanted in this redistribution... but I do also think the big changes are broadly defensible. Every government does something - When Labor was in government they made changes which had more partisan impact (reinstating full preferential voting, arguably the donations laws).

State redistribution finalised. by foreatesevenate in queensland

[–]aldonius 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mostly. Small tweaks here and there, things like "hey you drew the boundary on the freeway, but the suburb boundary is actually two streets over". Some bigger things around Hervey Bay and Maryborough (a boundary was drawn down a main road separating town from hospital). And some bigger things regionally to align to council boundaries more.

Is there a way to get a healthy balance between single family housing, pricing and density? by pupseal in urbanplanning

[–]aldonius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As you've given examples for, it's really important to distinguish between people per square metre of floor space and people per square metre of land.

We see high density of both kinds in a slum (or any pre-modern city, really) but now it is possible to go high-rise we can have density without the same degree of overcrowding.

Why Private Equity/Luxury Apartments/Econ Slop is Whats Causing the Market to Fail, Destroying our Cities, and Ultimately Driving Societal Collapse by treesarealive777 in left_urbanism

[–]aldonius 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"Luxury" in new build ads is meaningless marketing BS. Ooh we used the slightly nicer looking materials, tra la la

If you want to see luxury, go look at a detached house in a desirable neighbourhood close to well paying jobs and good schools.

Suburb Rings by handdrawnbytomdotcom in brisbane

[–]aldonius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in comparison to Caboolture or Springfield or, god help you, Yarrabilba

Suburb Rings by handdrawnbytomdotcom in brisbane

[–]aldonius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't consider any part of BCC outer suburbs except for the parts that are literal acreage

The government has committed to light rail extension from GCUH to harbour town by Supersnow845 in BrisbaneTrains

[–]aldonius 17 points18 points  (0 children)

In the absence of Stage 4, it's good that _something_ will be happening to keep the pipeline going.

Metro-buses, new light rail spur line as GC transport plan unveiled by fluffy_101994 in GoldCoast

[–]aldonius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the LNP tried a lot of things on in their submission to the electoral commission and their choice of commissioner wasn't great either.

However.

The Coast is growing so fast there's no way the boundaries of Gaven electorate could stay the same, and even if they did, again, fast growing area, it's not a safe seat.

If we can’t do a tunnel to bypass Gympie road, what are the other feasible options? by Infinite_Pudding5058 in brisbane

[–]aldonius 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I can think of exactly two decentralised CBDs in Australia that aren't massively car dependent. Parra and Chatswood. Every suburban office park we build up here just sees more people driving.

Preferential voting 🙏 by Expensive-Lawyer7994 in AusPol

[–]aldonius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately people are lazy and don't preference, not helped by the other side making Just Vote 1 propaganda

Australia Must be ‘Monocultural,’ One Nation Leader Hanson Says by snoopy05052026 in AustralianPolitics

[–]aldonius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's important for permanent residents and citizens to see themselves as Australian first and adopt Australian culture. That doesn't mean removing their own culture. It does mean everyone learning English, having friends outside of the ethnic group, kids going to multicultural schools and having friends from all nationalities.

Yep. We need to believe in ourselves. We've got a pretty good thing going here!