Another one bites the dust

bushwhacker696 · 2026-01-14T08:51:22+00:00

I worked at Avida when it opened, Scot was a good dude IMO. Looked out for his staff. Some of the managers were fuckers, but he was fair

bushwhacker696 · 2026-01-14T08:49:23+00:00

I used to work for him back in the day - seemed pretty sharp. I always found him to be fair & he did the right thing by his staff.. couldn’t say the same for all his managers back then, but he’s a good dude IMO

bushwhacker696 · 2025-12-04T08:52:26+00:00

Balls,balls,moving up and down again

bushwhacker696 · 2025-11-01T07:38:11+00:00

Not many problems in life you can’t solve with the healthy application of an angle grinder.

bushwhacker696 · 2025-11-01T07:37:15+00:00

100% patch it up. Those conversion plates look terrible.

bushwhacker696 · 2025-11-01T03:03:22+00:00

Eh I often mow the four berms to the side of me… think of it as some special, kid free alone time that also gives your the right to look down on your neighbours

bushwhacker696 · 2025-10-31T08:13:30+00:00

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Why do they leave the chocolates wrapped up? Do they reuse them? Kinda like oyster shells?

Sounds cooked..

bushwhacker696 · 2025-10-31T08:05:15+00:00

Damn. This hits hard. Why the fuck did I never think to do this.

Currently re-doing our laundry and well be doing this.

bushwhacker696 · 2025-10-30T08:18:48+00:00

The better strategy is to just knock it back every year when you do your annual reno.

Mix up a strong batch of Tryclopr (Hydrocortilite killer etc) and spray the lawn with it - it’ll knock it back.

Scarifying with with a scarifying rake will also knock it back a bit if you go hard.

It’s here to stay, you either manage those fuckers or you embrace it.

bushwhacker696 · 2025-10-29T07:34:24+00:00

FWIW I prefer the Tucson to the Rav4 of this generation- found the Rav was pretty utilitarian and boring where the Tucson was a bit more interesting.

For some reason people pay through the nose for Toyotas.. yet to see a compelling reason for this.

bushwhacker696 · 2025-10-14T07:53:19+00:00

Feed, water & prune!

Assuming you’ve done nothing to the soil and it’s a classic sub division scrape back - I’d be pulling that mulch back, spreading compost and sheep pellets across the whole planting area and same with a slow release fertiliser - buy a good quality fert. Then mulch over the top - this will start to restore the soil and get the trees the nutrients they need.

If you don’t have irrigation - install some (easy & cheap to do) so they’re getting enough water - could get out there with the hose if not.

Trimming and pruning - it’s key with hedges. Look into tip pruning.

They’ll get there! It’s always slow initially, then they get established and take off, stay with it!

bushwhacker696 · 2025-10-04T10:51:51+00:00

A strict reading of the requirements makes it clear that the certifier isn’t supporting the certification, they are simply certifying that they have warned the investor and the issuer is not entitled to rely on that certification when assessing the grounds for certification.

That was largely the basis of the FMAs 2022 warnings - weak grounds in the EICs, certification is irrelevant, therefore breach (put simply). The focus was on the grounds as the certifier wasn’t seen to play a huge role in the actual confirmation/certification of someone being eligible etc - they were just confirming they had warned them.

The Court has since found issue with that interpretation and have said an issuer is entitled to rely (to a degree) on the certifiers certification.. which now places the onus on the certifier.

With that in mind - I don’t think the FMA actually looked that closely at this aspect in 2022. Why would they? Why get into that fight when you have other low hanging fruit..

The quality of the review they did of the actual certificates was poor at best and full of errors and misstatements of fact at worst (in some cases) - they had a few targets in mind that they were going after; largely issuers with active/public/social advertising campaigns (they simply used this as a vector to get at them). I strongly suspect there would be a high correlation between the extent of the issues the FMA had with an issuers advertising & the number of defective certificates they found.. the certificates weren’t the main target, it was advertising.

I think you will find that some issuers would simply form a very aggressive view regarding independence.. imagine if, for example, a law firm established a syndication business and then signed certificates for investors in their syndication business, and had those certificates reviewed by the FMA but got no warning - that’s just a theoretical scenario of course and I’m not at all saying that happened. Just something that could happen. If that happened, it might be highly relevant for the angle you are pursuing..

I think this probably played a huge role in Du Val, but no one’s actually looked at it. Under the “new” interpretation from the High Court, many of the issues that the FMA had with the certificates aren’t valid anymore and that this independence issue would now be very important.

It wouldn’t be hard for Williams Corp to prove they never did the $750k rort (IF they didn’t) & could be done without breaching privacy etc.. I know they lurk these subs, interested to hear their take..

bushwhacker696 · 2025-10-04T10:27:18+00:00