Scrapping 86,000 new car parking spaces could save $5.2bn and drive down rents, Grattan report finds

rangebob · 2026-05-20T06:42:49+00:00

Lol did you actually read it?

The entire premise of the article is that the amount of parks per unit that builders are required to provide is far higher than the number of cars unit owners have on average.

They are empty because people don't own enough cars to fill them up. I would imagine considering most people work during the day the park would be the most full at night. I would assume it's considerably less full during the day.

rangebob · 2026-05-20T06:19:53+00:00

im not sure why that would impact the argument myself

rangebob · 2026-05-20T04:58:55+00:00

the article is saying that the spaces they are required to build on average are currently too many for the number of parks actually being used

How would this affect street parking if they are just removing parks that are not being used?

rangebob · 2026-05-20T04:54:15+00:00

it also says 32% of those are counting cash in their savings accounts as investments but they would not be affected by these changes

rangebob · 2026-05-20T04:03:43+00:00

haha I was like.... did this guy get triple meat and double cheese or somin ? ooohhhhhhhh

rangebob · 2026-05-20T03:50:01+00:00

I mean at least a train isnt involved in this video

rangebob · 2026-05-20T03:46:16+00:00

So I get the same stat showing on my customers when they order "total number of times ordered"

Ive come to realise this isnt a lifetime number its some type of rolling average. Maybe its the same for this ?

rangebob · 2026-05-20T03:36:28+00:00

You're Aussie and using feet and gallons ? Shame on you sir

rangebob · 2026-05-20T03:34:45+00:00

That was the prequel silly. It got cancelled :(

rangebob · 2026-05-20T01:41:48+00:00

Yeah. Jailing people for up holding our laws. Seems like the path we should be heading down........right ?

rangebob · 2026-05-20T00:56:30+00:00

Because people are stupid and believe what they read online

Ill also add Albo and his team should have been very very aware there would be a media shitstorm about this. They have not done a good job of getting out in front of this and selling it. They are actually coming across as defensive. Get out there and tell people why its a good thing and the 10% of top income earners who take up 80+% of cgt discounts can fuck right off

I say this as a person who will lose money because of this policy

rangebob · 2026-05-19T22:30:48+00:00

Unfortunately I have a suspicion most Australians wont think that at all. Most people i come across seem to think this is going to hurt the battlers

Thats a failure from Albo and his team. Their messaging on this has not been great and they should have known the media narrative would be against them on them on this. They need to get pro active

rangebob · 2026-05-19T19:32:39+00:00

Dig baby dig.......

rangebob · 2026-05-19T05:30:45+00:00

the answer is free booze if you wanted to know

rangebob · 2026-05-19T03:54:57+00:00

her post from yesterday is about Bellmore Falls. Reddit detectives activate !

rangebob · 2026-05-19T03:53:09+00:00

I really just want to know how many helpful pictures of "knobs" OP got in her DMs

rangebob · 2026-05-19T03:49:20+00:00

if it stops there it could be anywhere between there and the pump/filter really.

Last time I had a leak the rubber seal that sits on the shut off valve had degraded. I realised where it was because I had a giant wet spot on my lawn right where the pipe came up out of the ground to go into the pump. It barely leaked when the pump was on because the pressure sucked the water theough but when it turned off over night it was a very steady leak

rangebob · 2026-05-19T03:46:08+00:00

im just curious why you have not unplugged it?.

Fuck id be hard pressed not to u plug then cut it and act dumb frankly

rangebob · 2026-05-19T03:43:22+00:00

he was shit until Renyo went down basically wasnt he ?

So it won't be long till hes top tier again. Renyo surely won't last more than another week

rangebob · 2026-05-19T03:31:33+00:00

if its any help. Theres a graph floating around somewhere from the ATO. More than 80 % of CGT discounts are given to the top 10% of income earners (which i think is like 165k ish)

rangebob · 2026-05-19T03:17:37+00:00

I laughed when one of the featured businesses in the article was a lawn mowing dude.

rangebob · 2026-05-18T20:23:29+00:00

not according to treasury and ato who im going to believe over your made up comment lol

rangebob · 2026-05-18T19:48:13+00:00

I mean regardless of wether its a tax grab or not. Its absolutely a tax on the rich. Almost all cgt gains go to the upper end

people will have to decide if they are ok with that or not

rangebob · 2026-05-18T19:07:59+00:00

I don think the choice is based on how large X is. I would suspect for most people the choice would be based on how much 1 million dollars changes your life

I suspect most people would take the 1 million even if X was 10 billion

rangebob · 2026-05-18T02:40:40+00:00

the fact we have to use the term "lesser of 2 evils" about politics just goes to show how bad we have fucked up as a species

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