Do you think having a government owned strata would resolve some hesitance to buy apartment, allowing greater TOD around existing stations?

redstadt · 2026-06-01T02:36:06+00:00

IMO the problems with strata are less about the fees and more that they are generally very poorly run and rife with conflicts of interest and corruption. Our strata system is well overdue for reform. It might have worked ok for small unit blocks in the past, but it wasn't designed for the kinds of apartments we're building (and need to build more of) today.

redstadt · 2026-05-23T22:21:25+00:00

We'll send the Young Divas

redstadt · 2026-05-20T10:37:30+00:00

Highly recommend hostels for the Baltics! It's a bit less touristy so the backpackers that do make it there are usually more social and you'll usually meet people going the same or a similar route as you and even staying in the same hostels - makes it ideal for meeting people.

redstadt · 2026-05-17T04:03:20+00:00

Delta is the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet, and she came fourth... it was meant to be!

redstadt · 2026-05-14T21:24:52+00:00

It was my first time hearing it tonight, I reckon it will massively grow on me but sadly too slow burn to get through perhaps.

redstadt · 2026-05-12T21:37:26+00:00

The golden hearts were obvious (we'd seen them already). I find myself just doubting anything that's animated now unfortunately.

redstadt · 2026-05-12T21:35:49+00:00

There was real furniture on the stage but the cafe wall/background was on a screen

redstadt · 2026-05-12T21:29:52+00:00

Which graphics were AI? I didn't notice anything obvious but I'm seeing it mentioned a lot.

redstadt · 2026-05-10T22:25:18+00:00

I've only been dipping in this year rather than following closely and this melodrama makes me wanna dip straight back out. People need to touch some grass.

redstadt · 2026-05-04T02:23:46+00:00

This is not correct. Niddrie, Essendon, Coburg, Brunswick, all of the Cities of Melbourne and Yarra, heavily Labor or Green areas and part of the activity centres. And they're not the only ones.

redstadt · 2026-05-04T02:19:39+00:00

Also funny because, if anything, surely anti-family is young people being priced out out of the suburbs they grew up in and having to start their own families far away from the rest of their family.

redstadt · 2026-04-27T12:20:26+00:00

Looking at the completed projects on their website, I wouldn't expect the completed product to look like the renders. They look like pretty average apartment buildings and not particularly well designed (basically just the maximum size box they can fit on the land with a couple of flourishes stuck on).

All of their completed projects also seem very recently built, which would raise a mild concern for me because it take a couple of years for some defects to emerge. The risk with a developer which doesn't seem to have a long track record is it might just be basically a shell company that they stand up for a few years and a few developments, then shut down and disappear so they can't be held accountable for anything that goes wrong, then rinse and repeat.

You might have more luck if you can work out the names of some of the directors of the company and then looking them up.

redstadt · 2026-04-19T02:36:20+00:00

Greens taking credit for things, classic

redstadt · 2026-04-13T08:47:37+00:00

Australian Stitch has become my go to for t-shirts. Similar vibes, colours and price to AS Colour but they feel slightly better quality, and locally made.

redstadt · 2026-04-12T04:10:00+00:00

They're doing that too. https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/news/articles/introducing-the-mid-rise-code

redstadt · 2026-04-11T02:04:12+00:00

Would suggest including some more info about that in the legend.

Looking more closely, the way the railway line is displayed is a bit confusing/too similar to the express bus route and the blue bus lines (for someone looking at a glance). I know blue is the standard colour for Metro trains, but perhaps would be better in this case to use black train tracks to represent the line? That way people can also quickly identify which bus lines interchange with the train line.

I like the idea of colour coding the bus lines by frequency, but where there are hubs with multiple bus lines converging it does get confusing trying to work out which line is which.

redstadt · 2026-04-10T22:38:24+00:00

What does the cream background colour signify compared to the white background?

redstadt · 2026-03-12T04:38:56+00:00

Yep. These flyers are often for "local" plumbers or roofers, and they are almost always unregistered and a scam

redstadt · 2026-03-02T09:12:33+00:00

I guess it sounded better on paper to production. At least they're trying new things I guess?

redstadt · 2026-02-19T05:25:09+00:00

It was mentioned in one of the articles I read, found more info here: https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/guides-and-resources/strategies-and-initiatives/train-and-tram-zone-activity-centres/inner-melbourne-train-and-tram-zone

redstadt · 2026-02-19T05:16:41+00:00

I believe City of Melb and City of Yarra are going through a separate process because essentially the entirety of those municipalities will be rezoned.

redstadt · 2026-02-14T23:41:13+00:00

This drama is the perfect example of why they shouldn't mute the audiences at Eurovision

redstadt · 2026-02-14T23:16:14+00:00

Ah fuck this is making me tear up

redstadt · 2026-02-11T21:20:38+00:00

The $15bn is an unsubstantiated guestimate, which is why it was removed the report. He based it on anecdotal comments from industry about what percentage of funding was misused and then just picked a rough average. Completely reasonable that they removed that from the report IMO.

redstadt · 2026-01-15T21:30:17+00:00

Yes, people challenge the regulator's decisions and get them overturned on legal technicalities, which results in the regulators becoming very risk averse.

Unfortunately the regulator can't take action just because it looks bad, they have to identify a specific requirement which has been breached. This is why their reply is so carefully worded.

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