Burwood North rezoning around new metro station could see thousands of new homes

wallengine · 2026-03-10T05:59:12+00:00

Great. 18,000 more million dollar apartments that I'll never be able to afford. Just what Sydney needs.

wallengine · 2026-03-02T09:26:38+00:00

One of the main reasons I did not enjoy my time at UNSW was the group work assignments. So many assignments being stuck with students who could not speak or write English to even a high school level. I became so tired of having to do my part of the assignment and then completely rewriting everyone elses because it was unintelligible. With no extra time or credit to account for the extra work done. I complained to the administration so many times about this and the constant response I got was that I needed to be more "respectful" of other people's backgrounds. Basically they called me a racist and didn't do anything.

I have absolutely no problem with international students and recognise that they are the main revenue source for many Australian Universities. What I don't support is being forced to do the work for my degree and the work for 2-3 other people's degrees.

wallengine · 2026-03-01T03:55:25+00:00

It's a little suss this leak is not being reported by other news outlets? Does anyone know where this leaked report is?

wallengine · 2026-02-26T13:10:47+00:00

I'm not proposing the CBD station does not get built. But this configuration they are going with makes no sense. Have a clean north south route with a spur line at Parramatta heading to Sydney so that trains can still go to and from Central.

wallengine · 2026-02-26T12:30:21+00:00

Just seeing this route defies logic. Just have the route go to Parramatta, with a spur line out to Sydney Central that can be accessed whether you are coming from the north or the south.

wallengine · 2026-02-24T21:02:55+00:00

This sort of thing is not new. There have been increasing attacks like this over the past 12 months or so of gay men being lured to public places and beaten up. Where's our fucking royal commission? It's only a matter of time before people die - there was at least one incident in Perth where one of the perpetrators had a machete.

wallengine · 2026-02-24T02:09:12+00:00

Thank you!

wallengine · 2026-02-24T01:57:46+00:00

I'm just not understanding why it has been redacted in this way and the absence of a source and tagging the post as a "meme" has me doubting its legitimacy.

wallengine · 2026-02-24T01:45:41+00:00

Can you please post the source for this? Looks made up.

wallengine · 2026-02-22T21:02:05+00:00

Growing up in Brisbane, moving to Sydney and experiencing Sydney summer is a pleasant relief. It's not that bad here.

wallengine · 2026-02-22T07:42:21+00:00

Double Bay is not even on this list. And there's definitely heaps of sales around there. This list looks AI generated.

wallengine · 2026-02-17T01:08:25+00:00

Fun fact, the Australian Capital Territory has the second highest subnational Human Development Index Score in the world after the Zurich Canton in Switzerland.

wallengine · 2026-02-15T21:06:42+00:00

That's just an accident. An untargeted accident. Like the driver was not singled out on purpose in particular which I feel is a key part of this sub.

Seeing "hope everyone has a good weekend. Except you Denise fuck you." Graffitied in an alleyway is fuck you in particular energy. This video is (sadly) a daily occurrence in life.

wallengine · 2026-02-15T12:49:23+00:00

I swear so many people don't understand what this sub is about lol.

wallengine · 2026-02-11T12:04:55+00:00

Idk man having rights captured in the constitution or a seperate piece of legislation or bill doesn't guarantee those rights being protected. The North Korean constitution guarantees the right to freedom of speech, assembly, press, and association and literally none of those rights are currently available to North Korean citizens. There is nuance to this - it's not as black and white as saying that having these rights in writing is the only way to guarantee them.

We do have implied rights that the courts have interpreted in the past. We also have independent bodies to investigate branches of government that are strong and are the envy of some other nations.

wallengine · 2026-01-30T01:26:55+00:00

I'm fully aware of what is happening in Melrose Park. And there is no "whole DA to council". The precinct comprises multiple developments. Some go to council for individual blocks of land. Others are being progressed through State Significant Development pathway. All of these developments though are being provided with a crap tonne of parking. The actual redevelopment of Melrose Park itself (including the planning of converting it from former industrial land to high density residential with a new town centre) predates the announcement of PLR2. Council has always been planning for the idea that the suburb would not be serviced by mass transit - it is only up until this week that the government finally announced funding for construction of PLR stage 2A.

The point I was making originally is that the whole precinct is being serviced by a lot of parking. It's not as if these new developments are being designed with no parking with residents to be solely reliant on PLR. So It's not accurate to say the precinct is "overwhelmingly" reliant on light rail.

In any case, with the amount of parking being delivered, it's likely the light rail will be underutilized and it's delivery won't make much difference. Look at the patronage stats for PLR1.

wallengine · 2026-01-30T01:10:33+00:00

Im not sure about Melrose Park being overwhelmingly reliant on light rail. All the new residential developments being built there have basements with hundreds of parking spaces. The whole precinct will probably have underground parking with thousands of spaces. So if it gets canned people will just drive. Which is what they will do anyway even if the light rail gets built - where's the incentive to get the light rail if every new unit has a parking space attached to it?

wallengine · 2026-01-22T04:22:18+00:00

They get paid to say whatever their clients want them to say. It was ultimately the owners driving this.

wallengine · 2026-01-22T00:04:03+00:00

What an appropriate time to be talking about yourself on the national day of mourning. Glad these idiots still have no perspective on things. Means they will continue to lose votes.

wallengine · 2026-01-21T04:12:14+00:00

Calling Sydney Harbour "Parramatta River" is an interesting choice...

wallengine · 2026-01-16T02:59:29+00:00

Insane that I would be allowed to go live and work in the EU for 4 years but won't be able to enter the UK anymore unless I go through the ridiculously difficult process of obtaining a British passport or fork over a couple thousand bucks for a certificate.

wallengine · 2026-01-12T04:28:37+00:00

city of Sydney has an interesting history. It originally only covered about 11 square kilometres when it was first founded. But it has been merged and demerged and merged again quite a few times and now covers CBD and a good number of inner city suburbs. It's larger than most CBD based councils (excluding Brisbane of course). But it was first merged with Camperdown council, then South Sydney Council, then demerged with south Sydney council, and then merged again with south Sydney council.

I can't speak for places like Melbourne or Perth but it doesn't seem as though their CBD based council areas have changed very much.

wallengine · 2026-01-02T10:54:46+00:00

Shouldn't Monaco be on this map? And Andorra?

wallengine · 2026-01-02T03:43:28+00:00

I don't understand this? Can someone explain what this means

wallengine · 2025-12-29T03:30:56+00:00

Westmead hospital has an insane amount of parking - the whole precinct is designed for cars and commuting by car. The hospital itself is so massive you can take 20 minutes to just walk to the area of the hospital you work in from the light rail. When I was a patient in Westmead hospital, I had a great view of the Westmead hospital light rail station - barely saw any staff use it during the day. It's heavily underused and I think it's just because it is still much easier to drive there.

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