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The driver hit the accelerator instead of the brake.

The Moody’s report says, “debt ratios at the Commonwealth level remain low”.

It found the Government’s fiscal policy has been “adaptive, reflected in the consolidation of pandemic‑era deficits into nearly balanced budgets over a short span of time.”

Moody’s says the Government’s fiscal strategy is, “supported by expenditure reforms and a record of conservative budgeting.”

Titans of CNC is a massive YouTube channel that started off teaching people about CNC machining but now feels like they sometimes want to show off fancy new tech in the CNC works.

Is LTT basically becoming this where they’re becoming sort of just like an advertising space for new companies.

They DO some learning stuff but possibly it’s less in depth and more just longer ads in a way?

Due to changes to the aged care system packages, people are going without services for more days.

Also because there’s a new assessment method involving AI, many people are getting underfunded.

It’s called the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT)

Honestly it feels kind of like Robodebt 2.0 for aged care to me.

FEES going up 25-30% for people is kind of crazy.

My son was driving and someone rear ended him as they’d fallen asleep at a red light.

There was only a small scratch and dent on the rear of the car.

Would you bother going to insurance for such a small thing or just get someone to fix a small patch of paint up? 800 bucks and call it a day?

My son has his details, he just hasn’t spoken to insurance yet.

The original battlefield game looks amazing, despite being old.

Some modern games despite being so new and running on better hardware looks worse.

Alan Kohler (Member of the Order of Australia) recently spoke on a podcast about housing and mentioned this about housing. Go to the 13 minute mark. He says that construction should be tier 1, do you agree or disagree with him?

How Housing Became So Broken

>There was a massive increase in the supply of construction labour... They setup office workers around Europe and recruited construction workers. That supplied essential manual labor to rapidly growing post-war industries.
The number of construction workers coming in NOW is minimal. There is this tier system for skilled migration. Construction is on tier 3, so the number of construction workers is on tier 3. Master builders Association says that construction and housing workers should be tier 1.

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External source:

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Australian tradies are one of the most highly paid tradies in the world.

Dubai and Singapore build based off partially slave labour.

China tradespeople don’t earn a lot (around 16k usd a year).

The average salary for a skilled tradesperson in the UK is £38,925 per year, which is close with the national median full-time wage.

Australian tradies make upwards up 80-180k a year. For example, just to get someone to paint part of your house will cost you EASILY 3-5k. For a plumber to fix blockages (150-800 bucks).

For a small bathroom Reno, that’s easily 50-80k now.

I’m not saying slave work is good, but there should be a happy medium between slave labour and our current crazy high rates. There’s a reason manufacturing is not easy here, high taxation and labour costs.

Major Developments

The project to construct two new taxiways, extend an existing taxiway and construct six new aircraft parking bays in SYD’s south-east sector near the Air Traffic Control Tower and Blu Emu Carpark has now been completed.

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The project was a $169 million investment to meet forecast aviation demand in 2029.

University used to be like this, turn up to events, classes and tutorials. You’d show up, bump into people, make mates.

Now some classes are delivered online, there are less events. Clubs and societies are WAY more empty. Classes way more empty.

The thing with IN person lectures and tutorials was that you can ASK questions in person. It was way more engaging.

It feels so weird and odd when most of the lecture room is empty and it's just you as well as another few people.

If you're in a busy parking lot and some bozo goes in the wrong direction. You're going in the RIGHT direction and some guy just wants to take a shortcut and goes in the wrong direction to save time.

You are car a. Other guy is car b.

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Then you get to a situation where both your cars are facing each other, do you:

• A) Reverse in the closest car parking spot and let them in
• B) Honk and wave at them in the hopes they back off, you don't move at all

There's been so much said on 4 corners and how people said it "lost it's way".

4 corners have been SUCH a big jewel in the Australian media landscape. These are the major major things that have come out of the show:

• Royal commission into banking - following the Investigation into the Commonwealth Bank's financial planning division
• ACCC inquiry into food - following the 2 episode series on food labelling
• Investigation into childcare - Following the episodes on childcare
• Investigation into strata - Following the investigation on strata and dodgy management.
• NSW police making police cameras mandatory - Following the 4 corners investigation

Many many changes in banking, childcare and most recently changes to police cameras usage have came about due to the ABC. Even without changes in regulation, they have shed light on university spending and other issues too.

No media organisation is perfect. I don't think we should be entertaining the "4 corners is untrustworthy" crowd at all.

In Australia, they have begun selling VERY cheap smart glasses that take photos and records video. it's generally pretty obvious when a phone is being used to film or photograph you, whereas these often just look like any other pair of glasses unless you're paying close attention.

Camera Glasses - Kmart

We are talking $89. This is how they look from the front. You're not going to notice this at night or in really dark places.

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This has created a lot of debate in Aus, as to whether the sale of these guys should be limited or just banned.

Edit: TYPO. I meant, should we allow unlimited purchases of these things or limit the locations where they can be bought?

Having seen those things in real life, they look pretty DAMN close to real life glasses.

In a night club situation or a darker place, you're not going to notice if someone is wearing it. Also, they could just hang these things on the inside of their pocket and just record your conversations.

So an email was sent through the system a few weeks ago along the lines of “challenging times for the company and restructuring”.

I’m now finding myself given a SMALLER team and more workload.

I kid you not, I’m working up till 8:30pm twice a week with no pay increase

I know having a job is a privilege to many people, but working till 8:30pm is sucky.

If I WANTED to work to 8:30, I want my pay to be bumped at least 15% to account for that additional responsibility.

Question: IF the patient received an injury, e.g. any injuries to the face or maybe dislocations, would the nurse be in trouble (legal wise)?

In the video,

• You see a guy throws something at the nurse and then advances towards him. It looks like punches are then starting to be thrown towards the nurse.
• The nurse throws him on the floor and holds him down. But not before sort of throwing him down.
• The patient got charged with assault.

If they wanted businesses to hire more people, it’s counter intuitive.

Payroll tax is a negative tax that only seeks to limit investment and hiring.

A business with 12 mil annual taxable wages would be slugged 588K in payroll tax.

You could train more people with 588K, or maybe invest in new tech?