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4·6 days agoThat’d rely on tenants reporting their evictions to the tentants’ union, and most people aren’t engaged with the tenants’ union, and even among those who are, relying on tenants reporting would probably be a bit spotty.
If the government is serious about enforcement, I think the logical thing would be for the bond authority to track it. They could be required to log the reason when the bond is claimed, and then their system would flag it if another bond was lodged for the address within the specified period.
If the government doesn’t implement a real system for enforcement, though, then yeah, some system through the tenants’ union would be better than nothing.
In Victoria, renters can challenge a rent increase “if they believe the increase is higher than the market range”
I assume, like with many renter protections, it’s a pain in the arse to actually do in practice, but it’s there, so they can’t just double your rent in one go to force you out.
Also, rent can only be increased once every 12 months in Vic, so landleeches may need to wait months before they can increase the rent by any amount at all.
Not that I doubt there will be some dodgy workarounds. I suspect landlords might try to abuse the “if the owner is moving back in” exemption, because even if there’s strong provisions - e.g. the property can’t be advertised again for at least 12 months - it still requires someone to be paying enough attention to notice and report any violations.
She explained Sturgeon had “somewhat unconventional and unorthodox views”, but had not been diagnosed with or hospitalised for mental health conditions, and no psychological report was presented.
Yeah, I think the court should have ordered some kind of evaluation…
Coles’ answer to that question was hiring Palantir
Power to them, I hope people support them however they can!
Ridiculous that this trainee stuff is still going on with Grill’d specifically - they’ve been in the news media for it since at least 2016 (earliest story I can find).
What this SBS article doesn’t mention is that Grill’d has been known to drag their feet on progressing a trainee, to just keep them on the lower rate indefinitely.
Crisafulli said he would also aim to change the full preferential voting system, which he labelled “corrupt”, back to optional preferential voting.
Under the current system, it is compulsory for voters to number all boxes on the ballot paper in order of their preference or their vote is not counted.
“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.
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3·21 days agoThe initial Israeli evacuation area was within 2 kilometres of the border with Lebanon. There seem to have been some expansion of evacuations since, but I believe it’s still only within a few kilometers of the border. Estimates in March were that about 60,000 Israeli citizens remain evacuated (source: AP).
The IDF camp in this article is around 55 kilometres from the Lebanese border, and about 30 kilometres south of Haifa (a city which is not evacuated) (source: ABC News (AU)).
You need it to not be cloudy, for starters 😆
But even if it’s not cloudy, light pollution can also be an issue, so it might help to head further out of the city (see: https://darksitefinder.com/map/?i=/%234/-37.84/144.94)
Basically, if you can’t see the stars, you can’t see the aurora.
The only equipment that can help you ‘see’ it better would be taking a long exposure with a camera.
EDIT: Apparently you’re going to want to see some red on the map here: https://seetheaurora.com/live-data
It’s because we’ve hitched our wagon to the U.S. and we’re not allowed to say or do anything that’ll piss them off. It’ll only get worse with AUKUS, and arguably that’s the point of it - to lock us in to dependence and obedience to the U.S.
Labor and the Coalition have had a stronger response to this handful of flags and posters than they have to Israel killing 20,000+ kids.
The designation is particularly ridiculous considering it was the US that ran a campaign of terrorism against Cuba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mongoose
This would do the opposite of calming tensions…
Just put
archive.is/in front of the URL, e.g. https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-unimpressed-with-ukraines-victory-plan-ahead-of-biden-zelensky-meeting-23e87bff
A cooperative is one way to start on that: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-10/supermarket-alternative-co-ops-save-money/104078660
Profits have increased as a percentage of revenue (i.e. profit margins have increased).
You can find the sizzle in your area here: https://democracysausage.org/nsw_local_government_elections_2024/m/
Haha, holy shit, what a damning excerpt! Thanks for saving me some time.