Recent content by Arnoldus

30k would make it slightly above land value. Not really worth it given the demo costs, and trying to get a new dwelling on the block that could give a decent return, surely?

Doesn't every generation think those who came after them are too soft, and have it easier than themselves? :)

$130 a week now, and even then there is a whiff of optimism at that price.

I think a fairer benchmark for the Abbott gov would be 1996-era John Howard. When you put them side by side you begin to realise what a dud government we've elected, not that we were spoilt for choice this time around. :rolleyes:

This is going to directly affect local farmers here in the Bundaberg region who rely on recruiting and retaining properly paid foreign workers to get their crops harvested. The effects will flow on to the local businesses and the wider community. If the local member puts the whims of his...

Seems like she regrets the decision she made, it doesn't seem like she's trying to blame anyone else for it. Committing to an buying property at 21 rules out a lot of adventures to be had early in life. I got the impression from the story that she regretted the decision she made to buy a place...

There's been quite a few teething problems, not sure if they've worked through them properly yet. One of the biggest problems they had rolling it out is that the system was/is to be policed by cashiers at shops, and that there was no way for Government to track what items were purchased in a...

Anyone wanting flood info can download the Queensland Globe add-on for google earth (see link below). It's got flood levels and aerial photography taken at the flood peaks, and a bunch of other data that may or may not be of use to some folk. We found it handy when looking at places in...

IMO there's an element of bravery buying anything in regional Qld at the moment. But then this might be the bottom of the market and those buying right now might well be geniuses (or lucky) in hindsight. :)

Such a predictable yawn this thread has become... the original post was referring to a discussion of why women, as a demographic, earn less than men, and points out that the gap is widening. To say, for example, that a female graduate engineer earns as much as male graduate engineer misses...

I haven't had anyone comment that the Qld election result is a cause of poor sales. Slow and steadily rising unemployment, and low wage growth off an already low base will not do good things for increases in rent and CG. I think a lot of the increases in values in Ipswich and Logan and...

https://www.williamhill.com.au/financials/10840044/d/which-share-on-the-asx-will-hit-100-first-in-2015 Suprised you can bet on this stuff, but there you go.

Yeah, I understand that's tongue in cheek, but if the system is disenfranchising half the population it proclaims to represent, then it's the system that's broken. Buggered if I know how to fix it though, I checked out of party politics years ago and suddenly realised what a poisonous effect it...

It's definitely something to think about. I understand people might want to dismiss this issue by saying "Women in position X get as much as Men in position X" and let it be. I tend to think about the issue of why female dominated occupations tend to get paid less than male dominated...

With processed/frozen food, we generally buy on a mixture of price and quality, sometimes it's Australian grown/made, sometimes it's not. From what I recall, Simplot has put a lot of effort into restructuring their business, and renegotiated a lot of the working conditions in their...