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I can imagine, as a polie, not plssing off your small business creditors would be wise. If you mess with enough of the right ones, they are bound to bring you down, one way or another. Some are saying Della Bosca was set up with forbidden fruit.

the other risk of commercial in their days was the galahs in state and local govt..... You could think you were onto a good thing with the town plan limiting commercial competition.....only to find 2-3 years down the track the town plan gets amended. Qld state polie Russ Hinze was good at this...

I remember my father cursing and cussing about govt interference in the rental market back in the early 70s, when he had half a dozen houses and two blocks of flats. Even then, the Qld rental tenancy authority kept stacking things against landlords.....and I have more stories than I care to...

I reckon Rudd will step in soon enough and put a ceiling on annual rent rises. Will win him more votes than it will lose him. (I think I heard State authorities were hardening up on 'unreasonable' rent rises. Tis a grim reminder that you want to keep your rent rises coming regularly, rather...

Interesting point Boz, on why Australia has arguably more active forums about property. It probably has something to do with 1. change in the cost of property over the last 10 years. Australia had an unprecedented boom that has shocked many. Germany and Japan have been negative in real...

This Australian Treasury chart by David Gruen, shows there was oversupply until 2006, and undersupply since is heavily influenced by change in persons per household. One has to question more insightfully why more households are getting smaller, and keep in mind the logical outcome that single...

The pink line below is the cumulative population increase divided by the cumulative no. of dwellings built in Australia since 1981. Note there have been enough dwellings built to house 1.65 persons each. Currently Australia's median household size is 2.6. Does this fact support a lack of...