Not my figures Mr Handy. I can search Dr Google just like you.
And as someone who owns rental property, it is not easy to gouge high rents from Tenants even if I was a nasty prikk. We own a very nice two bedroom place in Port Melburne and rent it to a lovely chap at a fair market rate. We owe nothing on it, but we struggle to make a viable return. If I could put the rent up $150 a week, then it would nett return of about 5% which is what I could get for the money in a Bank, without any of the dramas of being a Landlord.
Yep I can negative gear to cut tax, but you only pay tax when you make a profit !! I reckon you read the IPA too much.
We do not need more high density housing.
We need better transport.
And we need decentralised government and business employment, especially in this day and age.
There is so, so much land west of Melbourne.
Neoliberalism in action. If people are unhappy with the ALPās approach to housing and wealth/opportunity inequality they can hardly hope the LNP, whose charter is lean government with as little interference in social and economic workings of peoples lives, opposing socialism, and supporting entrepreneurship, will improve upon it. Some people are winning, many are losing (which is, naturally, their fault), thatās the game and weāve had more years of a party in power in recent decades that has us playing it than can be undone. They will soon resume leading us further into it, bacuse Albo hasnāt brought the price of corn flakes down and Murdoch says wind turbines only work on Sundays which is blasphemous.
I agree there is a lot of land to use and we should try to use it. Melbourne developed East/South east many decades ago. Now thee is a focus North and West. It means we also need the infrastructure out West/North West.
Dutton is channelling Trump on draining the swamp in the national capital, get rid of those unelected bureaucrats in Canberra doing their own thing.
There are estimates that only one third of Commonwealth public servants are based in Canberra.
In regard to an increase of 2k nurses on the CPS payroll, that increase could be down to Commonwealth programs in My Aged Care and NDIS, in Medicare, spread across the States and Territories.
The projected cuts in the Victorian PS will be conducted through an independent review, identifying programs which are no longer deemed of priority, with essential services excluded from cuts.
On the other hand, the Dutton plan is for a straight 36k cut in the CPS, without identifying the impact of cuts on essential services. However, no doubt the AFP , with its added responsibilities of countering terrorism and anti Semitism at State level , would be exempt.
Iāve got a bee in my bonnet about this.
The pace things are moving, it really feels like we have to think about what we want Melbourne to look like in ten years.
Do we want whatās happened to Box Hill over the last ten years to happen to five or six other suburbs, or do we want to bring opportunities and infrastructure and prosperity to satellite cities?
A lot of it is location specific, say thereās an extra 1,000 vacant homes in Mildura, that doesnāt help anyone that wants to live in Melbourne city.
There have been plans for a long time for a modern industrial sector, but Governments have been slack in building transport access and power and gas supply. Major problem is the unwilllingness of Corporations to move or build in regional areas. Mostly because there staff refuse to move and the disruption to the business is too large to bear.
Critically though, we really lack key industrial entities any longer. Car buidling was amajor employer now all gone, Altona was a hive of plastics and textiles, and a refinery, soon to be all gone.
Bacchus Marsh is growing rapidly and so is the train carparks. It is standing only on the morning trains that start in Ballarat to Melbourne, and even the few that start in the Marsh are nearly full before they get to Melton.