if oranges == growing:
make_juice()
else:
go_fishing()
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Unoccupied bedrooms doesnât mean much to be honest. lots of home offices, bedrooms available when family stay or grand children.
100,000 vacant houses, yes, but likely a big proportion of those are shacks or bush getaways.
Do you think that people allowed to have a second residence getaway?
It wasnât their policy to bring in x amount of people.
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Yeah, Iâm not about the unoccupied bedrooms thing.
I have two.
You canât have them.
(Actually, three by todayâs standards, but the third is the home office).
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They are your words not mine.
Itâs not their fault, itâs the government not providing for them.
The government (federal) own/run the universities and my argument is they have a moral/social obligation to provide housing for international students.
By and large before an industry was created out of it international students did overwhelmingly live in student accommodation.
Least they did at my time at university.
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Itâs mental health/sleep related.
I slept one or two hours last night.
I become a grumpy old man and blitz is my therapy.
But then again Iâm sure the politics thread is for grumpy old men.
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Oh, absolutely.
What are we gonna do, pay for therapy like a sucker?
I got a solid five.
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I went to bed a bit earlier last night slept from 9pm - 3.30am got up at 4:30
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Welcome to my World.
The area around Truganina where I have my factory was highly developed with some massive buildings and hundreds of smaller 200 sq m factorettes like mine that employ between 1 and 20 people. There are high numbers of small manufacturers there, lots of food makers, mostly Indian.
Amazon has a huge warehouse near the Western Freeway that supposedly employs 1000 people.
I tried to get Ballarat (now Federation) Uni to set up a Campus in Bacchus Marsh for Nursing and Paramedics. It would have employed about 300 people in various role and allied to the local hospital. Had all my ducks in a row with Federal and State Support, funding for the new buildings, University was keen, plans were advanced; then Rudd knifed Julia, Rudd lost election, Abbott got in and all funding disappeared.
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You can code perfectly well in Mildura.
But you canât work a coding job in Mildura if your employer expects you to come into the office in the CBD two or three days a week because itâs important for team building and collaboration that you take zoom calls from your work desk instead of your home desk.
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Thatâs some quality sarcasm.
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FWIW, I happen to knowâŚand Iâm sure others here are also aware of thisâŚthat people in certain roles are starting to sayâŚhang, onâŚI can do this in Port Douglas or Coffs Harbour.
With varying levels of success.
Government does not own or run Universities. They are a regulator and provide some funding only; no good VC would listen to what any Government says, that is why Governments hate Universities.
I do not believe Government has any obligation to provide housing for any student. Government has a responsibility to ensure low cost housing is available for those who need it. Most Australians do not care about the poor or homeless, so it is not a vote winner.
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Many of the private buildings in the city are built with students as their target market. Who wants a one bedroom with no kitchen? Wealthy students. If we got rid of all those students nobody would want to live there and it would do nothing at all to relieve housing affordability. My son for example would not want a $750 p/w dogbox in the city when he has a 2 bedroom flat in Williamstown looking over a park, short walk to the beach for $500 p/w
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Australian public universities are federally funded.
How the federal government now largely funds universities is by granting international student visas so they can sell university places and through the CGS.
They are not significantly state funded institutions. Never have been. And we have some private universities.
Oh and of course HECS/HELP. Again federally administered for local students to take out a loan from the government.
Again - universities are poorly planned when it comes to housing. They have not grown/provided housing in line with their enrolments.
If the country needs more public housing - public housing for students would be a bloody good idea.
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And the ALPs biggest vote winner is weâre not the LNP.
Summarises the dire standard of politics in Australia.
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Yes they are, but Federal Government does not own or run them.
You are a comedian. Foreign students visas and $1600 and in 2025 will be a revenue of about about $400 millions. Federal budget provides $22 billion to Universities.
Have you seen the housing Uni Melb has built in Carlton and Monash have built at Clayton. Most Unis have done or are doing the same, probably with Feds support, but maybe not as the big Universities has shitloads of money for buildings. The screw there Academics and Staff something chronic, but money for bricks and mortar is abundant.
Fark students, not our problem, the poor and homeless is the problem, that is where Government needs to step up further.