I’d like to see a comparison between labor and coalition governments, if 66% is the average across government and this one achieved 70% and the Gillard/Rudd one “similar levels” then I assume the Coalition ones statistically break more promises.

It would be good to see the actual results though, as it might show that both parties are in fact not the same after all.

I had a huge house party back in the late 90s when at uni. Filled the bathtub with ice, bought 4 cases of the cheapest beer I could get to make sure people didn’t go without even though it was byo. Party was huge. Band in backyard, cops coming, fence pailing going in the fire huge. About 3am we ran out of beer and so it wound down and everyone crashed out or went home.

Got up in the morning and there was at least two cases worth of this beer still in the tub. Went out back to pick up all the empties and almost every opened can of this beer was still almost full but had been abandoned.

This beer was so utterly bad that a bunch of rowdy drunk brike uni students wouldn’t even drink it!

That beer was Tasman Bitter.

They should be charging the disruptive party a fee rather than the ones who just want to fly without the constant harrasment, screaming, and back of chair kicking.

Just need some centenarians with chainsaws! Japans got more than anywhere 😄

I’ve been really enjoying LE videos, but as a total legal newb I have no idea how solid his takes are.

What s the general consensus on his analysis and opinion?

You’re going to need closer to $300,000 in hand for the $1m house to avoid LMI, don’t ask how I know… 😞

That would be amazing, but unfortunately not the case in many places, including Australia where instead a bike rider that gets hit by a car gets told that it is too difficult to prove blame on the driver, even when there is clear video evidence and third part witness statements saying the the driver intentionally rammed the rider.

Don’t ask me how I know…

You know, I’d tend to agree with you on that, but recently I’ve come to see that the vast majority of people just take what they hear as fact and don’t really think to much about it.

What that means is that if you have billions of dollars of capital at your disposal and tens or more of billions of dollars of future earnings at stake it’s pretty cost effective to manipulate those people who I mentioned in the first paragraph of my post.

Depressing, but unfortunately true as best I can tell

You can make it a bit easier by winding the spring on the pedals right out so that clipping out is really easy. Then when you build a bit of confidence you can progressively tighten the spring to the point you are comfortable.

Other than that it is just practice and using some forethought by unclipping before you need to and maintaining awareness that you are clipped in.

It seems hard now, but in no time it will be totally automatic and natural, hang in there!

I lived in NZ for a while, it was heaps better over there you don’t need to do anything, they just send you a refund or bill, then if you have any other deductions you can claim those. Great for forgetful/lazy people like me.

Completely unrelated, I somehow forgot to file last year so need to do two now

Can I do that through ATO or do I need an agent?

This sounds absolutely insane! Surely it must be trivial to prove that she had no part in anything. Corporations shouldn’t be able to reach down into peoples lives in this way (she is in a different country and was not represented). what can be done to raise awareness and try to help get the attention of the relevant Minister to advocate to the USA Govt to have this sorted out? This women must be beside herself.

I didn’t realise these kind of culture war astroturfing regressive religious groups were this active in Australia. I hope there is something we can do at a societal level to prevent this escalating.

• Antivaxxers
• Sovereign Citizens
• White supremacists
• Anti Trans “protesters” (making threats to libraries)
• Religious “mothers” groups banning books

I’m happy for people to have their beliefs but these things all feel like they are being done cynically by dark forces that want to change the fabric of our society - Or maybe I am off with the fairies, I don’t know sometimes.

Am I alone in thinking that? What can we do about it?