The EX Qld Premier just gave a self-serving, bitter, arrogant speech. He just got pasted, hasn't called the incoming Qld Premier, and hasn't given a concession speech. Good effing riddance.
.............and David Criaifulli gave completely the opposite...gracefull to the defeated Miles and an 8 year vision for the future....quite emotional in parts IMO.
Grubs Ministers gifted Qantas upgrades after blocking rival airline https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/nsw/ministers-gifted-qantas-upgrades-after-blocking-rival-airline/news-story/e21276b5f6698841fc82076ad1579640
Ah, the modern left. They love to spout socialism while their snouts are busy enjoying the fruits of capitalism. The one thing that worries me right now is that Upgrade Albo is so on the nose that they might replace him a few months before the election. And then with the inevitable honeymoon a new leader gets they may fall over the line. Even worse, in minority coalition with the greens. I’d prefer he stays and we get to turf out the worst government in my lifetime at the ballot box.
After what QATAR did to OUR Aussie women I'd never let them into Australia EVER !! https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/australia-says-qatar-strip-searches-women-2020-factor-blocking-extra-flights-2023-09-07/ I pay for my own upgrades
If you're woneeding how the Valencia floods happened, read this. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dam-shame-what-really-caused-valencias-floods/
So the root cause is generation X taught gen Y about climate change and environment, and they’re implementing the corrections. Gen X didn’t tell them to think for themselves?
Or maybe not: https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/map-shows-existing-river-barriers-not-dams-removed-before-deadly-valencia-floods-2024-11-11/ There's two commas missing from this headline as well.
Wivenhoe occurred because Peter Beaty, the then Premier, moved water supply from local governments to state-run control as a "drought measure", but also took over the revenue streams. The drought broke in about October, but the BOM warned of significant rain over the summer. Wivenhoe is not a water storage dam, it's a flood mitigation dam. Anna Bligh let Wivenhoe and Somerset dams get full to the brim - they should have been allowed to empty, but the water was worth a lot of money. When the rains came, Wivenhoe was dangerously over-filled and they had to open the flood gates during a spring tide. Both Labor premiers toddled off to high-paying corporate jobs, of course.
This hotel built in the 60s by Sahaurto in Sanour ,reminds me very much of the Iluka in Surfer's Paradise of early 70s and or similar complexes of the period in Honolulu and Miami .and the one on the foreshore at Coolum Sunshine Coast QLD.
So,,, in the "weird and wonderful things that can only happen to Kerrari" category - today I'm bowling along in the 500 on a short section of the motorway at flat strap (around 60mph) when an odd vibration starts up... now, I have very acute hearing but NOT directionally. I put my hand up to the roof latch and then there's a weird clunking noise behind me (but in the cabin, not the engine). WTH? I'm getting off at the next exit anyway so slow down and exit but when I go to downshift I discover the clunk was the gearknob has come off and is somewhere on the floor of the car! I'm still on a section of motorway so have to very delicately manouevre the gearshift until I can get off onto a quiet road to pull over. As I slow down the car starts to stutter a bit... So, I pull into a carpark, retrieve the bakelite shifter knob from under the driver seat and check all the sparkplug leads are properly connected. A couple of kids in a campervan at the end of the carpark give me questioning 'thumbs'... I open the front bay to check there is fuel going through the filter; there is, but the lines are at an odd angle. Pull the fuel lines straight, wait a few minutes for the engine to cool down enough to eliminate vapour lock, and fire her up, giving 'thumbs up' back to the tourists as I chortle out of the carpark! Never a dull moment with antique autos!
Retirement for Americans is known as Social Security. The US collects 15% of every dollar Americans earn. Just like businesses here pay about 10% superannuation into employee's retirement accounts. The big difference is that for Australian's, superannuation goes into their own personal account, which they can see and have some control over how it is invested. Or total control in the case of SMSFs. Not with America. It all goes into Social Security. A big pile of money that the government promises to pay back to you when you hit 65. However, many years ago, the US Treasury started "borrowing" from the Social Security fund... You can see where this is going. To date, Congress have "borrowed" over US$2 Trillion from Social Security. Americans' retirement. Enter Dr. Jim Chalmers. The Australian Treasurer with no finance education. He's put his buddy in the Chairman's seat of The Future Fund, Australia's biggest pension fund, and set up for the retirement savings of Federal Employees. And, just announced, he has directed the Fund to invest in housing and energy, two of the Federal Government's policy initiatives. So instead of the fund being focused towards investments for its members, it is now going to be used as an instrument of labor government policy spending. Because the well is dry. Chalmers has ****ed over Self Managed Super. Now he's going after Government pensions. This is as left wing as it gets. https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/hands-off-the-future-fund-is-not-a-political-slush-pool-20241120-p5ks1x Meanwhile in secondary schools, they're "teaching" the joys of identity politics, gender fluidity and giving people houses that don't want to do any work. All funded by the taxpayer, at the same time, reaming them.
Having trouble with your 'notification' Carl ? Makes a mockery of the notion 'private property' The SRO bleeds us for 10 months of the year; year by year without respite But I have a strategy & a plan !
The changes regarding the threshold and the additional tax ,still provide people with the best tax savings alllowable and new taxation "grab " is only on balances over 3 million and even then the tax rate is generous at 30%.of earnings ! Anyone with half a brain over 60 years of age is keeping there Superfund balance at under 3 million and investing else where or buy a 992.2T Smart superannuation planning and spreading of investments can reduce the % even further . The real issue for many is the SRO and land tax and vacant tax and the double dipping by the SRO.Add capital gain and one understands why the market is depressed and 1,000s of holiday homes are on the market but unlisted . A cruel example ,long term client dies , massive commercial and industrial portfolio . Pride of the family holdings a Portsea beach property valued at 20 million ,the land tax alone on that property is 2 million in the current financial year ! Add SRO claim on the properties add capital gain tax on future sales and its little wonder investors are pulling out of Victoria .
