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Our workshop electricity bill is constantly insane, despite relatively low consumption.

If I plug in our residential rates against our workshop usage, it would be at least 30% lower for the same consumption.

Is there an actual need for a "business" account at a business address? My understanding of business accounts is that they offer higher levels of support and a faster resolution time, but when poo has hit the fan (such as flooding) we're not restored any faster than the houses nearby anyway.

Seems bollocks to pay quite a bit extra as a business when the usage is comparable to a residential address.

This also applies to internet which is more expensive for a business account with no difference in SLA.

Came across this petition to the QLD State Parliament:

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/Petition-Details?id=4077&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR18l5EClb5gvNnegW7VLg8lXNFazrIwh17AHFjqswsI5l6sPQKXxNT-uJA_aem_AbEOs0teE0XoaUN0hQqrTgcjeLZr0s0S2QXBM9NWNosEIw4w3oNeFl93YieF0ZqypJc7HVbX-stIA-z5PZrZPsSj

Basically, what they want is the right to use whatever force they want upon home invaders without consequence. This feels like a real step backwards in terms of civility and I'm not really aware of any cases (there aren't any mentioned in the petition at least) where someone has been prosecuted for using "disproportionate" force on an invader.

I'm not saying I'm complicit with crime and it's important that we all get to feel safe in our own homes, I think that's a fundamental right. But I don't like the idea of everyone being the law. It shouldn't be legal for someone to shoot at me or attack me if I enter their property by mistake or want to meet my neighbours.

The MP putting this forward is a member of Katter's Australian Party, but it just seems like a good distraction to get dumb voters to vote LNP because the news disproportionately covers crime in Queensland while statistics show that the crime rate is decreasing and research and "common sense" shows that addressing the root problems is a more effective strategy. Something which the LNP will absolutely fail to do as they completely fail to recognise the problem.

~~But worst of all probably is that they try to relate this to cinematic masterpiece "The Castle" when it really has nothing to do with the film at all and more to do with mediaeval practices.~~

Queensland households will get $1,000 off their electricity bills in 2024–25.

$1,000 will be automatically credited to eligible residential customer bills from 1 July 2024—there is no need to apply. Exact timing will depend on individual billing cycles.

To be eligible, residential customers must have an electricity account with their electricity retailer or embedded network provider on 1 July 2024 and be separately metered and charged for their own electricity consumption.

Seniors, pensioners and concession card holders could get even more through the Queensland Electricity Rebate - ($372)

My energy bill won't be entirely zero, but it will be pretty damn close.

Two people have died and a woman is in a critical condition after a three-vehicle crash in the Legacy Way tunnel in Brisbane's inner-west on Wednesday afternoon.

Queensland Police said preliminary investigations indicated a black Audi S3 was travelling north in the tunnel when it crashed into a silver sedan, which subsequently crashed into a small truck.

The driver and sole occupant of the Audi, a man in his 50s, died at the scene.

A woman in 20s, who was a passenger in the silver sedan, also died at the scene.

Police said the driver of the sedan was taken to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a critical condition.

The driver of the truck was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Private schools have different holidays to public schools, right? Does that mean when driving past a private school you need to know specifically if that school is on holiday or not? Or is it all done only on the public school terms?

And how does the answer to that question interact with places like Lambert Road, Indooroopilly, where there's a public school on one side and a private school on the other?

(Note: "just look for the flashing lights" is not a helpful answer. Those are a useful aid, but not legally binding. "The light was not flashing" is not actually a legal defence to a charge of speeding in a school zone.)

Rocklea, on the city's south side, had the most buybacks of any Brisbane suburb, with 72 properties spanning more than 50,000 square metres acquired.

Can confirm - houses around here have been disappearing like a Thanos finger click.

I actually feel a little bit sorry for some people... In the period after the flood but before the buyback was completed, there were properties hitting the market and being sold at insane prices for what was essentially floodplain. All of a few months after people were moving in to their new home, the properties either side are getting demolished and turned in to green space.

Imagine buying a house and committing to a 30 year mortgage, only for both your immediate neighbours properties to be considered useless for housing and turning into tiny parks. On the one hand - hooray! No neighbours! But on the other hand... You're kinda isolated and perched in the middle of public space on a property that council considered so bad for housing (in a housing crisis!) that it's better off as a lawn.