Affidavit

Someone's been reading the sanitised version of the story.

It is highly likely that many, if not most, are of character concern. These are some of the most complex cases that the government has been unable to find a resolution to. In other complex cases where a person cannot be deported due to non-refoulement obligations people are often permitted to live in the Aus community on BVEs in perpetuity. That these people have been held in detention so long is an indicator that something is not right.

It'll be interesting to see how the government responds to this; there's no easy answer. What are you supposed to do when a murderer seeks protection, and has been refused protection, and still you're not allowed to deport them?

ABAC? A quasi-governmental regulator dedicated to the labelling of alcoholic beverages... I kind of reckon this could have been rolled into a larger body.

Actually, I wonder if there are any openings... Sounds like a pretty cushy job.

Sorry, didn't read past 'ethno-state'. Pretty clear where you were going from there. Nice talking with you.

As someone who stands mostly in the middle, I rarely comment on this issue because every second poster calls anyone that has even the mildest sympathy for Israel's situation a Nazi.

You people are tiresome and it's honestly not worth 'debating' with you.

Cr Hudson acknowledged that the transport interchange on Little Bridge Street had been a problem for "a long, long time" and said that recently, some of the seating and shelters had been removed to try to address antisocial behaviour in the area.

Oh, yeah, destroying infrastructure, that will resolve society's problems. /s

Don't forget to check out rom hacks as well. There are so many creative people who have extended or redeveloped games into their own image. Some good ones that come to mind are Chrono Trigger: Prophet's Guile and Super Mario 64: Last Impact.

Some people really have nothing better to do with their time.

I appreciate your response and your explanation, but I disagree. The dispersal of responsibility from a tenant to a private landlord has no advantage over public housing. Tenants in the current market are afraid of rocking the boat because landlords are en masse holding them over a barrel. I like your theory that dispersing the responsibility from the state to market forces will help with regulation, but fortunately, we don't need to hypothesise because, as you noted, we already live in a private market and can see how shit regulation is, and how shit it has been for a very long time.

This incentive you mention doesn't seem to be enacting any real change with regulation. Sure, over the past few months, the state governments across Australia have enacted 'progressive overhauls' on tenant rights, but almost universally, these overhauls are ignoring the actual issues and are very clearly designed to just look like they're doing something. The Federal response is even worse. On one hand, they are forced to make miniscule concessions by the Greens to make their band-aid slightly less rubbish, and on the other, they exacerbate the pressures on the housing market by slashing taxes for the rich and boosting migration.

We've already tried regulation, and it has been an abysmal failure (to everyone except landlords).

I have yet to hear an argument for private rentals where public housing would not better serve the people. I agree that the challenge is that the government is concerned about pushback from investors (with a large splash of self-interest thrown in by landlord politicians).

The HAFF is a next-to-useless bandage that does nothing to actually resolve the issues of investors massively driving up housing prices alongside irresponsible population increase. 40,000 homes spread over 5-years will not do anything when we're granting 200,000 permanent visas every year.

Really? Why reward people for taking away opportunities from others and artificially inflating property values?

Investment properties should not be a thing. AirBNB should not exist. This is what is causing the housing crisis, and providing grants to the people responsible for this mess so that they are slightly less selfish isn't going to help.

We've gone full circle. When streaming became mainstream I was on board. At one point I had 4 simultaneous streaming subscriptions; I now have 0.

These people found the breaking point and leapt right past it. I pay a fair price for video games, ebooks, music, and software. There is nowhere that offers a fair price for films and TV shows.