Longmactoppedup

Pipe dream:

Tax income generated from accumulated wealth the same as income generated from actual work. I.e. a rate somewhere in between the two. No more CGT discounts.

End negative gearing for existing structures.

No more tax breaks for commercial vehicles

Curtail corporations from off shoring profits to tax havens.

Tax on exported gas

UBI

The council removed the everyone's old larger general waste wheely bins when they rolled the new system out. Old system was 1 large general waste collected weekly. 1 large recycle bin collected fortnightly.

Now we have 1 half size waste bin collected fortnightly. Same recycle bin collected fortnightly. Large FOGO bin collected weekly. Unless I've done gardening there is usually only a tiny volume of food scraps in mine.

Part of the intent is to encourage everyone to produce less waste by making it harder to get rid of. The other is of course to get the methane generating FOGO separated so it does not end up in landfill.

Oh and the council saves money on disposal by having this system in place. Savings were not directly passed on to rate payer's though. I guess they are indirectly via not raising annual rates by as much.

The council I live in introduced them a couple of years ago.

There was quite a lot of complaining on social media. In conjunction with a weekly FOGO they changed the weekly general waste bin to one half the size and only collected it every 2 weeks. As a result lot of households struggled to get rid of all their rubbish.

Anecdotally: It's seemingly settling down now but a first there was a lot more litter in the streets from overflowing bins, both people's waste bins and bins in parks. A number of degenerates took to burning their plastic waste in combustion heaters / backyard pits. Which is highly inappropriate given we are less than 10km from the CBD and most blocks are sub 500 sqm . some are still doing this in winter. I wish there would be massive fines for this.

The council has been giving notices to people who put plastic etc in their FOGO bin. Unsure if they have cameras in the truck or if it's random inspections. Apparently they will stop collections for repeat offenders.

The council will supply larger and multiple waste bins for households who are willing to pay extra. I think they might have got less backlash if it had been opt in at first for a discount rather than this method.

Personally I think FOGO are pretty good if you have a suburban garden. Means you can do a little bit of pruning here and there and put the cuttings in the FOGO. Previously you would need to collect it all up then order a big green waste skip.

Good to see us considering something that's in favour of digital rights for once.

Also as an android (Graphene) user it is good to get this precedent in place because Google is steadily turning android in to an awful walled garden too.

Infinite scroll

Enshitification of search results when shopping

Planned obsolescence

If those are the biggest behavioural issues the author is worried about then I would question if she has ever even caught public transport.

Mass consumption of "low fat" (high sugar) processed food like products?

As a fan of wagons, yes it sucks that there are so few left to buy.

The European manufactures still sell wagons here. But $$$

There is also still the WRX wagon.

Vehicles with a front height that's above the average adults waist height should be given automatic zero stars for vulnerable road user protection rating.

Anything with a zero rating should be restricted from being driven while on probation. They should also attract a special extra registration fee.

The fact that at the moment some high fronted child crushers can get 5 stars is a damming indictment of ANCAP.

The sky propaganda said this after the last election, the libs put Dutton as leader and did just that. Historic loss for them.

Again they are saying it now. I look forward to the libs following the advice more and getting reduced to a minor party.

I used to think that a majority labor govt should have fixing media concentration as a top priority.

I think they should still do it, but it's becoming less of an top priority issue these days.

Murdoch and Packer/Gina propaganda failed this time and last.

I think that the billionaires have learnt it's easy to negotiate in the background with labor to get their reforms through as far as cutting red and green tape goes.

Bolt is just salty because he built his whole fake media persona on culture war outrage. The worst thing that could happen to him is happening, that is him and the rest of the sky talking heads are losing audience share and fading in to irrelevance.

We have pretty much the same policies as the USA when it comes to digital rights, including border force being able to search your devices upon entry.