It’s ironic when people say to me ‘it suits your narrative’ - without detailing what that is. I own and develop property - and yet advocate for drastic reforms to reduce house prices. I actively criticise both Labor and Liberals - and I’ve historically voted both ways and

Victoria, the highest taxing state, discovers a massive jump in unpaid taxes - with more than a third of debts now more than 12 months overdue. As somebody building homes over the last few years, I copped about a 30% increase in land tax, 20% increase in construction costs and

How to debone a rotisserie 🐓

Idiocracy might turn out to be more prophetic than The Simpsons. If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favour.

@theheraldsun I think I might be building my last homes in Victoria right now - it’s been getting much worse for years and if I didn’t already have this site, I wouldn’t even bother. I spend more time managing paperwork for authorities than I do actually focused on the build. The

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Answer: Yes. But it’s worse than just first homebuyers paying more interest on higher principals. The risk of default has been shifted from insurers to taxpayers for riskier loans. Banks and existing homeowners win big though, so there’s that.

We’re having our final brekkie with our lovely Balinese nanny we’ve had over the past week and asked her about her other work. She said she mostly does long term work for Aussie families who live here and short term villa work to fill the gaps. She said almost all of those

The reaction to Elon Musk’s pay packet is strange. For those comparing what he gets paid to what others do - such as a public health nurse - it doesn’t come out of your pocket. His shareholders approved it, so the consequences are on them.

At a time when university degrees have never been so expensive and worthless to industry. When we have an en excess of students and shortage of practical skills. When bureaucracy is rampant and productivity is stagnant. No, we need to encourage more kids to become builders

It’s kinda refreshing that the most famous actress and the biggest sex symbol on the planet is unapologetically anti-woke.

It amazes me that so few people are up in arms about this. Even hyper partisan Labor supporters should want to curtail the rise of organised crime and put $10bn per year back into federal tax revenue. They’ll scream ‘tax the rich’ all day to raise an extra $2bn at the risk of

This is the nonsensical red tape I have to deal with on a daily basis trying to build homes: First floor wall cladding is originally specified as hebel (basically concrete panels) Due to access constraints and difficulty lifting hebel onto scaffolding to first floor walls, I

I rarely comment on US politics, but here are my thoughts on this: - It was inevitable with intergenerational failures in the west that such a fundamental change would occur somewhere - If you don’t want people to resort to radical politics, don’t fail so dismally in the first

The RBA signalling the likelihood of no further rate cuts for the foreseeable future is actually the most constructive thing they can do. The sooner households, businesses and governments realise that debt isn’t getting cheaper, the sooner they start to make better long term

I really try to be balanced and empathetic - and to view myself as straight down the sensible centre. But I just see way too much vitriol from the left that makes me think fuck that - I’m definitely on the other side of that line.

Be good, be grateful, be kind. Help where you can, give where it matters and ensure you leave a positive legacy. But for those who come with bad intentions - be ruthless, be unforgiving and don’t ever apologise.

The Vic Gov pulled its signature move yesterday - dumping damaging reports on the Friday before a long weekend. This is intentionally designed to minimise scrutiny and awareness - and includes the following facts: Youth offender community order compliance is down Victims of

This is just one of many atrocious calls from one of our PM’s senior economic advisors - the Kouk. Competence in politicians is apparently too much to ask for - but surely we can all agree such dangerously hopeless people should be disqualified from advising them. H/t:

Crime data is just like inflation data - it comes in late and confirms what those of us close to it already know. There are those who will observe, disseminate, manipulate and justify it for political gain - until it hurts them directly. But it’s simply what happens when

Blaming the RBA for a sick economy is like blaming the doctor for medicine that tastes bad.

The more you try to do in the economy - buy, sell, build, lease, operate, etc. - the closer you are to it. When you do, you see the impacts of policy settings that enable, prohibit, incentivise or deter effort and investment. You develop a sense for the direction of the economy