Canberra clock strikes 7am: A choir of fucking leaf blowers

Office views for the week, there’s certainly worse rooms to be stuck in for so long

Worth remembering HECS is a progressive tax (almost exclusively paid by the top half of the income distribution). Lowering HECS requires more taxes or less Govt spending elsewhere. Also there is almost no link between HECS and uni participation.

Qantas business lounge wall clock = Raymond Weil

Singapore Air = Audemars Piguet

About right

Love is a debt, you pay it upon death (or breakup)

Modern dogs may live an utopian existence, their seemingly omnipotent owners appear immortal

> A stack of indicators deteriorate to shit
> Housing credit continued higher off an outrageous base
> What an economy!

Stagflation?

This is amazing.

Hotels that make you hand write your email they already have, prolific

hoomer capital allocation

The petrol leaf blower is pure Australian ambience

Absolutely fascinating that elected members and even heads of state attend protests now

Either the protesters demands are incoherent emotive nonsense or govts doesn’t even know what to do, or both

One of the few countries in the OECD that don’t index tax brackets

Treasury did a paper on it, even indexation to CPI isn’t adequate in addressing bracket creep

lol better to do nothing then amirite

ministers.treasury.gov.au/sites/minister…

Super high exec complaining prevalence of white men at work

I get it seems clever if they feel exceptional; long term odd thing to contribute to given their husbands, children, other family

And no guarantee DEI won’t demote upper class white female daywalker status one day?

The success of Bluey is't the writing or animation but simply because it accurately represents Brisbane's Edenic lifestyle and living standards, which seems fantastical to non-Brisbanoids

Interesting facts:

- One of only 4 OECD countries not indexing brackets

- 60% higher tax burden on gross wages v OECD average.

- add that to record mining sector tax revenues and Chalmers is swimming in cash.

Shades of banning Winnie the Pooh images

According to data from Westpac, 84% or more of prospective Australian property buyers want freestanding houses or townhouses.

With a large majority wanting freestanding houses.

Chart: Westpac