Just in time to make sure they meet the quotas to fill private prison beds. And thus the cycle will be complete
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Now he saying no new taxes in the budget
But at the same time he's saying theyre looking at "new revenue generating mechanisms" so I assume therell be some dancing on the head of a pin about what is a "new" tax.
Although it could just be a fool's errand to try and read much into this. The quotes in the article are complete word salad.
Not sure, that would be a partial strike so don't know if the prohibition on police striking extends to that or not.
Work to rule is more like exploiting the mismatch between the requirements of a role on paper, and what it takes to actually do a role in practice. For example, stopping doing things like doing extra unpaid overtime or taking on responsibilities that aren't technically in your job description but are necessary to keep things going.
Ah yes you're right, earlier articles were saying strike. Now they're saying industrial action so yeah, work to rule and stuff like that
Meanwhile, police are threatening to strike over an 'insulting' pay offer.
It's incredible they get up and talk about how there's no money for public services, and then immediately defend giving $3 billion to landlords.
Cool. She's awesome
Then maybe just don't claim more than the average person earns in a year to live in your own mortgage free apartment.
Maybe especially don't do that when you get up and give speeches about how people who can pay should pay, and how tight money is and how you're gonna make cancer patients look for work or cut their benefits. Or do, I dunno I'm not a PR expert.
Lucky for him, this has been overtaken by the story about not reigning in Seymour for attacking the media and academics for being big meanies about him.
Honestly it's just utter non stop chaos right now.
Did they subsidise low rates with debt? I thought with the pipes they just subsidised them with neglect by deferring maintenance and replacements.
I never feel like the debt implications are fully explored in these discussions. As with housing, there's a small group of vested interests that I feel take some options off the table from the start. Debt is great for long-lived capital infrastructure like this as it spreads the cost over all the generations who will make use of it over the next 80 years or so. Unfortunately it's automatically a political taboo.
But I dunno, maybe that's already factored in with these rises.
Hey, you're onto something there. Maybe if we better used the capacity of our existing roads we wouldn't need to spend a whole bunch of money on new ones. Perhaps we could induce some demand for public transport, cycling and walking that take up far less space, and that could reduce congestion by having fewer cars. That would free up space for the vehicles remaining.
That is weird, the quirks of lemmy I guess. Don't worry though, it's mostly just a big argument about utes :)
It was like 30 mins between a story going up on stuff yesterday and Nicola Willis dismissing it in its entirely lol