This is a cracker. Media and real estate agents becrying 'ruthless property investors'. Takes a vulture to know a vulture?
Err I would say if i was sitting on a burnt-out block of ash and dirt I would be fielding all offers. It is a market that has been beset by a 'black swan event' after all - prices must go down in the short to medium term.
From The Scum:
RUTHLESS property investors are swooping on bushfire victims to buy their devastated land.
Disgusted real estate agents told the Herald Sun they were fielding calls from predators seeking cheap "scorched land for sale".
Greedy landlords also have been caught trying to rent overpriced rooms to survivors who have lost everything.
I feel sick.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1009283/Anti-gay-protesters-to-picket-bushfire-memorial
Anti-gay protesters to picket bushfire memorial
Unreal!
They plan to meet at Rod Laver Arena. I hope they get the **** kicked out of them.
Dams are to the greens what unions are to the Liberals, they would never be in favour of them no matter how strong the argument.uh hmmm...I live 500 yards from the MIGHTY Yarra River....thats right,its right here in the middle of Melbourne...and it all runs out to sea....no dams, no nothing...not retrieve any of it to water all our parks and gardens...
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they will not build a dam anywhere...
That's ridiculous.Im certain heads are going to roll in this royal commission .....
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/754565/city-firies-banned-from-bushfires
The first environmental opposition to building a dam in Australia that I'm aware of was in the 1930's. That dam was built and is still there today. By the 1980's, the green vote was sufficiently important that dam construction all but ceased Australia wide.
Whilst a certain very well known (but incorrectly named by almost everyone) hydro-electric dam in Tasmania was the high profile test case, the results have been national. Same in Brisbane, Melbourne and just about everywhere else. Expansion of large scale water infrastructure effectively ceased in the 70's and 80's and now we're paying the price for not also halting population and economic growth at the same time.
It's not trivial when you end up without enough water and the consequent water restrictions, dead gardens, fire hazards, structural damage to houses and so on. All that's doing quite a bit of damage to the environment too, by the way, especially when it comes to building damage.I know this may sound trivial to Southerners
What about Traveston? Both Beattie and Bligh were determined to go ahead with this, but have since succumbed to Greens pressure.In SE Qld the Beatty government followed by the Bligh Government has pulled every trick in the book to avoid building a dam. They have spent millions on superstructure to recycle water which the public is reluctant to have put in the dams.
Yes, this is the sort of shocking mismanagement that should see Bligh & Co thrown out. But I expect they will be re-elected, so uninspiring is the Springborg opposition.They have spent millions on electrolysis plants which are unusable because essential components are rusting up.
They have spent millions on a network of pipes connecting all the dams so so that Brisbane can access other people's water. It's supposed to work both ways, but I live on the Sunshine Coast where are dams are relatively small. To take our water is like a glutton taking a biscuit from baby. The baby will miss it, but it won't do the glutton much good. The crowning insult is that our water rates are increased to pay for it.
Smurf I don't think you have to persuade anyone on this forum as to the logic of your comments. And quite apart from the hazards you describe above,It's not trivial when you end up without enough water and the consequent water restrictions, dead gardens, fire hazards, structural damage to houses and so on. All that's doing quite a bit of damage to the environment too, by the way, especially when it comes to building damage.
I don't have a link or official reference for this, so you'll have to take my word for it or ignore me on this one. But one forecast I'm aware of puts the chances of an El Niño at around 60% for next Summer.
Day of mourning - I bet all those survivors living in tents wished it was a day of "get me back into a house" KRudd grandstanding as usual - was there a day of mourning for the Bali victims ?
The day of mourning for Bali victims is repeated every year in Bali. There was also a service in Adelaide today, just up from where I live. So I went for a wander, I reckon maybe 100 people were there?
I am sad for all of these people but I just do not feel the need to share a grieving memorial with them.
Me either, I reckon a service for the locals where the tent city is in Yea would have been more appropriate.
A National day of Mourning is just over the top, these people would have been remembered at every church service in Australia , there was no need for this
It was encouraging to see that the fire ravaged communities preferred to attend local services where they could count on the support of their friends, neighbours and fellow victims rather than be transported to Rudd's extravaganza in Melbourne.
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