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Note that all states and territories increased apart from Victoria.
Perhaps the IPA report may have had some substance after all.
Mick
 
IFocus said:
Should have just locked the border like WA and carried on as for the IPA always thought they were totally imparcial and am sure that report will be objective and balanced. :roflmao::roflmao:
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McGowan pulled off a blinder, the State has never done better, every caravan park from Esperance to Kununurra was booked out. :xyxthumbs
 
I don't know if this is Victorian politics or Austrian housing, so I will post it here, because it sounds like a bit of politics in the housing space.

www.theage.com.au

Flood risk for more than 22,000 inner Melbourne properties, new modelling shows

Blindsided residents in Fitzroy, Collingwood and Richmond will be told their homes are at risk of flooding from overflowing drains.
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More than a third of all properties in the City of Yarra are at risk of flooding from overflowing drains, according to new modelling that has blindsided residents, who now face rising insurance costs and reduced home values.

The City of Yarra, which includes Fitzroy, Collingwood and Richmond, quietly published new stormwater drain flood modelling in its agenda for Tuesday night’s council meeting.
The maps designate 22,179 properties as being liable to flooding – just over a third of the 60,037 properties in the municipality. While the council ran a community engagement program for a month last year, council’s meeting documents state only 137 people participated, meaning many locals had no idea the updated modelling was happening.
Yarra Council has since defended its consultation process, telling The Age it also sent just over 4500 letters and promoted it via council newsletters and social media.

On Tuesday night, following a one-hour discussion, councillors turned down a recommendation from council staff to formally declare the new flood areas and apply new building rules to planning matters.
Councillors instead unanimously voted to defer the decision until February and request detail about the capacity of stormwater drains
 
The recent "exclusive" report from 60 Minutes , the Age, and whoever else is in the nine stable regarding the corruption in the CFMEU brings out the usual responses.
The LNC scream union thuggery, the ALP do a Casabalanca and say " I'm shocked i tell you, shocked!", and keep right on taking the bribes.
The Victorian Premier was of course, quite vocal in condemming the CFMEU,but she can hardly pretend she was not aware of it.
The Surveyors union has contacted the ombusdman , Allan's office, and anyone who would listen about CFMEU standover tactics, but somehow was unable or unwilling to act.

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Mick
 
I would have thought there would be a Royal Commission, in the name of transparency, it's a bit rich when you get this headline and there is no screaming about it.
It would indicate that the criminals play an active roll in the Labor Party, which in itself is outrageous.
Suspension from Federal Labor would indicate they have been a part of Federal Labor and they talk about the opposition protecting Banks, what about protecting a corrupt organisation which apparently has criminal activity.
Sounds like the Banking Royal Commission all over again. 🤣


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Front page of the Age.

The Victorian government has signed a contract with John Holland to demolish the public housing buildings in Carlton, North Melbourne and Kensington.
Just evil.
 
Knobby22 said:
Front page of the Age.

The Victorian government has signed a contract with John Holland to demolish the public housing buildings in Carlton, North Melbourne and Kensington.
Just evil.
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And they also sold off crown land that had been earmarked for social housing.
Lies upon lies.
And yet, it is likely that the because of the complete ineptitude of the opposiytion, the Allan government is likely to be re elected.


From The Age
Crown land earmarked for social housing in Melbourne’s north – a project the Allan government last week insisted had not been dumped, despite removing it from its Big Housing Build scheme – is now being sold off to a developer for private homes.

The state government now claims the block at 18a Miller Street in Preston – where more than 140 social and affordable homes were to be built – was never part of the Big Housing Build, despite its own documents showing the site was in the program.
The Sunday Age can also reveal that the Victorian government has signed a $100 million contract with John Holland for the demolition of the first three tower redevelopments in Carlton, Flemington and North Melbourne, despite an ongoing class action to stop them being knocked down.
The state government quietly removed 15 sites from the Big Housing Build to cut costs, The Age revealed last week, leaving hundreds of new social homes – set to be built on state-owned land – without funding.

The $5.3 billion Big Housing Build was announced in 2020 to deliver 12,000 new social and affordable homes across the state over four years, but is now years behind schedule as construction costs rise.
The government insists each of the 15 projects will still go ahead and says it is seeking funding from other streams and from the Commonwealth to progress them. “These projects have not been dumped,” a Homes Victoria spokesperson told The Age last week.
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Mick
 
The good news is the a
mullokintyre said:
And they also sold off crown land that had been earmarked for social housing.
Lies upon lies.
And yet, it is likely that the because of the complete ineptitude of the opposiytion, the Allan government is likely to be re elected.


From The Age


Mick
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The good news is the internal attack on Pesutto failed so he is relatively safe and should win the next state election. The bad news is that we have years to wait. 4 year terms were a bad idea.
 
As if any further evidence were required as to the complete and total corruption of Victorian politics, it seems that the Victorian government is going to introduce laws that will prevent anyone from suing Victorian Police over the Vicpol illegal and corrupt entnaglement of a criminal defence lawyer in its informant program.

From ABC News
Lawyers for disgraced barrister Nicola Gobbo say they have been blindsided by the Victorian government's bid to block her lawsuit against police.

On Tuesday, the Victorian government revealed plans to introduce laws preventing anyone seeking to sue Victoria Police in relation to the disastrous Lawyer X affair — in which Ms Gobbo provided information to police about her gangland clients.

The Allan government's bill appears to be designed to retrospectively halt the major civil cases of police informer Ms Gobbo, Faruk Orman and others.

The government said the State Civil Liability Bill would limit the state's liability for legal claims "relating to information sharing or other assistance provided to Victoria Police by Joseph Acquaro and Nicola Gobbo".

Victoria Police recruited and registered barrister Nicola Gobbo as a police informer in an attempt to solve Melbourne's bloody gangland war in the 2000s.
The debacle led to a $100 million royal commission, the establishment — and disbanding — of an Office of the Special Investigator, and two men being freed from jail.

Ms Gobbo is suing Victoria Police for ruining her career and endangering her life.

A lawyer for Ms Gobbo told the ABC her lawsuit was set down for mediation this month and a trial in October and they had received no advance notice of the government's move.

"That a government takes this step at the door of the court to defeat the case clearly shows that they and the police force know they are at fault," they said.

"Nicola is understandably in very poor health but it seems no one cares."
The lawyer said Ms Gobbo — who did give evidence to the royal commission — had hoped to fully "tell her story" during the lawsuit.

Wrongfully convicted man's lawyer says move is 'hugely concerning'​

Mr Orman's lawyer Jeremy King told the ABC he was deeply concerned.

"This is an erosion of the rule of law," he said.
Faruk Orman is suing Victoria Police for wrongful imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution.

The Victorian Court of Appeal quashed Mr Orman's murder conviction after his lawyer, Nicola Gobbo, was revealed to be a police informer while acting for him.

He had served 12 years in jail.
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There will of course be pay backs for the Government by Vicpol, or perhaps they have already been paid.
Mick
 
From ABC News

The Victorian Government have put their hands up to hold the 2030 gay Games.
This is despite already having to cancel holding the 2026 Commonwealth Games .
I wonder if the Gays for Palestine will be putting in a bid on behalf of Palestine??
Mick

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