Like President Kennedy’s moonshot set to the Benny Hill theme: Victoria to build 800,000 homes.
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ALP promises are fun. Completely unbelievable but the MSM always takes them up and runs with them like they’re gospel.
Those 800,000 homes with land and services would only cost about half a trillion dollars. Is that a line item on the Victorian state budget yet?
Just imposed a new tax on short stay which I guess means motels, caravan parks, camping grounds, whatever.
Lucky Tourism doesn’t matter any more.
Time for the communist pods in 15minute cities eating your soylent green!
And the tax on fuel is going up so you can’t afford to keep shifting your car as often!
A Letter To The Editor from Peter Campion
NFA. Generally “short-stay” refers to Airbnb etc whereby whole houses are rented out on a daily basis: the idea being that the two-three days a week you rent it out intermittently brings more income than a full-time rental (on a weekly / monthly basis)…which means a possible full-time rental is off the market. This designation does NOT generally apply to renting out a room or rooms in your residence.
OK, that aside, no-one believes Andrews. His opponents know he’s lying because it’s impossible, and his supporters know he’s lying because…..it’s impossible. Andrews has run out of vaguely-plausible BS and is now handing out the total 100% shyte….
Something like Adolf in his Berlin bunker .
There is already a severe shortage of timber in Victoria, through Andrews destroying the timber industry here.
BTW, shipping (on boiling seas!) thousands of tonnes of timber from overseas is so great for the environment, as compared with getting it locally!
And where are all the necessary extra construction workers coming from?
Andrews has become so used to lying and gaslighting – and the MSM letting him get away with it – he is now telling the most unashamed and outrageous porkies.
The devil is in the details people…
Podcity, eating the bugs, locked in like Warsaw ghetto prisoners at will.
Looks like Dan has the same level of Genius in housing developments as he has in health and medicine.
I’ll bet he’s done a great deal with China to dismantle all the empty hi-rises in Shanghai, etc, to reassemble them in Melbourne using necessary extra construction workers coming from ChineseTemp Visas.
Once completed, Chinese workers will be rerated as Barista’s and classed as “First Responders” thereby solving that labour shortage.
Dan is lying more and more, but it’s the leftist way.
Every time a politician tells an outrageous lie, it’s not about luck.
It’s a serious measure of how stupid everyone else is, and doubling down with even bigger lies.
Which should be the fate of virtually all our politicians.
Now what does that remind me of? Oh yes,
Time to ‘reimagine’ those spaces.
Andrews’ pitiful attempt to make his agenda sound attractive.
Moronic.
It’s Time to stop paying taxation.
Where is he finding the other 780,000? In the same magic pudding that guaranteed no child will remain in poverty? Perhaps he’s going to get Hunter Biden in as a consultant?
Factcheck true.
Was in Seymour last year and just about all the sawmills are gone. Marbut timber long gone. Sawmill I worked breifly at as a youth gone.
I did work experience with Dept of Conservation Forests & Lands in year 10. The rubbish I see drivelled by environmental science professionals these days perplexes me compared to what I was exposed to back then. Fraid STEM is in the same death spiral the rest of academia is now.
Millenials and Gen Y are mostly too stupid to see why they can’t afford a house. They need to suffer more before they learn. Not learning maths at school has consequences.
No one believes Andrews. However, crooked Dan doesn’t care. He adheres to the Russian word “vranyo” which means we know you’re lying, and you know we know you’re lying, and we know you know we know you’re lying, etc.
When your whole life you’ve been constantly gaslit by people you’re supposed to trust, it can take a while to recover. Some never do.
Last month, Albanese announced his own plan: 1.2 million new homes in five years.
What a stupid comment, if they weren’t taught maths or critical thinking at school by gen-x and boomers who ran the school system while they were imprisoned in it, then it’s gen-x and boomers fault if they’re now ‘stupid’.
I don’t know what left wing leaders hope to achieve by making these obviously lying, utterly absurd promises.
They certainly won’t convince anyone who is not already a hardcore supporter, unless he or she is a complete moron
Labour state and fed are creating massive ghettos to house their fifth column third world army that they’re importing in. Which is why there aren’t enough houses to start with right now but in hell world, stating the obvious to power is banned.
Nice of them to give them a room I guess.
Daniel Andrews promises 1538 new houses a week for 10 years
An impressive mix of Trickonometry and Advanced Unicorn Fartology.
We’re paying to house our replacements, while our own kids live 4 to a house on a 200sqm block until they’re 30.
I’ve looked at Andrew’s comments re BnB and what he’s really saying is that there are ‘up to 30,000’ homes in Victoria used for short stay and we want them.
Kiss your private property good bye.
Superannuation confiscation should be next and Death Duties, cigarette taxes, State fuel taxes, land taxes, breathing tax!
Forget the pods, its the taxation they really want.
Mostly destroyed. I work in the industry but the mill in our business group will survive. Because we have plantations. However the oldest is still 5 years from being harvested.
7 mills in total say they won’t go under, including ASH which is 49% government owned and raiding Tasmanian sawlogs paying a premium price to do so, which is bankrupting Taswegian mills in the process, but 14-15 mills are gonesky.
The price of timber is going to skyrocket. As in likely double in price within 12 months for hardwoods. If you can get it.
⬆️ This.
240,000 a year, or over 4,600 per week, depending on whether you divide the 240,000 by weeks (52) or days (365).
The last time federal labore announced an “affordable housing initiative” the majority (i.e. pretty much all) of the dwellings ended up being occupied by foreign “students”.
We really need to stop letting these lazy useless incompetent utterly corrupt morons insult our intelligence in this way.
Refusing to vote for them – and I mean all of them, would be a start.
Rohan says: 20 September, 2023 at 6:47 pm
During the 1980’s I worked for a red gum NSW sawmill whose owners were members of the then Victorian Sawmillers Association (Hardwood Millers now) and I remember about 1984 attending a meeting where we were told forget about it.
The entire industry will be shutdown and when they have accomplished that they will close down plantations.
Rohan, I think a doubling of timber prices is being conservative.
what C.L. says: 20 September, 2023 at 8:42 pm
NFA, the boss is already working on that likelihood. I’ve never seen anyone able to think outside the box like him. And he’s prepared to play the long game.
Very ironic, considering that elsewhere Australia is cutting down whole forests for wind turbines to “save the planet.”
They had choices at school. They avoid the hard stuff like maths and do bs subjects like drama. Weak parents too, no doubt. If you get to know these younger generations you will realise how they really believe that they are clever. It’s why they think they should be managing a company shortly after starting there. They are going to learn lots of hard lessons in life.
CL, timber is still being milled in this state. It’s currently being sourced from NSW and QLD, who have excess available due to the slowdown in construction. In addition, you would be surprised at how many 50-200 ha sized plantations exist and many of them are mature.
Mind you, many are trying to sell the rights at exorbitant prices. Some of these clowns haven’t figured out that those mills who might survive, won’t be in a position to pay the highway robbery rates on offer.
Thanks for info on this, Rohan.
Good topic for a major Sky report.
Rohan
Ask your boss if he knows of Bonum Sawmills.
A half smart conservative government would have been conserving old growth forests on state and federal land as well as plantations for the use of saw mills to provide builders and artisans with the necessary timber for industry. In a sense, they’d be establishing a quasi-patronage system between themselves and the communities dependent on these mills and allied industries, and so on. We got the opposite.
Suspect the housing towers policy is as much about shoring up inner city electorates from the Greens as anything. Also opportunistic. They’ve got a couple of towers derelict and unfit for human habitation, announce a big ‘visionary’ project that is uncosted and take years, but contract CFMEU to start demolishing the currently derelict towers to show ‘action’.
The other irony is that Dan has just evicted a large block of apartments in Box Hill to support his Suburban Rail Loop theatre.
NFA, that’s the mill at Bahram that closed when they locked up the river redgum a decade ago right?
Yes Rohan.
I’m interested in who your boss might be is the reason I ask.
I’ll email C.L. to give you my email if you prefer.
Cheers.
PS I consider that the communists have been actively working against Australia since at least WWII. BA Santamarie, and others, highlighted it all years ago.
So far they have destroyed forestry, fishing, small scale mining, The Great Barrier Reef, manufacturing and now actively destroying agriculture and energy production.
Since Club of Rome’s 1960’s intent to turn Australia into one pristine ‘wilderness’ populated by cute indigenous there plans only now need to kill off city populations.
Santamarie should be Santamaria!
Note that approximately half of these houses are in regional Victoria and quite possibly many have been holiday homes of long standing that have already been hit hard by increased land tax.
Holiday rentals are already incredibly expensive in Victoria. I wouldn’t even bother, personally.
And I’d point out that that there in no shortage of land to build privately in regional Victoria if that’s where people want to live. Cost of materials in another Dan Big Build is another story.
this is the proposed airbnb tax in Victoria, to help fund housing
Communism has always put people into high rise prisons of bland communist design.
But the residents will be able to get to anywhere they want within 15 minutes.
Shy Ted
Rather longer than 15 minutes if the power is out, and the lift is not working.
Just wondering whether Andrews made this promise (which even his die-hard supporters will disbelieve he can carry out) to appease his union masters?
Lee says: 21 September, 2023 at 12:19 pm
He’s a communist and he can say anything he likes and the paid communist presstitutes swoon.
He’s just appearing to be “doing something” like every other State and Federal ‘headless’ leader.
NFA, busy all day at work. I can’t say too much on an open forum as some info is privileged. CL can give you my email or vica versa.
Yes the Marxists have a lot to answer for. And the middling IQ corruptocrat enablers.
The issue with our forests now is what’s the plan to manage them. Our forests are in decline due to neglect. Alfred Howitt’s eminent 1890 paper stated that the displacement of aboriginals resulted in no cool weather burning. This in turn allowed beetles to eat the canopy, killing the forest redgum that covered the entire state. Or massive conflagrations to kill the forest.
Nothing’s changed. I went and shot at Lilydale Rifle Club a fortnight ago. It’s out the back of Launching Place on a DELWP lease. 3 sides are bush. Weeds and dead trees/branches are over 6’ high. You cant see further in than 2 metres. They’ll loose their clubhouse, amenities and equipment sheds if a fire rips through. They’re worried and they’re angry.
This is being repeated all over the state.
Rohan says: 21 September, 2023 at 7:12 pm
I appreciate the privileged aspect and I have already asked C.L. to pass on my email address to you if you contact him.
There is no plan that I can see except leave them for the new ‘overlords’.
It is a national disgrace!
The redgum forests along The Murray were some of the original managed forests with the advent of paddle-steamers and the railways. All gone now! When I was at Bonum we organized with, then, NSW Forestry to harvest a few hectares of marked trees and pick up all the dead limbs. Top of the memory it was over 100 tonne per hectare of fallen stuff.
I used to have occasion to travel from and to Canberra to/from down South and I liked going via Jindebyne and around the back of Mt. Kosciuszko and down to/from Corryong but the last time I came down the forest had been burnt to cinders. Got talking to a bloke in the Corryong Pub who told me ‘the scum’ had stopped the loggers and so no-one left to stop wild fire.
Sad world but think of the koalas.