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  1. Second and subsequent home-ownership here is encouraged by tax right-offs that can be claimed on rental properties. "Negative gearing" is the mechanism whereby if the rental income you are getting from a property is less than the cost of the mortgage, the "loss" can be claimed as a tax deduction. In addition, all maintenance, rental collection, council rates and other service fees are tax deductible. None of this applies to the family residence. Most second and subsequent homes are financed with interest-only loans, the intention is not to pay the place off, but just claim the deductions. For this reason many Australians have one or more investment properties. The government did tinker with the lending regulations a couple of years ago in an attempt to restrict investors and help first-home buyers, but since then other factors have come into play to thwart them. Firstly the rise of short-term rentals like AirBnB which gives much greater profit than renting to tenants, which even if the negative gearing deduction no longer applies due to the income being greater than the mortgage, in itself generates bigger returns than the previous tax deduction did, so they are still ahead. This is causing huge housing issues in places like inner Sydney and Hobart and popular tourist areas like Byron Bay and Cairns where locals just cannot find a house to rent due to many previous long-term rentals now being airBnB's. Finally, the capital gain being achieved at the moment is insane, and means some owners just lock the place up empty until the required capital gain is achieved, rather than dealing with tenants etc. As an idea of the gain, the average Sydney house price in 2004 was $505,000 (£261,000). In 2024 it is currently $1,400,630 (£724,685.96) and still rising at around 4%PA, and forecast to go to 6% later this year.
  2. No, he did it again in a speech crazed rant in Sth Georgia on the weekend.
  3. Not doubting that but just as an interesting fact, the indigenous Jawoyn people who live in the Northern Territory in a region that is home to at least one large uranium deposit have always called it "Sickness Country" and have avoided the area for thousands of years. One of their dreamtime stories of the region refers to Bula – The Creator: "Bula finally went under the ground at a few locations North of Katherine in an area known to us as “Sickness Country”. It is called this because the area is very dangerous and should not be disturbed for fear that earthquakes and fire will destroy the world."
  4. NRL last night - New Zealand Warriors VS Melbourne Storm, 25 seconds left on the clock, Melbourne trailing by 2 when this happened.
  5. See Bluey, series 2 episode 34 "Swim School" for a philosophical analysis of dobbing.
  6. No that'd be NEIGHbours, which features those psycho f*(*en horses.
  7. The Hendra virus is a good example. Named after the Brisbane suburb of Hendra where it was discovered, it is a zoonotic virus (ie is transmitted from other species to humans) but the path is quite convulated. Its primary host is the fruit bat. Horses that eat grass from under trees that fruit bats roost in can contract the virus from bat urine, faeces or saliva present on the grass. Infected horses exhibit symptoms like rapid heartbeat, illness and respiratory problems. Humans (ie vets, stablehands and so on) who treat infected horses or perform post mortems on them are susceptible to the virus via secretions. In addition, dogs have been found to have been exposed to the Hendra virus on properties that had infected horses, although none of them showed symptoms. So basically, the transmission path is bat to horse, horse to human, and horses to dog. There is no evidence of human to human, bat to human, bat to dog, or dog to human transmission, but if ever that gets modified we are in for a fun time: The mortality rate for the Hendra virus for horses is 80%, for humans 70%. There is no cure, human vaccine or specific medical treatment for Hendra virus.
  8. Between you and me I reckon he's actually a bit dirty because we stole Phar Lap, Split Enz, Russell Crowe and the Pavlova from NZ, but I didn't want to mention them.
  9. Jeez , we bowl ONE cheeky under-arm ball to you 42 years ago as a joke and you are still dirty about it - let it go, cuz!
  10. Its Gods Own mate! Check this out - everyone wants to move to the USA . Except for those from one country who know it can't get any better.... https://cf.datawrapper.de/dduui/2/
  11. Now, this is based on Aussie snakes, but snakes use energy to produce venom, which they prioritise for using to kill prey, but this varies with species so down here for instance the Eastern Brown Snake ("worlds 2nd or 3rd or something deadliest snake") will often bite without injecting venom - recent research indicates that Brown snakes happily inflict dry-bites up to 80% of the time, compared to the deadlier Taipans which envenomate pretty much all of their strikes. If you are unlucky you'll get bitten by a juvenile brown snake, who's venom is just as toxic as a full-grown one, but who has not yet worked out the being-economical-with-the-venom thing, so will often strike multiple times. The Brown snakes venom is rated as 2nd most toxic in the world, after the inland Taipan, one bite has enough venom to kill 200,000 mice. The venom of an Eastern Brown Snake contains a cocktail of poisons. The most powerful ingredient is a neurotoxin, which paralyses the nerves of the heart, lungs and diaphragm, suffocating the victim. It also contains a powerful procoagulant. Sinve I've been living here I've had maybe 4 Eastern Browns in my back yard, (plus a Tiger and 3 Red Belly Blacks) the biggest Brownie was 2 metres long, and they are aggressive as F#@#k so the only pic I have of the 2 metre one was taken from one storey up!. Killing snakes is illegal since they are native wildlife and therefore protected (unless you did it in self-defence) but they do definitely see what is going on around them and react accordingly. The one in the picture reacted extremely aggressively to the snake catcher as he tried to coax it into the bag, as soon as the bloke stopped still, the snake calmed right down and the bloke could get it from behind and hook him into the bag. Back in our dads age the standard reaction to seeing a snake was to try to hit it with a shovel, which is exceptionally hard to do when they are riled up so many people died as a result. Particularly in the case of the Taipan, which pulls back into an S shape prior to striking and can launch itself full body length into the air and bite you on the upper leg or midriff, where it is almost impossible to tourniquet. Prior to the development of anti-venom in the 60's or 70's a bite from a Taipan was 100% fatal. These days the Eastern Brown Snake is responsible for most deaths here. Deaths in Sydney in recent years have ranged from a young boy who was bitten while out in some bush and ran in panic back home to mum but died before reaching her due to his exertion which allowed the venom to circulate more quickly, to an elderly lady in the northern suburbs who was found dead in her back yard . A "Midsommer Murders" style investigation concluded she'd been bitten by a Brown Snake while gardening without realising it - often the bite itself is painless.
  12. It looks like a 1994 model. Ford definitely lost their way with the Mustang for a while, that looks more Japanese (Celica) or Korean (Hyundai Coupe).
  13. A 25% discrepancy in size would not be caused by exposure settings, it'd almost definitely be a scaling issue caused by the slicer - perhaps it is incorrectly reading the sizes inside the .stl file. I'm not familiar with the Anycubic slicing software but I assume it would have a scaling tool/button of some kind. Have you tried this to confirm the dimensions are as you expected? If they are wrong then you can use the same scaling tool to set them to what you want them to be.
  14. Fear not. The Australian Trade Agreement she championed is kicking goals , check out what I've found in my fridge. EU? pffff ..... Shmee you!
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