With Dutton in the opposition Albanese doesn't even need to try. He can practically do whatever he wants and be re-elected next time.

Trams can also have right of way. For example Dulwich Hill line is a tram the entire section.

However it would prove a conundrum for tfnsw, the T sign is already taken by trains.

Actually for me it's quite good. Get like 1/3 back from dental. Then a bit back from gym fees. Optical is another one I use regularly and I get a massage a year. And most importantly ambulance cover just in case.

Granted one or two of them I would have skipped if I wasn't paying private health (optical and massage).

At the higher salaries if people didn't want to pay the Medicare surcharge and having to buy junk policies they can funnel their discretionary income into investments, the costs of the investments can be negatively geared so you can earn for example a million dollars and only pay 90000 taxable income worth of tax (an extreme example I know). ASX, property, into the business etc. where you reduce your taxable income in exchange for gaining (investable) assets.

I like NSW governments policy. Highrise depends on infrastructure and not how far it is from the CBD. But it is still not good enough.

We have 220m+ in Parramatta which is 20km from CBD and from what I understand the application for it to be higher was denied because it was too close to the airport.

Macquarie Park, Rhodes are new suburbs with 150m+ (definition for a skyscraper). Many others are getting 100m+, Olympic Park, Liverpool etc.

So it is quite spread out already. Even places very far away from Sydney like Penrith, Rouse Hill, Edmondson Park and Leppington will be zoned for high rise.

But we need to overhaul the zoning laws for the missing middle. In Sydney Bankstown to Marrickville and Revesby to Turella should all be up for 100m towers or maximum allowed due to proximity to airport.

It's France they're very xenophobic. Just look at how they treat the Corsicans, Brentons, Basques and Catalans.

Night and day to even a few hundred metres across the road in Spain or Andorra.

China is all aggressive because they know it's now or never. Even before the bad news with their economy it was already a foregone conclusion beforehand.

Everyone knew their population would decline. Then their comparative advantage disappears. Their advantage is a shitload of people, even with a lower GDP per capita it's still significant as it's 4x the population as the next country (besides India, who are on an even lower GDP per capita right now)

Due to the sheer numbers they can use their internal market as political leverage. Disagree with them and no money for you.

There's a few skirmishes but I think Putin has made Xi think twice. Although I do believe China can sustain quite a bit of losses if they do go to war before their advantage of many people disappears.

Firstly they have excess males so theoretically even if they lose excess soldiers it wouldn't affect their birth rate as the issue is lack of women not men.

Might be a two eggs in one basket outlook for them, gain a bit of territory and rebalance their gender ratio.

We can only hope Putin's war has made Xi think twice whilst we bide our time whilst their population decreases.

Encourage young footballers and ship them off early to Europe to play (preferably England so they're guaranteed English language skills). But many go into international skills in non english speaking countries and you can't tell the difference.

And then hope they play for Australia. There's no way we'll ever match them in investment so might as well leverage their resources to train our players.

Why would you even need a digital ID? My digital driver's licence works great, accepted everywhere I go already and I've not carried a wallet for more than a year.

Transport card - digital Credit card - digital Loyalty cards - digital Drivers licence and all types of permits - digital Private health and Medicare - digital

Which place demands a physical copy of anything thesedays and moreover since it's working fine why do we need another

I see this as a way for the government to earn a quick dollar and de facto get into the housing market.

When the owner buys back the share I doubt it will be calculated at the price the person bought it for. It would be at the market price at the time of the buyback.

I guess it works both ways too? I can see someone buying the minimum 2 percent and if they get something like opal or mascot towers when they sell at a loss the government is the one that loses out. So I can see it as a way to transfer the risk to the government and live in a place without having to pay rent.

In women's rankings we actually do quite well, we're 10th ahead of nations with a rich footballing culture such as Portugal, Italy, Belgium and Argentina. That's why we're talking about it. Our women can make the semi finals as we've shown here, our men have no chance.

Another thing is that this is the closest we're getting to a world cup in Australia. That's why the support is where it is now. Would the support be the same if it's held in Europe or South America? I think half the people won't wake up at whatever o'clock it is to watch the games.

Yes we have interest in football, after all it's the most popular sport by far in the world. The Europeans and the South Americans can play well, so why can't we? I think the answer is as simple as the tyranny of distance.

It's way harder for players based here with family here to be able to go to a good academy because it's half a world apart. The best coaches, the best facilities aren't in Australia. We can't get any of the European teams to come and play any consistent games here because it's just too far besides the token pre season friendly if we're lucky.

Yes a struggling league isn't due to a lack of interest in football you're right. There is interest. I would call it untapped potential. Yes it's got the highest participation rate but somehow there's a missing link to turn the participation rate to form a quality league (I wouldn't say quality players because we do get them as I mentioned but they all just leave).

The A league has a player retention problem. And here's the problem - two players get offers one from an A-league team and one from I would even say EFL championship team, where will the player go most of the time? It's brain drain.

Like I said we need more than a world cup every 4 years, we need quality teams that people can go watch after work. That's why the AFL and NRL is so popular. These players are around, the clubs are down the road. The stadium is down the road.

Back to the women's football, only courtnee vine and clare hunt play in Australia. This is similar for mens. Otherwise we'll have this conversation every 4 years where football falls off the radar for the general population.

Funny you mention him, but it was probably the best he could do. He had only one year in the premier league in his entire career. Until we see players that have the middle of their careers in a league it's all moot.

Domestic leagues are important due to accessibility. You're not going to have as much of a following if you can only watch it on tele at stupid o'clock.

That's half the reason why the NRL and AFL are popular, you can go to a game after work. We are the best in Aussie rules because we're practically the only country that plays it and similar to rugby league with the super league at a lower level to the NRL. We are the best of the best in those games.

Football? I would rate A league on the level of EFL league 2. Certainly not one of the top leagues in the world. People want to watch the best and their support is reduced by not being one of the best.

I see more people with EPL/La Liga etc shirts than local teams around town. That alone says something.

Not in a million years.

Noone aspires to play in the A-league. Until we get a league that gives the European leagues a run for the money this statement isn't really true.

We can't even beat the Chinese or Saudis in getting almost retired players over because we can't match them. And also without youth development academies it's just not going to work. Ask China and soon to be Saudi Arabia how splashing a wad of cash is going to work without spending money on grass roots development.

We just don't have the local talent to be able to create a competitive league, the majority of us can't play at a high standard and the very few that do understand that they need to ply their trade overseas to be successful.

Without a successful league the rest is moot, popularity is based on club games not an once every 4 years event.

Ok so she's bilingual. But I still refute that she did much journalism. Sprouting propoganda and operating in a censored environment isn't really journalism in my books. She had no editorial independence.

Edit: I think someone here put it better than me. She's a propagandist not a journalist.

Maybe but that makes it even more perplexing why she would go. It's not like she would do any actual journalism there like I said. Being told what to say rather than telling the truth isn't really journalism.

The warning signs are all there. It's no coincidence that China has become more belligerent as their economy has faltered, they are a dictatorship and they need to divert the attention. Expect more of the same or even dialled up a notch or two as stagnation becomes long term.

Second I wouldn't say being a journalist in China has any prestige. Certainly not any investigative journalism there. You're just told to say what you're told to say, you can pick some random person off the street for that, I mean how hard is that? Would her "experience" mean much outside of China? It's like a person having 10 years experience but never moved beyond the duties of a graduate.

Third she could have gone to Taiwan. If she's struggling to get a job in Australia (I assume due to language abilities?) Taiwan speaks her native language so she would fit right in there and not be in this predicament.

But the end of the day they target us because we can't do anything to counter it. Americans would probably lock up a Chinese citizen on trumped up terrorism charges as leverage whereas Australia doesn't.