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About to agitate to have my street closed to vehicular traffic. #InnerCityLiving

@gravel_gamer @AussieWirraway Excuse you we had powered street lights first.

@AussieWirraway Do they even have electricity in Tasmania

A question for your consideration: Which do you think has more escalators? Town Hall railway station, Melbourne Or The state of Tasmania

@GunnerTas @AussieWirraway Does the Woolies count or is it an inclined travellator (ramp not steps)? And does the Woolies "up" count when it's been broken 97% of its life?

@AussieWirraway Not sure about the whole state but I think Launnie has maybe four buildings with escalators. Myer has ~6 storeys worth of escalators. Then Rebel Sport, Target and Woolies CBD locations each with one set from ground to first floor. Maybe one or two I missed.

@three3knots @peter_tulip So you think keeping all the land near Sydney as six houses instead of apartment buildings makes it an accessible city?

@peter_tulip That’s manipulative and absurd. We’re not giving up our heritage for globalist economic zone slop, so the already rich can make more money they don’t need, and be spiteful. Why can’t heritage be renovated and restored? Plenty of work in that for tradies. And beauty.

NSW's new Heritage Strategy is a huge disappointment. No recognition that locking away hundreds of thousands of unremarkable houses in Heritage Conservation Areas is exacerbating the housing affordability crisis. nsw.gov.au/ministerial-re…

@giulio_mattioli Five new metro lines

@goyderssteps Do we have data on that?

Left: the Paris they boast about Right: the whole of Paris

@GunnerTas Seen as I walk home up the steep bit

That's just Balfour Street

Why would you park on the footpath instead of just taking one of the millions of empty car parking spaces?

@GunnerTas There's room on the timetable for more services for sure.

Please run some more service especially on weekends please and thankyou abc.net.au/listen/program…

I mean... this is how I feel always

@peter_tulip Point of order: plenty of local NIMBYs say the heritage is ruined. They're wrong tho.

But it overlooks a heritage area which the residents say will be ruined by the site of the buildings. I think that is absurd. The Mint, Hyde Park barracks, the Colosseum and Westminster Abbey are next to tall modern buildings with no one saying their heritage value is ruined. 3/5

I went to a public meeting to discuss 150 apartments in Castlecrag. It was an extended parade of rudeness and selfishness. Like NIMBYs everywhere they argued "We know there is a housing crisis, but our suburb is special. It needs to be preserved." 1/5

@GunnerTas Boooooooo

Another tower crane goes up in Launnie. This one for a multistory carpark at the LGH.

Ok but do you know what's even more popular? 70sqm that's not on your mum's property. Build apartments!

There's a global fuel crisis and I'm still one of only two people in this bus. We deserve it to be honest.

@Spergapises @PaulSkallas Is that the winter where an inversion event makes the city encourage walking and pt because air quality is so low? So they could just do it all the time and make air quality better than "bare minimum"

@PaulSkallas Where is the parking in this picture? As dense as anyone may want SLC, you cannot survive in Utah without a car unless you’re one of <1% of people with a walkable commute, and even then winters will push you to drive. And if you *have to* drive, returns on “density” are low.

I remember traveling to Salt lake City for work. Stayed for a few weeks. Drove around the suburbs. I kept thinking to myself, wow, you guys have a great state. This is a very nice population. High trust. You could all move to SLC. Make it one of the great cities in America. When I asked people about this they said they preferred the suburbs to living in a city.

@bentags @simongerman600 Or even a shift away from fossil fuels

@simongerman600 Any chance the government might see this as an opportunity to correct policy failings and support domestic gas supply and fertiliser production? No, I didn't think so either

For years I’ve argued that Australia runs a surprisingly simple national business model: Mining, agriculture, tourism, and international education. These four pillars quietly fund one of the highest living standards on Earth. But what happens when geopolitics suddenly interferes with the plumbing of the global economy? The war in Iran isn’t just a distant military conflict. It could push up energy prices, disrupt shipping routes, lengthen freight times and nudge global inflation higher. In my column for The New Daily, I walk through how each pillar of Australia’s national business model might be affected and why some sectors could benefit while others face real headwinds. Read the column here: thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2026/0… #Demographics #Geopolitics #WarInIran #Australia #Economy

Would love if we stopped doing this.

@simongerman600 Qatar's location is a joke surely?

When I am making claims that Australia is becoming a more unequal society, I always point to South Africa and Brazil as societies without a functioning middle class. This chart shows wealth inequality by country. A quintessential question of our time is whether we want a middle class or not - currently we are actively shrinking it across the Western world. Source: visualcapitalist.com/wealth-inequal…

@jasonc_nc @phil_mcalister I mean, we'd all love a yacht and a summer home but that's not what economics permits. Suburbia might be nice, but it's also expensive and people have to be allowed to choose that instead of have the govt require it

So if this is true, and I’m not disagreeing with you, then people could build what they like and people would sort themselves by preference, right? So we don’t need to say, prevent an existing city from being a city to satisfy people who just don’t want anything around them to change.

This is an overly romanticized idea. The density of old Europe/American cities was created more out of necessity than desire. As soon as we had the means, we spread out and chose the space, convenience, and freedom provided by cars and suburbs. No one over 30 wants a small apartment and public transport

swelteringcities.typeform.com/summersurvey26… If you're in Australia this may be of interest

@DrewPavlou You want foreigners to own our hotels now?

Wow. As an Australian I think this is beautiful. I know many millions of my fellow Australians see this as an honour.