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A Victorian Investor’s Lament (A Ballad in B Minor)

Cry havoc! The tyranny is here!
The state, in its wisdom, dared to tax my land.
Not just the one house, but the three… or four… spread far and near.
A bill! A statement! How dare they make a stand?

So I’ve packed my portfolios, tears upon my cheek,
Fleeing north and west, a tragic, noble flight.
To friendlier shores where coffers stay unique,
And negative gearing is a sacred, hallowed right.

But weep for Victoria! A paradise soon lost!
For who will house the renters? (At a tidy sum, of course?)
It won’t be us! We’re recklessly embossed
By the greedy, grubby first-home buyer, that new, predatory force.

Yes, they’ll live in them. The sheer audacity!
Planting gardens, paying mortgages, a truly bleak affair.
While we, the prudent, driven out by land tax lunacy,
Must simply find new states to gently… well, invest in there.

And when the rental crisis deepens (as it surely, sadly will),
Remember who they chased away with pen and paper blunt.
The saviours with a spreadsheet, who performed a public till—
Now replaced by folks who want a home. The economic runt.

#ausproperty #vicvotes #victoria
#VictorianExodus #LandTaxLunacy #InvestorsInMourning #RentersWillPay (We Promise) #FirstHomeBuyerGreed #QLDLovesMyMoney #SurvivalMode #ItsNotAnAirbnbItsACryForHelp #PropertyFeels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuIg1MKkp6Q

A Victorian Investor’s Lament (A Ballad in B Minor)

Cry havoc! The tyranny is here!
The state, in its wisdom, dared to tax my land.
Not just the one house, but the three… or four… spread far and near.
A bill! A statement! How dare they make a stand?

So I’ve packed my portfolios, tears upon my cheek,
Fleeing north and west, a tragic, noble flight.
To friendlier shores where coffers stay unique,
And negative gearing is a sacred, hallowed right.

But weep for Victoria! A paradise soon lost!
For who will house the renters? (At a tidy sum, of course?)
It won’t be us! We’re recklessly embossed
By the greedy, grubby first-home buyer, that new, predatory force.

Yes, they’ll live in them. The sheer audacity!
Planting gardens, paying mortgages, a truly bleak affair.
While we, the prudent, driven out by land tax lunacy,
Must simply find new states to gently… well, invest in there.

And when the rental crisis deepens (as it surely, sadly will),
Remember who they chased away with pen and paper blunt.
The saviours with a spreadsheet, who performed a public till—
Now replaced by folks who want a home. The economic runt.

#ausproperty #vicvotes #victoria
#VictorianExodus #LandTaxLunacy #InvestorsInMourning #RentersWillPay (We Promise) #FirstHomeBuyerGreed #QLDLovesMyMoney #SurvivalMode #ItsNotAnAirbnbItsACryForHelp #PropertyFeels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuIg1MKkp6Q

A Victorian Investor’s Lament (A Ballad in B Minor)

Cry havoc! The tyranny is here!
The state, in its wisdom, dared to tax my land.
Not just the one house, but the three… or four… spread far and near.
A bill! A statement! How dare they make a stand?

So I’ve packed my portfolios, tears upon my cheek,
Fleeing north and west, a tragic, noble flight.
To friendlier shores where coffers stay unique,
And negative gearing is a sacred, hallowed right.

But weep for Victoria! A paradise soon lost!
For who will house the renters? (At a tidy sum, of course?)
It won’t be us! We’re recklessly embossed
By the greedy, grubby first-home buyer, that new, predatory force.

Yes, they’ll live in them. The sheer audacity!
Planting gardens, paying mortgages, a truly bleak affair.
While we, the prudent, driven out by land tax lunacy,
Must simply find new states to gently… well, invest in there.

And when the rental crisis deepens (as it surely, sadly will),
Remember who they chased away with pen and paper blunt.
The saviours with a spreadsheet, who performed a public till—
Now replaced by folks who want a home. The economic runt.

#ausproperty #vicvotes #victoria
#VictorianExodus #LandTaxLunacy #InvestorsInMourning #RentersWillPay (We Promise) #FirstHomeBuyerGreed #QLDLovesMyMoney #SurvivalMode #ItsNotAnAirbnbItsACryForHelp #PropertyFeels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuIg1MKkp6Q

A Victorian Investor’s Lament (A Ballad in B Minor)

Cry havoc! The tyranny is here!
The state, in its wisdom, dared to tax my land.
Not just the one house, but the three… or four… spread far and near.
A bill! A statement! How dare they make a stand?

So I’ve packed my portfolios, tears upon my cheek,
Fleeing north and west, a tragic, noble flight.
To friendlier shores where coffers stay unique,
And negative gearing is a sacred, hallowed right.

But weep for Victoria! A paradise soon lost!
For who will house the renters? (At a tidy sum, of course?)
It won’t be us! We’re recklessly embossed
By the greedy, grubby first-home buyer, that new, predatory force.

Yes, they’ll live in them. The sheer audacity!
Planting gardens, paying mortgages, a truly bleak affair.
While we, the prudent, driven out by land tax lunacy,
Must simply find new states to gently… well, invest in there.

And when the rental crisis deepens (as it surely, sadly will),
Remember who they chased away with pen and paper blunt.
The saviours with a spreadsheet, who performed a public till—
Now replaced by folks who want a home. The economic runt.

#ausproperty #vicvotes #victoria
#VictorianExodus #LandTaxLunacy #InvestorsInMourning #RentersWillPay (We Promise) #FirstHomeBuyerGreed #QLDLovesMyMoney #SurvivalMode #ItsNotAnAirbnbItsACryForHelp #PropertyFeels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuIg1MKkp6Q

A Victorian Investor’s Lament (A Ballad in B Minor)

Cry havoc! The tyranny is here!
The state, in its wisdom, dared to tax my land.
Not just the one house, but the three… or four… spread far and near.
A bill! A statement! How dare they make a stand?

So I’ve packed my portfolios, tears upon my cheek,
Fleeing north and west, a tragic, noble flight.
To friendlier shores where coffers stay unique,
And negative gearing is a sacred, hallowed right.

But weep for Victoria! A paradise soon lost!
For who will house the renters? (At a tidy sum, of course?)
It won’t be us! We’re recklessly embossed
By the greedy, grubby first-home buyer, that new, predatory force.

Yes, they’ll live in them. The sheer audacity!
Planting gardens, paying mortgages, a truly bleak affair.
While we, the prudent, driven out by land tax lunacy,
Must simply find new states to gently… well, invest in there.

And when the rental crisis deepens (as it surely, sadly will),
Remember who they chased away with pen and paper blunt.
The saviours with a spreadsheet, who performed a public till—
Now replaced by folks who want a home. The economic runt.

#ausproperty #vicvotes #victoria
#VictorianExodus #LandTaxLunacy #InvestorsInMourning #RentersWillPay (We Promise) #FirstHomeBuyerGreed #QLDLovesMyMoney #SurvivalMode #ItsNotAnAirbnbItsACryForHelp #PropertyFeels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuIg1MKkp6Q

Normally the fare rise for 1st January would have been announced by now.
Fair enough the decision may have been delayed by the #VicVotes state election, but given it's usually based on CPI (and inflation has been high this year) I wouldn't be surprised if they are trying to bury the announcement during the Christmas period.
#Melbourne #Victoria #SpringSt #PublicTransport #TakingOutTheTrash

This is interesting, The Age has a tool that allows you to search on specific polling booth results at the recent state election. I’ve attached a screenshot of the booth I voted at in North Melbourne, looks pretty leftie! :)
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Find out how your neighbours voted in the Victorian election - and the suburbs that swung https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/find-out-how-your-neighbours-voted-in-the-victorian-election-and-the-suburbs-that-swung-20221220-p5c7ti.html

#VicPol #VicVotes #SpringSt #Politics #Victoria #Australia

So in Victoria’s upper house, the result for parties on the left is:

Labor 15
Greens 4
Legalise Cannabis 2
Animal Welfare 1

That’s a majority, with one to spare. The Liberal/National coalition won 14 seats, and there were 4 other seats each going to a different right-wing party (One Nation, DLP, LDP, Shooters Fishers & Farmers).

#SpringSt #VicVotes #VicPol #Victoria #Australia

Very pleased with this, as Victoria's rotten group voting system in the upper house has disadvantaged the Greens in the past. 4 seats won out of 40 is fair, given the party's roughly 10% first preference vote.
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Greens claim four upper house seats: Electoral commission confirms results https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/renee-heath-wins-seat-electoral-commission-confirms-upper-house-mps-20221212-p5c5ld.html

#VicVotes #SpringSt #Victoria #Australia #VicPol

I was interviewed on Solidarity Breakfast | 3CR Community Radioshow Sat 10 Dec. Interview starts about 12 minutes in. Subject was the swings against Labor in the Northern suburbs, and the silence on upgrading the #Upfieldline extending it to Wallan. I also discuss the VAMPIRE index (vulnerability assessment for mortgage, petroleum and inflation risks and expenditure) adding to #costofliving pressures in northern suburbs.

Also for the first time the MPs representing #Merribek have all signed the #climateemergency declaration.

#UpgradeUpfield #publicTransport #Vicvotes2022 #Vicvotes http://www.3cr.org.au/solidaritybreakfast

I was interviewed on Solidarity Breakfast | 3CR Community Radioshow Sat 10 Dec. Interview starts about 12 minutes in. Subject was the swings against Labor in the Northern suburbs, and the silence on upgrading the #Upfieldline extending it to Wallan. I also discuss the VAMPIRE index (vulnerability assessment for mortgage, petroleum and inflation risks and expenditure) adding to #costofliving pressures in northern suburbs.

Also for the first time the MPs representing #Merribek have all signed the #climateemergency declaration.

#UpgradeUpfield #publicTransport #Vicvotes2022 #Vicvotes http://www.3cr.org.au/solidaritybreakfast

I was interviewed on Solidarity Breakfast | 3CR Community Radioshow Sat 10 Dec. Interview starts about 12 minutes in. Subject was the swings against Labor in the Northern suburbs, and the silence on upgrading the #Upfieldline extending it to Wallan. I also discuss the VAMPIRE index (vulnerability assessment for mortgage, petroleum and inflation risks and expenditure) adding to #costofliving pressures in northern suburbs.

Also for the first time the MPs representing #Merribek have all signed the #climateemergency declaration.

#UpgradeUpfield #publicTransport #Vicvotes2022 #Vicvotes http://www.3cr.org.au/solidaritybreakfast

I was interviewed on Solidarity Breakfast | 3CR Community Radioshow Sat 10 Dec. Interview starts about 12 minutes in. Subject was the swings against Labor in the Northern suburbs, and the silence on upgrading the #Upfieldline extending it to Wallan. I also discuss the VAMPIRE index (vulnerability assessment for mortgage, petroleum and inflation risks and expenditure) adding to #costofliving pressures in northern suburbs.

Also for the first time the MPs representing #Merribek have all signed the #climateemergency declaration.

#UpgradeUpfield #publicTransport #Vicvotes2022 #Vicvotes http://www.3cr.org.au/solidaritybreakfast

@Grunta The #ABC are covering this. Early on in the tally they have too much to the idea that voters have a message for the major parties. Clearly not the case. Congratulations to The Greens, but I'd hardly call 4 seats a "Greenside". The Victorian Liberal Party are mostly bleeding votes to The Nats

#AusPol #VicVotes #SpringSt

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-09/bass-labor-jordan-crugnale-lower-house-victorian-election/101756968

I enjoy reading these detailed post-election dissections of how a campaign went. Call me a politics tragic.
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Giant-slayer: How door-knocking and deals turned red Richmond Green https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/giant-slayer-how-door-knocking-and-deals-turned-red-richmond-green-20221205-p5c3nb.html

#VicVotes #SpringSt #VicPol

One of those seats where your vote definitely matters. :)
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‘Down to the wire’: Greens wind back concession as Northcote race tightens https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/down-to-the-wire-greens-wind-back-concession-as-northcote-race-tightens-20221205-p5c3vb.html

#SpringSt #VicVotes

"Nothing is forever. Nothing has a right to political presence. In politics you are there because you give solid form to the aspiration and belief of real people. Those people are not there to give form to your fantasies; that way irrelevance lies."

Very good piece from Jonathan Green on #VicVotes #VicVotes2022:

https://greenworlds.substack.com/p/if-wishes-were-voters

"Nothing is forever. Nothing has a right to political presence. In politics you are there because you give solid form to the aspiration and belief of real people. Those people are not there to give form to your fantasies; that way irrelevance lies."

Very good piece from Jonathan Green on #VicVotes #VicVotes2022:

https://greenworlds.substack.com/p/if-wishes-were-voters

"Nothing is forever. Nothing has a right to political presence. In politics you are there because you give solid form to the aspiration and belief of real people. Those people are not there to give form to your fantasies; that way irrelevance lies."

Very good piece from Jonathan Green on #VicVotes #VicVotes2022:

https://greenworlds.substack.com/p/if-wishes-were-voters

"Nothing is forever. Nothing has a right to political presence. In politics you are there because you give solid form to the aspiration and belief of real people. Those people are not there to give form to your fantasies; that way irrelevance lies."

Very good piece from Jonathan Green on #VicVotes #VicVotes2022:

https://greenworlds.substack.com/p/if-wishes-were-voters

"Nothing is forever. Nothing has a right to political presence. In politics you are there because you give solid form to the aspiration and belief of real people. Those people are not there to give form to your fantasies; that way irrelevance lies."

Very good piece from Jonathan Green on #VicVotes #VicVotes2022:

https://greenworlds.substack.com/p/if-wishes-were-voters