UPDATE:

I got the design slightly varied, namely with the shirt. :33

Look at the goober~!

Today I commissioned and received the first ever full body of my fursona! And I'm SO FREAKING HAPPY WITH THE RESULT, LOOK!!! 😭❤️❤️

Go show the artist some love~! Their work is so good, and they bought my sona really to life here 🥰

🎨: @/M15h4_bun (Instagram)

One of the last things I was expecting was a bushfire in Olympic Park, just around the block from my apartment.

Fortunately it was extinguished fairly quickly, but still kinda scary, especially when the wind picked up lol.

Thanks especially goes to the brave firefighters of NSW Fire & Rescue!

The Commission stated that even if there were staunch opposition, there is no other real way to effectively eliminate profit-making from land, and noted the benefits include lowered capital costs for housing, lowered cost in not having to purchase land, and reduced need for govt subsidies. 🧵

The Commission looked at the concerns of a UK Committee who also looked at nationalisation, and refuted them; noting that "political controversy" isn't a valid objection to desirable policy, and that such a thing shouldn't be daunting given war-time experience in running a planned economy. 🧵

One of the more radical suggestions that I would like to highlight was the recommendation the Commission made for land nationalisation, i.e. conversion of all freehold to leasehold-only. Seeing how speculative holders hoard land and misuse it expecting profit, it saw a need for change. 🧵

These included government regulation of the pricing of rent and construction materials, of land transfers, etc, and participation of government in building housing. Given the Commission's findings that adequate housing was not even built *before* the war, this was deemed absolutely necessary. 🧵

The Commission acknowledged directly how greed led to crisis, and that it was not something going to change even once the war was over. Seeing the failures of the market, the Commission strongly urged the government take over and continue war-time measures, and also suggested more radical actions. 🧵

The Commonwealth Housing Commission's final report is quite an interesting look into the war-time approach to a housing crisis of nearly identical conditions as that of today. War-time experience had seen governments confident in their ability to supplement market economics with central planning. 🧵

I shouldn't be surprised that the capitalist state is staunchly opposed to trade unions, but dawg this is like a parody.

I'm gonna kms I hate this country.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

My worst reply yet. :3

I got to participate in a pretty interesting event today! A community BBQ out in Croydon! I got to shake hands with my local member for Reid and the Member for Strathfield, and then a lovely speech from the Minister for Indigenous Australians herself, reminding us what the Voice is actually about. ❤️

Museum Sydney :3
Got some old advertisement posters on the walls, the UK Tube style logo, and yeah

Rainy day in the Sydney CBD, riding on a bus

Something I got to participate in recently was a political debate, Young Labor v. Young Liberal!

It was my first exposure to such a thing, and I got to do some heckling from the gallery of the NSW Legislative Assembly. :D

Though, I got genuinely mad listening to anti-union garbage of the Libs. >:/

This is genuinely some kind of sick joke. The federal Labor branch isn't even trying anymore with their climate action promise. Making the submission of emissions information VOLUNTARY?

Jesus christ. I may consider moving a motion in my branch's next meeting.

Going down the train line :]