[–] 1 point 2 years ago

!The best way you could do this is to just spend half a billion buying panels now and give them away. At least at the end of it, you'd have some solar panels putting out electricity instead of making millionaires out of some con men.!<

Spend all that money without claiming cheap votes and making your mates rich? You madman

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Because now the ute is a holiday/recreation vehicle whose expenses can be written off for work as opposed to a pure work vehicle.

    If we did ban them, I think the economy would be better off overall. For the majority of trades, vans are a way more efficient work vehicle. Using a big ute for the daily school runaround is simply inane. The only winners of big ute are the automakers and campground operators.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Check out a developer called yiotro. His stuff aint flashy and almost entirely strategy/puzzle but are light on resources (i.e you can pick up and play/stop whenever without losing progress. Also won't kill your battery), and not most importantly not bloated with ads. The perfect time killer.

    Some of his games are pretty fun/addictive/challenging. Paid versions are a few bucks and free for life.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Most people commenting here don't have kids. Private schools are so prolofic because the majority of public schools are so defunded and sad looking that there is a native demand for schools with... non-below average facilities which families are willing to pay for.

    This country doesn't spend enough on education and instead is letting its citizens fund the education sector out of their own pockets. It's kinda criminal.

    So instead of blanket banning private schools we should be funding public ones to the level that makes most private schools redundant.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That's way too basic to be a solution. If you take from them they'll simply take it back from us by cutting jobs and services while raising fees.

    We should be making it harder if not outright illegal for them to arbitrarily cut costs in the way they do i.e closing branches, offboarding atms, making workers redundant to keep up profits. They are in many ways a public service and the service component is worth protecting.

    Countering this behaviour would be far more impactful to Australians and the economy than just having them hand a bag of money to the government.

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