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I will agree it is much harder in this day and age to buy a house. However, I do think that people hold unrealistic expectations. If you look at most major cities (New York, Paris, Berlin, London etc), apartment living is the norm close to the CBD. Id argue Sydney is an outlier when it comes...

It's a good start though and you can raise a young child in a unit. It isnt unprecedented, two of my Aunties now live in multi-million dollar properties but both started out in apartments. They raised their first child in them until they were around primary school age, then they upgraded to an...

You know, for all the talk of property prices being out of control and "young people being priced out", people forget to mention that there is actually affordable housing in Sydney - they are called units. You can get a classic, reliable 2-1-1 unit from the 70s within 20 minutes to the Sydney...

Finally, someone who gets it. When it comes to careers, so many people look at their preferred subjects when deciding a job, as opposed to the exact nature of what a profession does day in day out. As you have said, law is a high pressure environment and it can be very demanding, especially at...

Herein lies the problem for me, what is Healthy Masculinity, because no one can really define it. These days it seems that "Healthy Masculinity" is defined by what it is not, as opposed to what it is. Any attempt to define masculine characteristics is often derided as sexist, which is a huge...

You dont agree with me so you are peddling misinformation. Seriously what ever happened to a well organised and thought out rebuttal to counter another argument? Maybe if the Yes campaign focused on that instead of calling everyone racists and getting celebrity/big business endorsements they...

The Yes campaign seem to refuse to take responsibility, they seem to be blaming "misinformation" for the defeat or racism which is really weak. Im starting to really hate the word misinformation because people don't understand what it means. Misinformation doesn't include opinions, views or...

This 100%. Ive said it repeatedly, I cannot understand immigrants who leave their old country for Australia for a "better life" only to bring all their old country problems to Australia. I couldnt imagine going to my grandparents house and getting all political about the North-South divide in...

A pretty predictable result on the whole, however the scale of the No victory is a surprise. I was predicting 57-43 to No, but it is looking like the Yes campaign might not top 40% nationally (especially with a lot of counting in WA to go and postal votes which tend to favour No). My thoughts...

I went to an all boys Catholic School and I would be dead against sending my kids to a single sex school. They really are a relic of the past and I think they do stunt your social development with the opposite sex. I noticed it in uni as a lot of the guys who went to Co-Ed schools were so much...

Agreed. I think Brexit, the 2019 Federal election and especially the Trump win have given people a distorted idea of poll accuracy. In all those cases, the polls weren't way off, they were within the margin of error and people werent looking at the right polling. With Trump for example...

I agree in principle, but maybe for different reasons. I think a decisive loss can be a good thing if it moves us away from radical left wing activist style policies. If a decisive loss means Indigenous issues just get ignored then I think it will be a disaster and a tragedy. What is...

Nice to see a fellow centrist in the chat. Im deeply mixed about this failing. Whilst Im voting No, I do support recognition and I don't want to set back reconciliation. I also think that if the Voice gets up and ultimately fails to impact Indigenous outcomes, then Indigenous activists have...

As opposed to Islamic ideology? If it is so "haram", why is your family here and not in the Middle East? You are fair to believe what you want, but it's rich dissing the western world when you have immigrated here. Obviously things cant be that special in the Middle East. The West must have...

I think it has gone to far in a sense that there was a whole Pride month and now there is another day essentially. Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong supporter of the LGBT+ community, but I feel that there is a limit. I look at it this way, Veterans get two days per year (ANZAC Day and...

Initially I thought it would be very similar to the SSM vote, but the more I think about it, the more I see there are key differences, namely: SSM was very simplistic, straightforward and easy for people to understand (i.e. can people of the same sex get married). It literally involved...

He really has backed himself into a corner, I don't think nearly enough work has been done on developing a sound policy which is marketable. The No campaign really has been brilliant so far it must be said. Opting to put Warren Mundine and especially Jacinta Price at the centre of the campaign...

As unpalatable as it would be, I think it would be easier to spin cancelling it then run the risk of having it be rejected by the Australian public at the ballot box. Albo can say "The public is indicating we need more detail, so we may need to go back to the drawing board" and then kick the...

On this point, how do we determine Aboriginality for the purposes of the Voice? The current criteria for being considered an Aboriginal person is very vague. Essentially, the elements are being of Indigenous descent, identifying as Indigenous and being accepted by the Indigenous community. My...