@grogsgamut Numbers on the spreadsheet look so much worse when there is a huge risk attached to debt repayments. This is bad in both directions because it breaks sensible planning of investments. Every previous recession is preceded by rate hikes and it exacerbates the underlying issue. The RBA should have a limit of 1% on rate change within any 4 quarters.

@johnquiggin Two things I'd argue on this. 1) With a reliable preference flow from the left wing (Greens) Labor optimises its vote by going further right as long as the gains right of centre are larger than losses on the left. 2) This assumes Liberals are optimising for the country and not for caucus. In the latter case they will continue to move right even as they lose seats to chase the centre of the tail.

@liamvhogan Also, betting shops and strip clubs. King St, Melbourne is completely changing character but noone seems to demand the protection of these traditional low income businesses from the ravages of gentrification.

@rgmerk Like this one??

@rgmerk Missed this the other day, but still worth noting as it can't be emphasised enough: any study of a regional travel link that doesn't consider the broader network of travel options and future network connectivity is basically useless.
That's all of them, historically, because there has never been a strategy for long distance travel in/to South-East Australia. Places that institute flight bans also have quite clear strategies for what trips should use what mode across the entire network.

Regex is a godsend for badly formatted datasets.
All datasets are badly formatted for some applications.
The "very wrong" part of my life is working with data.