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      <title>QLD 10K builder boost extended</title>
      <description><![CDATA[To 30 April 2012 by the looks:

[http://boost.treasury.qld.gov.au/]

(When I saw April I checked real close to see it wasn't 1 April.)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>GettingStarted</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Apparently a rental squeeze in Townsville</title>
      <description><![CDATA[http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2012/02/04/303161_news.html

I live in Townsville. Its usually the case that the rental vacancy rate drops a bit at the beginning of the year. However it was going up throughout the last year at a faster rate than I have seen for over 3 years. 

Id love to see the true stats of what they claim in the article and it seems they didn't do much research other than speak to a rental manager and a few supposed wanna rent couple. 

I had a quick look on realestate.com and I saw quite a few houses for rent. It didnt look any more unusual than at any other time. I didnt even bother with apartments because Townsville is awash with vacant ones. 

Can anyone cough up some stats over the last 3 years on the rental vacancy rate of Townsville?

With that info I can email it to the Bulletin (who is completely compromised on reporting realestate news here because their realestate advert insert in their Saturday print would take up a third of the total number of pages and so I would assume most of their advert revenue would be from agents).

It might be my pdf reader but have a look at this document. Hmmm must be so busy that they havent had time to fix this.
http://www.communities.qld.gov.au/resources/housing/renting/nras-prospective-tenants.pdf]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Crisis of Civilisation (new documentary, see trailer here)</title>
      <description><![CDATA[{YOUTUBE(movie=B7Oq_J__ouc,width=>640,height=>360,quality=>high, allowFullScreen=y)}{YOUTUBE}

http://www.crisisofcivilization.com 

![http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-31/peak-kitsch-%E2%80%9C-crisis-civilization%E2%80%9D|Peak kitsch: “The Crisis of Civilization”]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>HomePage</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>unemployment rate</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Unemployment rates up 1.7% now 10.3% its there highest since 2002.Bulls crab hold of your balls you loose them soon the credit binge/ponzie is well and truely over. cheers bulls]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Population myths...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[How do house prices rise against our agequake?
If you think demographics have nothing to do with house prices then you are really in the dark. The age and the number of people are the main driver for demand.
PS : Qld grew by only 81,100 people last year. Wow, that certainly will effect house prices. (64,000 babies and 27,000 deaths. 9.500 from interstate during a mining boom! WTF? Now 12.5 years to add an extra 1 million people and that is not taking into account our projected rise in our death rates, so more like 15 years! So much for Anna and her BS...)
http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/1312.3Main%20Features2jan+2012

Gladstone grew by 700 people last year!

"“At current trends, by 2050 there will only be 2.7 working Australians for every citizen over 65. Without action, this will have serious implications for the quality of life of every Australian,” Brogden said in the statement."
From http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Michael-Gill-AFR-sue-workplace-demographics-Clegg-pd20120202-R44V8?opendocument&src=rss]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Desperate For Sale signs, seen any?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Passed a property for sale today with the question __WHY PAY RENT__ in big white bold print emblazoned across the board. 

Do you think it will get some poor renter thinking? There was no provision for an answer or I would have given them an energetic dialogue stating that it is cheaper than buying or why buy a depreciating asset as this place will be worth half the asking price in a few short years.

Have you seen any desperate For Sales signs or advertisements?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Campaign to support C. Vedelago FOI application</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I would encourage everyone to support Chris Vedelago and send emails along the following lines to the addresses below:

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you to express my serious concerns about the rejection by The Foreign Investment Review Board of the FOI application ref# ER2011/05467 lodged by The Age journalist Chris Vedelago regarding foreign ownership of Australian property. The Labor government have declared that monitoring this matter is an issue of major national importance with which  I entirely agree. FIRB's persistent refusals to disclose the information requested by Mr. Vedelago is clearly against the OAIC guidelines and unless it is reversed will definitely affect my voting decisions in future elections.

Regards, 

Treasury: department@treasury.gov.au
FIRB: firbenquiries@treasury.gov.au
Treasurer, Wayne Swan: Wayne.Swan.MP@aph.gov.au
Assistant Treasurer Mark Arbib: ministerial@treasury.gov.au

[http://news.domain.com.au/domain/home-investor-centre/blogs/domain-investor-centre-blog/secret-government-business-part-ii-20120202-1quse.html]

Here's an excerpt from this article:
"For my part, I’ve contested their rejection of my application to contest the charges and exemptions used to reject the original FOI request. But this is where you, as the ‘‘public’’, can cut through all this bluster about what exactly is in the ‘‘public interest’’. If you want to see these documents, ask to get them released.

Contact Treasury; contact the Foreign Investment Review Board; contact your member of Parliament – 

contact them all. Tweet it, retweet it, post it, email it, fax it, snail mail it.

Tell them that releasing these documents in your interest. Quote the politicians’ own words. Quote the OAIC guidelines.

Just please keep it polite."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Greece 'loses' another 15 billion Euro</title>
      <description><![CDATA["Earlier today Greece's debt inspectors warned that the nation needs an extra €15bn - on top of the €130bn bail-out and €100bn debt write-off - in order to avoid bankruptcy."

The joint's a black hole.

Merkel has run off to China to have 'a chat'.

Where "Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said it is very important to resolve the eurozone debt crisis. His country is considering greater involvement in the EFSF and ESM bailout funds."

It'll be both interesting and informative to see Wen Jiabao's terms and conditions I imagine?

[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/debt-crisis-live/9055782/Debt-crisis-live.html]

PS: The Bundesbank is now a quarter of a trillion in debt:

"If any of the crisis countries exits the euro or if there is an EMU break-up, the Bundesbank bears extreme risks." 

[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9055142/Bundesbank-sinks-deeper-into-debt-saving-Europe.html]

And now for a bit of comic relief. In so far as anything about the Costa Concordia can be amusing:

"I love him, and it's not right to destroy his reputation," Ms Cemortan allegedly told investigators.
"Everyone is hammering him." 

(I AIN'T touching THAT last statement with a barge pole! (:smile:))

[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9057729/Costa-Concordia-clothing-and-lingerie-of-Moldovan-dancer-found-in-Captain-Schettinos-cabin.html]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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