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Aldith Circe Cowley

@boronialinquest

Big Australiana, art🦘+ grow Tassie's big heart🏗️ (housing abundance up the front, bc of the dropbears out the back🐨) #BetterThingsArePossible

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Joined May 2023
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A shame homes aren't an essential byproduct anyone needs, I guess we'll discard them to assist the many who are selflessly boycotting greedy accommodation proposals.😶‍🌫️
40 home proposal (25% affordable apartments), planning says "IT'S SO OUT-OF-SCALE WITH THE STREET CONTEXT!" 10 home proposal with height cut down "YES, A GOOD SETBACK WILL HIDE THAT MANY UNITS." "BUT YOU COULD STILL SEE HOW PASTICHE IT LOOKS." 3 home proposal ($1.2 million each now) "IT SHOULD BLEND IN WITH THE HERITAGE ARTICULATION." people looking on at a closed building for sale again ($3M) "WHY CAN'T WE MAKE NICE THINGS ANYMORE?" cartoon thing based on a thing in hobart / nipaluna #politas #lgtas

ALT 40 home proposal (25% affordable apartments), planning says "IT'S SO OUT-OF-SCALE WITH THE STREET CONTEXT!" 10 home proposal with height cut down "YES, A GOOD SETBACK WILL HIDE THAT MANY UNITS." "BUT YOU COULD STILL SEE HOW PASTICHE IT LOOKS." 3 home proposal ($1.2 million each now) "IT SHOULD BLEND IN WITH THE HERITAGE ARTICULATION." people looking on at a closed building for sale again ($3M) "WHY CAN'T WE MAKE NICE THINGS ANYMORE?" cartoon thing based on a thing in hobart / nipaluna #politas #lgtas

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This is what I expect when I hear 'national infrastructure priority project' for Australia's capital city to have rail better than the 1890s
Samuel 🇲🇽 (@resisres) profile pictureSamuel 🇲🇽
@resisresNov 3
🚨🇲🇽 BREAKING — New images show Mexico's RELENTLESS TRAIN EXPANSION. Around 60,000 workers on at least 22 active fronts, racing to connect every major city in the country, with the Army leading the charge.
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pictured: place that has continued restricting new homes so has somehow managed to keep prices rising
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why do we always have to be behind on everything, can't we be ahead of the curve in something good? the thing: oh no --you skipped some steps
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-02/tas-public-transport-might-remain-free-indefinitely/107079604

ALT https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-02/tas-public-transport-might-remain-free-indefinitely/107079604

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Bingo will return in Four Corners: Endgame.
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Dom (@db_econ) profile picture
Dom@db_econOct 28
Australian academic housing research: - Often asks bad questions - Generally does a bad job of answering those questions - Regularly misrepresents its own findings For such an important topic, this is v bad! @jonobri and @hillfolkAU reckon @AHURI_Research is a big reason why.
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Consider me reassured
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Peter Tulip@peter_tulipOct 21
Auckland allowed higher density housing and this reduced rent 23% relative to other NZ cities. @jonobri discusses how they did it. mail.jonobri.com/p/auckland-… .
Was Auckland’s upzoning really a triumph of strategic planning?

Was Auckland’s upzoning really a triumph of strategic planning?

The Auckland experiment worked so well that even people who fought to make it smaller have come back for credit.

mail.jonobri.com
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Australia isn't yet willing to have the conversation that cars don't have to be capable of being used as weapons, intentional or unintentional.
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But what's happened to Helen Haines is terrible and I hope it spurs some much-needed reflection on how dehumanising our dialogue (or lack thereof) has become.
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Japan 1963 -> 1964+ Australia 1963 -> 2026
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https://www.cmrailway.org.au/history/

ALT https://www.cmrailway.org.au/history/

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Lord of the Dance (@trashyhonky) profile pictureLord of the Dance@trashyhonkyOct 16
The future in Japan will arrive before the Parramatta metro opens
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Underrated factor in Australian isolation/cohesion discourse is how we once used planning (a regulatory tool perfected in the US for…racial segregation) to disperse away poverty that was concentrated/associated w/ affordable places close to work/community (think Surry Hills)
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meanwhile, still priority 70 years ago feels like
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Hot Rails — oz/acc (@hot_rails) profile pictureHot Rails — oz/acc
@hot_railsOct 14
🚨 Perth orbital rail is now on the National Infrastructure Priority List 🚨
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and the feds should fast-track the track that connects federal public servants, the Lodge, Parliament, that >$1b-biggest-fed-investment-since-1988-thing and also canberra
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we'll call it the Canberra Orbital Rail™ to attract funding
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Chloe 🆓🇵🇸 (@XtrapolisLegs) profile picture
Chloe 🆓🇵🇸@XtrapolisLegsOct 13
man I miss Mad As Hell 😔
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Why is it that aesthetics/character rules in Australia seem almost exclusively to preserve ugliness (or otherwise soul-crushing pedestrian experience) or to force any proposal to redesign as ugly as possible (like setbacks) in a 5d chess attempt to elicit hatred for change
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<- this is what you do to yourself when you don't recognise the beauty you're already capable of (abundant homes, public/social places and trees ->)
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We brought in Californian pines, they sent in Australian gums (little did they know, this was setting up the terrain for conquest)
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@powerbottomdad1Oct 10
how did the australians in sf get so powerful
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Matthew Maltman@1finaleffortOct 9
One key point from our modelling, other research, and some fairly basic economic reasoning: the meme that “zoning reform doesn’t work because construction costs are too high” is simply not true in our major cities if you cut restrictions enough.
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so, the leaders of both one nation and the liberal party stumped up to a globalist conservatives conference ...to talk down the liberal party
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