This isn’t about the age old debate of which code is better… low rugby league crowds… insignificant AFL exposure internationally blah blah blah. I can do that one if you want, but it’s a bit tired and I can’t really afford to do it on my bosses time!

Culturally, Melbourne is the antipodean equivalent of the United States. To a Victorian, if it doesn’t happen in Melbourne then it never happened.

There. Take that up your Yarra.[]

Someone please give the Victorians something else to talk about! On another thread, someone claims they don’t know what the Bledisloe Cup is!

I guess it also depends on what extra services / developments they’re putting in over and above last year’s services. The inflation argument assumes that they are maintaining the status quo.

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I forgot to mention Kay henry, I like him, he has a good sense of humour, and also he comes across as a really caring and lovely and selfless person, and he’s a thinker.

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Him[?] He[] All my fantasies are destroyed if this is true.

It’s one of Carl Scully’s proposals. Agree with PeterW that it’s probably a bit of an attempt to make the federal government look like they’re not doing all they could.

Wouldn’t it just push prices up by the $20,000 cap (or whatever it is), though? Not really helping, if so.

Congrats! I’m psyching myself up for #3 just before Christmas. I came home yesdy to find my wife mowing the lawn on the grounds that physical work might bring on labour…

Lynchy – see the “M” on your keyboard. Now, move two keys to the right… there. See what happens when you press it? That’s how you break up a sentence.[]

OK – so the raionale is not so much that there is a strong direct cause and effect link but that the symptoms are the same.

Naive question time: Unless there are a whole lot of UK investors here, why would it directly correlate that a bust in the UK = bust in AUS.

If Jacko was in Lord of the Rings, he would fit right in.