MisterFrog

Here's a crazy idea, we could just employ health workers directly. Cut out the practice owners making a profit/charging rent to the doctors practicing out of their location.

Just not make the insane mistake the UK made by not paying health workers competitively. There's a reason we have so many ex-NHS staff working in Australia, lol

We are super wealthy per capita by international standards, we could absolutely afford it. (If we bothered taxing the multinationals shipping our minerals overseas...)

I'm not super versed in Medicare billing, but what I do know is doctors can set their own rates, for which part is covered by medicare, and rates have been going up faster than rebates.

There has definitely been price gouging, because shopping around on GP visits is a pain, and often people just cop it.

It's been years since you've been able to get bulk billing within like 7 km from Melbourne CBD.

Some of it is genuine cost of living increases, but there still doesn't seem to be any mechanism to control prices other than the "free market"

PTV app somehow is not great at pulling data from the PTV API, I can't recall exact examples, but I've seen nonsense like this quite a lot.

Fines for negligence are far too low. The fine needs to be large enough to incentivise the bean counters to actually invest in safe operations. (Applies to all industries).

$525,000 is peanuts, can barely buy an apartment for that much

Turns out the City of Melbourne have a reporting form for illegally parked cars, which they action in real time.

Just got a Tesla fined for parking in a car share spot lol

Wouldn't normally do this, but it's always a Tesla or BMW parking in car share spots.

https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/illegally-parked-or-abandoned-vehicles

It's honestly incredible we manage to elect anyone other than right-wing parties at all, given the media environment.

They're just worried they'll lose next year because of their 2019 election loss, which was largely seen as a rebuke on negative gearing reform proposals.

Make no mistake, this minister is trying to keep their older voters, who have sizable housing investments.

Anyone who thinks rising house prices (in real terms) is actually good for society is brain-dead.

Supply is at least part of the solution. Just we need way more of it. And way less of this short-sighted, inefficient, isolating, detached housing sprawl.

I'd put forward all new complexes be made x% public housing, that would put a dent in the problem, and also reduce stigma to public housing, because it'll be everywhere, and people are integrated into the community, not shoved all in one, under-maintained spot.

While I am massively pro human centric transpiration (walkable cities, bicycle infrastructure, public transport), this take makes no sense.

Cars have their place, for certain deliveries, disabled people, emergency services.

Cars are unsafe at any speed, but we can't just get them off the road tomorrow. We need to stop over funding more road projects and instead plow it into overhauling our infrastructure.

Bob and Betty citizen living in the outer suburbs because we keep building detached houses can't afford to not drive. There's no bloody train.

More trains, more apartments (with better Owners Corporation laws), more bike lanes.

Bit by bit, we can take the cars off the road.

This ban is garbage because hate speech is already illegal.

If you're a Nazi "protesting" outside a synagogue, yeah off to jail you go, no new laws required.

This is anti-protest, pure and simple.

Ah heck, thanks for the tip. That's not terribly convenient 😅