February 13, 2012

Adelaide rental prices

Adelaide rental home

I keep an eye on rental prices in our Adelaide suburb and the surrounding area … that’s Torrensville, Thebarton, Mile End, Hilton and Richmond. Our small three-bedroom house isn’t cheap to rent, but it’s ideally located from our perspective. I can walk to work and son Michael is close to his soccer and tennis interests. We might have found somewhere bigger for a lower price further from the city, but we traded space for convenience. There might be a tipping point though, especially if rental prices continue to rise.

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Barnaby Joyce and debt

Barnaby Joyce is like a wild dog who should either be restrained or let loose to roam free. Being shadow finance minister is potentially too restrictive for him and the Coalition. He should not have said Australia may default on its sovereign debt, but in The Australian today he clearly articulated a logical opposition to [...]

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The price of water

Sensible people have been concerned about Australia’s dwindling water supply for a number of years now. Without wishing to over simplify a complex issue, it seems to me the honest summary is that we use more water in the Murray Darling Basin than gets produced by rain or ground sources to replenish it. That’s clearly [...]

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Economic crisis hits

I heard a sad story today. It shows the global economic crisis is really beginning to have an impact on Australian life. There has been a lot of bad news lately. BHP Billiton’s decision to close the Ravensthorpe nickel mine, a few months after opening the $2 billion project which employed 1800 people, was one [...]

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Back to a recession

Apparently there was a recession in 1991. I can only vaguely remember it. Financial commentators refer to the last recession as being beyond the memory of Generation Y (the “me” generation who have everything they want) and question their ability to cope. They might be right about that. I’m not sure my generation have much [...]

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