I have looked at a fair bit of detail at what appears to be the only real major policy difference between the two parties is about the housing assistance packages.

The Liberals is effectively a plan that you can use your super to help with the house deposit.

Where as Labor is that the Government will effectively own a portion of your property and you pay them back when you sell.

The Labor plan already kind of exists in Tasmania. It is called a homeshare program and is limited to low income purchases. Typically is it used to purchase blocks of land and to build a basic house on it. You then pay the government back when you sell it. All in all it is not a bad scheme apart from the very limited number of people who actually qualify for it, and not a huge number of people knowing it even exists. Generally, it helps a lot of people who would frankly otherwise have limited chances to purchase a property to enter the property market.

The real issue that I see from the programs offered by both parties is that they will do absolutely nothing to assist home ownership for those trying to enter the market. All of these sort of programs end up doing is to drive up the price by what is effectively the government assistance and then it drops once the program ends. What genuinely is needed is there to be more land available to build on, together with the cost to actually build a basic house to be reduced. People also need to be a little bit more realistic for what they purchase for a first house. You do not need a place with everything that open and closes, with the games rooms, the toys that go with it, just go with something basic and it will be perfect for you. Worry about the toys with the next or the next place not the first place.

Also, taking money out of super while it sounds like a great idea for some there will be few that actually have that level of savings, plus it will be money that they have lost for use in their retirement. To me it is a very short sighted idea that will end up costing a future generation and the government who will have more people relying on a pension rather than being potentially self funded retirees.

The idea of some who mention negative gearing ignores the reality that it is mum and dad's who typically have got such an investment property and do it for a variety of reasons. I myself own a property that I rent out. It is rented out for $120 a week and the rent has been the same for the last 10 years. I have no intention of increasing it as I know that my tenant is not in a position to pay much more given she lives on her own. I also purchased the property to one day build a home to live on if I can afford it one day so the rental income is more about giving someone a home than it is about the actual rental return from it.

Yep, the election has now been called. I apparently live in a marginal seat that the media thinks will be one of the keys to who will win the election. To be honest we have a federal member who I have never met and never seen at any event. Although he is a farmer and ex military so he certainly appeals to the liberal voters. As for the Labor candidate I can tell you that he is a local council member, and a VET teacher but beyond that there is very little known about him unless you live in his council area (I do not).

Basically, it comes down to a member who has been in since 2019 and done little, but then is only just getting started, against a candidate who few will of heard of. The idea that the mainstream media is trying to promote is Morrison v Albanese which is irrelevant to me. If anything the last few years has taught us is that neither of them will probably be there for the full term anyway.

However, for me the importance of this election will be the polling station with the best sausage sizzle, the best cake stall and that may well get my vote on election day. 

I will be honest it is the first race that I have watched in full since the new regulations came into effect and I agree with you Sonic, to me they did nothing to promote what the FIA was attempting to achieve. The tire compounds having the split to create better racing did absolutely nothing. If I am honest I even nearly fell asleep part way through.

It is an interesting argument being run.

To be honest the cost of freight across the stretch of water is huge. I was looking the other day about booking a large trailer on the spirit and it was going to be $5k plus each way which is a huge amount for a small part of the trip.

Support categories is always an interesting argument. For some people they have little to no interest in them while others are really interested in what may be on offer. Barry does have a bit of a point in that the support series on offer in Tassie are limited but then for a lot of the support series you have a huge cost to come over for limited return I can understand why they would struggle to get any interest from support series.

As for the government funding argument it is one that is frankly rather tired, Supercars have basically made the decision, as have a lot of sports, that if you want us to come then we want to government to give us a pile of money. Frankly it is no different to many of the other places that Supercars race at, or indeed other sports. A sport that I am involved in got a million out of our state government just to hold a national championships and frankly I cannot see any real return on that investment particularly as up until last year it was on a rotation system around every state and was likely to continue that way.

Quote from: meha on March 17, 2022, 04:25:45 PM
Having just spent the last seven days in isolation due to the family having contracted it I can say that I am fortunate to have avoided getting it from the wife or kids. But having seen them go through it, it is not pleasant at all, it seems like a really bad version of the flu.

After finishing isolation and being out for 4 days I then pick it up myself and will be spending the next seven days at home. To be honest I am one of the lucky ones with no real noticeable symptoms at this stage

was a little confusing to be honest with the WEC also racing there this weekend as well.

Having just spent the last seven days in isolation due to the family having contracted it I can say that I am fortunate to have avoided getting it from the wife or kids. But having seen them go through it, it is not pleasant at all, it seems like a really bad version of the flu.

Quote from: Joe5619 on March 07, 2022, 11:47:19 AM

Quote from: Kytabu on March 06, 2022, 09:07:06 PM

Quote from: AlbertM on March 06, 2022, 01:39:53 PM
As I replied to Joe. Lape times after their respective stops.

Might want to check that...below are the 5-lap average lap times (not including out-lap) following each pit stop for SVG and ADP in Race 1.

SVG, stopped on laps 20, 42 and 63:
L22-26 1:33.8552 (S)
L44-48 1:33.2005 (SS)
L65-69 1:32.7165 (S)

ADP, stopped on laps 24 and 52:
L26-30 1:33.0511 (SS)
L54-58 1:33.3931 (S)

SVG was only significantly faster in his final stint, which was only 14 laps in length so the tyres didn't need to be nursed at all at the start of the stint.

Game, set & match to Kytabu with real numbers!!    thankyou

Ah but never let data get in the way of a viewpoint. 

The argument about parity is flawed when you are talking about two very different strategies. By running the race different ways there is a good chance that it will end up in different results. Both strategies will not always work out the best otherwise everyone would do exactly the same thing.

First race over the weekend. Was looking for it on Ten, but it was not on, does anyone know if they still hold the rights or if it has all gone to just Kayo?

Edit: found the answer to my own question, all races will only be available on Kayo with only the Australian round on free to air. To me this will be a big loss, particularly given how long 10 have supported the broadcast of the Moto GP.

I am supposedly in a marginal seat. The current member has been in for two terms and I have never seen him once, the only time I hear from him is the annual mail that gets dropped to everyone. The Labor member is a current councilor who does nothing and frankly is no better than what we have, The Green's have never been a starter for me so I am left with an Lambie candidate or an independent. One of them will likely end up with my vote but it may well be the one that I can't stand the least than the one who I think will be a good member of parliament.   

and with that Steve you raise what I think is the most important point.

Each of us may support Labor, Liberals, the Greens or whatever party floats your boat however, ultimately to me it comes down to who my local member actually will be. Yes I look at what the national policy will be however, given that I live in regional Tasmania we rarely have much in the way of policy announcement that will directly, or indirectly affect me.

I do not live in Western Sydney or the suburbs of Melbourne or Brisbane where it seems like all the policies are targeted at.

they certainly got good ratings in the US, so I would say that a few people watched it.

I only watched the highlights and the track certainly gave off the short track vibes.

It will be interesting if the new cars produce good pack racing on the high banks of Florida. 

and we will have two Australian's in the top class for the first time in a while. However, one has to wonder how long for with, from a few reports, both may well be fighting to keep their seats long term.

He certainly had a huge impact on the sport for so many years.

and in news overnight there has been the passing of Sir Frank Williams. RIP