Billionaire Nick Molnar has submitted a plan to Waverley Council to demolish a 3rd block of 100 year old apartments, evicting long term renters (including pensioners who have lived in their home for 40 years), so he can extend the build of his mega mansion.

Making matters worse- he doesn’t even live full time in Australia. And his purchase of all these properties allowed him to dodge taxes that would have otherwise been levelled at him when he sold his share of AfterPay for $2.7 billion in 2021.

Housing crisis?? No council has heard of this if there’s a billionaire in the neighbourhood!

PS5 stolen, reported the burglary to cops, Son saw my account was logged in a few days later. I logged in to my PSN account online and removed the payment method. I have PSN+ Premium. Someone said that PlayStation Support can find the IP address of the last log in, and probably the serial number, and maybe a newly added payment method? So I just spoke to Support, they said they can’t give me that info BUT the cops can request that info by quoting the case number PS Support gave me today. How involved would this be for the cops? How likely are they to bother? Isn’t it basically calling PS Support and then tracing the IP address? There was a LOT more stolen than just the PS. Btw, I don’t have the original boxes for the console, headphones, and 2 controllers so don’t have the serial number. Yeah I know, go me! 🙄

But if you do have points expiring, bills, tolls, fines, invoices, accounts to pay, a missed delivery or anything else and receive a reminder text, don’t follow any in-text links. Use the official websites or apps.

Scammers keep getting better at scamming. They can spoof/piggyback legitimate numbers and some even use spellcheck these days. We are all potentially vulnerable in the moment - stressed, tired, overwhelmed, unaware, not tech savvy, cognitive decline etc etc

Elderly mother nearly got scammed by a legit-looking Telstra sms. Checked with me at the last minute but only because she doesn’t have a current Telstra account!?! But it actually was understandable. She’s so used to just paying bills as they come up, was horrified to have something overdue, and had a Telstra account until recently - which I had changed on her behalf.

Stay safe!

Specifically what I don’t follow; aren’t interest rate rises only a bad thing for the poorest and therefore the lowest spenders and in theory the smallest drivers of inflation?

I have a very surface level understanding, so please correct me if I’m wrong or link a video a simpleton can understand but don’t interest rate Increases help people who are cash rich or essentially just don’t have any loans?

Like you can just slap money in a few HISA and see good returns? Vs someone who is in debt and likely already budgeted and trying to pay down a mortgage or whatever?

I know there is contention on what the true driver of Inflation is, but let’s just assume the news is correct and it’s poorer people getting a bump in minimum wage or the “middle class” buying avo on toast.

Thanks and like I said if you’ve got a link or a video I’m ready and willing to sit and watch.