No ideas on these...I just typed in "Nicest entry level subdivisions in Australia". This is what came up (AI)...I believe it will be the hottest issue in the election. For entry-level property buyers in Australia, several regional and metro suburbs offer affordable options. In Queensland, Woodridge and Kilcoy/East Ipswich are good choices for units and houses, respectively. In New South Wales, Carramar and suburbs like Campbelltown, Liverpool, and St Marys in Western Sydney are affordable. In Victoria, Albion is a standout for affordable units, and regional towns like Mount Gambier in South Australia offer low house prices. Western Australia has suburbs like Orelia and Armadale, while Brisbane has areas like Inala and Logan Central. Here's a more detailed look: Affordable Suburbs by State: Queensland: Real Estate notes. Woodridge (units), Kilcoy and East Ipswich (houses), Inala, and Logan Central offer affordability. New South Wales: Carramar (units), Campbelltown, Liverpool, and St Marys in Western Sydney. Victoria: Albion (units), and potentially Fawkner if prices are rising. Western Australia: Orelia and Armadale. South Australia: Mount Gambier, Barmera, Waikerie, and Port Lincoln. Factors to Consider: First Home Buyer Grants: Many states offer grants or schemes to assist first-time buyers, such as the New South Wales First Home Buyer Grant or the Victorian First Home Buyer Grant. Location: Consider proximity to jobs, schools, and other amenities. Property Type: Units tend to be more affordable than houses, especially in metropolitan areas. Market Conditions: Property prices can fluctuate, so research current market trends. Tips for Entry-Level Buyers: Start with Research: Use online property portals like Real Estate, Domain or Redfin, and talk to real estate agents. Get Pre-Approved for a Loan: This helps you understand your budget and negotiate more effectively. Be Prepared to Act Quickly: Affordable properties can sell quickly, so be ready to make an offer. Consider Renovations: Older homes may offer a more affordable entry point, but factor in renovation costs. Don't Be Afraid to Negotiate: Negotiate the price and any potential upgrades or inclusions in the offer. Just wondering how they will solve this issue...
"Logan Central, Inala" Logan Central is like a South African shanty town. Inala used to have one of the highest crime rates in Australia. Property works in value cycles. As one cheaper locality is deemed cheap, it booms, then the next cheapest one, on and on it goes. But Logan Centeal and Inala will always be cheap, for good reason.
Federal elections this Saturday coming..... Exclusive Brethren don’t vote but are secretly campaigning for the Coalition By Michael Bachelard, Kieran Rooney and Sumeyya Ilanbey April 28, 2025 https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...igning-for-the-coalition-20250428-p5luny.html A separatist Christian sect which tells its members to hate the world and which objects to voting is actively campaigning for the Liberal and National parties ahead of Saturday’s federal election. The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, formerly known as the Exclusive Brethren, has dispatched hundreds of its members to pre-polling booths in marginal seats while instructing them to keep secret that they are members of the controversial religion. Plymouth Brethren Christian Church members at a polling booth in Reid. Campaign workers in five marginal seats in Victoria and NSW told this masthead they had encountered 20 or more brethern members wearing Liberal or National campaign T-shirts handing out how-to-vote cards, some who identified themselves as members of the sect. The seats – Kooyong, Gorton, Hawke, Gilmore and Calare – are held by Labor or teal incumbents. The accounts were backed by Labor Party campaign sources, speaking anonymously because they were not authorised to speak publicly, who claimed the brethren members were active in seats in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania, including Bennelong, Parramatta, Whitlam, Macquarie, Paterson, Lyons, Reid and Blair. A brethren member (right) at a polling booth in Reid. In some seats, campaigners have said people identified and confirmed by this masthead as brethren members had physically and verbally intimidated members of other parties. Workers across the spectrum say the brethren members are saying the same line to voters: “Make Australia Smile Again.” This masthead has seen documents from senior leaders of the controversial sect that show the church is co-ordinating the effort centrally but ordering its members to remain “undercover” and not to identify themselves as members. A Plymouth Brethren Christian Church spokesman said its members had the right to volunteer in elections like every other citizen but the strategy was not co-ordinated by the church. He did not answer a question about whether there was an agreement or understanding with the Liberal or National parties to supply workers. A Coalition campaign spokesperson denied there was any agreement with any religious organisation and “have never asked volunteers or members what their religious beliefs are”. Labor declined to comment. “Elect Vessel” of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church Bruce D. Hales (left front), preaching in the United States. The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church is a closed global church led by Sydney-based “Man of God” Bruce Hales, who preaches a “hatred” for people outside the church. Women are treated as second-class citizens and homosexuality is not tolerated. Evolution is taught in schools as a theory only. Brethren followers, known to each other as “saints”, believe Hales is “so close to the Lord Jesus that he can feel his heartbeat”. Companies associated with the church’s leaders are under active investigation by the Australian Taxation Office’s Private Wealth – Behaviours of Concern section, which raided the headquarters of what’s known as the brethren “parent company” without notice last May. The companies are suspected of “tax evasion, fraud, secrecy or concealment”. Former brethren insiders, speaking anonymously to protect their sources, have told this masthead that senior brethren leaders based in Sydney recently held a Zoom meeting on what they described as the “King’s business”, meaning its contents should be kept secret. At the meeting, which happened as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s poll numbers began to decline, invited elders were told to organise hundreds of brethren members to go to polling booths to support Liberal and National party candidates. Documents that emerged after the meeting, sighted by this masthead, show the elders were told to “pray and take action” and that the church’s volunteers should be “fired up each day to dominate the play”. In Macquarie, Liberal candidate Mike Creed, who is a married gay man, is being supported heavily by members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Hales has described homosexuality as “unnatural against the anatomy”. Creed has been approached for comment. Ex-brethren member Ben Woodbury said he was astonished that his former community was supporting that candidate. Woodbury was persecuted for being gay – causing him to leave the church – and then forbidden from seeing his family again. “It’s the [church’s] hypocrisy that gets me,” said Woodbury, who has revealed details of the brethren’s political campaign on his @excultboy Instagram and Tiktok feeds. A young Plymouth Brethren Christian Church woman’s farewell card from her workplace. In one brethren group chat on the encrypted app, Signal, sighted by this masthead, female church members were described as “secret weapons” in the campaign. Men were told to bring their wives or daughters with them to polling booths. The men should do the talking, but the women should hand out brochures because they were “so attractive no one will say no”, the message said. The documents show workers being told to stand up to any opposition they encountered, but to leave quickly in the event of media attention. Brethren sources with knowledge of the insider communications, but too fearful to speak publicly, say they have been told that while working on the campaign, they should not consider themselves Plymouth Brethren Christian Church members. A number of the men have been photographed at polling booths wearing shorts despite brethren doctrine that “God takes no pleasure in the legs of a man”. The women are mostly wearing short, netball-style skirts and often leggings, despite the church’s normal requirement that they dress modestly in skirts below knee-length and avoid wearing trousers. The women have also removed the “token” – often a bow or hair clip that has replaced headscarves – from their hair. Some of the reported behaviour of brethren booth workers has been aggressive. Labor campaign workers in the NSW seat of Macquarie, who are not authorised to speak publicly, have said brethren volunteers in Liberal T-shirts were overheard telling constituents a “vote for Labor is a vote for adultery” and that “Labor wants to kill babies”. In the seat of Reid, where the Liberal Party is challenging ALP incumbent Sally Sitou, a man confirmed independently by this masthead as a brethren member stood in front of the Labor volunteer, physically blocking her from handing out how-to-vote cards. The Labor campaign described the behaviour as “intimidating and bullying”. Bretheren members join the Liberal campaign in Kooyong. In Gilmore, on the south coast of NSW, campaign workers for Labor MP Fiona Phillips said about 10 brethren members, who did not live in the area, had been handing out how-to-vote cards but did not know any of the Liberal Party’s policies and were “aggressive and non-respectful”. Labor state MP Anna Watson, the Parliamentary Secretary for Roads, said she had been handing out cards for Phillips at the Shellharbour Council Civic Centre and had heard the “Make Australia Smile Again” slogan and seen volunteers intercepting individuals at their cars to take them personally into the polling centre. “If someone pulled up with an older person in the car, they’d be on it like blowflies. Helping them out of the car, walking them in … and tell them how to vote Liberal. It’s against the rules,” Watson said. In Calare, a regional seat west of Sydney, where independent Andrew Gee is facing a battle with the National Party’s Sam Farraway, a campaign worker for Gee said perhaps 20 members of the church had followed the candidate from booth to booth at the weekend in what they had interpreted as a “hamfisted way of trying to keep him from handing out”. “It was all very strange,” said a source close to the campaign who was not authorised to speak publicly. “Andrew’s been in politics for a while, so if it was designed to intimidate, it was a fail.” In Kooyong, where teal candidate Monique Ryan is defending her seat against a campaign from Liberal Amelia Hamer, photos and videos have emerged of dozens of people identified as brethren by former church insiders, and dressed similarly at and around the polling booth. Ryan said the workers had used the “Smile Again” slogan until the Liberal booth manager told them to stop. “It’s been clear from conversations with them that many of the Liberal volunteers at Kooyong pre-poll are from outside the electorate. I’m disappointed to see the Liberal Party so closely engaged with a group opposed to gender equity and evolutionary science,” she said. Bretheren members supporting the Liberal candidate head to a polling booth in Kooyong. In Hawke, in outer Melbourne, where the Liberal Party is trying to unseat incumbent Sam Rae, Labor campaign workers identified dozens of brethren members using the “Smile Again” slogan. This masthead visited polling booths in Melton and Burnside Heights on Monday, where Simone Cottom is trying to oust first-term Labor MP Sam Rae in Hawke and John Fletcher is facing off against Labor’s Alice Jordan-Baird in Gorton. Fletcher and Cottom both declined to comment when approached by this masthead about their campaign’s arrangement with the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Both directed questions to Liberal Party headquarters. The brethren spokesperson said their church did not campaign for or support any political parties and had “not organised or co-ordinated any volunteer efforts of any type in any location”. He said he had “reached out to some of our parishioners” and been “made aware that many have decided to volunteer this year for candidates from various parties”. “When individual members of our church volunteer for politicians or candidates, this is at their discretion, and they do not represent the church’s view when doing so,” the spokesman said. As for the church’s policy on voting, he said: “Australians were allowed to not vote on religious grounds and some members exercised their right, while others do not.” The Australian Electoral Commission said that, over the first week of pre-poll voting, the AEC had received a small number of complaints about behaviour, and “on several occasions, we have reminded campaign volunteers from parties across the political spectrum to interact respectfully and with civility at all times”.