ALWAYS interesting to see how business likes to control the message. Bonza – lovely airline, lovely people . Flown it once – wrote an open letter to let everyone know ‘what we’ve learned’ about their new-ish routes across regional Australia strategy. Lesson one: not a lot of people fly to Port Macquarie.
I’m as surprised as you.
Anyway it only took a few days and the truth became apparent – thousands of people annoyed after flights cancelled as part of the reality sets in, truth telling approach. To combine cliches, you can try and stem the tide, but really, it’s like trying to polish a…
Rates your governor
Here’s my take on monetary policy. The RBA might have changed its leader, but getting the deputy to take the helm – an ‘RBA lifer’ at that, which is apparently a term – hardly ratifies wholesale changes.
The RBA will continue chasing inflation into the bottle – eight times a year, not 11 – and there’s enough rope for the government to wash its hands of any responsibility. There might be more discussion around its decisions, but all borrowers will (still) want to know is: ‘how much is this going to hurt’.
Will being more transparent result in lower rates? Doubt it.
Caught in the headlights
Ever wonder about all this growth happening on the Sunshine Coast and ask how we’re going to fit in and get along? Me too.
So let’s accept that we do. And Stockland builds another 40,000 homes across its Aura projects (approved and proposed). Should the next question be: How will we get around? Every house in that development seems to have two cars, so that’s a lot more cars motoring around the coast every day.
Maybe we need more scooters… oh, but then we’ll need another hospital for all the scooter accidents.
