An absolute honour to be on the @FinancialReview Power List. This is a spectacular recognition of all the fantastic work that @yimbymelbourne has done over the past four years. Thank you to everyone who has been part of that.

I’m liking this trend of the state government stepping in to overrule nimby councils/orgs (see also World Cup Fed Square)

The Australian Government claims that this constitutes a unique risk. It does not. The same portal that OpenAI is alleged to have scraped has been publicly accessible and independently scraped by members of the public for more than a year. This script was also posted on LinkedIn but it has been subsequently taken down. It fits the bill exactly. github.com/bfiripis/Web-Scra…

I call BS. This was some agent browsing sites and accessed files that were public but not directly linked from main site. They are very carefully calling them "non-public" instead of "secure" or "password protected".

The slippery slope abc.net.au/news/health/2026-…

you're obsessed with the lesbian bar's mask policy because of woke. i'm obsessed with the lesbian bar's mask policy because it reveals the psychotic levels of entitlement bred by stakeholder-veto culture and participatory democracy.

openai crawled a publicly accessible website and the country is freaking out? what?

can we stop pretending that Strong Towns is a YIMBY organization now?

Interesting note from e61 modelling out the impacts of the recent tax changes on property investment: only around half of investors actually pay more tax. Big run-up in long term interest rates likely to be a far more substantial factor in recent price falls than tax changes.

Charles Marohn is fundamentally wrong about how housing markets work and people concerned with housing affordability should stop listening to him.

🚨 At the U20 Mayors Summit, Mamdani Says the Left Has Ceded “Quality of Life,” “Efficiency,” and “Fraud and Waste” to the Right This was one of the more interesting arguments Zohran Mamdani made today at the U20 Mayors Summit, and a reminder that he can be genuinely sharp when he drops the “central casting” routine. “In New York City, there are certain words that have taken on ideological associations.” “Quality of life has come to be seen as somehow a right-wing concern. Efficiency… has been taken on as a right-wing concern, rooting out fraud and waste, a right-wing concern.” Mamdani’s argument is that refusing to engage those issues actually helps the Right. “If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” The harder question is how much of the broader Left is actually prepared to follow the advice.

Yarra council at all times for no reason

Council really banned a decades-long tradition because some curtain-twitchers complained.

Every one of these streets in inner Melbourne needs to be turned into a one way street to create a massive park. Canning is just barely usable parkland as is, but with no traffic on one side it would be a paradise.

We call this problem Schroedinger’s Flat.

Practically nothing about how Sydney builds and manages its housing is a positive lesson for Melbourne. The NSW planning system is a warning for Victorians: things could be much, much worse.