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Hey, architects: hands off my dog-box apartment! It may be small and dark, but it beats the alternative | Dominic Behrens Of course more space and light is desirable, but banning basic apartments means more displacement, homelessness and overcrowded sharehouses

I live in a proper dogbox of an apartment. If I had to pay for a 50sqm, well-lit unit, I probably couldn't afford to live where I do.

We should let more people like me make this decision. Banning economy class doesn't mean everyone gets to fly business.

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The final @michaelkoziol.bsky.social piece on Sydney is incredible, and correct.

The planning system exists to stop things happening. But as a nation that wants a future, so too should we want things to happen.

I'm so recycling this analogy

You either die a policy wonk or live long enough to see yourself become a hyper specialised management consultant

The arc of history is long but it invariably bends towards grifters

I’ve just learnt that Australia only banned leaded petrol (1985) a full decade after the US. So much about Australia is beginning to make sense.

We’re a country run by people whose brains are filled with lead.

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