Angus Khan

Where does western Sydney really start? Lakemba? Burwood? Sydney Olympic Park? Or further west, at Parramatta? Vote on where you would draw the line.

The great thing about having a well-established news outlet is that you can just keep recycling the same bullshit for decades.

“Where does western Sydney really start?” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... ($)

Fuck ’em. Read it at archive.md/8QRSb.

When the only young people at the public consultation are in the wall painting…

Below is an earlier recording of my Cobb Douglas render, which you can view here
akst.io/vis/20250831...

You can read about what that actually is here
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2...

Last semester I built an interactive notebook for my introduction to microeconomics going to do the same with my 2nd year macroeconomics subject.

I also embedded a 3D visualisation of the Cobb Douglas model of production.

Here’s a link to poke around akst.io/vis/20250601...

Sketch

Parramatta North Rezoning — Sydney YIMBY You can make your submission here until 24th of Feb . Submission Tips 🏙️ Emphasise Affordability/Supply as a priority - affordability is barely mentioned in the strategic report 🚉 T...

Have your say on 2500 new homes in Parramatta North: www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/parrama...

This area has been stuck in planning limbo for a decade while heritage advocates keep delaying - this time they want to ‘press pause’ until 2029. We need housing now!

They simultaneously complain about lack of car parks and risk of congestion.

Incredible.

Trying to use a ePrescription (I'm fine) from Chemist Warehouses website, if you go to the info page it says "just provide ePrescription at checkout"

Yet when you go to add the medication to cart it says "you need prescription attached to profile before adding to cart"

Okay cool

I came up with a better graphic in the end but it seems the like earlier version of the article is being prioritised by cache. I guess that’s one more incentive to thoroughly proof read before publishing.

I quite like this app, however I just reposted elsewhere. There’s a lot of AI slop on Twitter now. It just feels like noise.

I gotta find a better image for this article. It depicts how I felt trying to decipher the docs, even so

So you want to use the ABS' Stats API In this article, I’ll try and walk you through an example using the ABS Stats API, providing some information and context that may not be immediately obvious if you’re approaching this API for the fir...

I was trying to figure out how to use the ABS’ API.

The API is fine, but the docs are terrible. So much so I felt I had to talk to someone about it, but instead I put that energy into an article which can hopefully be help someone else avoid the same experience.

akst.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...

With half my feed now here and still on x, X ain’t what it use to be, and BSky certainly hasn’t lived up to a replacement

When looked; despite seeing some grim stuff, I saw companies out there clearly offering life changing services.

I agree reform needs to be take with care. Main issues I saw were provider side.

Main risks with reform is limiting availability & enabling similar rent seeking we see with pharmacies.

That’s awful, sorry to hear that

Just look up a few suburbs in the provider finder, export CSV & go through the list of providers, find them on Google maps. You may be surprised who offers NDIS & upset by what you see in reviews.

www.ndis.gov.au/participants...

Or if you know anyone working in NDIS, I would just talk to them.

I’m not weighing in this specific instance btw, as I don’t have any context

I’ve just had the misfortune to read a bunch of explanatory memorandums and much prefer the TLDR nature of a bill digest lol

IIRC explanatory memorandums are often written by the author(s). I think it’s abit cynical to suggest the author will always lie in them. But there’s a point to be made that it isn’t an independent assessment & the contents can be biased.

Verses a bill digest, which the parliamentary library writes

If you have nothing, what difference is $700 or $150 in rent a week if you can afford neither?

It’s a question often posed by supply skeptics & it’s a fair question.

While it reduces the threshold for public housing; I think this is a better answer. t.co/YvXyZ5VlYv

In October Randwick placed an interim heritage order on a few lots near the local hospital and around UNSW. It has since been revoked gazette.nsw.gov.au/gazette/2024...

With a solid upzoning you could house plenty of nurses, doctors, teachers, students and any downsizers.

What they are not telling you is 1️⃣ these sites have had the same building height limit for a century 2️⃣ You cannot rebuild these structures due to minimum room size standards.

The council continues to see these redevelopments take place and at no point thought "maybe we should rezone".

Sydney Olympic Park submission guide

Sydney Olympic Park 2050 plan is up for consultation, and Parramatta Council are fighting against it because they think rarely-used event parking should take priority over homes for people.

Make a submission by this Friday: www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/draftplans/e...

to make a submission go straight here
www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/draftplans/e...

SOP 2050 Submission Guide Submission guide for the SOP 2050 masterplan.

If you have a moment, and want to support more housing. The Parramatta Council is proposing less housing in the Olympic Park 2050 master plan, and it would be great to see submissions to the contrary

sop-2050-submission-guide.glitch.me

This is great!

Potential for over 16,000 new homes has been deleted from Bella Vista and Kellyville stations. Looks like Federal Labor MP Michelle Rowland got their wish? Her electorate across Old Windsor Rd has been completely removed from the rezoned area.

What a waste of a the best railway line in the country.

The letter “u” has no business being in the word guard

How does this not produce local pharmacy cartels?

Surely this is just going to make high density areas under resourced?