Your home can be taken from you
Sep 22nd 2010, 2:45 pm
#33
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Sep 22nd 2010, 5:02 pm
#35
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
At whatever the government considers to be its market price. You don't have a lot of choice in the matter.
Sep 22nd 2010, 8:19 pm
#36
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
Pass on to friends in NSW:
http://handsoffourhomes.myelectorate...=39&Itemid=126
numbers going up by the minute!
http://handsoffourhomes.myelectorate...=39&Itemid=126
numbers going up by the minute!
Sep 22nd 2010, 10:33 pm
#38
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
Such a weird term.And to think I always said that learning Latin in school was pointless !
Donald Trump tried to play down the significance of the mass-purchase campaign but said he plans to talk to Aberdeenshire council about pursuing the compulsory purchase of all five parcels of land (needed for his new golf course). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...esort-scotland
Sep 22nd 2010, 11:21 pm
#39
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
>>But I agree, it is ridiculous, when for done for private profit. It was different when they did it for the M25, which I remember very well.<<
Exactly. No-one would like their house demolished for, say, the building of a reservoir which would provide water for a city, but compulsory purchase for that sort of thing is unavoidable if infrastructure is to be planned.
But the Labour NSW proposal is to allow compulsory purchase of property which a developer wants to build apartments or a shopping centre on. And there's a long and grubby history of developer donations to the NSW Labour party.
Draw your own conclusions.
Exactly. No-one would like their house demolished for, say, the building of a reservoir which would provide water for a city, but compulsory purchase for that sort of thing is unavoidable if infrastructure is to be planned.
But the Labour NSW proposal is to allow compulsory purchase of property which a developer wants to build apartments or a shopping centre on. And there's a long and grubby history of developer donations to the NSW Labour party.
Draw your own conclusions.
Sep 22nd 2010, 11:42 pm
#40
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
Actually, Australian property law (Torrens Title that covers 98%+ of properties) is completely different from both the English and Scottish systems.
Sep 22nd 2010, 11:47 pm
#41
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
Many will know that the dysfunctional NSW government is passing legislation to allow compulsory purchase of private property, not for public works (which in some cases is a necessary evil) but to hand over to developers who will profit immensely by the deal.
Whatever your feelings about the man, Barry O'Farrell - the opposition leader - has set up a protest about the iniquity of this:
http://handsoffourhomes.myelectorate...=39&Itemid=126
and asks all who are affronted by the idea to sign.
Whatever your feelings about the man, Barry O'Farrell - the opposition leader - has set up a protest about the iniquity of this:
http://handsoffourhomes.myelectorate...=39&Itemid=126
and asks all who are affronted by the idea to sign.
Sep 22nd 2010, 11:58 pm
#43
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
It seems a bizarre thing to do with an election only 6 months away? 
Sep 23rd 2010, 12:10 am
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
Governments all over the West are rather forgetting, in my humble opinion, that they are here to serve the interests of the people. It is a worrying trend.
Sep 23rd 2010, 12:27 am
#45
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Re: Your home can be taken from you
Property rights are a corner stone of functioning markets. This is an attack on democracy, freedom, wealth and will lead to more corruption. Online petitions are as worthless as Barry no policy OFarrell. I despair as I hear little from him on good governance whilst the Liberals are pocketing cash from developers as well. I would not be surprised to see a hung NSW parliament and a big independent vote.
