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Australia does not have enough tradies to fulfill Labors housing promise, experts say
2025-05-05 02:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Australia does not have enough construction workers and other tradies to meet election pitches to boost housing supply, experts say, casting doubt over the major parties pledges to address housing affordability.Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton announced their competing housing plans this week, with both major parties seeking to increase the number of new home builds above the current annual rate of about 170,000.The Labor government nominated a target of 250,000 completed homes a year for the next four years, while the Coalition was yet to commit to a target. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletterBut Labors goal cannot be reached given the low number of skilled tradespeople in the construction workforce, according to Tim Reardon, the chief economist at the Housing Industry Association.We dont have enough people, he said.Home ownership is slipping out of reach for many Australians. Will the major parties promises make a difference? | Brendan CoatesRead m...
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Marvel's Young Avengers Project Canceled
2025-05-05 01:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
The Young Avengers wont be reassembling after all. Last year, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski announced that the teen team who debuted in the pages of 2005s Young Avengers #1 by co-creators Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung would be reuniting for their 20th anniversary in 2025. There have been two Young Avengers teams, but now were deciding which characters for natural story reasons are going to join the new Young Avengers team, Cebulski said at Osaka Comic Con, naming founding members Iron Lad, Patriot, Hulkling, Wiccan, and Hawkeye as potential recruits. Videos by ComicBook.comBut in a recent update posted to his Substack blog, original Young Avengers editor Tom Brevoort revealed that those plans have fallen through.RELATED: Marvel Editor Reflects on the Young Avengers 20 Years Later: Nobody Liked the IdeaRight this second, there isnt any Young Avengers project on the horizon, the Marvel Comics Executive Editor, SVP and X-Men Group Editor wrote in response to a...
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Scammers are posing as IRS agents and stealing people's money. One man's story proves it can happen to anyone.
2025-05-05 01:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Credit: Jeffrey Hazelwood / Mashable Composite; Liudmyla Lishchyshyna/OlyaSolodenko/Allvisionn/iStock/Getty Images Plus Brad K. was to put it mildly exhausted. In May 2024, he was a brand-new father to a weeks-old baby, balancing the new responsibility with his role as a husband and dog dad."They say the three biggest life stressors are having a kid, moving, and starting a new job," he said in an interview with Mashable. "And I did all three at the same time, within a month of one another."Sleep deprived and facing one of life's most stress-inducing transitions, Brad, admittedly, wasn't his normal, clearheaded self when an unknown number called him after a long day of grocery and Home Depot runs, driving home with dinner for him and his wife.A man was on the other end, speaking in what Brad recognized as a regional accent. He explained, with the lack of urgency stereotypically associated with civil servants, that Brad had misfiled his taxes. He still owed more than $800 to the fede...
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