Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 11:23pm:


Doesn't bother me who, where or what posters are. What's said is what provides me with a platform to agree or disagree if I feel moved to.

In actual fact the truth is people are not a lot different from plants. What thrives in one place hasn't much hope of living well in another only a few hundred metres away. I grew up in NW London, if I'd grown up in SE London I probably wouldn't be me. One street is not like another.

That said of all Australia's cities I feel most at home in Melbourne and it's not just the weather. I like the real Australia too, the bush and bushies.

Aussie wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 1:58pm:


Who is talking about proxy servers?
I said he is not Australian. I use proxy servers myself to watch US sportscasts only available for US people.

Billy Jack is a fraud best left ignored.
That's my last view on the subject.

He's the slum landlord of Brisbane's dress circle. For some battlers, Edward "Ted" Amos's run-down rentals are the last resort amid a public housing crisis and a daunting inner-city property market.

But the state of these properties - located ironically in some of the city's most affluent suburbs - has Mr Amos, 71, back in Brisbane City Council's crosshairs almost three decades after it served his first defective building notice.

The council has applied for court orders to have houses in Ascot, Clayfield, Wooloowin, Newmarket and Virginia declared "dangerous and dilapidated", forcing Mr Amos to pay builders to bring them up to scratch.

Its officers believe he still rents out two of the properties - as well as a Clayfield flat that earned a "show cause notice" this month - despite council enforcement notices causing past tenants to leave.

A family who moved out of the Clayfield house last year after the council told them the property was "dilapidated and infested with vermin" were slapped with a $2000 damages claim by Mr Amos.

But the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal found the property was unfit for lease to begin with, and that Mr Amos "created an environment of intimidation" against "desperate" tenants.

A month later, Mr Amos lost an appeal against a QCAT order to release the bond on the Clayfield flat he had withheld from ex-tenants as "compensation" for cleaning.

New tenants told The Courier-Mail the location of the $300-a-week flat was appealing but "we have to wait 10 minutes after flushing the toilet to have a shower".

Their lease contains the same "as is" condition, with "no promises to carry out any repairs", that Mr Amos was using in 1991 when then-councillor David Hinchliffe blasted him for "an appalling record with council in relation to the state of his premises".

However, a longtime resident of Mr Amos' $150-a-room boarding house in Albion said the dearth of cheap inner-city accommodation meant "we need more people like Ted".

"A slum's better than nothing. It's a roof over your head," he said.

Mr Amos achieved notoriety as a real estate agent in 1988 when the Supreme Court found he "unconscionably" conned a mentally-ill widow into selling her Banyo house at below-market value.

His long list of rental law breaches includes a $7000 fine in 2009 over a lease that allowed him to hike rent by a quarter without notice and "avoid his obligations to maintain and repair the premises".

Asked about plans for his multimillion-dollar portfolio, Mr Amos said: "I can't make any comment on it because it's before the courts, you realise."

His legal battles with the council, which is also pursuing him for half a million dollars in allegedly unpaid rates, include a failed personal injury claim in 2005 after he tripped over a water valve in Albion.

Aussie wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 9:24pm:


Friend, I don't think this fine gentleman understands and such. I know I am new at the computers but even I know that them folks I asked to install everything know what they are doing and they must have done a good job. By the way, I don't like folks who aint polite, and calling someone a fraud because y'all (except Aussie) don't understand the computers aint right friends.

By the way friends, here's some nice photos of London Town for y'all here in Brisbane Town, to make y'all realise you are living in the greatest city in the world friends.

Beautiful London

More Beautiful London.

Friend, folks have demonstrated they aint no good at the computers and such, and aint worth my time or yours. If they send me a photo of their old lady's big old tittays, maybe I'll send them a photo of me, but y'all just got to click my link and y'all will see my photo anyway. Heck, I can see it here, can't yall? It is a bit old but that's me. And friends, all I know is that the Wilds of England aint no place to be if y'all have one of them fancy cellphones. My friend's son just got back from that fine place, and tells me there are warning signs everywhere not to get your phone out (one of them fancy ones you can keep in your bag) anywhere because it would make y'all a fine target. What the heck is that friends? Some kind of Mad Max place?