I'm not racist, but can we please move all the new immigrants into the buildings that are flammable and falling apart? If they fix the building and survive, they earn the privilege of becoming "honourary wogs" and go on probation for 10 years.
>Residents of a building in the inner-Sydney suburb of Mascot have been evacuated because of "identifiable movements in the basement area", Fire and Rescue NSW said. >Mascot Tower’s structural issues show there are “signs of a problem” and engineers have deemed it necessary to evacuate about 96 units, its spokesman said. There are no signs of any “immidiate structural failures”, they said.
>Police have cordoned off the area. Multiple fire trucks have been parked outside the building for several hours.
>Rose Hirst, 30, was returning from work when she found out she’d have to evacuate by 9pm. She called her husband and told him to "bring stuff and hurry".
>"I’m worried because I’m pregnant," she said.
>Ms Hirst has lived in the building for a year but said she’s not sure where they will spend the night.
You mean it's been 4.5 hours and we're still fuckin' full?.....farkin' hell.
Christopher Bell
>'Levels not seen since the GFC': NAB calls the retail recession >The bell has tolled for the ailing retail sector, with the National Australia Bank declaring the industry is "clearly in recession".
>Instead of end-of-financial-year sales, landlords and tenants will be waving white flags.
>Adding to the sector's woes is the unseasonably warm Sydney weather at a time when retailers are trying to sell excess winter stock to make way for spring arrivals.
>The foe of online shopping is also looming larger despite the best efforts of bricks-and-mortar owners and tenants to entice customers.