We cover a lot of ground in this week’s podcast, from local pandemic panics to global warming and the potential "scary" effect of political inaction on your mortgages.First up we look into pro and anti-vaccine passions and the desire in some strata schemes to prevent unvaccinated residents from accessing communal facilities.As this story also discusses, is it fair, legal or even desirable to keep the unvaccinated out of gyms, pools, saunas, spas, communal areas and video theatres?Or, looking at it another way, is it responsible, legally justifiable and safe not to do so?LISTEN HEREAlso we discuss the new leadership in NSW and whether it will make any difference to our lives with two of the three top Liberals in state parliament having been Fair Trading (or Better Regulation) Ministers.We look at warnings, as outlined in this story that, if we become global pariahs in terms of climate change, that could have a profound effect on interest rates and mortgages.And we delve into the dark and grey areas of property ownership where one owner is claiming common property as their personal parking spot, and another owners corporation wants the return of common property that the owner though was part of their lot.All that and much more in this week’s podcast. TRANSCRIPT IN FULLJimmy 00:00A few little changes, to the Flat Chat website, coming through. Because I had an SEO (search engine optimization), expert do a little analysis of the website for me. I've always been very suspicious of SEO people, because they're one of the spam things you get bombarded with. This guy's really, really good and so, it's going to be all about making it easier to find stuff (other than my witty headlines). You'll actually be able to go "oh, here's the thing about parking. This is how we'll find out about parking."Sue 00:37Okay. It makes it much more user-friendly, I suppose.Jimmy 00:40I think that's the idea. It's more user-friendly, rather than Jimmy-friendly, I think. So this morning, we're going to be talking about whether or not you can limit or restrict your facilities to vaccinated people only. We're going to be talking about the new leadership in New South Wales and what that means (if anything), to people in strata. We're going to be talking about how our position on global warming could affect your interest rates. And, we're going to be talking about people grabbing bits of property; common property, for their own personal use. That's a lot, isn't it?Sue 01:21It is. We better get on with it!Jimmy 01:23Better get on with it. I'm Jimmy Thomson, I write the Flat Chat column for the Australian Financial Review.Sue 01:29And I'm Sue Williams and I write about property for Domain.Jimmy 01:31And this is the Flat Chat Wrap.[MUSIC]JimmySue, we've touched on the issue of restricting common property facilities to people with double vaccination. Is it even possible? Can it be done?Sue 01:59Well, there are a lot of strata committees at the moment, discussing exactly that and they're kind of drafting bylaws now as well, to see if it can be done. I guess the proof is in the pudding, really. They're going to draft bylaws and then maybe, the antivaxxers might challenge that in court or NCAT a
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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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