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25.01.2022 We’re working on a new project within the new #marrickvillemetro development, scheduled to open come April 2021. Stay tuned! #cheelamdesign #interiorarchitecture #interiordesignaustralia #retaildesign #freshfood #freshseafood
24.01.2022 To all you design-junkee friends and anyone who's generally interested in design ---- this is on my watch-list this weekend -- enjoy ! (it's a 90-min movie, free courtesy of Vitra for the time being) https://www.vitra.com/en-us/page/chair-times
24.01.2022 New #Costi Bros store at #roselandsshoppingcentre nearing completion this week! #cheelamdesign #interiordesign #interiorarchitecture #freshfoodmarket #freshfoodretail #retailseafood
24.01.2022 Always dark when I leave the studio after work now - and - its SO quiet at #precinct75 at the moment with #socialdistancing and everyone #workingfromhome #cheelamdesign #covid
23.01.2022 Mums garden is in fine form. Her ginger plants are all in bloom at the moment - gorgeous !!! #tropicalgarden #gingerflower #tropicalplants #malaysia #nofilter
23.01.2022 Improvising at home #socialdistancing #homegym #covid19 #stayhealthy #nogym
23.01.2022 Its been great working with #Costibrothersseafood on their new store which has opened in the revamped @roselandsshopping . Amazing crowd since their launch! #costibrothers #cheelamdesign #retaildesign #interiorarchitecture #interiordesign #freshseafood
23.01.2022 #short #weekend away to #pearlbeach with a few friends @_shadow_cabinet_ @somidesign @cheezgromit
22.01.2022 The #family back then and now (circa 1986 and 2020) #familytime #familyvacation #familyreunion #familymatters
22.01.2022 Mums idea of a simple dinner at home always brings a smile to my face, and tummy. #homesweethome #shorttrip #familytime #malaysianhomecooking
21.01.2022 Scrumptious #seafood dinner tonight #malaysianfood #kamheong #crabfeast #steamedfish #braisedtofu #aftermath
21.01.2022 So I made this almond-coconut cake today - not bad for my first effort! #covidcooking #covidbaking #weekendvibes #quarantinelife #feedthesoul
20.01.2022 The annual #chinesenewyear family dinner get together is never complete without #yeesang and lots of #lohei . Superbly put together by @aleesk1 , complete with mr rat #familydinner #malaysianheritage #malaysianfood
19.01.2022 What an amazing looking building #Repost @marivs.bln with @get_repost Zalman Aranne University Library by Michael and Shulamit Nadler, Shmuel Bikson, Moshe Gil and S. Amitai in 1968 #brutalism #architecture #university #library #concrete #brutgroup #brutopolis #brutalist #brutalistarchitecture #brutal_architecture
19.01.2022 Wishing everyone the very best for the season and new year ahead. Stay safe, healthy and happy and lets not forget those less fortunate than us x
16.01.2022 Exciting to see the new HOTA Gallery in the Gold Coast by #armarchitecture progressing along. We are looking forward to the big reveal next year , including our design for the new HOTA Retail Store. #cheelamdesign #galleryhota #interiorarchitecture #interiordesign #retaildesign
16.01.2022 At #clubkooky tonight at #vividsydney with a whole bunch of happy #kooksters shaking their tail feathers . What an awesome night !
16.01.2022 The annual #Adelaide #homemade #gnocchi #tradition turned out wonderfully light and fluffy and complimented by a #sage butter sauce and a #bolognese
15.01.2022 Why hello there birdie! #precinct75 #cheelamdesign #viewfromthestudio #sunnyday #urbanwildlife #currawong #blackcurrawong
14.01.2022 Some great words from Philip Thalis last week at the National Trust Awards .
13.01.2022 Wishing all our family, friends and colleagues a happy, healthy and prosperous #yearoftherat !!! #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #cheelamdesign
12.01.2022 Yeah, weve certainly been tucking into our #comfortfood this weekend. After the #mushroompie , we had a warming #vegetablecurry with loads of #lentils and some #roti . Happy days #longweekend #covidcooking #foodfeedsthesoul
11.01.2022 Its devastating and incredibly sad how much has been lost in our #bushfires - lives, bush, wildlife, property - which continue to rage on with no real end in sight. My heart goes out to all those affected by this and my absolute gratitude to our volunteer firefighters
11.01.2022 #short #weekend away to #pearlbeach with a few friends @somidesign @_shadow_cabinet_ @cheezgromit
10.01.2022 Grateful to have #sydneypark as our #localpark #greenlung #innerwest #socialdistancing #covid #everyonesdoingit
10.01.2022 #voteforchange #progressivepolicies #thinkofourfuture #climatechange #australia #elections2019
09.01.2022 The clearest lesson from this election is that good old-fashioned scare campaigns work. The Liberal Party spent the election talking about Labors plans to int...roduce death duties (it had none), to tax retirement (in fact, to remove tax refunds from the 4 per cent of retirees who pay no tax but still get tax refunds), to tax rents (which negative gearing proposals would not have led to) and to tax cars, saying that even people who dont have electric cars will have to spend thousands of dollars installing car-charging equipment in their homes. And Clive Palmer spent $60 million reinforcing those messages. The Liberals claim that all is fair in love, war and elections, and that Labor started it by suggesting the Liberals planned to privatise Medicare (as opposed to parts of it). But where does that leave Australians who believe in honest politics and elections as contests of ideas? Im not sure the 2019 election result means Australia is inherently more conservative any more than the 1993 election result meant Australia was inherently more progressive. So what do we know? We know swinging voters do not vote with their material interests in mind. Swinging voters in low- and middle-income seats like Lindsay in Western Sydney and Herbert in Central Queensland voted to protect the franking credit rebates and superannuation tax concessions that flow overwhelmingly to the wealthy residents of wealthy blue-ribbon Liberal seats like Higgins. And swinging voters in those blue-ribbon Liberal seats swung overwhelmingly to the party promising to tackle climate change and provide free healthcare to all cancer patients. North Queenslanders who rely far more heavily on the Great Barrier Reef than coal-mining for their jobs voted for coal and climate policies that will do the Reef, and their tourism industry, enormous damage. And Clive Palmer helped the Coalition he once spurned to win a scrappy election. Who said voters only think about themselves? What else do we know? We know that Queensland and Western Australia are different. Labor won a majority of the two-party preferred vote in a majority of the states and territories. But the fact that progressives won more lower house seats than conservatives in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory doesnt matter for the simple reason that the Coalition won 23 of the 30 seats in Queensland and 11 of the 16 seats in Western Australia. The Coalitions thumping majority in regional Queensland was enough for them to overcome Labors comfortable majorities across the rest of the country. Texas prevented civil rights reforms in the United States for a century, and it seems the Australians who have the most to lose from climate change (and who have the most solar panels) have the least interest in addressing it. For now, anyway. We know that on polling day the people who care the least decide the most. Most people vote for the same party year after year. Indeed, millions of voters never change their vote at all. Some people spend the election campaign thinking about policies and candidates, and make their mind up close to polling day. The pollsters call these voters undecideds and tend to allocate them fairly evenly to the major parties when estimating the final vote. Some voters literally make up their minds while they are standing in the polling place. Its impossible for pollsters to guess which way these undecideds will jump, and clearly the vast majority of them decided not to vote for Labor. We know electoral polling doesnt work anymore. When Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the presidency to Donald Trump the world was shocked. It was possible to blame low voter turnout and the intricacies of the US presidential voting system, but the simpler explanation is that the polls were wrong just as they were wrong about Brexit, wrong about the last Victorian state election, wrong about the last NSW state election and wrong about Scott Morrison. We know fear beats hope, but only on the undecideds and not in Victoria. Two years worth of polling told us that the Liberal Partys climate scepticism and hostility to same-sex marriage was driving traditional voters away, and those polls were right. Thirty seats held by the Coalition had swings against the government. But 26 of those seats did not fall on the night. Labors class war won over a lot of former Liberal voters, but those voters werent concentrated in the one area, so Labor picked up few new seats. Who knew broad appeal would be a problem for Labor? We also know that the media doesnt handle lies well. As we should have learnt from the experience with climate-science deniers, the media struggles with the competing objectives of providing balance and not providing a platform for bullshit. The media tends towards the former on the basis that the audience is smart enough to decide for itself, even though the result of such optimism is rising greenhouse gas emissions and declining vaccination rates... ... Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, but because we are one of the lowest-taxed countries we feel poor. Most Australians believe that we cant afford to have the kind of quality public services we had in the 1970s or 80s. And most Australians take for granted that we cant afford the kind of services that voters in Sweden, Finland, Norway or Denmark enjoy every day. But most Australians are wrong. Its the job of a think tank to flout conventional wisdom, and for more than 10 years the Australia Institute has called on our parliaments, state and federal, to collect more tax and spend more money on high-quality services. Such a progressive strategy was seen as economic and political madness by Labor leaders Paul Keating, Simon Crean, Kim Beazley, Mark Latham and Kevin Rudd. But Bill Shorten and his team thought otherwise. They put forward a raft of proposals to collect a lot more money and to spend that money on better services. They persuaded a lot of high-income earners in Liberal electorates that such an approach was fair and desirable, and they nearly won the election. But nearly doesnt count. Perhaps the cruellest blow for Shorten is that his partys polling told him he was in front and that people wanted vision. He spent years developing that policy agenda in consultation with his colleagues and experts. He took that advice and lost an election everyone told him he would win. Shortens critics have been quick to argue that he never should have made himself the target, and that only governments should have bold agendas. The concession speeches hadnt even commenced before the twitterverse was comparing Shortens agenda to John Hewsons spectacularly unsuccessful Fightback! plan, which gave Keating three more years, albeit then ushering in 12 years of Labor in Opposition. So is timidity the new lesson for Labor? I think not. Kim Beazley and Simon Crean were timid and they didnt win. Neither did Hillary Clinton. At precisely the time that progressives in the US are calling for a Green New Deal, a raft of progressives inside and outside Labor are sucking air through their teeth and explaining how they always knew that caution trumps passion. To be clear, Labor lost. But theres a lot more to the election results than meets the press gallerys eye, and a close look at those results reveals that boldness has more fans than the headline result suggests. Labor got trounced in Queensland allegedly for failing to wholeheartedly endorse the Adani coalmine, but significantly there was no real swing to the Liberal National Party in Queensland at all. All that support for Adani boosted the LNP primary vote in Queensland by only 0.3 per cent, while the Greens vote rose 3.7 per cent in the Senate. The Coalitions $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), which would help subsidise the Adani project, won virtually no new voters in the home state of the countrys most controversial mine. Labors woes in Queensland stem directly from the fact that Pauline Hansons One Nation and Clive Palmers United Australia Party (UAP) had a combined swing to them of 6.7 per cent and fed most of it back to the LNP in preferences. In previous elections One Nation had been more even-handed in the way it recommended preferences, but this time it provided full-throated support for the Coalition. As Palmer said after the election, We thought that would be a disaster for Australia so we decided to polarise the electorate and we thought wed put what advertising we had left into explaining to the people what Shortens economic plans were for the country and how they needed to be worried about them Ninety per cent of [UAP] preferences flowed to the Liberal Party and they won by about 2 per cent, so our vote has got them across the line. Its also important to remember that Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk had an unlikely win at the last state election after refusing to pass on federal government subsidies to the Adani coalmine. And lets not forget that Queensland voters are volatile. In 2012, Campbell Newmans LNP government won a landslide victory and was expected to govern for up to three terms, with a massive swing of almost 16 per cent that saw Labor reduced to just seven seats. At the following election both Newman and his government were booted out in surely the most dramatic reversal of political fortunes in Australian political history. Unfortunately for most newspaper readers, some election analysts have short memories. Supporting Adani didnt win the Liberals new votes across Queensland but it certainly lost them a lot of votes in the southern capital cities. And if the mine goes ahead it will likely cost them even more in three years time. Heres a Labor advertisement that, in hindsight, it should have run: If your mum got cancer, could she afford tens of thousands of dollars to fight it as hard as possible? Labor wants to make all cancer drugs free and the Coalition wants to give $77 billion in tax cuts to those on $180,000 or more. The choice is clear. Vote Labor. Not all fear campaigns are based on lies. Australians are understandably afraid their loved ones might fall ill. And they are understandably afraid of having to choose between meeting their mortgage payments and paying for life-saving medicines. Labor went to the election promising $2.3 billion to make that fear go away but it barely talked about it in its ads. Childcare costs working families far more than electricity bills, and Labor went to the election promising to make childcare free but it barely talked about it in its ads. The Coalition didnt bother to say how it was going to fund $300 billion of income tax cuts for the simple reason that it knew no one really cared. Donald Trump is now running a budget deficit of $1.1 trillion per year while claiming its okay because he used to be a property developer. So, again, what the hell happened? Labor was out-campaigned. The once fearsome ground game of the unions and GetUp was more sizzle than democracy sausage. The Liberals have quietly succeeded in building their own armies, largely off the back of specific church and migrant communities. And while the Liberals had one main message, Labor had many. In hindsight, the biggest mistake Labor made was to spend too much time talking about all the revenue it planned to raise and not nearly enough time talking about what it wanted to spend it on. While its tax agenda was progressive, Labors messaging still tried to make a virtue of its fiscal conservatism. To prove it was good with money Labor always linked its new spending to its new taxes. To prove it was a good economic manager Labor promised to use much of the new revenue to deliver bigger budget surpluses and a smaller public debt. One thing is clear: voters dont care about budget deficits any more. In the six years after then opposition leader Tony Abbott declared we had a budget emergency, the Coalition handed down six budget deficits that added a combined $201 billion to our public debt. But no one other than Labor seemed to notice. After decades of allegedly neoliberal politicians telling low-income earners about the need to tighten their belts, the election campaign saw the Coalition announce an orgy of debt-funded tax cuts. And it won. Labor was punished for its conservatism, not its class war. In short, the Liberal Party talked about its plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on income tax cuts and the Labor Party spent the whole campaign talking about how it would fund new spending initiatives that few people had heard of or understood. The amount of revenue governments collect is important, as is the manner in which they collect it. Taxes on carbon pollution are far more efficient and equitable than taxes on fresh food, which is why the GST has so many exemptions. But the fact that Labor had clear plans to collect more revenue, and to reduce income inequality in the process, does not mean that it made sense to focus on those plans and not on how new services would let a Labor government improve peoples lives. As one of the architects of the idea that ended up becoming Labors biggest revenue measure the $11 billion plan (over four years) to abolish tax refunds to people who pay no tax I can honestly say that I never expected it to wind up at the centre of a national election campaign. Not because I think its a bad idea and not because I think political parties should hide their plans the way Abbott hid his plans to slash spending back in 2013 but because I can say with confidence that almost no one knows what an imputation credit is, and everyone knows what cancer is. Peter Duttons primary vote in the Queensland seat of Dickson went up by 0.9 per cent. As did George Christensens in the seat of Dawson. The so-called member for Manila literally spent more time in the Philippines than he did in the federal parliament, and his electorate rewarded him with a primary vote increase. Such outcomes are hard for many to comprehend, but while they make for powerful stories, they dont provide a powerful description of what happened on May 18. Nationwide there was a near-identical primary swing against both the Coalition (0.7 per cent) and Labor (0.9 per cent), and while the LNP collected 23 of the 30 Queensland seats, they did so off the back of a tiny 0.3 per cent swing. The UAP and One Nation gave the Liberals their northern landslide. In the seat of Kennedy, the boundary of which surrounds where the Adani mine will be located, the Liberal vote fell by 5.3 per cent. In neighbouring Leichhardt, the Liberal vote fell by 2.3 per cent and Labor picked up an extra 1.3 per cent. While its true that Labors vote fell 12.1 per cent in Christensens seat of Dawson, all but 0.5 per cent of that formerly Labor vote shifted to One Nation and UAP. The results were similarly lacklustre for the LNP in Capricornia. While big swings to One Nation and UAP helped the Coalition snatch an unlikely victory, those same trends spell big trouble for the Coalition in the coming years. One Nation, UAP and other populist parties including the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party are an existential threat to the Nationals, and to the Coalition more broadly. Over the past 30 years regional Australia has been hit hard by privatisation, free trade agreements, cuts to welfare and other Liberal Party policy favourites. Outside of the capital cities unemployment is much higher and average incomes much lower, and that gap is rising. Pauline Hanson and Clive Palmer know how to turn resentment over that undeniable fact into votes, and so does Barnaby Joyce. The trick is to blame the Greens and environmentalists for putting trees ahead of farmland, fish ahead of irrigators and the changing climate ahead of coal jobs. Blaming a political party that has never been in office for regional Australias problems takes chutzpah, but it works a treat except in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane and Canberra, where the vast majority of Liberal voters live and vote. And as the substantial primary swings against the Liberals in seats like Goldstein, Kooyong, Curtin and Warringah show, the Coalition junior partners determination to go to war with the natural environment is coming at a huge cost to the Liberal Partys safest seats. The Nationals have always done a good job of blaming everybody but themselves for the problems in their electorates, but in Hanson and Palmer the Nats are meeting their match. Joyces inevitable run for deputy prime minister will be a boon for the Nationals in their fight against the other minor parties, but his bombastic determination to rage against the 21st century will help ensure that voters in once-safe Liberal seats continue to shift their votes to Labor, the Greens and independents. If Labor waged a class war in the 2019 election, it was the least successful in history. There is no doubt that Labor planned to collect significant amounts of revenue from high-income voters and there is also no doubt that many high-income voters were unfazed. In fact, the 10 seats with the biggest swing to Labor had median incomes that were 40 per cent higher than the 10 seats with the biggest swing to the LNP. Even on the issue of franking credits, the 10 electorates with the biggest swing to Labor get four times the amount of franking credits each year as the 10 seats with the biggest swing to the Coalition. The Coalitions scare campaign about the impact of Labors negative gearing and dividend imputation policies worked best in electorates where voters owned the least shares and the fewest investment properties. Seats with a higher proportion of renters were more likely to swing to the Coalition when it was Labor trying to crack down on the tax concessions that deliver so much to landlords. Well played, Coalition. Voters in Liberal electorates were unenthusiastic about Scott Morrisons tax cuts as well. Of the $300 billion to be spent on income tax cuts, at least $77 billion will go to those earning more than $180,000 per year, the vast majority of whom live in the inner-city Liberal-held seats that swung heavily to Labor. If Shorten was waging a class war it seems that those blue-ribbon seats are full of enthusiastic class traitors. And then there is Tasmania. Incomes in that state are far below the Australian average and while 4 per cent of Australians earn more than $180,000 only 1.5 per cent of Tasmanians do, which explains why the entire state will receive less benefit from Morrisons income tax cuts than a single wealthy electorate in Sydney. But the poorest parts of Tasmania swung heavily away from Labor. Read more: https://www.themonthly.com.au//morrison-election-what-we-k
07.01.2022 Mum made some of her yummy #pineappletarts on her recent visit for #chinesenewyear - so good, theyre almost all gone before #chinesenewyear even happens! #chinesenewyeartreats #malaysiantreats #malaysiancuisine #homemade #mumscooking #nofilter
03.01.2022 Got off the plane and tucked into my childhood fave #hokkienmee #malaysianfood #localdelights #hawkerfood #visitingfamily
03.01.2022 It was great working with #CostisFresh on their new retail environment as part of the major #castletowers mall upgrade currently underway. Professional photos to come. #cheelamdesign #interiorarchitecture #interiordesign #retaildesign #freshseafood #seafoodretail #retailseafood
02.01.2022 More #covidcooking #longweekendvibes with this rustic #mushroom #pie #isolife #isocooking
02.01.2022 First time making #currypuffs on my own, just a tad on the giant side #covidcooking #covidbaking #covid19 #malaysianfood #malaysiancuisine #firsttimeforeverything #mumdoesitbetter #socialisolation #isolife #everybodysdoingit
02.01.2022 Amazingly clear sky this evening as we left the studio #fullmoon #precinct75 #cheelamdesign #nofilter
01.01.2022 So great to catch up with these two! @tonyayres @michael.mcmahon.5249349 #oldfriends
