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Median Weekly Rents Brisbane 2012 – 2017
Brisbane Statistical Division Weekly Rentals
Weekly rents for 4 Bedroom Houses in BRISBANE CITY have changed from $490 per week (May 2012) to $540 per week (May 2017), a change of 10% over 5 years ($50 per week). Based on 2,305 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr)
The change in Median Rental Costs in Brisbane from 2012 to 2017
Brisbane Statistical Division Weekly Rentals for 4 Bedroom Houses
BRISBANE CITY , changed from $490 per week to $540 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years ($50 per week). Based on 2305 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Bayside , changed from $515 per week to $578 per week, a change of 12% over 5 years ($63 per week). Based on 96 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Lindum/Lytton/Wynnum 4178, changed from $510 per week to $530 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 46 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Lota/Manly 4179, changed from $530 per week to $610 per week, a change of 15% over 5 years. ($80 per week). Based on 50 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane City Inner , changed from $640 per week to $725 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years ($85 per week). Based on 200 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
New Farm/Teneriffe 4005, changed from $900 per week to $1225 per week, a change of 36% over 5 years. ($325 per week). Based on 18 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Bowen Hills/Valley/Herston/Newstead 4006, changed from $700 per week to $590 per week, a change of -16% over 5 years. ($-110 per week). Based on 13 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Milton/Paddington/Rosalie 4064, changed from $650 per week to $800 per week, a change of 23% over 5 years. ($150 per week). Based on 37 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Auchenflower/MtCootha/Toowong 4066, changed from $600 per week to $700 per week, a change of 17% over 5 years. ($100 per week). Based on 41 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Ironside/St Lucia 4067, changed from $600 per week to $693 per week, a change of 16% over 5 years. ($93 per week). Based on 42 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Highgate Hill/South Bris/West End 4101, changed from $585 per week to $750 per week, a change of 28% over 5 years. ($165 per week). Based on 19 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Buranda/Dutton Park/Wooloongabba 4102, changed from $320 per week to $605 per week, a change of 89% over 5 years. ($285 per week). Based on 16 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
East Bris/Kangaroo Point 4169, changed from $695 per week to $605 per week, a change of -13% over 5 years. ($-90 per week). Based on 12 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane North – Inner , changed from $620 per week to $675 per week, a change of 9% over 5 years ($55 per week). Based on 172 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Ascot/Hamilton 4007, changed from $900 per week to $800 per week, a change of -11% over 5 years. ($-100 per week). Based on 12 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Clayfield/Hendra 4011, changed from $735 per week to $695 per week, a change of -5% over 5 years. ($-40 per week). Based on 21 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Nundah/Toombul/Wavell Heights 4012, changed from $530 per week to $500 per week, a change of -6% over 5 years. ($-30 per week). Based on 25 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Lutwyche/Windsor/Wooloowin 4030, changed from $600 per week to $675 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years. ($75 per week). Based on 32 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Gordon Park/Kedron 4031, changed from $650 per week to $700 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($50 per week). Based on 19 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Alderley/Enogerra/Gaythorne/Grange/ Newmarket/Wilston 4051, changed from $520 per week to $680 per week, a change of 31% over 5 years. ($160 per week). Based on 59 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane North – Outer , changed from $440 per week to $475 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years ($35 per week). Based on 285 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Banyo/Nudgee/Virginia 4014, changed from $480 per week to $530 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years. ($50 per week). Based on 41 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Bracken Ridge/Brighton/Deagon/Sandgate 4017, changed from $425 per week to $470 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years. ($45 per week). Based on 77 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Fitzgibbon/Taigum 4018, changed from $425 per week to $460 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($35 per week). Based on 29 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Chermside/Craigslea 4032, changed from $430 per week to $460 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 15 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Aspley/Boondal/Geebung/Zillmere 4034, changed from $460 per week to $480 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 99 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Bald Hills 4036, changed from $380 per week to $425 per week, a change of 12% over 5 years. ($45 per week). Based on 16 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane North West – Inner , changed from $620 per week to $700 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years ($80 per week). Based on 84 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Ballymore/Ithaca/Kelvin Grove/Red Hill 4059, changed from $650 per week to $645 per week, a change of -1% over 5 years. ($-5 per week). Based on 33 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Ashgrove/Dorrington/St Johns Wood 4060, changed from $570 per week to $750 per week, a change of 32% over 5 years. ($180 per week). Based on 25 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Bardon/Jubilee/Rainworth 4065, changed from $650 per week to $738 per week, a change of 14% over 5 years. ($88 per week). Based on 26 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane North West – Outer , changed from $480 per week to $540 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years ($60 per week). Based on 142 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brookside/Everton Park/McDowall/Stafford 4053, changed from $460 per week to $540 per week, a change of 17% over 5 years. ($80 per week). Based on 91 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Arana Hills/Keperra 4054, changed from $455 per week to $480 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($25 per week). Based on 21 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
The Gap 4061, changed from $550 per week to $600 per week, a change of 9% over 5 years. ($50 per week). Based on 30 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane South – Inner , changed from $530 per week to $550 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years ($20 per week). Based on 155 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Annerley/Fairfield 4103, changed from $580 per week to $625 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($45 per week). Based on 18 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Yeronga 4104, changed from $520 per week to $630 per week, a change of 21% over 5 years. ($110 per week). Based on 5 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Clifton Hill/Moorooka/Tennyson 4105, changed from $515 per week to $580 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years. ($65 per week). Based on 23 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Greenslopes/Stones Corner 4120, changed from $530 per week to $648 per week, a change of 22% over 5 years. ($118 per week). Based on 10 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Ekibin/Holland Park/Tarragindi/Wellers Hill 4121, changed from $580 per week to $600 per week, a change of 3% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 35 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Mansfield/Mt Gravatt/Wishart 4122, changed from $500 per week to $510 per week, a change of 2% over 5 years. ($10 per week). Based on 64 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane South – Outer , changed from $440 per week to $470 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years ($30 per week). Based on 382 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Salisbury 4107, changed from $460 per week to $480 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 9 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Archerfield/Coopers Plains 4108, changed from $430 per week to $450 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 11 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Altandi/Macgregor/Robertson/Sunnybank 4109, changed from $465 per week to $490 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($25 per week). Based on 99 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Acacia Ridge/Larapinta/Willawong 4110, changed from $420 per week to $450 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 35 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Kuraby 4112, changed from $500 per week to $498 per week, a change of 0% over 5 years. ($-2 per week). Based on 24 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Eight Miles Plains/Runcorn 4113, changed from $460 per week to $473 per week, a change of 3% over 5 years. ($13 per week). Based on 62 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Algester/Parkinson 4115, changed from $420 per week to $460 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years. ($40 per week). Based on 64 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Calamvale/Drewvale/Stretton 4116, changed from $430 per week to $460 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 77 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane South East – Inner , changed from $630 per week to $650 per week, a change of 3% over 5 years ($20 per week). Based on 194 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Coorparoo 4151, changed from $545 per week to $675 per week, a change of 24% over 5 years. ($130 per week). Based on 15 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Camp Hill/Carina/Carindale 4152, changed from $550 per week to $620 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years. ($70 per week). Based on 81 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Cannon Hill/Morningside/Norman Park 4170, changed from $680 per week to $670 per week, a change of -1% over 5 years. ($-10 per week). Based on 53 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Balmoral/Bulimba/Hawthorne 4171, changed from $900 per week to $920 per week, a change of 2% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 25 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Murarrie 4172, changed from $650 per week to $588 per week, a change of -10% over 5 years. ($-62 per week). Based on 20 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane South East – Outer , changed from $520 per week to $540 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years ($20 per week). Based on 84 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Belmont 4153, changed from $540 per week to $600 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years. ($60 per week). Based on 7 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Gumdale/Ransome/Wakerley 4154, changed from $540 per week to $548 per week, a change of 1% over 5 years. ($8 per week). Based on 54 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Tingalpa 4173, changed from $430 per week to $470 per week, a change of 9% over 5 years. ($40 per week). Based on 15 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Doboy/Hemant 4174, changed from $415 per week to $500 per week, a change of 20% over 5 years. ($85 per week). Based on 5 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane South West – Inner , changed from $585 per week to $620 per week, a change of 6% over 5 years ($35 per week). Based on 139 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Chelmer/Indooroopilly/Taringa 4068, changed from $600 per week to $632 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($32 per week). Based on 85 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Corinda/Graceville/Oxley/Sherwood 4075, changed from $520 per week to $573 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years. ($53 per week). Based on 54 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brisbane South West – Outer , changed from $440 per week to $490 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years ($50 per week). Based on 372 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Brookfield/Chapel Hill/Kenmore 4069, changed from $565 per week to $610 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($45 per week). Based on 93 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Anstead/Bellbowrie/Moggill 4070, changed from $420 per week to $460 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years. ($40 per week). Based on 62 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Seventeen Mile Rocks/Sinnamon Park 4073, changed from $530 per week to $585 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years. ($55 per week). Based on 37 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Jindalee/MtOmmaney/Sumner/Westlake 4074, changed from $480 per week to $530 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years. ($50 per week). Based on 65 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Doolandella/Durack/Inala/Richlands 4077, changed from $385 per week to $420 per week, a change of 9% over 5 years. ($35 per week). Based on 46 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Forest Lake/Carole Park 4078, changed from $400 per week to $440 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years. ($40 per week). Based on 65 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Outside Brisbane City
Logan City Council Area ** , changed from $385 per week to $400 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years ($15 per week). Based on 1010 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Bethania 4205, changed from $350 per week to $390 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years. ($40 per week). Based on 9 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Beenleigh/Eaglby/Mt Warren Pk 4207, changed from $380 per week to $390 per week, a change of 3% over 5 years. ($10 per week). Based on 305 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Kingston/ Logan City/ Trinder Pk/ Woodridge 4114, changed from $340 per week to $365 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years. ($25 per week). Based on 42 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Berrinba 4117, changed from $400 per week to $435 per week, a change of 9% over 5 years. ($35 per week). Based on 14 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Browns Plains/Brownsleigh/ Forestdale/ Heritage Pk/ Hillcrest/ Regents Pk 4118, changed from $380 per week to $410 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 103 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Underwood 4119, changed from $440 per week to $465 per week, a change of 6% over 5 years. ($25 per week). Based on 22 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Priests Gully/ Rochedale 4123, changed from $430 per week to $483 per week, a change of 12% over 5 years. ($53 per week). Based on 32 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Boronia Hts/ Greenbank/ New Beith 4124, changed from $400 per week to $395 per week, a change of -1% over 5 years. ($-5 per week). Based on 33 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Munruben/ Park Ridge 4125, changed from $436 per week to $390 per week, a change of -11% over 5 years. ($-46 per week). Based on 26 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Chatswood Hills/ Daisy Hill/ Preistdale/ Slacks Ck/ Springwood 4127, changed from $440 per week to $463 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($23 per week). Based on 38 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Kimberley Pk/ Logan Hyperdome/ Shailer Pk/ Tanah Merah 4128, changed from $420 per week to $450 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 36 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Logandale/ Loganholme 4129, changed from $430 per week to $420 per week, a change of -2% over 5 years. ($-10 per week). Based on 11 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Carbrook/ Cornubia 4130, changed from $430 per week to $495 per week, a change of 15% over 5 years. ($65 per week). Based on 23 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Loganlea/ Meadowbrook 4131, changed from $380 per week to $395 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years. ($15 per week). Based on 51 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Crestmead/ Marsden 4132, changed from $370 per week to $390 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 136 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Chambers Flat/ Logan Reserve/ Waterford 4133, changed from $390 per week to $400 per week, a change of 3% over 5 years. ($10 per week). Based on 88 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Jimboomba/ Maclean/ Stockleigh 4280, changed from $400 per week to $410 per week, a change of 3% over 5 years. ($10 per week). Based on 41 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Ipswich City Council Area ** , changed from $335 per week to $365 per week, a change of 9% over 5 years ($30 per week). Based on 1194 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Goodna/ Bellbird Pk/ Camira/ Springfield 4300, changed from $380 per week to $410 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 443 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Redbank/ Redbank Plns/ Collingwood Pk 4301, changed from $325 per week to $350 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($25 per week). Based on 241 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Booval/ Blackstone/ Bundamba/ Ebbw Vale/ Silkstone 4304, changed from $320 per week to $340 per week, a change of 6% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 41 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Ipswich/ Brassall/ Bremer/ Churchill/ Flinders View/ Leichardt/ Raceview/ Tivoli/ Yamanto etc 4305, changed from $320 per week to $340 per week, a change of 6% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 308 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Amberley/ Fernvale/ Karana Downs/ Mt Crosby/ Peak Crossing/ Swanbank/ Willowbank etc 4306, changed from $320 per week to $390 per week, a change of 22% over 5 years. ($70 per week). Based on 138 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Rosewood/ Ashwell/ Calvert/ Ebenezer/ Grandchester/ Moorang/ Mt Forbes/ Rosevale etc 4340, changed from $340 per week to $340 per week, a change of 0% over 5 years. ($0 per week). Based on 17 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Redland City Council Area , changed from $465 per week to $490 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years ($25 per week). Based on 408 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Capalaba/ Sheldon 4157, changed from $450 per week to $498 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years. ($48 per week). Based on 22 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Birkdale/ Aquatic Paradise/ Meridian Pt 4159, changed from $460 per week to $520 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years. ($60 per week). Based on 39 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Ormiston/ Wellington Pt/ Erobin 4160, changed from $480 per week to $535 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years. ($55 per week). Based on 54 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Alexandra Hills/ Burwood Hts 4161, changed from $450 per week to $450 per week, a change of 0% over 5 years. ($0 per week). Based on 22 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Cleveland/ Raby Bay 4163, changed from $500 per week to $500 per week, a change of 0% over 5 years. ($0 per week). Based on 38 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Thornlands/ Pinklands 4164, changed from $485 per week to $495 per week, a change of 2% over 5 years. ($10 per week). Based on 64 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Mt Cotton/ Pt Halloran/ Pt Talburpin/ Redland Bay/ Victoria Pt 4165, changed from $460 per week to $478 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years. ($18 per week). Based on 154 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Coochiemudlo Is/ Karragarra Is/ Lamb Is/ Macleay Is/ Peel Is/ Russell Is 4184, changed from $270 per week to $313 per week, a change of 16% over 5 years. ($43 per week). Based on 6 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Moreton Bay Regional Council Area , changed from $370 per week to $410 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years ($40 per week). Based on 1623 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Caboolture Region , changed from $340 per week to $375 per week, a change of 10% over 5 years ($35 per week). Based on 671 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Narangba 4504, changed from $380 per week to $410 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 113 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Burpengary 4505, changed from $370 per week to $400 per week, a change of 8% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 66 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Morayfield/ Moorina 4506, changed from $330 per week to $360 per week, a change of 9% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 119 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Banksia Beach/ Bellara/ Bongaree/ Bribie Is/ Woorim 4507, changed from $410 per week to $455 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years. ($45 per week). Based on 42 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Deception Bay 4508, changed from $350 per week to $375 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years. ($25 per week). Based on 47 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Caboolture/ Beachmere/ Donnybrook/ Balingool/ Bellmere/ Meledale/ Moodlu/ Rocksberg/ Toorbul 4510, changed from $325 per week to $360 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years. ($35 per week). Based on 229 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Godwin Beach/ Ningi/ Sandstone Pt/ Toorbul Pt 4511, changed from $350 per week to $390 per week, a change of 11% over 5 years. ($40 per week). Based on 33 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Pine Rivers Region , changed from $410 per week to $430 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years ($20 per week). Based on 824 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Albany Ck/ Bridgeman Downs/ Cashs Crossing 4035, changed from $495 per week to $530 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years. ($35 per week). Based on 56 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Eatons Hill 4037, changed from $470 per week to $530 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years. ($60 per week). Based on 9 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Bunya/ Ferny Grove/ Ferny Hills/ Kedron Upper 4055, changed from $495 per week to $520 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($25 per week). Based on 41 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Bray Pk/ Brendale/ Cashmere/ Clear Mountain/ Joyner/ Strathpine/ Warner 4500, changed from $410 per week to $430 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 119 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Lawnton 4501, changed from $370 per week to $425 per week, a change of 15% over 5 years. ($55 per week). Based on 14 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Frenchs Forest/ Petrie 4502, changed from $390 per week to $440 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years. ($50 per week). Based on 21 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Dakabin/ Dohles Rocks/ Griffin/ Kallangur/ Kurwongbah 4503, changed from $390 per week to $410 per week, a change of 5% over 5 years. ($20 per week). Based on 235 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Mango Hill 4509, changed from $405 per week to $435 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years. ($30 per week). Based on 310 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Camp Mountain/ Cedar Ck/ Mt Glorious/ Mt Nebo/ Mt Samson/ Samford/ Yugar 4520, changed from $590 per week to $690 per week, a change of 17% over 5 years. ($100 per week). Based on 15 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Redcliffe Region , changed from $390 per week to $418 per week, a change of 7% over 5 years ($28 per week). Based on 128 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Clontarf/ Humpybong/ Margate/ Scotts Pt/ Woody Pt 4019, changed from $400 per week to $450 per week, a change of 13% over 5 years. ($50 per week). Based on 31 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Redcliffe/ Scarborough/ Newport Waters/ Suttons Bch 4020, changed from $435 per week to $498 per week, a change of 14% over 5 years. ($63 per week). Based on 36 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Kippa-Ring 4021, changed from $380 per week to $395 per week, a change of 4% over 5 years. ($15 per week). Based on 13 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
Rothwell 4022, changed from $380 per week to $390 per week, a change of 3% over 5 years. ($10 per week). Based on 48 New Rentals in the March 2017 Qtr.
** Historical data is based upon the former LGA boundaries. Comparisons between the number of bonds lodged should be used with caution.
The above figures are compared from the March Quarter 2012 and 2017, Median rents quarterly data from The State of Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority data at: www.rta.qld.gov.au
Author ABCDiamondPosted on April 18, 2017 April 18, 2017 Categories Furnished Rentals
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Dr. M. Margaret Knudson Named Medical Director of ACS-MHS Partnership
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The American College of Surgeons recently announced that M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery and trauma surgeon at the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, has joined the Division of Member Services of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as Medical Director for the Military Health System (MHS) Strategic-ACS Partnership. The partnership was officially launched with the signing of a charter during Clinical Congress 2014. Dr. Knudson will oversee the partnership and assist with the development of education, systems-based practices, and research to maintain and [...]
Dr. Peggy Knudson Develops Unique Game Teaching Traffic Safety to Children
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KRON4 in San Francisco reports on an innnovative game, developed by UCSF trauma surgeon, M. Margaret "Peggy" Knudson, MD, that teaches traffic safety to children. SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, discusses the game in depth: A group of third-graders waved their hands and screamed - "Stop!" - as a car slowly backed toward them from a garage.The children weren't in danger of becoming San Francisco's latest pedestrian casualties, though. They were one of many groups of students who gathered at Lakeshore Elementary in San Francisco to try out an innovative workshop that [...]
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UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - - September 13, 2010
M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS (center) was awarded the 2010 National Safety Council Surgeon's Award for Service to Safety at the Trauma Reception at the AAST Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. for her visionary leadership in injury prevention and control, and lifelong commitment to the care of injured patients that has saved countless lives." The award was presented by L.D. Britt, MD, FACS, ACS President and President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (left) and Michael F. Rotondo, MD, FACS, Chair, Committee on Trauma.
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1993 was peak recession time in Canada, and the country was not very warm towards newcomers. So, we took the hint and moved on to Anchorage, Alaska, where jobs were more plentiful. We did eventually, make it back to Canada, but our entire sojourn in North America has been a roller coaster ride.
The first challenge was getting used to the driving conditions in this weird country. In India, where we came from, there are only two rules for driving ' drive on the left side, and, stop when the guy in front of you stops. Other than that, it's a free country. In North America, not only do we have to drive on the other side, but the road is sub-divided into lanes, and we are expected to stay in one of them The first reaction of the Indian brain is 'Lane driving is insane driving' but ultimately, I got used to it.
Speed limits are another matter. Initially, I would drive well below the speed limit and I remember proudly tell my friends that I drove from Ottawa to Toronto in just seven hours! After many years in this country I now realize that speed limits really indicate the minimum speed we should be driving at. To drive any slower is madness and could well cause an accident.
Then, there is the strange world of traffic signs. In India traffic signs come in two or three languages, and to read them while driving is a recipe for an accident. But, in North America, we are expected to literally follow what the signs say. The hardest one, for me, is the STOP sign. Taken literally, it means stop your car at the intersection. There is no corresponding sign that says GO, so if I really followed the sign I would be stuck at an intersection forever.
It takes a long time to master the social customs of this strange land 'in fact, I haven't been able to do it even after 14 years. In India, social life is easy, you just go over unannounced to your friend, relative, or neighbor's house and chat over a cup of tea ' it's that simple. But in North America, you have to wait to be invited formally, along with a hundred other people. There is also this strange concept of punctuality. So you arrive punctually at 7 p.m, get bored in a large crowd, have a drink, get bored, eat, get bored, and, leave after midnight. And then, it's your turn to invite the same hundred people over to your own house, for another round of socializing.
Marriage is another strange custom in North America. In India, there are only two types of marriages ' the arranged marriage, and, the love marriage. North America has another variation ' the deranged marriage. The couple falls in love, but when its time to get married, they want all the extravaganza of an arranged marriage. In India, we attend a marriage to socialize and have fun ' not so in North America. The host tells you with whom to socialize, by telling you where to sit, as in a business meeting or a seminar. In fact, the bride and bridegroom even tell you what they want as a wedding present, in a strange custom called the gift registry. Everything happens on schedule, and, there is none of the spontaneous confusion of the typical Indian wedding.
I recently figured out why marriages in North America are less enduring than their Indian counterparts. We got a wedding invitation that said 'No children allowed'. This is not just strange, but, super strange, since the whole point of a wedding, as far as I know, is to have children. How can the marriage last when the wedding card itself states 'No children allowed'?
It took us quite a while to get used to the North American style of marketing. In India, cheating is very straightforward ' people will just charge you more for a product, or, sell you an inferior product, there is nothing dubious about it. In North America, we have all kind of deals and ploys ' two for one deals, one-and a-half for one deals, sales and 'specials' where you get something for free. Essentially the specials boil down to this: you can buy fries and get the hamburger free, or, vice versa. I keep looking for a deal where you can get both free, but it hasn't happened yet.
The word 'sale' is a well established marketing tool that has been around for decades. But it is still a magic word and it works every time. Some of our friends and relatives save thousands of dollars every month on sales, but it generally takes two incomes to keep up with their savings.
But the hardest adjustment is learning to live with the people who inhabit this foreign land. The message was brought home to me very sharply when the door bell rang at our house last week. My wife opened the door, and then called out to me 'Love, we have some foreigners at the door, trying to sell us something'. I had to correct her very gently '''''''''''Love, it is we who are the foreigners here ' not them'.


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Nataniel, imię świeckie William George Popp (ur. 12 czerwca 1940 w Aurora) – arcybiskup Kościoła Prawosławnego w Ameryce. Locum tenens Kościoła Prawosławnego w Ameryce po rezygnacji metropolity Jonasza.

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Jest pochodzenia rumuńskiego. Wychował się w rodzinie należącej do Kościoła Rumuńskiego Zjednoczonego z Rzymem i pragnął zostać kapłanem tego obrządku. Studiował teologię katolicką m.in. w Rzymie i 17 czerwca 1966 przyjął święcenia diakońskie, zaś 23 października tego samego roku – kapłańskie. W styczniu roku następnego powrócił jako ksiądz wikariusz do rodzinnej miejscowości i pracował w cerkwi św. Michała Archanioła w Aurora.

Już w czasie studiów zainteresował się duchowością i teologią prawosławną, toteż po kilku miesiącach pracy duszpasterskiej w Aurora podjął decyzję o podjęciu starań na rzecz konwersji na prawosławie. Został uczniem duchowym arcybiskupa Waleriana (Trify) i ostatecznie przyjął prawosławie 15 lutego 1968 w monasterze w Vatra Româneasca. W klasztorze tym przebywał przez kilka lat, po czym otrzymał nominację na proboszcza cerkwi Krzyża Świętego w Hermitage.

21 października 1980 złożył w tym samym monasterze śluby małej schimy, po czym natychmiast został podniesiony do godności archimandryty. W soborze św. Jerzego w Detroit, 15 listopada 1980, miała miejsce jego chirotonia biskupia – został biskupem Dearborn Heights, wikariuszem diecezji rumuńskiej. Godność tę pełnił do 1984. 17 listopada tego roku został biskupem ordynariuszem tej samej diecezji. Odnosił znaczne sukcesy w pracy na rzecz organizacji nowych, etnicznie rumuńskich parafii w Stanach Zjednoczonych oraz tworzeniu monasterów zachowujących tradycję życia mniszego w tym kraju. Jednak dopiero w 1994 mógł udać się na pielgrzymkę do Rumunii na zaproszenie patriarchy Teoktysta. W 2003 udał się tam ponownie, by odebrać doktorat honoris causa uniwersytetu w Oradei. 20 października 1999 został arcybiskupem.

Jest zwolennikiem jednoczenia jurysdykcji etnicznych działających na terenie Ameryki Północnej w jednym Kościele prawosławnym.

Interesuje się tradycyjną sztuką rumuńską, jest autorem szeregu ikon pisanych na szkle.

W lutym 2011, w związku z udaniem się metropolity Jonasza na dwumiesięczny urlop, jako najstarszy hierarcha został tymczasowym administratorem Kościoła Prawosławnego w Ameryce. W lipcu 2012 mianowany locum tenens Kościoła (z biskupem nowojorskim Michałem jako administratorem) po rezygnacji metropolity Jonasza z urzędu. Zakończył sprawowanie obowiązków 13 listopada 2012 w momencie wyboru dotychczasowego arcybiskupa Filadelfii i Wschodniej Pensylwanii Tichona na metropolitę całej Ameryki i Kanady.

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"Supernatural" and "iZombie" alum Elysia Rotaru has signed on to play Oliver's former love interest in the upcoming fourth season of "Arrow," Entertainment Weekly reports. As Oliver was headed to Coast City in the season three finale flashback, it seems likely that this new character will be from Oliver's time there.
"Oliver is gonna have a love interest in the past that will serve as a parallel or potentially a contrast to his love affair with Felicity in the present," executive producer Marc Guggenheim explained. However, no details about the role have been revealed, up to and including the character's name.
Taking the actress' look and location into consideration, it's possible that we will see some Green Lantern mythology in season four after all: in the comics, Carol Ferris runs her father's company, Ferris Air, which has been featured multiple times throughout "Arrow" and "The Flash." Carol started out as Hal Jordan's love interest and a pilot herself, though she eventually became a superhero in her own right under the Star Sapphire mantle. Guggenheim already confirmed that Hal won't appear on the show, so it's possible that the season three references to the pilot who disappeared during a Ferris Air test flight and Oliver's Coast City friend could very well point to someone like Carol, not Hal.
Starring Stephen Amell, David Ramsey and Emily Bett Rickards, "Arrow" season four is scheduled to debut Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 8 pm EST on The CW.


Ah its time to relax, light a candle (or 4) and just chill out. oh wait, I have to take and upload today's photo. So here is one I took of a few candles, a candle holder and scented sticks in a bottle of stuff! Anyway after a long day doing college stuff and assignments, it is time to relax.
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John Cullen Murphy (May 3, 1919 – July 2, 2004) was an American illustrator best known for his three decades of work on the Prince Valiant comic strip.

Early life and education
Born in New York City, Murphy spent his childhood in Chicago and in New Rochelle, New York, where his family moved in 1930.

He started art classes at the age of 9, but aspired to be a baseball player. He received supervision from artists like George Bridgman, Norman Rockwell, Charles Chapman and Franklin Booth. He was playing baseball one afternoon when he got attention of Norman Rockwell, his New Rochelle neighbor, who asked the 15-year-old if he would like to pose for some magazine ads. Rockwell's Starstruck, showing a forlorn Murphy gazing at pictures of movie starlets, was the September 22, 1934 cover of The Saturday Evening Post. The experience inspired the young Murphy to become an illustrator. Rockwell became one of his good friends and mentors. Murphy started his career early, selling his first illustrations while he was still in high school. After high school, he studied in New York City at the Phoenix Art Institute and the Art Students League, where he was taught by the anatomist George Bridgman.

Army service
Murphy entered the U.S. Army in 1940, joining the 7th Regiment. He became an anti-aircraft officer during World War II, rising to the rank of major. He spent several years in the Pacific, beginning in Australia and ending in Tokyo. He was an aide to General William F. Marquat, who was on General Douglas MacArthur's staff. During the war, Murphy continued to illustrate, sending work to the Chicago Tribune and painting numerous portraits of military figures, including MacArthur.

Work

Magazine illustration
Murphy's first professional work at the age of seventeen was for Madison Square Garden's publicity department, drawing boxing cartoons. On average two of his cartoons a week were published by sports magazines in Chicago. He resumed his art career upon his return from military service. During the 1940s, he was a popular magazine illustrator, regularly seen in Collier's, Look, Esquire, Liberty, Sport, Holiday and Columbia, published by the Knights of Columbus.

Big Ben Bolt
Murphy's art often depicted sports subjects. His boxing material unexpectedly led him into the comic strip field, something he had never previously considered. In 1950, writer Elliot Caplin (brother of cartoonist Al Capp) of King Features Syndicate asked Murphy to illustrate a boxing comic strip he was planning to write. Murphy accepted his invitation. The resulting daily comic strip, Big Ben Bolt, was launched in 1950 and ran until 1978.

Prince Valiant
Murphy began his collaboration on Prince Valiant (the saga of a young Norse prince who becomes a knight of King Arthur's round table at Camelot) with creator Hal Foster in 1970 when Foster decided to lessen his workload at age 78. From the fall of 1970 until early 1980 Foster sent Murphy pencilled layouts, notes, and initially scripts. With Foster's retirement in 1979, Murphy's son Cullen took over the writing. Cullen Murphy began contributing stories to Foster while studying at Amherst College. Bill Crouch also contributed six story lines over the next four years. Murphy continued to draw Prince Valiant with his son scripting and his daughter doing the lettering and coloring until his retirement in March 2004, when he turned the strip over to his chosen successor, illustrator Gary Gianni. Murphy died four months later in Cos Cob, Connecticut.

Personal life
In 1951, Murphy married Joan Byrne, also from New Rochelle. They had eight children. His son, Cullen Murphy (John Cullen Murphy, Jr.), is a writer and magazine editor.

Skills
Murphy never copied Foster's style, preferring a harder pen line instead of the softer brush look, giving the strip a more angular feel. Frank Bolle helped Murphy in layouts and research but Murphy's detailed pen work could still be seen in all the finished pages.

Awards
For his work on Big Ben Bolt and Prince Valiant, Murphy was honored with the National Cartoonists Society's Story Comic Strip Award in 1971 and again for Prince Valiant in 1974, 1976, 1978, 1984 and 1987. He received the Elzie Segar Award in 1983.

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United States Army personnel of World War II
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Appellate Court of ConnecticutDec 28, 2004
86 Conn. App. 677•862 A.2d 851•
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The plaintiffs, a prison inmate, A, and the executrix of the estate of A's father, sought to enjoin the seizure by the defendants, the commissioner of administrative services and the commissioner of correction, of certain funds that A had inherited from his father. Pursuant to the statute (§ 18-85b) that authorizes the state to assess inmates for the costs of their incarceration, the defendants had placed a lien on one half of the funds that A had inherited. The defendants filed a motion to strike the plaintiffs' complaint, which the trial court granted, and the plaintiffs filed a substitute complaint. Thereafter, the trial court granted the defendants' motion to strike the plaintiffs' substitute complaint and rendered judgment thereon, from which the plaintiffs appealed to this court, challenging the granting of the motion to strike their substitute complaint. They claimed, inter alia, that § 18-85b was unconstitutional as applied to the facts of this case because the lien violated their rights to substantive due process and to equal protection. Held:
1. Because the plaintiffs elected to file a substitute complaint rather than to appeal challenging the granting of the motion to strike their original complaint, they were precluded from challenging the merits of the trial court's ruling striking the claims in their substitute complaint alleging violations of procedural due process, substantive due process and the takings clause of the fifth amendment, the same claims having been raised in the original complaint and the allegations of the substitute complaint concerning those claims not having differed materially from the ones raised previously; however, because the plaintiffs' equal protection claim in their substitute complaint contained additional allegations that differed materially from the equal protection allegation contained in the original complaint, the plaintiffs were not precluded from challenging the trial court's ruling striking their equal protection claim from the substitute complaint.
2. The trial court properly concluded that the plaintiffs failed to allege sufficient facts to support their equal protection claim and properly granted the motion to strike the substitute complaint; the plaintiffs' substitute complaint was devoid of any comparison between A and other inmates who had received inheritances but against whom the state had chosen not to impose liens.
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Action to enjoin the defendants from seizing certain assets of the named plaintiff, and for other relief, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of New Haven, where the court, Blue, J., granted the defendants' motion to strike and rendered judgment thereon, from which the plaintiffs appealed to this court. Affirmed.
Norman A. Pattis, with whom, on the brief, was John R. Williams, for the appellants (plaintiffs).
Gregory T. D'Auria, associate attorney general, with whom, on the brief, were Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Jane R. Rosenberg, assistant attorney general, for the appellees (defendants).
PETERS, J.
Pursuant to General Statutes § 18-85a, the state of Connecticut is authorized to assess inmates for the costs of their incarceration. To enforce this assessment, No. 01-129 of the 2001 Public Acts (now codified at § 18-85b of the General Statutes), and § 18-85a-2 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies authorize the state to place a lien on an inheritance received by an inmate. The principal issue in this case is whether, as applied under the circumstances of this case, the statute is unconstitutional because it violates an inmate's right to equal protection of the laws. We agree with the trial court that the defendant has not alleged facts that, if proven, would establish that his constitutional rights have been impaired.
General Statutes § 18-85a provides: "The Commissioner of Correction shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 concerning the assessment of inmates of correctional institutions or facilities for the costs of their incarceration."
General Statutes § 18-85b provides in relevant part: "(a) In the case of causes of action of any person obligated to pay the costs of such person's incarceration under section 18-85a and regulations adopted in accordance with said section, the claim of the state shall be a hen against the proceeds therefrom in the amount of the costs of incarceration or fifty per cent of the proceeds received by such person after payment of all expenses connected with the cause of action, whichever is less, for repayment under said section. . . . The proceeds of such causes of action shall be assignable to the state for payment of the amount due under section 18-85a, irrespective of any other provision of law. . . .
"(b) In the case of an inheritance of an estate by any person who is obligated to pay the costs of such person's incarceration in accordance with section 18-85a and the regulations adopted under said section, the claim of the state shall be a lien against such inheritance in the amount of the costs of incarceration or fifty per cent of the assets of the estate payable to the inmate, whichever is less. The Court of Probate shall accept any such hen notice filed by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee with the court prior to the distribution of such inheritance, and to the extent of such inheritance not already distributed, the court shall order distribution in accordance therewith."
Section 18-85a-2 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies provides: "On or after October 1, 1997, inmates shall be charged for and shall be responsible to pay the assessed cost of incarceration, as defined in 18-85a-1 (a)."
The plaintiffs, Gary Alexander (inmate) and Sallie Alexander, the executrix of the estate of Alfred Joseph Alexander (executrix), brought an action to contest the validity of a lien asserted by the defendants, the commissioner of administrative services and the commissioner of correction, on one half of the inmate's share in the Alexander estate. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the plaintiffs filed suit for an injunction to prevent the defendants from seizing any of the inmate's inherited funds. In response to the judgment of the trial court granting the defendants' motion to strike the plaintiffs' original complaint, the plaintiffs filed a substitute complaint. The defendants again filed a motion to strike. The plaintiffs appeal from the judgment of the trial court striking their substitute complaint. We affirm the judgment.
The facts are undisputed. The inmate has been incarcerated for thirty years in accordance with consecutive sentences that he began serving in 1975. After the death of his father in 2001, a Probate Court ruled that the inmate's share in the father's estate was $27,800. The defendants have placed a lien of $13,900 on these inherited funds.
The plaintiffs appeal, on two grounds, from the judgment of the trial court striking their complaint. In their view, they had a right to be heard on the merits of their claims that the defendants' lien violated their rights to substantive due process and to equal protection. Because their claims raise issues of law, they are entitled to plenary review by this court. Kroll v. Steere, 60 Conn. App. 376, 384, 759 A.2d 541, cert. denied, 255 Conn. 909, 763 A.2d 1035 (2000). We are not persuaded by the plaintiffs' claims.
The plaintiffs conceded their inability to pursue their procedural due process claim at oral argument in this court.
I SCOPE OF APPELLATE REVIEW
The scope of our review of the plaintiffs' appeal is limited by the fact that, when the trial court struck the plaintiffs' first complaint, the plaintiffs elected to file a substitute complaint rather than to take an immediate appeal. "As a general rule, [t]he filing of an amended pleading operates as a waiver of the right to claim that there was error in the sustaining of the [motion to strike] the original pleading." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Parsons v. United Technologies Corp., 243 Conn. 66, 74, 700 A.2d 655 (1997); Emerick v. Kuhn, 52 Conn. App. 724, 733, 737 A.2d 456, cert. denied, 249 Conn. 929, 738 A.2d 653, cert. denied sub nom. Emerick v. United Technologies Corp., 528 U.S. 1005, 120 S. Ct. 500, 145 L. Ed. 2d 386 (1999). Accordingly, the plaintiffs are precluded from appealing from the merits of the trial court's ruling striking the claims in their substitute complaint unless the allegations set forth therein differ materially from those asserted in their original complaint. See Parsons v. United Technologies Corp., supra, 74; Emerick v. Kuhn, supra, 734.
Our review of the plaintiffs' appellate claims must start, therefore, with an examination of the allegations contained in their original complaint. There, they claimed that the defendants, in deciding to impose the lien, had violated their rights (1) to procedural due process, (2) under the takings clause of the fifth amendment, (3) to substantive due process and (4) under the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.
In their substitute complaint, the plaintiffs set forth additional grounds in support of their prior equal protection claim. They did not, however, amend any other counts of their complaint. Indeed, at oral argument in this court, they characterized the substantive due process argument that they were continuing to pursue as an equal protection claim. We conclude, therefore, that the plaintiffs do not have the right to appeal from the court's decision to strike their claims alleging violations of procedural due process, substantive due process and the takings clause of the fifth amendment. Specifically, we will not address that part of the plaintiffs' substantive due process claim that alleged unfairness in imposing a lien on the inmate's inheritance because the lien statute was not yet in force at the time of his sentencing. See Parsons v. United Technologies Corp., supra, 243 Conn. 74.
In their substitute complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that "[t]he aforesaid seizure of the [inmate's] assets is not a `tax' within the meaning of any tax code arising under the laws of the [is]tate of Connecticut, but [is], instead, a consequence of incarceration as an inmate." This claim differs from the plaintiffs' earlier substantive due process-ex post facto claim in form alone. Both claims are identical in their allegation that the state unfairly "punished" the inmate when, after he had been incarcerated, it imposed a lien on his inheritance. We conclude, therefore, that the plaintiffs are precluded from challenging the merits of the court's ruling striking their substantive due process-ex post facto claim from their substitute complaint.
The plaintiffs' equal protection claim stands on a different footing. On that issue, the plaintiffs alleged in their original complaint that "[t]he defendants have not uniformly taxed all sentenced inmates the cost of their incarceration as permitted by the aforesaid laws and regulations, and in attempting to seize the assets of the [inmate] as aforesaid they have acted arbitrarily and irrationally and have intentionally subjected him to disparate treatment in violation of the equal protection clause of the [f]ourteenth [a]mendment." In their substitute complaint, the plaintiffs again alleged this paragraph, verbatim, as paragraph 7 (A). They also, however, included new allegations in support of their equal protection claim. In particular, they asserted that:
"(C) The defendants' seizure of the [inmate's] property in this case is arbitrary, and unbounded by any discernable standard in that the defendants have no policy or procedure in place permitting them to identify which inmates have assets, and which inmates do not.
"(D) The defendants' seizure of the [inmate's] property in this case is not the result of any audit, or the product of any policy adopted or followed by the defendants.
"(E) The manner in which the defendants choose to seize property is a function of the notoriety of the inmate or the perceived need of the defendants to make a public statement about being `tough' on crime and those convicted of crime.
"(F) The decision to seize the [inmate's] property in this case is inspired by malice in that it is not the product of any systemic policy, but is, instead, a function of the defendants' political and policy objectives of appearing to be tough on crime and its consequences.
"(G) In the alternative, the decision to seize the [inmate's] property is entirely random and unguided by any discernable principle recognized by law."
In effect, the plaintiffs' substitute complaint included new allegations that transformed their previous, generic equal protection claim into a colorable claim of selective enforcement. In particular, the plaintiffs alleged that the state unfairly targeted this inmate to the exclusion of other inmates who were similarly situated. We conclude, therefore, that the additional allegations set forth in the plaintiffs' substitute complaint differ materially from the equal protection allegation contained in their original complaint. Accordingly, in this appeal, the plaintiffs are not precluded from challenging the court's ruling striking their equal protection claim from the substitute complaint.
II EQUAL PROTECTION CLAIM
We turn then to the merits of the plaintiffs' equal protection claim. The plaintiffs' argue that the substitute complaint adequately alleged an equal protection violation in its claims of difference of treatment between this inmate and other inmates. The plaintiffs further alleged that the defendants lacked a rational basis for this differential treatment. We do not agree with the plaintiffs' claim that these allegations were sufficiently fact based to withstand a motion to strike.
In effect, the plaintiffs claim that, as applied to them, § 18-85b is unconstitutional. The plaintiffs bear a heavy burden when they challenge the constitutionality of a statute. "[B]ecause a validly enacted statute carries with it a strong presumption of constitutionality, those who challenge its constitutionality must sustain the heavy burden of proving its unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt. . . . In construing a statute, moreover, we will search for an effective and constitutional construction that reasonably accords with the legislature's underlying intent." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Rizzo, 266 Conn. 171, 291, 833 A.2d 363 (2003).
See footnote 2.
"The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is essentially a direction that all persons similarly situated should be treated alike. City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Ctr., Inc., 473 U.S. 432, 439, 105 S. Ct. 3249, 3254, 87 L. Ed. 2d 313 (1985) (citing Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 216, 102 S. Ct. 2382, 2394, 72 L. Ed. 2d 786). . . . Zahra v. Southold, 48 F.3d 674, 683 (2d Cir. 1995). A violation of equal protection by selective [treatment] arises if: (1) the person, compared with others similarly situated, was selectively treated; and (2) . . . such selective treatment was based on impermissible considerations such as race, religion, intent to inhibit or punish the exercise of constitutional rights, or malicious or bad faith intent to injure a person. LaTrieste Restaurant Cabaret, Inc. v. Village of Port Chester, 40 F.3d 587, 590 (2d Cir. 1994) (quoting LeClair v. Saunders, 627 F.2d 606, 609-10 [2d Cir. 1980], cert. denied, 450 U.S. 959, 101 S. Ct. 1418, 67 L. Ed. 2d 383)." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Thomas v. West Haven, 249 Conn. 385, 392-93, 734 A.2d 535 (1999), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 1187, 120 S. Ct. 1239, 146 L. Ed. 2d 99 (2000). The burden of proving a selective enforcement claim is on the plaintiffs. See id., 391-93.
In their substitute complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that "[t]he defendants have not uniformly taxed all sentenced inmates the cost of their incarceration as permitted by the aforesaid laws and regulations, and in attempting to seize the assets of the [inmate] as aforesaid they have acted arbitrarily and irrationally and have intentionally subjected him to disparate treatment in violation of the equal protection clause of the [f]ourteenth [a]mendment." The trial court concluded that this claim was legally insufficient because the plaintiffs failed to allege specific instances of discrimination among the members of the class of eligible inmates. We agree with the court.
"[T]he requirement imposed upon [p]laintiffs claiming an equal protection violation [is that they] identify and relate specific instances where persons situated similarly in all relevant aspects were treated differently. . . . Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth College, 889 F.2d 13, 19 (1st Cir. 1989). . . . Rubinovitz v. Rogato, 60 F.3d 906, 910 (1st Cir. 1995)." (Emphasis in original; internal quotation marks omitted.) Cadlerock Properties Joint Venture, L.P. v. Commissioner of Environmental Protection, 253 Conn. 661, 672, 757 A.2d 1 (2000), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 1148, 121 S. Ct. 1089, 148 L. Ed. 2d 963 (2001). The plaintiffs' substitute complaint is devoid of any comparison between this inmate and other inmates who also received inheritances but against whom the state chose not to impose liens.
At oral argument, the plaintiffs explained that they chose to forgo specific allegations in their complaint lest such disclosures inform the defendants of the identity of other inmates with potentially lienable inheritances. However understandable these considerations may be, they do not excuse the plaintiffs' obligation under the law of this state to provide the trial court with pleadings that contain "a plain and concise statement of the material facts on which the pleader relies. . . ." Practice Book § 10-1. See, e.g., Dornfried v. October Twenty-Four, Inc., 230 Conn. 622, 629, 646 A.2d 772 (1994); Hendel's Investors Co. v. Zoning Board of Appeals, 62 Conn. App. 263, 274, 771 A.2d 182 (2001).
By contrast, an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal court is governed by the federal rules of civil procedure, which permit pleadings to go forward if the pleadings put the other party on notice of potential claims. See, e.g., Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A., 534 U.S. 506, 122 S. Ct. 992, 152 L. Ed. 2d 1 (2002).
On the record in this case, we agree with the trial court that the plaintiffs failed to allege facts sufficient to support their equal protection claim. We conclude, therefore, that the court properly struck the plaintiffs' equal protection claim for failure to state a cause of action.
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The Zonta Club of Alytus, Lithuania, District 13, co-organized a screening of the documentary A Better Man, followed by an open discussion about domestic violence.
The film revealed hard consequences of physical abuse and a long and painful way towards healing. In the discussion, they talked about the differences between incidental and systematic violence and how to help victims.
Every year, 50,000 calls for help are received in Lithuania and 1,500 cases reach the court. The most important thing is not to remain indifferent, try to help, to ask, to inquire.
The club organized the event with Human Rights Portal, Lithuanian Center for Human Rights, Center for Equal Opportunities Development and Alytus City Women's Crisis Center.


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The Bumpy Road Down, Part 5: More Trends in Collapse
Irv Mills has published the fifth and last part of his 5 part series called 'The Bumpy Road Down', previous instalments being available here.
In my last post I started talking about some of the changes that will happen along the bumpy road down and the forces and trends that will lead to them. (The bumpy road down being the cyclic pattern of crash and partial recovery that I believe will characterize the rest of the age of scarcity). These changes will be forced on us by circumstances and are not necessarily how I'd like to see things turn out.
The trends I covered last time were:
our continued reliance on fossil fuels
the continuing decline in availability, and surplus energy content, of fossil fuels
the damage the FIRE industries (finance, insurance and real estate) will suffer in the next crash, and the effects this will have
the increase in authoritarianism, as governments attempt to optimize critical systems and relief efforts during and after the crash
Oscillating overshoot with declining carrying capacity
I've once again included the stepped or "oscillating" decline diagram from previous posts here to make it easier to visualize what I'm talking about. This diagram isn't meant to be precise, certainly not when it comes to the magnitude and duration of the oscillations, which in any case will vary from one part of the world to the next.
The trends I want to talk about today are all interconnected. You can hardly discuss one without referring to the others, and so it is difficult to know where to start. But having touched briefly on a trend toward increased authoritarianism at the end of my last post, I guess I should continue trends in politics.
MORE POLITICAL TRENDS
Currently there seems to be a trend towards right wing politics in the developed world. I think anyone who extrapolates that out into the long run is making a basic mistake. Where right wing governments have been elected by those looking for change, they will soon prove to be very inept at ruling in an era of degrowth. Following that, there will likely be a swing in the other direction and left wing governments will get elected. Only to prove, in their turn, to be equally inept. Britain seems to be heading in this direction, and perhaps the U.S. as well.
Another trend is the sort of populism that uses other nations, and/or racial, ethnic, religious and sexual minorities at home as scapegoats for whatever problems the majority is facing. This strategy is and will continue to be used by clever politicians to gain support and deflect attention from their own shortcomings. Unfortunately, it leads nowhere since the people being blamed aren't the source of the problem.
During the next crash and following recovery governments will continue to see growth as the best solution to whatever problems they face and will continue to be blind to the limits to growth. Farther down the bumpy road some governments may finally clue in about limits. Others won't, and this will fuel continued growth followed by crashes until we learn to live within those limits.
One thing that seems clear is that eventually we'll be living in smaller groups and the sort of political systems that work best will be very different from what we have now.
Many people who have thought about this assume that we'll return to feudalism. I think that's pretty unlikely. History may seem to repeat itself, but only in loose outline, not in the important details. New situations arise from different circumstances, and so are themselves different. Modern capitalists would never accept the obligations that the feudal aristocracy had to the peasantry. Indeed freeing themselves of those obligations had a lot to do with making capitalism work. And the "99%" (today's peasantry) simply don't accept that the upper classes have any right, divine or otherwise, to rule.
In small enough groups, with sufficient isolation between groups, people seem best suited to primitive communism, with essentially no hierarchy and decision making by consensus. I think many people will end up living in just such situations.
In the end though, there will still be a few areas with sufficient energy resources to support larger and more centralized concentrations of population. It will be interesting to see what new forms of political structure evolve in those situations.
ECONOMIC CONTRACTION
For the last couple of decades declining surplus energy has caused contraction of the real economy. Large corporations have responded in various ways to maintain their profits: moving industrial operations to developing countries where wages are lower and regulations less troublesome, automating to reduce the amount of expensive labour required, moving to the financial and information sectors of the economy where energy decline has so far had less effect.
The remaining "good" industrial jobs in developed nations are less likely to be unionized, with longer hours, lower pay, decreased benefits, poorer working conditions and lower safety standards. The large number of people who can't even get one of those jobs have had to move to precarious, part time, low paying jobs in the service industries. Unemployment has increased (despite what official statistics say) and the ranks of the homeless have swelled.
Since workers are also consumers, all this has led to further contraction of the consumer economy. We can certainly expect to see this trend continue and increase sharply during the next crash.
Our globally interconnected economy is a complex thing and that complexity is expensive to maintain. During the crash and the depression that follows it, we'll see trends toward simplification in many different areas driven by a lack of resources to maintain the existing complex systems. I'll be discussing those trends in a moment, but it is important to note that a lot of economic activity is involved in maintaining our current level of complexity and abandoning that complexity will mean even more economic contraction.
At the same time, small, simple communities will prove to have some advantages that aren't currently obvious.
All this economic contraction means that almost all of us will be significantly poorer and we'll have to learn to get by with less. As John Michael Greer says, "LESS: less energy, less stuff, less stimulation." We'll be forced to conserve and will struggle to get by with "just enough". This will be a harshly unpleasant experience for most people.
DEGLOBALIZATION
For the last few decades globalization has been a popular trend, especially among the rich and powerful, who are quick to extol its many supposed advantages. And understandably so, since it has enabled them to maintain their accustomed high standard of living while the economy as a whole contracts.
On the other hand, as I was just saying, sending high paying jobs offshore is a pretty bad idea for consumer economies. And I suspect that in the long run we'll see that it wasn't really all that good for the countries where we sent the work, either.
During the crash we'll see the breakdown of the financial and organizational mechanisms that support globalization and international trade. There will also be considerable problems with shipping, both due to disorganization and to unreliable the supplies of diesel fuel for trucks and bunker fuel for ships. I'm not predicting an absolute shortage of oil quite this soon, but rather financial and organizational problems with getting it out of the ground, refined and moved to where it is needed.
This will lead to the failure of many international supply chains and governments and industry will be forced to switch critical systems over to more local suppliers. This switchover will be part of what eventually drives a partial recovery of the economy in many localities.
In a contracting economy with collapsing globalization there would seem to be little future for multi-national corporations, and organizations like the World Bank and the IMF. While the crash may bring an end to the so called "development" of the "developing" nations, it will also bring an end to economic imperialism. At the same time, the general public in the developed world, many of whom are already questioning the wisdom of the "race to the bottom" that is globalization, will be even less likely to go along with it, especially when it comes to exporting jobs.
Still, when the upcoming crash bottoms out and the economy begins to recover, there will be renewed demand for things that can only be had from overseas and international trade will recover to some extent.
Impoverished organizations such a governments, multi-national corporations and international standards groups will struggle to maintain today's high degree of centralization and eventually will be forced to break up into smaller entities.
Large federations such as Europe, the US, Canada and Australia will see rising separatism and eventually secession. As will other countries where different ethnic groups have been forced together and/or there is long standing animosity between various localities. If this can be done peacefully it may actually improve conditions for the citizens of the areas involved, who would no longer have to support the federal organization. But no doubt it will just as often involve armed conflict, with all the destruction and suffering that implies.
RELOCALIZATION
The cessation of services from the FIRE industries and the resulting breakdown of international (and even national) supply and distribution chains will leave many communities with no choice but to fend for themselves.
One of the biggest challenges at first will be to get people to believe that there really is a problem. Once that is clear, experience has shown that the effectiveness of response from the victims of disasters is remarkable and I think that will be true again in this case. There are a lot of widely accepted myths about how society breaks down during disaster, but that's just what they are: myths. Working together in groups for our mutual benefit is the heart of humanity's success, after all.
Government response will take days or more likely weeks to organize, and in the meantime there is much we can do to help ourselves. Of course it helps to be prepared… (check out these posts from the early days of this blog: 1, 2) and I'll have more to say on that in upcoming posts.
The question then arises whether one would be better off in an urban center or a rural area such as a small town or a farm. Government relief efforts will be focused on the cities where the need will be greatest and the response easiest to organize. But just because of the millions of people involved, that response will be quite challenging.
Rural communities may well be largely neglected by relief efforts. But, especially in agricultural areas, they will find fending for themselves much more manageable.
I live in a rural municipality with a population of less than 12,000 people in an area of over 200 square miles (60 people per sq. mile, more than 10 acres per person). The majority of the land is agricultural, and supply chains are short, walking distance in many cases. Beef, dairy and cash crops are the main agricultural activities at present and they can easily be diverted to feed the local population. Especially if the food would go to waste anyway due to the breakdown of supply chains downstream from the farm.
So I think we're likely to do fairly well until the government gets around to getting in touch with us again, probably sometime after the recovery begins.
In subsequent crashes the population will be significantly reduced and those of us who survive will find ourselves living for the most part in very small communities which are almost entirely relocalized. The kind of economy that works in that situation is very different from what we have today and is concerned with many things other than growth and profit making.
REHUMANIZATION
The move toward automation that we've seen in the developed world since the start of the industrial revolution has been driven by high labour costs and the savings to be had by eliminating labour from industrial processes as much as possible. That revolution started and proceeded at greatest speed in Britain where labour rates where the highest, and still hasn't happened in many developing nations where labour is very cheap.
Sadly, the further impoverishment of the working class in Europe and North America will make cheaper labour available locally, rather than having to go offshore. During the upcoming crash, and in the depression following it, impoverished people will have no choice but to work for lower rates and will out compete automated systems, especially when capital to set them up, the cutting edge technology needed to make them work, and the energy to power them are hard to come by. Again, the economic advantages of simplicity will come into play when it is the only alternative, and help drive the recovery after the first crash.
THE FOOD SUPPLY AND OVERPOPULATION
In the initial days of the coming crash there will be problems with the distribution systems for food, medical supplies and water treatment chemicals, all of which are being supplied by "just in time" systems with very little inventory at the consumer end of the supply chain. To simplify this discussion, I'll talk primarily about food.
It is often said that there is only a 3 day supply of food on the grocery store shelves. I am sure this is approximately correct. In collapse circles, the assumption is that, if the trucks stop coming, sometime not very far beyond that 3 day horizon we'd be facing starvation. There may be a few, incredibly unlucky, areas where that will be more or less true.
But, depending on the time of year, much more food than that (often more than a year's worth) is stored elsewhere in the food production and distribution system. The problem will be in moving this food around to where it is needed, and in making sure another year's crops get planted and harvested. I think this can be done, much of it through improvisation and co-operation by people in the agricultural and food industries. With some support from various levels of government.
There will be some areas where food is available more or less as normal, some where the supply is tight, and other areas where there is outright famine and some loss of life (though still outstripped by the fecundity of the human race). In many ways that pretty much describes the situation today but supply chain breakdown, and our various degrees of success at coping with it, will make all the existing problems worse during the crash.
But once the initial crash is over, we have a much bigger problem looming ahead, which I think will eventually lead to another, even more serious crash.
With my apologies to my "crunchy" friends, modern agriculture and the systems downstream from it supply us with the cheapest and safest food that mankind has known since we were hunters and gatherers and allows us (so far) to support an ever growing human population.
The problem is that this agriculture is not sustainable. It requires high levels of inputs–primarily energy from fossil fuels, but also pesticides, fertilizers and water for irrigation–mostly from non-renewable sources. And rather than enriching the soil on which it depends, it gradually consumes it, causing erosion from over cultivation and over grazing, salinating the soil where irrigation is used and poisoning the water courses downstream with runoff from fertilizers. We need to develop a suite of sustainable agricultural practices that takes advantage of the best agricultural science can do for us, while the infrastructure that supports that science is still functioning.
The organic industry spends extravagantly to convince us that the problem with our food is pesticide residues and genetically engineered organisms, but the scientific consensus simply does not support this. The organic standards include so called "natural" pesticides that are more toxic than modern synthetic ones, and allow plant breeding techniques (such as mutagenesis) that are far more dangerous than modern genetic engineering. Organic standards could certainly be revised into something sustainable that retains the best of both conventional and organic techniques, but this has become such a political hot potato that it is unlikely to happen.
As I said above, during the upcoming crash one of the main challenges will be to keep people fed. And I have no doubt that this challenge will, for the most part, be successfully met. Diesel fuel will be rationed and sent preferentially to farmers and trucking companies moving agricultural inputs and outputs. Supplies of mineral fertilizers are still sufficient to keep industrial agriculture going. Modern pesticides actually reduce the need for cultivation and improve yields by reducing losses due to pests. It will be possible to divert grains grown for animal feed to feed people during the first year when the crisis is most serious.
Industrial agriculture will actually save the day and continue on to feed the growing population for a while yet. We will continue to make some improvement in techniques and seeds, though with diminishing returns on our efforts.
This will come to an end around mid century with the second bump on the road ahead (starting at point "g" on the graph), when a combination of increasing population, worsening climate, and decreasing availability and increasing prices of energy, irrigation water, fertilizer, pesticides and so forth combine to drastically reduce the output of modern agriculture.
Widespread famine will result, and this, combined with epidemics in populations weakened by hunger, will reduce the planet's human population by at least a factor of two in a period of a very few years. Subsequent bumps as climate change further worsens conditions for farming will further reduce the population, resulting in a bottleneck towards the end of this century. Without powered machinery, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and with drastically reduced water for irrigation, agricultural output will fall off considerably. And our population will fall to match the availability of food. I do think it unlikely that the human race will be wiped out altogether, but our numbers will likely be reduced by a factor of ten or more.
TURNING TO VIOLENCE AS A SOLUTION
It is a sad fact that many people, communities and nations, when faced with the sort of challenges I've been talking about here, will respond with violence.
In the remaining years leading up to the next crash, I think it is likely that even the least stable of world leaders (or their military advisors) will remain well aware of the horrific consequences of large scale nuclear war, and will manage to avoid it. As has been the case since the end of WWII, wars will continue to be fought by proxy, involving smaller nations in the developing world, especially where the supply of strategic natural resources are at issue.
War is extremely expensive though and, even without the help of a financial crash, military spending already threatens to bankrupt the U.S. As Dmitry Orlov has suggested, after a financial crash, the U.S. may find it difficult to even get its military personnel home from overseas bases, much less maintain those bases or pursue international military objectives.
But even in the impoverished post-crash world, I expect that border wars, terrorism, riots and violent protests will continue for quite some time yet.
Whether from the ravages of war, climate change or economic contraction many areas of the world, particularly in areas like the Middle East, North Africa and the U.S. southwest, will become less and less livable. People will leave those areas looking for greener pastures and the number of refugees will soon grow past what can be managed even by the richest of nations. This will be a problem for Europe in particular, and more and more borders will be closed to all but a trickle of migrants. Refugees will accumulate in camps and for a while the situation will find an uneasy balance.
As we continue down the bumpy road, though, many nations will lose the ability to police their borders. Refugees will pour through, only to find broken economies that offer them little hope of a livelihood. Famine, disease and conflict will eventually reduce the population to where it can be accommodated in the remaining livable areas. But the ethnic makeup of those areas will have changed significantly due to large scale migrations.
I've been talking here about some of the changes that will be forced upon us by the circumstances of collapse. I've said very little about what I think we might do if we could face up to the reality of those circumstances and take positive action. That's because I don't think there is much chance that we'll take any such action on a global or even national scale.
It's time now to wrap up this series of posts about the bumpy road down. At some point in the future I intend to do a series about of coping with collapse locally, on the community, family and individual level. I think there is still much than can be done to improve the prospects of those who are willing to try.
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Browne Jacobson wins Inclusion & Diversity Award at the National Insurance Awards 2022
Insurance law firm Browne Jacobson has won the Inclusion & Diversity Award at the National Insurance Awards 2022. The National Insurance Awards are judged by an independent panel of experts and celebrate excellence in the sector by highlighting the very best in general insurance provision and management.
Insurance law firm Browne Jacobson has won the Inclusion & Diversity Award at the National Insurance Awards 2022.
The National Insurance Awards are judged by an independent panel of experts and celebrate excellence in the sector by highlighting the very best in general insurance provision and management.
Browne Jacobson has established a national reputation for its commitment to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the legal profession in recent years and in 2021 was named the UK's leading employer in the Social Mobility Employer Index.
Some of the key measures introduced have included:
Launching FAIRE (Fairer Access into Real Experience) - a unique programme where 50% of internships are ring-fenced exclusively for candidates from lower socio-economic backgrounds, guaranteeing a minimum 40 paid placements.
Auditing the recruitment process to identify where applicants from low socio-economic backgrounds fall down and implementing impactful changes and support programmes to create a fairer playing field.
Employing a dedicated equity, diversity and inclusion specialist associate into the insurance practice.
Jonathan Newbold, Head of Browne Jacobson's Financial Services & Insurance Group, said:
"This award is a recognition of the incredible work everyone at Browne Jacobson has undertaken in actively changing the narrative and creating solutions to attract a diverse pool of talented candidates to the insurance legal space.
"The strength of the shortlist this year highlights some of the fantastic initiatives that are helping to make the UK insurance industry more diverse and inclusive. By placing the spotlight on initiatives such as FAIRE we hope to inspire others to do more in making their organisations and the sector more diverse and inclusive."
Browne Jacobson are trusted legal advisers to the insurance sector, specialising in resolving casualty and specialty claims, corporate transactions and regulation.
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