My quest to understand why housing is so screwed up in Sydney hasn’t stopped, with the impact of stamp duty taking my interest. Stamp duty for those unaware is a type of tax levied on the transfer of property including houses and cars. On the whole it is a good tax as it a tax on consumption so it is reasonably equitable, so let me preface this post by saying I do support stamp duty but I do think the system is truly broken and is stifiling the housing market in Sydney.

Who doesn’t love a game of chance? One of my favourite days of the year is ANZAC Day as it means I get to play two up. Every week I play another game of chance as a bonus round at Trivia which seems like it might be possible to get an advantage in unlike other games of chance.

It has been ridiculously rainy in Sydney in the last 24 hours with most of the city receiving over 100 mm of rain.

Turkey, duck, chicken. This is how a turducken is generally described, so why shouldn’t it also be constructed this way too?

Long before the idea of making a meaty dessert, there was the idea of making a dessert out of meat.

Being from Sydney, I am property obsessed. It must be something in the water as I am pretty sure all Sydneysiders are too. As a result, an almost daily conversation topic is about how unaffordable the property market has become and, as someone hoping to one day buy a property, I wanted to investigate this in a bit more detail (or at least have something interesting to say next time this topic invariably comes up).

Yes. Really. This post is about the rabbit hole I went down to make what I think is a world-first, pushing the boundaries of the culinary world: Turkey Flavoured Ice Cream.

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