How can Valerie Yule live without a home theatre? If Kyle had read Valerie's piece god knows what he would have said. Shame Valerie shame.

PS Valerie has obviously not visited Perth's northern suberbs....

I really don't know what it is that makes some people think they have some wright to dictate to everyone else how to live.

To busy bodies every where, pull your bl00dy heads in.

If you don't like someones McMansion, & are worried about miners getting enough staff, perhaps it's you who should get a job at a mine, I doubt you'll find too many of them out there.

Dear Hasbeen,
I am with you on this one, people have the right to built a house, whatever the size and style, we have McMansions in the houses on the opposite side of our road, if anything they block the scorching Sun in the late afternoon, my only disappointment is that there is no room for trees on these blocks, thus the little feathered critters do not have any feed available, thankfully, we cater to plenty of them, many birds visit our patch daily, ranging from silver-eyed wrens to black cockatoos, and most things in between, not to mention our frogs and three generations of bobtailed lizards....good doogs, I reckon.
Have a good day,
NSB

I too benefit from the plethora of soulless units and mcmansions that have sprung up around my suburb. I have a small house on a big block with plenty of trees and space to enjoy. The birds now come to me because of the trees, and my house is also much cooler becasue it is shaded by said trees...can't imagine why people would want to fill upn 80% of their block with house...but that's their loss and their right under the planning schemes.

Phil I agree with you about those units. Planners who allow those in domestic areas do need something nasty done to them, with the prickly end of a pineapple.

Noisy, watch those wrens, & some of the other birds.

I washed my little sports car the other day, & as soon as I got into it, to put it away, this nasty bully blue wren started attacking the rear view mirror beside me, right before my eyes. I was shocked.

I have to put used supermarket shopping bags over the rear mirrors of my old Toyota Cressida paddock basher, to protect them from another bully. This one is a willy wagtail.

Then I had to hang a sheet in a tree outside my mothers bedroom window, each breeding season. It took me a couple of weeks to realise that the nasty peewee that woke her up early each morning was attacking a patch of sunlight coming through a tree, & shining on her window. I thought they only attacked their own reflection.

Then there was the time our stallion decided to attack the stallion he could see, [reflected] in the sliding glass door, but that's another story.

I rather like the McMansions built on the one acre subdivision, down by the main road, & with all the flowering gums, callistemons, grevilleas, & exotics they have planted, there's much more nectar per acre now, than when it was a grazing paddock.

<I am with you on this one, people have the right to built a house, whatever the size and style>

Land owners have no such rights in urban areas, but I agree with you that they should, with the proviso that their constructions meet health and safety standards. What we have in Australia at present is an extremely restricted and obscurely administered development process.