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Perth Now
02-07-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
ATO data reveals earnings in WA's top postcodes
New figures have showed just how much cash is earned in Perth's wealthy western suburbs as Western Australia's powerhouse economy pays dividends. Topping WA's charts were leafy-green Cottesloe and Peppermint Grove, where residents enjoyed an average income of $213,621 in 2022-23, tax office data released Friday showed. The luxury locale slipped from the country's second-richest postcode to ninth place after earnings dropped 28 per cent. Yet average income was almost five times the farming region of Cranbrook in the Great Southern, which ranked as the poorest postcode. If you'd like to view this content, please adjust your . To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Guide. The names at the top of WA's wealthiest places remain largely unchanged and centre on the so-called golden triangle — including Mosman Park, City Beach, Dalkeith and Nedlands. 'There's no surprise when you look at which suburbs are top of the income pile,' Committee for Economic Development of Australia chief economist Cassandra Winzar said. 'WA has had a really good run of economic growth recently that's flowed through to higher wages for many people . . . really good investment returns and business profits.' But she warned that the benefits had not been distributed evenly. Lower income earners were hit hard by inflation — especially for basics like rents — and there was a risk inequality would grow, Ms Winzar said. The western suburbs look set to remain entrenched at the top of the list thanks to eye-popping property values. More expensive homes attract higher-income buyers in what KPMG urban economist Terry Rawnsley said was a self-reinforcing cycle. 'It's a prestige location. You need a (high income) to get into the property market there,' Mr Rawnsley said. Over the longer term, incomes have lifted on average thanks to WA's resources sector. Mr Rawnsley said middle-ring suburbs near Perth's CBD were 'heading up the league table' compared to interstate. Yet he said a lack of density and unaffordable housing was also pricing many West Aussies out of these suburbs and forcing them further from the city. In regional WA, some parts of the resources-rich Pilbara — towns dependent on mining and gas — were spinning out cash, led by Dampier and Pannawonica.
Miami Herald
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Utah Football Preview 2025: Season Prediction, Win Total, Top 10 Players, Keys to the Season
X CFN, Fiu | CFN Facebook | Bluesky Fiu, CFN 2025 Utah Utes PreviewUtah Offense BreakdownUtah Defense Breakdown Utah Utes Key to the Season Get blasting with the ground game with Devon Dampier taking over at quarterback, the yards will pile up fast. Last year's team went 1-7 when it didn't get to 150 yards on the ground. To put this into perspective, the 2022 team only failed to run for 150 yards once, and over the last two seasons is 10-0 when it does. Utah Utes Key Player Devon Dampier, QB pressure or anything, new guy, but the entire franchise is on Wilson should be better if thrown into the mix again, but Dampier is the one with the upside to take Utah from solid to a team that could actually do some damage in the College Football New Mexico transfer has to avoid the multiple interception games - he had five last year - but Utah fans are in for something special from the guy who ran for 628 yards and nine touchdowns over the final four games last season. Utah Utes Top Transfer, Biggest Transfer Loss Top Transfer In: Wayshawn Parker, RB course the top transfer is Dampier, but Utah needs a back to rumble behind another great offensive front. Parker is a slick back who had a few big moments as a freshman at Washington State, but he'll be leaned on a bit more in the Ute attack. As long as he's averaging over five yards per carry like he did last year, he'll be doing his Transfer Out: Cameron Calhoun, CB is all on upside. Calhoun didn't do anything for Michigan in 2023, but he came up with 21 tackles and nine broken up passes last year for the Utes. He's got NFL talent and No. 1 corner ability, and now he'll be showing it off at Alabama. Utah Utes Key Game Texas Tech, Sept. 20The Big 12 season is loaded with landmines up and down, but the conference opener against Texas Tech will be a huge moment early on in the race. The Red Raiders loaded up through the transfer portal and have a top 20-caliber team. With a trip to West Virginia up next, Arizona State to follow, and then a date at BYU, Utah has to come out last time these two met was in 1973 - a 29-22 Texas Tech win.- 2025 Utah Schedule Breakdown Utah Utes Top 10 Players 1. Spencer Fano, OT Jr.2. Devon Dampier, QB Jr.3. Smith Snowden, S Jr.4. Levani Damuni, LB Sr.5. Caleb Lomu, OT Soph.6. Tao Johnson, S Jr.7. Logan Fanu, DE Jr.8. Wayshawn Parker, RB Soph.9. Tanoa Togiai, OG Sr.10. Lander Barton, LB Sr. Utah Utes 2024 Fun Stats - Total Yards: Opponents 2,403, Utah 2,393- Utah 1st Quarter Scoring: 49, 2nd Quarter Scoring: 111- Two Point Conversions: Utah 4-of-6, Opponents 2-of-5' Utah Utes 2025 Season Prediction, Win Total, What Will Happen The Utes made the changes to the offense that should kick it back into gear. If this thing works like it's supposed to, they'll win the games they should've taken down last season in all of those close no one on the slate Utah can't and shouldn't beat. There's no Ohio State, or Georgia, or any superpower to deal with. Arizona State is a home game, at UCLA is the toughest non-conference game, and while the Big 12 is good from top to bottom, it's not the SEC or the Big Ten. There's still a question mark, though, about whether or not the offense will work and if Devon Dampier's talent and style will translate to playing the Power Five teams on a weekly basis. And as good as the D will be, there are holes to be aware, this Utah win total is set conservatively low. Ten wins and a Big 12 title are attainable The Utah Utes Win Total At … 8Likely Wins: Cal Poly, Colorado, Cincinnati, at Wyoming50/50 Games: Arizona State, at Baylor, at BYU, at Kansas, Kansas State, Texas Tech, at UCLA, at West VirginiaLikely Losses: No sure-thing projected losses2025 Utah Utes PreviewUtah Offense BreakdownUtah Defense Breakdown © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Nate Johnson as a ‘Swiss army knife,' Devon Dampier's leadership and more observations from Utah's spring practice
Nate Johnson during Utah Utes spring football practice at Spence and Cleone Eccles Football Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 20, 2025. | Anna Fuder The pads are on and now the real work can start for the University of Utah. The Utes opened their second week of practice by breaking out the pads after an acclimatization period during the first week, and the intensity jumped a couple of notches as a result. Advertisement 'We had some live work right out of the gate, about 10 minutes into practice when we cranked it up and went live. It was very spirited, very competitive. It's different practicing with pads, obviously, some fatigue showed up,' Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. For the first time this spring, the media was able to view the last 20 minutes of practice, which was highlighted by a long run from Nate Johnson, who returned to Utah this offseason after a year at Vanderbilt. Utah's plan is to use Johnson's athleticism to the team's benefit in certain situations, and that was apparent from Tuesday's brief glimpse. 'We hope so, we hope he's a contributor. That's why we brought him back into the program, because he's a multifaceted athlete and can do a bunch of stuff. He's got great speed and good size,' Whittingham said. 'We brought him to be somewhat of a Swiss Army knife, and that's what you saw some of today.' Advertisement Being that 'Swiss army knife' is familiar to Johnson. He had special packages for him in 2022 and 2023 as a running option at quarterback and he even had a reception in 2022 against USC. He could see a similar role this season to get him on the field and utilize his speed in creative ways in Jason Beck's offense. 'We're also working with Nate doing other non-quarterback stuff, so working to develop him just to what he can add to the offense to be on the field at the same time and what he can do,' Beck said last week. It was also the media's first look at New Mexico transfer Devon Dampier, who is tasked with reviving Utah's offense this season. There wasn't an extensive play sheet for Dampier in the 20 minutes the media saw on Tuesday, but the junior quarterback completed some short passes against Utah's defense as practice wrapped up, connecting with tight end Landen King, fellow New Mexico transfer Ryan Davis and running back Wayshawn Parker. He also moved the chains twice with two passes to running back Daniel Bray, who had a productive day behind Parker. Advertisement Dampier got the ball out fast and also showed off the scrambling ability that made him so productive at New Mexico, running for a first down and later showing off his wheels in the red zone. About the only negative play by Dampier was a red-zone pass that was nearly picked off by linebacker Lander Barton. In his short time at Utah, Dampier has already emerged as a leader. He was named to the spring leadership council and has been a sounding board for players due to his experience in Beck's offense. 'He is the leader of the offense as far as knowing what to do and making sure everyone else knows what they're doing,' Whittingham said. 'He made the leadership council. Only been having here two or three weeks, we had the leadership council vote and he is on that and I would assume that at some point he'll be a captain.' Dampier said that trust is the biggest factor in his leadership, and that he's tried from day one to lead by example. Advertisement 'Trust is the big thing that we got going on around here. You can't make it to that championship level without trust. So trust is the biggest thing. I allowed my teammates to see the way I work and they believe in me, so I believe in those guys,' Dampier said. At the running back position, Parker, the Washington State transfer, was the lead back and had some nice runs — though the Utes haven't progressed to tackling thus far in practice, so it's hard to fully assess the running backs, and the team as a whole. Behind him, Bray, a freshman, got the most run on Tuesday and had several good moments carrying and catching the ball. 'Wayshawn Parker's got the inside track on that, but by no means is that settled,' Whittingham said. Advertisement Receiver — the position Whittingham highlighted as the room with the most intense position battles — still has a way to go before starters begin being solidified. 'We got to get a pecking order there, they're still sorting things out and trying to figure out who the real playmakers are,' Whittingham said. That was evident in Tuesday's practice, as Utah used all kinds of wide receivers. No one had a huge day — Dampier threw equally as much to the running backs and tight ends — but due to his familiarity with Dampier and Beck's offense, Davis stood out the most. 'The first day, (Davis) had a couple of targets and completions and did some really nice routine things that he's done several times before,' Beck said last week. 'You can throw them in there, they can take the first rep and it gives a real positive image for everybody to watch and go, OK, that's kind of what it's supposed to look like because they've been in that spot.' Advertisement Powering it all is an offensive line that's been here before and returns all five starters from last year, making it easier for Dampier to acclimate to his new team. 'Those guys are handling everything. I'm barely getting pressured. It's just really easy to work with,' Dampier said. On defense, the standout from Tuesday's practice was cornerback Smith Snowden, who had at least two pass breakups and looks like he elevated his game since last season. The defensive play of the afternoon came from safety Jackson Bennee, who picked off Isaac Wilson during second-string work. At defensive tackle, the most perilous position on Morgan Scalley's side of the ball, Aliki Vimahi, Dallas Vakalahi and Jonah Lea'ea all had reps on Tuesday. At cornerback, another position that will see a new starter, Smith Snowden, Scooby Davis and Blake Cotton had the most reps. Advertisement 'Corner, opposite of Scooby Davis, that position is up for grabs, and there's three or four guys competing for that,' Whittingham said. There's still plenty of work to be done this spring, but now that the pads are on, the picture at some of those contested positions will start becoming clearer for Utah's coaching staff.
New European
19-03-2025
- Politics
- New European
Two million immigrants can be deported in just three days, claims Telegraph writer
'We can't carry on like this,' runs a headline across an online comment piece on the Daily Telegraph today. 'It's time for mass deportations.' So begins an inflammatory piece as part of the site's week-long 'series of essays on immigration, one of the great issues of our times', this one by someone called Guy Dampier, billed as a 'senior researcher on nationhood at the Prosperity Institute'. If that body sounds unfamiliar, it's because it's the new name for the Legatum Institute, the right wing think-tank whose Brexit greatest hits included advocating for airships to patrol the Irish border. Conceding that 'the concept of mass deportations still seems controversial' – which it is, to the point that even Reform leader Nigel Farage is queasy about the idea – Dampier advocates the UK should follow Donald Trump's lead in the US 'by leaving any international law agreements and repealing any laws which prevent the speedy deportation of those with no right to be here'. The writer then goes on to claim that two million people could be forcibly removed in just three days – a timescale he has calculated by using the incredibly complex and detailed formula of…er, looking at the runway capacity of the UK's busiest airport. 'Heathrow has 1,400 flights every day, so in principle, two million illegals could be deported in just three days,' says Dampier. In terms of heavy lifting, it is fair to say that the words 'in principle' are doing work here which would put the late, great Geoff Capes to shame. In order to perform the operation Dampier is advocating, not only would there need to be enough secure accommodation capacity within a relatively short distance of Heathrow for two million people over the space of several days at the very least – which there isn't – as well as the capacity for transport and the likely closure, for safety reasons, of major Greater London arterial roads for a number of days prior to and during this masterplan, there are one or two other things Dampier may not have considered. These include the likely legal ramifications of a government commandeering an entire airport's operations for several days as well as taking control of every flight coming in and out – and, as only around 230 of those 1,400 flights every day are British, that would involve successfully negotiating with several dozen nations to use their flagcarriers to carry out what would be an internationally highly controversial operation. Oh, and then there's the economic impact of in effect cutting much of the world off from London for the best part of a week at least. And even all that – most of which would be subject to legal appeals which would take years, if not potentially much, much longer – would be contingent on any government successfully locating, rounding-up and incarcerating two million so-called 'illegals', something which may just be hampered by the UK prison population currently standing at 87,556, just exceeding the operational capacity of 88,818. And finally, while there is no evidence whatsoever that there are two million immigrants living illegally in the UK – and the Telegraph recently had to correct a nonsensical headline that 'up to one in 13 Londoners could be illegal migrants' – the source of Dampier's parting shot that 'when polled, 84 per cent of the British public supported so-called mass deportations' is just as bad. The source was a GB News story citing a poll by little-known pollsters Find Out Now 'commissioned by Adam Wren, a young campaigner with a large following on X' – and even then, the 84% supported only 'the deportation of migrants who commit violent crimes', not 'mass deportations' more widely, as Dampier claims. In other news, the Daily Telegraph still hasn't found a new buyer.
