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Us Aussies are over taxed, over levied, over dutied, over rated, over fined, and yet we are citizens of one of the most beautiful and tourism rich countries, and one of the most resource rich countries.
We have no shortage of space or land. Yet, land is unaffordable.
Yet we receive no royalties on the resources we export to the rest of the world. Our national highways and major roads are in life threatening conditions. Our hospitals are overrun, and health professionals exhausted. Ambulance waiting time are through the roof. Police are quitting and crime is on the rise.
Absolutely something is wrong. Something is very wrong economically and socially in Australia. We are losing patriotism (understandably)
I see the biggest source of this is the bloated government and bureaucracy, the infinite defense of the big 4 banks and the influence of corporatism in the Australian Parliament.
We need a department of government efficiency to wipe out the bloat, stop the corrupt influence of big corporates and banks found guilty in the royal commission. And the promotion of a free, transparent, open market in housing, business, technology, education, tourism, industry, entertainment, and enterprise.
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I grew up in Australia during the good times (1980s). My folks bought a large 4 bedroom house for $25,000 (just on the outskirts of Perth), and paid it off within 5 years. Neither of them were university educated, and they worked menial jobs (cleaner, waitressing etc). Those days are long gone, which is why I got the hell out. Thankfully it was easy for me as my wife's from Russia. We moved to a shitty area in Russia (low crime, beautiful nature, fresh air, good food, good fiber internet, but still has dirt roads), bought a large 3 bedroom house for $15,000. It was better than the alternative - going bankrupt in Australia and being kicked out onto the streets. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. On top of everything else, I feel a lot "freer" here (as odd as that may sound). Russia is nothing like what the mainstream media tell us it's like.
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Hey Chris, this is Trev , i live in Atherton, about an hour west of Cairns, mate ,im 53 and I've come to the realisation that home ownership is a prison sentence, even renting a (nice) house is not the dream any more , i quit alcohol, tobacco and restaurants ect anything that drains your resources, i work a single job.I don't waste any money.
And for entertainment.I like camping swimming ect , mate, live simple, enjoy every day , and don't worry about what everyone else thinks , it will free you 😊
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Why do you think the Government doesnt promote the Australian youth to have more children to fill the gaps of workers? Rather, they bring in totally different cultures and people, and promote LGBT, Feminism, Drugs and other destructive activities...what kind of a person do you have to be to make decisions like that? A strong country has their OWN people working, their own factories, businesses, labourers, doctors, architects, engineers.
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1:08 How can you still say this? Australia is not a good country anymore. You are exactly where the politicians want you: working more than one job, seeing all the issues in this country BUT you still think this is a great country. You’ve been gaslit to the extreme.
I agree with you completely, everything is stuffed in this country but because of that Australia is no longer a great country. You simply cannot say that after listing out heaps of things that are wrong with this place. IMO it’s because we bring in too many people, if our economy doesn’t grow (and it evidently has not) then the more people we have the less everyone ends up with. I don’t care if people want to scream racism, we take plenty of immigrants from other Commonwealth countries too who aren’t people of colour. Our politicians have destroyed this country.
I don’t find enjoyment living here anymore. 1/3 of Australians are born overseas, the culture has disappeared, I hear and see foreigners everywhere I go (and I’m also talking about Kiwi, UK, Canadians etc), there’s no pride for this nation, everyone is obsessed with hoarding as much property as they can, people are much more selfish these days. This place sucks and the only people who think it’s still good are those who left their country and arrived here recently.
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I totally agree with this sentiment! I was just talking about how, despite earning more than I ever have, I’ve never felt more financially stretched. As adults, we've worked hard our whole lives not only for ourselves but with the expectation that our kids would have a better future. Growing up in housing commission homes, I remember times when we were genuinely poor, but we still had a home-cooked meal with meat and veggies on the table every night. Fast forward to now, and the cost of basic things like potatoes, carrots, and fruit has become outrageous. How is anyone expected to afford a healthy diet? Meat is out of reach for most, and even when we do get it, the quality is terrible. Chicken prices are through the roof, and now eggs are expected to double in price! It feels like the only option is to rely on cheap processed food, which doesn’t seem accidental. And it’s crazy that we can buy Aussie beef and lamb, not to mention other Aussie products like Tim Tam cheaper overseas than we can here! Why isn’t anyone asking why this is happening? It's a real concern, we are being treated like muggs!
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I'm now earning double what I did a few years ago ($80k), yet I’m barely saving anything. It’s strange because I used to go out a lot, eating, drinking with friends every Friday (have a lot of fun), I don’t do any of that anymore. These days, I just go home, pay rent, buy food, and try to save. I am never enjoying life anymore, always worrying and thinking about work... Granted, I’ve upgraded from renting a room in a share house to a one-bedroom apartment (i needed some peace), but even with that, the numbers just don’t add up, not even close.
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You are 100% right Chris don't doubt yourself. The Government is meant to have "social responsibility" meaning they provide a public service for its citizens, a basic level of opportunities to be able to live as human beings. But what have they done? They've gotten into bed with private corporations, which they should not be allowed to do. They change laws to suit private insurance companies to minimise their risk, and thus the high policies get charged and minimal claims. For example, instead of allowing people to have fun as they used to in the past, live music, nightclubs, dance clubs till morning, pubs overflowing with people, allowing smoking in particular areas, they just ban the lot of it or restrict it enough to deter people. This means less people out and about, less claims for whatever type of insurance. Paying with Visa and Mastercard is another big one, people like fools give away what they spend their money on, what time, how often, where, all electronic payments are collected and go to the credit reporting agency. They know how much money you have in savings thus, they raise charges, fees, prices, taxes. Also you go for a loan? Sorry, you are spending too much time in rsl clubs and pubs, sorry too high of a risk, no loan for you. Sorry you cannot travel anymore this year, too much carbon emissions from your current travels already. People just dont understand the importance of right to privacy. Banks and private corporations have no right knowing where you are or what you spend your money on!
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I am 69. We had Bonds clothing, electrical goods, refrigerators, washing machines, our 3 cars, holden, ford, valiant. And much more.
When I started work end of 1971, we had 3 weeks anual leave at base pay, no super unless a government job. No maternity leave
Today we get 4 and 5 weeks anual leave plus 10% loading, 10 or 12 % super. 36 or 38 hour week v 40. Our economy is highly mining driven with exorbitantly high wages.
There is no free lunch. Some one some where has to pay.
I watched a video of family fishing business. They export fish, have it caned, sent back to Australia cheaper than it can be canned localy. We are very soon going to be a third world or 4th world country. We will be begging on the streets.
5 years ago I was paying about one third of my pension in rent. Now I pay nearly three quarters of pension. My next option is a nursing home.
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As a disabled pensioner, I find myself in an increasingly desperate situation. I currently live in a shed, illegally, on a friend’s property. Unfortunately, my friend is aging and will soon need to move into elderly care, leaving me without a place to stay. When that happens, I will be homeless.
This reality weighs on me almost every waking moment. I’ve researched every possible avenue of assistance, but the demand for help is overwhelming. Thousands of people are in the same position, many of them families with children, all in line ahead of me. I’ve been told it could take years before I might receive the assistance I need.
I am just one person, and I could never bring myself to take aid that might go to a child or family in need. As hard as it is to say, I see only one way out for me. I have come to terms with this.
The Australian government has killed me.
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Look at those new builds, poor quality construction won’t last 20 years. Wooden frame not even aged mature old wood, covered in a plastic sheet, gyp walls, metal roof, wood siding, Poor ventilation and heating, single paned glass,
What a joke this is the Aussie Dream 😂 oh it cost you $250-300,000 plus just for a block 300-600sqm. Then a further $700,000 to build shite.
On a site with no trees, no shade, no soul,
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It is astonishing, if you consider Australia has basically all the building material to construct homes and skyscrapers cheaply:
Steel – For framework, beams, columns, and reinforcements
Concrete – For foundations, floors, and structural support
Rebar (Reinforcing Steel Bars) – To strengthen concrete structures
Glass – For windows, curtain walls, and facades
Aluminum – Used in facades, window frames, and curtain walls
Bricks & Masonry Blocks – Used in walls and partitions
Stone (Granite, Marble, Limestone, etc.) – For cladding, decoration, and flooring
Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) Materials
Copper – For electrical wiring and plumbing systems
PVC & PEX Pipes – For plumbing and water supply systems
Ductwork (Galvanized Steel or Aluminum) – For HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning)
Insulation Materials (Fiberglass, Foam, etc.) – For thermal and soundproofing
Finishing & Interior Materials
Gypsum Board (Drywall) – For interior walls and ceilings
Tiles (Ceramic, Porcelain, etc.) – For floors and walls in bathrooms/kitchens
Wood (Plywood, MDF, Hardwood, etc.) – For doors, flooring, and decorative elements
Paint & Coatings – For walls, steel protection, and exterior finishes
Specialized Materials
Smart Glass – Used in modern skyscrapers for energy efficiency
Carbon Fiber & Composites – For lightweight yet strong structural components
Sealants & Adhesives – For waterproofing and structural bonding
Acoustic Panels – For soundproofing in office and residential areas
Fireproofing Materials (Sprays, Boards, and Coatings) – For structural fire resistance
You live at the mercy of these politicians...
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As an European trained Chef you can still eat well in Australia, I have a contacts to variety sources of food, what is for me very important is the quality of produce, I source vegetable from different shops and markets in Moreton Bay, small goods I source from Franz a German butcher in Caloundra, meat in bulks from Costco in North Lakes, little things from Aldi( German supermarket) and the rest I buy from Coolest and Woolies and I cook at home at least for 2 days ahead, mostly continental cuisine as this cuisine has variety products which are cheap to make and are tasty. We are the family of 4 and we spent ca. $ 500-600 for food a month and have 3 menu course every day for lunch. My observation is that many local people can't really cook, but this is not the case only in Australia, USA or England is the same. In Continental Europe most people can cook and do not go to restaurants and you will be surprised how much you can save when you cook at home! We have a subject in the secondary school home economics in Europe where we learn how to cook, make a budget, save money etc. In Australia it doesn't exist, therefore so many people struggle here as they do not know how to use the money, cook and live within the budget.
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You need to budget to get ahead. If you can save a little bit each month and let compounding interest work, do it ASAP.
Do not do/buy the following:
overseas trips, car payments, booze, smokes, financed furniture, credit cards, subscriptions, $1000 phones, extra shoes, bought coffees, convenience store snacks, memberships, paying to watch sport, bikes, boats, caravans.
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as an immigrant from the US 25 years ago, I fully understand this issue on both sides.
if you want to migrate to any country, there are several things to be adhered to- which I don't often see much anymore - especially from certain cultures
1. - when in Rome, do as the Romans, DONT try and change the country's culture
2 - respect the laws, don't rorte the system
3 - leave all your cultural wars and squabbles with other countries at the border, don't bring your regional problems to Australia, don't make your problems Au's problems.
4 - contribute to society, add value
5 - make every effort to learn and speak the language
6 - don't be a dick
this isn't racist at all, its basic manners
the problem isn't immigration; its unchecked, unvetted immigration.
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As a 32 year old millenial who worked blue collar jobs after school, then went to uni to get into the white collar office sector because i didnt want to work hard labour until i damaged my back and then left without an income, i got a finance career and ill tell you the 65k income i get is barely above poverty, i dont go out to expensive dinners, i dont buy 8 dollar beers at pubs or clubs, and i dont go on holidays, i dont date either because from experience dating an aussie chick has them expecting a certain level of spending on average by going out to dinners, nights out etc and i just cant justify that, i choose to be single for financial reasons mostly. 45% of my after tax income goes to rent and then i have to factor in internet, power, food etc, and then every year i have to fork out 2 to 3k just to have my 2016 year nissan pulsar legally able to drive on the road and maintain.
I will say this if i had a huge level of income that is 120k or more id honestly just rent a decent 2 bedroom unit and bank all the savings.
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Hi mate So Chris, here's a huge thing. A lot of people are trying to save for their home, while they are " Paying off someones elses' " and that's very tricky/hard. If you don't have kids or are old like me, [ It's all about compromise right ] You can't eat your cake and have it too. I'd get a pantech with a motor scooter [ 150cc ] on the back [ deliveries and general transport ] and inside the box [ 2.4M wide x 5.5M long ] I'd deck it out just like a room in a house, insulated walls [ ply, sanded and painted , queen bed, lounge chair/s,, wide screen or monitor, normal fridge, 1.5M of flatpack kitchen with cupboard above, the whole roof [ except a 600mm strip down the middle ] covered in solar. Raise the bed 300mm and you have heaps of storage area, you don't need a mower anymore. An entrance door on the passenger side and you get it re-registered as a motorhome. Swap rent for rego. No electricity bill, water is free, internet/phone is whatever you choose. Do the budget over 12 months and if you have neighbours that suck, turn key and in 2 mins your gone.
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What does it mean to import millions, that's MILLIONS, of importers to reside in overpopulated Major Cities that only Import? It means the export performance of Australia is hobbled. What does that mean? It means that the buying power of the $AUD is hobbled. Too! So - who benefits? Anyone importing! So Retailers, Real Estate Developers, their advertisers in the MSM. Who do they pay off to get these ridiculous subsidies that sell out Australians? Well, the whole traitor class... politicians, their parties, their associated media moguls. Then of course there's the Left. These are organised Internationally and are protected by International corporations that might in fact own your local supermarket or airline voting Yes. To a No question.... so our immigration disaster is America's immigration disaster. And Canada's, and the UK's and Europe's. All Western countries tries are targeted. China isn't targeted BTW. And they are welcome to attend the WEF - aren't they?
So what does this do to say Victoria's Trade Balance? A few years ago, Victoria's trade deficit (ha ha not a surplus!) Was a shocking annual $25B per year. NOW ITS A WHOPPING UNSUSTAINABLE $85BILLION per year.
Every migrant increases rents, housing costs. Every migrant congests the roads and public transport. Every migrant decreases wages. But worst of all, Every Migrant Imports. A lot. Very very few ever export.
So every migrant lowers the standard of living of Actual Australians to such an extent, that most Australians no longer believe they can afford children.Look it up! DFAT, balance of trade by state and territory.
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That debt does not matter at all.
Here's why:
It’s a slow and hot day in the little town somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Times are tough, everybody in town is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
On this particular day, a rich tourist is driving through town. He stops at the only hotel in town and lays a $100 bill on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys, and as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs $100 and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the feed store.
The guy at the farmer’s Co-op takes $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her services on credit.
She, in a flash, rushes to the motel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the same $100 bill.
The motel owner now places the $100 bill back on the counter so the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
At that moment the tourist comes down the stairs after inspecting the rooms, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves the motel.
No one earned anything. However, the whole town is out of debt and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.
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Politicians have no clue what life is like for the majority of Australians, The 2 party system works well if you're a politician. (Just look at their property Portfolios) Where they have succeeded greatly is sowing the seeds of racism and division amongst Australians. Putting us into catagories and reminding us of our differences instead of helping us all to find ways to connect and live together. People like Duddo know how to divide us so that we no longer want to get together as communities and help each other out. If we did, we'd be a powerful force against their crap. We need change, and it's clearly not going to happen by flip-flopping between Libs and Labor. Australia needs resources & services back in Australian hands not private corps. And big corps need to pay proper taxes. Aus resources should belong to Australians and Aussies deserve a say in where those resources go. When I vote, I'll number every box with independants and people from minor parties, and in the last, least preferred vote spot, I might put in a vote for 1 of the major parties. If everyone did this, things would change as there are some great independants out there. I left Aus. 2017 with every intention of returning, then Covid hit and I was locked out, then I realised that returning was going to be more of a struggle than where I'm living now. I'd love to return, but I'm no longer in a position to. Australia has become a complete joke.
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Shop at Costco, Aldi, Independents, etc, the only way we can hurt them is with our wallets.
Even if not enough people do it to actually reduce the profits of Coles and Woolies, more money into the competitors, long term, will help them fight back and push prices down ( In comparison to inflation )
How is it, you can now get better deals on some goods at a Servo, than at a supermarket? Servos charge a convenience premier as it's the real money maker of the business
We lived well through the depreciation period, where prices were stable even though inflation was at around 2-4%
I miss 1 AUD being worth 1 USD....
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I am an international student from India, and believe me, I don't think you're being racist! I can't comprehend these slow-witted individuals who choose to do labor jobs their entire lives and refuse to study. I am paying $36k annually in tuition fees, and this is my final semester. I have never worked more than 23 hours a week and could still afford my rent, food, transportation, and other necessities! In total, I have paid $75k (including $3k for books and miscellaneous expenses), and my first job, which begins on June 18th and which I secured during my internship, is paying me $89k per annum. To anyone reading this... WORK LEGALLY, STUDY DILIGENTLY, AND THIS COUNTRY WILL OPEN DOORS FOR YOU. STOP TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS COUNTRY!
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If you have an Aussie superannuation account, and pay into it, and hope one day you'll be able to fund your retirement using at least part of it, it's probably best not to whinge, as today's supermarket ripoffs fund tomorrow's super balance, as your super fund will most likely invest in both Coles & Woolies. Not only that, but have a look at the big investment funds (they're massive investment companies that give them money, and also provide consultance/advice on how to run the company) that control the two of them (and also the so-called 'independent' supermarkets) - Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street etc (Yes, they're all American). So your super fund based in Australia gives huuuuuuge money (from every Aussies' super funds) to big American funds who invest that money back into Woolies, Coles, etc, and tell them how to run their company in order to continue to receive funds from them. Happy new year Chris! :)
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This is going on everywhere in Western style economies (Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Canada, Austria, UK, Ireland and the USA. Number one reason - Increased government spending via debt accumulation and in many instances "money printing". End result is "Too much money chasing too few goods" raising prices. More immigration in the millions and the huge public spending needed adds to inflation especially in Western Europe and the open border policies of some countries. Military spending for Ukraine, the Middle East wars in Syria and Palestine add to government spending. More and more countries are spending less on government services and more on the military !! This will get worse since we are at the cusp of a trade war as well as an economic recession /depression in the next few years. Enjoy your life young man because quality of life and your happiness and that of your partner should get the highest priority !! PN - - - I forgot to mention that the "green revolution" has added considerably to our cost of living everywhere!!
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Some tips for drivers , if you decline enough orders , the average pay rate of each order will go higher, because during the peak time, more orders and not enough drivers, the low pay orders you declined are either sitting there increasing base rate or picked up by cheap drivers who will be occupied then leaves high pay order for you, so don’t be the cheap driver, if everyone keeps declining orders , you will see magic. Especially useful on rainy night like you realize 5 orders coming in 1 min when no other driver on road , you are the boss. Following this logic and staying together, the drivers are the one deciding how much they got paid, not platform.
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Typical of mainstream media trying to avoid this topic to appease their advertisers and donors. Kelvin Thompson was the only recent Politician to call for a sustainable immigration level of 70k per year that was a managble number. Now since this explosion of 1.2 million people in 2 years we have issues with infrstructure that is way behind, choked cities like Melbourne, ridiculous house prices and rent increases. Ross Gittens wrote an article about a year ago to highlight the hidden cost of high immigration because Tax Payers foot the bill to cater for it. For example New Roads, Expanding Public transport, Energy upgrades, storm water, water supply, sewage, telecommunication, scoolos, hospitals, i could go on and on. Not to mention the growing levels of homelessness, Australia has the highest rate of animal extinctions in the world, one of the driest continents on earth and highest rates of degradation to its natural environment. As voters please look to vote for a party or independnet that have sensible immigration policies.
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How to reverse this? Very difficult. First, nationalise the water and electricity, gas, and minerals. No foreign owners. Nationalise the food supply, that is farms, local owned. Then, educate Australians to work, not kick back and act like a victim and beg the government for some measly free dollars. Promote some kind of unity, promote families, create an environment where the local women will want to form families and have kids. That is the only way, anything else is a slow death.
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Hey Chris, first weekend delivering UberEats in Brisbane. Very generous quest when I first signed up, did 48 deliveries (about 2/3 were stacked from same or nearby business), drove 14.5 hours. 400 bucks in fares, 430 in quest promotions for 41 deliveries (once I got that I just started taking orders that took me in the direction of home as I was about 25 mins from home at that stage). Used 26L of fuel ($51 AUD) drove 326km.
On base fares it was $24/hr after fuel costs only. $1.07 per km driven after fuel.
Not accounting for additional wear and tear as I'd only driven my car 3000km this year and my annual service with a 10k km interval is a month away.
With $430 in quest bonuses and $500 sign up bonus for 30 deliveries (hasn't shown up yet) It was $1279 after fuel, which was a little over $88/hr driven. Not bad for driving around listening to music.
My area in Brisbane had me doing back to back orders the whole weekend, I dunno if that's the algorithm being generous to new drivers and I'll get screwed later.
When I was in an area I wanted to be in I'd say 75% of orders were accepted, sometimes I'd get a string of absolute dogs balls orders that would take me into the CBD where I didn't want to mess with all the parking and one way streets. Those were auto rejects. The only time my app went silent on me for more than a couple of minutes was when I ended up out of zone and wanted orders that took me in the direction of home. I declined 9 orders in a row and ubereats just gave me nothing for 20 minutes.
I spent 75 bucks on a delivery box for the car. I spent another 95 for a bag for my motorbike but I have decided not to use the bike at the moment.
I made sure my car insurance knew I was doing food delivery, they upped my premium by about 90 p.a. which is chump change for the risk it mitigates. I already had a phone mount and charger, so $265 in set up costs including the unnecessary extra bag - I might sell that on gumtree.
Sorry for the super long comment but I thought it was all relevant. Thanks for the inspiration, my personal goal is an extra 450/FN in taxable income and I can only drive every second weekend plus a couple of evenings a week, so after expenses I want to make that.
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Sir, just had your video pop up on my feed- "Hmmmm... an Aussie...definitely worth a look". What you're describing, and what I'm reading in the comments as well, reflects pretty much what's been going on here in the States for quite awhile now.
Some perspective- I'm a 52 year old USAF vet who was homeless for a time. I managed to find a Veteran's Administration funded bed where I could stay while I worked and found housing. I knew things were getting utterly out of hand here when myself and my fellow Vets found out we weren't able to get Medical Appointments at various VA facilities because those facilities were now for the use of migrants. Even worse, the housing situation here in Massachusetts is so bad, even the Federal Government couldn't find Us housing. Why? Migrants have first dibs. So, with tail firmly between my legs, I moved back in with my parents. Then the 2024 election happened.
Watching the absolutely braindead donkeys that supposedly run this State panick as ICE, FBI, DEA and other Federal Law Enforcement entities swoop in Statewide to grab each and every illegal is oddly satisying. Watching the Woke on Social Media here meltdown because "Oh my God, I can't believe Trump is doing what he's doing" just makes me smile. I'm not a huge fan of his, but, I do know that some of the changes he's making already will have some major impacts on this Country, like shutting down the border along Mexico and moving elite Military units to bases in Texas to deal with the human trafficers/Cartels for example.
I can only hope that the Country myself and many Family members defended by Serving in our Military has finally come to it's senses and will make some permanent changes going forward. For far too long, we've been a nation of wolves, run by sheep. Ditto for you Aussies.
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ill be honest i own my own apartment, but im still screwed as the BODY CORPORATE bills are a joke, they go up 10% every year and there is not even a pool or lift or gym, there are like 2 hedges and there is a gardner, its a joke, in about 20 yrs the BC fees will be like $5,000/qtr and they will keep increasing, i worked out one day my PENSION wont even be enough to cover the BC fees when im old, and none of the other owners want to change the BC from company managed to resident managed there are only 6 units in the complex, food in australia isnt the problem, we can always just buy rice and pasta and canned tuna and baked beans, they will always be cheap but ACCOMODATION is the big killer, thats why my plan in the next 5 years is to see up and move to the philippines or thailand or even mexico or paraguay
Unless you have a HOUSING COMMISSION property where the rent is capped at like $100/wk your screwed, if you own, you have rates and BC fees that go up every yr with no good justification
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passports go up, rego goes up, fines go up and they chase fines harder...
council rates are fucked, this is all gov costs..
taxes go up, hidden taxes like alcohol, fuel, ciggies, the EMMISIONS FINES on diesel utes and petrol cars, even a corolla has a massive FINE attached to its price, as of january this year and they all increse year on year. coz its "polluting". or producing plant food....
they are so desperately and obviously screwing, we the people.... its more pathetic and sad.... than aggravating!
the political class are lowly tricksters... that arent tricking anyone!
they're pathetic...
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Chris. That FEAR MUNGERING affected more than just the Brisbane and surrounding areas. The panic buying in the supermarkets had a flow-on-effect into the country & northern coastal areas of Queensland. I have pictures to prove it with shelves in Coles, Woolworths, etc, EMPTY, and I mean ABSOLUTELY EMPTY...with no food to be seen ANYWHERE here, today in Bundaberg. I haven't seen the likes of this since the toilet paper debacle.
So what does that mean? Well, over the coming weeks, there's a possibility that these supermarket will start "Eye gouging" which will cause inflation & ruling out any further interest rate cuts for a while.
Also, WHY haven't Petrol prices gone down Chris? Yes, I know they work off the Aussie Dollar & Oil stock market prices.....But why have prices stayed "Flat" over the past 8 weeks when oil has fallen from 80 to 67 cents while the Aus$ has been treading water between 0.62 & 0.63 cents? It usually takes 3 weeks for stocks in Australia to turn around, so why haven't they fallen?
Do yourself a favor Chris & start recording Petrol Prices at the pump every week & then compare it to what I've mentioned & you'll see what I mean. Pucken thieves out there, right before our eyes buddy.
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Sick of hearing people complain about Australian city property prices, I travel the world and can tell you property in Australian cities is on par with other major western cities, Take a Sydney block with a masonry home in the suburbs whatever size, and compare the same size block with a masonry house the same distance from the center of the city, in New York, Paris, London, Berlin,Rome, and see what you pay. The problem with Australia is not property prices but wages, they have not kept up with rampant inflation, coupled to the fact that Australia is a net consumer, it produces very little in the way of manufacturing anything to the world, if it wasn't for mining, there would be en mass exodus. Those immigrants that everybody is complaining about are in the process of leaving for the very reason everybody is complaining about. Australia needs to manufacture and export to survive in the future, for that to happen wages need to drop to other manufacturing pay levels or below, that or perish.
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Hey man, I live up on Clear Mountain, north-west of Brisbane, we should also be roughly in the path of the cyclone.
Best of luck mate, I've enjoyed your videos and discussing the issues we have in Australia. I hope you get through this storm safely.
We've finished up all our prep over here, got our water, food, medical supplies and lashed everything down or tucked it away in a shed. This is my first ever cyclone, having been a Melbournian most of my life.
I joked with my american friend who works remotely for an aussie company in Sydney that this cyclone is biblical, it U-turned for Brisbane, haha.
I'm nervous, because obviously it's dangerous, but I also know logically that staying calm and dealing with what happens as it comes is the only way to handle it, but I also have a small bit of excitement at there finally being something interesting in this boring country.
People are both taking this too seriously (like they did during the 2020 times) and also people are taking this very blaise as you said "just a bit a rain and wind mate, don't fret." was what my local baker told me when I went to pick up a loaf (there were none)
I don't know our neighbours very well because I'm a social recluse with a bunch of mental problems I struggle with, but if people need help, I'll be offering my flimsy arms and hands to do whatever I can, I love Australia, even if she's been abusive to me most my life, and my great grandfathers staked a lot in this nation, it'd be a dishonor to their memory not to at least do what I can to be helpful to others.
To anyone in the path of the cyclone or at the edge of it, best of luck! Stay safe! Take this seriously, be prepared but also try to stay calm, take it easy when you can. Contact people and let them know how you're going.
Again good luck and let's do our best to show the backbone Australia is meant to be known to have.
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Some good points in there Chris. I deliver full time by e-bike in inner Sydney, and have come up with the '7Up' strategy/game, as I normally don't bother with the 4 hour quests, and I also multiapp (ethically - I pause one app if I accept an order with the other app) with Doordash at the same time - any single that's paying $7 and up, I'll generally take (yours is $8, you're in a car, fair enough, much more cost to run than a bike). I usually do take on doubles (stacked orders) as well if they're paying at least $12-$14+, but you raise a good point about the 2nd customer being able to see that you're doing it, and may be less inclined to tip (even though I know not to rely too heavily on tips, as we're in Australia, and Aussies generally don't tip). I also attended a courier feedback forum the other day at Menulog head office, and they're going to be introducing a few changes for deliverypeople which I think we'll love (and I'll get more Menulog orders/shifts!). Keep up the good work Chris!
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Not sure, Chris. I’m sure you work hard, but consumerism is really taking its toll on the younger generations. I watch 25-40 year-olds pulling up in their Tesla or Porsche Macan, talking on their new iPhone while queuing every day at the bakery down the road for a $7 coffee and $15 croissant. Then they head back to their brand-new houses and apartments, fully furnished with the latest fittings. My generation (X - and cause of a LOT of the problems the younger generations now face), though, nearly always bought second-hand cars, had hand-me-down furniture, went to garage sales, made our own lunch and smoko, and often had shared housing well into our 30s. Entitlement is definitely a big problem. The 80-90's were the Goldilocks yrs in Oz.
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I’ve had at least two packages that I’m 100% sure were drugs. One time it was a paper bag, stapled, picked up from an Asian guy at 5am outside a Sydney CBD hotel. I felt the bag, it had something inside that felt like a packet of sand. 😅 Drop off was to a old apartment building near Kings Cross, guy who came out looked dodgy.
The other time I went up to this asian guy’s apartment in Rosebery. He handed me a bag that had a hairbrush in, a can of deodorant and a small tin. The small tin was an instant red flag for me, I gave it a rattle and it sounded like pills inside. Drop off was to a girl in the CBD who missed me walking past her to go to their intercom, when she didn’t answer the intercom I left the package at the door, she suddenly appeared and I said oh hey sorry it’s just by the door there. She looked super on edge and anxious. Probably needed her “special pills”
I’ve done a lot of other Uber connects that are legit though. Keys, USBs, Phones ect. But yeah, I avoid accepting Uber Connects at night these days unless I’m desperate.
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I use to live in Sydney, why would anyone want to move there heh, it's over crowded, the traffic sucks and people don't talk to each other. Moved up to QLD about 7 years ago best decision I ever made. It is sad that Australia is going down the toilet though, but that's like any western country now. It's all on purpose, time is almost up, look at the price of Gold, the economies are about to crash big time (including Australia), then WW3 will start. Anyone who wants to escape this chaos, needs to seek Jesus Christ asap and get saved or be left behind, the 7 year Trib is going to start any day now, get saved or get left behind, God Bless!
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Graphs can show how, over the years, wages have not kept up with the cost of living. While they have both gone up, the cost of living has far outstripped our ability to make money and pay for even the essentials. So that is why people are getting rid of some of their "essentials," like housing. They now live in their vans or cars, or are working out of a tent. Some are trading in their vehicles and putting whatever money they have on retrofitting a van "apartment," and are teaching themselves how to live without a house OR apartment. Many others are having their cars repossessed as they can no longer afford the high payment and high insurance, if they are going to be able to pay the mortgage. Many are refinancing their homes or taking out second mortgages. Many are having relatives or friends move in to their home to share expenses. Workshops are becoming small living cottages. Others are openly charging a small amount each night to allow car dwellers to park in their driveway.
As businesses continue to fold, more people will have to give up their lifestyle, in many different ways. Where will it all end, as our governments give money away to other countries, illegal aliens, beef up the military, and waste billions on green energy efforts that can't seem to get off the ground?
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@chrisbooy Damn, no tips! Hope the base pay is decent then. I hate the premise of tips in general, in any situation, but its necessary for DoorDash. If we didn't have tips I might as well go work at McDonalds. I'm in Canada, btw.
I didn't really connect requesting 5 star to tips, but rather just your overall rating in the app. I delivered a pizza across town (15km there 15km back into town) tonight to a trucker in the middle of nowhere, the pay was quite low ($8.75 CAD, so about $10 AUD) but I figured he tipped at least a dollar. Turns out he tipped nothing! How rude. I straight up told him to his face, "no tip at least gimme 5 stars" and he agreed haha. I know, if I feel the pay is too low I should have declined but it was a quiet night.
But then I got to thinking, does DoorDash disallow me from asking for that? Hence me asking here.
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Just to follow up on my previous comment Chris, back when the plandemic was almost over I was looking around for a unit for my daughter, I found a 3 BR with a lockup garage for $330k, was going to give her 50K towards it to keep her borrowing down, she said that she was not going into debt for a house/unit, I pleaded with her to no avail, now 4 yrs later she tells me she is sick of renting, I said well that same sort or unit is now $600k, she is regretting her stupid decision, the borrowing now is ridiculous, can't see her ever getting away from renting now, great content Chris, this country's government is rotten to the core.
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chatswood cop shop... i got an old welder that states it was made at that address.
got my howard rotovator... 80+ years old. made in northmead.
old drill press...richardson iirc (yeah, i sold it a while back) again, northmead.
my fly press... mascot.
my arbour press. alexandria.
as a courier, what i saw in alexandria now was cafes and yuppie shops, using the crucibles from those foundries we used to have as flower pots. yknow, foundries? using OUR coal to refine OUR ore to make OUR steel and related products...
go to eveleigh, see the old train workshops... right there, handy for the largest train station, with all the old terrace housing once full of workers that kept our trains moving... now we have our trains carted around on trucks with the workshops out west somewhere.
dont get me started on the roads... the housing estates, the floodplains used for agriculture now full of identical houses stuck as close together as possible and crammed full of people that dont want to speak our language, or associate with us...
but dont worry... life is peachy and the economy is powering along! if you happen to be a politician, a so called "celebrity", a lawyer, a bank manager, a real estate agent... or live in la la land...
everyone else? resentful, angry, miserable, and just plodding along, waiting for the inevitable like cattle to the slaughterhouse. thing is, the cattle have no idea whats going to happen where as we ALL seem to have a pretty good idea of whats coming but are pretending it wont...
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We USED TO BE a Manufacturing Giant in the making-in the 1970's-1980's. We used to make Colour TV's, Washing Machines, CB Radios, Transmissions, Cars, Tyres, Red Diff's, Windscreens, Electrical Systems, Mag Wheels, Matches, Camping Goods-including Rucksacks, Sleeping Bags, Cotton Japara Tents, Engines parts for Harley Davidson Sportsters ..... need I go on?
ALL of that Manufacturing is GONE- all thanks to Idiotic Governments!
Who Disagrees?
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That's easy to say, the economy is structured, cash was tightly controlled, as the current financial status is. How many are out there with masters degrees who can only obtain contracted work, unable to buy a house, how many people who can only find part time or casual work, how many adults still live with their parents, how many who are working hard (an 85 hour week with his wife working ) as in a comment above, do they have a some sort of future because they can't afford a child. People who work hard are still not able to achieve personal goals, economic security or personal satisfaction. I've just seen a 27 year old man who worked hard and can barely stand up straight at the end of the day. He had a house, and worked without excuses. I've seen men aged 60 physically worn out, women who have cancers and other stress related illness, don't you dare say people won't work, there are a few who can't see the point but overall we're one of the countries with the hardest working people on the planet.
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Firstly...the platforms don't care, they have so many people wanting to deliver, they know there is going to be a turnover of couriers, so what. Who is going to take action against the platforms, how can you take action when as a courier you have signed up under their terms as far as the platforms think , it's suck it up baby.
Secondly, I think and believe a courier is innocent until proven guilty. Now these platforms have information on the customers, if a customer has pulled a shifty previously, then they do not get a second go at it, have the balls to ban them from the app.....do not assume the courier has done the wrong thing.
I've completed over 12,000 deliveries with Menulog, and recently moved over to Uber and done 600 deliveries for them, in almost 13,000 deliveries I've had just one issue and that was my fault.
The problem could be solved with the strength of numbers of all couriers on all platforms, almost as a union, but that will never happen .....food for thought.
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I sold my house in Kirribilli for 3 million, moved out to the Central Coast by the beach to retire
Five years later the people I sold to sold the house for 8 million , they may of done some things but the house was pretty good believe me
It is all about timing ,when we sold it was not liked we were knocked over in the rush ,in fact some people even said you are asking far to much for this house
We live in Queensland now and we are save and confortable we own everything now ,not like when we were in Sydney, getting older and still with a mortgage , its like a huge dangerous game of musical chairs and when the music stops there will be so much pain and hurt then anger , it will be like a thousand rats in a small cage with only 3 or four corn cobs to eat . You want to hear something really scary ,how do you think these young people afford the deposit for a home , they get it from their parents and how do you think around 90% of these parents get the money , they re mortgage their house which means not only are the kids facing the chop so are their parents , it will be Hell
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My girlfriend very stupidly ordered Dominoes pizza through Uber rather than directly through Dominos delivery.
The Dominos is maybe, on a bad day, 5 minutes away from my house.
When the uber driver arrived, he carried the pizza bag like a handbag down our driveway.
By the time he got to our door the toppings of the pizza was oozing out of the corner of the boxes and it was pretty clear he had also had them vertical for the car ride.
My girlfriend immediately noticed the toppings coming out of the boxes and opened one in front of the driver, where you could clearly see the whole pizza crumpled into the back of the box, topping completely obliterated... And somehow the pizza was cold.
The driver actually defended his actions and seemingly had no idea what was wrong.
He was pretty clearly a fresh arrival to Australia... And I honestly don't know if he had ever even seen a pizza before.
We put in a complaint with plenty of photos within minutes of the food arriving.
For some reason uber refused to give us a full refund on the whole order which had a crumpled garlic bread and three completely destroyed pizzas, and refused to refund the delivery fee.
I sincerely hope that driver was fired. And I have since completely sworn off these delivery services, as there is clearly a systemic issue where the orders are almost never right, drivers do not care about getting the food to places quickly or carefully, cold drinks are packed right next to hot foods causing it to get soggy, and even if it's not the food is still almost always cold no matter how close the restaurant is to my residence.
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I am a motorbike postie. my wife and I have no debt, we live rent and utility bills free and have done for 8 years, we have 1 car that we own, modest furnishings, we dont go to restaurants, clubs, cafes or bars, we save our money and invest it ourselves, we dont have a TV, we study global economics, monetary history and global political events as this helps us to position our $$$ in the right investments. 8 years ago we left melbourne in a 4x4 and camper trailer and $5k to our name. today we have $600,000k to our name. before the end of 2025 we will pay cash for our home and still have investments. if what you are doing isn’t delivering you the desired outcome, stop doing it and approach the problem completely different, do the opposite to what the crowd is doing, the crowd is going bankrupt. Think for yourself, take responsibility for your own money and own outcomes, fight fear,practice delayed gratification and above all be patient.
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Australians are ready to, have been for generations vote for a strong leader. Unfortunately we voters don't get to choose. They are chosen by their parties as THEIR strongest leader and we get to choose from that!!! The system has to change and now. Both sides of current and past governments are just blowing our money. Nearly $1B to the French, because someone liked the US deal better. Commonwealth Games compensation payouts, not exporting our GAS at international going rates but charging us that. Spending vast money on CONSULTANTS for everything and ultimately doing nothing. The NBN, the " no child in Australia shall live in poverty". Then we got "there will be NO GST in my government if elected" and we welcomed the GST shortly thereafter. Julian Assange, a Walkley winner, Australian equal to a Pulitzer, incarcerated for 10+ years for doing his job, both sides let him down. The country in flames, our leader goes on a holiday, devastating floods, here's $500, buy a tent! A pandemic??? A vaccine??? Mandates
Lastly, the increasingly, rapid systemic rise of both Federal and State Ministers, again on both sides, upon either leaving for personal reasons, simply losing their seat doing a bad job or avoiding some scandal, end up on the board or obtain high positions at the very corporations that their portfolios represented (massive conflict of interest, stop it now)
Should have sorted all this in 1901 and actually did our own constitution based on a TRUE INDEPENDENT Australia.
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To answer your initial question, not to be smug about it because it's depressing at all points, some of us have known since as far back as the 2008 GFC.
A lot of people got lucky, a third of us didn't and when you're lucky to have work, you don't think twice about what others are doing/going through.
I know because I've been there, lucky enough to get a decent paying job.
I've gotten to the point where I have given up ever owning my own home, or having a stable job that supplements me well enough. I've lost all hope that this country can turn itself around.
The sheer amount of corruption and negligence going on is astounding, yet people still somehow support it all as long as they get their bag at the end of the day, meanwhile aussies live in tents working 3 or more jobs, people are stuck on welfare, living in poverty unable to find a job thanks to the corrupt private and public sector hiring practices and so on.
The heart and soul of this country that I experienced in the 1990s as a child has officially died, people arguing with each other over whether our national day is an insult to the aboriginals, when the day we celebrate this nation is not on a day that means anything to the pioneers who settled here or the aboriginals who were here before then.
No one can even agree that Australians should come before immigrants of all things, it's like we want the destruction of our nation.
This isn't even touching on the housing ponzi, or the insane tax rates we have, or how super works.
Or our terrible school systems that create braindead office workers who know nothing about the country they reside in, or the terrible parenting epidemic we have where parents outsource all their child's needs to the government.
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Australia is flat-out BROKE, people! If we were just a bloody call center, we'd be getting our arses handed to us by AI right now! The government? Oh, they've been asleep at the wheel for years, incentivizing us to sit on our hands instead of building a real, diverse economy. They've been all about imports for decades, like they enjoy watching local businesses struggle!
And don't even get me started on how they're faking our GDP by just letting rich migrants waltz in, thinking they can keep this charade going forever. But guess what? The tide's turning, and we're about to be caught with our pants down, especially now with Trump's tariffs coming down the pipeline. The next 12 months? They're not just going to be wild - they're going to be a bloody circus! Hold onto your hats, Australia, because we're in for one hell of a ride.
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Just stinks ,blood on the wattle is what we are heading for , look up GARY'S ECONOMICS if you are looking for answers , he is England London based but still applies to us in OZ and you will get a true idea about what is going on , it is world wide , poor people ,and that is probably you are being turned into serfs just like yest a year' if not you ,then your kids and your grandkids for sure if you are lucky to have any because you know what, you are really to poor to breed , fight for your right to exist in your own country of birth do not let them turn you into a fringe dweller living on the outskirts with the original inhabitants, but wait they ain't there ,they all have free houses and a job for life counting grasshoppers in the desert
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Been using Wings for a couple years now. Started using it in 2021 through COVID for my regular hot chocolate and ham n cheese toastie from Extractions cafe. Even got milk, milkshakes, biscuits, chips, chocolates, lollies, salads, hot chickens, baguettes, croissants, burgers, caesar salads, juices, Ice teas, Iced coffees, sausage rolls, and KFC delivered. Loved it. Not sure now as Door Dash with Wings doesn't have as wide a range to my area anymore! 😕
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It's not about what they're spending money on. Last year there were 750,000 immigrants to Australia. That's larger than the population of Canberra, it would be something like our 4th largest city if they all went to the same place. They have to live somewhere, and houses aren't being built at anywhere near the rate to keep up with that.
This will never change, because a little known fact is Australia is not actually an advanced economy. Advanced economies are diversified, Australia's relies almost entirely on mining and housing. This is why, prices go up, so we need more homes, so we need more "skilled" labourers to keep building them (and keep wages down through a larger supply), who all need somewhere to live, so prices go up and we need more homes...
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Sorry Chris, but you're completely off the mark here. Everything you’ve said is absolute drivel. The only reason you and everyone your age are struggling is because you’re all just lazy, entitled, and incapable. You expect everything handed to you on a silver platter—completely unlike those hardworking, bootstrapping boomers who came of age in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. That generations who conveniently benefited from free education, affordable housing, and an economy where the average wage-to-property price ratio was 1:3. Back when you could pay off a house in 5-7 years instead of 25-30. Back when the government didn’t regulate you into oblivion. Yeah, they had it so tough.
No, clearly, you just need to work harder. Why stop at two jobs when you could have four? Sleep? Overrated. How dare you think you deserve even a modicum of financial stability or affordable shelter? That’s weakness talking.
Hope you picked up the satire by now. 😅 The truth is that the older generations won’t admit that they hit the socioeconomic jackpot simply by being born at the right time. I’m not here to discredit their hard work—it mattered, sure—but only up to a point. Because let’s be honest: if the tables were turned and they had to start from scratch now, in this economy, in this housing market, with these living costs, their effort-to-reward ratio wouldn’t hold a candle to what they experienced.
Would they still hold their heads so high if their mortgages took three decades instead of seven years? If their degrees came with six-figure debts? If their wages stagnated while inflation soared? Somehow, I doubt it. But instead of empathy, we get disdain. The view once you're at the top means you can only really look one way... and that's down. And they look down on those of us left scrambling for crumbs.
So, no, Chris, you’re not wrong. You’re just inconveniently correct. And the truth is, acknowledging the real problem would mean admitting that success in this country isn’t just about grit—it’s about luck, timing, and a system that’s left the deck hopelessly stacked.
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Chris, may I just say, respectfully, that you may be living a very middle-class life. The corresponding standard - and cost - of living, unfortunately, always increases year on year based on what is a widely accepted "typical" middle-class basket of goods and services: one or more nice cars, regular dining out, nice clothes and shoes, holidays, a free-standing home with mortgage, etc. I am single and found a way out of the rat race by living like a pauper for over 20 years; literally living well below my means including not going on holidays - not even day trips. On a very median salary, I managed to scrimp, save and invest (heavily, in financial markets) my way to financial freedom. I retired early, early last year, and have not looked back. If I can do this on a median salary, anyone can. Just a tip re housing: don't aspire to the million dollar+ home; start small and upgrade as time and wealth permits.
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The area in brisbane i've lived in for over 20 yrs, all been rebuilt, all forest gone, mosques and foreign student schools, a terribly overpriced block of land been there for years, now has a chinese billboard over it, australia will not own that land either.
Aussies are not paying attention, And they need to hurry up and wake up, its really fooking serious.
People need to pay attention at the next elections, the longer we vote for the same uniparty members who are selling us out, the longer this continues, elections are here, we can change it now or wait another 3 terrible years, the time is now, or we will be UK 2.0 by 2030.
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Here’s the simple take, 1/3 of voters own their own home outright, 1/3 of voters have a mortgage, and 1/3 of voters rent. So 2/3’s of the voting public are at least not unhappy when their house value goes up. The politics aren’t going to change - renters are in the minority. It is rare for people to vote against their own self interest. However, if you a property, take a look at Palmerston (Darwin) NT, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, units for low to mid $300’s. Decent jobs, great lifestyle. That’s where my wife and I bought our first home, and if I was starting over I’d be there now.
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Look it’s been made so much harder over the last few years with interest rates and house price growth.
Me and my wife (30 and 26) from Perth had bought our first homes separately in 2020 pre covid for 300/340k. We both worked normal jobs, no hand outs, saved all our money for the deposit for 2-3 years, no holidays, new cars, going out, just saving. Back then demand was down, rental vacancies were relatively high, there were plenty of properties on the market many for listed for months here in Perth so prices were cheap.
They have doubled in price since as have most properties in this city. We bought a family house last year with the equity. We could probably sell both original houses next year and live in the family house mortgage free with the profits.
I don’t think it’s healthy for the country that they’ve double in price but the market does what the market is incentivised to do.
To fix affordability we need to change the tax system in Australia. Reduce taxes on productive earning such as salary’s, business profits, and instead tax the increases in land value associated with property (which is unproductive earnings) heavily. This will disincentivise property speculation (if CGT on land is increased) and encourage people to invest in productive earnings/ sectors of the economy instead. But that would lead to price declines which the gov and the banks don’t want.
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Every day nearly Albosleazy says "we have a cost of living crisis." He thinks he's nailed it, but finally identifying the problem, but is clearly too stupid to see he has made it far worse since he has been in charge. However, it has been growing to epic proportions for the past 20yrs, and now we have Big Gas and Internet companies basically paying no taxes here, and the govt importing taxpayers, which is so stupid it is beyond belief. Only Treasury can see it as a great $$ move, but the people of Australia, have to share overburdened infrastructure with migrants many of whom are making out quite well and students too, whilst the average aussie wage is clearly being eaten by inflation and increased tax burdens. No government has the guts to fix it, the pain would be too great. let's keep going until the system collapses some time soon 1-5yrs, then we can say, it wasn't our fault.
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The problem of this country is the mentality of quick bucks, long time ago convicts sent to this country when they committed minor offences like theft or grabbing loaf of bread.. it was the mentality of quick solutions to the problems they facing.. this mentality deeply rooted in the blood, now it is sensible to choose speculation than hard work, companies will not hesitate to make as much profit, government will grab as much money any ways they can .. passport charges, tax, traffic fines, with no regards to ethics or virtue .. government is not the only one to be blamed, the whole country needs to rethink its approach, especially ethic standard of this society - to generate wealth the decent way, start from government, through education in school and promote via media, discourage the easy money mentality through regulation and tax arrangements.. lower tax, small government, reduce energy, stop excessive immigration and reduce housing costs.. this requires vision, courage, even self sacrifice from the leadership
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Look, it was a decent storm, and it did some damage, could have been worse and hard for anyone to predict these things. Some level of preparedness was warranted. Not like Covid IMO, that was obvious to many of us that something very strange was going on. I'm generally skeptical of the Gov, always, their job is to steal from us, that's it. In your last vid, calling people 'selfish' for not evacuative was way overboard, end of the day it's up to them. Would the Gov be paying for their accomodation (in a decent place), food, etc ? If not then I don't blame anyone for staying put and being there to take care of their property, etc.
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I really think it's super simple - the gov has pulled the migration lever to "keep us out of recession". This also raises house prices, which Claire O'neil said the quiet part out loud; they want continuous "sustainable" growth 🤑
Our birth rate is declining because of affordability but instead of fixing the core issue, and making australia a country that has a purpose (instead of just mining and housing speculation), they opt for the easy and short-term solution of the migration lever, which only serves to deteriorate our living standards in more ways than housing (cultural divide, international licenses)
Meanwhile, we're barraged with constant trivial bullshit by our mainstream media (dutton flag bs, social media ban) because they know enough people are uncritical and will lap up whatever they're fed, and thus keep us distracted from the real fuckery they're undertaking.
We can only hope for a crash, but that's not a very positive outlook. Ultimately, Australia needs leadership that intends to distupt the status quo and actually enable our country to have some value and worth in the world.
Or at least stop bending over backwards to the mining giants and build us a sovereign wealth fund like other, smarter countries do. We should be rich but thanks to cronyism, we all get fucked!!
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As a new immigrant, it took me 6yrs to gain permanent residency here, so I disagree with the process being flawless and easy. I agree with most of the points you mentioned in this video, but the viewers here need to know there are many kinds of temporary working visas (working holiday, post-study, training, etc), they are quite different and strain the system in different ways. My field of study is data analysis, so I think I can try to answer your question, why does the government allow so many temporary workers here. Every newcomer in Australia, no matter the visa type, it's income to the government ( visa fees and all related costs), and new money added to the economy ( they need to live here and buy things ), yes, they are driving the cost of living, rent and everything up, and putting a strain on the system, but that's later on. As a policy maker or the government, to maximise return during my term of office, and keep the economy going, it's better to maximise the money I can have now, so I need as many newcomers as I can possibly have now. They are going to create bigger problems down the line, sure, but when my term is up, that's someone else's problem. If I were in charge of immigration right now, and truly thinking long term and betterment of the country, I would reduce all temporary visa numbers, making higher requirements so only high quality people come in, and cut criminals and useless qualifications out, have a lean and efficient system. But doing so, cost of living is going to be a lot worse for now, in return, we can have a healthy country.
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Australia is being held hostage by the mining industry and the property and development corporations. Australia is not run by the government but by its oligarchs and big companies. The answer is not manufacturing. Manufacturing will be completely dominated by robotics. China are leading in this and Elon Musk is about to roll out robots that will be used in taxis, trucks to factories to health care workers etc eliminating the need for people.......the answer for Australia is technology and innovation (invention). Australia needs to encourage and produce more tech engineers. Example, China produces 4 million tech engineers a year while the US only produces 200k engineers and decreasing hence the H1B visas for Indian professionals. This is why China is surging ahead of the US in tech. US produces more lawyers, accountants and finance professionals, smh. The present and future lay in Ai, robotics, Quantum computing, Biotech, Space tech and exploration, Semi-conductors, nanotech, EV's etc. I am an expat and I travel the world. Chris, it is hard and expensive in every country especially the major cities. Every country/city has its challenges and problems unfortunately.
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I used to work for a local company and sometimes would be cut loose in the company van, loaded up with products to do 40 + deliveries. I can easily do 20 + deliveries. The key is growing the network. So far I have delivered groceries, I have delivered pharmacy products through DoorDash, and one retail. I don't think it has entered the local business consciousness they can use this service to grow their online sales. Who is getting in front of local businesses explaining how this works? Books, clothing and apparel, shoes, floristry, nurseries, hardware, gifts and accessories, spare parts - these are just some further examples of who we could be dashing for.
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Unfortunately, Australia needs to rationalise and become a simpler place to live. We have to eliminate those roles in government and business that do nothing for for productivity. There are thousands in government departments, federal, state and especially local government - the most useless layer of government ever. Have to return to state run disability services where guaranteed profit margins are made by companies on the government tit. In aged care, where a cleaner earns $32.00 and hour, but the service providers charge the government $200 per hour to just "manage" the expenditure. Where infrastructure works are outsourced to companies, but, for example, where a rail intersection has many many trucks on site with 2 people changing light bulbs, but there are another 4 trucks with people sitting in them on their phones, while others are pretending they are working by holding a stop/go sign. What a waste. All this caused by overblown regulation by government in order to get people an income, which adds to the trillion dollar debt. The magic word is PRODUCTIVITY, and that has seriously been eroded, especially in the last ten years. It maybe too late though to unwind the BS.
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Chris you are missing quite a few key points here - firstly the Australian economy has had seven consecutive negative growth domestic quarters, technically after three quarters is called a recession, coupled with the effects of the pandemic's destruction on key supply chains adding to run away inflation, basically the country should have been on it's knees but we aren't.
And the reason it's the very same one you are talking about, immigration, because for one thing not only should the country be in a recession but inflation should have been much higher, YES you could have been paying $30 for a cartoon of eggs.
The reason why inflation is not out of control is because those immigrants provide extra labor that keeps costs down, the other half of immigration are rich people moving here, they bring millions with them, I know someone who brought 5 million to live here.
Without that immigration, Australia would be in a depression right as we speak, and we might still be headed for a depression, if you think it is hard now, you should see a depression such as it happened in the late 80s, you would be in despair my friend.
Unfortunately it is a catch 22. It's a global recession, and Australia believe it or not is fairing well in comparison to many other countries.
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So are you going to pick the fruit n veg, construct the roof, clean the gutters in near 40 c heat and rising, drive the taxis, nurse the sick and elderly, this is what the migrants do, houseing is still cheap in Tassie and many places out west, you can't always get what you want, you can get what you need...
We still have oppertunity in Australia just look at that gorgeous park your walking in, do you practice gratitude, could you live on a sml bowl of rice and a cup of water per day after working your butt off for it ? We in this country are sooo privledged...
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The exodus started ages ago mate - Tamworth, Armidale, Albury, Wagga Wagga, Mudgee, Dubbo, Gunnedah, Narrabri, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Bathurst, Orange and many other places have seen huge demand. Rental vacancies in these towns is less than one percent. Its a total fuckup!! Only solution now is complete collapse by 80%-90% across the whole country.
Melbourne's mass exodus started during covid and the other big three cities will soon see same scenario as its unaffordable.
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First thing to do is: keep calm. Your health is your own, and blood pressure can be very serious. The second thing is to know that many people are going through the same thing, so you're not alone.
Personally, I'm a jack of all trades, my history is long, and no one cares, but I have learned a lot along the way. My life's goals have been to learn new things every year, and the this last year, it was baking bread. The previous years have been learning to cook, purify water, manage electricity, make yoghurt, preserve food, can food, and how to prepare meals from scratch using a Dutch oven and heat beads. (This list goes on.) Home made bread... you don't know what you are missing, and the best part is that 1kg of bread can set you back $1.50, sure you need a few things like a heat pad and loaf pan, but you can use plain flour, not the more expensive (and often old--this is BAD) bread flour. Change the flavour using different oils, or butter (expensive, but you don't use much). Can feed a family of 5 very comfortably, and since I have been cooking, we haven't spent less on food. ALSO, remember the "health" part in my first part this message? Yep, it's better for you. I would encourage anyone to give it a go--if I can do it (IT by trade), anyone can. You got this!
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Aussie here.
And I've started leaning more towards uber eats because customer can tip, and sometimes do.
Got one tonight after I had completed an alcohol order, and got tipped an extra $8, which that was more then what uber paid me to deliver it. (Had a quest on, so was accepting the not so good orders to get the quest done)
Tipping should be allowed, and no penalty to the dasher(impacting base pay etc) you get the order there quickly, hot and fresh, happy customer might be willing to throw a few bucks your way.
It arrives cold they probably won't.
End of the day, it would be the customer choice and dashers won't have to be reliant on tips to live (some people do this full time)
You won't have the issue of, this is a low order, this guys not Tipping therefore I won't take it.
You see an order and feel it's worth your time, and put a bit extra in and maybe you a tip ontop.
That's what tips are ment to be, a bonus. Not something you depend on just to get by day to day.
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There's nothing accidental about any of this. It's deliberate and planned. It's the replacement agenda. In London, where I was born, 53% are migrants, not all legal either, same in cities all over Europe. Good news is somehow, someway great changes will evolve from all this. Trump and Musk are leading the way exposing the astounding corruption, greed, fraud etc in their federal gov't system. Eventually, this will make it's way to Australia. The current corrupt system in Australia is designed for so called elites will be replaced by a fairer way, led by people who actually serve the public and all life in a kinder human way. But it won't be anytime soon, but it will happen in your lifetime. Guaranteed.
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Home ownership, even in good times, is not always the best goal, and it is not the high water mark we make it out to be. Many bought houses a few years ago before the economy went completely crazy, and now find themselves tied to a property they can no longer afford. I cannot speak about Australia, because it is not the U.S., where I am. But I will say that home ownership has caused many to regret buying a house. Home insurance has gone through the roof, as have the taxes. Many who never had to buy flood insurance now have to, which make the mortgage payment unaffordable. Many are forced to refinance in order to pay their bills, all the while tied to a house in an area that offers few jobs. Renting out the house to leave the area can be done, but then you must pay someone to manage it for you, and the amount of rent needed to cover all expenses is very high.
Sometimes I see that people who are working three jobs as you are, are giving most of it over to an apt. or house rent, and they are only home long enough to sleep, shower, eat and do it all over again. Buying a house in this inflated economy is a huge mistake. BUY LOW, SELL HIGH should be number one in everyone's priority list. Buying high and losing your shirt when you have to short sale is not the way to get free of debt. House prices are slowly falling. You should not buy a house when prices are falling.
Sometimes I think we need to adjust to a different kind of living that makes more sense until the economy/housing improves. What that looks like is different for others. For some, it's a better grade of tent or a van that actually runs. I am not being sarcastic. We need to hunker down, work as much as we can, and put house purchase on a back burner. Best to you.
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Rich, "intelligent" landlords are thinking; Chris, the government is bringing in replacement renters for me. I'm good.
Guess what, they think that a 3rd worlder will look after a property, properly. LMAO
No, they will ghettoise those neighborhoods. (Watch the price of those properties when no Australian wants to live there, ever again)
White flight is real.
Without whites the city will crumble. We don't have to do the experiment, its been done. Chicago, Detroit, LA, NY, etc.
Always the same story. Failing infrastructure and eventually a ghetto.
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IF VOTING ACTUALLY MADE A DIFFERENCE TO THE WAY THIS COUNTRY IS ACTUALLY RUN, THEY WOULDNT LET YOU VOTE, the powers that be know that no matter which major party wins, the system stays the same, the big end of town always screw everyone over, we have no real voice here and if you speak up your deemed a trouble maker and you get fired or charged with some BS crime
sick of working 75 hrs a week to just make ends meet, those who are LAZY in this country seem to have an easier life than those who work hard, dole bludgers who live in housing commission have the LIFE, getting up at 10am, doing F all , their rent is capped, sweet easy life, mugs like me that work and have to work till i drop dead just to pay for accomodation
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Cyclones are NOT new to south east Qld. Saying that this is the first to hit Brisbane/Gold Coast is BS and a lie. There was one in 1990, cyclone Nancy, hit the Gold Coast and Byron Bay, I was in it. Don't know what you're talking about when the last one was 1974? Just saying that one hasn't hit Brisbane is just BS.
1974, ALL of Australia was hit with wild wet weather. It was an unusual year for wild weather here in Australia. I was in western Victoria then and our town was flooded. Never flooded before. Darwin got hit with cyclone Tracy that year. That was pretty famous. Floods in every state that year.
As for more cyclones in south east Queensland, there was another one called the 'Great Gold Coast Cyclone' in 1954 that hit Coolangatta also one in 1893 that hit Brisbane. Another hit Brisbane just back in 2019, cyclone Oma.
So this is NOT unusual. It's rare but it we get them but don't say it's never happened and this is the first. That's just irresponsible and fuels climate psychopath activist.
As for infrastructure, the modern councils have no idea what they're doing. They cut corners and rush everything for the sake of growth. So I would say look out. A lot of damage to come and that's ALL on the councils.
As for idiots staying on their island. If they want to then it should be up to them but it's a choice they make with consequences that their will be NO emergency services issued to them in those areas if they choose to stay. If they stay then it's on them.
Calling the 'Government' to force people is the worst thing you want to call for. NEVER call on the government for ANY force or you'll get more than you ask for. Bloody hell, why get the government to 'enforce' their will on people yet again. You forget about Covid? DON'T ask the government to do ANYTHING. They need to just focus on emergency services, that's it.
So FILL YOUR BATHTUBS with water TODAY! Get batteries, candles, packet & tin food. Then sit it out with a pack of cards or some boardgames.
Below is a link to a short 2min video from the ABC. Even those 'activist' explain it pretty well with the history of cyclones in south east Queensland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeQ3-MiTmqE
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Things are tough, and the gov is to blame for some of them, but I'm not so quick to blame them for everything like a lot of people seem to do. A common criticism I hear, for example, is about the use of monetary easing and fiscal stimulus by the government and the RBA during the pandemic, and how it has contributed to the inflation we suffer today. Well, it's either that or risk going into a deflationary spiral — which is worse. But I’ve noticed a lot of people just think at the surface 'printing lots of money = bad.'
I have learned in life that it is not always black and white; there's usually a lot of complexity to our social and economic issues. Sometimes, shit just happens, and Australia is not the only country facing these challenges. But I can appreciate that when times are tough, people are looking for someone to blame. I’d just say, make sure the blame is well-placed.
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I think you need to do more research. You cannot relate a countries debt to how you think about a household debt. The economy has been expanding for decades. My kids, my brothers kids and my sisters kids have all got nice houses/jobs and look set to have a lot more comfortable life than I did. Jobs are plentiful, I live rural and workers are always being needed. To me it is the same as it has always been, a relevant education/training is always useful, stay away from illicit use of drugs, work hard, learn from your job, make yourself more valuable. Sad for the kids without role models. As for prices of things my late brother once said to me about 20 years ago when I was complaining about price rises, "you're getting old, if you were young you'd just accept that is the price without a thought". Government can do a lot better, but hey, it is a democracy and not perfect. Never has been, never will be.
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The real "vampires" aren't some mythical creatures lurking in the shadows - they're the corrupt government, the blood-sucking politicians, and the parasitic landlords who feast on the labor and suffering of the masses. They thrive on our misery, using us as pawns in their twisted game of power. And the worst part? The masses, content in their degradation, blindly accept the scraps thrown at them, calling it "equality," when in truth it’s just a glorified cage. Does the maggot pity the decaying flesh it crawls through? No, it consumes it without hesitation, just as those in power consume us. The truth is, we are not meant to live in servitude. We were born to dominate, not to be devoured by the parasites. It’s time to awaken from the slumber of submission and embrace the freedom to take what’s rightfully ours.
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According to Aussies, we Brits are known as Whining Poms 😂 but sorry to say, you are also going about something that cannot be changed..lf you are struggling, then get your arse into gear, MOVE OUT and start with a clean slate in a brand new location. You just dont get it, the system wants the vast majority of us to be poor and drip fed, so that we can NEVER get ahead. The middle class IS shrinking by design, not only in Australia, but also in New Zealand, US, Canada and UK..
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Hey chris, im in beautiful Victoria. Cannot agree with you more, i have often and more lately found myself saying the exact same things. Both these to idiot parties have sold the Australian dream and our way of life down the river for a quick easy buck. Its nuts, with all these "stop oil", go "green", its all b.s. we need a party for the blue colour hard workers, but all we get is big business and unions, neither care about the working class joe. I also hated the nuclear sub deal, not because of the power source, because of resources, lacking bases that can fit these boats and most importantly crew, right now we only have enough crew for 4 colins class, of which 3 are working. Those nuclear boats need double crew, off boat crew that you fly to the boat as shes doesnt need to return to dock for ages.
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Totally agree with you mate, nobody is forcing anybody to do gig work. If you don't like the things they talked about to that committee, go get a salaried job. If it's a side hustle, you know what you're getting into and if it isn't working the way you want, find something else. As you say, if this bill gets through gig work will suck - they'll limit hours and reduce pay to the minimum the unions bargain for, eliminating the good offers for those who know what they're doing. They'll also look at us as employees, will take out super from your earnings, expect you to work when they want you to and limit you to only working for one delivery company. The gig economy is meant to be opt-in and flexible, the exact opposite of what it will become when the unions inevitably get their way. Labor will vote for it in both houses as they are union-backed, and they'll do some grubby deals with the cross-benches to get it through. The unions should not have become involved in the gig economy.
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The wealthier people dont pay their fair share of tax ,the tax system is rigged and blatant discrimination against the working poor ,at least Labor has trying to help the working class ,by increasing wages and decreased taxes , the hopeless coalition had nearly 10 years to fix the public housing sector, and spent very little money trying to rectify the housing shortage, thats why people are living on the streets plus lets not forget the robodebt , and the liberal party sports rorts , suggest the government, set up a home loan department ,with fixed low interest rates ,and a small deposit , if people are paying $8/9 hundred dollars on rent ,its bloody obvious they could afford to pay off a mortgage,
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I am i migrant myself i arrived when i was 6 in the year 2000 i was born in a warzone, suffered from anxiety and ptsd wartrauma etc, mental health disorders were never talked about in my birth country, my dad had extensive construction experience not the kind you see nowadays, after 12 years he bought a house and settled down, despite being good honest people they never observed the fact that i was suffering from ADHD, PTSD,ANXIETY ETC list goes on, refusing to accept the difference and getting treatment i spend 29 years of my life feeling like i was a different egg lol. now i have accepted my condition and am making a life of myself,
growing up i had dozens of mates from Afghanistan,irag,Iran,lebanon etc these kids had so much war trauma/hate unable to fit in to society, 10 years late middle eastern milenials are committing serious crime,in various gangs and organisations, the problem in austalia is mental health the government does not invest the same amount into treating mental illness as the failed war on drugs. since 1970 australia has been prescribing 6 year olds speed and meth for adhd whilst the %60 of the adult population suffering from it can not get access without a examination which costs up to $2600
migration is set to get worse, don't even get me started on the tobacco trade
welcome to Australia where 6 year olds are prescribed ritalin and vyvanse
welcome to Australia where drugs are cheaper than Australia
Welcome to Australia where the war on tobacco has opened criminals an endless
revenue to sell tobacco illegally where is the tobacco tax going???
Australia has plenty of skilled workers the issue is you can't do anything without a degree/diploma the police force is low in numbers too many hoons on the road, The entry criteria for police force/military is ridiculous no wonder rail workers are striking, their forced to work 12 days per fortnight 12hr shifts, very apetising job police force is no better basically work till you drop
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Good video mate , I think you are on the money .
I’m old retired , a battler , I still live week to week, day to day , , there’s no cruise ship holidays or 4.3 million dollar holiday houses on a hill with ocean views on my horizon mate …. I’ll give you that in the mail.
I’ve watched our politicians over my working life from the lucky country which it actually was to the country we see today , that is the lucky country for the very few and wealthy.
I look back at all the industry WE HAD in the 50’s ,60’s, 70’s, ’80’s , much of it is gone as direct result of government policies by both the big parties !
But clearly Labor can take the lions share of the blame , and current Labor are without doubt the worst government, the most devious , divisive government ever seen in Australia !
The sad part is , these Labor bastards are excellent bullshitters , and they can and will spend as much tax payer money as they need to get back into office , and that’s exactly what they are doing now !
They are spending money like a drunken sailor at a casino , and at election time , they are going to say , “ but look at what we the Labor party have bought for you !
The catch is , they have spent our money, yours and mine the tax payers and put in a huge debt hole !
Look at all these non important big projects that could have waited another 10 years until our country got back on its feet !
I look at my bills over the last year ,
gas prices up
Electricity up(despite albos vs promises)
Water up
House council rates up 37% since this time last year !
Car rego up,
Fuel cost is up
Medical prescriptions up
Food is up
Rent is up
Housing is just ridiculous prices
Building and raw materials skyrocketing
Services costs up .
Insurance … up !
Basically they have fucked us.
Sometimes because things occur over time you don’t always notice , and we as humans adapt to hardship without thinking about it a lot of the time. Going back to the cost of food , I bought groceries at Cole’s a couple of weeks ago and bought cheese slices for 12 dollars…. That was the discounted price!
If we look at some other things , bankruptcy’s are way up this last two years.
The massive immigration which is clearly keeping house prices up , and labor has admitted they want house prices to continue rising !
No doubt a lot of these wealthy career politicians on the perks gravy train have their own realestate side hustle … and they want to keep the status quo’s.
Too bad if you are a person or family with average wages or a meager bank balance, you are never going to be able to afford a home.
For many the Australian dream is unattainable, dead .
That’s just the tip of the iceberg , I could go on .
I’m old , I’ll probably be dead in a few years, but I fear for the ones I leave behind what Australia is today and where it’s heading .
Fuck Labor !
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Myself and my wife just completed settlment yesterday. We sold our investment property in the country. We were rent investors trying to get ahead in Melbourne. Our rent has gone up 100 per week 3 years in a row on average and cost of living has killed our dream to ever get ahead in the city. My wife had to give up on her dream to finish her cybersecurity degree because we faced imminent bankruptcy if we didn't cut the rope of the anchor around our necks and she had to go back to full time work. I lost my job in Covid and we estimate because of Covid a net wealth loss of more than 100k inb 3 years due to that. Interest rates and cost of maintaining a rental spiralled us into negative gearing we were paying hundreds a week to keep it despite it being rented out. We cut food, luxuries and even clothing to survive before we finally capitulated. Luckily for us we will be able to escape Melbourne just and afford a low-mid end property in the country. And that will become our future, not the one we just spent ten years of blood, sweat tears and sacrifice for.. I will have to give up my career aspirations and take a new job probably in agriculture and if it wasn't for my wife securing a job working from home, the bank would never have let us leave Melbourne despite imminent bankruptcy estimated to come to us in a few years at the current trajectory even after having sold and having a sizeable deposit for a place in the sticks. I mean we make 125-135k a year (with 2-5 hours OT overtime per week). After tax, maybe 80. After rent 45, after car costs 30, after food 20, after insurances 15, after bills maybe 10k. 10k disposabe to cover everything else....And we don't have any kids or pets...We are broken and when people say 'good let the landlords suffer for jacking up prices' they forget that many Landlords are those who sacrificed kids and luxuries in life for a decade to buy a property to try and maybe get top retire 5-10 years earlier once their investment matured. Well I hope those people are proud, because let just say our property wasn't bought by someone who was a new home owner fresh from rental but another mogul who is able to reap the benefits of scraping up another property from the struggling to add to their empire....The systems broken and the only way out I see is to take whatever I have/can and are willing in stocks/savings/holdings and move it to Bitcoin and fight back against the financial system that now enslaves us all.
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This country is being run into the ground. If the majority of people are on struggle street, small businesses will fade out and that is happening. People end up losing hope for that light at the end of the tunnel, everything becomes dark. Mental illness, depression, anxiety, crime, drugs, family units fall apart and alcohol addiction are just a few of the downfall that’s happening, not to mention the rise in homelessness and charities struggling to help people in real need. If this continues, the rich and wealthy will suffer in the end. If you prosper the nations population, businesses thrive, manufacturers thrive. The end result is disastrous, when you break people’s spirit. Knock them to the ground where they cannot recover. C
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BEST BLOG ON YOUTUBE MATE ,RUN FOR THE GREENS,AT NEXT ELECTIONS,,,,,,,,,,AND GET ON ABC SHOW Q AND A AND INSIGHT
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Hi Chris, solid video, also some great comments too.
Exploring the National debt a lttle deeper - transparency regarding these borrowings, which really exploded during the plandemic is needed forthwith, to know the source, as well as the terms and conditions of the 'loan'
Both Lab and Lib are both at fault here because over the period of time that you mention, or the original 60 B $ , now at 900 B $, soon to be 1 Trillion $.. both sides increased that debt.
Moreover, does the 'opposition' of the day ask for transparancy regarding - the source and the T and C 's etc?
No, because both sides know that they will also borrow more when its their turn at the wheel. Besides adding to Inflation (more money in the economy, chasing a finite amount of Goods and services) It really matters to know the full details of loans etc because ultimately its us and our childten, grandchildren via taxation etc, that will need to hopefully one day pay it out.
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Yes, but we are saving the planet….apparently. Gaia would be proud and people like Bowen, Turnbull et al I’m sure are grateful as they make millions off our taxes. We get what we vote for. If you voted first preference for the LNP, ALP, Greens or Teals or any other lefty candidate you got what you voted for so don’t complain. Stupid is as stupid does. Voting the same parties in power (1st preference, even second preference) over and over, for the same result over and over, is the definition of stupidity. When I was a kid, we had the cheapest electricity in the world. Thanks to saving the planet, energy is now expensive. You can’t have both high wages and high energy prices and high standards of living. Australia chose the green expensive dream of green energy, don’t complain about having a lower standard of living, that’s what the main aim of it all is (which is why China buys all our coal).
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Big corp , needs more consumers , thats where , mass migration comes in . 500k per year . Like energy companies increase ees by over 30% in just one year , they would like to do that every year , or bring in another 500k of migrants , so they can make more profit .Same as every other large corp , Super markets hint . The avarge block size is less than halve of what it was , Yet cost 10 x more as what it did . Inflation is caused by government , they are the first to increase fees and taxes. Mass migration has everthing to do with the problem we have now , but governments don't work for you , they work for big corp mates .
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In Australia, our laid-back culture and the 'she'll be right' attitude, once a source of national pride, have sadly become our undoing. While we’ve been busy enjoying what has historically been a great country, the government has become increasingly compromised.
Corrupt politicians no longer prioritize the common Australian; they serve corporate interests instead. Mass immigration, unchecked and unsustainable, has strained infrastructure and housing. Currency debasement continues to erode our savings and wages. Meanwhile, the rise of divisive ideologies, identity politics further undermines the fabric of our society.
We need to wake up, hold our leaders accountable, and take back control of our future before it’s too late.
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I work in goods receiving at a Bunnings. Don't i know it!
90% of product is Chinese sourced. The rest is mix of Australian, American, British, Vietnamese, Mexican. The Japanese, Canadians, French, etc supply literally nothing.
Unions made our workforce too expensive to employ, China offered cheap labour and production costs, plus tariffs were gradually reduced over time for reasons that escape me.
Research "Lima declaration". That will offer further insights.
It's a common sight on boxes i unload off trucks to read; "proudly Australian designed and owned" with an Australian flag nearby, with "made in China" in the finest of fine print on other side of box. Just disgraceful.
All my cars except two, have been Aussie made; 1970 HG Kingswood, 1979 VB Commodore, 1983 XE Falcon, 1985 Mitsubishi Colt sedan, 1990 TP Magna (both made in Adelaide). In all honesty, the quality was pretty shabby, but they gave locals jobs. Now it's lost. These cashed up workers once supplied economic activity into surrounding areas. It's now lost.
Deport the manufacturing, import the hordes.
Gubbermint logic at its best....
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I agree 💯% with you mate. However, let me tell you the secret to outpacing inflation and tax. And it's going to sound cliche, but it's investing any measly temporary savings you have, into Wall Street, ie: the Nasdaq or S&P 500 ETF. Not the fuckin ASX, but Wall Street. The one place the entire world's liquidity goes into. The entire world. Instead of putting every penny into an offset or a bank account and not investing it because you may need it for future rent etc, you put the vast majority of your pay check (anything u wouldn't spend within the next 10 days) immediately into the stock market every month. Then u withdraw from that, to pay your rent, etc. The stock portfolio becomes your bank account. Why does this work? Because global US megacorporates are designed to always outpace inflation, after all, they're the ones contributing to it. So get on their bandwagon. You will make +12% on average just doing this. Even after paying tax on capital gains you're still WAY better off than what you would've saved leaving it in an offset or a savings account. That extra 6-8% net income after tax, is the edge that pushes you out of the cost of living cycle, over time, as it compounds considerably by the 4th year, achieving terminal velocity.
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I could walk outside n talk to my neighbours it was friendly n people were helpful ! Streets, footpath n neighbourhood was presentable ,those days r gone,n so r the neighbours!
There's not much left anymore, except rubbish everywhere, don't know my neighbours anymore ,strangers everywhere, houses r broken into,police r fewer about and manned police stations r fewer about as well !
There was a time one went from rags to riches,the aboriginals know it best ,they just employ DREAMTIME ,unfortunately even they r stuck in the RUT ! 🥵😡
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I'm sorry but I don't think you realise, by global standards, what a miniscule exception it always was to live in a country where you could afford a house with your salary. Give you one example: I am Greek, I know many families in Greece, not a single one of them paid off a house with their salaries. Not one. You know why? Because it's impossible, always was. Does this mean everyone left Greece? Hardly. People wait, stay with their parents longer, maybe rent something cheap for a period, when they get married both families pool funds and/or land together and build a house for the newlyweds, and also VERY important: parents DO NOT "downsize" to fund a cozy retirement, instead they make lifestyle sacrifices to hold on to their houses so their kids have something to inherit, even late in life, so they can pass it down to their kids. Welcome to the rest of the world, bro, where life was never easy.
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I agree with a lot of what Chris so passionately is saying.
Foreign investment in land and infrastructure should be better managed and most certainly should not be allowed where ownership is not reciprocal. Entities with any foreign government association should never be allowed to invest in Australia. The risk that the assets will be misused, at least from a domestic perspective, is too great and there is little to influence a redistribution (a sale) in the future.
But foreign ownership of companies operating in Australia is not necessarily a bad thing. They provide jobs, taxes (some at least), skills, training and knowledge transfer. And countless other benefits, of that I'm confident. Does it really matter if some of our largest companies are majority foreign owned? Many tend to be listed companies, whose shares are controlled by fund managers representing millions of investors around the world.
Consider the Australian fund management industry (AUD figures follow).
Collectively, there is more than $4 trillion invested. Australia is something like the 4th largest in terms of superannuation internationally and, on a per capita basis, each superannuation account has an average $200,000.
Domestically, funds invest in agriculture, technology, manufacturing, build to rent, light rail, office buildings, etc, etc. When the NSW government tried to sell off the 'poles and wires' (AusGrid - the actual infrastructure) for ideological reasons or to build the metro - take your pick - it initially tried to sell it offshore. The Federal government blocked the sale and, instead, the majority stake was purchased by a consortium of Australian investment agents, including Australian Super and IFM Investors (there are indeed electricity retail owned by foreigners - eg Chinese / HK companies Energy Australia and Alinta Energy).
(Something else to note: ~$800bn is invested in residential housing, mainly through self-managed superfunds.)
However, there is also $2T invested internationally. Over $1T in international stocks - many of which, in term, own the companies that operate in Australia. More than $300bn is invested in international property and infrastructure. IFM Investors, for example, has invested sizeably in renewable energy projects (eg: offshore wind farms).
With no offence intended, does it matter Qantas is majority owned by Australians? Qantas couldn't give a rat's arse about saving its customers money (or, amongst other things, respecting its 1700 ground handling staff) - it is a business and its purpose in life is to maximise returns to shareholders. Just as any foreign company would. Isn't it about time the foreign players were allowed fly domestic routes so that us long suffering travellers can benefit from competition?
The Big 4 (really 'The Big 6' with Macquarie and Bendigo Bank included) - it is about competition or the lack thereof, rather than foreigners. And whilst they clearly have an interest in the Great Australian Property Market Ponzi Scheme, they are risk managers. The stupidity of property prices relative to average incomes (and other factors) influence how much banks are willing to lend.
Aldi (obviously not a bank) was a good thing. Colesworths needed competition. That Suncorp was able to be taken over doesn't make the ACCC look good, in my opinion (and you see this time and time again).
But that all said, when I buy something, I try my hardest to buy Australian made (which includes services). Not Australian owned, because that may as well be some BS like clothes / clothes pegs that are 'designed in Australia' but ultimately made in China (or wherever) and that do nothing for the Australian economy. Dick Smith is admirable, but did he not make his success as an importer?
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Chris, you're a smart bloke, did you really think those stooges would get anything done for us? I reckon one reason they haven't, and won't, is because as you mentioned, there are a lot of overseas 'students' here doing gig jobs full time while neglecting their studies. Labor don't want to 'unearth' that, as it'll mean they'll have to investigate and open a can of worms. The gig companies (who are in kahoots with all the political parties - yes, I'm a proud 'conspiracy theorist' :D ) don't want them to investigate, as the amount of delivery people will drop overnight if an investigation into the industry is initiated as a result of the guys takin the piss freaking out and stopping work to take their uni studies more seriously so they don't get deported. This will mean that the rates they pay the remaining drivers among us will shoot up (WOOOO!! :D ) and that their bottom lines will suffer as a result. As well, the government don't want to investigate as they'll have to boot guys out of the country who will then go and tell their relatives about their experience, which will mean less high fee paying international students coming here in future to prop up our unis. Nothing will ever be done about our industry, anyone that thinks it will is bonkers. Also, have a look at the recent shambles with the CFMEU. Labor threatened to break them up unless they got rid of their leader, so he quit, Labor then put a 'clean up guy' in to do the job, and have put him on $600,000 per year. Who do you think is paying that extra money? Yes, the members of the union. If they had brains in their heads, they'd all cancel their memberships so the union would collapse. Which is what the Labor party threatened to do in the first place, remember? Haha
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You have outlined the many problems that truly affect us all in one degree or another, what you need now is a solution, or a remedy, and one that can reverse the many problems that have been put in place as part of a Globalist system, that many Aussies still lack the comprehension of what Globalism is all about.
Make no mistake, the Globalist system is designed to reduce us all to the slavery that the Globalist system is currently pushing.
What you now need to consider, is that we have lost control of our own country - and whomever you may choose to vote for - the act of casting a ballot will not remedy the situation we now find ourselves in because the system is now so controlled via corruption, that both Labor and Liberal are the two wings of the same bird, and have been for some decades.
Every institution and system in this country is now utterly corrupt - difficult to get one's head around - but ever so blatantly true, as it is being exposed daily to those who have eyes to see it.
The Australian Constitution - Australian Law of the Land - was abandoned decades ago by those now ruling roughshod over us all. We are currently living in a period of INTERREGNUM for which there is no longer a Legal or Lawful remedy outside of the Governor-General dissolving Federal Parliament and appointing a caretaker government until FAIR and FREE elections could be held - even then though - we would still have to deal with an utterly corrupted public service of unelected government officials who have been steering the course of this country ever since Federation.
However, there is one glimmer of hope for us all on the horizon - The Freedom Union. Look it up on Youtube.
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This all started when the US Dollar was removed from the Gold Standard, and currency became Fiat Money. Giving the dollar nothing to weigh it's value against. Making the dollar a hypothetical value as opposed to anything of real value. Gold was something tangible. You could hold it, you could see it, you could store it, and you could work for it and be paid with it. Now we live in a world where value is given to a subatomic particle called The Electron. The whole of the worlds monetary system is now an electron based monetary system. You cannot hold an electron, you cannot see an electron, you cannot feel an electron, but you can store them. In a battery. If the worlds financial system is based upon the electron, which it is, then every battery in the world is a bank. And there are trillions and trillions of electrons in every battery. Effectively making every person in the world who owns a battery a multi-trillion trillionaire. With enough wealth to purchase anything that they desire. But try telling the banks this. That's how they con the people. By convincing them that the electrons in a bank computer system are more valuable than the electrons in a 1.5 volt battery. There is no difference, electrons are electrons.
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Bro, I will be honest. We are all feeling the pain, and you are not wrong in nearly everything you have said.... but the bad news is, this is the downside to everyone being a property speculator, combined with record high migration numbers. It is not going to get better anytime soon. You mentioned you,re in QLD, and it looks to me like possibly the Sunshine Coast, am I correct? SEQLD is is in the highest growth corridors of Australia, and you are going to continue to go backwards even faster there. If you and your partner are on duel income, then call a broker and buy a property anywhere, even if it is somewhere you don't ever want to live, just get in. I had to uproot my entire life and move to WA to get a foot in the door, and thankfully, was able to do so while it was in a major slump. Just happy to get off the rental treadmill, it's made me so much more appreciative for everything,
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The Sydney exodus began in the early 2000's when the Chinese began moving there in droves. I lived in Newcastle at the time, and when BHP closed its steel works, Sydney siders flooded in to Newcastle, doubling the house prices over a two year period. A Sydney sider bought my rental and pushed me out so they could commute from Newcastle to their Sydney job every day. I was trying to buy that house for around $150k, a reasonable price at the time, but the owner dragged the process out over a 12 month period to see if prices would keep climbing, then along came a Sydney dude who bought the house for $330k! The house was a total pos asbestos roofed dump with concrete cancer, but because it sold for so much, it never got the restoration work it desperately needed to this day. I know because every now and again it comes up for sale and I go for an inspection, and no work has ever been done to it, apart from paint jobs. At the time I was living there, even my real estate agent was trying to get the owner to replace the roof because it was badly cracked, and leaked like a sieve. The average house price in Sydney was already around half a million back then, so this guy saw the price he payed as a steal. Its probably valued at close to a million dollars now, and I used to rent it for $100 per week 20 years ago! Sydney is doomed, its just a matter of time until it really begins to collapse under the weight of its own greed.
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You need to buy a unit or block of land in a regional area , it's shit ,but they don't care ,until there's and uprising ,so lend of your parents, pair up with a partner or mate ,just do it , if you're unsuccessful go overseas by then you'll have enough saved , I know bitter pill ,but if you don't and you lack shares,super, investments ect ,the rich are going to gobble up everything, look at Britain and New Zealand it's even worse, just buy any sort of capital and then you can demonstrate and help to act on a macro level
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Well said Chris, I agree with you 100%. On the super front, I pay into my own super account at the end of every day. Say I make $180, I put $18 into a super account that I had from a previous job. I also have another little investment in precious metals, where purchases are a bit less planned and more sporadic. It's not that 'we don't get super', it's that 'we have the freedom to choose which super fund we want to open and pay into'. In the case of these international guys too who may be on student visas (and can only LEGALLY work 20 hours per week as per visa conditions - is this fella on one of those visas? Apparently he's an actor, here presumably to find acting jobs.......Remember too, he mentions working 60-80 hour weeks as a driver? Hmmm.....), it's probably better that they don't get (or pay into their own) super, as that money will be tied up until they're 65 years old. I've currently got about 2000 GBP in an account like this from when I was working in the UK. I don't mind, as it will be nice to get when I'm 65, but these guys from smaller, third world countries, who may need as much as possible now, super wouldn't be a great thing. I seriously wonder where they actually recruited these 'gig workers' that were talking in parliament from! One of them apparently joined the TWU, so they would've put him forward to speak. They certainly don't speak for all of us!
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The economic downturn in recent years was entirely our choice. The pandemic itself didn’t cause it—our reaction to the pandemic did. Lockdowns, business closures, and fear-mongering wrecked economies, destroyed jobs, and disrupted education. If we had treated it rationally, like a non-threat, there would’ve been zero economic damage, zero job loss, and zero disruptions. The virus wasn’t the problem. We were.
We’re importing the third world into Australia—half a million migrants a year, who “breed like rabbits,” all to paper over the economic damage caused by our own bad decisions. The government’s terrified of a recession, but here’s the truth: it’s going to happen anyway, so let’s just rip the Band-Aid off and deal with it. Instead, they’re flooding the country with migrants who are willing to live in un-Australian conditions—cramming into overcrowded houses, living in squalor, and raising kids stacked five to a room.
And it’s not just 500,000 migrants—it’s closer to 800,000 or even a million because they have far more kids than Australians do. They’re happy to pump out children while living on the bare minimum. You see them running rampant, letting their kids go uncontrolled through places like Costco, turning order into chaos. This isn’t sustainable, and it’s not solving anything—it’s just delaying the inevitable.
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Ever since Convicts arrived, the British and American elites controlled the Australian economy. All for the benefit of foreign corporations who have taken over from Land owners, Lords, and Oligarchs. Western Countries, except for a few, make successful countries appear to be failures or sub cultured such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Norway, UAE, even China. And yet Every one of the countries that USA loves to bitch about are a success for the benefit of the public. Media need money from advertisers and advertisers are corporations who hand over brown paper bags to politicians. Take back our resources, our services and keep the profits here and the best services we need for our people.
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Im 30 both my wife and daughter have disabilities which require round the clock care, my daughter only 6 has already had 5 surgeries! Oh how i wish i was joking my wife has epilepsy and Ms I have sacrificed everything my full time career to look after them,
Us carers in Australia get nothing, the Cost of living crushes us.
Australia is not the place it was 20 years ago my dad filled up the trolley to the top for $99 at franklin's now im spending over $300 per week for 4 mouths, i tried working even with my technician salary it made no difference i was spending half my income on groceries, other half on fuel,tolls,bills,dance lessons,dentist specialist Dr's appointments, even if your crazy you need at least $2.600 for a diagnosis
We can't acess free mental help in Australia,
If only Australia spent as much on mental health as it does on the war on drugs we wouldn't be in debt now! 😂 we would have free dental by now, the war on drugs was a designed to make the government's money
I am keen to start my own door dash dricinv business or pool company, I'm just afraid of the tax liability i love your video how you explain the tax system after living here for 24 years i still don't get it lol
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I feel like a had privilage moving to Sydney in 2002 there were cheap places to live in every suburb (East Balmain, Bondi, and Randwick) and I worked part time casual and socialised a lot and still saved money, I cannot believe people can live the same life style I had 20 odd years ago, I felt it was a right of passage for the average east coast kid to develop into an adult without the need to live with mom and dad till they are 30+, its really evil what the global banking cabal are up to these days if you zoom out and look at the bigger picture.
Alternativley I'd love to live in Taiwan (I already have for 3 years and I loved it) but wages are worse than Australia so I don't want to work there, aiming for digital nomand status and working on it , but also political tension and potential war with China is whats keeping me from doing a full commit, Im on a plane there in a week, I can still balance the idea, the Australiam dollar taking a recent hit due to American tarrifs on our best buddy China also has me a little hot under the collar.
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This is pretty simple. 1000 square kms of soalr panels along the Eyre highway in SA/WA. Built and owned by the government, wired to the whole Australian grid, charging cost plus a small percentage to households and small businesses and market rates to big corporations that dont bring an income into Australia (because big corporations are not the major employers, and whats the point of helping companies that send their revenues offshore). Export the rest of that energy.
The eyre highway electricity plants are already being planned - but in private hands, meaning they will cream off the profits from every business they supply, as energy is already doing. Transport of electricity to Singapore is already being built.
The problem is we are acting as if every other country plays fair in world markets and they just dont. Singapore creams off a lot of economic activity just by being a tax haven. We cant sanction Singapore because the retaliation would be too severe. So we should sanction every small tax jurisdiction so none of them can work with Australia or companies operating in Australia.
Manufacturing? Sorry, we're never going to compete with world manufacturing with our small population. Economies of scale just dont work right now. But all major mineral and oil exporters should be forced to bring processing onshore. That was done with companies like Argyle diamonds and, until the diamonds ran out, it worked. Population wise we need to be building more large cities, instead of overwhelming the infrastructure of existing cities. That means a lot of visas for new migrants need to be in regional areas. It will cost a lot to do that - and that should be accepted - but its the only way to do it long term.
Coal and uranium? forget it. These are dead industries. And for a reason. You put money into those industries and you might as well piss it against the wall, because global warming is a real thing and coal is going to be shut down. Uranium isnt viable. Never has been. You think nuclear powered countries arent in the same economic strife as Australians? Youd be wrong. Nuclear power is too expensive. Australia is the saudi arabia of renewable energy (including hydrogen for EVs - because "lithium" batteries are unsustainable) so we should get onto that asap.
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I used to deliver to sydney and most of the people working in the warehouses, where i delivered to were aussie, but slowly become immigrants and look like they were doing the right thing, they talked good english and wanted to know about australia, and i wanted to know about there country's too, but they were telling me that a lot of them were working full time and then with uber or something like that and still had school i don't know how, but i found out a lot of them owned 2 houses back in there country and they were going to retire at about 30 with australian money, also the gov is just looking out for australia as a country not the the people, as we found out during c19, the federal gov control the border and the state's control inside, it's all about gdp just like you said, but this will later become known as the silent depression and i believe we are in the information era or known as wake up era. keep up the good work.
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Conditions are unfavourable for manufacturing in Australia. The motor-manufacturing industry only existed because of huge tariffs and BILLIONS of dollars worth of subsidies. Australia's peak auto production was in the 70s with about 475,000 units produced yearly. A different story to Slovakia, population 10,000,000, i.e. less than half that of Australia, where they produce over 1,000,000 vehicles per year.
The basic cause lies far from manufacturing. Basically, it's this: everybody in any government wants to stay in government. Very few people in any government will say, I don't want to govern you, you can stick that job where the sun doesn't shine. Similarly, the biggest population group everywhere, controlling most votes in a democracy, the labouring classes, will always want most money for doing least work even if it ruins their society and bankrupts their country. In Australia, they're the tattooed, 4WD and SUV driving crowd. About them in a democracy, Robert Heinlein said, when the monkeys learn they can vote themselves bananas, they'll never climb another tree.
With an abundance of raw materials, Australia can afford to have, and they do, the highest minimum wage in the world topped up by many generous perks. The politicians can afford to dole out favours to the monkeys in return for votes. In Greece, without natural resources, the government had to borrow the country bankrupt to stay in power. And when they eventually couldn't borrow more and had to work more and party less, the monkeys protested in the streets.
Australia is a paradise for the lower-educated classes. They can live better here than anywhere else, and, thanks to raw materials and politicians wanting to keep their jobs, it will remain so as long as the raw materials last. It's just one consequence of democracy.
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Yep, everything you said is what I'm feeling every day. 10 years ago I was 'poor' just working a retail job with a bit of private teaching on the side, but nothing stressful, pretty reasonable hours. And life was fine. Paid the rent, went out to dinner, took holidays. Normal stuff. But home ownership was getting farther and farther away. So I started my own business, my wife started her own business, we worked long hours into the night, spending barely any time with our children just so that bank would give us a home loan. After years of saving we still needed a MASSIVE loan from my in-laws to get our foot in the door. So yes, we're not paying rent any more but we're struggling to pay the mortgage week to week. It's not even a big house. 3 bed, one bath. We've already outgrown it with 2 kids but we'll all be living together under this tiny roof until they're well into their 20's because apparently we're the lucky ones. Life used to be easier. Whatever we're doing now is what I imagine it feels like to slowly drown.
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If i get a teaching job in China, 40% of my wage goes into the cost of living, thats including food, utilities, etc.
I'll get health insurance through the school. Accommodation can be included as part of employment.
I have a house with a mortgage, but i could rent that out and get a huge income boost when you take into account the exchange rate.
I love the land we call australia, but if this keeps up, i might just up and move for a better future in China of all places!
Imo the problem is the overall system, and it needs to be dismantled. However, a revolution isn't the answer because, as its name sake says we will end up with more of the same. (This is why i think Animal Farm is a good highlight of what happens with a revolution).
A free market on governments seems to be the only sane solution left. It's not perfect, but nothing is. It is, however, a better choice than the socialist system we have in place now.
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Already gone hey! Part 2 Part 2.
Then after the market that was selling houses like hot cakes for way way over the asking price because the propaganda machine 📺 conditioned everyone to believe the ‘under supply’ narrative which corralled everyone into fear of missing out.
Barely a year later the tables were designed to flip and in came the drop in real estate moving so fast because everyone is now struggling to stay a float with the designed inflation & cost of basic living skyrocketing, houses lost value in certain unwanted areas, some who were forced into having to put their house on the market - having had their lives destroyed, are now told that they not selling too many of what you have, you need that extra room, or extra bathroom, or air conditioning etc etc if you want to sell fast your going to have to list at a drastically reduced price, if it sits on the market too long people will worry something is wrong with it and will just over look it and move on to the next house. Whatever your situation the market demands will be the opposite.
Millions are now sick or worse, have terminal illnesses or having the additional pressure of having to look after sick family members, their elderly, arrange funerals, dealing with deceased estates, momentous problems they’ve never had to deal with before, their energy/ health levels have been decimated from the shots, whether they realise it or not. In fear of what they’ve seen on social media, they will try come up with any other reason for their failing health than to admit it was the shots..
They need to work harder & longer hours, get a 2nd & 3rd job, trying to stay in the charade, living in constant fear of what disastrous circumstances others have found themselves in and doom & gloom stories people going through that have strategically been played on the propaganda machine - sinking in the belief their situation is imploding, just that one speeding fine or unavoidable additional expense is enough to topple the cart, that they’re only 3 steps away from a sinking ship, plunging them into bankruptcy, and homelessness.
They’ll try to get personal loans or refinance their mortgages, or car loans to extend out the length of their terms to temporarily alleviate some pressure, kicking the can down the road, believing for better times. If they get loans rejected, it goes against their credit rating, so applying with another financial institution in this financial climate will automatically be rejected and add a red flag 🚩 next to their name, so they’re now feeling desperation to find a solution to their crisis, if they can’t find another way out they’ll turn to high interest credit cards, and instant lines of credit, anything to be able to pay the latest council rates instalment - that have just doubled, or to fill the car with petrol to be able to get to work next week, buy groceries to put food on the table, pay for Johnnies sports/school fees & uniforms that have also gone up in price on last year’s price..
[People aren’t even aware that they’re working hard slaving & sacrificing their lives away to pay off properties they don’t even own the land to, their land titles have all been stolen by each state gov, incrementally one state by one state, starting in QLD 2018, behind
our backs they back-doored policies and made existing paperwork titles redundant, at this point in time people can download a digital copy of their title which EXPIRES in 30 days, all in preparation for when that digital copy will no longer be available.
Some property titles have been listed on the NY Stock exchange and Sold to OS investors. For further information on that subject see ex-QLD Senator Len Harris and ex-WA Senator Rod Cullton]
When pressure is mounting on people, they’re unable to sleep properly - sick with worry, loss of appetite, impacting their mental health, they’re tired at work, make mistakes that could cost them their job, start getting run down and sick from all the stress and the shots depleting their immune system, become too unwell to attend work - further impacting their financial woes.
All while trying to come up with survival tactics, and then the feelings of despair & defeat they’ve been programmed with from their supposed downtime in front of the propaganda control machine, some people hit the escape route and hit the bottle, drugs or turn to gambling in the hopes they will have a big win that will solve all their problems.
This is the system that we’ve all been conditioned into accepting is ‘life’, it’s all been by design to keep the little slaves (the useless eaters) working hard to support the FM secret society sponging criminals at the top that do nothing but live their lives of luxury on the backs of the people [slaves], but it’s going to get worse, a lot worse..
Food, Survival, War, Foreign Control, if enough of us don’t wake up and take our Country back and Jail the Criminals
Where it all started , what’s been done 👉🏽 youtu.be/eZRWmDodJMs?si=1xhcOZ_UWdeHKaiI
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Chris, don't know ya from a bar of soap but i'm getting the suspicion you're a pretty easy going guy who is hard to upset generally, you're practical and realistic and aren't afraid of hard work. If you're struggling, the country is probably way worse than you can imagine.
When the pandemic was on and they were giving out cash left and right, when I told my neighbours its going to F the economy they looked at me like I had two heads. The 2-3 jobs BS can get F'd honestly. If you're a single bloke with some dreams go for it, but its not sustainable at all, you want a family and a relationship with your kids, not a million side hustles.
Its tough out there everyone, stay safe, seek help if you need to, a lot of us are drowning, you aren't alone.
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I'm only able to survive in Sydney through sheer good fortune and timing. In my late twenties I went through a divorce. My boomer parents, still a few years from retiring, bought a 2 bedroom unit in the southern outskirts of Sydney for about $340K. Hatched a plan to have me rent it for, at the time, above market rate. 16 years later, they're now retired, unit is paid off and I'm probably the only person in Sydney who's ever received a rent reduction. I earn roughly the median wage (not the average wage - a poor indicator of what most people earn) but I'm only 5km from home. Feels a bit pathetic to be mid-forties and still living in a place that my parents own, but they're happy, I'm happy, and I'm doing a job that pays pretty crap but that I love.
I was initially saving for a deposit for my own unit. But I distinctly remember watching prices go bananas around 2012-2013 and realising that was that, I was done. After 16 years I've still only got enough for about a 10% deposit at current prices. But even if I had 20%, I couldn't afford to service the loan I'd need. Gives me the willies to think what might have been if we hadn't made the decisions that we made at the time.
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Your absolutely right with what you have said, but we are not the only country in the world with these issues, look at the USA things may change under Trump, time will tell , Canada and NZ have the similar issues, while the WEF and the UN have their noses in other countries governments business , things won't get any better, it's all about the green agenda and wealth distribution, look how much Australian tax payers money as been given away to other countries, such as the paris accord and millions to build football stadium's, money better spent in our own backyard, it all boils down to our government, the present government listens only to minorities not the majority, don't believe a change of government will change anything ,until the majority of Australians have more of a say in the day to day running of Australia, nothing will change , Australians at the next election should be asked do they want renewables, do they want nuclear or would they like the to see gas and coal power stations or maybe a mix of all of them.
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Both my parents still work to keep up with the cost of everything, where only 10 years ago just my old man worked,.had pleanty of spare money, going to outtings regularly, they had savings, now their savings have drained, between the both of them they make around just over 200k a year an even they are struggling to save an having to constantly dig into saving, if 200k a year is still a struggle how tf is anyone earning under that meant to get ahead in life unless there in some kind of postion where their able to save like moving back home or zin harsher conditions living out of their cars just to be able to afford to live, its like their intentionally doing it to people so they have no choice bar to sell their house or go bankrups an the banks take all their assest, mark it up 3x what theyll give them for it an sell it off to some forener with money or rent it out to some forener, they want money coming back into australia instead of going out so theyre selling off the housing to foreners, upping the prices so they cant afford to send money back over seas an locking them in so theyre making money off them from the housing industry with now more heads an people paying earning an paying more money towards the governemt, they dont care about our living situations, they couldnt care if a ehole familys jammed into one house hold, as long as its being paid an their making money,.if not theyll take your house an sease your assets, sell it off to someone else who will pay it, they dont care if a whole family becomes homeless, they care about if weather or not the people can afford to pay for the houses an landrates, if you cant, theyll just find an give it to someone else who can
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I've been wondering for a long time now, just why immigration has been ramped up all over the world. The rates of immigration have increased in many different countries, with no concern of who is being let into any country. Why would the powers that be be doing this? There must be a reason that this is being allowed to happen. I don't believe that it's related to voting, nor do I believe that it's related to living conditions overseas. Call me a nutter if you will, but I seriously wonder if they are distributing the human gene pool all over the Earth in preparation for something that may decimate Plant Earth and the human race. Something that if they told the people of the world, there'd be panic and riots all over, and society would collapse. Something like a "Pole Flip" or the "Apophis Asteroid". Distributing the human gene pool to keep the human species alive in the near future after a cataclysm that they're expecting. I seriously wonder if this whole immigration thing worldwide has a far more nefarious objective. Because when you look at it, it doesn't seem to be about race, religion, economics, or border. They're just letting people go anywhere. There's a reason that this is happening. This is being done on purpose.
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No offense man but what you said about 'the government allows this stuff' is the problem. 99.9% of all cost-of-living issues in Australia are because the government has its fingers in everything. I recently bought a 3 bedroom house with a pool, 10min walk from a gorgeous beach in a developing country for $120k AUD. The poor countries don't have housing problems, renters there don't even share with other tenants. Because their governments don't lock up land like ours does, they don't impose McMansion building codes or dictate who is allowed to build your house. If I want to build my own house, I can. If I want to do my own electrical work, I can. If I want to live in a dilapidated 15m2 shanty to save money, I can. Maybe I want to turn the front room of my house into a convenience store to help with the mortgage, I can. Australian's need to stop asking the government to solve their problems and instead, tell them to get out of the way. But unfortunately, too many people love the nanny state. Covid proved that, which is why I decided to leave and my life has never been better. By the way, you would be insane to buy a house in Australia and then get married. You're young and are yet to see your friends go through the carnage of divorce. Imagine going through what you're going through now for another 20 years and then a woman steals >50% with the government's help. I'm even planning on setting up a DIY superannuation fund to get that out of reach of the Australian government. They just borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars and took away all of your rights because of a disease that didn't even effect people your age, they won't hesitate for a second before they tax/take your super if the need arises.
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Stop living our lives worrying about the economy and debt ,,,can you do anything about it ,,,no ,,,,should you care ,,because they don't,,,live your life and don't give a shiny shite mate ,,,the people who run the show don't care neither should you !! Money is valueless ,,only your time and energy and skill has any real value .
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Its bread and circus for the punters!,,,,200 billion in bonds bailed out the big cats,,,,which our children will have to pay back,,,,we didnt even save granny!,,,,,we debased our fiat currency and people think its prices going up,,,
You cant make this shit up eh!,,, i cant do anything but WE CAN!
AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS PARTY look them up folks as they're shadow banned!
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As history repeats, we have doubled down on stupidity and denial
The Crisis in Democratic Morality
“In order to guarantee the triumph of their interests in big questions, the ruling classes are constrained to make concessions on secondary questions, naturally only so long as these concessions are reconciled in the bookkeeping. During the epoch of capitalistic upsurge especially in the last few decades before the World War these concessions, at least in relation to the top layers of the proletariat, were of a completely genuine nature. Industry at that time expanded almost uninterruptedly.
The prosperity of the civilized nations, partially, too, that of the toiling masses increased. Democracy appeared solid. Workers’ organizations grew. At the same time reformist tendencies deepened. The relations between the classes softened, at least outwardly. Thus certain elementary moral precepts in social relations were established along with the norms of democracy and the habits of class collaboration. The impression was created of an ever more free, more just, and more humane society. The rising line of progress seemed infinite to “common sense.”
Instead, however, war broke out with a train of convulsions, crises, catastrophes, epidemics, and bestiality. The economic life of mankind landed in an impasse. The class antagonisms became sharp and naked. The safety valves of democracy began to explode one after the other. The elementary moral precepts seemed even more fragile than the democratic institutions and reformist illusions. Mendacity, slander, bribery, venality, coercion, murder grew to unprecedented dimensions. To a stunned simpleton all these vexations seem a temporary result of war. Actually they are manifestations of imperialist decline. The decay of capitalism denotes the decay of contemporary society with its right and its morals.
The “synthesis” of imperialist turpitude is fascism directly begotten of the bankruptcy of bourgeois democracy before the problems of the imperialist epoch. Remnants of democracy continue still to exist only in the rich capitalist aristocracies: for each “democrat” in England, France, Holland, Belgium there is a certain number of colonial slaves; “60 Families” dominate the democracy of the United States, and so forth. Moreover, shoots of fascism grow rapidly in all democracies. Stalinism in its turn is the product of imperialist pressure upon a backward and isolated workers’ state, a symmetrical complement in its own genre to fascism.
While idealistic Philistines – anarchists of course occupy first place tirelessly unmask Marxist “amoralism” in their press, the American trusts, according to John L. Lewis (CIO) are spending not less than $80,000,000 a year on the practical struggle against revolutionary “demoralization”, that is, espionage, bribery of workers, frame-ups, and dark-alley murders. The categorical imperative sometimes chooses circuitous ways for its triumph
Let us note in justice that the most sincere and at the same time the most limited petty bourgeois moralists still live even today in the idealized memories of yesterday and hope for its return. They do not understand that morality is a function of the class struggle; that democratic morality corresponds to the epoch of liberal and progressive capitalism; that the sharpening of the class struggle in passing through its latest phase definitively and irrevocably destroyed this morality; that in its place came the morality of fascism on one side, on the other the morality of proletarian revolution.
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From “Their morals and ours 1936”
Leon Trotsky
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Governments produce nothing. They overspend and how they pay back some of their debts is by taxation, income tax, GST, sales tax, stamp duties etc.
Inflation is a deliberate policy by the central banks, it's a stealth tax designed to steal your wealth while they blame it on something else. The whole system central banks and governments are there to make your wealth away from you so you remain poor and are easy to control. Gold preserves your purchasing power. Assets to me are something you hold in your hand not in the system eg. gold, silver, art, rolex watches, fine wine, collectables..
If you study how money works you will see it's a giant Ponzi Scheme.
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Beer costs that much now, Does the Australian government want a riot from the Australian People? next, they will sell UNION also. You are following the US system, "Capitalism and Greed". Americans will never help others but screw others, Yes!!!! it is OK for Americans to screw others but once they are screwed, they will jump up and down and go to War. I do not hate American people but I hate their policies. How many wars do they win? None!!!! Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. Then they will ask the Australian for help. Australians never like trouble. they like to stay at the beaches on Saturday, drink Beer and have a barbecue. A supermarket, like Bi-Low, was a good supermarket last time. Cheap but now they are gone. Woolworths was a cheaper supermarket and slightly cheaper last time.
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This is probably the best, most measured video I've seen on the cost-of-living hell Australians are experiencing right now. Just as an example of how rigged the system is against Aussies, if you take a second job and you earn say $25,000 per annum for that job......and then you take another job earning the same......because you don't get an income tax free threshold for these other jobs, you are paying your marginal rate of tax on these jobs from dollar 1. In this example, this brings the total tax bill to $28,382. Tack on the medicare levy of $1500 and you're up around $30K in taxes. You are effectively working your third job just to pay the taxes. When you factor in increasing land rates, house rents, petrol prices, energy prices, and grocery prices, Australians are doing it tough, and working more doesn't seem to be the answer.
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It’s frustrating that the average working-class citizen is constantly forced to cut back to make ends meet—fewer movies, less dining out, reducing contents insurance—doing whatever it takes to stay afloat. Meanwhile, where are the sacrifices from our Federal and state governments, councils, and shires? They seem untouched, unwilling to examine their own operations, trim excess, or eliminate unnecessary spending.
Why aren’t they cutting back, eliminating inefficiencies, or foregoing the extravagant perks like lavish lunches funded by taxpayers and ratepayers? Instead, their focus seems to be on finding new ways to tax us even more.
For example, I recently read that the City of Casey in Victoria is considering requiring ratepayers to apply for a permit to work or service their own cars on their private property. Where does this relentless money grab end? It’s time for those in power to share the burden and make sacrifices just like the people they serve.
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For your information the Australian deficit went from 257.3 Billion in 2013 to 895.2 Billion or 71 Billion a year under the coalition, but only 5 Billion a year under the current government.
It's not he last 25 years, it was the 20 before, when we privatised everything, or the coalition did. We used to own all our utilities, airports, infrastructure, a state owned bank and mineral rights were paid at an all time high, and any money [profits] left over from R&D and expanding services [like dental and childcare] went into the budget not the pockets of the uber rich, many of them overseas.
And now company and the top tax rate is at an all time low, and people like Gina Rinehart find ways to dodge that. And by the way, the cost of living crisis is a result of the previous government policies over a decade. Also didn't help that big corporations from Coles, Woolies to the banks, with policies put in place by the coalition, not this government, capitalized on the pandemic to push prices into the stratosphere, look at the price of coco pops prior to the pandemic if you need a reference.
Yes times are tough, it takes quite a bit to turn around a ship losing 71 Billion a year, but we take the tough times so that our kids don't have it worse...
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I feel your pain.
It infuriates me that the Australian Government(s) have sold us out, gives away OUR resources for free, and has screwed manufacturing in this country. We should be the richest country in the world, with free schooling, hospitals, dental etc and our own affordable piece of dirt to call home.
Instead our idiot leaders sell us out to whatever company is in their back pocket, by lobbying for them. Then these politician scum have the hide to retire from politics once the lobby goes through, only to work for the company that they lobbied for. Then they get a fat pay check for their underhanded deal. Isn't that a form of insider trading? The average Australian would be taken to the cleaners for doing that! This sort of deception should be headline news for all to see...
Another thing that really ticks me off, and I'm sure you will agree, is the outrageous amounts of money we Australians pay these clowns. Worse still, when they retire, they get a large pension. Why? Shouldn't they have to live off their superannuation like the rest of us? Surely their retirement nest egg, and they are very good at feathering their own nests, is enough to live off very comfortably in retirement. If they can't, it just goes to show how poor they manage their own personal finances, which means Australia as a country hasn't got a hope.
Our diggers, which includes members of my family who have paid the ultimate price to defend this country, would be spinning in their graves and thinking "why did I bother?".
No more "Lucky Country". 😞
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Have you gone into the bank and asked for an unofficial figure on how much you can borrow?
It's a good starting point to manage your expectations on where you can buy and how much house to buy.
If you've put away 20-30k in your working life and if one of your four jobs pays a reasonable amount, you should be able use the 5% deposit scheme to get a place. If not, you wouldn't be far from it.
Providing you're willing to make compromises around the house location/type and manage your expenses appropriately, it's definitely achievable (not easy, but neither is finding a rental, paying someone else's mortgage and moving every few years).
Then, when you're in a house, consider a vegetable garden, fruit trees, chickens, solar with batteries and energy efficient appliances.
That's what I've been working on the past few years. I'm removing the third parties that cause the inflation.
The point is, if you haven't asked how much you can borrow or saved up (not saying you haven't), you have no starting point or anything to base your expectations on. All the other measures you can take are irrelevant until you do this.
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People are now just waking up. That's hilarious. This is stuff that people have been voicing for years. They've been discredited, put down, and laughed at as being "woke" or lefties. People who were making it ignored their calls. Now they find themselves in the situation many have been in for years and now they start being concerned. It's now happening to them. There's a couple of things. Some people were doing well. Riding that wave they thought would last forever. That has now reached the shore. They never put anything away for the time of famine. There are others who dreamt big dreams and find their lack of talent has shown their poor performance. They can't look at themselves and take personal responsibility for things. No, they blame someone else. Blame the government. There's people who wanted this, seeing only the short term gain. Now blames the government for their cra◇◇y decision, ashamed to admit they were wrong. There's some who are doing ok but can't afford to fill the tank on a gas guzzling ute they brought as a status symbol. They can't waste their money like they did and blame the government because they can't over spend to show off. Get a bicycle. No, those guys are weirdos. Before blaming anyone, first look at yourself. Be honest. What could you have done better? What can you do to improve things. Neo liberalism, which many benefited from, while many more suffered badly, says it's up to the individual. That's what many subscribed to and benefited from. Yeah, you take responsibility when succeed but, and this is the hard part for many who wanted this to accept, you also are responsible for your failures. Those woke people that were laughed at, you're in the situation they warned you about.
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Consecutive liberal governments have worked to down grade this since the 60s. They have purposely dumped down the education system, removed the public services that trained the apprentices. They now the private sector would never train apprentices. Howard inparticular only wanted Australians to be waiter's and coffee makers for the tourism. They hate the people of this country and make no bones about it. They gave away the banks and power that the taxpayers owned. Killing any chance of Australians having competition over private sector to keep things on some sort of equilibrium. The country now only operates on principles of greed for the few at the top and there puppets we call politicians. Even the ones that are supposed to look after the little people have court the bug. Unless someone comes along and establishs the public sector from banks to work shops, to retrain the youth of this country. To rebuild it again. And get rid of overseas business interests, from buying this country up and bleeding us dry. Return all minerals and mining rights back to the people, and start manufacturing again. We need to build our own army, navy and air force, and manufacture the ships, planes and equipment our self before its to late like every other time, when Australians have to needlessly die with antiquated equipment while our so called leaders play catch up. We should be rashening our resources at top dollar and looking after our own first, the rest of the world sees us as the dumbest country on the planet, and there right. Get rid of these professional politicians and give the people that have broken their backs and hearts building the country only to see it destroyed by gread. Please someone step up. I for one am sick of being bullied bye off shore business mostly controlled by religious group that just take and don't even recognise a juty of care towards the people unfortunate enough to be court in their nets of acquisition and government that cares so little that they automatically hand over all your details and documents to these monsters if you der make a complaint. Politicians are so weak they won't even talk to anyone without an avn number or a million dollars were just rubbish. Thanks for letting me get this off me chest. I never thought I'd come to hate this country
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Okay, I'll help you. First up, not all govt debt is bad. One trillion isn't a magic number, any debt must be relative to other things, like GDP. In this respect, Australia is doing better than most. Government debt is usually in the form of bonds, which individuals, corporations and other governments invest in. What that debt represents is the key. In banana republics, that money is wasted or stolen. In Australia, it's used to support infrastructure, among other things. Economists broadly agree as to what level of debt becomes difficult to service, and Australia is a long way from that. The cost of living crisis is a worldwide phenomena, the pandemic's effects still reverberate around the world.
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You are going backwards, because your share of the pie is getting smaller. I think four things are contributing to this. 1. The public service gets automatic pay rises and when I joined the workforce 35 years ago, being in government was poorly paid, not any more, currently I am a contractor and bank $12k a month after tax, working for government and I'm not even well paid by government standards, there are plenty of permanent employees that make more than me. 2. When I joined the workforce, I earnt 5x minimum wage in private enterprise (permanent) , that is now just 2.5x, so naturally companies cant pay as much to their high income earners. 3. Executive salaries - do I need to say more? 4. Immigration dilutes everyone's wage. I work in an industry that used to be very lucrative, now 5% of immigrants are driving wages down in my sector.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't matter what party is in power, they are all run and controlled by the globalists, and are instructed to make all countries in the world with debt that can never be serviced, the globalists plan is the new world order, which means,all countries around the world will be owned by the globalists families there are 12 of them possibly 13 , l can name them, but it's better you research and open your horizons. The detail is in the devil, there plans for the future include, smart cities, with 20 kilometer zones like enclosed cattle, supposedly because of the carbon footprint, (B.S) cashless society,and only the rich will be able to travel, doesn't that sound like worse than communism? Also we will not be able express our opinion, the penalty will be locking you out of your bank account.
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Hi there, I do agree with you, it's getting harder to get ahead now. Over 15 years ago, my husband and i both working our butts off and we did save up some money then, but now we are not getting anywhere, I thought its just us, getting older, there is no way I can do that many hours like 15 years ago and my pay now is like 2,5 times more. I do have 2 jobs, both part-time.
We just have to count our blessings and live frugally.
Thanks for sharing, good to know that it's not just us that finds it harder.
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I agree with most everything and I definitely do not want the flexibility we currently have to change at all. I also work in bookkeeping/business consultancy and I care for my Mum, so I just add in some courier work when I'm able to bulk up my income some. I love going out for an hour or so on the morning coffee run, or a quick lunch shift etc. Doing minimum hours or set shifts wouldn't work for me, as I imagine it wouldn't for a lot of us.
I would love some kind of hourly rate guarantee for example, even if it's just minimum wage per hour IF you dont make that with deliveries, and as long as acceptance rate is above 80% or something like that. Incentives for working more obviously would still remain, so you have plenty of opportunity to make significantly more.
Sick leave isn't really needed as we can access if needed via centelink under the new govt program.
I like the idea of optional work cover, something you can sign up for at a small cost, but as you said what would it cover? they can't control your "work enviroment" which is predominately your car, so could get messy there with OH&S.
I dunno, it's all a bit messy. like you said, the money has to come from somewhere, and let's be real the company isn't going to want to take a hit on profits so they'll pass it on somehow....
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I totally agree Chris. I'm working full-time and doing Menulog and DoorDash as a side-hustle with some freelance journalism thrown into the mix. The USA, UK, Canada, and New Zealand are all experiencing the same thing. These countries have a few things in common - firstly, they are all descendants of Israel, with biblical promises of prosperity for following The Law and national curses for disobeying. All our countries have disobeyed, especially over the last 30 years, and are now experiencing national curses. Secondly, we are cursed with really bad governments which have embraced communist Marxist policies over the last 20 years, and Globalisation which is the communist international by another name. Thirdly, implementing bad, crazy green policies has directly led to rapidly increased prices. Fourthly, capitalist free-market economies thrive on competition but our governments have allowed big business mergers and the hostile running out of business of small market players, leading to the concentration of market power, higher prices, and lower relative wages. Lastly, the pandemic was used as an excuse to raise prices much higher than cost increases. This is why my car insurance went up by 30% in 2023 and then another 30% in 2024. There is no exercising of power to restrain big business. Landlords were told to 'go for broke ' and massively increase rents in 2021 and 2022. Governments at all levels are holding up the release of land and development approvals deliberately to artificially increase land costs because they have a vested interest in collecting higher revenue. Bad governments need to be removed!!
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100% I agree with you on the Cryptocurrency catalysts...
Next year April , BTC halving.. Bullish.
Blackrock(& others) BTC ETF approval by Jan 2024..Bullish..
Interest rate cuts during 2024, Bullish..
Also, 2024 is a USA presidential election year, which historically is good for markets,, with spending boosts to pump markets to enhance chances for re-election🙌
On a more immediate note, this Friday(tommorow) is a quad witching for markets which tends to be a turning point in prices.
Dare I say, we see a pump in BTC prices starting Friday or early next week which as by coincidence coincides with the regular 6 month pre halving BTC pump🤔
I'm all in, & adding every week..
BTC, ETH, ADA, LINK, DOT, DOGE, SHIB, FTM, SOL, XRP, VRA, VET & the list goes on & on 😅
🙌
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I’m from a emigrant background and I was fooled by the Australian dream, I work 60 hours a week and struggle to get by, right now I’m on the verge of becoming a homeless, I guess it’s time to pack up and leave, just like over 200,000 Aussies leave Australia each year, of course our fake news media never report anything about it,it’s getting harder and harder to get by, the corrupt politicians/ governments destroyed our beautiful Australia bill by bill , my wife and I had it , it’s time to go where we can live in dignity, enough of this rat race.
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This is a broader global issue, not just contained to Australia. Keep in mind that the Albanese Government inherited a massive debt & 6%+ inflation from the Liberal Government when they took over. The Albanese Government has since reduced inflation to 2+%, they’ve had two surplus quarters with the budget, low unemployment & rates will soon drop. Dutton on the other hand, if elected, has a pathetic policy where he plans to spend $1.6 billion to provide businesses with tax paying dollars for “business entertainment” costs - this is beyond ridiculous & an embarrassment!! In addition, Albanese at least understands “international relations 101”, whereas Dutton’s bulldog approach would destroy international relations. Just for the record, I had always been a Liberal supporter, but after Morrison’s poor performance, they won’t be getting my vote, Dutton will be no different, he just isn’t PM material. He isn’t made for the role. Thanks for your video.
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Become a Producer Not a Consumer, Buy What you Need, Not What you Want, Buy Gold and Silver Bullion, Or Even 50c From 1966, Or Okd Silver Coins That Will Protect Your Buying Power, Dollars are Definitely, Stock Up On Food, Water Filters, Medical supplies, Watch Some Prepare Videos, Preserving Meat, Fruit, Vegetables, Amish Videos, Things Will Only Get Worse, Thank you.
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Minings keeping us afloat for now until it runs out, the governemts stupid beyond measure, eventually those resuourses are going to run out, what are we doing, sending them all off over seas for other countrys to benefit more an advance futher ahead than us, then when irs too lates an weve run out, we wont be able to benefit if it turns out this self efficient way doesnt pan out as expected which so far its really not going well, use the resourses now, build up the energy for the time being so we can then use that to be able to do the reasearch an studys into prgoress an discovering better natural alternatives an resources, dont use it as a forver thing, but something to get a head start so we can atleast cover any energy loss inbetween any malfunctions an power loss due to the weather or something going wrong, its beyond frustrating knowing they intentinally know what theyre doing, they know were suffering, but the stats on the paper looks good so ehos cares, as long as their image looks good to other countries on paper they couldnt care less about the people, its just a massive dick seinging competition about oh i made more money than you, just a bunch of smug soilt silverspoon fed politions an government authorities who never had to endure what its like to live tough, struggle an go through life hard, now weve got those smug rich kids from school who always though they were better than eveyone else because their dad owns a buisness an they were born into wealth, those same people are now running our country, people who never understood the true meaning of sturggle, so thats ehy its so easy for them to just work off of numbers an stats, they cant even comprehend how people could be in these situations without balming them an telling them they didnt try hard enough, when to get the education to even look into governemcy your gonna need alot of money to be able to get the schooling an education needed, so only people with wealth can afford to buy their way into running this country
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Many of us find ourselves trapped within a system inherited from the past, where our paths were predetermined by outdated traditions and power structures. Historically, kings, queens, and emperors ruled our world, treating ordinary people as mere peasants or slaves. These historical figures were no different from us except for their ruthless actions—conquering lands, committing atrocities, and exploiting the masses. For instance, Catherine the Great of Russia expanded her empire through military conquest while suppressing dissent and widening the gap between the nobility and the common people. Similarly, Emperor Hirohito of Japan oversaw imperial expansion and the harsh occupation of numerous territories during World War II, maintaining strict control over the population and resources. Beyond Europe and Asia, other nations experienced similar domination; the British Empire’s colonization of India involved extensive exploitation and cultural suppression, while Belgian rule in the Congo led to immense suffering and resource plundering. Despite their tyrannical reigns, society often venerates these rulers, celebrating their legacies without acknowledging the pain and injustice they inflicted.
In modern-day society, we have begun to reject these old rulings, gradually establishing governments that, while still influenced by some of these powerful families, strive to represent the people more fairly. However, fundamentally, we are no different from the rulers of the past; these leaders are merely descendants of those who committed atrocities, yet we continue to follow their rules. They seized land, displaced people, and built elitist class systems that persist to this day, yet many of us obey them out of fear or habit. Before these hierarchical structures, humans lived as hunters and gatherers without ownership of land; survival was based on necessity, not domination. We were thrust into a world where some are fortunate to be born into wealth, while others are not, making life seem like a game of chance. Approximately 99% of us adhere to societal rules, sometimes leading to dire consequences, as seen in totalitarian regimes like Stalin’s Soviet Union. However, history also shows that revolutions can overcome oppressive systems—such as the Russian Revolution, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy; the Chinese Revolution, which established a communist state; and more recently, movements like the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, where people united to demand political freedom and social justice. These uprisings demonstrate that when people unite and fight back, actual change is possible, breaking free from the chains of a system built on exploitation and fear.
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Something is definitely "wrong", but it's not something that has sprung up out of nowhere, it's something that was inevitable given the trajectory of the world, the countries, the governments, and all of the other organisations that have a great influence.
I think one of the big things that has happened is that the poverty of the "third world" has been kind of evened-out, or brought into the countries that were doing well.
Countries used to be more independent, both culturally as well as economically, and now more and more we live in a world that is complex with moving parts moving interlocking.
The people in government, if you just look at them for 5 seconds, you can see that they are not capable of leading, or do not understand the world, or any of that. To be fair very few people could be excellent leaders, and most of the time the people who would be capable are not elected.
To make things simpler, you made the point of 90% of people not being able to afford the medium house price, well that is because you have very overseas investors/groups who are buying everything up, so it's really a matter of greed.
The people of the world are responsible because they've let all of this happen, have let themselves be distracted and have bought into a bunch of fear and games. People are like a young band getting signed to a label, they sign everything for very little because they don't know better or are too "desperate".
Practically speaking though I'd say the best thing people can do is spend their money wisely. Perhaps invest in some good cookware and learn to cook very well so you can make grocery shopping yield more. If you smoke a lot or drink a lot, maybe this is a good excuse to cut down significantly. That is an example of "removing" something, rather than adding (i.e adding new jobs), so you're simplifying rather than working more to maintain what you already have going on.
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OK so I don't want a Crummy door!, but you are right that expensive energy in Australia is absurd & ridiculous !, Governments have sold us down the river to support their political donor mates in the fossil fuel & minerals mining industries!, the fact that we are paying world market prices for our own gas!!!!, is insane!, and even more insane is having to build gas terminals, so that we can import gas because we don't have enough!, work that one out?, because our governments sold off all the rights to the big corporations, & never quarantined gas for our own use !!!, how pathetic & corrupt can you get!?, and with electricity in general , what did you expect when the government (mostly LNP) sells of the power stations to private entities, spinning the lie that it will lower prices!!! what a load of crap!!!, of coarse it was gonna mean higher power prices !!! hello !!!!!!, YES!!! of coarse we should be an energy super power !!! , but not just with fossil fuels or Nuclear which is insane anyway! , it's a Nuclear con job the rubbish that the LNP are selling!, but with renewables , we have sooooo much sun & wind & tidal power, we could be exporting electricity directly and or Hydrogen!!!, and yes they are working on it and it is happening, but way too slow!!!, some countries have already gone 100% renewable already & that's without the benefit of our near perfect place for it!!!, at the very least we should be producing green steel & Aluminum & exporting steel & Aluminum products to the rest of the world!!!, we are crazy for not doing this!, the LNP stuffed around for ten years & stuffed our energy situation up completely!, & Labor is too weak & scared of the mining industry to get serious about fixing it!!, plus at this point it's like trying to UN scramble an egg!!!, so the only way to fix it, is with mass roll out of Renewables & storage, snowy 2.0 can't come soon enough !!!!!, forget Nuclear , it's too slow to build, too expensive too build, too slow to respond to power demands , too dangerous, nobody wants it in their back yard!, what do you do with the waste ?, too expensive too maintain !!!!, a security risk!, etc etc etc etc, if you want higher electricity prices?, your best bet is to go nuclear!!!.
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I think that every person who complains about the high cost of living in AU should make an announcement at the start of their complaint about their position on these two issues:
* Where do you personally stand on the mass migration (of both immigrants and refugees) into Australia? Are you pro or anti?
* Where do you personally stand on net zero and the Paris Accord. Are you pro-net zero / a big climate change action supporter?
Because these two issues are directly causing costs to spiral out of control. So if YOU support climate-change-action, and if you support migration, YOU are causing the price increases, and therefore have no right to complain about the problems YOUR voting preferences are causing.
The only way out of this mess is CHEAP power (coal fired) and CHEAP fuel (petrol, LPG and diesel). Australia sits on nearly unlimited resources of excellent coal, oil, uranium and natural gas. If Australia builds coal fired power stations (or even better, nuclear), and remove excess climate-change taxes associated with power and fuel, soon enough you will have cheap prices again. Because expensive energy and fuel affects every product price.
And housing prices are out of control because the Govt YOU voted for (be that LNP or Labor) is addicted to bringing in millions of people into Australia to stave off recession.
If YOU want to complain, YOU have to vote for the political party that promises to halt mass migration completely and to start re-migration. YOU have to vote for the party that will throw the Paris accord on the trash heap and embrace fossil fuels. If you won't do that, then stop complaining because YOU are causing the problem.
The only people in Australia who have the right to complain are One Nation voters. To everybody else - YOU caused this mess by voting for the Uniparty globalist a-holes known as Labor and LNP.
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so much worst than that... all the minerals once mined and sent are gone.
The farming groups and tech that prohibits using your own wilderness.
bigger question is how many people do you envy there lives? if no one.. its not that you should but it shows that theres a little of an issue (to not even be able to say wow i'd like to do that.. even if its just for a little bit) my only conclusion is that restrictions are OBScENE,,,, Y no body in cities or town with an orchard (at least to make there own cider and invite a few people once in the year) why no vending machines infront of peoples places to sell dumb stuff.. nitted socks..
why no interesting weird things, why only franchises, why kangaroo meat sold more expensive than any other meat available.
What is up with all the bullshit aprentiship? An apprentaship should be 7 years of free labour with almost no power tool, chippy- cut eucalyptus and work it, bricky work with lime and normal and firebrick mortor.. don't wreck it it needs to stay up so you can go back there and see what it looks like in 50 years.. (They will know and remember exactly what they did in a spot if they made a mistake there)
even prothesist dentists are a JOKE, they should be making ALLL the fake tool inhouse in there work shop, and be able to do a tooth for less than 150 dollar (excluding material cost - which all these shit polymers drop out after 7ish years so gold should be done more often- my opinion) (should be an apprentiship also)
why are peoples rates going up, forcing them out? why is there all battery homes and franchises, and why can't rural towns build what ever and grow what ever and sell what ever they goddamn want!! What bloody permissions do they need, when already its such romote place with almost no passage and no Entertainment.
What is going on Why are we building with cheap shit- what about intrinsic value- you got a shed with 10ton beams (that Is recyclyble-) large stone walls also. Why don't we have houses built with excavated rocks (so that they can also have a cellar..
Why are the parents raising there kids to go to the abattoir.. study? carrier? what about a space that is free and without stress that they can work and do something that somebody else might want to buy or any thing that interest them... Ownership Outright.
business activity Outright, Grow or raise what ever you want OUtright… build cool stuff, you want dodecahedron on sticks as a home in the city (as to have a garden under your house... well if you can afford to build it.. DO IT.
Its allllllllllllll Just crap that we have gotten our selves into- that only brings people into fight for the same limited shit..
Since when can cops give insane fines for things that haven't caused ANY INCIDENT.. and unpaid they block your access to tax office or they remove you licence... OH since we are need deep in gov helicopter money- they make it rain in madness and than they send all the fees and fines of Hell.
(what is it to anybody if somebody does or does not wear a seat belt? what premimium are we paying in a new car to have shit beeping sensors??????
Why are we being sold crap, and why is Every body so dead inside? I have a Life CAN I USE IT, WITH out being threatened and blackmailed with potensial breaking of unfair laws and regulations.
(so no I do not thing without these costs people could get free dental or childcare... but I do think they could have better family relations as they would have more free time to be with there family and build an envirment for themselves.. and dental could be much cheaper... But on that statement.... why do doctors rent operating rooms? why are they limited, why do they have no idea on what to proscribe and have to look into there computers the whole time, why are no drugs made in Australia ???? nothing local no feedback....
What is our sharemarket held up by.. mini software? insurance's? what's it hold up with.. whats its future?
why are old cars being obsoleted.. they were so much better looking
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Australia is now so corrupt that it should be avoided by all prospective immigrants at any price. The housing and rental market is now insane. Australians as a result of Government Policies of the last 30 years have now become extremely selfish, greedy, materialistic and lack all empathy towards their young people, children and grandchildren. Australia is a society in love with mammon to an extreme degree, and, moreover, Australians have become a shallow, superficial and money crazed society where there is no trace left of community. Most Australians don't even know who their next-door neighbor is, and what is more, could not care less! No wonder young professionals with degrees or trades are hitting the exits! If I was in my 30's, I would get out of this hell hole right now!!
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This is all set out in Henry George's "Progress and Poverty" (1871). It's a feature, not a bug. Economic progress paradoxically leads to continued poverty and inequality. The root cause of this inequality is the private ownership of land, which he believes allows landowners to extract unearned income (or "rent") from those who do not own land but must pay for its use in order to live and work. The value of land is increased by its utility, which is created and supported by the community and government infrastructure, yet we give it away, tax free (for primary residences) to someone who was there first (or who stole it) and is busy monopolising it. Until this unearned element is returned to the community, in the form of tax, it will be forever thus.
But fear not, such as land value tax should be accompanied by massive reductions in income tax and significant increases in rents derived from resource extraction (e.g. gas, coal, minerals).
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The Reserve Bank does not seem to be concerned about the degree of national debt ... and the major banks aren't concerned, the officials in the Federal and State Treasuries dont seem concerned, exporters and importers are not expressing concerns, Defence spending is increasing, foreigners are still investing in Australia, foreign buyers are still buying properites here on the basis of Australia's economic and social stability, heads of major coroprations are not expressing concerns about the national debt, academics are not expressing concerns about the national debt, stock brokers are not expressing concerns about the national debt, farmers organisations are not expressing concerns about the national debt etc etc
So, what's going on?
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So you buy a house with a back yard ,build a three bedroom SHED in backyard ,rent house out ,and turn double garage into rental ,OR VOTE FOR THE GREENS WHO'LL MAYBE STOP 8MMIGRATION AND FORIEGN STUDENT AND NEGATIVE GEARING ,AND 387 BULLION ON NUCLEAR SUBS WE DON'T NEED ,,,,,,,,,,AND ALL MORTAGES FIXED RATE ,,,,,,,,,NOT VARIABLE ,,,,,,,,AND WALL GARDEN GROW YOUR OWN FOOD,,,,SIMPLE VOTE GREEN
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My non-attorney opinion: DoorDash is setting itself up for a major class action lawsuit for breach of contract. It’s my opinion based upon information and belief (opinion) that DoorDash may be encountering cash flow issues. DoorDash recently terminated 2,500 CORPORATE employees last year due to high expense of paying salaries and they cited too rapid of an expansion during the C0VlD era, hiring too many full time employees with expansive compensation packages, and although DoorDash has expanded in that time, it wasn’t enough to overcome the net loss of salaries / benefits to these employees. Employee salaries are always going to be any company’s greatest expense. While DoorDash drivers are not employees, they too are compensated at least $2.00 - $3.75 U.S.D. (Or equivalent in other countries) by DoorDash, and this too is an expense, but an expense that also INCREASES as drivers refuse to take low-paying offers. As such, the initial low-pay offer may increase to $5.00 - $10.00 USD… the easiest way for DoorDash to mitigate this wave of “No Tip / No Trip” offers that rise up and amount to a massive expense to DoorDash, is to allow for bogus Contract Violations to occur. DoorDash drivers are made aware that while DoorDash will “look into” all disputes, we also believe there is no intention for them to do so, as it is my opinion that DoorDash wants to flood the driver pool with Contract Violations so that drivers try to “flush out” each contract violation by completing 100+ additional deliveries. If a DoorDash driver is productive and does high-volume deliveries this likely won’t be a big deal, as they will flush out within a month or less. Low-volume drivers may have issues trying to flush the violations out quick enough. Either way, if this is being maliciously done by DoorDash, you can bet it is a fraudulent act and one that needs to reach a contract attorney sooner rather than later.
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Brother walking on some nice board walk in the mangroves provided by said govt. upset with the country his in. It's clean, and safe, we have great services, roads etc.... If you hit rock bottom Centrelink and homeless support programs provide you with showers, cheap food, free laundry services, internet, phones, healthcare support, free sleeping bags, accommodation well that takes time but still you know it could be worse... Lets say your mum gets sick and you need to look after her the govt give her 1grand a fortnight disability pension and you get 1grand a fortnight as a carer. That is 50k p/year. Public health care. Hospice comes in and provides amazing medical assistance with people who are full of empathy and provide exceptional care. Your rent and food might be expensive and sure i am not happy about it either but you need to adapt, figure it out and tell me if you ever hit rock bottom would you want it to be in Australia or some other country??? This is just another Aussie citizen providing another perspective to which you may not see or have overlooked. I don't even know why i am posting this to be honest maybe its my want for you to look within to find peace instead of raging about the problems we all facing. I ain't into politics, i dont vote i dont know this side of things so maybe you got a point maybe your just passionate and have a valid point but still i am 40 and manage to get by and i am currently in the worst of times... Maybe your lacking solutions, maybe your speech is going to fire up someone else to focus on the outside when peace comes from within i dont know why i post this i never post anything ever maybe i am just bored in anycase here it is ya kent.
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Na not really, well not as hysterical as other people ive seen talking about it. (not talking about you). I guess it depends on what you earn, and what you are spending your money on. There is a ton of people out there complaining about struggling while still managing to put food on the table, pay a mortgage, and still manage to afford other entertainment. All while they drive the largest FWD possible and complain about fuel prices. Funny how 90% of them also seem to stay perfectly clean, like they have never gone off road. 🤣 Sure its hard these days, but it could be a lot worse. Its not just an Australia thing either, the whole world is suffering after the impact on the economy from the pandemic. We also have a war in Europe against the Russians who impact the cost of fuel a lot, and all round stability in the world economy. Guess thats what happens when you have imperialist nations like Russia try to invade other nations for territory.
According to your stats im just above the poverty line. On a military pension, paying a mortgage with 2 kids and wife. I live central coast Sydney, its not exactly cheap here, but its not like living in Sydney. I think the biggest issue is both sides of government refusing to fix the housing issue in Australia, for obvious reasons. Because most of them own a ton of property. The sooner they introduce high speed rail along the east coast the better.
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This is why I don't feel bad being on the pension cough*ponzi scheme*cough at 30. I mean I am diagnosed ASD, OCD and ADHD but it's not like I CAN'T work, it's that the pay is often less than the doll after expensive. I'm lucky enough to have a rich aunt who owns the apartment I'm living in and gives me cheap rent (though she did mention selling after needing to replace a hotwater servicewhich required a crane. Australia's been fucked bigtime our exported natural resourses are sold for pennies on the doller, not to mention who we're selling them too, it reminds me of when Australia sold steel to Imperial Japan pre WW2. Dad's in his 60's, got an apprentineship with Holden striaght out of hs, met mum who worked in a bank branch as a teller. Dad wored his ass off doing callouts in a wool processing factoryand made bank wagewise, bought a house in a nice area in the late 90's. Meanwhile a lot of the production staff bought up new deveolpments in Elezabeth when Salisabury was gonna rival Adelaide (lol), but they are atleast doing aright to well off... unless they got devorce r*ped (I saw a few of them still working there when dad got me a job. Mind you over 70% of the production was moved to China in the mid 2000's. Atm I don;t have time for a job even if I wanted one with all the NDIS obligations, don't get me wrong, I have a great team helping me get healthy again wholeistically.... As much as I love my dad part of me resents him for not putting $1000 into BTC in 2012 when it was .50c a coin or something ridiculous, I begged and begged, mum would have but dad was to risk advese... He even past up stock options at his job after the layoffs at the wool factory which would have made him a multimillionare (he probably already is in assets and super etc but you get my point.
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As academic writer and speaker Michael Parenti said decades ago, the goal of the ruling class is to get the world back to 1850.
We're well on track.
The goal is the complete destruction of the middle class through various complex mechanisms such as deliberate inflation, wage stagnation, dollar devaluation, demoralising propaganda etc.
In a nutshell, yes something is very wrong, but only from the public's perspective. From the ruling class perspective, everything is right and going according to plan.
You're not getting ahead despite working 3 jobs because you're not meant to get ahead. You're meant to remain a landless little pleb who works his whole life to produce for and to serve the leisure class.
Historically, most people worked from dawn till dusk 7 days a week and only stopped when they either dropped dead from exhaustion or became too old and weak to work.
Home and landownership is the exception, not the rule, for most people in most countries. Renting for life has long been the norm in Europe for example. Only really wealthy people own property there. Australia is simply in the process of regressing to the same level of income inequality that has existed in most countries forever.
The middle class is a western phenomenon. Most countries have only two main classes, a tiny percentage of wealthy elites who own and control everything of importance, and a great mass of impoverished workers whose daily existence is a constant struggle for survival.
There is no such thing as the weekend in most countries. Most people work every day for very little money.
If you live in Australia and you're not clearing at least 100k + a year working less than 50 hours a week, forget it. It's over. You will never have the comfortable middle class life Aussies had in the 80s & 90s.
Your only option for that lifestyle is to get the hell out as soon as you can. Work remotely/cash out and move to somewhere like South East Asia where the cost of living is way cheaper.
Working 40 hours a week on $25 an hour is poverty wages in Australia but you can live very well in a place like Thailand on that kind of money.
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No hope, gave up long time ago, just work, survive long enough to keep working, to keep surviving to keep working ♾️ single, lwp, do nothing, go nowhere, almost "lying flat" 😏 40 years left to wait, hopefully covid , a buss or bird flue get me and shortens the wait.
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I feel you Chris, my wife and I are in a modest Townhouse, we are working our guts out, and we are quite a bit older than you, 2 full-time incomes and it's becoming a real challenge to just keep up with the bills.
We very rearly have holidays, we have no credit cards, or loans other than our mortgage.
Everything keeps going up, car insurance, food, rent, doctor visits, passports etc
Sometimes I wake up in the morning for work and ask myself, what the hell am I doing, life shouldn't be this hard, and I wonder if it's all really worth it ?
I won't be voting for the current government, because things have got much harder under them, thier policies are not lifestyle Friendly.
At least under the Liberals we had discretionary $$ in our back pocket, not any more.
Things will get much worse if Labour/ Greens get another term.
In New Zealand it only took 2 terms for Labour to completely destroy our economy, now the country is in recession, it's in real trouble, the government spent up big, and exactly the same is happening in Australia.
My Aussie brothers and sisters be warned ⚠️
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Here is what I did
I started with Raiz, you can Dollar Cost average in Automatically, but the feature I like the most is the round up feature, when I spend, lets say, $1.55, it will take the 0.45 and invest it, like having a savings Jar but puts your money into stocks.
I also did some Crypto mining back in the day, it was only luck I made a few grand on that, although successful, was stupidly risky, and would have made more just buying the coins. Wouldn't touch Crypto anymore regardless
And I use Hello Stake for US stocks, you can buy Aus shares as well, but with our regulations, you need to put $500+ Fees as a minimum buy in, and I like being able to throw $50 in every now and then, made money on Disney, got out on the peak (Horrible company IMO ) indexes for dollar cost averaging, and for play money, stocks like JEPI or Realty Income Corp are some of my favourites.
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If people in Australia only knew their original peoples History , who they are and where they came from , and how Bible prophecy identifies who the pre WW2 people of Australia are and what's in store for us , they should be Terrified . The peoples of the 5 eyes countries , that is America , Great Britain , Canada , Australia , and New Zealand , are going to go into Captivity ( Slavery ) at the hands of our enemies ( Bible Prophecy ) We are already in financial slavery ( Debt ) but next is coming actual physical Slavery . ( Captivity ) Just as Ancient Israel went into captivity at the hands of the Ancient Assyrians , They sold off the houses of their captives and replaced them with other people , and the same thing is happening now . And it's because of our sins , we have turned our backs on the creator God , so he has forgotten us and has left us to our own devises .
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If u work the numbers backwards, take all the property, now double the price, now look at the massive equity that will be unleashed, the market party roars. The Government of course knows how to do this, create demand, simple, bring in an overload of new people, sell property to rich overseas investors, etc. No probs the Govt is drowning in wealth, aussies don't matter, all u can do is vote for the other side, who doesn't give a shit either, there will be a massive market crash, and the rich get richer
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Yep, to answer your first question we have been sold. It's all by design.
In regards to cost of living. Well, IMO we are now paying for a plandemic. Masks, QR codes, lost businesses, lock downs, job mandates, suicide, funerals, lost productivity, policy changes, policy writing, health facilities, insurance increases, power bills, water cost. The money has to come from somewhere. Also, police have increased fines. Fines for absolutely everything. We are fined into oblivion, under the banner of safety. The population is being punished. Punished for wanting freedom and a hedonistic lifestyle.
Money does not disappear, it just changes hands. It's a major rip off !!!!
I disagree with you saying 'the Government has let it happen '. Us the people have let it happen because Australia is full of sheep and we have been asleep at the wheel. This has caused the Government over-reach.
Just a small example: the council now check our bins. YES, our bins!!! But, we are all ok with that, because the Government knows we are a passive compliant society.
Welcome to communism
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The biggest thing here i noticed was using a better bag, i have one with a extra thermal layer (hardened layer but soft would be fine, i think its called a "Himel" brand bag) and far more room, advertised as a bike bag, and then probably more importantly is just conduct at drop-off or after if called. The Doordash bags suck, you can get people way hotter food with far better bags, and if you actually know and remember details about the food and the address people notice even more. I still use my D-bag but only as backup for shorter trip on a stack which leads to next thing.
I know you said it ironically but when i saw the massive bump in base pay on stacks i WAS jealous, 29$ for 13KM (8ish miles?) stack? I wish. I mean i've had orders like that but its rare, figure you've heard about America's stack policy on DD where you get payed 1/2 as much because of some lawyer/TOS bullcrap logic, aka they cut it to literally 1$ per pick up when its already a painfully low 2$ normally. This would annoy me less but regionally i wait 5-10 minutes normally for any pickup, they call us all super early, especially noticeable if you work the other delivery apps. I can easily waste half my hour just waiting for food averaging 2-4 deliveries per hour. Logistically GrubHub has to be the best around me, food is always ready 1-2 minutes before or after i am due to arrive with rare exceptions, Doordash meanwhile prefers we sit around 10 minutes each time, Uber is mixed.
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Welcome to reality 2025. then comes "You will own nothing and be happy by 2030"....WEF.
The truth is becoming apparent to those who would not listen years ago to the warning of high inflation coming.
The blame is mostly as usual culprits, the governments...the fraud of 2020 ushered in mass borrowing.
Those who wisely bought gold in enough quantities, are sitting pretty...just like every other country around this earth who have seen very high inflation.
It's not too late to buy precious metals at all to hedge your assets for the coming collapse, by design.
Australia is now an immigration magnet for low skilled or no skilled Indian and Chinese mass numbers, very few Europeans would come here now...there is nothing enough to attract them anymore, South East Asia is where the money is flowing, an awful lot of older Australians and Western folks are leaving their countries, the truth cannot be told here on YT, otherwise the comment is removed and now in the UK under that Stamner fool, you can be jailed for telling the truth...the best days are gone for sure in Australia, don't get depressed or angry, get even...buy PM's.
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Top on routine is shower, comb, brush teeth, dress properly for the weather and restaurant appearances, and an extra large iced Tea in my Corkcicle steel container. Gasoline, 2nd amendment, auto-blade, phone juiced up, physical maps in the car, spare tire pumped up, jack, baseball bat, extra cigs and two lighters, bright flashlight, spare socks and shoes for when it storms. Full-on first aid kit etc
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before you vote this year, we must ask....
how much will we give our government this year...
how much did we give our government last year...
how much tax was stollen from us to offshore accounts.
how much of our resources were sold for profit, while we face an energy crisis,
why after 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars spent on renewables,
are we facing the highest prices and constant blackouts...
why should a bank profit on interest rate rises...
why are we paying for an opposition party, when they cannot hold the government
to account for budget blowout, excess death, dangerous roads, trains that don't
fit tunnels or even stop a single bill....
how much more money has been allocated to hospitals, with a 300,000 annual
influx of immigrants...
as we get to net zero, will we begin to phase out mining/selling coal and gas..
do government employees have a stake in not for profit organisations...
how much was spent on investigations, inquiries, commissions
why not ask before we put them back in power
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You're certainly not the only one. I own a small business in Victoria, and am the lowest paid person in the company. Some weeks, I don't even get paid.
I too am working a side hustle. I drive for Uber and DiDi, however once you take into consideration all your costs, even with the optimal vehicle, one traffic fine will wipe out a month's profit from driving 4 hours per day, 5 days a week, and 10 hours a day on weekends.
This year, many families, including my own, have had to rationalize Christmas Presents, not because we don't love our kids, but because we'd like to be able to afford to eat over the "festive" season, with the supermarkets already in "Full Price Gouge" mode.
Lets make no mistake, this is the government's fault. Our tax dollars have all been wasted on failed projects that have actually harmed our economy, like the "Renewables Revolution" which made power more expensive, and if you live in Victoria the "Big Build" has gone way over budget because of union cronyism, where you hear about "Stop / Slow" sign holders being paid more than doctors.
On the other end of the spectrum, I know at least 4 people who are currently receiving more than my highest paid employee in total benefits from their DSP / NDIS payments, for "disabilities" that I don't consider debilitating, nor would they stop someone from holding down a job (certainly doesn't stop them from socializing). It's just become way too easy to scam that system, and because so many are doing it, winding it back looks almost impossible.
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Hey man, you're absolutely right, it's becoming insane to make ends meet in Australia. What I have realized is, I had to get my disposable income working for me better. So I started to invest in Crypto (not much, just whatever I could afford), but it is working for me. Yes, it is a risk asset, but when I hear, honest, hard working people like yourself struggling, it really brings home the point for me.
I understand everyone's situation is different, and people maybe skeptical of the Crypto suggestion. The main point or friendly suggestion, is try and get your money working for you and not the bank 🙂
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Hey Chris. I absolutely hear you mate. It's alarming to say the least. One of the biggest problems for us which is, incidentally, a great benefit for our politicians to exploit, is our, the peoples' apathetic and ambivalent attitude towards politics and therefore the management of our nation. Our "Fat, dumb and lazy attitude" has to stop if we want to effect real change. The majority of us need to get off our arses and do something collectively and on a national scale. We need a reset. We need to question is the "Westminster System" the best we can do? Is our "2 party prefered" right for us going forward? Back room dealings, broken promises - lies and watered down demands from minor players. Is this THE system for the 21st century and beyond? I have for some time imagined that what we might need to stop the rot perpetually perpetrated by our Politicians on all sides, is a silent vote of NO CONFIDENCE in any candidate. Simply put, Australians don't turn out to vote at the next Federal Election en mass, nor take up any other form of voting; postal and the likes. In addition we could all ignore media or independant polling surveys as well as return all election propaganda to your local member of parliament and their opposition as a sign of dissatisfaction in their lies. We could actively but peacefully, protest at each and every campaign outing or meeting for each and every representative, and make them squirm by putting the hard questions to the hard topics and record the unfiltered answers to be posted to all social media platforms. These are just a few ideas I have. I'm sure others have more to add. One thing is for sure and as you so rightly pointed out, some of us (and I hope that is a majority), are largely fed up with the perpetual miss management of this country. Something needs to change, lest we turn into a 3rd world nation for the majority.
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Thanks for the video. There are a couple of issues I would like to mention. One is that the politicians are only as good as the people they lead. We have some decent politicians just like we have some decent citizens but we also have some downright horrid politicians, equally reflective of our citizenry. The 2016 and 2019 elections are a clear example of corporate driven, self interested politicians driving bad policy and using propaganda to lie to vulnerable and impressionable citizens. I.e. in these elections, we could have addressed at least part of the housing tax law crisis, which has continued to inflate house prices in favour of the wealthy, to the disadvantage of the middle and lower economic stratas, this is creating an increasingly large renting class being milked for every cent they can afford by the landlord class. In addition to this, we have a political culture where it is common that large mining giants buy out politicians, allowing them to pay no tax, in exchange for one politician receiving a cushy executive job once they leave office. It is the worst form of corruption because it happens right in our faces. Woolworths and Coles are the next issue, their duopoly means they collaborate to price gauge the population because if they can get away with it, they will try. Aldi is the only honest player genuinely keeping prices down. The only thing Australians can do is vote for politicians who do not represent the two major parties. That is the only thing. A riot will not fix anything. The trouble is humans in general are very susceptible to simple, political propaganda. We saw it this year with Trump, we saw it in the UK with Brexit. Australia has to show that it has common sense and brains in the next election.
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Since doing diordash, I order food, and pick it up myself, sometimes I feel I'm the only honourable person doing deliveries, even tho it feels like all the orders I'm given to deliver are orders which have previously been unassigned. Sometimes feel like they have an elite team going round doing everything but leaving the crumbs for us, ie, houses with big curbs, dodgy signal, complaining customers, shops with fresh produce where everything needs weighing, the amount of times my customers say they waited 2 hours plus and had multiple drivers assigned to their order is unbelievable. Keep doing what your doing I found some of your videos very helpful. 😊
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We are heading backwards to pre-federation Straya (Colonies) time, where if you lived past 50 and survived, unless you owned a house or were wealthy, you spent your old age in a tent or slum or homeless (the gilded age).
It didn't and doesn't need to be this way BUT we have gutless politicians afraid to bite the bullet with policies to actually fix the issues that are causing it. All they can see is the next election ahead and getting voted back into their seat. That's it. Just once do the right thing, take the hit, knowing you at least did help solve this problem, but they just cannot see it this way.
Nothing will change, tiny incremental changes at the edges will be the norm, but there will be a revolt at some stage, by the next generation or beyond, pressure is building and it will release at some point, history teaches us this. For those of us living through this now, it will remain a struggle without an end.
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Bro, that has happened to me a whole lot of times, not just Pack and deliver, but sometimes when you go to pick an order from a far-flung restaurant, they sometimes can't fulfill the order and ask me to cancel, so fkn wasting half an hour on such type of shit and Uber Support says We are really sorry? I mean wtf ? My half an hour and petrol got wasted and you just get away by sorry? Chris, please do raise voice on this concern as it effects so many drivers, at least Uber should pay half the shown fare if the order can't be fulfilled and it's not a driver's fault then Drivers should be paid at least half fare for the trip. But No these shits don't pay. Please raise your voice on this, we'll support you, UBER IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF US DRIVERS, Damns, we'll be with you, Also mate, I've a question, a few weeks ago, Doordash closed my account saying I wasn't able to complete deliveries in a timely manner, although 90% of times, I've completed trips in under 30 mins, and sometimes exceptions occur, but Doordash isn't reinstating my account even though I'd above 85% of all metrics like Acceptance rate, Completion rate, all above 85% but even then they closed my account and aren't opening it, I'm really affected by it, If you can please help. Tysm.
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It's a kneejerk reaction to blame the current Labor govt. LNP delivered 9 years of record debt and deficit, Labor has delivered the first back to back surplus budgets. Look at some of the core policies Labor has gone to elections with and lost. Super profits mining tax - rejected, Negative gearing to new build homes only - rejected, halving of the generous Capital Gains Tax discounts - rejected, Ending govt. funding of elite private schools - rejected, closing tax loopholes like franking credits refunds - rejected
This gave LNP power for a decade in which they undermined workers wages, cut penalty rates, had zero energy policy, stuffed up the covid response and wasted record levels of money. They spent 1 billion dollars on French submarine contract then ripped it up to spend 100 billion on AUKUS sub deal, they spent 20 million on the useless Covid app and people think the LNP are the answer, you have to be kidding me.
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Hi from New Zealand,
Not a surprise Aussie has purchased some very expensive American military hardware over the years, and then the Aussie unemployment rate is on the rise. To exacerbate and complicate matters China has cut back its spending in Aussie. That huge Aussie income is eaten away by the cost of living. Chris Booy (2024) "I have never earned more money but I have never felt more broke.".
According to leading American economist Richard Wolf(2025) prepare for the collapse of the American economy and although outgoing President Joe Biden leaves behind a healthy economy President-elect Donald adjudicated a rapist, 34 counts of felony, insurrectionist, grifter lying conman, Tax fraudster, and lack of economic prowess Trump will speed up the process.
Countries have already started to exchange the greenback for gold and have joined with Brazil, Russia, India, China, (BRIC), and Saudia Arabia as trading partners. The latest is Japan which has exchanged the greenback for gold. Mexico is also negotiating a deal with BRIC. These are some of the richest countries in the world.
President 'lack of economic Prowess' Trump Wants to Buy Australia, an interesting argument from an Aussie, "he will have to ask the Chinese first?".
AUSSIE FRIENDS BRACE YOURSELVES AMERICA IS ABOUT TO COLLAPSE! OTHER COUNTRIES ARE PARPARING.
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Gidday Mate, When you say there is no effective Gov, it IS by design , they ARE corporations, they have ABN's, the Gov, Police, Military , Fed Police, etc etc... They do the bidding of UNELECTED foreign entities like the WEF and WHO , UN ... Immigration is increased all the time, why, you ARE being replaced, by those easier to control... The reason they want you broke is to control you, people need to wake up... They changed the constitution from the 1901 red book to their version green book, without referendum, so in reality they are a null and void corrupt Gov they basically are not proper and they have NO authority, don't believe me , do the research ...
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On the prediction of Sydney collapsing and becoming a ghost town, I don't think so. History, and the world too, give us lots of cities to look at where there was, and is, high inequality. The cities don't go away. They just change, become lessened, not in terms of population but in terms of beauty and public health. Shanty towns and tenement slums with ten people sharing a bedroom, not much to speak of in the way of kitchens, bathrooms or laundries, sleeping on rotting mattresses on piles of garbage surrounded by mud and exposed to the weather. That's the Sydney of the future, not empty but decayed, a corpse writhing with maggots still blaming each other instead of the rich for their problems.
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Yes pretty well owned and run by US big business and their elites. Our military and foreign policy is run by the US, our big 4 banks and financing, largely US owned, food, and fast food largely US owned, medical largely US owned, computing and tech same again, mining same again, shopping centres same again, news and media same again, hence feeding us only the propaganda they want us to hear, and so so much more. Our corrupt, criminal politicians on both sides need to be sacked, then we start again from scratch. we have certainly been sold out, the neoliberal experiment was and is an absolute diaster. This is the way the US has bought out virtually all of the western world.
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Some good points there Chris. The way I like to look at is this - head down, bum up and work like mad when you first start, and figure out what works best for YOU, and the way you like to work, and then as you say, you can analyse things a bit more later, once you're a bit more competent.
Yes, talk to other drivers/riders (FYI I'm on an e-bike in inner Sydney), and see what works for them, but their experiences will always be at least slightly different to yours, so take their experiences with a pinch of salt (so to speak).
For example, when I first started, I noticed a lot of offers were wildly different size wise (the cash they were offering) so it was hard to gauge what I should aim for from each order and from each day.
Eventually, after about a year and a half of doing it, with all the 'data' in my head and what I had experienced, I decided to start to use what I call the $7Up method - pretty much only accepting orders paying $7 and up the majority of the time. I got to this amount as it's not overly ambitious, but isn't peanuts. I do of course take the occasional $5 order if it's quieter and/or the trip is really quick and easy, but these ones can be avoided during busier times. After having done between 25 and 35 deliveries most full days that I worked over the first year and a half, I found that 30 trips was manageable and that I could realistically do it 4-6 times per week (weather permitting, of course!).
Now, do the sums. 30 trips in a day, each trip hopefully paying $7 or more, you can crack $210 in a day (or I aim for at least $200, given you may do a few $5 and $6 orders). So let's say aim for $200 per day, meaning if you work 4 days, you want to aim for $800, 6 days you want to aim for $1200. Don't be too worried if you don't hit these exact amounts, they're a rough gauge, and really only happen during the main part of the year when people aren't all away from home on Xmas/new year's holidays, etc. I haven't included doubles in this either, as I find that a lot of the doubles they like to tack on pay around $3 or $4 at the moment, so I'll usually knock them back unless I can see they're really close (or even in the same building! haha) to the first order. The only other time I'll do one of these cheapies is when Uber have a promotion where for a certain number of trips you get a bonus. These cheapies help hit that bonus, and often end up resulting in that cheapie paying a few dollars more. Anyway, I've just seen how long this post is, and think it's time to stop! haha maybe I should do a video on my tips & tricks?!.....
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Do you think it's in any Australian-owned business' interest to sell goods and services to Australians at a cheap price? Inflation is felt world-wide, and Australia doesn't produce much of value, so the Australians feel it more, because they rarely make prices and often have to take prices. Food is not just produced from farmland. Lots of energy, chemicals, labour etc are required, and they are all expensive now.
I understand your frustration, but the problem is not Australia being sold. Many countries allow foreign investment. As far as I know, Australians thought in the nineties that it could let the Indonesians do the dirty manufacturing work and extract profits out of them. The plot backfired, Australia lost the ability to produce anything reasonably sophisticated, and today Australians have to import everything from a package of nails to a kitchen knife to a car. That is the problem - especially when you have little to offer in return.
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1 Trillion Dollars, in one dollar bills stacked together in height = 67,886 miles into space, winding around the Earth nearly four times, it would take 31.7 Thousand years for a person, to count a trillion Dollars, counting a one dollar note, every second.
It would take a person 2,700 years to spend a Trillion Dollars, if a person spent One Million dollars every day. And if you had spent One Dollar for every Second, it would take 32,000 years, to spend the total amount of one trillion dollars.
And one final point if you stacked one dollar bills together to make one trillion dollars, the total weight of those one dollar bills, would weigh 2.2 billion pounds.
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The economic problems are the result of the Covid Crisis (that many denied or rejected as a con) the Climate crisis (which many rejected as a con), the disrupted supply chains internationally, inflation (which people wing about and seek to blame everyone but themselves) which is a net result of all the other factors. Ohh, yes war, three big ones, and a few minor ones, meaning more defense expenditure (also making us poorer).So, you see, there are numerous massive external causes to the economic slowdown. And no magic solutions. One thing for sure, the deniers and conspiracy theorists have not helped, and are repsonsible for a million or more deaths from Covid and climate disasters. Stupidity has costs.
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yes its sounds terrible, but remember both state & federal governments obtains money to spend from you the taxpayer, that includes business, unfortunately the normal taxpayer pays their fair share of tax, but not big business including forign nationals, who pay nothing or near to nothing, if they did pay the correct amount of tax we would have that much money via taxation federally, would result in more monies back to the states government, & in time a reduction of personal income tax & state taxes, as a result you would not be concerned about the price of anything, your complaints regarding price of food/housing etc, is not the result of national debt, that problem is due, inpart, to covid 19 where supply/production in the world stopped, that in turn caused shortages, when the world including Australia returned to normal the demand was greater than supply capacity, (just in time production/zero supply warehousing) this in turn caused prices to rise, inflation, there is also another issue that most people like yourself failed to realise, over a ten year period from 2013 to 2023 there was an wage implosion, meaning the cost of product went up each year, but, your wage increase didn't keep pace, & in some cases stagnated, & if you think that can be corrected overnight by a change of government, think again, for every year that you didn't get a wage increase correctly adjusted to match price rise/inflation, takes at least three years to catch up & thats only if the present government corrects the actions of the past federal government that caused the reduction in wage increase in the first place.
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The government does not run the country, the UN WEF does.
The reserve bank enslaves nations through the "problems" it creates, yes the WEF creates crisis to solve and the government gets pushed into fixing issues that are not even real, all to turn us all into tax slaves.
"You will own nothing and be happy" ~ Klauss Shwabb.
This is the goal and agenda, stop looking for the government to change it, they are hostage to the WEF/UN and reserve bank, the only way this will stop is a full blown revolt.
Quite literally we all have to refuse to go to work, no more taxes, no more government, walk in there by the millions and remove them.
Yes it will be hard, but not impossible, the people have to break thier corrupt system, it is the only way, everything else is compliance and sadly Australian's don't have the courage to pull something like this off.
Laiden in luxury and comfort until it is all gone, piece by piece, year by year.
We need to stop taking any advice from the government and stop looking to them to fix things, they are being held at gunpoint, do what the rulers ask or leave, this is why when someone gets in, they always change.
You can't change it, it needs to be destroyed.
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Chris, this is by design. The government DOES know what they're doing. They wanted a shift in wealth. You want to know how to fix this? Everyone in Australia needs to 1) refuse to vote LIBS and ALP, 2) refuse to pay tax and 3) set up a new government and civil institutions that exclude, by default, politicians. Smaller things to do: use CASH only; civil disobedience; refuse to support BIG companies such as Coles, Woolies, Telstra, Optus, AGL, Target, etc. Shop only at co-ops, small business, and farmer's markets. Return to basics. Six months of everyone doing that and see how quickly things change.
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Australia went from colony in 1901 to krypto colony until late 1950's-1960's where it still remained a krypto colony with the added status of being a vassal. Australians have as much sovereignty as chickens in a chicken coup masked by the mandate of compulsory voting leading you to think (the people) are in control,,,,,,,dah di du dah di dah, dah dah dah,,,,,,,🥴😵💫😴
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Australian society has nearly doubled in size from when I was 12 years old in 1976. Our current population is around 27 million, a 92% increase from the 14 million back in 1976. While the size of the Australian population has increased, the size of our beaches has not. The beaches are a lot more crowded when I go to the beach nowadays.
I think people need to view Australia in terms of those beaches. If we had not borrowed the money to build and upgrade roads to improve congestion, traffic flow, and travel times, the consequences are billions of dollars in lost time. What would that situation be like today if Australia had not borrowed the money to build and upgrade roads?
Let's look at a hypothetical estimate
If there are 3 million people stuck in traffic around Australia for 2 hours a day, based on a 5-day week and 46 week working year…. And an average hourly rate of $35…. $48.3 billion dollars’ worth of lost time every year.
What might a business lose if we did not spend money building and upgrading roads?
If I employ 10 truck drivers to deliver goods around a city, and they each spend 2 hours stuck in traffic, at $35 each an hour… it is costing $700 a day in wages for them to sit in traffic.…That amounts to $3500 a week or and additional $161,000 in wages for the 5-day / 46-week year.
On that basis, I need to charge an extra $3500 a week on top of my normal delivery charges to negate that lost time stuck in traffic... which I pass on to my customers.
The Government is not building and upgrading roads just to piss you off by ‘wasting’ money. They are building and upgrading those roads to improve our livability and to reduce the financial loss caused from people being stuck in traffic.
One of the consequences of overpopulation and better internet connectivity is we have more people to disagree with each other and a better means by which to do it. You can please some of the people all of the time. You can please all of the people some of the time. But you cannot please all of the people all of the time.
I think we need to expect 50% of people will disagree with most decisions made by a government about where, when, and how they borrow and or spend money. Of those 50%, most of them will have the ‘alternative’ argument…. Oh… they should be spend the money to build more hospitals, pay the nurses and teachers more, they should build nuclear power stations instead of renewables, they should not build the road through my backyard, but should build it through theirs instead etc.
Australia is not on the verge of bankruptcy. Personally, I don’t think $1 trillion in debt for the standard of living the majority enjoy is that big of a deal. The USA debt is around $35 trillion in debt compared to 1.37 trillion here in Australia.
Our collective superannuation pool, which we did not have years ago is now $ 3.5 trillion and will be worth an estimated $7 to 8 trillion in 2050. The current superannuation pool is worth 250% more than an alleged 1 trillion debt.
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Chris, I'll give you a major life hack ----> buy yourself a dehydrator ($200-$300) and start dehydrating and vacuum sealing foods for long term storage...the trick is to buy in bulk and cheap...for example, i just dehydrated 5 kg of red capsicum, and then vaccum sealed into 5 seoarate bags (with a 500cc oxygen absorber in each). This was last month when my local vegeie shop had them for $2.99 per kg. Theyre goung for $7.99kg at coles and woolies right now (31 Dec 2024). Theres just no way i can buy them at this price. Im not kidding, this is what we need to do to stay ahead of this inflation monster, which is going to get worse before it gets worse. My 2nd tip is to focus on dehydrating what YOU like to eat and often. For me its mainly shallots, celery, caosicum, carrots because i use them in my cooking (e.g. serbian goulash, kimchi, stir fry noodles, chicjen soups, etc) YT dehydrating channels are your freinds.
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The older generation worked bloody hard to earn what they got, sadly, if you worked just as hard, made the same sacrifices today, it's almost impossible to achieve the same thing.
I am not even 30 yet, my income has more than doubled, and I am living paycheck to paycheck, the same struggles I had, when on the dole a few years ago. How the fuck has my financial stress working my ass off achieved the same financial ability as I had years ago un employed?
It angers me, then I look out to the rest of the world, Canada with a Median income roughly 20k less than Australia converted to AUD and housing at an even higher level, the UK were I as a retail worker earn more than a lot of their Ambulance drivers and other first responders or much higher skilled trades, with housing, as high if not higher than here, and it reminds me, with this global decline, we are still so damn lucky.
Honestly, the only place in the first world that housing is something you can afford to buy is the USA ( Excluding certain areas like LA )
Australia is the lucky country, lucky enough to struggle a bit less than the rest of the world...
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Chris, you only get one life, don’t waste it trying to change things that are pretty well built into the system. Australian Banks are aligned on all Australians having huge loans outstanding for poorly built houses. Its a national obsession to own property and most people want to live in the urban areas. It doesn’t help that people all over the world aspire to live in Australia and are more mobile than ever. You just cannot hold back the tide of affluent overseas buyers that will want to buy in Australia. There are many countries, like Switzerland, where it is difficult to own a property outright in urban areas if you are not affluent; and you are trapped renting for the rest of your life. Australia is in the process of becoming like these countries. I left Australia in 2008 before my 40th and was one of the lucky ones that owned my apartment outright in the eastern suburbs. I never traded up, working hard to get out of my WBC loan and once I was debt free I realized that there was no end in sight. The whole system runs on all of us leasing new cars, spending up big on travel, dining and always aspiring for a bigger and better house. You need to leave and look for a different setup; get a house in a country that is in population decline (Italy, Japan) and has a huge overhang of property outside of the urban areas or go to emerging countries (Uruguay, Bolivia, Vietnam) and work on having a lifestyle that fits in to your circumstances. The world is a pretty big place, there are lots of options and I am amazed that people in Australia are still running on the “consumption”treadmill. Sure you will miss some aspects of living there, but living as stressed as you are is not an option. Sorry for the long message.
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This video highlights Australia's troubling economic trajectory, which bears alarming similarities to Argentina, Japan, and Greece. Argentina's unchecked borrowing and money printing led to hyperinflation that wiped out savings—a pattern we’re beginning to see with Australia’s rising cost of living and currency devaluation. To avoid this fate, Australia must reduce its deficit through targeted spending cuts and greater transparency, rather than relying on endless borrowing.
Japan’s decades of stagnation after excessive debt and a property market collapse also hold lessons. Australia’s housing affordability crisis and climbing debt-to-GDP ratio signal the need for housing market reforms and economic diversification beyond mining and real estate.
Greece’s debt spiral, resulting in harsh austerity and widespread poverty, is another warning. With $23 billion in annual interest payments on our debt, Australia must focus on essential services and fair tax reforms to avoid similar outcomes.
The way forward includes strengthening the Australian dollar, ensuring wages grow with inflation, investing in future industries like renewables and technology, and addressing wealth inequality. We still have time to act, but immediate reforms are critical to safeguarding the next generation’s quality of life. Let’s push for policies that secure Australia’s economic future.
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I'm turning 60 this year and while I understand and feel we have issues in this country that need to be addressed there is always one thing missing in the comments to videos like this - ownership. Australians stopped buying Australian made shoes, clothes, toys, cars you name it. They didn't give a shit about the job losses if it wasn't impacting them. We couldn't as a society wait for Bunnings to appear filled to the brim with cheap Chinese shit and we immediately jumped on board. When immigration was being used to heat up the economy we all got excited about our house doubling or tripling in price and as a consequence giving us easy credit, we couldn't wait to forget the lessons of our parents and rack up the debt. Small home you paid off in twenty years with a single car in the driveway - stuff that. Let's get a McMansion filled to the brim with everything paid on credit and made anywhere but Australia and put two or three foreign made cars in the driveway. We won't go on a big trip every five years, nah we'll do it every year. Put it on credit buddy!
When the government wanted to get rid of our national wealth and privatised it, they waved money under our noses. How about if we ditch Telstra and give you a few hundred bucks. Hell yeah, said the Australian public and we lost one of the critical bits of public infrastructure. We also got rid of heaps of apprecticehip opportunities, local technology and skills and oh as a bonus weakened the unions so wages would long term go down. Then we started on airports, electricity generation, parts of CSIRO you name it. If it wasn't bolted down we sold it to the highest bidder for a few extra bucks in our pockets. Job losses and what it meant for your generation - as a society we didn't care. We as a society said hell yeah and what else can you sell? Then politicians realise we would vote them in for ten bucks a week extra in tax cuts in our pockets. Of course you don't get anything for free so government departments started sacking staff and casualising their workforces. They started buying foreign instead of Australian made to save money - including car fleets. The quality of health care, local government, education and other public services all declined as funding was cut. They didn't invest in apprentices and trainees like they used to. Don't care said the Australian people as they voted time and time again for tax cuts the country couldn't afford. Now nothing bloody works.
State governments started flogging off public land that has been put aside for future generations. Land reserved for parks, sports ovals, train corridors, road corridors, electricity lines, hospitals and infrastructure like water and sewerage. The people screamed for it all to be sold, so they could get cheap building blocks to put their McMansion on. I mean since the last trip to Bali they were tapped out and it wasn't their fault! Of course all these cuts resulted in no jobs for young people so then the politicians had the brain wave to just cram them all in Universities and TAFES to hide the unemployment. That worked great for a few years until it got too expensive, so then the pollies had a great idea of charging these kids for the education they didn't want, but had to have because otherwise they would be dole bludgers. Now kids graduate from education in their twenties with debts that will take decades to pay off - and still no decent job or job at all.
Yeah, it's a complicated story, but when people who were around in the 80's and 90's go on about the government being at fault or being robbed they are being completely disingenuous. The public also screwed our country for short term selfishness and if we are to fix that we have to also accept the lifestyle we have now is not sustainable and never was and if we want to employ Australians and give the next generation. a decent life we all have to stop being selfish pricks and actually live within our means as a country. That means among other things that corporate and some personal taxes have to go up. Try and sell that, because what we learnt back then was when reality of your own actions hit you in the face, always say it's someone else's fault like the politicians. We didn't have to have tax cuts, we voted for it. We didn't have to sell public land - we voted for it. We didn't have to drop protections of Australian industry and jobs - we voted for it. Most Australians don't want to admit they were selfish arseholes that stood by and cheered as everything previous generations of Australians had worked hard to build or put aside for us, got sold by us to the highest bidder. The Australia you live in is a result of two generations of Australians not giving a fuck about anyone but themselves. One of those generations we call boomers and they haven't changed in their old age either. They still think everyone else is to blame and they want everything working to benefit them.
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Hi, I have watched a few of you videos now and I agree completely how immigration has stuffed the housing market for young people. But I'm going to offer you some suggestions that may help one or two of you. For some of you thinking outside the square this could be the key to home ownership. I'm 56 now and only ever been able to afford the average home, but I am now mortgage free living on 3000m2 in a $1.1 million dollar home. How did I do it? Well I was ahead of the curve, I foresaw remote work as being a thing and chose to live far away from the CBD. My suggestion is for people to give up on city living, even outer suburbia and get to know places that are affordable that you would like to go for a holiday to. Just rent really close, walking distance to wherever you work and just put a roof over your head as cheaply as possible. Find a block of land in the place away from the city, aim for it to be about two hours from where you live by driving. Pay down that block of land until you own it and then build a place you can rent for about 5 years where you get maximum depreciation without having to pay future capital gains tax. Once you are close to owning this, then move in and work remotely, you wont need a high paying job and you will be living some place where you can retire. If you live in Brisbane, I would suggest maybe down south near Nimbin, except not with the Nimbin name, so you get a discount without the reputation. This is just up the road from Byron bay and the "nearology" will work in your favour, because 20 years from now, Nimbin's reputation will be like St Kilda in Melbourne - a distant memory. While you are renting out, any time your house is empty between tenants, well that is a tax deductible holiday, when you come down to "fix things" and clean it up. Everything you spend on the house is subject to depreciation and every expense reduces your taxable income from your property. You have six years of this without being subject to capital gains, its the biggest legal tax dodge there is. I hope this helps someone, if you have any questions feel free, I'm genuinely here to help. If you want to do an interview for a video , I'm up for that as well.
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Grok has added some context too:
• Australia's Debt-to-GDP Ratio: As of recent data, Australia's net debt as a percentage of GDP has been around 30.6% for the 2022-23 financial year, which is relatively low compared to many developed countries. For instance, in 2023, Australia's government debt was about 38% of GDP, which is below the OECD average.
• Global Comparison:
• Japan leads with one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios, often exceeding
200%.
• The United States and France have ratios above 100%.
• Australia's situation is considered manageable, especially when considering its economic stability, resource wealth, and the capacity to service its debt at relatively low interest rates. Countries like Denmark also maintain low debt-to-GDP ratios, with both nations noted for recent reductions in this metric.
Economic Health: Australia's economic fundamentals, including low unemployment, high commodity prices due to resource exports, and a stable banking system, contribute to its capacity to handle its debt without facing the same level of risk as countries with higher debt burdens relative to their GDP.
In summary, while Australia's debt in absolute terms is significant, its debt-to-GDP ratio suggests a less burdensome situation compared to many other developed economies. The approach to managing this debt involves leveraging Australia's economic strengths while continuing to monitor and adjust fiscal policies to ensure sustainability.
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Climate change is here undeniably. You can argue the cause, but the change is happening. Central Europe used to have winters with temperatures below zero for three four months. No more, now may be a week and is back above zero. Before, 50-60 years ago, snaps of -20C used to last for two or three weeks, two sometime three times during winter, now the cold snaps are no more. So even in a single lifespan the climate change is clearly observable. And, as the saying goes: prepare for the worst, hope for the best. We have to address the climate change as the highest priority.
You make a lot of noise but the main point is, as I understand, that we are behind of other countries in most of these fields. We should focus where we have advantage: sunshine and clear weather, clean air (comparatively), and mining. It is rater obvious what we should excel in: convert sunshine to energy and sell the energy. This can be done in two ways: solar directly to electricity then convert to AC and distribute to Asia using undersea power cables - the technology exist. The other option is solar to electricity use it for hydrogen generation from water and sell hydrogen. Also develop fuel cells converting hydrogen to electricity. Research storage methods that is batteries, pressurised air etc.
Uranium is short term and may not be a good option as the nuclear accidents are devastating. For example, Germany prefers to restart coal than nuclear power - that is a sign. But it back under consideration. However, nuclear superpowers, USA, Russia and China are well ahead of others, what leaves mining to us.
Also the old project of building of series of dams directing inwards some of the water, which is now regularly flooding Queensland, would go long way in greening Australia. Australia's area is 7.74 mil km2. In rounded numbers, 75% of our land is arid, semi desert. Only 25% is considered as suitable for living. If we build the dams and green only 10%, that would increase the area suitable for living to 35% that is, 10/25 by 40%, close to double. Imagine that a usable area of the country doubles! The 10% is area more than twice the size of Germany, and more than three times the size of UK. It would have also positive effect on animal life. That is huge. This also would have positive effect on reducing climate change (increased the green area converting sun's heat into oxygen production). The UN should demand it from Australia! Also the Darling-Murray river system would get recharged and that system is in dire situation now. That is where, at least, some of the 360 bilion should be going.
The series of dams is estimated to cost 50-60 billions. Hopefully, the relations China USA get relaxed and we can reduce the number of these submarines, particularly that Russia is already building better ones and we can expect that China will soon too. And if we look at the size of shipyards capacity of China and US the idea to have more submarines is kind od not thought thru. This is the time of missiles and drones, not planes and ships (as Houthis demonstrate), and Australia may have still time to catch up with the leaders.
By the way Google the Citizen Party of Australia - they popularise the series of Dams concept. I think Bob Katter also is the one who keeps it still above water.
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Hello Chris, great video wish I had weather like that right now where I am. I'm based in the UK, specifically about 20 minutes from Heathrow. Its freezing we get about 7.5 hours of light, and basically its a bit miserable. I get where you are coming from, here in the UK we are coming off the back of inflation, and wages haven't kept pace with house prices. At the same time, if wages increase too much this effects inflation, we are also faced with an aging population and low birth rates and the one thing that could save us from all that - immigration, is actively shunned. People really don't understand that our populations are shifting, and we are living through a change to our economic systems. Don't stick your spare cash in savings, invest in some stocks and see if they have some tax efficiencies so your money can grow with your economy.
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The truth is that God Almighty has Judged this Nation and your only hope is to repent and follow his Commandments and Laws. You can not run, you can not ignore the evil, you can not hide what is in your hearts, he knows every hair on your head, unless you come to his light in his Word you will PERISH and your SEED.
Deuteronomy 30:19
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Isaiah Chapter 1
16- Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17- Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18- Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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Really new to UE and DD - stumbled on your channel and was inspired by it. It spun me out seeing you deliver around Caloundra :) Don't worry, I'm not on your turf, haha.
I would really encourage people to work out their net earnings, especially in Australia. It's important to understand your tax situation. Yes, I watched your tax video, Chris, a banger!
For me, personally, with an EV and free power at home with solar and batteries, using the cents per kilometre method aligns with my earnings goals. If I were to exceed the 5,000 km limit, I would need to consider the logbook method, which might not be as beneficial for me due to my setup. On average, I net about $2 per km in Brisbane (based on one week's data on EE). This helps me target my goal of $10,000 a year. Exceeding this would reduce my earnings per km by about 33% after the first 5,000 km.
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Hey Chris, thanks for raising your concerns and thinking critically about the situation. Let me break it down.
The world is currently facing a currency collapse driven by the US dollar. This happened before, back in the 1970s and they pulled a rabbit out of a hat to save it. The US unpegged the dollar from gold and made a deal with Saudi Arabia to price oil in USD, creating the "petrodollar." This made the dollar dominant, backed by global fear of US power. Countries like Libya and Iraq challenged this system and faced consequences.
Now, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and others) are moving away from the US dollar and creating alternative trade systems, which threatens US dominance. As a result, the US is reacting desperately. Fiat currency always collapses. Historically, when this happens they go to war. We're seeing this.
The Australian dollar (AUD) is just a derivative of the USD, and all fiat currencies are collapsing against it. This will worsen, regardless of elections. The Australian government needs to keep spending to maintain GDP, which drives inflation. They’re also going to keep bringing in more immigrants to boost GDP artificially. Our debt to GDP %40 is not that bad. Compared to other countries its remarkably good. Japan sits at %260 and the US is at %129.
Today the government has two options: raise interest rates by a lot, perhaps double figures (which would ruin the economy) or spend up big and print more money (debasing the dollar and leading to massive inflation). They’ve chosen to print money. Over time, massive inflation will make debt less of a problem, but future debt will explode. It’s a Ponzi scheme.
The people can’t print money, but the government can, leaving us with the consequences. To protect yourself, buy gold and silver. As the dollar weakens, you’ll need more money to buy these precious metals. If you’ve already invested in them, you’ve seen their value rise significantly in the past few years. Basically, what your doing is preserving your purchasing power with gold & silver. e.g., Today the price of a car is $40,000 and you will need 9 ounces of gold to buy it. Next year, the price of that car might be $80,000. You will need twice as much money to buy it, but you'll still only need 9 ounces of gold.
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Me thinketh so sad to hear a young., strapping lad winging and whining about how bad he's got it in the........lucky country.
P.S. Small suggestions include stop going out daily for your three lattes, lunch, dinners, stop paying your $700 per week rent, stop buying fancy clothes, stop driving a nice car and instead move over West, close to a train station and pay half the rent, be frugal for 1, 2, 5 or even 10 years.
And whilst we all understand you have been bought up in an instant gratification society, think long term and eventually, similar to us old folk you will eventually look back and say, thank you........God!@!?😉🤪😁
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As someone who works at a servo, fuel isn't where the money is, at least on the Service Station side
Where I work, gate price is about 1.75 L
Then add Fuel excise, new Total is 2.246 L
We are selling for 2.35
Excluding any GST, that's 10.6 Cents Per Litre profit
That's also assuming you don't also have a 4 cent off voucher and a Link 4 cents off, totalling 18 cents off a Litre
This is why we offer 10 Cents off Per Litre if you spend more than $20 in store, for the average person, instead of making $2-3 profit from the fuel, a deal like that will make $10 on the low end (Before staff wages, any waste from perishables, etc)
This is also why fuel cards aren't allowed discounts because when someone chucks 500L of diesel in on a fuel card, 10 cents a Litre off would kill
This is also why we're rated on conversion rates, and always want to sell you something
And yes, this is also why food and drinks are god awfully expensive at a servo
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Post-covid predictions considered a K-type recovery, in which the rich would grow richer and the poor poorer. That development was long in the making, but mostly accelerated since the early 20's.
The major problem here is that taxes and other laws benefit reinvestment of money, for the sake of hoarding even more money. This is money that exists, and therefore drives inflation, but it's NOT used for societal needs. The rich can therefore be likened to monetary vampires; they take while offering nothing in return. And "investments means more jobs!" is not enough. Those investments do not maintain infrastructure, do not build social/affordable housing, do not upgrade the electricity grid unless mandated by law, they do not pay the wages of those who we truly need, such as firefighters, healthcare workers, garbage collectors, sewage technicians, etc.
Jobs society NEEDS do not generate a profit, therefore they do not get paid well. Jobs that generate REVENUE get paid well, because they make number go up. That's all there is to this system, which is very easily summarized: profits, no matter the cost.
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Also ,. not many realise how big the number $1,000,000,000,000,000 ( Trillion ) is .
Grab some $100 bills , stack them flat on top of each other , Ok .
A stack 1000mm ( 1 meter ) high is One Million $1,000,000.
A stack 100metres high is One Billion $1,000,000,000 .
A STACK ONE KILOMETRE HIGH ! is One Trillion $1,000,000,000,000 !!!!!
Thats how BIG ! ONE TRILLION DOLLARS IS !!!! 1000 metres TALL !
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Living in Brisbane all my life , I have to say is still the big country town city compared to Sydney, so as it has always been a faster pace of life and older, much more crowded and expensive i think not living in Sydney was a good decision for someone to have a reasonable lifestyle from your early working age through to retirement. Nowadays it resembles a busy Asian city, where making money is the only thing that matters in life, no time for living a healthy , well balanced life unless you have had a large inheritance handed to you. In conclusion I would blame it on the greedy baby boomers, including our corrupt politicians who have taken much from the Australian people and spent it on themselves and now made the future generations slaves to even buy a property, and don,t forget about the foreign investors who are money laundering property prices with foreign money made off slave labour, then you have global elites buying investment properties just to keep prices unaffordable. So the greed of the beaurocrats of Australia now are destroying the future of the younger generations of the future, we need serious justice from the top of the ladder down.
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Ok, so I did see a comment saying that without landlords we wouldn't have investment in new houses etc and if they didn't the Govt would have to do it. I think that is a load of hooey.
The govt should never have stopped putting money into social housing and in some cases selling it off. It's like privatising anything, you get an inferior outcome at much greater cost.
Some historical perspective would help too. Back in the old countries in Europe, prettyt much all real estate was owned by someone, either some kind of landlord or if you were very lucky you were in the nobility, or maybe even the mercantile class.
Point being if you were down the bottom of the social pile you were screwed. This, among many other things, was one of the prime movers for people moving to the newer countries.
That is a big reason why the modern state of Australia exists.
For some reason though, in the last three or so decades economic conditions in Australia have been regressing to the guilded age, or Dickensian times. This is not a good thing, unless you are well to do.
Worst of all, the situation we are in well likely never change as too many of the political class are up to their collective balls in this investment in Real Eastate.
My overall point, the very worst thing we can do is allow the rise of another landlord class. Any positive they do is far outweighed by the negative.
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Australia has followed the same systems as 'the West'. It's also seeing the same problems as 'the West'. That means that your problems should roughly mirror those of 'the West'.
The current system employed by 'the West' is: profits, at any cost. As we've seen since the pandemic, a great amount of money has flown to the already (ultra) rich while increasing numbers of people struggle to make ends meet. Said rich people tend to put their money into assets that 'appreciate', or otherwise are speculated to rise for significant gains. This money, therefore, is used to make more money. This money, thus, does NOT flow back into the economy proper for necessary expenses such as infrastructure maintenance, salaries of firefighters, healthcare workers, etc. and also does not flow into social safety nets.
That money does exist, meaning that it adds to inflationary effects. Less money is available for public use, while more and more money exists. On top of all this, (foreign) investors buy up real estate, because real estate historically has appreciated (with notable crashes). Add in a touch of lobbying to prevent the building of new residences, and you have a housing crisis on your hands. Which is a crisis for those who need housing; it's a gold mine for investors.
So I partially agree with you. Foreigners are the problem, but not those who come to your country and contribute to your economy. I'm talking the leeches that are as vampires that suck out the money from your wallets and economy to enrich themselves, while leaving your with the disastrous consequences.
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Australia should be the richest country in the world per capita bar none!
However, an endless procession of totally gutless, worthless, parasitic politicians (are there any other kind nowadays) has led to the demise of this once great country.
Now it's a shadow of its former self, much like every other Western country, adopting lunatic climate policies that mean SFA when India, China, Russia, and most of the developing world won't buy into them, nor should they.
Then we have the Woke agenda, obfuscation at its best, just hoping to divert debate away from the truly important things, like the cost of living.
Acknowledgement of Country has become the National Prayer - it's an ideology now.
Mainstream Media is a joke.
Both major political party's in Australia have been at the helm overseeing this disaster, and neither have the will or backbone to change anything. I feel very sorry for the younger generations in this country, an oligarch in every sense of the word, run by corporations for the benefit of corporations.
Cheers!
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Regarding ghost colleges, I agree with you; close those establishments. These are not representative of students and are not actual students. You believe that international students are to blame for the entire housing crisis, but that isn't the case. Most university students must spend an average of $100,000 AUD upon arrival and have limited work rights, which prevents them from working full-time. If you do a little research, you'll see what I mean. Of course, there are some cases where they abuse the visa requirements, but blaming international students for the entire housing crisis demonstrates that you truly believe media narratives. In reality, however, the situation is different. Mostly, oligarchs and financial institutions from other nations, such as the USA, Russia, and China, as well as local oligarchs, such as Coles, Woolsworth, and all mining CEOs, are the ones who own numerous homes and apartments and have inflated housing prices.
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Firstly vote out the drunken Labor Government who are just splashing our money away coz they believe it to be the endless bottomless pit......once these clowns are out of office, they will be relishing in lifetime pensions paid at more than what their last position were, not even having to reach the Super age of 67 like all of us, then they can still take another job like Rudd and Scomo and Joe Hockey while still collecting their Super tax free. Before we can vote anyone in on a Primary vote, we must get rid of Preferential voting....but who has the guts to do that? I've just turned 65, living in a regional border town in NSW, I got to the doctor for any reason, out of pocket at least $65 after Medicare rebate, they are saying only 44% of doctor visits in Australia are bulk billed, with the money and resources we have, it should be 100%. I don't know if Dutton will be much better but he can't be any worse than Albo's hapless crew, worse than drunken sailors on a rum binge.
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Chris, your video is 100% correct. Every available piece of land in Sydney is being snapped up by developers, and those property investors who are unscrupulous, don't care about the lives of others, and are just looking at the dollar signs. In the inner suburbs of Sydney, the industrial estates are being taken over buy developers to build units and high rise housing. This has pushed prices of services through the roof. Because all those service businesses have had to relocate out west. The average bloke without a degree against his name cannot find a normal average job in Inner Sydney anymore. You need to go out west to get suitable work. Nearly every other job in the inner city you need to be degree qualified for. But, nearly every unskilled job that was available, is staffed by an immigrant. There are more immigrants that Aussies in my area. By orders of magnitude. I'm not rac**t, it's just a fact.
There are many suburbs where dozens upon dozens of houses are being, or have been, demolished for the sake of the developers. If I remember correctly, in a suburb close to me there were over sixty houses demolished for a high rise housing estate. In a recent job I had I was delivering construction stock for the job sites. Every tradie I spoke with said that none of the properties were being built for Aussies. They were all being built to house current and future immigrants. It's at the stage now, where you need to explain what you are say to these people because they don't have a proper grasp of the English language. Prices for everything have skyrocketed. The new Metro is always packed any time of day. I could go on about this, but you already know the answer. Great video once again.
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There's a lot wrong with our country at the minute, 80% of it is coming from policy. The individual cannot make enough changes, cut enough corners or tighten enough belts to offset federal mismanagement.
Our government pledged to cap arrivals to try and slow down demand on housing, and we've never had more arrivals in a single year. A supposed budget surplus is now in shortfall, and our dollar is collapsing. Corporate bureaucracy has invaded politics in the country and as a result Australians in many cities now paying 80% more rent than they were just 6 years ago.
It's a false economy of making the dollar look good by putting cost of living stress on the existing population by using immigration to buoy a broken system. They've bought into the idea of the immigration arms race, without having sufficient infrastructure to support those numbers. This added pressure is exploited to generate even more money for big business and property developers, while you are gouged by some of the most profitable companies in the world for grocery essentials. When Canada is laughing at your property market, you've got to know something is wrong.
Over the past two years eighteen people have walked in and out of my job, who entered Australia with their partner holding a temporary education visas. Most of them who told me they are here with express purpose of making money. One of them is my mate, and he cannot grasp that he and his siblings choice to attempt to extract money out of Australia to send home is part of the reason his rent is so high.
There will be a ghost generation of Australians, plain and simple. As soon as the government can work out how to devalue inheritance and introduce death taxes it will happen. Rich Australians will get richer, international big business will profit off our idiocy, as the middle class evaporates and we will watch people fall through the cracks or become radicalized.
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Unlike most developed nations, little or no tax revenue from increasing land value and capital gains. All the tax comes from wage earners, less so but still significant from business owners or sole traders. The second source is GST but there are so many carveouts that benefit some more than others, think private schools, private health insurance. This needs to change as simply not fair on the people that work each day. Blame John Howard and Peter Costello who set the tax land mines in the 90s and 00s. We were warned and they knew that politically, they could never be reversed. The welfare and transfer system is broken as most working families cannot access, great for multi-millionaire retirees though that fit under the generous threshold. Remember tax is for roads, hospitals, police, schools, medicare, medecines, military, emergency relief, and a huge one welfare aka pensions so cant say simply too many public servants.
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Personal advice:
(Preface, Me n spouse have 3 houses (800k owing), grand total over 170k/year NET income, and I'm wearing torn up sneakers, so I agree with the economic scenario)
As a collective, vote Labour into oblivion. I put One Nation first, that's just me.
And as individuals, the inflation and asset increases is a major point touched on here.
Broadly speaking, gain whatever assets you can claw in whenever you can.
It doesn't have to be a house! The biggest asset gain one can aim for.
Gold, silver, valuable collectables, jewellery, non-productionised art, wine if you jnow how to store it, own a car even if a cheap one (no finance).
Cash in a bank account should account for basic emergencies only, beyond that, own things.
Cause as the vid depicted, cash goes worthless, while all items increase
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Hey Chris, I'm in Sydney, and don't watch the news much, or give anything it tells us much credence at all these days, and certainly do not trust the government or authorities. I have a much better app on my phone than the BOM too - I use Accuweather, which for me doing food delivery by ebike, is much better than BOM. Not 100% perfect, but a hell of a lot better!
Anyway, after the first 2 days of reporting on it (which was the first 15 minutes of every 30 minute news broadcast that I had to endure with my parents while we ate dinner), I was like 'fuck off, let us know when it's actually about to hit'. Then as you said, it took a while to hit, then when it did, it was nowhere near as catastrophic as they said it would be. Lismore is back in action 2 days later apparently. Pfft! I'm glad it's over, both for everyone's mental state, and also for those that copped it in northern NSW & QLD. As for the election - just wait till the budget looks worse than expected, and for the barrage of 'Vote Labor' 'Vote Liberal' ads that are going to appear on tv. In summary - turn the tv off. It's for the best!
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For the car insurance, the state will collect 3rd party insurance and if you have an accident like drinking etc, your insurance premium will go up double. The triple etc.
The initial insurance is AUD50 per year example, got an accident, the next year AUD100, then got another accident due to drinking, then it becomes AUD 300, etc. People are not scared of the 12-point system. Sacred of payment only.
If people want to buy 1st class insurance they go to private if they can afford it.
For National health care insurance, a family of 4 will pay AUD 60 per week when the 2 children are over 13 years old, younger than that, free. of charge. The Australian government can adjust the rates.
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Because our criminal Governments are not for us, they work for other foreign agendas and keep selling us down the toilet.
It all started in 1975 when the Gough Whitlam Government (the first ever Government to be sacked by the Queens representative, the Governor General) signed the Lima Agreement which basically was the beginning of Australia closing down our Manufacturing to benefit other developing Countries, in particular those in South America ( that's why it was signed in Lima Peru) since then it's been downhill.
Also, Australia was heavily Unionised with Militant, almost Communistic behaviours from UNION leaders who demanded and held Companies to ransom. The Unions were backed by the Labor Party yet Unions have again risen to hold this Country to Ransom. Yes we need Union representation to ensure workers get a good deal but not to the expense of the Nation.
The Maritime Workers Union was one of the most Militant Unions in the Country, they held up ships and the Wharves around the Country for ridiculous things until Chris Corrigan from Patrick Steveadors shut them out and basically say if you're prepared to work on our terms, then you'll be allowed in, many Union bosses were given the arse from the Company.
The Gas and coal resources are sold to China and Japan for cheap and what they don't use, they sell it back to us for a Profit.
These dumb arsed Politicians couldn't run a chook raffle, most are career pollies like the idiot in the top job now, never held a real job in his life, never had to struggle himself yet always talk how his Mum did in Housing commission.......his Government in 3 years have almost single handedly ruined this Country almost to the point of no return.....they've all sold us out, we make nothing anymore except a few niche products......and we're pretty close to being a Banana Republic as Paul Keating talked about back in the 80's. To say I'm angry is an understatement and I agree with everything you've stated, we should be a super Country.....instead we're now a laughing stock...this Country has been raped good and proper.
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Does everyone realise that in Australia, there was only approximately 30 years out of 125 years since Federation that provided some growth and economic relief for Australian families and that was the 1900 - 1910, 1950s and 1960s. The first decade of 1900 to 1910 was the excitement of Federation and business growth of that decade but even so, we became enslaved to the US because they lent the Australian government many millions of dollars as business start up money and for the next 100+ years of paying that massive debt back by entrapping the Australian people. But after that and before the 1950s were the 2 world wars that traumatised everyone, losing family members to war and after the end of the 1960s, began the 1971 "oil crisis" causing instability with fuel prices and hence economic instability, the 1980s began the corporate globalist greed then the 1990s corporatism, statue legislation that burgeoned the explosive growth of fining people through Municipal Councils for the slightest thing, explosive growth of needing a permit to do anything, eg music on the street. Then the disgusting Agenda 21 creep throughout the 2000s, land takeovers by mining, the stealth removal of paperwork that is the proof of land ownership etc. then wokeness etc. we are now learning that the Aus govt is Israel first not the Aus people so only three decades out of out of 125 years where people experienced some sort of post war relief and "freedom" to start a business, go camping, the wage and salary ability to buy some land and build your own house, job stability and so on. So as a nation of families and individuals, a collective paradigm shift is needed to say an emphatic NO to government and bureaucracy, get creative financially through necessity, understand and see the big retrospective picture of the underlying truth about "government", redevelop patriotism for this nation of families... treasure and respect and find comfort in the family structure and everything and anything else that awakens us up to the corruption of big business and government and be absolutely intolerant of it as a nation. Make it a universal family value to keep one eye and strict control on what the administration is doing whilst your other eye is raising your kids and growing your businesses.so that your kids don't have to adult in a dystopian nightmare. It does not have to be the way it is atm.
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It's like that all over brother, we just fired our prime minister in Canada for the same reasons, but your debt is astronomical, but all tier one countries are experiencing the same craziness, I think it was done on purpose by the WHO, World health organization, if I didn't mix up the name, the Nazi's are running the show , the middle class is drowning, its time for revolution , when the working class is suffocated , anything can happen but the difference this time is that they have us more controlled than ever in the history of humanity, have a great bowl of rice and baloney steak or chicken tenders thats all we can afford now 😅
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I think its ultimately the US forcing other countries to do whats in their interest so they can 'milk' their 'allies' economies to support their oligarchs way of life. Because the US has those companies bigger than most countries economies, because they donate to US politicians, US foreign policy (...so many %GDP to NATO -US arms manufacturers) is controlled by them, the WHO-(you must get vaxed buying from US pharma) etc etc . These companies cannot expand further in the US so need to Globalise, taking over or out their allies companies.....Blackrock meets Starmer in the UK. Our countries politicians no longer work for us, but are being paid off, promised riches told who we can trade with or else. All the wars they start causing mass migration/ immigration that drains our systems, causes overcrowding, is because of this and anyone who points this out is labeled right wing and their media taken down, the old media having been taken over and controlled to push their narrative. I think the BRICS countries are avoiding this at the expense of becoming 'the Wests enemy', but if they are successful the West will be third world and then, will power then go to their heads? Its not looking good and there are more people looking for the exit as the West deteriorates. Dont know where this will end, but its depressing to watch.
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9:29 Have things gone up in price, stocks, houses, assets, services etc, or has our money become worth less? Hyper inflation is often scoffed at but when you understand how production fits into an economy it’s obvious we are running on fumes. 102 trillion of global debt, 36 trillion is Americas, about 5 Japans, Australia is nearly 1 trillion, its not getting paid back. Borrowed money was cheap for years long, and this created massive distortions in our economies. Interest rates need to go higher. Currency has no value, the money is not real. This. Ends. Badly.
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Me I just wake up, go to toilet, shower, eat, go to the train station, get onto train, go to the city, get into the office building, work, go for lunch, eat, go back to work, go to toilet, wee, go back to desk, work, get off the building, go to train station, get into train, get off the train, go home, eat, sleep.
Back to work hopping things will work out.
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