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  190. Lets not forget also how the government made money available at a hat drop for quarantine facilities and warehouses full of ventillators which never got used only a few years ago - what happened to all those hard assets from the public purse? Why was that expenditure so easy in a crisis when building more technical schools to address our critical skills shortage with people already among the numbers of our population count isn't? To start, we need a return to value-adding productivity overlaying the primary resources industries. Taking steel for instance: the argument that "people will go elsewhere for cheaper" doesn't play out so cut and dry as that argument alleges in markets as it is - plenty of people will sooner pay more for quality products that will endure. There are buildings across the nation still sturdy as the day they opened their doors with Port Kembla steel holding them together, meanwhile we have beand new high rises made of crap which are literally encountering structural failure before the final coat of paint is on. Further, take the Alaska model and pay Australian's dividends on national resource extraction profits. Wipe Payroll Tax; it was introduced to repay debts for our participation in WW2 - if the government hasn't managed to accomplish that in 80 years then they're incapable of being entrusted with our money for the task. Return Federal government operating costs to a limit of 2% GDP as it was from Federation until WW1 - currently sucking up ~21% of GDP. Re-establish the public postal bank system as Christina Holgate was investigating before Labor and Liberal hit her with the farce of 'WatchGate', Australian's shouldn't be railroaded into supporting the corporate agendas of the 'Big 4' which so frequently run counter to our individually held values as a nation of people. We have the potential to a far wealthier nation but have been hamstrung by a predominant poverty of policy since the get go, despite the few visionaries and lateral thinkers that have passed the the ranks of our represntatives.
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  362. 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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  437. The Australian housing disaster is easy to understand: over a multi-decade period (at least 50 years, but possibly more. Starting around 1970, but possibly earlier) EVERY government in Australia has made it increasingly difficult to make extra houses via development regulations AND has made it increasing easy to get extra people into the country VIA immigration. The result was that since around 1970 extra people came in faster than the extra houses needed to maintain the abundance of housing and the concomitant low prices (to buy or rent a house) that we used to enjoy here. once the cross-over point was hit - and people came faster than houses - it was inevitable that housing abundance would turn to housing shortage, and we got an inexorable rise in the price of housing (to buy and rent). Over 50 years Sydney changed from being one of the easiest places for an unskilled migrant to get a basic job and buy a house, to one of the hardest places to do this. Many people like to blame obscure tax changes or interest rates or investors or whatever for the problem. But the underlying problem is shortage - simply MORE PEOPLE THAN HOUSES. The fundamental cause of the shortage is negligent voting by the majority for many decades. The solution is much smarter voting. Stop being lazy and satisfied by two very poor options. Vote below the line and number every box. Put the big awful parties last in whatever order you can stomach. Make Labor and Liberal go the way of the big two dinosaur cars from the 70's - the Kingswood and Falcon. Labor and Liberal parties did not exist 5000 years ago and will not exist 5000 years from now. Who really expects them to exist in 500 years? If we work smart together we can get rid of both these dinosaurs in 50 years or even 5 years. It will be worth the effort.
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  488. 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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  726. 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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  1180. 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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  1207. 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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  1276. I was born in Melbourne in 1974. I remember in the 80’s Australians cared about others. I went door to door raising money for the people starving in Ethiopia, the 40hr famine. Band Aid sang “do they know it’s Christmas time , feed the world, let them know it’s Christmas time” Every thing was cheap and people used to celebrate and party. We were free to go camping or fishing, we were free to live in a caravan on our land without any bs from councils. It was normal to go surfing and leave our dogs on the beach. Dogs could do a shit without anyone crying. Land was cheap and businesses payed cash in hand. A carpenter could work for 4 years earn enough money to buy land out right and build a house for free off left over materials. Some cowards murdered my dog in 2006 and I have been homeless ever since travelling around Australia. Every year is worse than the year before. Every thing the ANZAC fought and died for has been in vain. The dream of self sufficiency is dead. The dream of owning land or a home is dead. We are now treated like children of the bylaw extortion racket. The Australian Government has turned into a Terrorist State that supports the genocide of Palestine. The ceasefire is all bs, every single day Israel murders more children and the media pretends Israel is the victim. If you want to fix Australia , go back in time and listen to 12 year old Canadian girl Victoria Grant and her viral speech on banking and the cause of poverty. Go back in time and arrest John Howard for helping George Bush commit mass murder.
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  1464. 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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  1856. Another great video Chris👍 we had it all here and with a population 1/2 the size, deliberately undermined and sold out we lost so much it will take some real effort to bring it back and a population that will be local proud even if the product has issues something for now with over 28% of all “Aussies” immigrants and a government that’s been working so hard at dividing all of us no doubt impossible here, unfortunately we will have to go further down to the standard of Korea before Hyundai pulled their slum out of poverty, go there and there’s no shyness in support of their 5 years and it’s in landfill crap product. Crazy a country so endowed with resources and smart inventive ingenious people can be sent so far backwards at the hands of WEF puppet governments unbelievable now what we all once had here, Lost so much when we should have it all make me a 2025 falcon commodore Camry Magna whatever as long as it’s made here in Australia tax and tariff the crap out of this foreign junk we have become the dumping ground for weather it be boots phones clothes or cars if it can be made here and all of it can then it should be made here or the fool that insists on buying it should pay for the unemployment benefits going to his fellow Aussies that he’s done out of a real job, the government is such a fan of taxing fining and feeing the life out of us all for everything else why not bring back the tariffs and encourage quality Australian made, made safe, made with quality as a priority, made without exploitation of poor people and avoidable pollution or destruction of the environment
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  2035. 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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  2447. 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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  2675. 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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  2764. Mate, I totally agree with what you said. I've been in Australia for 21 yrs now. I had come from a country called Zambia Central Africa. I'm a sole trader and I've worked for myself virtually all my adult life. I'm now 66 and forget going onto a pension it's not near enough to sustain you in your later yrs so basically I'll still be working easily into my late it's atleast. My wife is Australian and midwife for 45 yrs and still going. She's fed up with the nonesense coming out the medical arena so she can't wait to retire but that's only going to happen in another 3 yrs! We are renters and it seems that we'll be renters until we die unfortunately. There's no way in hell that we can afford even a small house as the price of housing has gone ballistic! I see tent cities in our town and I say to my wife, " this shouldn't be happening in this country " I 'm so disappointed with our current politicians whom I think are in there for their own good. It's the same in Africa mate. I have joined the Nationals as I have had enough of the current political situation and I have a stand at our meeting you voice my concerns and hopefully it gets through to higher authorities but I'm not holding my breath! This a beautiful country and infact, if there was a war imminent, I'd be showing both my hands to serve this country !! I love this country even though I was born in Africa being of Italian decent, there's no better country than Australia and it's really sad that there are the "real Australians " out there who want to destroy it!! Shame on them!! Is what I say!! My allegiance to this country is absolutely steadfast!!!
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  3039. Quite a few things to break down. But I’ll add some depth. I’m unsure your age. But I’m just old enough to remember the “recession we had to have”. We’ve had tough times before. But it was 30 years ago and many don’t remember it. Second Paul Keating warned us Australia risked becoming a banana republic. It was a warning not a challenge to aspire to. 1) our manufacturing isn’t expensive. But out productivity was low compared to other developed nations and are export opportunities were limited. Selling a Ford Territory to other countries we were burdened with massive tariffs or excises. 2) we wanted to feel rich. So we sold the goose that laid the golden egg. Businesses were sold off instead of built. 3) Baby boomers. Post war saw many babies. Saw many consumers. Saw an increase in products. Saw an increase in manufacturing. We haven’t been having many babies, so the pool shrinks. This isn’t solely an Australian problem. It’s a problem of all developed nations. Raoul Pal breaks this down well. 4) We believed Chinese manufacturing was cheap, yet we didn’t realise that Chinese workers would move into the middle class quickly. Middle class demand higher wages. So it wasn’t to remain cheap for long. And is why manufacturing is now leaving China. 5) We believed the Chinese population numbers. There is much evidence now to suggest their population is half what is claimed. 6) We live beyond our means. We want to feel rich so we went into debt to buy boats and jet skis. With every increase in debt comes the eventual contraction and hangover of having to pay off that debt, both on a personal and governmental level. That’s where we are now. 7) We built pretty shite cars for example. When we started to build good ones in the VE commodore and FG Falcon, the damage had already been done and the market had already shifted to other vehicles. We weren’t building what people wanted. 8) We are more interested in Kim Kardashian and Dustin Martin than applied mathematics, engineering and computer science. 9) We eat crap food. No adult man needs baby cow growth liquid poured in a cup or on a bowl of sugar flakes. Yet we believed the advertisers that we did. Don’t eat well can’t think clearly. 10) Build a wall around a castle and one creates as situation where one sees a desire to attack. If we kept the tariffs the likelihood of invasion would have increased. People need what we have and we don’t have the numbers to prevent them from taking it. In fact, it’s happened before. The White Australia Policy was pivotal in our involvement in WWII. Why do you think Japan was headed our way.. There is more. But that’s a good outline. But amongst the doom there is good news. We are a quick adopter of technology for example. We are leaders in home solar installations and battery storage. It means we adapt quickly to changing trends. Automation and AI too. It’s just we sold the IP off to other nations so that we could go fishing or go to the footy…. Don’t beat yourself up too much. It’s just part of the cycle.
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  3171. 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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  3433. I literally made a joke about this when I started because I was so excited to do Uber collect, I just like the variety Uber offers ( although one feature I wish we had was to select one over the other like if I just wanted a night of shop and pays or even if they added a highlight feature and gave you the option to take a job on further out like a batman beacon lol) I digress but my family then started telling me that my off the cuff remark was actually probably legit and then I started getting paranoid because I , like you would never want to help anyone commit a crime. I hate drugs. I have wondered if I have the right to search if I suspect anything but I assume Uber just wants to report it but that seems excessive? I feel there is definitely so much room for improvement on this matter because yes it is someone else's property but it is also then in your hands and on your person especially as a self contractor. Uber has not been of much help in regard to issues I have raised. I brought up identification issues for trans people as I come across a lot of people who don't match their name and literally identify with a different one and I don't want to be rude or offensive but also want to be by the book and Uber literally makes that impossible without making everything escalate and then they just "direct it to their email support team" which is just another team member reiterating the rules that aren't clear. So I don't think they'll fix this either. I will say though I don't think it's 50%, atleast I hope not. I've questioned packages but I never look or touch anything. I play the ignorance card because Uber has made it that way and it's really shitty in an otherwise enjoyable part of the job. To answer your question yes I could articulate myself easily if needed and no I would not be worried at all about anyone after me due to being well associated with law enforcement personally but it's still nerve racking to go through the process so I imagine others would struggle a lot.
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  4171. Young man you are so right. I worked in industry when I was young and help build Australia. However the rot was beginning then in the 1970s. I was one of those people who fought for tariffs to protect our industry and used my skills to work against overseas cheap imports. I will tell you even state departments like the hospitals were guilty of buying in cheap white sheets from oversea undermining our industry. So we approached Federal govt and said that this was happening and they put a stop to it. Then the sheets were imported but were printed with a just decernable white print, so they were not termed white sheets but a print. So again approach govt and argued that print under a standard light source if it was discernable to 4 on the grey scale and couldn't be sold as white sheet. No matter what we did these buggars just kept coming at us. The one thing that made industry buzz was our generation had the chance for the first time in Australia to go to college and get a education that was geared to industry. I remember one of my projects while studying was develop a method to test in realtime the production of pink bats used in your roof for installation. The education was directed to industry and the country foulished. Now we educate every other buggar and the universities sponsor cricket teams and mostly cater for overseas students. We need more robots to man the industries and make short run products with a high added value. One thing that is really big is the refining of rare earths like Germanium and selenium. This is mined here and shipped to china where they control the whole world. They make the solar panels, the computers the phones and tablets. Are we stupid or something? Renewables boom and we get someone else to do it for us and pay ultimate price in being ultimately poorer financially and beholding to another country. Come on let there be more people like thi young man. Get your finger out Australia and stop idiolising Shane Warne and idolise young guys with courage to speak out like this man.
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  4321. 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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  4345. Totally agree Chris. They lost me with the 17 metre wave??That’s 55ft?? Then again, did you see the report from Redcliffe? The fallen “”trees”” ie a few skinny branches and the “”plastic flapping around”” on the roof?? THAT was EMBARRASSING reporting. I have great empathy for those who have suffered property damage and loss, but please let’s keep this in perspective. It was a Cat2 that was downgraded to a tropical low as it moved over the coast. It was nowhere near the ferocity of the Cat 3-4-5’s experienced in the past in our northern Qld, NT, WA regions. If they are panicking over a tropical low what will it be like if the Chinese decide to invade? (What do you think their navy has recently been up to off our coast? Tourism?) Keep it in perspective people. We still have the continued media scaremongering and media posturing of Albot, yet they were all surprisingly quiet and absent as the red navy was circumnavigating and mapping our continents coastline……This Tropical low was simply that. Surely we should keep the media hype and community fears in check, and focus on preparing for more life threatening future possibilities. Just an observation from an ex military digger with his eyes still open….. Actually, on reflection, there was 100 times the mass media hysteria given to how the government was handling a tropical low than there was to what the Chinese navy ships AND NUCLEAR SUB were doing circumnavigating our whole continent!!!! Tropical low? Chinese navy? Tropical low? Chinese navy??? Nahhh folks there’s more to fear from a few falling trees and flood damage than the COMMUNIST CHINESE NAVY MAPPING OUR COASTLINE and pinpointing our undersea internet cables? How about cloud seeding in the Coral Sea that manipulated Alfred??No, too far fetched??? Too coincidental?? Well something surely doesn’t add up??
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  5016. 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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  5191. I have never felt so unmotivated in my life. I live alone. Just me and my dog. I have a house half renovated started in the good times and I can't rent it out because I need to fix the place up with what extra money I have left over of my pay after expenses? There isn't any. I literally work every week to hand my money to someone else and I'm trapped? I need money to fix the house just so I can rent it out so I can go live in a van in the park somewhere? That's the only goal I have and it's unobtainable. The Australian dream is a nightmare.. Never before have I felt resentment for being a house owner like now. The people who have nothing are free of the system. I want to own nothing and be happy FFS but I ain't signing up to that communist rubbish. My point is that this is intended to push that agenda; they are putting these pressures on us so that they can achieve their agenda. I'm literally keeping my head above water in resistance to their own nothing and be happy because I'm owning something and nothing but f*cking miserable! Everything inflates and it's infuriating because you are not getting more services for the extra money you pay. I'm liberally donating my time just to exist on this planet. I work to give it all to someone else just to keep the broken status quo in my life. I have no life. I do nothing on weekends. I sit at home or walk my dog because it's the one thing that makes me happy? I literally feel like a mindless zombie and I cannot remember when I last had fun or felt joy? For an entire year of work I've scraped together just $5,000 and most people would think that's great. I'm too shit scared to spend it on anything because at any minute disaster strikes and I'll need to rebuild the motor in my car that's just hanging in there? So yeah no Christmas for me. I have been so disconnected from society being unable to afford anything because on my unique situation that I literally have no friends anymore? I can count only 2 possibly 3 people in my life that care about me or my situation? If I died tomorrow it would be a month before any person would even look? I've never felt so irrelevant and unimportant in life like currently do now? I am working but I have no purpose and nobody that cares except my dog? Literally my dog is the most important thing in my existence at the moment. I probably would have pulled the pin on everything long ago without him in my life? That thought alone just makes me feel sad. Why the hell are we doing this? Why are we torturing ourselves for the acceptance of a society that not only doesn't care but is spiteful that you're rubbish that's failing apart is better than their nothing? All I'm going to get from this post is that I ought to feel privileged for even owing a house and my response to those people is f*ck you go to hell
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  5528. 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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  5707. The really sad thing about the current situation now with the housing crisis is this-the so called friend of the people government could actually stop the current housing crisis by simply stoping all foreign investment in Australia as most foreign investment believe it or not is money illegally brought into our country by criminals and yes if you bring your money into our country illegally from your own then you are a criminal! And the government welcomes them with open arms but frankly slaps every Australian smack in the face and tells us to shut up and lump it Also cull immediately the flow of immigrants into the country which in fact more than 70 percent plus plus of them do not even have any qualifications at all to benefit our society and frankly it’s like a leech sucking the life out you without you even realising it’s happening, but yes now we all know what’s going on and political parties are all for it , they won’t do anything to help relieve or God forbid even stop the housing market escalate out of control, which it already has. They are artificially stimulating our economy with migration to try and stop recession which I would say is already here, not to mention that the more new immigrants into the country the more goods will be bought and large globalist companies in Australia will make more profit. Part of the reason they are bringing in so many foreign immigrants to help their globalist buddies Our cities don’t even have the infrastructure anymore ! for so many people now and now it’s become out of control, our roads are congested with traffic, every second person in our supermarkets are not even speaking a language that’s understandable. Soon our suburbs will be become unrecognisable due to the crazy immigrant flow into our country. I could go on and on - enough said. Thanks for helping to inform people up in your vids, your spot on - much appreciated.
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  5754. 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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  5766. 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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  5833. 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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  6474. 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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  6513. 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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  6569. 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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  6871. Modern manufacturing requires cheap electrical energy to power the robots. The price of labour is a falecy. Holden and Ford could not continue with the cost of energy as it was and of course now the costs is even higher. Australia can rise above the current de-industrialism if our governments realise that it is their job to do for the Australian people that which the people cannot do for themselves. The current government forgets that it was the STATE governments that built the electricity system and even made a small profit from it UNTIL some members saw that they could sell the people's assets and then spend the money to entrench themselves in power. The nett result was a total loss of control of electrical generation and prices, Private enterprise running something as important to the national interest as the national electricity supply, FOR PROFIT, leaves the door open for our enemies to spend a few billion dollars and make Australia defenceless. Australia has over a trillion dollars of superannuation monies invested both in Australia and offshore. Guess where the Australian portion of the investment resides/? In realestate of course making housing prices increase and reducing the availability of Australians to afford their own home. There is currently a declining industrial sector and mining is done by large multinational concerns so where else can they invest? Without cheap electricity the answer is no where! As for electricity imagine a vast abundance of electrical generation from all sources. A new grid design based upon local generation and consumption would be perfect with excess energy being used for national interest projects like desalination for irrigation and even turning biomass into SNG for expert. SNG is synthetic natural gas. Potentially the increase in biomass from expanded agriculture could be used to manufacture Synthetic fuel etc. As for our pacific partners, imagine overhauling old transport shipping to include SMRs and desalination plants for sale or hire to pacific island nations that struggle to provide carbon free electricity to their nations. Imagine a power bill where the "Poles and wires" charges are minimal because with local generation and consumption there is no need for transcontinental transmission lines to be factored into everyone's electricity bill. As for defence, it is harder to stop defence industries/manufacturing if the power generation is distributed countrywide than if you only need to take out a single transmission line to cause the entire grid to crash. Currently there is a worldwide shortage of artillery ammunition in both NATO standard and ex-soviet calibres. A defence industry setup up to manufacture ammunition for both would allow the SE Asian nations ot source their requirements outside of the main aggressor countries which means that they could stand up for the sovereignty of our region and neighbouring countries. In war time we will not be able to purchase what we need and transport it to Australia and currently we will not be able to manufacture it either! A synthetic oil facility run in Australia, by defence, would allow our military to stay in the fight longer than a single tank of fuel! A supplier of western military equipment that will not put conditions of the systems usage is sorely needed in the world at this time. Australia is far from most other countries and it is positioned ideally to perform as an arms supplier way behind the front lines just as the US has done in the 2 world wars. As for myself I am a retired defence veteran with a great deal of disappointment watching the country I served being broken up and sold before my eyes! Australians are capable of anything except electing a honest, intelligent and caring government devoid of the current POLICIES before People attitudes.. In my eyes if politicians did not want to serve in the defence of our country in their youth they should not be allowed to lead it whilst draining the public purse with their vanity projects and INFLATED paychecks!
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  7101. Might be an idea if the Australian Federal government did not give away hundreds of billions of dollars of natural gas to foreign businesses which pay zero dollars in taxes more than likely every single year. Might be an idea if the Queensland state government did not give away billions of dollars of natural gas every single year to Japan for free likely tax free while delivering zero natural gas to the state of Queensland. Have heard that likely over a trillion dollars of natural gas is going to be given away for free to an American business likely having to pay zero dollars in taxes to the Australian Federal government by getting that natural gas for free from the Northern Territory. Apparently some politicians from the Territory intend to give all the natural gas in the Territory away for free to receive no taxes and for the Federal government to receive no taxes from it. Supposedly one of the politicians connived to betray the Australian public effectively helping to theive up to trillions of dollars from the Australian public by allowing the natural gas to be taken from the Territory for free. Supposedly that person gets a good paying job with the American bussiness while potentially trillions of dollars of natural gas is seemingly thieved from Australia. Supposedly the Queensland government gets 8 billion dollars a year in coal royalties and absolutely hates that and have said they intend to stop themselves getting that money to intentionally prevent themselves paying down the approximately 80 billion dollars state debt. Their intention is to deliberately pay billions of dollars in interest and never pay off the state debt. To ensure the state debt is never paid down or off. The Federal government is not necessarily very bright and neither political party has any intentions of preventing the theft of trillions of dollars of natural gas from Australia, where the people taking the natural gas for free pay nothing in taxes to the Federal Government. Those politicians are not necessarily the brightest people around and seemingly could not care less that trillions of dollars of assets are being removed from Australia with no taxes being paid on them. LPG could be used to run Australian vehicles cheaply however the Federal government wants to rip off the Australian public with high prices on imported crude oil to maximise fuel costs for all Australians who drive vehicles and to damage the Australian economy deliberately by giving away the natural gas for free to foreign countries and maximise fuel costs for vehicles for all Australians. They could not care less and have no interest in the natural gas effectively being theived for free from Australia.
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  7114. 1.. being able to report an old order and not received is a code issue. My guess is some new developer updated code in the production environment and ddidnt follow a test script. They also dont have a field that allows that entry to be closed on the customer end. You dont want it totally locked because banking and credit card chargebacks still need to be accessible to the account. 2. The timeline to dispute an issue really does need to only be 48 hours for certain things like missing item, wrong order delivered. While it seems intuitive that one would call immediately thats not always an option. Ive ordered for kids at home, only to get home several hours later and be told something wasnt right. I also order for families at the shelter or hospital. I may not find out until the next day. If ive ordered for catering for 20 people for lunch or dinner amd somerhing is missing and we can make do, the show goes on and i deal with it the next day. Im usually crazy busy and dont have time to sort it out. But i usually start with calling the restaurant or store first. Even when they say call DoorDash first. Many times they know they missed an item becaus it was still there at the end of the day. Most will make it right with me without having to go through DD. Usually these are not the driver that missed anything the the vendor themselves. Just my 2 cents. This is where a well crafted post on Twitter with receipts to get Tony's attention to the programming flaw would serve you all well. Even someone that has accepted sponsorship could be the go to person to pass on the information.❤
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  7186. Well this is a very down to earth assessment of the real state of the economy as governments and yes of both persuasion pander to the lunatic left. Not just currency debasement though my land tax as a self funded retiree for my one property in NSW has gone up 120% in just three years. This is Argentina style politics and that dear comrades who read this is where Australia is headed unless this useless bunch of economic illiterates gets the elbow in a big way come the next election. It is then up to us to let the incoming government know they can stick their windmills and solar panels where the sun doesn’t shine and these crazy power prices as well. Build a handful of new coal fired power plants now to tied us over until nuclear comes on line. If we don’t then mark my words if there’s any manufacturing left at all in Australia they will be headed for Vietnam or India very, very soon. Without manufacturing its third world status here we come. Regarding housing prices this can be solved albeit not overnight by dropping immigration to skilled workers only for three years at least thus letting our naturally occurring depopulation start to bite. This in turn will reduce housing costs it’s just basic maths. Like everything though this isn’t going to happen without pain as immigration is albeit at the cost of ever soaring debt keeping us out of a severe recession but it’s one or the other sadly. To sum up there no such thing as a free lunch we have all enjoyed to some extent the party but now it’s time to take the punch bowl off the table and deal with the hangover.
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  7280. 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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  7346. 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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  7520. Might be an idea if the Australian Federal government did not give away hundreds of billions of dollars of natural gas to foreign businesses which pay zero dollars in taxes more than likely every single year. Might be an idea if the Queensland state government did not give away billions of dollars of natural gas every single year to Japan for free likely tax free while delivering zero natural gas to the state of Queensland. Have heard that likely over a trillion dollars of natural gas is going to be given away for free to an American business likely having to pay zero dollars in taxes to the Australian Federal government by getting that natural gas for free from the Northern Territory. Apparently some politicians from the Territory intend to give all the natural gas in the Territory away for free to receive no taxes and for the Federal government to receive no taxes from it. Supposedly one of the politicians connived to betray the Australian public effectively helping to theive up to trillions of dollars from the Australian public by allowing the natural gas to be taken from the Territory for free. Supposedly that person gets a good paying job with the American bussiness while potentially trillions of dollars of natural gas is seemingly thieved from Australia. Supposedly the Queensland government gets 8 billion dollars a year in coal royalties and absolutely hates that and have said they intend to stop themselves getting that money to intentionally prevent themselves paying down the approximately 80 billion dollars state debt. Their intention is to deliberately pay billions of dollars in interest and never pay off the state debt. To ensure the state debt is never paid down or off. The Federal government is not necessarily very bright and neither political party has any intentions of preventing the theft of trillions of dollars of natural gas from Australia, where the people taking the natural gas for free pay nothing in taxes to the Federal Government. Those politicians are not necessarily the brightest people around and seemingly could not care less that trillions of dollars of assets are being removed from Australia with no taxes being paid on them. LPG could be used to run Australian vehicles cheaply however the Federal government wants to rip off the Australian public with high prices on imported crude oil to maximise fuel costs for all Australians who drive vehicles and to damage the Australian economy deliberately by giving away the natural gas for free to foreign countries and maximise fuel costs for vehicles for all Australians. They could not care less and have no interest in the natural gas effectively being theived for free from Australia.
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  7545. 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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  7589. As a professional shopper (well as a savy mum for over 25 years, weekly food shopping budgeting is my speciality). I can tell you the avergae cost of a bag of groceries in only 6 months has gone from $40 to $60 averge cost per full bag. Be observant of your averge bag cost and notice in the greedy inflation increases. We still have the same food budget but it cost double per week compared to only 3 years ago. The usual family trolley weekly shop even at Aldi was about $250 only 3 years ago compared to $500 these days. That's being just as cost savy and seeking specials over full cost. Thinking to open a basics shop with local fresh meat and fish and eggs and butter and ditching the rest. Im guessing many locals would be seeking local ingredients, too. But i wonder if this althought better to be local, will be within budget ?? 🤔 🤔 Our local egg farmer delivers 12 dozen eggs for $8 a carton, so it doesn't leave much for a shop owner. So considering all these things and also knowing their planned end game is soft communism to control us and depopulate iy makes sense why we see inflation increasing for basics. We fast most days and already only have one or 2 meals and simple meals and have a few chooks and still its a juggle to make the money strech the food mile. Combine this with being paid monthly and there you have the constant stress trigger we have to carry on top of the increasing controls and survalliance. I cut everything except carnivore food now to cut out the poisions they spray on produce and processed packets. But that's a whole different topic.
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  7771. 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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  7813. 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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  7839. Mate you are so right. When Im forced to watch mainstream at my mums the lies, they construct get me so angry! We play into the hands of the US" Back the war and puppet criminals they put in power in Ukraine that they can't win that's deindustrialised Europe, causing inflation throughout the entire west" the prices of things we see keep going up" and Im the same out shopping and go omfg! are you for real! I speak to business owners, and they show me their books ans say" look! im not making anything as prices are too high. On the news! Nothing but misdirection and at times outright lies! Ive been active decades in geopolitics and profiling leadership, I know the facts! It's not going to get much better from what I see". Buy gold if you have some $ aside!! Trump is launching a trade war to try and save US global dominance, countering China, our largest trade partner! The US is arming and setting us and others up to fight China who is not our enemy. Their attempt in Washington to spawn this war and regime change operation Russia has failed" And the rest of the planet outside the ridicules Western rules-based order of criminals and deception is in reality taking back sovereignty and democracy! Something we don't have". Israil can murder woman and children 24/7 that' if you livestreamed Auschwitz during ww2 it would be much the same as in Gaza today! Do you see outrage from our Gov? Friend of the US, no rules!! buckle up everyone! Prepare for the worst, and don't buy into the bad China and Russia thing" its %100 pure bullshit! Our NAVY out there testing US weapons all full of pride are delusional!! believing the US is good for us! This freedom of navigation in the China sea they go on about is absolute rubbish"". Our rights here are more or less gone" More and more police powers, prisons! We all really need kick our government in the nuts a bit. Good luck hey!
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  7987. 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. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… From “Their morals and ours 1936” Leon Trotsky
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  8278. 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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  8402. 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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  8412. 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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  8556. 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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  8724. 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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  8737. 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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  8807. 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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  8874. 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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  8891. 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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  8941. 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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  9027. 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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  9032. Rumour has it that the current Government has a proposal that they want to be able to push through but won't be able to if they lose the election. The proposal is that they want to make our Government more like the American system where we would only have 2 choices in who we could vote for removing minor parties and independents who are key factors in preventing total control in parliament. One of the other reasons for pandering to the public is they are also fearful of the public voting for minor parties and independents as this would ruin any chance of them easily passing new laws or mandates. During the last elections we have had there has been an increase in people voting for independents and minor parties which the major parties are afraid of. If people really have lost faith in the major parties then it is time our votes went towards independents or minor parties that can actually help make a difference. The media will claim if this happens it will ruin our country but in retrospect it prevents them having total control. The media also will claim that you shouldn't vote for certain independents or minor parties for various reasons, this is also just another fear mongering tactic to bring you back to them. If the current Government fails us and we continue to vote for them and keep them in, we are only fooling ourselves if we believe they can provide the change we need. Albanese was on some political show before he got elected and shared that he was raised by a single Mum and understood what it's like to do it tough. If what he said is true, I've seen no evidence to support that he understands what the Australian public are going through at all.
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  9070. 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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  9144. 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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  9204. 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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  9554. 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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  9587. 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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  9589. It was the selling off of government assets that started Australia down the path we are on now. Governments forgot the reason they existed in that they exist to do for the people that which the people are unable to do for themselves. Politicians claimed that EVERYTHING needed to be privatised and of course the money realised was then used to increase the size of government and thereby reinforce its belief in its divine right to rule according to the party policy platforms. When the electricity generation was sold off the government then legislated a price rise in electrical energy costs claiming that, "The new owners deserved to make a profit on their investment". Since that first price rise electrical energy costs have risen steadily and without mercy. Similarly the governments decided that the mining industry should realise global pricing for the minerals they extracted. So Australians got to pay the same price for our coal and gas as the Chinese did. When there was an attempt to tax excessive profits there were massive efforts on the part of some politicians and the miners themselves to stop mining royalty increases. Of course the increase in the cost of electricity, because of the need to ensure a profit for the new owners, was compounded by the increase in costs of the coal and gas that was being burned to generate the electricity. Because of the increased cost of electricity manufacturers could not compete and so they were forced to close down or move off shore. It is not the cost of labour that is destroying manufacturing because ROBOTS are used in most industrial manufacturing BUT Robots do use electricity and lots of it. Now the focus is on trying to get private industries to invest in electrical generation but with massive subsidies on the part of renewable energy sources. Nuclear is definitely needed BUT it cannot be a privatised asset or the entire scenario of the past few decades will be repeated but with even greater negative impacts. Our government does not even understand that with defense if we make the weapons we can make more during conflict but if we buy them from the other side of the world they may never arrive when we need them. Make it in Australia and have ALL ingredients owned by the Australian people this includes electricity. How many people and companies are involved in the electricity generation and distribution and compare that to before privatisation? All those extra people need to be paid from the charges we pay for electricity! No government since the days of Menzies has had a clue about managing an economy!
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  9637. 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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  9900. 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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  10085. 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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  10271. Something to note is that it's not simply "foreign' investors that are buying up everything they can, these are internationally owned companies and rich globalists with no real loyalties to any country or government beyond the legal obligations they need to meet to maintain operations. They're doing this stuff to every country that will allow it. It should also be noted that a lot of our major corporations source a significant portion of their staff from overseas too. it's all part of the globalisation process, I suspect the end state would involve dissolving sovereign nations and ramping up the mobility of workers to the point that all major cities are populated by people with heritage from all over the world. What can be done about it? Get organised! These corporations are only as influential as they are because so many people around the world give them money whey they buy their products and services. If you want to do something about it you can start by avoiding buying their stuff wherever possible. On a small scale this won't do anything though so you also have to form a network (or take over an existing one) and try to get as many people on board as you can. Next you can buy up Australian assets and refuse to sell them to foreign interests, this one requires a lot of money to do but it can be done if enough people come together and keep at it. And finally you can put pressure on politicians to do something about it from their end. Find someone who's on the same page as you or join a party yourself and become a candidate. Political party membership rates are pretty low in Australia so if you're willing to pay the membership fee you can jump in and start steering things in a better direction, the party is only as good as the people in it.
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  10274. 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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  10288. that's because 80k which your on with 3 jobs is below average the new 60k is 100k your real wage hasn't moved and your increase your hours as for the subs the Contract includes dockside infertructure training facilities support industry on and on they are not paying 3.5 billion for just the subs it's to create a domestic industry from nothing which includes JOBS it's also spread over a decade so it's not like they are printing and shipping pallets of cash to the US 350 million a year to bootstrap and high value add industry that pays high wages and contributes to making Australia secure for the next 40 years I think it's worth it and the taxes I pay are much better off being spent there then other usless crap that's just inflationary for no gain also assuming the crown released all this land to build where are they going to do that? no one wants to live outside the major cities they are swollen and carnt sustain themselves without desification which councils actually outlaw in most areas who's going to build them if you have a fully employed workforce in construction building 100 000 houses a year relaseing enough land and money to build them isn't going to make them build 1 000 000 houses it might kick up to 150 000 but you can bet it's going to cost the same as 1 000 000 what you are advocating for is sooooo much more inflationary Australia needs to stop letting in doctors and engineers and let in carpenters and electricans and reduce the restrictions on high density development for example you should be allowed to build apparent buildings in flood zones IF it dosnt reach half way up 1 floor, the ground floor is dedicated to parking / lobby only and there is escape options at second level but instead we have low density houses on 1000 square meters near existing trainlines on sloping land that carnt be developed due to flood touching 1 corner of the back of the block
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  10374. 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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  10399. with the privatisation of our coal fired power stations across australia, government has relinquished control over reliability of electricity supply. well no, they have actually worsened future reliability with their greenhouse provisions. but it is the overseas owners of these stations who decide the future of their stations. as a business they care about profits now & into the future. if their station has reached it’s useful life they ask how will expensive maintenance, shutdown or replacement affect profits. as for electricity reliability in their area, they really don’t care. if they decided shutdown was the best option, they would go ahead (usually with yrs of advance warning). government couldn’t stop them (forgetting gov incentives to extend). the resultant effect of local blackouts is just not their concern. i don’t know know what the answer is. seems someone should be taking wider responsibility for reliable supply. but who? not the local or state governments. so we will just wait til blackouts get bad enough for someone (gov or private industry) to actually do something. that is how it is & we must accept this situation. business fill needs, but subject to perceived profits. governments react to people pressure to spend our taxes on contracting out for solutions to the problem. fortunately in Australia things (ie blackouts) aren’t as bad as in many developing economies. and coal here is so cheap & readily available. considering the rapid growth of coal fired power plants in China & India, they would have the expertise to advise us on best path to take. it makes sense any contracted out studies be directed there.
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  10417. 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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  10487. 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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  10576. 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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  10843. 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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  11137. Manufacturing cars in Australia was done by 5 international companies mostly. Ford =US HOLDEN = US Toyota = Japan. Nissan = Japan Mitsubishi = Japan was here for a while A few British and euro makes assembled cars here. People seem to think that Holden is the most Australian of australian cars, owned by Australians, made by Australians with Australians steel asks parts. Similar with Ford. In reality Holden from the outset of them building cars as Holden's was wholly owned by general motors in the good old US of A. 40% approx of a commodore was imported parts and 60% of the golden models ever sold were imported. Again Ford was similar. Surprisingly the most Australian car companies that made most of the parts asks used more Australian content in local and export cars was Toyota asks Mitsubishi. The reason it's not viable to have a lot of manufacturing here anymore is very similar to that in the UK and some European countries. Privatisation of our utilities and the unions pushing wages and conditions far above what could be absorbed in higher car prices along with the exorbitant cost of shipping out of Australia and our high Australian dollar along with relatively small population. Businesses make a profit or rise they are charities not businesses. A government can't continuously prop up international businesses to just keep tipping up the pockets of their investors shards of how many jobs it saves. They may as well just put everyone on a more generous unemployment benifit and sit the factories down, which is pretty much what's happened. So unless we're building niche hypercars or like we do, military and mine vehicles where there's a very high profit margin per sale, there is no possible way to have mass produced cars and other high volume low profit products built here, the over heads are just too high.
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  11404. 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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  11647. You can thank the ideology and policies of the LNP for getting this country into the economic and housing affordability crisis shit mess. The recently released "secret" cabinet papers of 20 yrs ago (Howard / Costello era) showed that the LNP were fully aware that their tax policies were creating a housing affordability crisis but for political expediency they chose NOT to do anything about the matter and here we are today reaping the consequences. The very stupid mistake that Labor is now making which is basically adding petrol to the very destructive fire that is consuming housing affordability is to allow immigration to blow out to massive numbers which is making matters even worse. However, dont get distracted by that because it was the LNP who effectively changed the provision of shelter & housing from an essential human right and something that underpins the very welfare of society in so many ways but the LNP wanted to make housing into more of a private investment vehicle for wealth creation - which is exactly what it has become. That was their intention. Labor later tried to stem these lopsided tax benefits under Bill Shorten with some sensible wind down grandfathering policies to limit such tax benefits and be more in favour towards new builds , but the stupidly gullible & dopey Australian public being egged on by an equally dopey media rejected those proposals , retained the LNP as government and we have what we have. This country reaps what it sows and for its dopiness it deserves what's coming. And as I said, you can 100% thank the LNP for this. If you want to know how to do housing properly -and many other government activities such as managing the country's natural resources, look no further than the Scandinavian countries. Compared to them, Australia is third world.
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  11708. 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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  11735. 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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  11809. We’re broken because we keep re electing career politicians who have sold our country to foreign interests including our real estate and farms and power generation. We have become serfs in our own country and if we keep voting for labour and liberal parties nothing will change . If the prime minister will accept free goods and services this is for a reason and that’s to do whatever big companies want and they want you to pay them inflated prices for everything … also we are taxed for everything we own everything we earn, everything we buy, everything we save .. we are taxed for everything twice over . Our government is corrupted by big business and have destroyed our economy . We export our gas and coal for almost nothing to foreign countries and iron ore and minerals are exploited by oligarchs which have their tendrils in our country. We don’t benefit by iron ore. We export most Coal and gas for zero dollars for free to foreign companies. We produce almost zero manufacturing. We don’t make cars. We don’t make anything. We have zero oil refining left in Western Australia . We have let foreign citizens park money in Australia in housing to prevent their governments from taxing it . We should each get a cheque from our gas and iron oil and coal resources but we receive fucking zero . We have sent more than a billion dollars and weapons to the failed corrupt state of Ukraine. We spend cash on overseas weapons companies because we care about supplying them with weapons cash. We are stupid to keep electing these same parties all of the time . Dimwits.
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  11954. 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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  11956. 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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