by ROGER CROOK – THE basic tenets of democracy died in Australia in 2007 – and they are yet to be revived.
We elect governments to govern; to take care of our needs today and plan for all our tomorrows. If they fail, we kick them out and give the other lot a go. Or at least that’s the way it should be, but it isn’t.
- Australia used to be a nation of abundance; something has gone awfully wrong?
- This is not the nation we wanted.
- This is not the Australia that Menzies planned for us.
What we do is listen to the promises politicians make, then the majority who believe what they hear elect the political Party of their choice into government.
We know before the election that the leader of the winning Party will become prime minister of the country.
LUST
When John Howard was defeated by Kevin Rudd in 2007 it started a period in Australia’s history where personal ambition, the lust for power and the pursuit of political ideology replaced “government of the people for the people and by the people”.
There have been seven Prime Ministers in 17 years. The people elected some of them; some of them plotted with their treacherous factions to politically assassinate their leader only to be assassinated themselves when it was decided by their one-time collaborators that it was now their turn for the pike.
It is the people of Australia who have paid, and are still are paying the high price of 17 years of seven prime ministers, bar one (Tony Abbott), all indulging in overt hegemony and the pursuit of political ideology at the expense of good governance.
Determined no matter the price to secure a page in the history book of Australia they pursued their own selfish ambitions and in so doing, left Australia without a well-defined strategic path to ensure a stable and secure future.
During those years prime ministers of both persuasions have encouraged migration because it has made them look good in the national accounts while they have ignored the basics of good governance.
Migrants have kept the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in an area considered to be acceptable to the Mandarins in Treasury and the predecessors of the now Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Ms Angela Bullock, and her board. It has given treasurers and prime ministers something to boast about.
The reason we have absurdly high house prices in Australia is because for twenty years or more there haven’t been sufficient houses built for the people who have wanted them; the law of supply and demand.
It’s a simple fundamental law, which every trader learns on their father’s knee; it is the law that makes and breaks fortunes and which politicians, because they are protected from every-day reality, have never been able or sought to understand.
UNPARDONABLE
To be fair, the Albanese Government inherited an unpardonable housing shortage; but when elected they not only ignored the problem they made it immeasurably worse; they allowed, they even welcomed another half a million people into the country; people who to start with, need of a roof over their head.
For generations our young people once finished with either university or training of some kind, have been eager to leave home; fly the coop, live on their own and have the freedom they dreamed about when they were teenagers.
No more hearing the lights click off as they creep in after midnight; no more “looks” over breakfast when a hangover is obvious or the probing when it’s an early Sunday morning, somewhat untidy, entrance.
For many young people staying at home with mum and dad, whether single or trying to cram a double bed and a partner into the spare bedroom, is now a reality born out of necessity, and the only way to save for a deposit on a house; but even that challenging life-style is starting to be beyond the capacity of many to endure.
Saving for a deposit on a million-dollar house has, for many, become a bridge too far.
Although I do hear that down at the bowls clubs around Australia, the baby boomers are increasingly talking about something similar to “elder abuse”.
Evidently the latest way for the young to muster the deposit for a house is to constantly “persuade” their old and oh-so-rich parents to sell the “castle” they bought thirty, forty years ago; downsize to something more suitable for their retirement, and then smile and stump up with the deposit on a million-dollar house.
POLITICAL INDOLENCE
In Australia over the next twelve months, in addition to those already house hunting, another 600,000 people will be searching for somewhere to live; that’s 500,000 migrants and 100,000 of our own from natural increase.
The average number of people per household in Australia at present is 2.5, that means to accommodate another 600,000 we need a preposterous 240,000 new dwellings of some kind; there are more migrants coming next year; we are assured it will not be another 500,000, but the natural increase will be about the same.
Six hundred thousand people live on the Gold Coast, the sixth largest city in Australia; so, for just one year’s population growth we need to build the equivalent of another Gold Coast.
Not just 240,000 houses either, we must also accept the increase in pressure on our shopping centres, schools, child care centres, roads, surgeries and hospitals and transport systems these people will bring.
As well, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen must find reliable (renewable?) electricity for about a two per cent rise in our population; just like us they will want hot water, electric cookers and lights and so much more.
If Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Minister for Housing Julie Collins considered – and then ignored – the effect another half million people would have on an already stressed national infrastructure, what does it say for the future of this country under Labor?
It is far from certain that we the people welcome the rapid increase in the number of migrants flooding into our towns, cities and regional centres; but no government of either persuasion has ever asked the opinion of the people on migration – they have just gone ahead and done it; they have done it because it made them look good and enabled them to boast about what good economic managers they are.
Before the recent completely legal migrant invasion, there was a growing and seemingly intractable housing shortage caused by nearly a decade of inaction by the previous Coalition government.
Many thousands of Australians were then and still are under rent and mortgage stress; making daily decisions on whether to pay the rent or mortgage or to buy food to feed their children is a decision no family in Australia should have to make.
There are too many stories of meal times where the children don’t see what their parents subsist on. Foodbank, the Salvo’s and other food charities are overwhelmed and under stocked.
This is not the way Australia should be. Australia used to be a nation of abundance; something has gone awfully wrong?
A key promise in Labor’s 2022 election campaign was to commit $10b to the Housing Australia Future Fund.
Over a five-year period Labor has committed to build:
- 20,000 social houses for those on low income, of which four thousand would be committed to housing women and children fleeing violence and for older women in danger of becoming homeless.
- 10,000 affordable homes, these would be for key workers in key industries, like nurses, police etc, and to spend many more millions on repairs and maintenance of houses mainly used by the Aboriginal population.
The natural increase and recent migration shows conclusively a need, right now, for another 240,000 houses of some kind.
Labor’s commitment to build just 20,000 houses over five years to meet the needs of the Australian people is bizarre and smacks of either a reluctance to face facts, or terrible ignorance before the election; maybe some in the electorate believed them?
When Labor came to power nearly two years ago there were and still are, about 160,000 family units on the social housing wait list and increasing at about 8000 a year.
Most of the increase was among families classed as having the “greatest need”, in other words those who are desperate; the Prime Minister’s housing policy ignores our most disadvantaged.
In my region of Western Australia, with a population of about 50,000, we have a social housing wait list of about six hundred and growing by 15-20 per cent a year.
It is dominated by single women, many of mature age; this cohort is replicated on social housing wait lists across the country and in 2024 fails to gain the recognition it deserves from the much vaunted #MeToo female lobby.
GONE
The next largest group are aged couples; some are refugees from rural areas where there has been a seismic shift in agricultural practice; the sheep and the cattle have gone and the stockmen with them.
This trend, so far largely unrecognised, will continue to put housing pressure on regional centres.
The challenges for Labor of another 500,000 people is not confined to finding somewhere for them to live, it is the maintenance of what we call the Australian way of life; a way of life, which must be preserved in one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world.
Increasingly there are reports of more than one family of the same ethnicity living in the same house. Sometimes two or three families, twelve or more people – men, women and children – living under one roof with a population density that would not be allowed in an Australian cattle feedlot; that is not the Australian way.
This is not the Australia we want. This is not the Australia that Menzies planned, one of home ownership.
A family home is not a privilege in Australia, it is a right.
A right that is not recognised by the majority of politicians because history shows successive governments have done little to meet the aspirations of the people who elected them.
All of us, through our elected governments, have invited mass migration to Australia and, quite rightly, we continue to give sanctuary to refugees, to those in real need.
Now we must live up to our promise and at all costs avoid what has taken place in many countries in Europe; we must prevent the development of suburbs turning into ghettos and being dominated by one ethnic group.
Before they welcomed 500,000 migrants into the country, I wonder if the Labor Government considered the demands these “new Australians’ would rightfully place not only on our housing but also on our essential services?
Consider the strain another 500,000 migrants will now put on our overworked and under-funded health care system.
Think doctors appointments and ambulance ramping. Wait lists for elective surgery and the demands for aged care.
That’s a story is for another day.PC
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“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan
In accents most forlorn
Outside the church ere Mass began
One frosty Sunday morn.
From ‘Said Hanrahan’ by John O Brien
This socialist government consists of a cabinet full of absolute morons who haven’t a clue!
The latest madness? They will spend FOUR BILLION building Indigenous housing OUT IN THE BUSH where there are no jobs, schools, hospitals or any support services! Oh how bright!
And of course, a diverse energy system that includes nuclear base-load power is beyond their feeble comprehension. One only has to look at Ontario in Canada to see what intelligent beings have planned and built! A SUPERB MIX!
But no, we are to become a hopelessly backward Nation, blighted and impoverished by an unreliable, horrifically expensive and failure-prone energy system based entirely on ‘renewables’! What a shocking prospect!
And I could go on for pages detailing the heap of ludicrous ways by which this wretched Government is killing our economy and our future.
Every month 10 public servants and 10 politicians randomly selected from all levels, federal, state and local, should be put in stocks for the public to throw rotten vegetables and fruit at. Consequences are the rudder of a free society: do what you want but accept the consequences and the example should be set at the top. Politicians and PSs have avoided consequences for their failures; in fact they have been rewarded. Time it ended.
And signing us up to the United Nations NWO Agenda 21 (Gough) was the beginning of the Socialist Republic Of Australia . History has been forgotten and twisted and the fighting other peoples wars only to then rebuild and empower our enemies to become stronger and take us over with the cooperation of corrupt politicians has assisted in the demise of The Late Great Lucky Country .
I think Whitlam Labor signed the UN Lima Agreement in 1975 to transfer manufacturing industry to developing nations as rated by the UN, China for example.
UN Agenda 21 was signed late 1980s by the Keating Labor Government – sustainability – and all Australians should check it out and then consider the changes since via government legislation and regulations.
https://www.independent.co.uk/
Excessive immigration intake since May 2022 has provided Albanese Labor with the wafer thin cover of a per capita recession instead of a full blown recession, and looking back to the 1980s “Rust Belt of Victoria” state recession and followed or leading into the Labor recession from 1990, the worst here in 60 years 1990 repeated is probably not too far away.
WE never had inflation and recessions until ??? Hawke/Keating .
I disagree that the end year was 2007, that was the beginning but the pause button was pushed in September 2013 when the Abbott Coalition Government was elected.
The path to ruin started again when PM Abbott was replaced by PM Turnbull in 2015.
If Tony Abbott had been supported, meaning that the Liberals In Name Only – LINO left – had not been disloyal and leaking against the government he was leading, including using Union-Labor’s GetUp activist organisation to GetAbbott – I believe the position today would be much stronger, at least until May 2022.
Spot On and he wrote about the turning of our cities into third world ghettos and more and for that he was stabbed in the back.