Armageddon is at hand.
Even if true (which in full is highly unlikely), Australia can do nothing to stop any climate change if it happens, so why make ourselves poor for nothing?
The only real motivation for pollies is to be re-elected, no matter what the cost to the voters.
This is not cynicism, but reality.
Our housing crisis has been at least 20 years in the making by all governments.
They had the information (census data, housing development applications etc) to see what would happen.
There was no action as there were no votes in it at the time.
The elites have no interest in the welfare of the working class so long as the working class keeps working to increase the wealth of the elites.
Nimby is another word for Australia, not with head in the sand, but with head in the red dirt.
Australia is slowly but surely sinking into the shite and deserves it for ignoring the issues of social equity and the conditions in the rest of the world.
It makes me sad to think we are ruining ourselves out of stupidity, greed (in some quarters) and a sense of entitlement.
Forty years ago, if you had the ability, you could get a tertiary education in Australia with tuition fees on the government.
Now, unless you are very brave (HECS burden) or your parents can afford it you have no hope, cementing social classes with no upward mobility for the talented.
Why do we need to import doctors or other highly trained professionals?
Only because we are not prepared to nurture our own talent.
I was lucky because of the environment at the end of WW2.
It was recognised during WW2 that we needed all the talent we have.
Post WW2 we revert to not giving equality of opportunity which has always existed in society.
Opportunity only for the rich.
We deserve our likely future, or rather the elites do, but everyone else suffers more.
Advance Australia Fair no longer exists.
The land of the fair go is in the past and replaced with a mob with disparate values, beliefs and religion, with no social cohesion or sense of purpose other than to get as much taxpayer funds as possible for their own pet projects and aggrandisement.
Email, Sep 16
Charles Hemmings, Woy Woy
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