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Re: Waking Up From The Australian Dream
Reply #15 - Apr 5^th, 2022 at 12:36pm

The world is rapidly becoming over-populated - Australia is essentially a lifeboat - there is only room on board for a limited number and continuing to overload the lifeboat will result in its overturning and sinking.

The world will sink with or without us - I'd prefer it to be without...

**chews popcorn while waiting for someone to come along and screech at me for being a Neo-Fascist or something - not at all - I'm trying to save what's left of this once proud nation ... chews popcorn while waiting for someone to come along and scream at me for being 'racist' and so forth for telling the truth about the murder done to this nation and its people by those entrusted with its care and oversight ... why would they change any of the rules when they benefit from them?**

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Re: Waking Up From The Australian Dream
Reply #16 - Apr 5^th, 2022 at 12:52pm

whiteknight wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 8:56am:

Australian house prices are some of the most expensive in the world. No wonder so many now, cant afford to buy a house. Sad

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook46p/HomeOwnership

Overall household home ownership rates in Australia (including dwellings with a mortgage and those owned outright) have hovered around 70 per cent since 1961.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate

While not exactly high on the list, we rank above the US, UK and NZ.

I expect this is more a function of government regulation than anything else. If it were legal to sell fibro shacks on tiny blocks of land with no utilities connections, our home ownership rate would be much higher.

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athos Gold Member Offline Re-educate barbarians Posts: 6406 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: Waking Up From The Australian Dream Reply #17 - Apr 5^th, 2022 at 1:07pm whiteknight wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 8:56am: Australian house prices are some of the most expensive in the world. No wonder so many now, cant afford to buy a house. Come live in China everything is cheap here.
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Re: Waking Up From The Australian Dream
Reply #18 - Apr 5^th, 2022 at 1:15pm

athos wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 1:07pm:

whiteknight wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 8:56am:

Australian house prices are some of the most expensive in the world. No wonder so many now, cant afford to buy a house. Sad

Come live in China everything is cheap here.
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Especially the labour. You must be proud.

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Re: Waking Up From The Australian Dream
Reply #19 - Apr 5^th, 2022 at 3:06pm

Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 12:36pm:

The world is rapidly becoming over-populated - Australia is essentially a lifeboat - there is only room on board for a limited number and continuing to overload the lifeboat will result in its overturning and sinking.

The world will sink with or without us - I'd prefer it to be without...

**chews popcorn while waiting for someone to come along and screech at me for being a Neo-Fascist or something - not at all - I'm trying to save what's left of this once proud nation ... chews popcorn while waiting for someone to come along and scream at me for being 'racist' and so forth for telling the truth about the murder done to this nation and its people by those entrusted with its care and oversight ... why would they change any of the rules when they benefit from them?**

Part of the underlying psyche of Nu Zulland and partly Australia is that it (they) are in a unique position compared to other 'First World' nations (sort of), due to the fundamental reality that they ARE indeed a long way from the disasters of cultures/nations building elsewhere. When Downfall comes, they stand a chance of being saved.... the over-crowded areas will not and will be ravaged by war, disease, famine, plagues and all the rest.... while - as long as we preserve out borderline in several ways -we stand a good chance of coming out of it with only a few losses - IF we do not become over-crowded with antithetical groups, some of which are bent on our destruction to suit their fantasies.

As a nation looking forward to Global Downfall, we need to be looking at the very BEST coming here and not the dregs.

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Re: Waking Up From The Australian Dream
Reply #20 - Apr 6^th, 2022 at 12:00pm

whiteknight wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 7:35am:

Federal Labor’s promise to commit $10 billion to build affordable social housing is welcome, but only scratches the surface of what is now a housing crisis in Australia. Sad

If Labor leader Anthony Albanese is serious about reducing housing poverty in Australia, he must commit the party to spending at least $20 billion over the next five years, according to CFMEU Construction & General National Secretary Dave Noonan.

The number of people depending on government in some form - and often entirely - is ever expanding. Housing, welfare, education, health, aging - private aspects of life are taken over by government intervention, provision, assessment, resource allocation. Every aspect of private life is becoming a task and responsibility for government. There is never a retreat by government intervention, only an expansion.

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Re: Waking Up From The Australian Dream
Reply #21 - Apr 6^th, 2022 at 12:05pm

Frank wrote on Apr 6^th, 2022 at 12:00pm:

whiteknight wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 7:35am:

Federal Labor’s promise to commit $10 billion to build affordable social housing is welcome, but only scratches the surface of what is now a housing crisis in Australia. Sad

If Labor leader Anthony Albanese is serious about reducing housing poverty in Australia, he must commit the party to spending at least $20 billion over the next five years, according to CFMEU Construction & General National Secretary Dave Noonan.

The number of people depending on government in some form - and often entirely - is ever expanding. Housing, welfare, education, health, aging - private aspects of life are taken over by government intervention, provision, assessment, resource allocation. Every aspect of private life is becoming a task and responsibility for government. There is never a retreat by government intervention, only an expansion.

Well ... when the government wants to take control over everything everyone does so it can do as it chooses..... Unexpected Consequences is not a sudden visit by a series of Greeks...

When you take command, old boy - you're on your own!

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Re: Waking Up From The Australian Dream
Reply #22 - Apr 7^th, 2022 at 1:59pm

freediver wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 12:52pm:

whiteknight wrote on Apr 5^th, 2022 at 8:56am:

Australian house prices are some of the most expensive in the world. No wonder so many now, cant afford to buy a house. Sad

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook46p/HomeOwnership

Overall household home ownership rates in Australia (including dwellings with a mortgage and those owned outright) have hovered around 70 per cent since 1961.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate

While not exactly high on the list, we rank above the US, UK and NZ.

I expect this is more a function of government regulation than anything else. If it were legal to sell fibro shacks on tiny blocks of land with no utilities connections, our home ownership rate would be much higher.

But people who already own a house/mortage as their primary residence don't need to buy another one in the current market.

Plus it's almost impossible to find rental on the Gold Coast, and many of those who are renting have been kicked out as the landlords sold the house to cash in on the gains in the market making the problem even worse.

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