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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
what the actual fuck is going on in this country? has the place just lost its collective mind??
Bondi Junction.
Mental health. Meanwhile we have astonishing numbers living on the streets and record funding of NDIS. Something is seriously wrong here.
Last night some little shit stabbed a priest while shouting his backward fucking religious bullshit.
Benefits of diversity. Why wouldn't you want people with nothing in common to move here and listen to protected hate speech?
How many fucking women have been murdered in the past few months??
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I am seeing the same craziness in Auckland as well, every day there's some new lunatic doing something crazy. I think the economic fallout from the response to the Pandemic down here is having a pretty disastrous effect on mental health across the board. Gonna get worse before it gets better I think.
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My observation would be most of the (undoubted) increase in violence is gang related. Which has escalated with the arrival of the Comancheros who brought a gun culture with them from Oz. Just another present related to the 501's.
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What an absolutely diabolical article. The sooner legacy media dies the better.
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And more violent news here in Melbourne - day meet night….
Photos shared on social media show a wild attack, with one boy in a hoodie raising what appears to be a machete.
Witnesses to the shocking event also posted to social media describing horrendous scenes.
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This doesn't surprise me given the recent emphasis on social media companies (particularly Meta) doing more to prevent youths sharing illegal activities for "likes" from peers. Nor the oft cited claims that increased media reporting leads to copycat crimes.
What is obvious to me is disengaged parents, failing education systems and perceived lack of consequences.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
Nor the oft cited claims that increased media reporting leads to copycat crimes.
And the media also gets a fixation on any related crime - knife attacks happen at a certain frequently, but when you amplify them in the media it suddenly seems like more.
Wife just said one of their aged care patients had an issue and needed to be sent back to hospital. The son threatened to stab everyone.
Charming.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
What is obvious to me is disengaged parents, failing education systems and perceived lack of consequences.
This x 100.
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For shits and giggles I watched the first 30 mins of Tuesday's Senate Inquiry into supermarket pricing where an obviously frustrated Senator McKim tried high school debating techniques (probably his limit) with the CEO of Woolworths, Brad Banducci. His incompetence, stupidity and frustration eventually had him make the juvenile threat of gaoling Brad for up to six months. All because McKim wanted to use a metric that sounded best (largest) and could ignorantly be compared to a different industry (banking), specifically ROE vs ROI. Obviously banking doesn't have the capital assets supermarkets and miners do.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
This doesn't surprise me given the recent emphasis on social media companies (particularly Meta) doing more to prevent youths sharing illegal activities for "likes" from peers. Nor the oft cited claims that increased media reporting leads to copycat crimes.
What is obvious to me is disengaged parents, failing education systems and perceived lack of consequences.
This is quite surprising to read.
Australia is almost presented as the bastion of perfection up here. Better weather, all the doctors fleeing for 300% salary increase, harmonious people etc. Is that not really the case?
A good pal who moved from London to Sydney said it's most true with the exceptions that Sydney seems to get more rain than rain forest these days and the public education is diabolical.
I guess the grass is always greener, we often look at relocating home, especially during the winter months and as the global tensions escalate, but every time I talk to my Dad about it, he says don't.
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@MajorRage It's not harmonious - Australians are descending into tribes and enclaves as multiculturalism finds itself with far too wide a base for common ground. Youth crime, armed home invasions etc.
Still, better than most places probably. But I feel that's an economic issue that will be sorely tested when we find there isn't another China to buy our iron ore and coal.
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@antipodean Interesting. I thought it may have some issues with the haves (property owners) and have nots (renters), but outside that, it would continue to just muck on through.
I think there will always be another buyer for Iron Ore / Coal.
Do the youth protest much about this with the global / climate ramifications? Government is too gutless to do shit about this here, as they are (pathetically) held hostage to the climate brigade.
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@MajorRage said in Aussie Politics:
@antipodean Interesting. I thought it may have some issues with the haves (property owners) and have nots (renters), but outside that, it would continue to just muck on through.
Given the ludicrousness of property pricing in Australia, the rampant immigration and soaring rents, that's a touchy subject the government has belatedly come to appreciate the electorate's ire. Lucky for them an election is an aways, unlucky for them it's a surging tide of anger at least a decade and bipartisan in the making. Both major parties using it as a proxy to attempt to convince voters they're good economic managers by averting the spectre of a recession, despite the fact technically we've had a few in the last twenty years.
I think there will always be another buyer for Iron Ore / Coal.
Sure, but I feel not at the rate while China was pump priming its economy over the last few decades. Coal and iron accounted for ~45% of our exports in 2022. Once China has built everything twice over, who is going to take up the slack so governments can live fat, dumb and happy off the royalties?
Do the youth protest much about this with the global / climate ramifications? Government is too gutless to do shit about this here, as they are (pathetically) held hostage to the climate brigade.
Schoolkids took time off during the great Greta hysteria. I get the feeling that young people are genuinely more concerned with cost of living pressures, the real possibility they'll never own a house unless gifted one by inheritance, the obscene debt for a range of useless degrees and the idiocy of the generation that preceded them.
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@barbarian said in Aussie Politics:
I don't know MR, I think it's pretty good here. Harmonious and safe, by global standards. Weather is great.
Always issues to deal with, but I'd put it up against most places.
@barbarian said in Aussie Politics:
I don't know MR, I think it's pretty good here. Harmonious and safe, by global standards. Weather is great.
Always issues to deal with, but I'd put it up against most places.
@MajorRage I'm with Babarian on the above.
Australia is great, and we are very lucky to live here. On almost any metric, we are lucky by international standards, and on the whole, better and better off as time goes on.
Sure things aren't perfect - we pay high taxes and property is expensive (especially here in Sydney) and there are growing tensions between certain groups (we might have multiculturalism but I would not say we have integration, if that makes sense). But on the whole, I wouldn't trade it (noting I've only ever lived in the UK, Oz and NZ). Safe, great weather, no threat of invasion, adequate healthcare.
I would also strongly disagree with this statement also "the public education is diabolical", there are some amazing public schools around. Not all of them obviously, but diabolical isn't the right term. The challenge those schools on the whole find is to attract and keep the best teachers. In the past there has been an "old boys network" where it's jobs for the boys if you come from the right school - but that's getting harder to maintain in the world of DEI and wokeness.
Oh, hang on, do you mean "public" like English public? As in, not public at all, but fee-paying private? If so, I can confirm that the schools are for the most part excellent, but most certainly are diabolically expensive!!!
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That’s more in line with what I thought which is why I found @antipodean comments surprising.
The diabolical schooling refers to state and it’s not from me, from the pal who relocated. A good friend also just relocated to Shield Snorters as she is very anti private schooling and was not happy with the Aussie system. I guess everywhere has its issues, some in pockets, some general.
I don’t fear invasion but I do sometimes look at macro things and long for the isolation of the South Pacific
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@MajorRage said in Aussie Politics:
That’s more in line with what I thought which is why I found @antipodean comments surprising.
The diabolical schooling refers to state and it’s not from me, from the pal who relocated. A good friend also just relocated to Shield Snorters as she is very anti private schooling and was not happy with the Aussie system. I guess everywhere has its issues, some in pockets, some general.
I don’t fear invasion but I do sometimes look at macro things and long for the isolation of the South Pacific
@antipodean lives in Canberra I believe - that city isn't real Australia
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