heh you been reading about Modern Monetary Theory eh?

get this guys face off my screen 😡

https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/farrer-by-election-2026

that’s true, didn’t realise how far back it was since nats last held it

Trying to find more info but it’s confusing

“Cut their tails off and send ’em back overseas,” she says bluntly.

As she speaks, Fantig gestures towards a man sleeping rough on the banks of the Murray River.

“They’re living in our homes while Australians can’t even find a rental,” she says. “As Aussie taxpayers, we’re the ones being discriminated against.”

The irony is baked into the geography. Fantig’s grievance is boiling over in one of the most “traditionally Australian” pockets of the country; more than 80 per cent of Farrer’s residents were born here, far higher than NSW’s 64 per cent average.

https://archive.md/H881Y

Shout out to the Knitting Nannas for Renewables group members Wendy Cole, Jennifer Huber and Vivien Chivers

Why is everyone saying the liberal party are the biggest ones impacted, how did the national party get left out of the conversation when they seem to be ones PHON is the biggest threat to?

lowest earning = wage majority + government assistance

average/middle = wage for pretty much majority, very little from anything else

upper class = still wage majority but more from dividends/trusts etc

elites = dividends, capital gains, trusts, other, and wages are all pretty close to each other in %

Pretty sure by 2050 everything will be locked down and instead we’ll have to order online and pickup at the counter because of these guys

sounds like a dream! in fact, it’s my dream! and i’m living it woo

i think the UK is going to get a lot worse before it gets better :(

For anyone else we are currently having a discussion in another thread and Naich the genius here doesn’t seem to realise that when you make a post and someone replies you get a notification with the reply

Britain’s welfare bill has ballooned, with 23 per cent of the working-age population now in receipt of some form of benefits, figures analysed by The Independent reveal.

That would include the immigrants as well ?

You blocked me so I guess we’ll never know!

It’s also an indication of a civilised society when it looks after the less fortunate.

Yes when it has the capacity to do so, if the less fortunate outnumber the more fortunate eventually the society crumbles and you end up with a whole country full of less fortunates

Analysis by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) suggests the increase in welfare spending this year alone is equivalent to 15 advanced Royal Navy frigates, 220 fighter jets, or 250,000 soldiers’ salaries, more than three times the size of the regular British Army.

New figures show the cost of benefits and pensions will climb to around £333 billion this year, an increase larger than the annual budgets of several government departments combined.

https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/18bn-welfare-surge

Golly, is the UK ok?

The anti-immigrant Reform, meanwhile, had gained more than 350 seats across the local councils.

The Greens had more modest gains, picking up 23 seats by 10 a.m. local time (noon Israel time).

https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-labour-dealt-blow-as-far-right-reform-surges-greens-gain-in-local-elections/

Yep agreed, inshallah the greens should do more tiktok videos to appeal to their extreme right religious and clueless progressive left fanbase

https://lemmy.ca/post/61041606/21928750

That’ll no doubt appeal to the country of the UK who has only benefited from immigration with zero drawbacks at all

We should have more of these hard working people.

Immigrants who work yes definitely, those who don’t no thanks

The average immigrant is younger and there should be lower claimants, significantly lower, the benefits they bring should be overwhelming, otherwise what is the point

Labour is proposing to double the time before migrants are entitled to claim ILR from five to 10 years and to make it conditional on earning a wage, speaking English to a high standard and contributing to society.

Sounds fair to me?

If you want to support them you are free to donate your wages to the 1.5 million, I’m sure you’re got lots to spare

I looked it up and the number for UK citizens is 23%

23% of all UK citizens are on universal credit? Where did you get that number from?

Don’t need a billionaire owned media company to post something dumb as shit, Zack did this all by himself

Next time maybe spend more time worrying about the treatment of the victims than the guy who just stabbed them

That’s like saying pensioners pay taxes, sure, but they are currently drowning the French government while taking out more money than they contribute

Why should hard working regular British people subsidise something they don’t want and don’t need?

1.5 million is a scary number. How does the percentage compare to non-immigrant numbers?

Government figures reveal almost one in six Universal Credit claimants is not a British citizen

16.6% of all claimants

immigrants who don’t pay taxes no?

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2023/mar/a-new-measure-of-average-household-size.html

(AHS = Average Home Size)

From late 2020

The increase in AHS at the onset of the pandemic abruptly reversed in late 2020, with AHS declining over the following two years from 2.55 individuals per household to a historical low of 2.48 individuals by August 2022. This trend could reflect an increase in the demand for space, as people spent more time at home, both due to pandemic-related health restrictions and the increased ability for some to work from home.3

The decline in AHS contributed to a sizeable increase in demand for the number of homes in Australia, which helped offset the relatively slow growth in the population during the pandemic (Graph 4).4

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wonder if we will see if AHS is even smaller in next census

good points

We have the most housing per person we’ve ever had: https://www.housingdata.gov.au/ (Well, 2022 vs 1990)

isn’t it also the lowest per person it has ever been?

during covid when the gates were shut and prices dropped everyone rushed out and bought a house or unit so we had record prices before even reopening up

lots of singles now taking 2 bedroom places for the bed and home office

that and immigration being higher than average and materials and labour wages

I don’t know how profitable our companies are tbh, the big one for me is housing materials seem to have gone through the roof, maybe I can get mistral to do a research project on what exactly is going on