[Willfish]

I have eaten at McDonalds twice. The second time was a mistake. I promise never to do it again.

[Willfish]

At least part of the solution is painfully obvious, but politicians wont have a bar of it, neither will the well healed lobby groups of the wealthy. We didnt have a housing crisis before Covid, immigration almost stopped for 2 years, no significant increase in population, and now we have a housing crisis – a shortage of houses. This could only occur because the wealthier people (25% of rental properties are owned by 1% of property owners, according to ATO), who couldnt travel or spend their money elsewhere, bought an extra house, for a 6 weeks of the year holiday house or Airbnb. These houses disappear from the rental and housing market, and now become a tax dodge for the wealthy (thru negative gearing) 40% of the houses in our street in popular coastal town are now Airbnb, or holiday houses. Prior to Covid 10 to 20% of houses were. The solution? Get rid of negative gearing, and increase rates or taxes on houses that are not permanently occupied. Let me know which political party has got the guts to tackle that one?

[Willfish]

Yes, just price gouging. Diesel in my area (south coast NSW) currently varies from $2.19 to $2.54 a litre – and chances are it all comes from the same fuel depot and delivered by the same tanker. Fuel companies know they can play ‘price cycle’ games (what a joke!) with the motoring public and there is not a government in Australia with the guts to do anything about it. All we can do is shop around and support the service stations that do discount, and be quick to change when the discounting stops.

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