There’s a subclass of low wage working poor renters who have no expectation of owning their own homes. They are the worst off currently with the cost of living. Their wages haven’t kept pace with cost of living increases.
I know single income women in their fifties whose super balances wouldn’t be flash. Also men of a similar age with broken bodies from hard physical work.
When Angus Taylor referenced his four kids as giving him an understanding of the housing crisis and his worries for their future, I nearly threw up. Angus with his Shadow Minister salary, inherited wealth, a family trust, a career wife, private schooling, tertiary education
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Maybe Angus should get the Tories to bring back the Harvester Judgement and the concept of the Living Wage.
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ABC is still on in the background.
Having to listen to Michael Sukkar aka the mouthpiece for the big 4 is nauseating.
Want debt kids? Vote liberal
And Labor?
We will give you debt but take a slice of your equity. The only difference. Sponsored by Industry Super and the banks.
■■■■ me.
Sponsored by Westpac Bank.
Wake up
Vote anyone but major
Bring back the Tariff Board and a reincarnated Alf Rattigan. The days of the flexible import tariff, set at levels to accommodate the basic wage awards. When what we could consider basic household goods, like washing machines, electric toasters, vacuums , the motor car, were luxury items.
It took Whitlam to break the nexus, with the 25% tariff cut ( except for TCF and autos, with special industry programs, linked to investments by foreign producers). Taken further by Keating.
(That’s the golden age of MAGA to be delivered by high tariffs)
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Are cheap white goods, TVs, clothes shipped halfway round the world really cheap?
Checks burning planet 
Checks piles of crap arriving from temu.
Checks nowhere to get clothes,shoes, electronics repaired.
Checks “built in obselence”
Checks fast fashion.
Checks plastic through the ocean.
Checks terrible wages growth.
I had someone stare at my phone and go what’s that?
It was a 2020 iPhone.
People turn them over every 2 years.
Since when should it be normal to turn technology over every 2 years?
No one wants to “save the planet”
■■■■ off with your electric cars and three coloured bins - that just gets sent to landfill.
Its pointless.
Trump tariffing China might end up being the best environmental action taken in 30 years.
No one in government wants to save the planet above what they can get out of it. Power, influence, favor, …
At best, it’s lip service to sucker in voters that actually do care to vote for them so they can push dollars to their mates / owners.
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If he spent less time eating smashed avo and doing coke, he’d probably have his first home by now.
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Pretty sure I saw a photo of him there
Electric cars are more around because we have hit peak oil. Not because of the emissions they reduce (although that is a good thing as the Chinese are finding out).
If humankind was actually serious about saving the planet we would be looking at the cost of fully automated manufacturing.(in all products)
Without net zero built into it, it’s an absolute environmental disaster.
The automation of manufacturing isn’t being driven by care for the environment. It’s being driven for profit.
What does anyone buy anymore expecting it to last for more than a couple of years?
Take cars - The only solution to improve the environment is to end car ownership(not car use- car ownership).
Lots of Liberal corflutes around here, mostly for Benson Saulo (?). There’s one with Saulo and Tim Wilson - obviously can’t decide which electorate they’re in!
I got a text from Saulo, asking for my vote. I deleted it unopened.
Well, cars? Currently at 21 years on the Commodore, 13 years on the work ute. And I’ve a triumph motorcycle that is 22 years old and hopefully I can rebuild it as it’s done a head gasket ( or it’s cracked the head, that’ll be much more problematic).
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Oh no! The poor kid. I had 4 houses and a race horse when I was on $4 per hour as an apprentice. Ffs .
All these excretable flogs trying to claim understanding of cost of living via their kids “hardships” within the family fortune , purely for election purposes is beyond pathetic. And then you have Amelia Hamer’s situation.
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My tv (2009) is probably oldest appliance I have, used regularly.
I still have the original nintendo entertainment system from pre 1990. It still works.
And original Xbox from 2000, but the mod chip died.
Hearing that new Play station is like $800, seems outrageous.
I have a Panasonic CD/Radio/Tape stereo that I bought in (approx) 1990 that still works and is my garage music provider.
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What the hell is this rap crap the Libs have released. Utterly cringeworthy, what a 
show
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Nah, electric cars are around because 1.) good fringe benefit tax incentives at the moment, makes them attractive on a lease. 2.) High petrol prices (oil related, but mostly a weak dollar and limited supply due to Russia sanctions). 3.) lower cost of ownership (so I am told) as regular maintenance is cheaper (but can be horrendous if something fails / is damaged and needs to be replaced).
Economic drivers are king.
I met this bloke in Houston a few years ago when we had a factory there. He worked for Austrade, seemed OK, a bit slick but it was Texas and there are many city slickers there playing cowboy.
I actually thought he was a pommy.
We keep stuff forever, and only replace for something better like a larger screen on the TV. Still have an old colour TV in the world from the 1980s that works fine.
He’s indigenous from up Armidale/Tamworth way I think
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