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Some big problems before the ‘solution’.
FOOD INSECURITY
Just about everywhere you look, there are worsening signs that Australia is no longer ‘the lucky country’.
They will tell you the ‘wars’ have caused this, as no accountability is yet held for those who locked down Australia and set our economy back generations.
From record-high rents to skyrocketing mortgages, a cost-of-living crisis to the alarming emergence of a ‘working poor’ population, the country faces an unprecedented storm of factors putting pressure on millions of people. And very few Aussies are immune.
An estimated 3.7 million households are battling serious levels of food insecurity, not-for-profit Food Bank revealed in its 2023 Hunger Report.
Food insecurity describes the need to make “unenviable choices about what and when they eat” such as skipping meals or going whole days without eating.
Foodbank’s research shows an extra 383,000 households are grappling with food insecurity than a year ago.
More than a third of the population – more than the total number of households in Melbourne and Sydney combine – are having to “compromise their meal choices”, the organisation said.
The proportion of Aussies who are experiencing “some level of distress in meeting the most basic needs” when it comes to putting food on the table is racing towards 50 per cent.
“Food insecurity is waking early and sending your child off to school with a rumbling tummy and empty lunch box because you’ve been forced into an impossible choice between paying the rent or buying food that week,” Foodbank chief executive Brianna Casey said.
“Food insecurity is living at home alone as a pensioner, convincing yourself that three meals a day is a luxury, and that two – or even one – will suffice.
“Food insecurity is rushing to the fruit platter at a working lunch in the office because fresh fruit and vegetables have become a treat, rather than a dietary staple.
“Food insecurity is now having a mortgage, a full-time job and a side hustle, yet food is a discretionary spend in the household budget.”
And, as I’m sure we’re all experiencing, food is not the only problem Aussies are facing.
MANUFACTURED COLLAPSE
More research has been uncovered that highlight other areas society is being hit.
- 74 per cent of people on income supports are slashing spending on cooling, while 62 per cent are cutting back on the use of lighting.
- Seven per cent of people who needed to see a doctor in the 12 months to June delayed the visit or didn’t go at all because of cost-of-living pressures.
- One-in-five people delayed or avoided seeking mental health treatment because of the cost, while 10.5 per cent of patients needing to see a specialist didn’t due to price pressures.
- On top of that, home insurance premiums surged by 28 per cent in the past year, representing the steepest increase in 20 years.
- Data shows there have been 515 small business restructuring appointments across 2023.
- Insolvencies and late payments are on the rise while more small-to-medium businesses and sole traders are experiencing mortgage stress.
Since the Reserve Bank began hiking interest rates back in May last year, the cost of meeting repayments on the average size mortgage has soared.
- Those with a home loan balance of $590,000 – the national average – are forking out $1345 more per month, or an extra $16,140 per year.
- Half of all mortgage households are now spending more than they earn every month.
The cost of renting a home has risen to record high levels too.
Finding somewhere to live is a challenge in virtually all parts of the country, with demand significantly higher than supply.
Right now, the rental vacancy rate sits at just one per cent. To put that in context, economists generally view a vacancy rate of below three per cent as a clear sign of a crisis.
- If they find a place, it now costs about 8.1 per cent more than it did just 12 months ago.
But that’s the national figure, and in certain cities the increase is much sharper.
- For example, the median rent price in Perth was surged by 13.2 per cent in Perth, while it’s 11.8 per cent higher in Melbourne, and 9.9 per cent in Sydney.
- The number of affordable rentals listed for $400 per week or less has almost halved in the past year.
- The national median weekly rent has increased by 15 per cent, from $480 to $550.
As rent prices surge and the cost-of-living crisis worsens, more and more Australians are turning to share house arrangements in search of relief.
Despite the rapid rise in interest rates, property prices also continue to grow across most of the country.
- Nationally, home values have jumped by 7.2 per cent over the course of the year.
- 82.4 per cent of Australia’s 4506 suburbs saw dwelling values increase in the three months to October.
- Over the past year, dwelling values are up by 10.8 per cent in Perth, nine per cent in Sydney, 7.8 per cent in Brisbane, 6.5 per cent in Adelaide, and 2.4 per cent in Melbourne.
- Australia’s median home price is now nine times the average annual income – three times the international benchmark of three.
- A person needs to earn at least $182,000 to afford the average Aussies house, while for units, the salary needed is almost $130,000.
During the Covid years, a huge number of Aussies took the opportunity to build up healthy savings buffers.
- The household saving ratio declined to 3.2 per cent in the June quarter. It’s now at its lowest level since mid-2008 in the midst of the Global Financial Crisis.
- Real wages have collapsed by 7.5 per cent since mid-2020 and are now at a level not seen since early 2009.
Aussie households have seen the largest fall in living standards of any advanced economy in the past 12 months.
- Household incomes fell by 5.1 per cent in the 12 months to June – the largest fall across all OECD nations.
An increasing number of Australians are turning to credit cards to cope.
- 15 per cent of Australians – equivalent to three million people – have taken out a credit card in the past 12 months.
- Electricity prices surged 12.7 per cent and gas prices jumped 12.9 per cent in the 12 months to August. Fuel prices leapt 13.9 per cent in the month, with unleaded petrol prices averaging about $2.11 per litre.
- Prices for bread and cereal products and dairy products have risen over 10 per cent in the past 12 months.
THE RICH GET RICHER
While working Aussies struggle and the cost-of-living crisis worsens, big business is “popping champagne corks celebrating eye-watering profits”, Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Liam O’Brien said.
“Corporate profits have grown over the last two years while real wages have fallen,” Mr O’Brien said.
“Workers are falling behind while superyacht sales are on the increase. Big business has the audacity to lecture workers on pay restraint and opposing calls to pass legislation that will get wages moving, all because they want to protect their mega profits.
“Electricity, rents, fuel, and even our most basic staples such as bread and butter cost significantly more than they did a year ago. These are essentials, not luxuries, there’s no more give in the system. It’s not demand that’s driving these increases, its mega profits.
“This is profit-driven inflation, plain and simple.”
In March 2023, annual population growth hit a whopping 2.17 per cent – the highest level since 2008.
Net overseas migration – the number of people arriving minus the number of people leaving in a year – is at a record high of 454,000. That’s more than double the pre-COVID decade average.
This is all by design.
It will throw off any chances of recovery, before — as happened 100 years ago — our new-age Great Depression will lead to the introduction of a new currency as a ‘solution’.
Now is the time for like-minded citizens to come together and form strong community networks, taking back our power from the monopoly masters and their controlled demolition of the economy.
Stay strong, Australia.
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Grow your own veg and herbs, even in a pot. Sell what you don’t need. Cut down on non-essentials and start learning to live frugal and be thankful you still have a roof over your head and food on the table. As shocking as it is, this is a planned event but it cannot last, the rich still need us to keep spending. Yes stay strong and start talking to the oldies to see how they survived the depression, plan now.
As you say, “All by design”. Reading “The Harvey Norman Daily” in bed this morning. The MSM/fake news media full of deception, as usual. Pages 1&2 are devoted to a list of political, business, etc luminaries who have “come out to protest against rising antisemitism”. It is illuminating…the folk who “run Australia”, George Carlin’s “big club and you ain’t in it”. And it reminds me of those pushing the recent “Voice” agenda, and includes perpetrators/cheerleaders of convid/quax (including Halton, Andrews, Berejiklian et al). Even my cousin, and Warren Mundine, John Bertrand, Alex Downer & daughter, Jeff Kennett, John Roskam are listed…shame. Of course, the list is liberally sprinkled with The Chosen (including “Voice” architect, Mark Leibler). Any “rising antisemitism” wouldn’t have anything to do with the Zionist state busily genociding the Gaza Palestinians now, would it? Six thousand children and infants murdered, and counting. Oh dear, how could I even think such a thing? Nothing to see here, folks. Oh woe is me…along with being South Australia’s “notorious antivaxxer” (according to Ch9), I guess I am now “a wicked antisemite” for questioning the actions of Benzion Maliekowski (aka Benjamin Netanyahu), “the butcher of Gaza.”
Be proud of your title Graham, in years time when everyone wakes up to the poison chalice being given you will be the hero, but you already are to those who have already woken up and saved their lives and their kids health too.
Thanks for your encouragement, Lin…would be nice to get such support from just one family member…
Hopefully your family will see the light one day, that you keep shining bright. Stay strong to your truths. Some people cannot fathom the lies that they are being fed, it is just too much for them to face. 60 years since JFK got assasinated, he tried to create peace in the world and stop the tyranny, but the evil doers could not allow it. They are still telling lies about that and the others they assasinated too.
A Quick Note to the ‘Elite’ – OOPS! Nay, Just ‘Well Resourced’ & Stupid!;
Now that The Moronic Simpletons passing for Govt Management,- PETS (1) of a FOREIGN (2) Group, that WILL feed you to the Shark Pool, when Your Barcodes Redundant, HAVE Indiscriminantly ‘JABBED’ the Actual Doers, Tax Payers, Social supporters, Visionaries, Engineers & Fixers of ALL of OUR Systems – THE once Middle Classes! Who’s going to provide ‘Solutions’ to Your broad Spectrum TRAIN WRECK?? And Don’t Forget, when the Masses are ‘Without’, THEY, ARE COMING FOR YOUR STUFF – POXY SECURITY – OR NOT!
Folks already KNOW, or should, that the FIAT Money practitioners ( Banks), & THEIR ‘PET, the RBA, has been Swindling the Peasants for Years – IN League ( Doesn’t ANYONE remember the MEGA Criminality of the OZtopian Banking Cartel during IT’S 1 ACT Play Royal CONMission? Result for Population ‘Justice’ = NETT ZERO! Then all of the Bankers Hugged each other, Distributed appropriate ‘Lunch Money’ In brown paper bags, & danced down the CBD streets singing- ” So I learned to Dance with My hand in Their Pants, & I cut it down to 3;05″), & FREE RBA Grifting THEM AU$10s of BILLIONS ! ALL, Set off PRE CONVID by NON reasoning Interest rate ‘Drops’, for Future ‘Entrapment’ ( NO Jab, NO job, NO House/ Life) – AND, IT WAS OBVIOUS!
As an aside, Riddle Me this; A Middle Class productive Citizen, buys Products For ‘Need’ & Economic Circulation – The ‘Origin’ of Said Goods IS IRRELEVENT, if Items are Not made inside one’s Country!- THIS is NOT the Citizens fault – Ask the Govt Trade ‘Dealers’ signing Secret ‘Deals’, if need be!! Now the RBA, rocks up with Obviously CONtrived figures @ will by ‘COINcidence’, & ramps up the Rates. The Peasant, now has to Shorten Household expenditure to Cover the Bank ‘Greasing’ – BUT, get’s ZERO extra Services, & ZERO Products for the rate increase – BUT, STILL has to find said funds! This leads to Lower Living standards, Ill Health via Stress & Compromised Food values, Ending in an Assault by the numbers on Medical /Psychological Systems & Social breakdown = DESIGNED BY THE ‘INDEPENDENT’ RBA! = CONPLETELY BOUGHT TWATS!
Last; In light of CurRent ( Rent A Cur IS NOT Endemic) CREATED Financial/ Health woes, U.S/U.K. Board of Trade figures show a 50 % across the Board DROP in Productivity! Let’s CUT THE CRAP!! = CONVID JABS ARE THE CAUSE! WE KNOW IT! – THEY, KNOW IT! – If YA DON’T, please apply for a job as a Laboratory Gelfling – OH! You’re Already ONE! Continuing; ALL 5 Eyes Nations WILL BE THE SAME! – GET to the Rub!;
IF Global exchange rates Operate on the ‘SAME FORMULA INPUTS’ – RBA PRATTS INCLUSIVE ON THE ‘DODGY SWINDLE ‘INFLATION’ RATES ( The ‘REASON’ for ‘Rate’ Increases – AppaRently), then inside the Greater United States of America, The Working Population by OECD standards (15 >64 Years) IS listed @ 207,000,000 & Change. THE Working age population Unemployed/ Looking for A Job, currently sits @ 106,000,000 & Change. THIS ‘Formula’ equates to 1799.
(1) PETS Pretty Easily Trained Stupidos.
(2) FOREIGN – BELONGING OR CONNECTED to a Country which IS NOT YOUR OWN!
Parting thought; IF local Folks think that THE Govt, is A MORAL, or AMORAL ‘Organisation’, don’t forget, these ARE the Political parties & Corporates, that acknowledged Pol Pot Regime, Sponsored Indonesia ‘Activities/Brutalisations in New Guinea/Timor/Bougainville /Ambon – Weapon sponsored Neo NAZI Militia in Ukraine (& THEY KNOW IT!), & NOW, to show PROPER Character, the IN PLAIN SIGHT Genocide of Palestinians ( Pre Inputs per this – ‘Trade Sanctions/ ACTUALLY Genocide’, resulting in 1,000,000,000 DEAD Iraqi CIVILIANS – includes 600,000 Kids Under 12 Yrs old [U.N. figure – Ironic], BEFORE ILLEGAL INVASION of same Country= DO YOU, actually Think, ‘THEY CARE’,ABOUT YOU?
Graham H L. – George Carlin – He definitely had ‘A Handle’ on the Big Club! LOL.
As for the rest of You – HAVE A BLOODY GREAT DAY!
War is another depopulation agenda by the elites. While they get richer dealing in arms and money exchanges from tax payers to their pockets. We have more than one war going on. Will the 1% win or the 99% win?
I think someone ‘Chopped’ the Text! @ 207 Million Employable & 106 Million looking for a Job, THIS ‘Formula’ DOESN’T equal an Unemployment rate of 1799.
Can’t be bothered redoing the rest, Suffice to Say; “Elite, WATCH how far you bend the Twig!”
Wellness
That’s TWICE!